“Though Black women only account for about 14% of the workforce, they represented over half of all women’s job losses during the U.S. employment market’s most volatile months in 2025, like March, April, June, and December.”

Now awaiting trial, David Huerta says he refuses to "bend the knee" and stay silent on the president's immigration crackdown.

the bargain between Trump and Kennedy that basically sealed the election for Trump in exchange for handing American health policy to the most dangerous and irresponsible people on the planet will go down as one of the most costly deals in human history

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

Solidarity forever with the workers at DC's cat cafe who were put out of work by their union-busting owner after they announced they intended to unionize. www.popville.com/2026/02/crum...

harboring unauthorized immigrant who is your niece: admirable, family-oriented harboring unauthorized immigrant who is your girlfriend: romantic, possibly cinematic harboring girlfriend who is your niece:

“I’ve mentioned before that concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933.”

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

On two occasions a Dollar General worker drank a $1.69 orange juice to stave off diabetic shock. She later paid for each drink. Dollar General fired her anyway. Now a jury has awarded her $277,565. www.cnn.com/2016/09/30/u...

one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

From my reading, it seems impossible to have a miscarriage and not somehow run afoul of the law in abortion ban states

The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.

The ICE List “There were no attacks on members of the KKK—it was a boycott of them in public life, and then slowly the KKK disappeared. That’s what we’re trying to do here, to allow the public to know which of their neighbours are involved in this.” – ICE List Founder bsky.app/profile/mria...

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...

Rich guy whose business is entirely, entirely built on both foreign labor and the integration of the descendants of former colonial subjects sees the formal legal equality of those subjects as vile oppression. Story of our age! bsky.app/profile/theg...

Found one of the folks involved with the CWA and unionizing of Sherri’s Ranch. The demand that they own the workers IP is insane. We saw this over the summer in LA landlords saying they own all content made in an apartment. This is that but escalated All power to the workers including SEX WORKERS

Update: FAMU says banning the word Black from a law student’s Black History Month flyer was a mistake, and the result of an “overly cautious interpretation” of Florida law www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/10/b...

read this whole thread. Read till the end

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

For decades, minor league players endured a shocking amount of labor exploitation at the hands of their teams and the league. That changed in 2023. buff.ly/4QjmVcV

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Some personal news

Scoop–CFPB just fired employee alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for allegedly disrupting &documenting a meeting a year ago between CFPB & DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article... She says she's being retaliated against after asking DOGE visitors who they were & if they'd completed training on handling info

all I’ll add is Bondi, as Florida AG, used “fighting sex trafficking” to elevate herself—empowering cops at the expense of survivors. long before Trump she was like this

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

it’s really crazy how, in the course of three weeks, we’ve gone from “wow he’s really out there chasing ICE” to it being a point of total consensus among many that I am “working with the feds.” a bizarre demonstration of how social environments Online just microwave people’s brains

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

TV Review: “Riot Women,” Streaming on BritBox | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

This was one of the bosses' explicit goals in getting Trump elected - crush the strong Biden era labor market in order to discipline workers and make them submit to abuse and exploitation. That, not burrito taxi prices, was the actual economic stakes of the 2024 election

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

Portland Labor Rally against ICE Attacked with Tear Gas www.labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

Vindictive Federalism dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

“Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness” inthesetimes.com/article/laur...

Bad Bunny’s Stunning Redefinition of “America” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NLRB Dismisses Case Brought by Fired SpaceX Employees www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...

The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development

What Are the Masks for Exactly? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

IRS tasks more staff without any tax experience to process tax returns www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Wharton High students walk out to protest ICE [Photos] www.cltampa.com/news/wharton...

In Major Breakthrough, Volkswagen Auto Workers Reach Tentative Deal www.labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...

Salesforce Workers Circulate Open Letter Urging CEO Marc Benioff to Denounce ICE www.wired.com/story/letter...

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.