Horrifying. Jesus Lord in heaven.

When it comes to “reputational damage,” I think the PEQ fiasco, coupled with university tuition hikes to “prevent non-francophones from coming here” have done serious damage to Quebec’s reputation as a welcoming place. We may only grasp the full extent of it in the years to come.

Two points: *Neither getting on a plan, nor buying beer is a constitutional right *You don't need to prove citizenship to buy a beer or get on a plane - that is what the SAVE Act calls for, which will clearly disenfranchise lots of people

Tell me you don’t understand the commons without telling me you don’t understand. None of these platforms are a commons.

another technology the left is excited about

23 years old. US citizen. Ruben Ray Martinez. Killed by ICE March 2025 A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters. The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

did you catch this?

MAGA-ronis

But do not ask Staten Island Chuck!

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

A drawing by a 5-year-old girl detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas with her mother Hayam El-Gamal. “I am 5 years old” is written at the top of the page. Lower down, next to stick figures, are the words “let us go.” Courtesy of Eric Lee, Lee & Godshall-Bennett, LLP

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Another reminder that the largest cuts in Medicaid’s history were made by this Congress in part to fund a tripling of ICE/DHS budget.

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

Please circulate!! This deserves to be a big story.

Wait? So now binaries are bad???? Also, fuck off.

Per his colleagues: The victim’s name was apparently Alex Pretti and he was an ICU nurse caring for severely injured veterans at the VA Hospital. He was acting as an observer, filming the raid. Any suggestion that he was there with violence on his mind is horrific gaslighting.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

His name was Alex Pretti, he was 37. He was recording ICE, directing traffic, and helping up someone agents had shoved to the ground. They murdered him for it.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Henry Cuellar (Texas), Tom Suozzi (New York), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Laura Gillen (New York), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington), Jared Golden (Maine), and Don Davis (North Carolina) voted to finance this murder.

@democracynow.org aired an interview with Nekima Levy Armstrong yesterday. Moral clarity, deep knowledge of law, and no illusions about its limits. She gives hope and direction. The White House has nothing but lies and racism. www.democracynow.org/2026/1/21/ne...

Tell me again why it's very very very important to protect women's records from trans athletes?

ICE threw a flash bang at a car and it had six kids in it. All six children are in the hospital now.

Cognitive dissonance on the front page.

Today I learned that “tenure density” is a thing and that thing must be reduced. goldengatexpress.org/114511/campu...

Ahem, Quebec. Loi 21 & 9.

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont... Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.

Local media ❤️‍🔥

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

On rewatch I was shocked that the bad guy government guy was from the EPA - maybe a not so subtle nod to 80s deregulation

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Montreal, folks. Montreal.

Worth noting that young in this context is 18-40. Or as other people call it, adult.

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Well well well…

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.

Klein reminds me of the 2016 “no one does political history anymore” brouhaha. If you reduce politics to electoral persuasion, then winners do it right, losers wrong. TNC tried to broaden the political by grounding it in Black history. It didn’t work.

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

Read this as Slaughterhouse case. Still a bunch of bastards.

“Hit roadblocks” is a really funny way of writing “failed to fake evidence”