Can someone please arrange a friendly debate/discussion between @ariberman.bsky.social @marcelias.bsky.social @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social & other experts on how best to gauge and respond to threats to US election integrity in 2026 and beyond? Lots of us out there are eager to know more.

Palantir, Deloitte, and the private prison giant GEO Group took in more than $22 billion from ICE and CBP last year. Behind the spreadsheets and contracts, there's a quieter truth: someone is getting rich from cages, borders, and human pain. Profit has always been fluent in the language of cruelty.

This is worth a watch www.tiktok.com/@theeconomis...

Remove this anti-democratic, corrupt, evil, dog-shooting authoritarian now!

EVERY UNIVERSITY TEMPTED TO CAPITULATE: JUST SAY NO!

Great to hear @mjtoma.bsky.social preach the left populist truth: Democrats must deliver tangible benefits to average Americans; to do so they need to name & then fight their corporate enemies.I’d add: for that, we need to change how we fund campaigns. @gregsargent.bsky.social pca.st/episode/acaf...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Transformative work of the day:

I warned Starmer about Mandelson. My wife Bunty did So did Dean our paperboy Ramrod our Lab did. Jill in the village shop baked some warning baps for him & Simple Sally, who helps Jill, warned him using dance & spit. Ronnie Pickering warned him. So did Chaka Demus. And Pliers. Why didn’t he LISTEN?🤦🏻‍♂️

I’m in - 9/10 (Apple has me beat until I get a new phone and laptop) In for the duration, way beyond February.

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?ac... The announcement of ICE’s withdrawal from Minnesota, like that of the British from Boston 250 years ago, marks a victory for people power. Today’s announcement by Trump border czar Tom Homan that the administration was ending its deployment of ICE and

"Every day we have to get up and say: how do we rebalance this country in favour of ordinary people? How do we break up this network of people who’ve had a grip on our systems, institutions and opportunities for too long?" Ban lobbying by ex-MPs? Ban dark money? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

US media is indeed in disastrous, corporate meltdown but @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is too bleak about #Epstein fallout. That demands to hold accountable the criminal male elite are front & center in US politics & shattering MAGA coalition is amazing. And fight is not over. youtu.be/P0P8GrAlTEk?...

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Call me naive, but #ThomasMassie gives me hope that #Democracy in America is not dead yet. #Epstein #Justice #accountability m.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiW...

Congress needs to create a bipartisan select committee dedicated exclusively to the #EpsteinFiles co-chaired by @RepThomasMassie and @rokhanna.bsky.social

Seeing lots of commentary along the lines of 'no-one saw the Mandelson scandal coming', which just isn't true. Some of us have been warning about it for years. Here's what I wrote two years ago bylinetimes.com/2024/01/04/k...

🔴 Exclusive: Corporate donations British parties tripled over last three elections But here's key thing: almost none is from FTSE500/listed companies It's almost all companies controlled by super-wealthy individuals, or small, opaque firms New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-c...

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm" www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw... #R4Today

The govt is refusing to commit to an inquiry into the MOD's contracts with US-based spy tech giant Palantir despite the web of shady connections between Mandelson, Epstein, and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel - this absolutely stinks.

From 1975 to 2023, $79 trillion in wealth was transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%. www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Sneaky fees, excessive paperwork, spam calls, and other avoidable, annoying, shady practices cost Americans $165 billion annually in wasted time and money, according to a new study. newrepublic.com/article/2063...

EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Turn off the cameras.

Really have to hand it to the @WeRateDogs guy, who's consistently using his massive platform for good. In this case discussing how Ring is trying to manufacture consent for using its products for immigration—AND ABORTION—monitoring.

Surely there is some way the silent majority of Americans opposed to #ICE brutality can collectively reward the brave restauranteurs who speak out. They shouldn’t suffer for defending decency and human rights. This seems a project tailor made for social media. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Amazing that no one on key BBC politics show make explicit the deep connection b/w #Starmer's "poor judgment" in appointing right-wing, misogynist, elitist #Mandelson & Labour govt's failure to challenge wealthy & corporate power w/policies that benefit average voters. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Everyone in the White House involved in any way with that vile, sickening racist Trump post must be fired immediately: everyone in the communications department, everyone in the press office, every deputy chief of staff, everyone involved up and down the line. Not one more tax dollar for this filth.

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

Great work. How nice to see the consummate faux-left insider #Mandelson finally get the scorn & rejection he deserves; but there’s so much more we need to know about who& what interests determine public policy, and for that we need determined journalists & respect for citizens’ right to information.

I’m in! As a DC native who has thought for years that US democracy requires local newspapers delivering local news and uncovering and challenging local power elites, @51st.news is a wonderful discovery. May it - and the city - grow and prosper.

Striking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)

“Agents can identify people on the street through facial recognition, trace their movements through license-plate readers and, in some cases, use commercially available phone-location data to reconstruct daily routines and associations.” All surveillance tools people have pushed back on for ages…

"Unfortunately, today, no one believes the Justice Department" (at minute 10) Excellent @reedbrody.bsky.social interview with @france24.com on next steps on the (3 million missing) #EpsteinFiles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzjB...

Amazing to see so many Grammy winners using their time and platform last night to lift up the contributions of immigrants!!

Much more than an "unusual call". "The search and the administration’s flood of lawsuits against states have alarmed election officials and experts, who worry that the moves are laying the groundwork ... to contest the results of this year’s congressional midterms." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

the full weaponization of law enforcement against political opponents & for personal/political ends, in black-and-white.

To all the Minnesotans who are making their voices heard and protesting peacefully: The world is watching, and when change comes, it will be because of you.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Federal agents arrested Ian Austin, an Army veteran and ICE protester who was featured in a recent viral Mother Jones video. Austin was among the dozens of protesters who, nearly two weeks ago, interrupted a service at a church in St. Paul, where a local ICE official serves as a pastor.

Very impressive @democracynow.org interview with @replamonica.bsky.social - courageous, smart, principled, not one to be shut down by Trump ICE intimidation. We need more Dems like McIver. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6_-...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

Wow. Ian Austin is my new hero. Watch this and learn what real patriotism is. It’s the most powerful and moving defence of US democracy you may ever hear.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Let's get so loud about this that Congress has no choice but to impeach Kristi Noem: