So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding? Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Bondi: “America has never seen this level of coordinated judicial opposition to a presidential administration.” Every historian: America has never seen an administration as corrupt & lawless as yours, and the only “coordination” comes from the Constitution. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Ceiling cats see all.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Worcester area folks: come to my talk at Assumption University, Feb 24, 5 pm. This is the inaugural event in Assumption's discussion of the 250th anniversary of the Revolution and its ideas.

My city takes a good step.

1. Trump certainly wants to fully rig elections. 2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so. 3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy. 4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.

You can read the news and its sober people just straight up saying, “oh yeah the president of the United States is probably going to steal that oil money and we all kind of know it.” And apparently that’s just how it is now.

“barely rises to the level of a shameless infomercial.” www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

MAGAs are snowflakes who can’t deal with reality. wapo.st/4t9mYXp

Indy wishes y’all a good Caturday: stay warm and watch out for ICE.

“Classic Nazi Blunder: Attacking in Winter.”

I haven’t heard or read elsewhere about the Lowell film being “banned.” Does anyone have confirmation or more information?

Apologies to British friends: our president is a corrupt ignorant jackass. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

Big Brother aka Stephen Miller wants us to forget. Local folks should regularly post copies — or pass them out to visitors. That’d be a great public history project. wapo.st/3LxnCgq

“The Trump administration has turned legions of ICE agents into a violent and unaccountable domestic police force.” Some of that abuse may be, Edsall notes, the result of ICE agents abusing anabolic steroids. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

Dictators do

Orin is probably the preeminent fourth amendment scholar in the United States. He is also extremely professional. This is the way he says "I wish a bitch would try"

Herr Trump wants to run (ruin?) the world and make $billions doing it. But his dementia is really flaring up if he expects any chumps to join.

Gotta remember this if ICE tries a surge in frozen Worcester.

As a social movements scholar, I absolutely love the diversity of tactics being developed by each city, reflecting their local flavor Portland kept it weird with inflatable costumes Chicago protected its street vendors by buying up their food each day Charlotte chased ICE agents into the woods

We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one

@repmcgovern.bsky.social Shouldn’t you cosponsor this?

"These are FREE of AI-generated images, and have in fact been 'poisoned' with Glaze so that if any AI models scrape them for training, it will corrupt the dataset." www.emilyk.art/protest-prin...

This sounds like a very interesting event, March 11 at UMass Amherst, and there is a "virtual" option. I'll be on the "Past" panel, discussing scholarship on the history of town meetings. To register: sites.google.com/umass.edu/de...

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

Trump regime’s Environmental Pollution Agency. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

I also must say that it's a bit rich that Trump and his DOJ think it's a good idea to gin up a bullshit investigation about supposed illegalities in ... {checks notes} … renovating a federal building

Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

The corrupt demented jackass tried gaslighting about Jan 6th, had his goons murder (and then slandered) Renee Good, is pocketing the proceeds from Venezuela oil, and is trying to shake down local DA offices.

Tim Walz: "What we're seeing is the consequences of governance designed to generate fear, headlines, and conflict. It's governing by reality today and today that recklessness cost someone their life. I've reached out to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and I'm waiting to hear back ... I'm angry."

We’re living in 1984.

Looking forward to @earlymodjustice.bsky.social book "which challenges the notion that slavery arose . . through the interests of merchants and planters, showing how behind them lay a British crown that believed in absolute power over subjects and granted similar powers to proprietors and masters."

Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.

NEW: Jan Crawford's attack on SCOTUS "corruption" narrative was its own substance-free narrative. On Face the Nation, CBS News's chief legal correspondent went after Supreme Court critics as "dangerous." And yet, her court defense was completely lacking in specifics. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Caturday lapsits.

Trump’s head of the Kennedy Center threatened to sue the musician who cancelled his show there and called it a “political stunt.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/u...

The real story is how Congress’s refusal to act (and SCOTUS’s blessings) gave autocratic power to the corrupt ignorant demented jackass president.

Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u... #resist #fdt

This is not a “duel,” which suggests both sides are equally culpable, but the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s ideological war on Harvard and higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...

Bending your institution to meet the prejudices of your dumbest, meanest students is a surefire way to destroy a university. Now any student can just scrawl “the Bible says this is wrong” on any test and skate to an A at the Oklahoma Football Outlet and Diploma Factory.

“In America, the Law is king.” Probably my favorite piece of political writing, and one I regularly had students read. Rezek’s article ignores, btw, the significant way Paine wielded the Bible to attack monarchy — Paine knew his audience. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Amazing