When in Iowa… #iykyk

In other words: We're totally down with the war criminal but condemn those who get hung up by things like the law, ethics and morality.

The writing this season is getting a little too heavy-handed.

bibi is just descriptively correct and the next dem needs to just sever all ties with israel. defense, trade, all of it. even thinking on utterly cynical grounds: israeli political leadership and overall politics is overtly opposed to the american left-of-center project

It is simultaneously true that Trump had (in the two elections he won) positioned himself as opposed to the wars of his predecessors while advocating for warcrimes, and we're again seeing that play out: violence without aims or rules in service of generating spectacle that plays well on TV & posts.

Absolute fucking clown shit

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Kenneth Roth: It is a perilous world when the fate of entire countries rests on the whims of the likes of Trump and Netanyahu. I would love to see the Islamic Republic end, but not at the expense of a world where our destiny is dictated by the men with the biggest guns.

The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S. Join my live conversation with @phillipspobrien.bsky.social, 12:00pm ET, snyder.substack.com

If only someone could have predicted this.

📣 LOUDER

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

We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

“God bless America” 🇵🇷🇲🇽🇧🇿🇬🇹🇭🇳🇸🇻🇳🇮🇨🇷🇵🇦🇦🇬🇧🇸🇧🇧🇨🇺🇩🇲🇩🇴🇬🇩🇭🇹🇯🇲🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨🇹🇹🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇪🇨🇬🇾🇵🇾🇵🇪🇸🇷🇺🇾🇻🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦

The Venn diagram of people who want their own halftime show and people who want their own water fountain is a circle.

The Venn diagram of people who want their own halftime show and people who want their own water fountain is a circle.

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

“America is fucked”

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Another fact that bears repeating: These are concentration camps. There’s no better or more accurate way to describe this. And the reluctance to use that term — to say what is, to say what’s true — can only strengthen the regime’s hand by preserving a false and dangerous sense of normalcy.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Kafkaesque barely begins to describe the situation of the people DHS illegally deported without due process. Because of what it did, the government is basically saying their habeas petitions are functionally impossible to pursue.

“Have you tried unplugging it and counting to 30?”

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

There’s a temptation to settle for less than abolishing ICE. The establishment certainly wants to stop at far less than abolishing ICE. But our future depends on its abolition. In Congress and in the streets we need to push harder than ever, not accept appeasement. www.jphilll.com/p/reject-app...

First, they came for the immigrants— And I spoke up because I know The rest of the fucking poem.

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.

I’d be very interested in an expert opinion on the following question: can Trump as party to the case propose a settlement offer, and then as president direct the IRS to accept the settlement offer that Trump-as-party proposed?

These are, by definition, concentration camps. And we should all be clear-eyed and brave enough to say so.

Their leadership also refers to that restaurant as existing in a theater of war they’ve been deployed to

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

"Do not forget the police departments that used physical force against nonviolent student protesters who stood against genocide. The system is rotten to the core and we must recognize that in this moment.” - McKenzie Forbes www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

The signs and portents getting a little heavy-handed imo

If someone serves me a steak and it’s cabbage I am calling The Hague

This tracks with LA. They make the spectacle, act like it's over when Bovino leaves and then continue the same level of crackdown without a spotlight after everyone gets used to it.

Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’. They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.

“We can train the Proud Boys to be better Nazis.”

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.

It's hilarious that they're pretending Tom Homan is some kind of voice of calm and reason. He looks and sounds like someone who would be hitting Dick Tracy's knees with a hammer

You and what army? No, really, Matt: if you want to deport and jail all my neighbors, you’re going to need an army. We’re in the real world now bucko. This isn’t internet land where you declare something and it becomes true. You need actual dudes. So where’s your army?

While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

I will give Suozzi more credit than he gives himself. He knew what the vote was. He just figured the way to "win" was to support the funding because that's more "centrist" and buck the Democratic majority. But morally, he knew what this was about. He ended up wrong morally AND politically.

This can’t be repeated enough. Not only won’t they investigate, they may never even tell us who did this. Think about the message that sends to the next ones. Nobody is safe.

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 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.

Tell me you don’t have any Jewish friends without telling me you don’t have any Jewish friends.

Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.