The Trump administration has paid $128.5 mn for a warehouse in Social Circle, GA, which it now proposes to convert into a concentration camp. Only 2 yers ago, the facility was acquired for $29 mn by a Moscow-based real estate company, PNK.

Look how thinly spread out some of the lenses galaxies are.

Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.) TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

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

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

If I were to unlawfully make captive just one person, I would be in big trouble. Trxmp has done this over 4000 times. When does he get punished?

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

This is Bogie. This rope is his very favorite toy because it makes his tiny human smile too. 13/10 (TT: _chelsea_brown_4)

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

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I just published: 10 Simple Questions for Congress to Ask Immigration Officials - Overstaying a visa is not a crime (that's nearly 50% of all undocumented migrants) - Unlawful entry (18 usc 1325) is only a misdemeanor. For vast majority of those, the statute of limitations expired long ago - more

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

“Brazil has replaced the U.S. as China’s largest soybean supplier. In June 2025, China opened the first deep-water port on the Pacific coast of South America at Chancay, Peru. The Chinese are now working with other countries to develop a rail link from Chancay to the Brazil-Argentina grain belt.“

Just heard back from DHS on why they abruptly expedited Ramos' asylum hearing: “These are regular removal proceedings. This is standard procedure and there is nothing retaliatory about enforcing the nation’s immigration laws. He will receive full due process." (This is not standard procedure.)

the muffled grey pierced golden notes of light #photography #nature #Scape #ForestFriday #lifeisbeautiful

B of A: “.. THIS IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST INFRASTRUCTURE/INVESTMENT THEMES OF OUR LIFETIME. Inflation adjusted.”

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

This is the most complete description of what happened in the courtroom that I’ve seen. The US Attorneys are doing heroic work in the face of an insidious DHS.

Let’s remember Lummis owns $$$ worth of BTC. Of freakin’ course she wants the government to buy.

BofAI: There is a large boost to spending in the zip codes hosting NFL games "Super Bowl" peppered throughout the report... hope they got expressed written consent to use that.

Now that's something.

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

Holy shit. So this just happened at Minneapolis's legendary First Avenue club. That's Tom Morello introducing Springsteen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jHe...

This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.

While waiting to see what the Senate will do...Senate vote to reign in the brutality of ICE I keep up with the Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace to Washington DC.. Today is DAY 96 for them They are in Virginia, enroute to Richmond Virginia by weekend THEY ASK FOR NOTHING May this clip you peace🙏🕊

Take a look at what tariffs have done to aluminum prices in the US (versus prices in Europe and Japan) — and you can almost understand why there’s been no manufacturing boom. 🤡 A good primer here from @scottlincicome.bsky.social @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Okay so I was actually at this encounter, filmed the aftermath, and am briefly visible in this video, and I would point out that what he does here is briefly kick a car twice. ICE beats him up, shoots pepper balls into the crowd, and launches tear gas at everyone else before leaving.

This is incredible. Sound up.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

When it comes to medicare fraud, major GOP campaign donors surpass ethnic Somalis by at least 3 to 1. And they get pardons as part of the package. But no offense to GOP campaign donors. bsky.app/profile/atru...

“the people united will never be defeated” There's no better way to end the day. Be well friends. ❤️

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The goal of nonviolent civil resistance is not to convince the regime they're wrong. The goal of #NonviolentCivilResistance is to convince the people to work together to make it impossible for the regime to sustain itself. We aren't nonviolent for the regime. We're nonviolent for each other.