Alex Pretti and Renee Good aren’t dead because of some "bad advice" given to Trump. They’re dead because of bad men acting out the script that a bad president wrote for them. My @nytopinion.nytimes.com newsletter, www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

Black History Month is a reminder that progress only happens when people refuse to accept injustice as normal. We honor that legacy by continuing that work today and every day.

This is ridiculous. Trump would never disappear a child… oh, wait…

So much insanity in the world I think maybe the job of sane people right now is merely to stay sane.

This is not a cat this is a dragon in his lair.

👇🏽 @gallego.senate.gov amplifying a witness who worked for Epstein swearing under oath Trump/Epstein threatened witnesses with death/disappearance if they revealed the child sex abuse she witnessed

reminder: Jeffrey Epstein invoked the Fifth when asked about Trump and underage girls

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

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WATCH — @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social’s daughter: “This goes against her first amendment rights as a journalist… this doesn’t just affect me, it affects my little sisters. My father woke up today without his wife. I’m demanding my mom gets released.” (H/T @mercadomedia.bsky.social )

Fascism is here 🇺🇸

“When this is over, I will tear your throat out with my tiny toy teeth.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/a...

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social TOLE is not in the word list.

Remember Keith Porter. And Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres. Geraldo Lunas Campos. Víctor Manuel Díaz. Parady La. Luis Beltrán Yáñez–Cruz. Heber Sánchez Domínguez. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Airlines will not show this to prevent walkouts.

BREAKING NEWS: Melania has been nominated to win the inaugural FIFA Academy Award for Best Picture.

Why was this child detained, anyway?

Europeans, PLEASE boycott this World Cup. Let Trump see the kind of turnout he had for his fascist birthday parade.

“LET US OUT!” women & children scream for help inside a detention camp in TEXAS, where private prisons like core civic make billions of taxpayer dollars holding them while abusing, neglecting them, refusing them health care, feeding them dirty food & water, etc. In our name🇺🇸

The Rittenhouse Test @deadder.bsky.social

Russian state TV: “I can’t rule out an alliance between Russia & 🇺🇸— Americans have just demonstrated they won’t protect anything.” They fantasize about attacking Europe now that Trump destroyed NATO — and push Trumpian disinfo about Alex Pretti & Minnesota. H/T @juliadavisnews.bsky.social

Yes. Yes. Yes.

ICE agent: “Ten versus one and somehow they couldn’t find a way to subdue the guy or use a less than lethal [means] … They all carry belts and vests with 9,000 pieces of equipment on them and the best they can do is shoot a guy in the back?” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

I got 2/3 of the way through this before I realized the coach wasn't writing it. It's fortifying.

His parents are LEGAL asylum seekers with NO criminal record.

Should be all western democracies.

Bovino told CNN that Pretti wanted to “perpetrate violence, obstruct, delay or obfuscate Border Patrol in the performance of their duties in an active crime scene.” The only obfuscation being done here is by Bovino and his fellow regime cronies.

REV. SCHENCK: “I’m making up for the errors of my past— I spent 35 years as an activist for the religious right doing a lot of damage, inflicting suffering, contradicting the message I thought I was promoting.”

The response of decent people to such depraved, antisocial indifference, from @justinteodoro.bsky.social. h/t @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social.

Dear Republicans, Feel free at any given time to admit that this doesn’t feel right. It’s gone too far. This isn’t really what you voted for, and maybe it’s time to push back on all of this. It’s okay to admit to it all. Signed, The rest of America & the world

“For this was the secret about the secret police: They were ruled by quotas. Local squadrons had to arrest a certain number of citizens so they could be designated enemies of the people. …Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works.” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Vance’s call to “write an op-ed in the newspaper; argue about it on social media” betrays that the only thing they fear is in-the-streets witnesses and protesters.

Hague-seth: ICE goons killed a patriot. Domestic terrorists don't do this. Fuck off with your goddamn bullshit. bsky.app/profile/badi...

"Tyranny is execution followed by a press release."

“I began to dread the One Other Thing. I kept praying that it would be something we wanted, as simple as ketchup for the broccoli, or mustard for the chicken. A sauce of some kind.”

What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.

Is it seriously but not literally, or literally but not seriously?

And a slaughterhouse is less chaotic if the cattle wait calmly for their turn.

Truly lovely and appropriate cover for what’s coming for half the country this weekend. A few years ago I wrote one of my patented Songs In Search Of Music™️ with a similar vibe.

Trump is building an army loyal to him alone, and paying them up to $250k/year. If you can’t see ICE for what it is yet, then you’re not going to until it’s too late.

The importance of a free and fair elections is not new. #Classics #Democracy #History

If Dems don’t impeach Noem they really are pathetic

Trump’s America.

This.

Always, now, a good day for this excerpt. From Marge Piercy's book, To Be of Use. #poetry #booksky #writing

EU: Thanks for the heckles, the refusals, the slights, the outright insults, your lack of patience, the clear and direct language and the incredible charity to even entertain this clown on your own ground. It had to be done. We are your children and your grandchildren. Please don't let us down.

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social ANOLE is not in the word list.

Captures the horror perfectly.

Won't someone PLEASE, for the sake of all that's rational, give him some sort of prize to limit the worldwide damage he's been doing on a daily basis? #ThankYouForYourAttentionToHisDementia 🙏