Christopher Mathias on the administration's racist and white nationalist rhetoric: DHS, on New Year's Eve, posted the word re-migration. I saw the word arrive on America's shores about ten years ago, and it was in the private chats of Nazi groups. Now it's on the White House's official account.

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

One of the many hypocrisies of this is the Irish came here fleeing brutal colonialism at home. He’s using one of the largest diasporas in modern American history to justify prejudice against immigrants. That was the point of America: you could come here to escape hardship and make a better life.

The @bostonglobe.com opinion page this morning is headlined by white supremacist Richard Hanania, whose racist views have been smoothed over in recent months by centrists

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

Our story @chicagotribune.com: Chicago teen Ofelia Torres, whose father was detained by ICE while she fought cancer, dies. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/14/c...

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

@andreapitzer.bsky.social "concentration camp regimes in their early stages often make use of large open infrastructure to convert into detention spaces. Dachau was converted from a shuttered factory into a concentration camp in 1933" degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...

Russia's deal: Ukraine surrender

US Sec of State Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich. He canceled attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’ www.ft.com/content/fdd6...

I really don't care about anyone's "he can't do this because states run elections!" argument. This is an explicit pledge to rule lawlessly by the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful military, who is also currently constructing a nationwide system of detention camps.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016: “come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting” (www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

BREAKING Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych is disqualified from the Winter Olympics after refusing to back down over his banned helmet, which depicts victims of his country's war with Russia

Utterly heartbreaking news from Ukraine, where an overnight attack killed two-year-old twins Ivan and Vladyslav, and their one-year-old sister Myroslava, when their house was hit in the town of Bohodukhiv. Their father was also killed and their pregnant mother injured. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq

WAPO: ".. The Trump administration has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops from U.S. cities, after its repeated attempts to surge forces into Democrat-run states encountered judicial roadblocks." @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Moved into the new spot, and am officially a resident of the city of Chicago.

I’m in Cleveland, Ohio, which is a first for me.

Definitely not our most pressing problem but one day global financial markets are going to reconcile that he’s killing trade deals, attacking US cities, the value of the dollar keeps sliding, and AI isn’t a magic bullet capable of countering all that.

It’s shameful that western governments who claim to care about democracy do business with the government responsible for this act of tyranny. Lai has been a British citizen since 1996. Three employees of his news magazine, Apple Daily, were also each sentenced to ten years in prison.

It’s wild to me how little the average New Yorker knows about Chicago outside of it being cold. You could tell them you’re going to Hong Kong and they’ll give you recommendations for their favorite butcher but you tell them you’re moving to Chicago and it’s just: “better bring some sweaters!”

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Very intriguing and troubling reporting from @catebrown.bsky.social at @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One day after meeting Susie Wiles, Tulsi Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the intelligence report. Instead, she instructed NSA officials to transmit the highly classified details directly to her office. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

At times I learn Russia has destroyed a building I worked in in Ukraine. Once it was a community center in Donetsk Oblast where I documented a Christmas party for kids, hit with missile strike. Today it was a dog shelter in Zaporizhia, bombed. 8 dogs were killed, one staffer hurt, 20 dogs wounded.

I think of this issue whenever someone is asked about a need for social services and replies "what about the homeless veterans?" As someone who has worked in that space I can assure you that those people also don't care about homeless vets. It's just a ploy to deflect.

NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.

Remember the big foreign aid cuts? Estimates are that more than 760,000 people, including 500,000 children, have died over the past year since American assistance suddenly vanished - figures cited by Senate appropriations member Sen. Schatz.

Russia's air attacks hit Ukraine's energy system during sub-zero temperatures, cutting power to thousands 📹DW

OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

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This is going to be one of my first purchases when I get to my new apartment, bc @letsgomathias.bsky.social has been at the forefront of reporting on political extremism in America for years now. I cover this stuff as a photojournalist and he’s a person I look to for information. Vital reporting.

A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Georgia Fort was arrested by the FBI at 6:30 am in her home simply for covering the anti-ICE protest at a church in Minnesota. Please consider donating to support independent journalists who have been targeted by Trump.

The Most Dangerous Man, out June 6th. Jeremy Lopez is a Regimental Reconnaissance Company (RRC) Ranger captured and hunted for sport by a bunch of AI cult worshipping tech douchebags, led about a South African safari guide who served in a paramilitary tracking unit. Pre-order today!

Trump openly admitting FBI raid in Fulton County was a prelude to interfering with the midterms and attempting to seize control of state and local voting process

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

I have spoken with several senior FBI counterintelligence officers who believe that there is a reasonably strong prospect that Tulsi Gabbard is a foreign intelligence asset.

Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.

It’s the only time I’ve ever hired security in my 7 years in photojournalism, bc I was worried the crowd would shoot it out with law enforcement. Every researcher of extremism, antifascist activist, and photojournalist that covered protests in DC who I spoke to knew it was going to be bad.

Remembering for no reason that in the 1990s, French officials were charged, some of them with manslaughter, after negligence allowed infected blood supplies at the national transfusion center to be administered to hemophiliacs in the mid-1980s, leading thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths.

1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.

Every social or political movement that has produced lasting effects in any society has been to a large degree a youth movement.

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

Something so nice about going to visit your friends and their dog going absolutely wild when you walk in and refusing to leave your side.

BREAKING: Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority.

There is very likely going to be a blue wave in November 2026. Trump will do what he can to disturb the election and stop Rs from losing the House. It probably won't work, but the probability of a tail outcome is worrisome, and the attempt is the story