how we got here

If one is looking for left-FP ideas from electeds in the US, could do worse than follow the lead of Ilhan Omar, who has repeatedly put forth a repeal of the Hague Invasion Act as a core necessity for international rule of law. US alignment should not function as a backstop against justice for crimes

I think the fact black journalists were put into metro , sports, foreign, or web coverage while white journalists got the hill and White House bears explains quite a lot.

could Daisy interest you in some valentine's wishes

A political campaign running on tribunals is one running on maintaining the primacy of law and order in this country, because otherwise it gets to vigilantism very quickly.

I’m so skeptical of the atlantic (and bruenig) that if I had read it, I probably would’ve been seeking details—a disclaimer, a note, something—but this seems like a big problem for them

I saw this and said to myself, "self. . . this smells like private equity." So, I did my Googles, starting with what I know about my own home town and the death of the MetroCard. Hop on this train for a quick ride, and check out where this train takes us. . .

New Survey Shows Majority of LGBTQ Adults Report Harm, Displacement, and Fear Since November 2024 qburgh.com/survey-major...

Good follow up story from NBC 10 last night. They interviewed an undocumented man who says he is the person ICE was pursuing the day when elementary school kids were seen running from ICE. The station interviewed his young son too. @nbcphiladelphia.com

Nine and ten year olds, fleeing in fear. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

If I had to bet on the main thing that has radicalized people against "ai," and I am talking about the way that branding is CURRENTLY BEING USED, not whatever specialized ML utility you may have found for it, it would be in apps and tech they already use being made worse and/or inoperable by it

Our political leaders keep delegating their power to the people (e.g. waiting for elections rather than removing an impeached tyrant). Might as well formalize it at this point and treat service in the Senate like jury duty.

I know there are a lot of mutual aid asks coming out of Minneapolis right now, but both of my kids graduated from South High and it would mean a lot to me for people to contribute to this rent fund for my fellow South families. I’ll match the first $1000 if you post receipts. Tiger Pride 🧡🖤

Remember when we asked you for supplies for folks being thrown out of Whipple in dangerous conditions? You were sending them to St. Paul Corner Drug, who was working to get them out into the neighborhood. They've posted a heartwarming thank you on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DUojPuBDd6x/

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

We are a nation in which thousands of Black people were "legally" kidnapped with the assistance of the federal government & sent back into slavery. We are also a nation in which thousands of white & Black people organized in their local communities to try to stop those kidnappings. "We" are both.

The costs of anti-vax shit really needs to be a bigger part of the conversation. Ask Kennedy about his plan to expand hospital capacity when his favorite diseases come back? What is the budget for it where will it come from? How are schools to prepare?

Now I'm going to include providing transportation to the list of things I'm willing to do to help my friends and family obtain a Real ID or US Passport.

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

Florida law says colleges have to allow an opt-out on mandatory vaccinations. And so the measles that came back on the buses from DC in January are currently ripping through Ave Maria University in Florida. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/w...

Look, here comes a lover of mine, and a lover of hers.

This calculation has been freezing actors and institutions in ruinous inertia at every level

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

The forced breeding angle of Fuentes’ statement is merely an extension of the misogynistic effort to overturn Roe & aligns neatly with Heritage’s “Foundation for the Next 250 Years,” in case you think this is just some rando.

$38 billion on the warehouses to provide "Prime, but with human beings" azmirror.com/2025/04/08/i...

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data. Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here: newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Can’t wait to teach economy and society to the undergrads and tell them that their credit card debt subsidizes Oura and Whoop subscriptions for premium credit card owners!

This NYT column by @polgreen.bsky.social is the truest thing I've ever seen about the REAL reason public trust in the media collapsed

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass who didn’t know his birthday because he was born into slavery so he chose February 14 as his birthday.

Interesting comment from Leon Botstein here. One wonders for “extraordinary” a rapist has to be before he is no longer worthy of so much of Botstein’s time.

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found."

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years. The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

What a perfect example of how these people are not just incompetent, they’re lazy.

Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...

Some polls (like NYT) only ask about deportations in abstract without asking if people want to see *noncriminals* removed. That creates a distorted impression of support for what Trump is doing, allowing pundits to keep pushing idea that Trumpism represents mystical longings of Real American volk:

NEW: Denver appears to be breaking ties with Flock, asking other companies to come run the city's network of surveillance cameras

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Such a public service!

tubi supremacy

I've never seen this either!

The day this spreadsheet drops I’ll need to take the day off and update dogetrack.info can’t wait!!

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social. 50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/wash...

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

Can’t find the sign to tap, but it bears repeating that, minus the one you’re on, every big social media site in the US is run by a defense contractor or intelligence partner.

Median voter