Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws? Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?

The absolute idiocy of this is mind blowing. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/c...

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

It’s always about the oil.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

Like clockwork.

So now world war 3 then?

Don’t let the door hit you on your way to prison Nazi Barbie.

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Big Tech Signs White House Data Center Pledge With Good Optics & No Actual Substance flip.it/PJwmLr “Data centers … they need some PR help,”… Trump said at the event. This voluntary agreement won’t track adherence (or any data) & has no enforcement. Participating in this performance is 🤮

The emissions of Australia's top data centre operators have doubled over the past few years. You can see why Amazon Australia fought so hard to try and keep these numbers hidden....... www.afr.com/policy/energ...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

Was gonna post about this earlier but got distracted. Probably gonna get called a doomer for it. But fuck it. Look where we're headed. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I don’t like the sentence I’m about to type. But here goes. Pregnant children are being taken by ICE to a facility in Texas so they’re legally forced to give birth.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Rising ocean temps blamed for massive die-off of marine life. "Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 [fish] populations in the northern hemisphere.... They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

A draft emergency order is being circulated by anti-voting activists that outlines a plan to empower Trump to unilaterally ban mail-in ballots and voting machines in future elections. But experts say Trump doesn’t have that authority.

The Justice Department has filed lawsuits against Kentucky, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia seeking access to their complete voter registration lists.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Another baby was born in detention & the newborn is about to be sent back 2 the Dilley torture facility where disease is running rampant. What if this were your baby? CALL CONGRESS: 202-224-3121 TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS! Sign a letter Tinyurl.com/dilleybabies Donate Eachstephome.org #ICELawlessness

“I heard the officer say ‘that ain’t shit’.” NASHVILLE — ICE shatter a car window in front of a newborn, refuse to look at man’s license & work visa… drag him out of his car, hit him, mock him for being Guatemalan (he’s from Mexico), laugh when he begs to say goodbye.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

I have a colleague whose first question when planning a new publication or project application is always: what is the purpose? It is a question we should ask ourselves more often when it comes to our economic system. What is the purpose of capitalism? 🧵

Things that happen in real democracies.

@skhalsa.bsky.social you’re famous www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/w...

Can we all agree that our country did just fine the first 225 years of its existence without the Department of Homeland Security and would do just fine again without it?

One thing the right-wing media will not report about ICE is the fact they have arrested almost a million people in various processes of migrating to the U.S. and place those people into prison.

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

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New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

“We are convinced that some of you are either inept at your job, just do not care, or you are protecting the operators,” she wrote in a Sept. 27, 2024, email to a half dozen agency employees. More great work from @nickbowlin.bsky.social

Tragically, there is now considerable evidence that the administration is violating the Eighth Amendment at scale.

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Not a drill

A majority of cases will never be reported, either. Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren't investigated www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Minnesota is still under attack. Federal thugs swarmed Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. Witnesses report tear gas used on students and staff. At least two school employees were handcuffed. Video evidence is circulating. DHS is denying it happened 🤬 Schools should be safe havens!

“Ring is rolling back many of the reforms it’s made in the last few years by easing police access to footage from millions of homes in the United States … police have used Ring footage to spy on protestors, and obtained footage without a warrant or consent of the user”

Gestapo much?

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.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.