Time to dust off a classic

Leon Botstein, president of @bardcollege.bsky.social, has repeatedly made public statements about his relationship with the pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that have turned out to be misleading, incomplete, or untrue. I'm going to make a thread to compile them all here.

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...

A suggestion for liberals and leftists: If a paper that you subscribe to publishes Opinion pieces from somebody that you find vile, email the Opinion team and tell them! Be the squeaky wheel! They actually read these letters. Cancelling your subscription doesn’t register the same

Elon, Epstein, Thiel, and pals banked on buying and bullying their way out of planetary collapse. The Epstein cohort’s anti-social inclinations rival the worst villainy of any dystopian fiction.

/The Lynn Police Department said it has issued “updated directives prohibiting any proactive communication with ICE, or any federal agency, regarding civil immigration enforcement,” according to the statement. Police did not provide WBUR with any written policy./ www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas. As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. She replied: “To get out of here.”

Police don’t wear masks. State troopers don’t wear masks. The National Guard doesn’t wear masks. But you know who does? White supremacists, militia groups, insurrectionists, and ICE.

JUST IN: Citing "onslaught of unlawful and irregular practices" and prolific media interviews by DOJ, lawyers for Don Lemon & Georgia Fort demand release of grand jury transcripts in church protest case. Presumption of regularity is gone, they say. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

At a coffee shop watching a Mpls food drive in action and people here love grocery shopping for other so much, I don't think this will ever end.

Reuters Exclusive: The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from USAID, the former U.S. foreign aid agency, to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, Trump's budget chief and an architect of the government overhaul cut thousands of federal jobs.

MTG replied to Massie’s post. Important context is Massie and MTG (when she was still in office) have both pushed for release of the Epstein files and occasionally defied Trump on legislation. They have been targeted by Trump accordingly, and MTG has spoken publicly about receiving death threats.

Hundreds of students outside the MDC in DTLA right now, facing off against DHS agents. Bit chaotic here will post am able

To remove your data and your minor child's data from Lifetouch: lifetouch.com/additionalda...

Ukrainian freestyle skier Kateryna Kotzar

For anyone waiting to see how cozy Bill Clinton was with Epstein and Maxwell, here’s some information. Gross. TikTok is a wealth of information. Not all of it is worth watching, but this one was. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP89728XS/

GOOD MORNING

It is incredibly difficult to find a wrong way to criticize Jeffrey Epstein, but hot damn, Fox News hosts managed to find one.

Heart of a lion 👇🏻

Debunk

HAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS THE WORLD’S MOST HYPED GEN AI PRODUCT AND THEY CANT MAKE MONEY BECAUSE IT DOESNT WORK AT ANYTHING It’s officially: the high priests of Gen AI slop grift are enshittifying and I am here for it www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

They were ready for chaos. What they got was discipline. An update to my January piece: why ICE is reportedly drawing down in Minneapolis...and why the absence of violence may be the real story. Sometimes the headline isn’t what exploded. It’s what didn’t. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

If Ring can cancel its partnership with Flock, school leaders can - and should! - remove Flock cameras from school grounds.

More proof that Bondi’s reprehensible performance was to please an audience of one who expects reprehensible performances.

I was really afraid that this is what was happening in our Worcester schools, based on just the bits we’ve seen publicly. A. It is wrong to lie to children. B. This is, as I have ongoingly noted, in precise and exact opposition to our primary responsibility to students.

A new AI model just dropped so be careful out there

Anyway, a reminder that the Massachusetts Department of Correction has a 287(g) agreement with ICE. It would sure be great if @massgovernor.bsky.social could do something about it.

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

NEW: Indigenous activists erected multiple tipis at Coldwater Spring outside Fort Snelling and near the Whipple Federal Building -- headquarters of ICE's Operation Metro Surge -- establishing an occupation demanding 'land back' in the form of “returning Fort Snelling” to the Dakota people. [Video]

This is so inexcusable @massgovernor.bsky.social Maura Healey. Baker part 2 😡

Tom Homan, the White House 'border czar,' announced the federal operation is winding down this morning although "quick reaction forces" are still operative, claims more local jail cooperation with ICE imposed. Gov. Walz announced economic recovery measures are being set up after damage from feds.

NEW: Oklahoma regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to find the culprit — then closed the case. With @readfrontier.bsky.social

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Of course, the politicians and pundits who push homeschooling as a path to security (or salvation) don't care about mixing up correlation and causation. They only care about dismantling public infrastructure and forcing women to be our safety net instead. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...

In a moment that calls for courage, we get this:

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the laser was deployed near Fort Bliss without coordinating with the FAA, which decided then to close the airspace ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/faa-...

TOMORROW: Minnesota organizers and leaders will share what they’ve learned so we can all be better prepared to organize and protect our neighbors from ICE and CBP deployments: www.crowdcast.io/c/reimagine/...

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

🚨BREAKING: Minneapolis police arrest ICE protesters blocking the Target entrance in response to Target's continued cooperation with ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Fuck yes!!!👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

Holy-Shit-grade new whitepaper just dropped from @cplusc.bsky.social. Download this. Use this. It is so good. I do not work there, I just think it is neat!

Can I take some satisfaction, knowing that she hasn’t had a chance to get her nails done in a bit? #growout

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gahhhhh we lost a great one I cannot even say how much Russ and Mary did to build community and supported Weymouth/south shore. RIP BHZ

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