NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Men will literally win an Olympic medal instead of going to therapy

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

This was also true of the AI podcast company that threw out a bunch of numbers that I guess sounded impressive to the NYT but if you know anything about the podcasting business it was clear they were making no money at all. It was just a shell game to trick gullible investors

they believe in nothing, they love nothing but their own power, and they have no moves that don't involve spamming the hate button

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

fuck james pearce cut him right now

The FBI was ready to document blood splatter and bullet holes in Renee Good’s car. That’s the type of forensic investigation that could confirm murder. They were ordered to stop. Kash Patel was one of the people who gave the order. It was always a lie and a cover up:

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

Italian Winter Olympic athletes love to be named Johannes Würnstraße and be from a lovely town called Alpenstrudel in the Italian region known as Süd-Österreich

We're traumatizing thousands of kids for life. The people behind this are monsters.

wow too much for tim scott is saying something

Documents show RFK Jr lied to Congress about his agenda in Samoa—he did indeed go to spread anti-scientific doubts about vaccines. He was ultimately successful in getting an outbreak going there that killed 83 people, mostly babies and young children.

as good as you've heard

Trump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality. Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar" My latest solution in @thenation.com

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If you are out observing or rapid responding to ICE today, let them know that they’ve lost. Remind them that they’ve failed and they should go home and call a lawyer.

JD Vance is the most loathsome character in American politics, and it's mostly because he's immediately recognizable to anyone with an interest in politics as The Worst Guy From Your PoliSci Class

"under my leadership, our newspaper has lost readers and subscribers at record rates. this shows that I was correct about what was wrong with the newspaper."

I've told this story on ContrabandCamp but it's worth sharing for BHM because it's one of the greatest stories ever. A thread.

A mother in Minneapolis was abducted by ICE and sent to a detention center in Texas, leaving behind a 16 year old and a 3-month old baby. The baby was breastfed and hadn't eaten in a over day. Then a superhero arrived with 350 oz of breastmilk, bottles & extra clothes. 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...

Neil Gaiman attempting to sidle back into public after being buried in a pile of nauseatingly well-documented sexual abuse allegations is gross. Doing so by denying everything, linking to some guy's substack post, and limply teasing a new novel is so gross it's kind of funny

It is unprecedented because it is expressly forbidden by the constitution -- the only specifically enumerated cause of action for impeachment and removal.

there seems to be a point to most Chotiner interviews where the subject goes “oh no” and the fascinating thing about this one is that I’m not sure Spinotti ever gets there

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Here’s my @thenation.com post on the arrest of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, the violation of the First Amendment, and Trump’s ongoing attempts to change the face of his victims and spark a race war.

For Liam.

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent ‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.”’

Epstein files appear to link Trump to allegations of sexual abuse of a minor Unclear if the allegation was ultimately investigated and proven to be true/false Won’t change the fact this is now public

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

Tommy usually checks out by halftime anyway

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

"I went outside and found the car with its windows smashed, keys inside, identification inside... Just remnants of another unwarranted abduction. This time a 20 year old. I don't know their history, but I doubt he was "the worst of the worst". I doubt he was a criminal at all."

Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules

Somehow the actual article is way worse than the title implies. He's very mad that 3 women he personally obsessed over have pointed out that he's a bigoted asshole.

She took a half step back and then stepped AT this dude. ICE needs 30 masked guys each with their own body armor and assault rifle to even approach this level of courage.

Can't keep funding this at all. If the government shuts down and people still see ICE on the streets doing this kind of shit, the midterm ads write themselves. Even for the scared centrists. No money for (insert affordability message) but money for terrorism! Kitchen table issue immediately.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

Miller is a dumbass who happened to bet on the right horse ten years ago and rode that horse (also a dumbass) to power. He's like a guy who thinks he's a financial whiz because he won at roulette. Our awful political system may have a pro-idiot bias, but their weakness is that they are still idiots.

They aren’t backing down. They’re just threatening people in other cities. Still illegal. Still unconstitutional. Even if they haven’t yet backed it up by shooting someone in the face.