Watched Casablanca last night and it somehow never struck me before that Renault is a sex predator towards underage girls and that’s supposed to be part of his charm? 😬

My time machine isn't working so I can't 100% confirm, but if Obama had named someone who actually excited people, rather than putting them to sleep, then Rs blocking that person could have pissed off potential voters and maybe made a difference in the election

🔔🔔🔔 “Democratic politicians need to be thinking about Supreme Court reforms now, so that if and when they have a window in which they can implement such reforms, they don’t waste precious time getting organized” 🔔🔔🔔

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it www.reuters.com/business/hea...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

He can't explain what he meant by "erasure of white culture" b/c what he actually means is white people are superior to non-white (and Latino) people and should hold all the political and cultural and economic power

WHY INDEED

The Trump administration is forcing child rape victims to give birth in captivity in Texas. I sound like an insane person but that is actually what this news story says

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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

Erik’s This Day in Labor History posts are so good—concise, gripping, and guaranteed to make you more informed about American history AND our current predicament. Check out the Flint sit-down strike of 1937!

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."

Rep. Thomas Massie has identified Emirati businessman Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem as the recipient of the “I loved the torture video” email from disgraced sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. The sultan’s name was initially redacted. trib.al/4JFz90n

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Many people can understand cisgender teens getting gender affirming surgery. Think of a a 16 year old girl who can’t run comfortably bc her breasts are too big, or a boy with enlarged breasts who is too embarrassed to go out without a sweatshirt in summer. Just grant trans kids the same humanity

Heartbreaking and infuriating letters from detained children

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

“Claude, fill the Internet with images of women but they’re all the same woman, like a Disney princess with mussed hair”

Do not go gentle into the post-storm period, Neighborhood listservs should burn and rave at the uncleared snow piles; Rage, rage against the delayed trash pickup.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Bennie & Clovis Martin, inventors of the po' boy sandwich, to striking workers: "We are with you till h--l freezes, and when it does, we will furnish blankets to keep you warm." Let's bring this energy to 2026: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

"The Washington Post deserves a better owner than this." Former global opinion editor @karenattiah.bsky.social slams billionaire Jeff Bezos for gutting the storied newspaper.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

NEW: As Trump appoints loyalists to lifetime judgeships, Senator Durbin — ranking member of the Judiciary Committee — has voted to confirm roughly a quarter of them since last year. His votes are at odds w/ statements he's made during committee meetings. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/trump-is-a...

In the historically anti-union South, the UAW just secured a landmark contract with Volkswagen. The workers won major wage increases, job security against outsourcing, and higher-quality healthcare. Congratulations to these workers, and remember: there is always hope in labor.

the Washington Post effectively blew up its arts section today, dismissing its books, TV, music, and theater critics, features writers, and several editors. (I'm also guessing the vacant film critic position will stay that way.) Just an insane loss of talent and a huge self-inflicted wound.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

4/ AND we have something else: We’re a newsroom that Bezos can’t destroy. Executives at The Post made a strategic decision to abandon D.C. — a free press threatens the political aims of the powerful. We might still be small, but we can promise you that we exist solely for you, the people of D.C.

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I still can't get over that ProPublicla won't even agree to Just Cause; it seems antithetical to EVERYTHING. THEY. DO!

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are his net worth is $253.2 billion. so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire and then do it again tomorrow and again the day after that and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

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Among the many Washington Post staff that got laid off: the reporter who covered Amazon. How convenient for Jeff Bezos.

John Roberts is out here making Supreme Court clerks and employees sign nondisclosure agreements Roberts surely knows this raises the question 'WTF is behind the NDA?' To do so anyway suggests he decided even public speculation is preferable to public knowledge ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

These new Bridgerton opening credits look like some AI slop 🙁

This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all. "Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact." people.com/ballerina-fa...

““They’re both sick right now,” Gutierrez said. “She has no access to any medical care.” Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms, while her mom has broken out in hives, Gutierrez said. Neither has been given any medicine or testing — a particular concern given the measles cases in the facility.” She is 10

Anna St. John has spent her legal career silencing women, attacking LGBTQ+ rights, and cutting off corporate accountability for everyday people. She's #UnfitandUnqualified for a lifetime judicial appointment. Her nomination must be rejected. Pledge to speak out. afjactioncampaign.org/actions/unfi...

We have a Boston Review Forum out today on the Democratic Party in a time of authoritarianism www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

jfc

With only 5 Palestinians in need of medical evacuation from Gaza permitted to leave through the Rafah crossing after it reopened on Monday, health authorities warned that the restrictions Israel is continuing to impose at the crossing could ultimately kill thousands of Palestinians.

Experts have described Dilley as “a hellhole” and decried the lack of proper medical care. Court records claim food is filled with worms, and the water is undrinkable. As a result, reports have spread of children are hitting themselves in the face and wetting themselves long after potty-training.