"ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

Very different story for US/Eurozone relative labor market performance post-COVID as opposed to post-GFC.

The El Paso story is a perfect little slice of Trumpism. You take the combined incompetence of our Dep'ts of Transportation, Defense & Homeland Security and create a major public safety risk, shut down a major airport, alarm our neighbors that we are about attack them & shoot down a party balloon.

One of the Minnesotans who stood up was Gust Johnson, a Vietnam war vet and nurse He went to scene after Alex Pretti was killed Agents repeatedly sprayed him in face They tackled him (knocking out hearing aid and cutting arm) They shackled him. They held him ten hours. They kept his phone.

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 and demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. Brett Kavanaugh approves.

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Apparently under Mike Johnson, the House has adopted the decorum rules of the DPRK Workers Party Politburo.

The Patriots management are losers in so many different ways.

It's officially up on the youtube

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0... 8:24 a.m. Feb. 8 | Indigenous leaders hold memorial for Renee Macklin Good ...

When I say "in orbit," I mean it literally. McCandless spent one hour and 55 minutes untethered during this EVA. The orbital period of the shuttle was just over 90 minutes. So Bruce McCandless completed more than a full orbit of Earth while outside of and disconnected from the space shuttle. (3/n)

In this photo, taken #OTD in 1984, Bruce McCandless is an *football field away from the space shuttle with no safety tether.* No astronaut, before or since, has been that far away from their ship while in orbit. (2/n)

I loved this excellent 15 min overview of swarm intelligence by Joe Hanson, Jon Perry, Simon Garnier, et al. But they are so generous in their praise of my early work that I'm not a neutral observer. On the “Be Smart” YouTube channel (and PBS? I'm unclear on the sponsorship). #ALife #swarm #boids

There's nothing the Texas GOP excels at quite like producing violence-prone rioters who are simultaneously sexual predators focused on children, like Houstonian MAGA man Andrew Taake

Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid. Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant. Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."

TEXAS — “Get out of my house!! U.S. and they’re inside my house with no warrant. They broke a window.” Trump’s ICE goons terrorize a citizen family, including attacking a man when he closes the door as they leave. Terrorizing families. www.instagram.com/reel/DUZl6RO...

crypto wouldn't be falling like this if trump was president

Within a month of our President calling all Somalis "garbage," saying "they contribute nothing" that "they come from hell," "I don't want them in our country," the DOJ appears to be creating a separate process for deportation proceedings based on nationality just for Somalis.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Incredible work here by local Chicago journalists investigating two of the especially violent DHS agents terrorizing people in Chicago & MSP. Using body cam footage, after-action reports, social media videos & much more, @unraveledpress.com tells a jarring and must read story:

one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things

White people are putting Mexican flag stickers on their cars to get pulled over and waste ICE's time. They call it "ICE fishing."

Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.

One single fraud recently uncovered in South Carolina exceeds all the Minnesota cases by a factor of 6×. News you won't see on Rupert Murdoch TV.

Three rules in FBI firearm training: 1. Always point your weapon downrange 2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot 3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns. ... Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us. Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols? A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us. R: Pulling out literal guns? A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.

A white man in Dillard, Oregon was arrested for stopping people on the freeway to demand at gunpoint that they tell him if they were citizens. He shot and missed one + attempted to get another in his truck to bring to police. Before his spree, he called local PD to complain about "foreign" people.

read online that someone set-up a premium rate phone number where callers get charged $3.99/ min. then they posted flyers in their neighborhood that said "call this number to report illegal aliens," but the number just puts them on hold with music. so far, they've made $17,000

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez are both officers with Customs and Border Protection, ProPublica reports

A visit to the NM History Museum documents exactly how the New Mexicans viewed the brutal invasion of the North Americans, and how they understood it was motivated: by a desire to expand slavery, which Mexico had outlawed, and to steal land. This isn't "woke," it's actual history.

I think these arguments are extremely popular not because they are particularly convincing but because they create a permission structure for what people perceive as the fun thing

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

The two CBP agents who murdered Minneapolis ICU nurse Alex Pretti when he attempted to protect a woman they had shoved to the ground have now been identified as Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

You could add up all the corruption in US history from every Administration and not even sniff Trump’s year in office. Every other President in history gets impeached unanimously for this. Every one.

Dem veteran wins a stunning special election Saturday in a solid red Texas Senate district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. The upset, against a Trump endorsed candidate, injects panic into the GOP and White House heading into November’s midterms. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Nothing too surprising here. FBI agents involved say at this point both Thiel and Musk were targets of what was perhaps the largest and most elaborate recruitment operation that Russian intelligence was running, and the most successful.

Donald Trump is suing the federal government for $10 billion. That is your money. Never in our history have we seen something like this. The billionaire President always has a new plan to make himself richer, but never a plan to make your bills more affordable.

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

In English, adjectives seem to follow a specific order: opinion - size - age - shape - color - origin - material - purpose - noun We’re steeped in the pattern from birth, and apply it effortlessly.

Ok, which one sounds better? A) It’s an old little amazing house. B) It’s an amazing little old house. B, right? Which of these? 1) She was wearing a huge green raincoat. 2) She was wearing a green huge raincoat. You chose 1, didn't you? WHY??

A lot of people gathered tonight outside the Department of Veterans Affairs in D.C. for a vigil memorializing Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital.

Why is Tulsi Gabbard, the top intelligence officer in the USG, with the FBI on a raid related to conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. The congressional intelligence committee ought to ask about this.

Guy is offering free media training for ICE observers! TAKE HIM UP ON IT, WE NEED MORE/BETTER MEDIA CONTACT