Thousands of union members staged a nonviolent march today. iCE gassed the crowd of nurses and teaches. The neighborhood is in a cloud. Flash bangs are being fired.

This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.

Portland City Council member

This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.

Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids

NGL this description of Bsky in Vulture cracked me up

“Children were in the crowd screaming.”

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Their claims are based on conspiracy theories, it's frustrating because we know not enough has been done to counter conspiracy theories and stuff like this is the result.

Calgary Stampede security ejected PressProgress Alberta reporter @stephenmag.bsky.social after Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath walked out of an interview Stephen had questioned Rath's claim that Mark Carney was "threatening war on the United States" and invoked "Article 5 of the NATO treaty"

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Based on what I've seen, at least 4 current/former Harvard professors have now been named as Epstein associates. Which seems notable given prior reporting that Epstein used false promises of "elite" college admissions to lure young girls into his web of abuse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I promise you, even if someone is your mentor and friend, you should have the ability to say they made a mistake in FUCKING COMMUNICATING CASUALLY AND ALL FRIENDLY WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN NOT WRITE AN EIGHT POST THREAD ON HOW WE SHOULDNT JUDGE

By my definitive Leadership Review Implications scale™, Pierre Poilievre managed to hit the sweet spot for a leadership review in terms of party solidarity behind him.

it’s one thing to know “rich and influential men boost each other” + “and they type out the horrors they commit to one other” + “and they escape relatively unscathed, again and again” it’s another to have such banal details as “and m00t was there”

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Material gain and status ascension are the dominating benchmarks in our society. Of all the other harms this produces, moral detachment destroys us in the deepest ways.

Personally, I think that anyone who was sending friendly emails back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein or attending events with him post-2008 should be thrown into an active volcano.

I got tossed out of an Alberta separatist celebration this week after asking the organizer about his group's weird US ties pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...

I guess this didn't make it into the documentary.

“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect

All in all I'd have to say I don't enjoy being ruled by semi-literate perverts with infinite money

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

RIP DEMOND WILSON 😭

DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.

Imagine if tenure-track jobs were advertised on twitter and the application instructions were just “DM me”

Btw, I am working under the presumption that this Epstein drop is heavily fucked with, as to leave no trace of Trump in it on purpose. So it's interesting to me what and who remains in this drop, and who they therefore deem disposable. Elon, obviously, but maybe Melania?

When you look at the Wikipedia of an old white guy whose books you read in college there is an unfortunately high probability it will look like this

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

Focusing on the actuon first should be the first step. Some things you can't rationalize when you add in other factors like who, stealing is wrong, but in a system crushing lower income folks stealing lets people stay alive. There is no rationalizing the sexual abuse of children, it is always wrong.

Abusers use the selective abuse as a justification to other people or as cover to people they will allow, because they convince people "they wanted it" or "they asked for it" or "they deserved it", because abuse doesn't make sense to normal people. It's wrong to hurt people and children but some do.

I'm going to say somwthing that some people have a hard time grappling with, we do talk about it, but abusers don't target all. They do not abuse everyone and sometimes that makes the abuse worse. When abusers target someone it makes people feel ashamed with "why me", it's a choice to harm.

I have questions for the people who brought their adolescent and young children to the private island of a convicted child trafficker

Tim Hortons is doing their Special Olympic doughnut again this weekend, proceeds raise money for them (plus yummy doughnut).

Winterlude is back in DT Ottawa at Confederation Park and I'm happy. It's bot quite as big as it used to be but I'm glad it's back!

You can get a free hot dog in Confederation Park until 1 PM today. They did bring Winterlude back to Ottawa! There's stuff here but I think it's going to take a bit to build it back up, if they do keep stuff in Ottawa again.

Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

At this point it feels like if your name is in the Epstein Files you should just disappear into the corn field before we find you a lamppost

The DOJ’s new Epstein files release shows that billionaire Gordon Getty both had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and allegedly brushed off his crimes: “well, we ALL have similar kinds of problems.” Read more in my latest for @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/monica...

They accept 70 000 have died. This is a genocide.

Israel accepts Gaza death toll compiled by health authorities is broadly accurate

It's just so mind-numbing how deeply the people who could have stopped this ignored all of the warnings because they didn't like the people who were warning them. The likeability of a fascists versus regular folk speaking the truth is pretty telling of why we're in this mess.

I remember a time when people kept downplaying Trump as a pedophile, not mention sexually assaulting women, downplaying Musk as a Nazi and we're now in a situation where the worst "I told you so" is playing out about fascist pedophiles un power. It's ridiculous how much people wilfully ignored

Elon Musk has repeatedly said he "REFUSED" to visit Jeffrey Epstein's island. Correspondence released today shows he was actively coordinating a visit between 2012 and 2014. It is still unclear if Musk actually did visit the island, but he certainly was interested. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

A very determined crowd gathering in the pouring rain outside Hootsuite HQ in Vancouver for a Hootsuite Out of ICE protest

A Minneapolis judge released Georgia Fort from detention A judge in Los Angeles released Don Lemon in the last hour. Just minutes ago he said “I will not be silenced” Prosecutors told the judge Lemon was a “threat” to the community and should be locked up. Outrageous.