Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

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...

There is no evidence that ICE/CPB has changed its brutally stupid tactics. None.

Watch this, it's astonishing.

Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...

I mean, from what I’ve learned about them, they were closer than average to angels. But more to the point, I wasn’t aware that everyone but absolute angels deserves to be gunned down in the street.

Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

We Are Nothing Like the Gestapo.

Genuinely chilling story today from @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

"The Constitution? That's a nonstarter."

When warrants and visible IDs are called nonstarters, what’s being defended isn’t law enforcement but lawlessness. If accountability hamstrings ICE, that tells you exactly how it’s operating.

just worth emphasizing that Trump and Vance specifically promised to commit a pogrom and unleash horrific atrocities against Haitians in Springfield. people voted for this, and knew they did, even if they were lying to themselves about it. 1

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying. Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...

straight up Gestapo shit

As a white dude, I can conceive of few more complementary terms than “race traitor”

Not the obituary I wanted to read today. people.com/catherine-oh...

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

I sincerely believe what is needed is a refusal to allow business as usual, using every means available. That means refusing to fund any government as long as that government includes the paramilitary thugs waging fascist war against the U.S. civilian population. Grind them down. Obstruct, defy.

Ok also mine is coming too, please preorder it lol bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

just choked on my beverage

this was the town hall held by tom suozzi (one of the dems who just voted for more ice funding). the protestor dragged out while yelling HOW FUCKING DARE YOU deserves his own holiday.

A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor. ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.

Boo fucking hoo. They can’t eat in restaurants where they will try to capture the staff, they can’t go around kidnapping people without hearing a whistle. And they’re not “in theater.” They’re in a fucking American city.

"Who's city is it Chief? Bovino: "It's our fucking city." And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.

When the president was calling all Somali immigrants "garbage" who "come from hell" and "contribute nothing" to America and therefore needed to go "back where they came from" did you ask him to "stop the rhetoric," Tom?

Concerning 🤔

The 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators were treated far too lightly. Media and the public moved on too fast without grasping the seriousness of assassination. These are life and death issues, not just differences of opinion the USA is working out. The reactionary right is ready to kill.

"We promise never again to go down the darkest path" Dark paths, sure. But the darkest one? Yeah, can't do that. So, yeah, we can do pogroms and mass expulsions of Jews, but gas chambers are a bridge too far. Great writing, JD!

Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third. This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.

Time to put him out to pasture.

Yes, everyone except T stages fake attacks at a public event. T would never do that.

I wonder why morale is low... Excellent work, Mainers.

Just a quick note about Bovino being moved and the other aesthetic politicoplasty the Trump administration is undertaking: Don't be fooled. Don't get all Susan Collins-y about it. Trump hasn't learned his lesson. He never will.

Pope Leo’s top U.S. ally — Cardinal Joseph Tobin — calls on Congress to defund ICE.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

“Are we gassing our people with a cancerous smoke or something else?” is an insane place to be at.

The same people who cannot control a city of 400,000 are manifestly incapable of cancelling a midterm or ending the peaceful transition of power. Keep reminding yourself that you are a lot stronger than they are.

this is completely insane and more people need to say that doing this is completely insane

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

This is actually one of the most troubling ICE stories I’ve seen recently — an eye-popping sign of how corrupt, broken, and racist the internal culture is:

“If you’re still waiting to place your Girl Scout cookie order, there is still time … Dozens of trans scouts are continuing to work toward their goals, many of them hoping for just a few more orders to get there. Seek out a scout who has not yet seen as much support and order a box—or ten.”

Wrote about him in TNR, prior to Renee Good. Remarkably similar incident. He’d just dropped off his kid. They rushed his car. He tried to flee. Cops then claimed he tried to run them over, despite video evidence to the contrary. Should’ve been a warning.

"I know my masked thugs murdered two civilians in broad daylight but once they had to take their fajitas to go so who's the villain really"

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

IT IS NOT AN "IMMIGRATION CRISIS"!!!!