Happening now- the Broadview, IL ICE facility: a few dozen people have gathered here over the bizarre situation re: a US citizen who was allegedly detained by federal immigration agents, only for agents to reportedly say she wasn't there. Cook County Commissioner Kevin Morrison on scene as well.

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

Update: Sarah Afzal, sister of the missing citzen Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi, tells me there will be a press conference tomorrow morning at the Broadview facility at 10 a.m.

The real insanity isn’t how much oil prices have spiked, it’s that we’re still burning oil for energy.

This is the self-styled peacemaker who thinks he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. Next he is planning to invade Cuba, what next, Canada, Mexico and Greenland. Trump is the new Hitler? When I said Trump is the new Hitler before, I was told I shouldn't say that. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

White House: the witness’s allegations are “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence.” Fact: FBI found her credible enough to interview repeatedly, and she received a financial settlement from the Epstein estate.

singer from brass solidarity band shatters a sheet of ice as the band plays “lovely day” at the abolish ICE benefit festival in minneapolis held across the street from where federal agents murdered alex pretti in january

Costco in Maple Grove, Minnesota, March 5th: Shopper 1; what aisle is ice in? Worker: what? Shopper 1: ice? Next aisle? Worker: oh, yep! Shopper 2: ice should only mean frozen water. Abolish ICE! Worker: that’s right, dude.

this is like the thesis statement of our times

Haahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhaahhahhahhahaahahaaa <dies wheezing>

I keep thinking about this weird thing where the DOJ is investigating Jerome Powell for allegedly lying to the Senate about renovations (even though no senators have accused him of lying), while Kristi Noem told the Senate Trump approved her $220M ad campaign and Trump himself said that wasn't true.

It’s day 95 of the ICE occupation of MN. This weekend, Minneapolis is waiting to see if Jacob Frey will sign the Pause Evictions, Save Lives policy passed by the City Council. The mutual aid fundraising has been enormous, but the needs continue, even as donations have slowed. Call the mayor!

New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.

Stanley Woodward and Abhishek Kambli have embarrassed the legal profession multiple times this week.

NEW: Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) & Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) launch review of $220 million taxpayer-funded Dept of Homeland Security ad campaign w/ Kristi Noem Senators seek records about "circumstances surrounding the awarding of this lucrative, no-bid contract..."

They should have fucking resigned rather than about-face here. And they should live with this ignominy for life.

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Leaving the Republican Party ain’t shit. He needs to join the Democratic caucus or he’s just a Republican afraid to own up to it.

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noem’s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation. Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJ’s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it. Haiti TPS is safe for now.

“I really think of Lake Street as kind of like the heartbeat of the city,” filmmaker Yasmin Yassin says. “Depending on where you go, it has different significance, based on the landmarks that are there.”

It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process. It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.

Update from Broadview where Morrison told me CBP told Raja Krishnamoorthi and him that she was released last night But Morrison said CBP now says she was never detained despite her phone pinning at Broadview as of around 9pm

This doesn’t explain the first half (the explanation for it is obvious) but the second half is that Trump is clearly lying

brass solidarity band covering sounds of blackness “hold on (change is coming)” at the abolish ICE festival taking place across the street from where federal agents murdered alex pretti in minneapolis

We are currently outside the ICE Broadview concentration camp where Sunny Naqvi’s family believes her to be held after being detained in O’Hare by federal authorities.

If Russia had planted a sleeper agent in the US with the goal of winning the presidency and driving the US into ruin they could not have done a better job than what Donald Trump is doing

Dropkick Murphys finish up their set at a benefit show across from Alex Pretti Memorial: “We’ll never forget what we saw with our own eyes, we’ll never forget what we’ve seen here today. thank we’ve seen here today. Thank you all for allowing us to come bear witness with you, thank you Minnesota!”.

i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!

Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word

you cant teach this. either you have it or you don't.

I lack the words to capture it, but ... it's just endlessly remarkable to me that so many people in our society have chosen trans kis -- TRANS KIDS, the smallest, least significant, most vulnerable demographic slice you could possibly pick -- as a repository for all their fears & insecurities.

Totally normal thing for Senior Counsel at DOJ to tweet out at 2am

Visiting family and driving a 2006 Ford Explorer V8 the next 10 days

being a carless american is awesome. financial harm caused by rising oil prices won't directly effect me, and secondary effects aren't something we are trained to think about. when the time comes i'll just blame the rising prices i do experience on supernatural causes. maybe goblins

evil. it's ok to call evil people evil. in fact it is necessary

The White House position is that it is no big deal that Putin is helping Iran try to kill US soldiers. Always remember rule #1. Putin can do no wrong in Trump’s eyes. Wonder why that is?

Saying "over half of the company's employees are people of color!" is so funny. What part of PoC making up the majority of retail employees is incompatible with systemic racism?! Reminds me of the museum docent who told me the Pullman Car Company was anti-racist because they hired black porters.

Neighbors responded swiftly and the cowards exited the area immediately after confrontation. Still astonishing after all these weeks that there isn't even an attempt to *not* look exactly like the child kidnappers that they are. Less subtle than the predators *without* badges.

Just heard that Ramsey County is refusing to offer Jake Lang any deal on his felony property destruction charges. 1-5 years.

ICE hanging out next to the playground on my block in a literal white panel van.

My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.

I am once again tapping the "support independent, worker-owned, billionaire free news" sign. the most powerful people in the world should not be deciding whether or not we know about this sort of thing. putting Marisa's subscription link below

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

A lot of people making crude jokes online, but frankly, I don’t think high oil prices are that funny.

It's oddly reassuring to see war with Iran going exactly like how everyone has said it would for the last several decades

What if all the money and people's labor and imagination that was poured into carbon capture and storage for the last, i don't know, 20 some years, went into shutting down the fossil fuel system and making sure the few hundred thousand people whose livelihoods are entwined have what they need?

“When I think about navigating the start of the year here, especially in our hometown in Minneapolis, the thing that we have kept front and center every single day is the safety of our team.” – Target CEO Michael Fiddelke

Another reason to support court reform is that the Supreme Court, as constituted, is incapable of functionally administering the law. A court that wasn't captured by far right billionaires would've prevented the government from enforcing these at all.