2 systems of justice: one for the Epstein class one for the rest of us

to spell this out more: Matt is saying that because newspapers have advertising departments that are kept separate from editorial, it’s fine for him to procure advertising as the editor and writer because those two situations are somehow the same. 🤡

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President and CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social talks with @bedoyausa.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social about Trump 2.0’s deportation regime, protests from Minnesota and beyond, and how ICE ballooned into an $85B agency. Who profits from the detention boom? #FiresideStacks🔥 Listen here:

As someone born & raised within NY-17, let me tell you a few things wearing solely a personal hat: 1. @mikesacks.bsky.social understand the law, politics, and the politics of law better than ANYONE I have worked with--he'd be an awesome Member of Congress. secure.actblue.com/donate/websi...

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Join @bedoyausa.bsky.social and me this morning at 7:45CT/8:45ET. We'll be talking about the Trump Administration's move to Make Argentina Great Again and the disparate treatment of immigrants and protestors vs. the unaccountable "Epstein Class." www.youtube.com/live/Uh7BPAU...

This is this morning at 8:45am!

The President just moved to help ranchers… in Argentina And while men in the Epstein files get away with slaps on the wrist (if that) innocent people are sitting in ICE prisons even AFTER federal judges *repeatedly* ordered them to be released. Tomorrow at 8:45am ET on @thefairfightpod.bsky.social

Trump is not all powerful. He’s not even popular. Standing up for freedom and against his abuses works. Guard Troops Fully Withdraw From Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

This is completely fucking insane. Police in blue states need to totally cut off cops in red state from any information or database access. jessica.substack.com/p/kentucky-c...

political news is now literally “presented by” the corporations & lobby groups seeking to shape politicians’ perception of news

meet the reverse centaur

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Did you or someone you know resign a job in the federal government with a spicy (or profound or sad or inspiring, etc.) resignation letter? This is your chance to get that letter the attention it deserves!

I liked the salsa one —> MAFIOSA who’s playing behind him? —> Rayo del Sol I don’t speak Spanish but I’m pretty sure that was nsfw —> Delincuente / ME QUEDO AKI that was a good beat —> una noche that guy dgaf—> Lisa his voice is different and I like it —> Ella Baila Sola

“Oh wow that was good who else should I be listening to”

This is your reminder to submit questions ASAP for Dr. Radesky to answer. Some questions so far: - Are there red flags to look for when kids use chatbots? - What age should kids get phones? - Is some screentime better than other screentime? - Is there a cost to NOT exposing my kids to AI?

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Epstein class gets every benefit of every shadow of a doubt, the rest of us look at an ICE agent funny and we get pepper spray and a cracked skull

Profiles of cowardice

Hakeem Jeffries went from “no masks” to “no masks in an arbitrary and capricious fashion.” Schumer has adopted a similar position. At some point, you have to take a stand on something. Not allowing armed men in masks to roam our streets seems like an easy one. Apparently not.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

It is the gulf of America.

Can’t stop thinking about the gargantuan gulf between the kid glove, caveat-laden, “having your name all over the Epstein files doesn’t mean you did anything wrong”-treatment of the men in Epstein’s inbox… and the brutalize first, ask questions later policing in Minneapolis.

“We have a cultural problem in this country where we hold up all these people who exhibit all the qualities of a greedy, bad person” @maxmmiller.bsky.social

1/ When I was at the FTC, I heard that social media companies were hiring tons of psychologists. So I asked our law clerk to go on LinkedIn to figure out how many they had. She came back to me and told me there were too many to count. She suggested I focus on PhDs, and I said sure let's try that.

This isn’t the job FCC Commissioner @agomezfcc.bsky.social signed up for. But with Brendan Carr's weaponization of the FCC, she's become a fierce free-speech defender and truth-teller. I interviewed her for Pressing Issues about what's happening at the FCC, what should be, and how to fight back.🧵

Moms and dads, do you have questions about your kids, AI chatbots & social media? Call them into @thefairfightpod.bsky.social and one of the country's leading pediatricians (and the FTC's first-ever on-staff pediatrician) will answer them in an upcoming episode

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

What do these corporations have in common? -Amazon -AT&T -Home Depot -Microsoft -Palantir They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine. Always follow the money.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...

A+++ Appalachian protest sign:

Always ask yourself who is getting rich?

Don’t forget the big bucks the for-profit detention centers are raking in.

It's government shakedown. They even call it "capture." All that money We spend on defense gets hoovered by corporations. I mean, a trillion a year. Government spending is corporate welfare. And every healthy society needs welfare for their poor. But not their guzzillionaires

Worth pointing out that a chunk of that money is going to Canadian companies. See here: rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/a-list-of-... Maybe email your MP and demand they pull government contracts from these companies.

Deportation-industrial complex

The Prison Industrial Complex and the Military Industrial Complex are fraternal twins

@bedoyausa.bsky.social says it best. You can't deport your way out of a rigged economy.

The post-lunch panel at this Georgetown Law Technology Review symposium features former FTC commissioner @bedoyausa.bsky.social. His opening advice: You need to figure out how you handle your own life in a way that you can be proud of 15 years from now.

Every new thing I learn about Francis Perkins convinces me more she is the best model for how to make just, effective government happen. Thanks, @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social, for raising this example

Little known fact: One of the first things Francis Perkins did was defund and restructure immigration enforcement to dismantle a goon squad and rebuild a system of humane immigration processing.

If you want to learn about the big business of deportations, watch this live now

YO VIP, lets kick it. Alright stop, collaborate and listen ICE is back with a brand new invention Something grabs a hold of your data tightly Flows like a harpoon daily and nightly Will it ever stop? No, never you know Turn on the incoming streams, and lay low. 🎶 ICE ICE Baby youtu.be/rog8ou-ZepE

Will be live this morning at 8:45am ET talking with @maxmmiller.bsky.social about the big business of deportations. YT link in reply.