“Raskin also said that he saw ‘references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.’“ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

And, again, the agent-doxxed-and-then-attacked scenario the masks ostensibly are intended to prevent has never actually occurred. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

This is a wild departure from past practices. All the talk of the “Worst of the Worst” is a lie. Usually between 50-75 percent of ICE deportees have criminal records. We’ve turned ICE from a crime-fighting org into a racial profiling and ethnic cleansing operation.

NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

Through daily harassment, killing, house demolition and eviction, the Israeli government is trying to provoke a Palestinian uprising in the West Bank. Their aim is to repeat in the West Bank what was done in Gaza, and, if possible, orchestrate mass expulsion to Jordan. 1/

"Although the judge noted numerous irregularities on Ice’s court documents, she ultimately sided with the agency." Irish man has a work permit, US business, American wife, almost finished Green card application, and has paid a bond to be released. ICE, implausibly, claims he agreed to be deported.

Perfect, no notes: the OpenAI Super Bowl ad costing millions is AI slop. 👇🏻

A site tracking recent purges in the PLA vs purges at the Trump-Hegseth Pentagon purge-comparison.vercel.app

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

It's genuinely very silly when people act like someone does (or does not do) something XYZ because of their race. It has nothing to do with that. The Israeli political and military leadership do what it is done because of ideology first and foremost and then because nobody has stopped them.

It doesn't matter if you're a Jew or an Arab or a Turk or an Anglo-American or a German, you're in fact capable of doing every single thing under the sun, and especially so if you feel that you have impunity. Impunity is the operative mechanism here. It emboldens every single conceivable act.

Negative polarization is multi-directional and a lot of people have mirrored what is more or less antisemitic sentiment with philosemitic sentiment, aka "Israel would never do X thing that it demonstrably does time again and again because it isn't that stupid". That's just exceptionalism actually.

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

That Japanese-American soldier is Private Spencer Howe, and he is, most definitely, being all that he can be. www.stripes.com/sports/olymp....

Excellent summary of the large body of work @steffenmurau.bsky.social and colleagues have done on the Offshore (US) Dollar Syatem www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru... @phenomenalworld.bsky.social Look here for the bigger body of work: steffenmurau.com/portfolio/in...

Behind almost every university "financial crisis" is some sort of insider benefitting real estate deal, sometimes not just corrupt but clearly criminal

[watching through military binoculars as orange slices are handed out to kids between halves at pee wee soccer] This is PROFESSIONAL grade logistics. Look at the matching uniforms. Look at the coordination. Someone is BANKROLLING this operation. [retreats using a series of elaborate rolls]

Don’t anyone show this to Susan or I’m never gonna be allowed to get an outdoor wok burner

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

Surya Bonaly and the "illegal" backflip. Sorry but there can't be rules here this entire sport is yo that shit is cool so the score should be on how cool this is or how smooth you are doing cool shit. You get a score for cool and for smooth.

We’re a few legislative sessions from these schools being targeted for closure imo

it's funny how UK politics is a war between zoomers who want to keep the welfare state for their parents and the populist right which their parents vote for

Never forget the anniversary of King Taejong falling off his horse!

Celebrating 250 years of democracy by only allowing vassals willing to pay tribute an opportunity to speak to the King.

When I was still fighting my forced discharge, I told my chain of command over and over that these policies wouldn't break me. Ultimately, they didn't. What broke me was how easily and quickly I was abandoned. What broke me was realizing how much of the "profession" was smoke and mirrors.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

This looks to be an extraordinary overperformance for Dems. With more than three-fourth of the vote in, the Dem leads by more than 20%.

This is exactly why people who aren't MAGA assholes ought to wave American flags and re-claim patriotism from these traitors. Bigoted shitweasels aren't "real America," and we should stop letting them pretend like they are.

We’re looking at another very big Dem overperformance tonight—in a Trump+13 district. Dem Chasity Martinez is up 61-39 with more than half the vote in. Notably, like in TX last weekend, the e-day vote has been even *better* for her than the early vote. voterportal.sos.la.gov/graphical

Forcing married people who changed their surname to purchase a passport with their married name is a three-figure poll tax.

I'd really love for you to take a look at this thread. I think you'll really enjoy the stories... and I just had to replace my catalytic converter which, alas, costs about 1000 times what one of these stories does. :) (Repost, if you don't mind. It helps. Thank you.)

this isn't a novel point, but when he fired CQ for his skin color/Francetti for having a vagina and not a single GOFO said anything/quit, that die was cast

@nature.org again functioning as a marketing platform rather than upholding scientific standards. It is misleading at best to describe this as a "randomized controlled trial" AND there is no disclosure that these are Google researchers "studying" a Google product. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

VERY audible boos from U.S. fans at Milano Rho when J.D. Vance left the game just now.

Phenomenal. It’s incredible how relevant Shakespeare remains, and who better than Gandalf to perform this. The entire interview is worth a watch too.

The ICE raids have reshaped daily life in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. Some construction companies now pouring concrete at 2 a.m. and fencing up job sites to protect workers. Taquerias once packed with blue collar lunch crowds now empty. Business owners in group chats sharing ICE sightings.

Spent the week reporting from Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, which flipped red in 2024 on promises of border security and economic strength. It’s now seeing ICE job-site raids that are hurting the economy and stoking constant fears of families being torn apart. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social