THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

fucking genocidal maniacs

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist! Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

To be fair a good half of them are, “I can’t believe this guy I used to do sex crimes with is the president now.”

i can not emphasize enough how difficult collecting this data has gotten. we have seen declines in data quality and therefore more drastic revisions BEFORE 2025.

so the jobs report flopsweat coming from the WH is at minimum because the annual baseline adjustment is going be brutal. I would additionally guess that one or both are true: 1) January report very very bad 2) neg baseline adjustment bigger than net job growth for 2025 (almost certain)

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

High on my list is John Roberts and the rest of the “justices” who thought “the asserted harms to the Executive’s conduct of foreign affairs” from allowing Musk to shut down AID without Congressional authorization “appear to outweigh the potential harm” to others.

if you keep them in concentration camps inside the country, your American friends can get rich off torturing them instead of el salvador. even better, if you locate all the concentration camps in red states, you can maximize your prison gerrymandering benefit ahead of next census.

Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein

I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.

I am absolutely convinced that these past two halftime performances will be studied in textbooks someday. (tbd on which discipline)

i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

Australia is the US’s Wario

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

someone take grandpas phone away

MAGA can storm and stomp all they want. They will never be cool. They will never run the culture.

As I point out in the 4th chapter of my book, the Trump admin's efforts to add a citizenship question forced state/local officials to both challenge the inclusion of the question in court and in public without amplifying fear that mere mention of question created. /2 bsky.app/profile/phil...

White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!

I had a cursed thought this morning that the rush to build and fill ICE concentration camps could be in part motivated by a desire to shift Census counts (and therefore congressional/EC representation)

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

I truly think Democrats could run on this, while phrasing it as restrictive/tough. “To come to America, people will have to apply, pass and pay for a strict background check, and register their address with the government. While working here, they must pay taxes”

Obviously the way police treat people is the most problematic but if the dog-loving American public actually knew how many dogs cops kill I think you’d see ACAB become the modal belief

Press needs to ask Stephen Miller directly if he’s responsible for this. He’ll probably lie, but maybe poorly. He may refuse to answer. But make it clear that down to the level of individual children that that sick fuck is calling the shots.

for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations

I’m going to lift this up because this is the long and short of it. They don’t consider the idea that Black people must work too and should have a safe environment to do so, no we’re only there as a plot against them and the trainings are regarded as a humiliation.

This is the thing that always blows my mind about Trump v US: presented with the very real circumstances of a president who violated federal law, the majority decide to treat it as a theoretical creative writing exercise, and treat those real circumstances as a far flung hypothetical.

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

I am pretty certain Trump's approval would go into freefall if this ends up happening. It's going to be very hard to manufacture consent for this.

And a lot of your favorite thinkers, writers, and leaders decided they didn’t have to care about Black people anymore because it was déclassé, we shouldn’t let that pass without comment.

I’ll repeat anti-woke politics has been an elite backlash dressed in the clothes of populism.

Holy shit it’s not great political strategy to constantly denounce your own voters?!

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

this is the most pissed off judge I've ever come across (not that I come across a lot of them but still)

I think about strategic nonviolence like this: you are trying to defeat the greatest chess grandmaster in world history. The good news is you get to pick the game. Don’t pick chess.

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/...

Google complies with administrative warrants for Gmail accounts? Is that what this is saying?? That’s horrifying

And if you can't, if your risk tolerance can't allow for that, that's fine But someone whose risk tolerance does let them do that, with other people whose risk tolerance is the same, all saying "here we are, fuck you" are not fundamentally doing anything wrong?

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

Seeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it

I tried to keep my "👏 concert 👏 movies 👏 are 👏 documentaries" rant in check, but the Swiftie in me cannot allow the the claim that Melania had the biggest documentary opening in 10 years to go unanswered when the Eras Tour movie cleared $130 million in three days

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.

"But if all the roads arrive at the same place at the same time, then aren't they all the right way?" asked Milo. "Certainly not!" he shouted, glaring from his most upset face. "They're all the wrong way. Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them has to be right."

"Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context. It's such an unpleasant place that I spend almost all my time out of it.”

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

“If (Taylor Rehmet) were to lose by six points, that’d be worth talking about,” one political expert told me ahead of last night's race. “And if Rehmet were to win? You’d say, ‘Holy shit.’” Rehmet won by 14 points.

It’s great when Elon Musk fans try to help

I think Jeffries might quite reasonably think he can topple a speakership here