This singed my eyelashes off.

Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.

Een NRC-lezersbrief en een speurtocht door Janneke Vreugdenhil leidde tot dit nieuws: pasta carbonara blijkt tóch Italiaans www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Kabinet Jetten I: evacueer Gazanen met een geldige verblijfstitel - nu actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/ka...

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

Below are Edward Cokes’s notes on the Postnati problem before Calvin’s Case. Clear evidence that the traditional view of birthright subjecthood is correct:

I hope Tusk simply replies: “whose”

In de nieuwe Achter de Macht akkeren we uiteraard het akkoord door. En sta ik even stil bij een van mijn stokpaardjes. D66 is misschien wel progressief. Maar niet links. open.spotify.com/episode/3ixS...

Thread: So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...

Europe must distance itself from the USA and review every agreement it has with USA. Especially security, immigration and data sharing agreements The below is no bueno for Europeans. This is like feeding you to the face eating 🥣 leopard 🐆 bsky.app/profile/prof...

the villains in neuromancer being a family of gross inbred rich weirdos who want to live forever in space feels a little too on the nose

I have confirmed the gist of this report out of federal court in Minnesota today from a source familiar. If you have more information about the District of Minnesota—either the court or the U.S. Attorney's Office—and how they are handling all of this, please reach out. I am at crg.32 on Signal.

This Larry Krasner sounds fucking awesome. “There will be accountability now. There will be accountability in the future… If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities.” Free article link: archive.ph/mJzGJ

Wat een rake opinie van @basheijne.bsky.social www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Also evidence that Trumpism and Brexit are/were foreign attacks perpetrated by the same people bsky.app/profile/onee...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

In Nederland werden 143 kinderen gevangen gezet in vreemdelingenbewaring in 2024. Boter op ons hoofd. nos.nl/artikel/2600...

Trump shits himself mid press conference (~33 seconds in) then they rush out all the members of the press. You can see the people behind him reacting to the smell. youtu.be/u_6kGluvINg?...

“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world

I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...

Courts should treat biometric locks as equivalent to password protection, EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @TheIntercept.com. “Your constitutional right against self-incrimination should not be dependent on technical convenience or lack thereof.” theintercept.com/2026/01/30/...

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Weird phrasing of half-hearted plan new Dutch gov to “modernise nationality law” and accept dual citizenship: yes for Dutch abroad (?), not for immigrants in NL. Makes no sense.

Nogmaals zien we deze juridisch onjuiste stelling terug in het regeerakkoord: “De permanente verblijfsvergunning verdwijnt onder het Europese migratiepact”. RvS geeft inderdaad de juiste uitleg van het EU-recht, in par. 3.2 zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2026-2...

Jelani Cobb writes about how Americans took to the streets to defend their neighbors in the 19th century after the Fugitive Slave Act: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/O5Bxmb

“Might it be fun to attend as a campy heckle-party and throw popcorn at the screen?” Nope. This isn’t Rocky Horror or The Valley of Gwangi. It’s not fun. There is nothing fun about this movie, about this regime, or about the situation Americans find ourselves.”

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

"In order to build tyranny, you have to open zones where the law doesn't apply... one zone like that is the border. The logic of what they've been doing with ICE is to take the border everywhere." www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNB...

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.

Trump is obessed with Georgia because he is in fundamental disbelief that a former state of the Confederacy could muster a multiracial coalition that cost him the election here. It is racial grievance and entitlement all the way down.

Hart van Nederland ziet de jacht op migranten in de VS en dacht: goh, willen Nederlanders ook zoiets leuk hier.

Congresswoman @ayannapressley.bsky.social has been trying to get qualified immunity eliminated her ENTIRE career. What the fuck is it going to take to get people to listen to her?

Crafton Heights. Elmont Street. A very pissed off caller told the call taker he just spent two days digging out the parking spot out in front of his house. He pulled out and someone just pulled in. Caller is upset.

Almost like the violence is bipartisan & decades in the making and the answer not as simple as "dump trump."

there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies

A question I ask every family member if they are going anywhere now is, "Do you have your passport?" - friends have kids carrying copies of their birth certificates in their backpacks, like. This is it. This anxiety fucking blows, man.

This makes me think of that 1990 interview Trump did with Playboy where he admitted that when it came to Tiananmen Square, he was rooting for the tanks.

If it is fascism now it was fascism then but if you were wrong no need to pause to make a special effort to admit your error -- we don't have that much time now, please act right away, get organized, and then tell your followers what you are doing to stop fascism and what they too can do.

Stralend van genoegen staat #lipstickfasciste Vlaardingerbroek de crimineel en Neo-Nazi Tommy Robinson voor de Britse ambassade in Rome te woord “I just want to go and express my opinion freely. I’m just a tourist, and I’m white, blond, Dutch and I can’t do that.

Nu weet ik ook wel dat je niet te veel moet verwachten van een land waarin een jijbakkende havist uit Venlo een ‘briljant debater’ is; maar de blinde bewondering voor het handige oliemannetje Rutte zegt weinig goeds over ons. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

Long read but I learned something new in almost every paragraph. Spread this far and wide

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Seen in Los Angeles (Credit: Zurita Carpio)

The NRA/right-wing goal has always been a society where everyone can be considered armed so the only questions of whether you get to get away with killing someone is if you are in the good graces of the power structure and/or whether your victim was not.

Hadden al die naïevelingen die op D66 hebben gestemd ook niet gedacht. Een stem op Rob Jetten is een stem op extreemrechts. Want dat is die Markuszower.

CJEU, asylum law New case on the extent of Member States obligations to facilitate family reunion for Gaza refugee - will be fast tracked www.linkedin.com/posts/riccar...

Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?

In case you missed it: One of the ICE observers was pulled out of her car by CBP, who used facial recognition on her. Three days later, she learned her TSA-Pre clearance had been revoked.

“Ja maar dit gaat over denaturaliseren Marokkanen…” We zijn het al gewend geraakt dat er zo over bevolkingsgroepen gesproken wordt. Een Tweede Kamer vergeven van extreemrechtse fascisten. Ze staan te smullen bij het idee van een Nederlandse ICE. Gadverdamme.

They couldn’t even wait for Bob Dylan to have a grave to turn over in