we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

I do not feel the need to throat clear anymore about how terrible other regimes are: no war with Iran. Hands off Venezuela. Hands off Cuba. No invasion of Mexico. Leave Greenland alone

After Discord announced it would be implementing age verifications, users have flocked to TeamSpeak, which has added new hosting communities to expand capacity.

we're doing glossy profiles of shitheads again? ok cool ok cool www.404media.co/we-have-lear...

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

I talked with @andreapitzer.bsky.social about why we should understand the Trump administration as a concentration camp regime, and what it means to fight back.

the usual suspects are being suspicious

If you are in a government in Minnesota and your response to your constituents begging for help is to say that you can’t ruin the budget, you need to resign. This is an occupation by the federal government designed to ruin our lives. There is no status quo. Every priority has changed.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

[Bill Simmons voice]: Is Charles I having a moment?

That’s $1.5 *million* in matching funds. Let’s go!

This is a somewhat popular post going around Instagram that was made and is being shared by big Climate accounts. It is wrong. I'll explain in this thread why it's wrong and how I think they got here.

We will continue to track both sides of this story.

This means TEN of the states with Democratic trifectas now have bans on ICE's 287(g) program. That leaves *six* Democratic trifectas that do not. Information in the story on which states are where!

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

I commend the governor. And I hope HE will cancel the state of Maryland’s contracts with ICE collaborators at BWI, where an ICE flight lands nearly every day now. AGI refuels their planes. Omni rents tarmac and office space and uses the international terminal.

*BIG* win against the Trump admin. Philly was the first to sue over removal of exhibits — panels about Washington's slaves — in line with Trump's "corrosive ideology" order. The city won in court. The feds appealed & requested a stay — then complied this morning. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Almost a month after abruptly dismantling exhibits about slavery from the President’s House, National Park Service employees began reinstalling the panels late morning on Thursday ahead of a court-imposed deadline. Story w/ @fallonroth.bsky.social & Maggie Prosser. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

reported by reuters, link to the ruling in the story www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

I missed this real banger of an opinion yesterday from judge sunshine sykes (the best-named judge), vacating the BIA ruling on mandatory immigration detention

The underlying decision is HUGE. Judge Sykes vacated under the APA "Matter of Yajure-Hurtado," the decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals that had blessed the Trump admin's new interpretation of a 1996 law to deny the right to seek bond to huge swathes of people it takes into custody.

nigel farage is not racist enough for elon musk, this stuff is nuts (angry about farage distancing himself from 'tommy robinson' real name Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon)

The sentencing trial for Yoon Suk-yeol will begin in 10 minutes.

My hometown experienced some ICE raids today :/ and while nowhere deserves it, this is literally a town of less than 100k people in Kansas. nothing is going on there.

this whole thing was insane

the stumble was saying "um" type words a few times before giving the standard us politician line on Taiwan.. got em

Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.

@jacobharr.is's Doge Track timeline is a work of art. Not only is it illuminating, if you click the little notepad 🗒️ icon at the end of an entry, the source pops up! It's an accurate citation *and* click it to follow a link to the OG source! 🫡 Jacob Harris! URL: dogetrack.info/agencies/whi...

how skeezy

this is kinda wild .. so all we need to do is release patents for clean energy to drive the blue bars down, come on ppl

This is an important piece and you should read it. Also, I wish journalists would stop saying immigrant families in MN are “staying home to avoid encounters with immigration.” They’re IN HIDING. It isn’t a casual choice. They have been terrorized into hiding. theconversation.com/when-ice-swe...

Wow. Fed. judge tells DHS, ICE, Sec. Noem, AG Bondi, EOIR and others that they are harming "the fabric of this very nation" by defying a court order that vacated their automatic-detention policy. Order is linked here: www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

With Haven Watch volunteers outside the immigration detention center in Fort Snelling — before they met freezing detainees released at the gate and gave them blankets.

⚠️ ICE Detention Facilities Data Scraper and Enricher v. 1.1.1 🔎 github.com/Open-Securit... new release. It's a Python script. This will help identify the online profile of each ICE detention facility, and a lot of additional data about each facility. Various bugs fixed. (data export below!)

The hypervigilant filming of ICE has amazed me over the past couple months. I spoke with independent reporters (national and local) about livestreaming Operation Metro Surge -- why it's important, and why it attracts freaks like Jake Lang.

I'm glad @racketmn.com wrote this. I also think the rise of influencers and streamers has forced local journalists to step up, not only in verifying and providing context to disturbing footage, but to double down on distinctive reporting. You can't focus on anything if you're focused on everything.

This piece is also about how the expeditionary model used to build "Camp Justice" at Guantanamo almost twenty years ago served as a forerunner to the expeditionary military-style concentration camps that will be built inside US border under a recently published WEXMAC Navy contract.

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou and others push for a ban to 287(g) contracts. Minnesota can celebrate "beauty" of the 'victory' while staying diligent: “We still have thousands of families now to bring home. We have a decade of economic ruin to figure out and bring back."(4) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

The feds do not share how many agents are still in Minnesota or how many arrests are taking place, but anecdotal accounts show their activities moving from the Twin Cities (where they encountered strong opposition) to suburbs, exurbs & small towns. (3) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

EXCLUSIVE: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo. Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access.

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

Knowing this is useful because filtration camps are typically military operations. Combining this approach with the Navy WEXMAC contract, we can see how the administration is deliberately trying to inject military models into immigrant arrest and detention as they move to expand the camp system.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

One of the most galvanizing aspects of life here, both individually and communally, is knowing just how morally repugnant ICE and this administration is. I cannot imagine voting for a candidate who is unwilling to meet the community on this basic level.

rampant illness in dilley family detention center Texas. truthout www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Like our warehouse map? You should try our contract map, too. Mike walks us through how to use it. Access it for yourself here: tinyurl.com/DHSContracts.... A couple ground rules: - Desk/laptop preferred - Data from usaspending.gov - Negative/0 sums = contract modifications - Use the data for good

The judge said the removals likely violated federal law and cooperative agreements requiring consultation with the city, comparing the administration’s position to Orwell’s “1984” and writing that the government couldn’t “dissemble and disassemble historical truths” simply because it has power.

Byzantium and the Western Roman empire, both famously non cosmopolitan