Strong democracies tend to be the safest places to live. They have low interpersonal violent crime. And you're much safer from state-imposed violence. Never concede the lie that we must exchange freedom for security. www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

I don’t know what FIFA was thinking when they went all in on Trump. Did they think, “oh the racists will make an exception for us?” They will not. Fans should stay at home.

For a whole year, DHS hid that they murdered Ruben, a young man in Texas, after a traffic stop. Just like they did with Silverio, Renee, Keith, Alex, and Linda, they lied and avoided accountability. How many more people have to be executed before my colleagues realize that reforms are not enough?

Cut the check, Donald Trump.

i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.

🔬🪧 Sat. March 7th, 1:00 pm, Chicago's Federal Plaza - join us as we raise our voices. The Trump regime has been stripping science for parts, just as they're eroding the democratic norms that make science, research, and inquiry possible. Bring your friends and #StandUpForScience!#TakeBackOurScience

There is no way Senate Dems should vote for DHS funding while Republicans are threatening to nationalize elections and Trump is threatening to do it by executive order. ICE reforms are no longer enough. Their authoritarianism must be fought with every legislative lever available.

"Just last week, though, @durbin.senate.gov voted to confirm two of Trump’s nominees, David Clay Fowlkes and Aaron Peterson, to serve as life-tenured federal judges."

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

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.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

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

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The people who needed their own half time show are the same people who needed their own water fountains.

Jesus's name appears fewer times in the New Testament than Donald Trump's name appears in the Epstein files. And most people think the New Testament is ALL about Jesus.

I hear the Kid Rock halftime show is now a Teams meeting.

So guess who didn't watch Kid Rock

Let the outrage begin! "How dare Bad Bunny...."

One of these days, people will look back on these sports betting ads like we do on the ads for patent medicines featuring cocaine.

I'm actually watching Sky Sports coverage of the game, and it's fine, but when their analysts speak during breaks I can't help but think of youtu.be/HW4J-RiCZ2Q?...

I'm calling it now -- during the second song of Bad Bunny's halftime performance, It Will Finally Happen.

Heck, to Emancipation & Reconstruction

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

✋ No Ethics. No World Cup. 🔗 www.boycotttheworldcup.com #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #2026WorldCup #Trump #FIFA #FIFAWorldCup2026 #FIFAWorldCup #FIFAWorldCup #PuppetShow #TrumpShow #TrumpClown #TrumpEpstein #TrumpAdministration #Potus

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

to the point here i think the mainstream media has also kind of dialed back in Minnesota after a wave of coverage. bsky.app/profile/mari... please support independent media including Unicorn Riot that are working on covering this ICE operation daily thank you! @unicornriot.bsky.social

One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

“The global publishing platform Substack is generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found…” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

The Guardian has a rough outline of what the Tulsi whistleblower complaint is about: NSA found someone close to Trump in contact with foreign intelligence, and rather than doing something about that, Tulsi brought the report to Susie Wiles. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Her primary opponents are @andrewricect3.bsky.social and @denoble.bsky.social. Both of them support abolishing ICE. Do with that what you will, CT-3 voters.

@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

Yeah, Chicago checking in here, that's called 'dibs'

One way for the media to win back the respect of viewers would be for them to show us that they have some self-respect of their own. When you let the president denigrate and humiliate your colleagues without saying a word, you're not really giving off a "holding the powerful to account" vibe

Yes, we already knew the lie was a lie. But good to have documentation - from Cato Institute, no less - when others come at us with the lie.

I would like to see a study of whether the Trib Ed Board endorsement is a net benefit when considering the anti-endorsement effect.

Senator Dick Durbin just voted for a Trump nominee. Why, @durbin.senate.gov??

It really bums me out that Klobuchar, who was instrumental in normalizing Trump as just another political adversary, is almost certainly going to be the next governor of Minnesota, a state currently paying a severe price for that normalization of fascism.

Got time for a song? Bet you stay for all four www.wuwf.org/music-arts/2...

"Democrat party." Their tell.

As I said last week, “CBP is an agency that is uniquely callous about human lives—both of US citizens & migrants.” The only reason their violence is now front-page news is they’re doing it to white people in major cities, as opposed to migrants in the desert. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Reminder that the University of Illinois collaborated with local police and prosecutors to pursue trumped up felony charges against several students who participated in a Gaza solidarity encampment in the spring of 2024. Guess we’ll see if they do anything about this.

"Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."

"The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police."

"In total, according to CBP’s own discipline reports, over the 20 years from 2005 to 2024 — the last year numbers are available — at least 4,913 CBP officers and Border Patrol agents have been arrested themselves, some multiple times. (In 2018 alone, a single CBP employee was arrested five times.)"

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi... CBP/ICE can't be "reformed" or "retrained." #AbolishICE @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.