Camps for unwanted people. Ring any bells?

Reading about Musk’s decision to go big on his optimus humanoid robot (see description here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ ) I can’t help but remember that Mark Twain went bankrupt betting on a humanoid printing press.

Jesus

Thanks @lydiapolgreen In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

Please listen. Trump did not put in Machado. Trump is keeping Maduro’s government. Trump embraces corruption. He doesn’t care about Venezuelans. He knows the Maduro regime was not itself running drugs. Trump is obsessed with fossil fuels. He wants the oil. Period.

Yes. Trump is very transparent. There is no “reading between the lines.” Trump is only talking about oil and only cares about oil.

Ok. So they are putting in Maduro’s vp? Another proof that he only cares about the oil.

Election news: USPS is no longer guaranteeing when it will postmark mail, which could jeopardize some ballots that arrive after Election Day. Find out if your state will be affected ⬇️ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Exactly one month ago.

Why will no one stop him and say, Mr president you are wrong. The United States is great because of our immigrants. I am glad so many Somalis have found a home here.

“Americanism” is a new term. Has anyone researched this? I’m guessing it links to white nationalism.

Three days into a holiday weekend I finally had a moment to catch up on U.S. news. What has happened to our country? 19 year old college student deported against federal judge’s orders. Warplanes killing survivors of an illegal attack.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

You know, if folks responded to Jewish politicians like this, we Jews would be up in arms.

Trump did on 60 Minutes what he does every time. He spews a blizzard of lies, exaggerations and assorted other falsehoods, and if (as usual) the reporter isn’t equipped or doesn’t bother to push back, he keeps going. Here is a detailed list, via @mehdirhasan.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/factchecki...

These people are veterans!

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

This report is absolutely shocking. ICE does not have the authority to detain US citizens during immigration enforcement — full stop. The Trump administration is out of control, violating the rights of American citizens. They must be held accountable. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

Time to plan for a #calexit

Good time to reread David Eggers, The Circle, a very under appreciated book.

Let’s go California ! www.theargumentmag.com/p/illiteracy...

When one company/university/ state folds, Trump will keep pushing.

Terrible news from Mississippi. So glad @mississippifreepress.org is there to tell the story

NEW: Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi on Tuesday—a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland and a homeless white man in Vicksburg. Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.

I finally cancelled my subscription to @washingtonpost.com because they fired @karenattiah.bsky.social Attiah is an excellent journalist. She was fired because she dared to quote Kirk’s own misogynoir. Follow attiah on Substack.

We are in an another McCarthy era. This is America. 1950s, 1910s, 1870s in the south… we see these reactionary periods over and over as white supremacists attempt to assert control over this country. We can fight back. We must.

The president should not own any media.

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

SEPT, 1933, GERMANY: The new Nazi government arrests tens of thousands of homeless citizens and disappears them into prisons and camps in what they called Beggars’ Week [Bettlerwoche], carried out by the SA and SS, with the support of the police.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u... In the former official’s opinion, it was more likely that the vessel was carrying migrants on a human smuggling run. It would be impossible to know for sure, however, given that any evidence of drug smuggling was destroyed in the attack.

NEW: US Treasury watchdog finds that of the 7,315 IRS workers terminated by DOGE, just 43 were documented underperformers. Almost 50% of the fired employees had been appraised as working at or above expectations. www.icij.org/news/2025/09... via @icij.org

I seem to remember that the main concern Republicans had about the ACA was that they wanted to ensure “your doctor” makes all the decisions about your health care. Now,we’re hoping that MAGA lets a human being make decisions about our healthcare

Miriam was an AP video journalist. She was killed on the job, photographing the impact of an Israeli drone strike on a Gaza hospital. She was killed in a second wave of Israeli drone strikes.

Folks this is what real antisemitism looks like

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that many federal jobs that have been cut were disproportionately filled by black women, especially in DC.

This is Heritage Foundation Chief Economist EJ Antoni, Trump's new nominee for Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner. And THAT is his Nazi battleship wall art/Zoom background.

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

As Trump shifts federal agents on to the streets of Washington, local leaders call it "unnecessary" and point to the stats Violent crime dropped 26% from last year Trump alleges DC is graffiti-filled and dangerous ====>

Hooray! As a migraineur I am constantly impacted by barometric pressure swings. If you feel the weather in your bones, this might be why

Colden Kimber was a real hero. sfstandard.com/2025/07/31/s...

Ethno-nationalism is on the rise everywhere—in the U.S., in Israel, in India, in Iran—and everywhere innocent people are losing their lives. forward.com/opinion/7577...

Haaretz.com is providing reliable reporting on Gaza. Here is one example: “Desperate to leave Gaza, a grassroots Palestinian group is crowdsourcing an exit strategy”

This is gonna backfire. We have no idea what share intelligence, curiosity, drive, intuition… and I’m not sorry. Inside the Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies

At the Wisconsin Historical Archive, looking at a collection of very early 60s antiwar newspapers—we need this kind of energy now. In print. Bring back the broadsheet!

NEW: Sec. Noem has now admits "last mile" disaster communications weren't up to par in the Texas catastrophe. But while bodies were still being recovered on Tuesday DHS canceled a $3 million grant focused on improving precisely those kinds of "last mile" comms. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dhs-c...