But the system doesn’t work when the state doesn’t act as a stand-in for the victims. The philosophy that underpins the system only works when the criminal receives proportional punishment.

What a perfect example of how these people are not just incompetent, they’re lazy.

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.

This should be blowing up right now far more than it is.

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

EXCLUSIVE: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would not apply to refugees. New documents filed in a key refugee case in Minnesota shed light on a broad, aggressive plan to review all refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration. Law Dork:

First on MS NOW: House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia just announced that Oversight Democrats will hold a shadow field hearing as part of their Epstein investigation in Palm Beach, Florida on April 14. The field hearing will include testimony from survivors and important witnesses.

The Republican Party has the ability to end this absolute farce of an administration at any time and we should never let them forget each day they choose not to.

a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.

When Pam Bondi was Florida's Attorney General, and was busy ignoring Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, much like now, she took a $25,000 bribe from Donald Trump to drop her investigation into consumer fraud at Trump University. Donald knew she'd be a corrupt US AG and do as she was told.

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA. Sounds like Hegseth! www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

JFC

I just will not get over how funny it is that the administration is being bedeviled by something they just can't absorb, which is a zealot who actually believes what he's saying.

this is an extreme example of a pretty well understood phenomenon; people don't vote for pols they agree with. they convince themselves they agree with the pols they vote for. 1

When the WeRateDogs account has to condemn what you're doing...

The reality - as the government is purchasing warehouses to store humans in - is that they’ve created hundreds, maybe thousands of prisons in Minnesota already. Peaceful, hardworking families are in hiding and haven’t set foot outside in 6 weeks. What would you call that? Let. Them. Out.

A dvd? How do they play it?

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.

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.

Everyone keeps spreading this fake news that The New Radicals 's "You Get What You Give" is a good song.

It occurred to me just now that if you were to compile the worst X political scandals in US history, I have no idea how large an X you would need before you hit one that was not Donald Trump's. I'm pretty sure it's at least 50 but would find much larger numbers plausible.

The problem here is: the GOP has gone completely fucking insane in the last 10 years And well, this may have been obvious to Dems and/or anybody actually paying attention, most people genuinely did not believe that the Republicans want to do the things they’re currently doing until, uh, they did it

The choice to frame this rhetorically as a negotiation *with ICE and DHS* rather than, you know, a decision about their future made by their rightful superiors in the popularly elected legislature is, to me, incredibly grating.

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Can't believe I missed this earlier.

They don't get that it's political because they don't get that existence is political for marginalized people.

People wondered how she was the way she is given what she went through at Fox and as usual the answer is just good ole fashioned racism

Post a banger that's not in English. youtu.be/RObuKTeHoxo?...

Ocasio gang rise up 🙌🏽🇵🇷

Pretty wild that a small part of that story was told on stage at the Super Bowl halftime show tonight!

loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10

The guys behind him in the flat hats are Los Pleneros de la Cresta, a teaching ensemble working to keep traditional plena music alive on the island They were an integral part of the residency last summer and are on tour with him this year

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

This is a great read if you don't speak Spanish and/or aren't familiar with what a lot of his music was referencing.

Since I don't care about pro football, I'm watching the Turning Point halftime so you don't have to. They featured Natasha Owen's incredibly racist song right after the "January 6th choir" playing the national anthem.

#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow

If you didn't get to catch the Turning Point / Kid Rock extravaganza, this is a real screen shot.

I think one of the best things about Bad Bunny’s performance is that it was so *specific*. It so clearly had a point of view coming from real lived experience and actual emotion, actual heart, not cynical calculation. Just beautiful.

The least attractive person involved in Bad Bunny's halftime show would be the most attractive person you ever met. Meanwhile the Kid Rock fake half time... Is... not like that.

Why is Massie now more aggressive about holding this administration accountable than most of the Democratic leadership?

why is it normal that the president whine about random citizens being losers. how does this not just embarrass everyone. completely child-like behavior

The president is now attacking a US Olympian as a “Loser” and misrepresenting his words for his mild unspecified criticisms about things going on in the US right now.

Greg Brown of Cake died. We were one of their first big room headlining shows. They were one of the first shows I ever worked. The soundtrack to my freshman year, a huge influence on my own guitar playing, and the nicest damn group of people I met in decades in the industry Going to be some tears.

This headline assumes, once again, that his voters elected him to fix their lives. They didn’t. They voted for him to mirror their prejudices. To be the White Supremacist in Chief. And he has never betrayed them on that. When will that lesson take hold in journalism?

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

“You=d thin=k Epstein could h=ve af=orded a key=board that= wasn=t so f=cked up.”

Getting a $3000 estimate for a car repair on my car with 250,000 miles on it while I'm unemployed is a hell of a way to end the week.