this “chicago bail fund” and the entire network of newly registered bail funds are all scams. illinois made cash bail illegal in 2023 thanks to the incredibly hard work of many people, some of whom i know personally, so this is especially stupid

ok but how would you give an unplugged one to your younger sibling so they think they are playing too

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

Noam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker say Epstein was an intellectual force with a mind like steel trap and then his e-mails read like the ending of Flowers for Algernon.

lol he is actually capable of cutting waste, fraud, and abuse. doesn’t even need to rely on decade old memes to do it

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

borders exist to keep you in

release don lemon, georgia fort, and the epstein files

This can't be true, I was told many times that every American parent wants to have their local Republican congressman performing genital inspections in the middle school girls locker room before every gym class

if only they had wnba-courage. this statement says nothing, what a bunch of pussboys

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

I just visited Liam and his father. I also met with countless more children and families who have done nothing wrong and should not be detained. My full update on visiting the Dilley detention center: youtu.be/j9FcMwyWN2I?...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

“What if your neighbor is Muslim” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Somali” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor speaks Spanish” They’re my neighbor “What if your neighbor is Hmong” They’re my neighbors

this is the stuff of nightmares bsky.app/profile/jben...

i’ve been thinking of liam daily, this fight will not be done until the people who kidnapped him are behind bars and reparations are made to him and his family

a totally normal thing for a car company ceo to say in a public earnings call

“no i am not scared of a whistle” might just make my day, i love this story

one of the agents said “okay we know” when we were whistling so i leaned in and whistled louder and he threatened to pepper spray me. i then said “are you scared of a fucking whistle dawg” and he very meekly said “no i’m not scared of a whistle”

This is Minneapolis. Collective trauma, and neighbors helping neighbors. This is our 24/7 every day lives right now, not just a 10 second news clip.

not enough ppl know this, but immigrants are good and it’s cool to be around them

Good. Destroy them.

whoa russ feingold is on bluesky!

Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech after getting shot in the chest. anyone who tells you she isn’t an American is a lying scumbag.

total badass

ok, if they ban the whistles there are other options to drive the rats out youtu.be/nTUi7mYAqTY?...

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

the 5 year old had “insufficient assets”, the judge will try to explain to st peter before going straight to hell

It was an ugly wake-up call for me, the dad of a new Kindergartener, to realize that the public school system has basically been completely abandoned by both parties since before my own time in it, and all of the "non-essential" stuff is provided entirely by donations and volunteer labor

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

lol i have these same gloves, i got them from costco. so much solidarity to the costco moms that won this fight ❤️

Liam himself is five goddamned years old and should be at home with an adult he trusts right now no matter who his parents are. It would not matter if they were literal criminal masterminds, Liam Ramos is a baby and babies do not belong in prison.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

lol i gotta wonder if he noped-out after meeting with jonathan ross, like i’d imagine having to meet an unrepentant murderer could shake a run-of-the-mill opportunist

This is a really incredible piece. Share it widely 🎁https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/?gift=C-rzmQ8PsUHt15odxTKJDn7xrpPNxSpotkNz_P27oI0

“ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds” friends there is not a hell hot enough

There needs to be bigger punishment than this, but it’s a start

We sometimes think about the martyrs of the Boston Massacre as the first deaths in the American Revolution. But an 11yo boy named Christopher Seider was killed by a customs informer the week before. Boston gave him a huge funeral. Tensions were snapping. And then soldiers fired into the crowd.

It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to abandon it

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

the regime is likely more worried about what happens if they do prosecute- would any of these cowards have signed up if they didn’t believe they’d be immune from consequences

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens