Today, I - along with Rep. Pramila Jayapal, Ranking Member of the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee, and 22 other Members of Congress - sent a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons calling for the immediate closure of Camp East Montana.

the 'restrictions' are worth stating explicitly. Anthropic doesn't want its AI to be used to make decisions about whether to kill someone without some human oversight. Hegseth says he won't accept that restriction.

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones. I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below. www.404media.co/the-governme...

Alsobrooks backs Casey Means into a corner about her failure to disclose her conflicts of interest to such an extent where Means has no response and just grants the point

The Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to spend taxpayer funds, and no law allows the president to halt if he feels some US states aren’t being “good stewards” of the money. In case there’s any confusion on this, the Impoundment Control Act forbids it. Taxation without representation.

Cassidy Asks Trump’s MAHA Surgeon General Nom to Say Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism. She Wouldn’t talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cassidy...

Why does David Ellison look like the living embodiment of the uncanny valley?

The source is lost to time, but this is one of the funniest photos ever taken

A moving read.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

It's very pretty out there. And quiet, too!

The only caveat is, there's no reason to think the submarine was lurking off Greenland when the sailor took ill. There's a whole lot of the North Atlantic from which the sub would probably be told to head towards Nuuk if the Navy thought a sailor needed a medevac.

Here's how I read that Greenland thing: Greenland: Oh, hey! We had to rescue an American from that submarine you've got lurking 7 nautical miles offshore, who faced an urgent medical crisis. Trump, caught patrolling an ally: EMergency! I'll send a sick boat that's in the sick bay.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

It's so cool that the fbi is basically the make a wish foundation for one podcaster

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

this is so wholesome

I hope John Roberts signed all his mortgage paperwork correctly

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Gift link to the NYT piece on how to get around the DoJ's non-prosecution of financial crimes - www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

If you're an English teacher and you make your students diagram a single sentence from the president's formal remarks, you will be charged with felony assault and sent to prison for the rest of your natural life.

my wife texted IT HAS HAPPENED to the group chat and it wasn't about what i hoped it was about and i'm very disappointed and we have revised our group chat style manual

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

I need a cigarette

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

A generation is being taught their worth is measured in jawlines and dominance. That isn’t confidence — it’s hierarchy culture. And history shows where that leads. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Cartoon

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

A hospital in Germany received an unexpected visitor in its emergency room when an injured cormorant pecked at the glass door, prompting staff to call firefighters to remove a fishing hook from its beak.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Susan Collins says she's in favor of the SAVE Act, which is the Trump push to overhaul how elections are administered. wgme.com/news/local/c... The bill would impose voter ID requirements... which Mainers literally just rejected in a referendum in November. boltsmag.org/five-ways-20...

"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

No one tell them who gave the world the higher maths!

Damn... and the opinion was dropped on Presidents' Day, too.

Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia. Happy Presidents Day.

The U.S. State Department has ordered non-profit public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years. apnews.com/article/pass...

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

She's like that nursing home cat

Declaring tomorrow a feral holiday

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.