They killed a woman & called her a fucking bitch. Then, they killed a man for protecting a woman they likely wanted to murder and call her a fucking bitch, too.

ICE KIDNAPPED four innocent children and trafficked them to a concentration camp in Texas. These euphemisms have to die.

Learning this lesson over and over again: the complete dumbness of everything breaking my brain (today it’s ICE and Greenland). People can’t possibly be this stupid. But apparently they can.

Got a recent request from a health insurer to help a third party vendor to "find out if someone else...is responsible for the cost" for a recent procedure. OH HELL NO. Help a third party to find a reason to deny my claim for a legit health expense? This needs to be regulated out of existence.

Where is ICE agent John E. Ross? Somebody who just shot someone in the face three times for no good reason is a danger to society and should be in jail awaiting arraignment. That he is not in jail right now at a time when SO many people are for doing so much less is disgusting to me.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

“Maybe tomorrow.”

Not that anyone asked me but: on #MAEdu state education priorities who-cester.blogspot.com/2026/01/not-...

My complete NUMTOT subway nerd 15yo is over the moon about Zohran’s inauguration location!

Recent innovation of which I approve: the 30-minute middle school holiday concert. These were interminable back in the day.

Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are." Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

@jessethorn.bsky.social on making his company worker-owned:“The thing about worker ownership is that it is demonstrably studied by economists, more sustainable, because workers are interested in sustainability. They're not interested in risk and infinite growth.” A path beyond the VC tech hellscape.

@julianbrash.bsky.social Just a word of appreciation for _Bloomberg's New York_--still think about it a lot. Used a chapter in my History of New York City course I taught at Brooklyn College and the students really got it. The TCC and its emphasis on dealmaking resonates now more than ever.

Citizenship in the US has never been a simple binary, encompassing a complex array of rights and privileges unevenly distributed. @unlawfulentries.bsky.social breaks down the historical evolution of citizenship in her forthcoming book, distilling a central argument in the thread below. Please read!

A lemon-shaped gas giant that orbits a pulsar every eight hours! And it’s only 2000 light years from earth. Would like to visit some day! Love this (gift link)! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/s...

The great irony is it took electing an utterly bereft hateful racist and corrupt scumbag twice to help people realize this. Immigration is the defining characteristic of the US.

DEI fortune cookie!

Reminder - birthright citizenship is upheld by constitutional AND statutory law. Check out this amicus brief filed back in May. ⬇️ 🗃️ bsky.app/profile/rose...

If you want a read about the recent anti-constituonal attempt to denaturalize American children from their claim to birthright citizenship using bad history, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, I wrote about it in the Cornell Law Review Online. publications.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawreview/wp...

teachers, take the cop in your head & beat it to death with its own batons

Immigration enforcement is usually thought of as a federal issue, but ICE's work is intertwined with state law in a number of ways. @aliciabannon.bsky.social examines recent state litigation WI, NY, and CA that will shape the relationship between ICE and the states & localities in which it operates.

The BBC censoring a line from Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture saying that Trump is the most openly corrupt president in US history--a blatant and undeniable truth--is insane to me. Only complete and utter cowards would see this as controversial. www.linkedin.com/posts/rutger...

We're going to need some full-scale domestic Nuremberg Trials when these folks are out of power. We need to see Noem, Bovino, Lyons, et al. in the docket.

Aside from looking like it was cellophane-taped on to the side of the building, the font gives moldy-carpet-smell-at-a-past-its-prime Cancun resort vibe, which is a pretty good metaphor for the United States right now.

Today's shit list contains no suprises: John Fetterman, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, Tim Kaine, Jacky Rosen, Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto & independent Senator Angus King.

Never believed the idea that people grow more conservative as they age. The only thing tempering my youthful radicalism now is an appreciation of how easy it is to destroy things, how long it takes to build things, and an appreciation that we won't all live to see destroyed things replaced.

Well, an acquaintance who relies on the ACA marketplace for insurance just received a notice explaining that their fee for coverage will be rising. Right now they pay $180 a month. The new price? $2733.15 a month.

Smallest Halloween candy ever. Thanks, Trump!

It’s kind of like how immigrants don’t take peoples jobs— they can’t. employers are the ones who have the power to fire you and hire someone else.

So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating. When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.

“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

Same energy...

I do not even know what to say to my Gov & Politics students about the AI poop video tomorrow. It’s certainly a major watershed—or maybe “poopshed”—in American politics. It will be the first thing they ask about!

Had fun arguing with APUSH students yesterday: If Hamilton was alive today, he would be on the side of Jeff Bezos. I stated the cuddly Lin-Manuel Miranda version has warped their sense of who he really was.

1/ This admin's decision-making is more frequently based on a timeline divorced from "real time" reality. Trump sending troops into Portland seems based on his mental images generated in the 2020 George Floyd protests (or pehaps fake AI-generated ones he is being fed)....

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

In the American system of government, a legislature of the people’s elected representatives decide how to allocate the people’s money, then an unelected appointee in the executive branch called “OMB Director” decides if he feels like distributing the people’s money that way or if he’d rather not.

I think this is new informationn and if confirmed to be true … deeply disturbing!

yeah they're just murdering random people on these boats

In which a top US Border Patrol official, incredibly, tells my tall and Anglo colleague @chipmitchell1.bsky.social that he's not the type they're looking for as they go about downtown Chicago arresting people based on "how they look" chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Evidence from the exercises we did yesterday indicates that ALL of my AP Gov students have a much deeper and subtler understanding of the US Constitution after one month of this course than the current POTUS.