The pistons are very cool

Now following @wilmes.bsky.social just for this one: www.sbnation.com/nfl/1104255/...

Newly released records show a U.S. citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic encounter that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security.

. @wilmes.bsky.social nails it on the Indiana Bears: "Profits only go so far before they start to defeat pride and purpose, and the Bears will be leaving so much of what matters about their franchise behind if they all care about is maximally fleecing a government" www.sbnation.com/nfl/1104255/...

I don’t think the Bears are moving to Indiana, but I took the idea seriously here and think the organization is using Trump 2.0 austerity and the incoherent culture war priorities of the Indiana legislature as stadium subsidy leverage… and I think that’s really gross!

me watching Knicks vs Pistons at 630 PM

this reminds me of when I was 9 and would spend hours looking for extra stuff that “the Easter bunny hid” and my parents were like uhhhh I kinda doubt he left anything else…

#birdbot

Good call, sick track:

for me it was that he said we could solve homelessness with AI

There is a new Tomeka Reid album out today

Just caught up on the hornets/pistons brawl. Beef Stew needs to be unsuspended and given a bonus. He was only going after Miles Bridges

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

chris hedges dragging chomsky for filth chrishedges.substack.com/p/noam-choms...

The Champions League final in Germany last year opened with Linkin Park

#birdbot

the NBA has now fully entered an era in which good basketball players are just not that valuable. look at how cheap these guys are in trades. your worth is now attached to being either a superstar or a guy on a rookie contract

Seeing yet another 'using whistles is disablist' piece circulating: for the 40 millionth time, using disabled people as cover like this is disgusting and calculated to prey on people who are anxious about doing the wrong thing. Doesn't escape notice that white people are the worst offenders.

Now for the rest of the babies they’ve shoved into that detention center.

if you go deep enough into the Epstein hole you start to see him and Bannon 2016-19 as Wahlberg and Reilly in Boogie Nights, recording “Feel My Heat.” it’s a clarifying feeling but I don’t exactly recommend it

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Hear me out- do this for police. ALL OF THEM.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

READ147.BMF

academia never really accepted Wikipedia and still doesn’t; much of academia is now adopting LLMs and forcing them onto faculty, even though their source for so many claims is… Wikipedia. The difference of course is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Yes, this is bad. Yes, this is an attack on the press and the First Amendment. But it's also completely frivolous and yet another example of the administration's weakness, short sightedness, and stupidity. I don't think it's going to scare anybody and it shouldn't

In addition to Don Lemon, agents arrested Emmy-winning St. Paul journalist Georgia Fort this morning because she covered the ICE church protest. This is an assault on the 1st Amendment and an attack on Black journalists by an out-of-control DOJ. We must condemn it in the strongest possible terms.

Recycled Bulls by John V. Wilhelm

2 weeks of ICE funding is 2 too many

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

just saw 4 ice agents go up to a house and knock and within 1 minute there were 30 people out whistling and they left. we will not take our foot off the gas

For example the video yesterday of "ICE IS GASSING A DAY CARE RIGHT NOW!!" is the daycare right up the street from my house. I about shit my pants and raced out the door until I saw it was actually from Saturday. I already dealt with that daycare gassing, thank you. Please don't lie to me for likes

The 2025 shootings of Minnesota legislators were treated far too lightly. Media and the public moved on too fast without grasping the seriousness of assassination. These are life and death issues, not just differences of opinion the USA is working out. The reactionary right is ready to kill.

Chicago: call your alderman ASAP and tell them what you think about this. We gotta get Lopez outta here while the momentum is on our side

A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.

Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones

The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.

We have won a single playoff game. It takes 16 for a championship

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

This is a book that clarifies a lot IMO. It was published in the 90s but explains ICE as well as anything: www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8090-9...

i wrote about watching it, about evidence, about witness. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...