Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Hmmm...

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

Addendum to my previous post: How is the Holocaust different, you ask? 81 years and the population of world Jews still isn't up to pre-Holocaust levels. That's how devastating it was. Picture more appropriate to last post. Really didn't want to add a Holocaust photo.

Report from a user calling the Augusta office of Senator Susan Collins... If you're a Mainer calling Collins, maybe add that her staff shouldn't be arguing with a constituent. Or calling them a fucking bitch.

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, I recall that after the Muslim Ban, I spent 3-4 days a week schlepping to Dulles airport. Give me a sec to make the connection. When we wrapped operations there, I knew I needed to do more, so I volunteered to lead 'Know Your Rights' trainings... (1/many)

Moderna CEO says Trump’s policies have so curtailed vaccine market they won’t be investing in new research. So that’s awesome. Good luck when the next pandemic hits. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fWErMy/

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today. This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

Strange situation: the border is everywhere and the Constitution is nowhere.

We've got to stop saying this is 'unprecedented.' It's just plain NUTS. This is not how any of this works: not how it's supposed to work, not how it's ever worked, not how it should work. In a free society, the gov does not direct judges how to rule and does not file secret petitions against judges

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207 7 Democrats voted YES on the bill: - Jared Golden - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez - Henry Cuellar - Tom Suozzi - Laura Gillen - Don Davis - Vicente Gonzalez One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie

This continues to get lost, but Miller is sinking massive resources into boosting the sheer numbers of deportations (to shift the ethnic mix of the country) at the expense of public safety. This is empirically the case. It's almost never explained this way. www.theunpopulist.net/p/stephen-mi...

Been thinking a lot about why this regime is going after mostly white States like MN & OR. Yes, it's true that they want to punish their political opponents. But I wonder if it's more than that? (1/2)

Watching this administration wage war on its own citizens has been quite a thing. A horrific, demented thing. Quite a thing.

A fucking preschooler. Don't come at me with that 'we can disagree about politics but still be friends' bullshit.

ProPublica has found multiple cases of women with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions. Tierra Walker, a 37-year-old mother, was told by doctors there was no emergency before preeclampsia killed her. (Published Nov. 2025)

On Sunday, Fox News seemed to threaten protestors, warning: “if we simply allow these cosplaying would-revolutionaries to do whatever they want…, Renee Good will not be the last to needlessly die.” Calling protestors of thugs WEARING CAMO IN MN IN THE WINTER "cosplaying" is some chutzpah.

BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday. www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...

The interpretations are (1) thuggish and very stupid ICE agents stole the phone and tried to sell it or (2) thuggish ICE agents kidnapped and brutalized the kid and threw his phone out the window or dumped it in the gutter, laughing, and someone else found it and tried to sell it.

Holy fuck they actually did it

New: A few weeks before Grok started 'digitally undressing' people (and some children) by user request on X, there was a meeting at xAI. Musk expressed frustration over guardrails on what ppl could create w/ Grok Imagine, source tells me.

NEW: Data released by ICE shows that virtually the entire growth of detention in the last few months has been among people with no criminal record at all - no prior convictions (no matter how minor) and no pending criminal charges.

I'm sure all those Republicans who utterly lost their minds about Hunter Biden and Ukraine will be all over this news. (Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...)

So on brand

During the second world war, Danish King Christian X is said to have said to his finance minister, Vilhelm Buhl, that if the Germans introduced the star [required to be worn by Jews] in Denmark, "perhaps we should all wear it." This is a post about non-Jews lighting Chanukah menorahs in solidarity.

Jay Bybee is famous because he signed the torture memos written by John Yoo when he was head of OLC

China is watching

Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.

Meet the head of a federal panel expected to upend the childhood vaccine schedule later this week. Dr. Kirk Milhoan believes that Covid was made in North Carolina and deployed to China as a bioweapon ... among other conspiracy theories. www.ms.now/news/rfk-jr-...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

And there it is www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Is it bad if a sitting federal judge was (allegedly) part of a conspiracy to commit murder? It seems bad ....

Homan: "I don't think the UK is a friend to this country and friend of the president"

This is absolutely fascinating. Scary and delusional, but fascinating - and helps explain why FDR threw his support behind a TJ memorial in the tidal basin despite the fact that a memorial to cousin TR was originally supposed to go there: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

How bad is Iran’s water crisis? Bad enough that President Masoud Pezeshkian warned that water in Tehran may soon be rationed—but if that doesn’t work, he said, “we may have to evacuate Tehran.” - Amit Segal

Some reading on the anniversary of Kristallnacht: forward.com/opinion/7800...

Thanks for the tip!

This is shameful. A bunch of pretend warriors who don't have an iota of the patriotism and commitment to the US that these Black soldiers did.

You should read this. In full. And then pass it on to your friends. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

For the 42 million people who rely on SNAP, the country’s largest anti-hunger program, it has been a chaotic, nerve-racking week. In interviews, recipients discussed the confusion and anxiety, as well as the hard choices. Here are some of their stories.

An important thing to understand is that the pardon process itself, never ideal, has been corrupted. Career DOJ lawyers can be fired if they do not recommend Trump cronies should be pardoned. In this case, sounds like his sons were involved, reflecting massive conflicts of interests.

Longtime Trump supporter: “I think deep down he wants to help the country with things like food insecurity.” (Trump enacted the largest cuts to SNAP in history a few months ago) Now says she regrets voting for Trump and wishes a Democrat were president to “protect benefits [Trump] wants to cut.”

Don’t take it from me, listen to Snopes! Speaker Johnson signed a bill to cut $186 billion from SNAP. And again, it’s HIS party that won’t help millions of Americans put food on the table this month.

>> @ddale8.bsky.social counted "at least 18 inaccurate assertions" in Trump's "60 Minutes" sit-down: www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

CBS News Guts Climate Team as New Conservative Management Takes Charge

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.