As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

I’m just going to leave this here

SCOOP: Social Security workers are being told to give the details of appointments customers are making to ICE, raising the prospect of secret police abducting people going to mandatory SSA appointments. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, and @leahfeiger.bsky.social have more.

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.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

“We had the best writers in the country and did more with less, and we knew it with a swagger.” Sally Jenkins pays tribute to The Washington Post’s Sports section:

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

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Why would any foreign national spy for the USA anymore? You have no guarantee that Trump will allow the US to keep its promises to you, he doesn't even keep America's promises to its allies.

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As a German, I'll never fully understand the Third Reich worship of the American far right. They do understand that the Third Reich *lost*, right? That the tough, belligerent, ethnically pure master race got thoroughly defeated and its country conquered by a diverse multi-ethnic coalition?

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

The Epstein files contain 1.4m emails. Working with independent researchers, we have used AI tools to build a picture of the sex offender’s network. It is the first such analysis of its kind

For those who don't know, this is a finding from 2009 by the EPA which stated greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are heating the Earth and that warming threatens public health and welfare

Lobstering can be tough. But Virginia Oliver skippered her own boat until the age of 103—fully 95 years after she first put to sea with her father

Drinking-age laws protect the drinks?

This is a terrific article -

Breaking: Judge grants Mark Kelly a preliminary injunction against Hegseth, who is reconsidering his rank: "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Sen. Kelly's First Amendment freedoms & threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

You could, you know, stop approaching them as a problem to be solved, rather than as an important part of the community who might be responding in a reasonable way to the state of the world today.

What 1.4m emails reveal about Jeffrey Epstein's network. @economist.com data-team (et Jmail) effort on America's most notorious sex offender www.economist.com/interactive/...

I am as worried (very!) about the “and this is why you can’t trust nonprofits with government funds” angle as I am about the racism.

www.thefp.com/p/south-afri... This is true for all refugees admitted to America, and has been for decades—interesting that this is the group the FP thinks (or believes its readers think) deserves special sympathy.

... Bill Maher: Like who, specifically? Christie: I'll give you one. Lindsey Graham.

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

a society losing the plot in real time

Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen: "We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Todd Blanche gives away the game here. Rep. Massie nails it. The Epstein Files Transparency Act does not permit redacting the identifying information of the men involved! 1/2

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

EXACTLY. Yes, there have been reports of DHS revoking TSA Precheck for observers. I’m sorry, but that’s such a comically low-stakes reprisal that if you’re not willing to suffer it, hard to imagine what good you are as an observer. Yes, I’ll take my shoes off at the airport to save my neighbors.

A propos of something I've been working on today, the extent to which we're still living with the effects of Reconstruction's failure never ceases to appal me.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

"This concession should concern everyone. A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same treatment."

This really is a very good piece. I think quite a lot lies behind it. First that the *actual* education of the likes of Musk etc is very superficial. Just enough Western Civ classes at elite universities for them to persuade themselves that they are talented intellects without any deep study.

The things you say when you know nothing about economies, economics and economic growth — but you’re freaked out about the midterm elections. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The fact that her reaction is almost certainly opportunistic makes this more, not less, significant.

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

My sympathies to everyone involved in discovery

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202... “he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men. He said detainees are constantly hungry…Fights often break out over food, “even over those little child-sized juice containers”. Toilet areas are “filthy”.

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Heartily recommend a dry rub of roast fennel seeds, black and Sichuan peppercorns, cumin seeds, ground licorice root and dried facing Heaven peppers, ground and mixed with jaggery and Osem bouillon, on wings. Or ribs. Or shoes, probably. Cook in heavy smoke and low temp for 90ish mins.

I would love to see a 3-0 defensive brawl.

Only just now seen this cool chart from The Economist plotting Kevin Warsh's published speeches' dovishness and hawkishness. Sharp shift in tone depending on who's in White House purely coincidental. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

Bad Bunny's Superbowl halftime show isn't just about the rise of one artist, or even one genre. It's a symbol of how America's pop culture has completely changed into something multilingual, poly cultural and international at its core. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Seconding all of this. I delayed after turning 45 and finally got one last month. It’s really not a big deal. Do it early in the morning and have a well-earned cheat meal for lunch.

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

Anonymity engenders bad behavior (as anyone who has encountered anonymous trolls on social media can readily attest). Those who have no accountability for their actions are not, naturally, restrained.”