ICE officials, under a judge’s order to clean up overcrowded and squalid conditions inside holding cells at 26 Federal Plaza detained migrants on a separate floor where they decided the the ruling didn't apply. The revelation comes in a hearing today: www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/09/2...

The entire anti wokeness nonsense of the past decade was about making this kind of gutter racism broadly acceptable again bsky.app/profile/adam...

It’s official!

The thing that shocks me most is that all of this incriminating stuff was sitting at the DOJ for 4 years and Biden & Garland were not cynical or ruthless enough to use it against Trump & Musk in the run up to 2024. If only they were the evil ‘weaponizers of government’ that MAGA claimed they were!

JUST IN: Judge Schiltz cancels Friday’s contempt hearing but lights into ICE, saying the agency may have violated more court orders this month than many others have in their entire existence. “ICE is not a law unto itself.”

Disastrous new poll for Trump from Lakshya Jain and The Argument. Only 33% of voters want ICE to remain in Minneapolis and 49% of voters support not funding ICE without major reforms. Net favs: ICE: -26 Stephen Miller: -20 Trump: -15 Vance: -12 DHS: -7 www.theargumentmag.com/p/immigratio...

I think the defining quality of Bari Weiss media is her insistence on the need for dramatic change or bold action - followed by a parade of the most aged, tired, impossibly dull figures or ideas, except they’re also always underqualified amateurs or cranks.

Need to get my hands on an “ICE? No, Grazie!” sign

ICE simply does not need to exist

One thing this article seems uninterested in acknowledging is that there were many people who said that this university was a farce all along. So many in the article, and the author, operate under the premise that this failure to deliver on the promise was totally unforeseeable- no it wasn’t!

My latest in the @theguardian.com on how the Trump admins latest immigrant visa ban takes us back to the racial quotas abolished in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There it is

I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

Any DoJ attorney who participates in this investigation should suffer professional and social shunning that makes it effectively impossible to continue to work as an attorney.

The ICE agents literally are accessories to murder.

Democratic politicians facing frivolous criminal investigations from Trump: Kat Abughazaleh Elissa Slotkin Jason Crow Tim Walz Jacob Frey Letitia James Lisa Cook Mark Kelly Eric Swalwell Adam Schiff

Excited to announce that I’m starting a new position as an Assistant Professor at the manhattan campus of Mercy University. Sad to leave Chicago and the UIC community but excited for this new opportunity and to move back to NY this summer!

you mean the New York Times interviewers literally lining up to praise Mister Trump for talking to them unlike that mean Joe Biden, then dutifully cleaning up his words for the article and not asking him the obvious questions after he says crazy bullshit bsky.app/profile/froo...

He literally can’t help himself

Noah Smith, smart enough to recognize the Naxi's are in control of the government and are using it to make a bunch of Triumph of the Will bullshit medias, but dumb enough to then hang up on, "Who is to blame for Nazi Great Replacement trolling? The Left."

"YouGov has ICE at 39% favorable, 52% unfavorable...But this top line really understates the intensity of public backlash to ICE and its tactics. In February 2025, just 19% of Americans held a strongly unfavorable view of ICE. Today, 40% do." open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

Via WCCO reporter Esme Murphy on X: "Unprecedented - ⁦@ag.state.mn.us ⁩ & Hennepin Co Attorney announce separate investigation into Renee Good’s killing after Feds kick Mn out of their investigation" x.com/esmemurphy/s...

The premise that if you make one “false move” around ICE you’re gonna get shot and deserve it- that’s fascism

Protesters march in Little Village after ICE killing in Minneapolis Read more here from @vimiller.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/01...

In case you got the impression from the news that benefits fraud is only happening in Minnesota

January 6 in History Wrote this two years ago: “If the insurrectionist-in-chief returns to power without ever facing any real consequences and while explicitly declaring his intent to establish a vindictive autocracy, then January 6 will have been successful.” And here we are.

New euphemism for "bottomless corruption and naked abuses of power" just dropped

Asked what the future held for the Venezuelan people on Saturday morning, Trump said the U.S. would decide its fate “We’re making that decision now. We can’t take a chance on letting somebody else run it,” Trump said on Fox News. “So we’re making that decision now. We’ll be involved in it very much”

can't believe the guy whose entire political philosophy revolves around domination would turn out to be a hawk

Unreal

They were told that by elites

an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

Great article, but I disagree that this is just the right repurposing “woke” instruments. I think the campus protest movement was always going to result in repression regardless, as protest movements, particularly “controversial” ones, so often do

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

Unsurprisingly, the evidence suggests that the widespread discrimination against young White men implied by that Savage piece is total bullshit

One thing people don’t seem to realize is that it is impossible to determine who is the “best” at social science and objectively “deserves” to have a prestigious position

A war on empathy is vital to racial authoritarianism & a reactionary tactic against racial justice. In South Africa resentful whites tried to delegitimize the Truth & Reconciliation Commission (& its traumatic testimony) by calling it the "kleenex commission." oar.princeton.edu/bitstream/88...

Worth remembering that Bari Weiss signed that oh-so-remarkable Harper’s Letter about the vital importance of free speech and the need to resist attacks on it. I know that letter is five years old now, but utterly annoys me as much today as it did when it came out. So transparently bad.

Brett Kavanaugh (September 2025): The facts and how they relate to the law don’t matter. Assume ICE and other federal forces always act with integrity, always respect rights, and consistently impose minimal burden. Brett Kavanaugh (December 2025): Should I not have done that? Was that wrong?

In the strongest terms possible, no they absolutely should not have included this evasive bullshit

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Weiss is of course uniquely odious, but in some sense this is the end game of, in the past decade, media outlets straining for “fairness” over the truth

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

let's do the news fucking!

Finally got around to reading this and wanted to share a few thoughts

My TA got me whiteboard markers for Christmas so I would stop stealing them from her