Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child

There's no other way to describe this than as crimes against humanity. Inhumane, despicable, unconscionable. www.reuters.com/world/us/tod...

It’s so remarkable that Labour took power in the UK and immediately doubled down on transphobia to “””protect children””” all while palling around with an Epstein Island-frequenting ghoul. And probably more than one.

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

👩🏿This is horrific! We can't allow these new facilities to open up! 👩🏼I agree! As Dems, we must fight the rise of fascism, random stops, and unjust detention! 👩🏿And also, we should shut down Rikers! It is an even more horrific place! And it's even bigger! All fascism is bad! 👩🏼No wait that one's OK

A good way to greet someone is to say, "Death to openAI." In response, it's best to just echo this. (You can alternate to "Death to anthropic" next time around.)

gotta agree with this. at some point we all have to contend with what good faith is actually for and extend it accordingly

DAMN

"What if, hear me out, instead of trying to de-segregate the buses, we appeal to everyone by talking about how expensive bus fares are?"

It's hilarious to me how much white Dems are like "Yes ICE is terrible. Yes cops do exactly the same things as ICE, at 10x to 100x the scale, but they target Black people, so that's OK! We have to be careful what arguments we make about ICE, or we will immediately have to reckon with the police."

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Yes -- just added this to LeaveSubstack.com. Thanks!

anyway, it’s true and bears repeating. leave substack.

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We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve

There is no ceasefire in Gaza. US-supplied bombs are still being used to murder Palestinians. Congress must assert its authority and put an end to the genocide. We must pass my Block The Bombs Act, which would stop the use of MK-series bombs, and end our complicity in these horrors.

Another US lethal strike on a boat, this one in the eastern Pacific. Total attacks now up to 38, killing at least 128. As with previous boat bombings, in violation of US law and international treaties, without any causus beli, when the US wasn’t attacked, and hasn’t even advanced stated goals.

Yes we are. [CW: assault] The US hates women so much. Does a sex worker have the right to say "no kissing?" Or does she give up all right to consent? If a customer twice her size forces his tongue in her mouth anyway, does she have the right to bite him? If he then beats her, is that "a fight?"

there is no ethical use of ai

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

This fundraiser was so successful that I’m doing another one! The extra funds that were set for the first family went towards the second family’s total rent need. Let’s keep it going!

"Your support for us helps build a future where all of our communities can thrive" -Cedric F Brown, Digital Communications Manager for @raceforward.org

Because Measles has been not a thing for so long we have forgotten how awful a disease it really is: www.wired.com/story/measle...

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

If you watch nothing else today, this week.

I have never seen anything like it. I don't know what's actually going on, but several attorneys reached out to me this morning and said all of their Somali clients were also transferred to the same judge and now have court on the same date in March. And I don't know for sure why. But it's chilling

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

i don’t like that we live in public health omelas

Don't argue with me. Argue with Lincoln's own words. Most of y'all can recite the Gettysburg address from memory. But most of y'all had never read the below speech before I pointed it out to you.🤷🏿‍♂️ This isn't your fault! This history has been intentionally obscured and omitted.

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! Feb 5: Abraham Lincoln 👴🏻"Why do some Black people say that Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist?" 👴🏿"Because Abraham Lincoln said that Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist. We just agree with him. Lincoln got angry if you suggested he wasn't a white supremacist" 🙂🙃

Gavin Newsom is anti trans, anti Palestine, anti Black, anti Disabled, pro for profit prisons, pro ice, he's a genocide denier, he puts himself in crowns, he cozies up to republican fascists, everything he does is just a career opportunity, he's pro AI, he's anti human. No. Won't. No. Just no.

People gotta fuckin stop doin this. I won't vote for Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom will lose. I'm saying it now so y'all have time to listen, tho you never do. But nah I ain't voting for diet fascism just because he has a D. Candidates have to do what we want to get elected, there's no fealty here.

For Liam.

ICE observers in the Twin Cities suburbs say they fear being injured or killed, but are dedicated to being on the right side of history. They say working together has brought them community and connection. And they're seeing shifts in attitudes among their neighbors. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.

Just so everyone knows, one of the few trials of a communist official after the overthrow in Eastern Europe had a sentence of four years for using a water cannon and tear gas on students. Different standards, I guess. Source: www.reuters.com/article/worl...

NEW: The New Mexico legislature just passed the Immigrant Safety Act to ban public ICE detention contracts, terminate existing contracts, and prohibit police from collaborating with ICE. This is a huge win. End ICE detention everywhere.

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's- Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

This feels personal. 😠

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead