The way the mainstream media cleans up Trump’s racist tirades has long passed the “they’re just making mistakes” phase. This is actively aiding and abetting a racist, tyrannical regime. The ‘mainstream media is the enemy.

How much more evidence does one need that the administration and its allies are engaged in a blatantly resegregationist project?

🚨🚨🚨I’ve talked before about how our records are NOT the most up to date and should NOT be used in this way. It WILL result in citizens being denied their constitutional right to vote. You can submit public comments until 12/12 and I urge you to please do so!! Spread the word!! #AltCitizen alert🚨🚨🚨

Well you've only had 15 years

So GeoGroup is engaging in modern day slavery? Abolish ICE. Dump Felon Trump.

This resolution, and the one filed against RFK Jr. yesterday, are reflections of the Dem base's hunger for a more aggressive, confrontational Democratic Party. The way we get a more aggressive, confrontational Democratic Party is via politicians playing to the base.

Federal agents are arresting American citizens. This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

A super-constraint right now is the Republicans have imposed a “majority of the majority” rule, where no-one brings a bill to floor unless a “majority” agrees with the bill. That is a stupid rule and lessens the ability of an individual legislator to advance an agenda.

“We should be just as outraged by the deaths that take place out of sight” @willbunch.bsky.social

EXCLUSIVE: Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found. www.reuters.com/world/tax-pr...

Our institutions are failing us but our neighbors aren't

New filings find hundreds of migrant children held in US custody far past the 20-day legal limit — some for over five months aje.io/caanlp

How will anyone support themselves in the coming crash if we can only buy two pencils at a time?

An officer tells us it showed up unbidden on the computer today. For lack of anything better to do they tried it, asking when the latest NDS was. It replied with a history of Nintendo.

12/ I have seen all kinds of pettiness out of these systems in the past two decades, but this enforcement-only model with its total lack of discretion or humanity is a new kind of low. It is all being intentionally retooled to make everything as difficult, wasteful, and stress-inducing as possible.

10/ to recap: DHS pointlessly interrupted someone's marriage-based residency process, forced them to get a 2nd lawyer, delayed the process by months, added a *lot* of extra stress and anxiety, & fought to the end to make it all as inconvenient as possible--all while needlessly wasting govt resources

7) Again, this residency case is all but granted--USCIS just *can't* approve it bc ICE arbitrarily changed jurisdiction to the immigration court. The options are either to wait 3 months to see a judge to terminate and send it back or to redo the entire thing with the judge, potentially taking years

Guess why this Avelo ICE plane had to return to the gate, according to a source at Avelo. Ready? Because a smoke alarm went off as they were taxiing to the runway, and it was an ICE flight guard smoking in the lav.

To be a lawyer who is suggesting sending non-Salvadorans to CECOT at a time when the torture occurring there is so well-documented you have to be willfully blind not to know about is to be a lawyer suggesting the United States can send people to torture, and that is to suggest breaking the law.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.

This is the clearest example of the positive power of vaccines. No change in hygiene eradicated smallpox. No scientist ever developed an antiviral against it. Moms did not host smallpox parties to boost herd immunity. The reason (the ONLY reason) it is gone is widespread immunization. Period.

The burden of compliance falls on foreign visitors, but it's Americans who will become more isolated, more fearful, stupider. Presumably that's the point. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t...

This is, of course, an extraordinary new administrative burden for park workers. They will have ask *every visitor* for proof of residency. A small friction for most people (and occasionally a hassle for people who can't find their drivers license or passport) adds up to huge delays for all.

2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. It’s not too late in most places! runforwhat.net

BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight. Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall. This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.

Code of Conduct for United States Judges, Canon 5: "A judge should not . . . attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate... A judge should not engage in any other political activity." (All judges receive training on this.)

“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.” Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.

Oh, and the piece also gets right that the deadline is not really Dec. 31st, but THIS MONDAY, when you have to pick a plan and pay the first month's premium unless you want to do "Dry January", but without health insurance instead of without booze. Well done!

Congratulations to Eileen Higgins on being elected Mayor of Miami! The first Democrat elected to this position in decades, she understands what politics is about: building a safer, more affordable, and better everyday life.

"Investigators said the soldiers beat and tortured him to death, then tried to hide the crime by blowing up his body in a car" ‘Donbas Cowboy’ – Russians jailed for killing US volunteer on their side www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

When Tom Stoppard died there was some piece about a scientist who'd made a medical breakthrough because he applied a line from one of his plays to his subject

Benz's conspiracism fueled Musk's decision to let millions die. He is skilled at misrepresenting information to persuade the gullible. The fact he is being hired makes clear that the administration dislikes being reminded of the depravity of their actions. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/06/n... My piece on NOAA and how they do so much for not just America, but humanity. And nature.

“‘You want some chicken? You ain’t getting it here, bro,’ Wayne Davis can be heard taunting the agents through the door.” “‘Go somewhere else,’ he can be heard saying through the door.” www.wwltv.com/article/news...

Protesters lined up outside a federal immigration services office in Salt Lake City to say that people who go there for green card interviews should not end up leaving in the custody of immigration agents.

The customer model presupposes they have complete preferences across all options already & are fully informed. But education is premised upon NOT KNOWING a bunch of stuff! Students are served when new horizons are opened for them. Will every attempt work? No. But the world's impoverished without it

Broad exposure is the key. It's the reason general education is essential. Learning about different things forces us to think. It's not just why the business model of higher education stinks. It's why they want to defang arts and humanities. Because that's where a lot of critical thinking happens.

There is good coverage of a Palantir co-founder & Trump bud calling for public hangings. It's unhinged. What is missing is the same person's work to pass laws that make it a crime to be homeless. His lobbyists are pushing for a 1,300-bed homeless detention camp in Utah. That's also unhinged.

Showed this to my older child. The response: “This works for art and music too. AI can’t produce anything great because it will never have imposter syndrome.”

America didn’t get downgraded by accident Trump drove it there. They’re the markers governments and investors use to spot countries sliding into authoritarianism. The world isn’t warning us anymore it’s confirming it. #USDemocracy #Pinks open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...

And the problem with thinking vocationally is the world changes. I studied print journalism in the '90s and watched the industry crater in the decade after. Ten years ago we were telling people to learn to code. Whoops.

2014 from me: No, students aren't customers. Because you, the student, are much more important than a financial transaction. www.chronicle.com/article/facu...

it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Huh. Wonder why? newrepublic.com/post/204173/...

After the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to shoot down Biden's formal federal student loan forgiveness plan, 7.6M Americans were placed in SAVE forbearance. Today, Trump moved to strip student debt holders from SAVE, effectively forcing millions of Americans back into debt repayment. trib.al/njfoJ8s

Perhaps men misunderstood that when we were talking about making it perfectly fine to allow men to cry, we weren't actually talking about childish tantrums.

Tim Walz and other democrats should claim that Trump’s growing dementia is causing him to verbally attack female reporters. Make the media debate whether it is Alzheimer’s or whether Trump is just an asshole.

"People in Bellingham told NPR the attack sent shockwaves through the local Afghan community, which was already struggling with poverty, language barriers, and cultural isolation."