I’m sorry the white “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is about WHAT

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

This is a big deal. Approval polls, like the media, courts, and Congress, can serve as vehicles for presidential accountability. We are watching in real time as the institutions that could hold this administration to account wither on the vine.

"Frankly, I’m embarrassed it took me this long to figure it out. But given the current climate, I think we should’ve collectively realized it wasn’t appropriate for a baby to be the patron saint of fucking."

I know it may seem professorially pedantic to “well ackshually” people’s use of “ICE” to refer to non-ICE things, but the differences have real policy significance.

And you can “abolish” DHS in the sense that it is just an org chart White House interns threw together in a panic in 2002. But we actually like chunks of it (FEMA, for ex), need other parts (Secret Service), and are constitutionally required to keep others (Coast Guard). So “abolish” = “reassign.”

So we’re giving lasers to CBP, the cowboy agency that makes ICE look like calm, orderly, and lawful by comparison? (Almost all the worst violence we attribute to “ICE” is either CBP or CBP-trained.)* Feel like it’d be more responsible to give a flamethrower to a toddler.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

The story is wrong. It wasn't the DOD who shot down the balloons. It was the CBP, the same people who murdered Alex Pretti. A bunch of angry generals and admirals were able to stop them because air defense is NORTHCOM's job, but that is literally what it took.

I've tried to get this point across myself. Here, @brianbeutler.bsky.social does a great job of it. Liberal bias is a political tool — not a critique of performance — and it will assert itself regardless of how well the newsroom does on truthtelling and fairness. www.offmessage.net/p/a-requiem-...

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

WIIIIIILDLY misleading and frankly insulting headline These were dropped because they could not settle jurisdiction due to a lot of them happening in New Zealand. Not because anything lead to making this toady little shit more innocent

Again, there are no moderate Republicans. This is one of the most extreme voter disfranchisement bills in American history.

Does Gallup do anything else? They've been a crap pollster for decades--they write the worst questions--but they seemed to at least be somewhat reliable for presidential approval is you looked at a 3-4 month period and averaged it. But I don't recall seeing anything else from them in forever.

Golden knows he’s not running for reelection right?

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

One question I have is to what extent people outraged over the last month - a level of outrage that was never going to be sustained - have been mobilized, organized. And what can be done to build on that work and intensify those networks.

This part. The underlying economic need is, if anything, greater than it was two weeks ago.

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I used to live in El Paso (which gives me zero insight into this) but I want to make a basic point because most US Americans have never been there: this is a large city of almost 700,000 people. It’s in the top 25 for the country. More than twice Pittsburgh and more than Milwaukee, for example

The administration’s aggressive tactics and deportation goals have dragged down Americans’ views of President Trump on the very issue that helped sweep him into office, according to the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll powered by SurveyMonkey. nbcnews.to/3Zv4xPk

This has a lot of implications well beyond this case. Many people put these devices in/outside their homes to see who is at the door or watch their pets becuase they think it’s livestream only and not recorded. If companies like Google and Ring have magic backend data, we need to know about it.

This is El Paso, where the airspace has been shut down without explanation for ten days btw

The TN GOP doesn't want its constituents to know that most of the vouchers they are paying for are going to the affluent who already had their kids in private school and that what they said about what vouchers would do -- give parents "choice" -- was a lie.

I do not think control of The House will come down to a “small number” of “close races.” I would touch grass and then reassess.

I know it's cringe to be like "we are going to win" but when you have career DOJ prosecutors flipping sides and being like "I quit two weeks ago and I'm ready to burn this bitch to the ground" I don't know what else to say

All Democratic governors bow out of White House dinner after Trump snubs several missouriindependent.com/2026/02/10/r...

The kind of reply guy I do not get here is the person who responds to me, saying something silly, and I respond to them, pointing out what they said was silly, and then they say "I'm a rando, and you're replying to me! what a loser you are!" Huh? You replied to me, so I replied back

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

uh, didn't Femi Taiwo already write this article a couple of months ago?

“Affordability” was the Democratic campaign buzzword last year. Most often the focus is on housing, or on transit. But power generation is another huge pillar of that, and we need to be seriously thinking about how to improve our crappy status quo there www.liberalcurrents.com/the-liberal-...

Just happened to be reading a Smithsonian Magazine article this morning about the Taíno people and hit this paragraph. Sounded familiar: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-...

lol JOSH GOTTHEIMER called Analilia Mejia to congratulate her before Hakeem Jeffries?

Geographers

where is "person who makes lists about jobs that will be put at risk by AI"

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

This is a different kind of stop too, they’re boxing out organs/medevacs and from what I understand no one even knows who to ask to get dispensation otherwise.

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

The FAA has issued a separate security NOTAM for Santa Teresa, New Mexico, banning all flight operations in the affected area for the same time window and altitude limits as the El Paso airspace closure, citing “special security reasons.”

How Hate Groups Are Using Online Games to Recruit Kids www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/w...

It’s not like ICE hasn’t been murdering US citizens already. “Sure they’ll murder US citizens but they won’t put US citizens in their concentration camps.” … that’s some pretty tortured logic there.

<staff kitchen> NAZGUL #1: I just... NAZGUL: #2: What? N#1: Like... Seriously? We're hunting HOBBITS now? N#2: I mean okay but clue was in the name N#1: True, but still WITCH KING <entering>: Hey N#1: Hey N#2: Hey <Witch King leaves with coffee> N#1: Maybe we should have said something N#2: Maybe

Going through Basic Rifle Marksmanship one time before being assigned a non-combat MOS is not going to make someone suitable for a field deployment What do you do when your weapon jams? How do you avoid getting mobbed by protestors? Can you reload under high-stress? bsky.app/profile/seak...

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

The real anxiety is the therapists we made anxious along the way

What the fresh hell?

This is what I’m talking about when I talk about technologies of liberation This required careful measurement and design

Team Jimmy. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...

HUGE: Democrat Elizabeth Bennett-Parker wins the special election for Virginia Senate District 39, protecting the Commonwealth’s Democratic trifecta. Congratulations, Senator-elect Bennett-Parker!