Just responded to a sighting of ICE on foot at nearby apartments. They’re out of the way and there’s a major snowstorm as we speak. Some of the worst road conditions I’ve ever seem; spun out my car trying to get there. When I arrived 5 minutes after the call, at least 30 people were already there.

The story of Whiteness in America centers on how immigrant out-groups are treated as foreign threats until they merge into the in-group. The important story of our "heritage" is that out-groups can join the in-group at all. www.ms.now/opinion/elon...

This feels like an ancient parable, demonstrating how immoral behavior breaks down societal trust

The brunchlord establishment press hates progressives (especially female) exponentially more than fascism and it's simply not subtle

Wow. Fed. judge tells DHS, ICE, Sec. Noem, AG Bondi, EOIR and others that they are harming "the fabric of this very nation" by defying a court order that vacated their automatic-detention policy. Order is linked here: www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

This is not a technological limitation, it's a governance problem cause by lobbying. Many other countries handle taxes in such a way that individuals have no idea when "tax day" really is. The USA and Canada have Intuit lobbying to make taxes harder and worse. www.propublica.org/series/the-t...

i feel comfortable saying that, if as the author suggests, up to 30% of white collar workers lose their jobs in the next 12-18 months, no one can actually predict what the worst case will be, the economic and political conditions will be worse than anything anyone alive has ever seen in this country

This is my shocked face: 😐 Look, I love science fiction & desperately want many of its concepts & ideas to be real (but, y'know, w/ the sociotechnical concerns attended to because I Actually love sci-fi). But some people want sci-fi to be real so bad that they ignore obviously over-hyped bullshit

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

This whole thread is amazing.

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

The way UH handled this was so haphazard too. “We’re not saying you have to do this, but you have to do it or we will lose money! It will be your fault!” They fucking removed the word “women” from the “Women in the Sciences” page. The president gave me some bs political double speak about it.

They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.

The Scion of Oklahoma City’s largest McDonald’s franchisee family pissed himself at a peaceful anti-ICE protest in Mustang, OK this week when he tried to start shit and attacked protestors

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

When bearing false witness on TV, it's helpful to wear ash on your forehead. How else would anyone ever guess you're supposedly a "Christian"?

The Ash Wednesday procession through the Chicago suburb of Melrose Park from Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church - honoring immigrants, immigration detainees and those killed by ICE & Border Patrol - has begun. Chicago Archbishop and Cardinal Blase Cupich is near the head of the march.

The Fox News chyron reads "Latest Dem hoax" at the same time that Brendan Carr confirms that yes, the FCC would've "enforced the law" and gone after CBS had Colbert aired his interview with Talarico on TV

“Investors in our junk fund aimed at bag-holders are advised to continue holding that bag indefinitely.”

Remembering when I ran into a Trump volunteer in Scranton right before the election who told me he backed Trump because he wanted to keep his grandson out of war and then it turned out that he was also a former GOP legislator who'd been convicted of perjury related to campaign finance violations.

He’s the Neil Gorsuch of the conservative artist set. Pretty bog standard Fox News tropes and gender politics, until he gets to First People’s issues.

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

The Epstein administration is covering up the Epstein files.

Really wish @bobbyrae48.bsky.social et al would write a plain language version of their piece explaining why the blindingly obvious policy course--Canada's defense strategy requires diverging from US-centric choices--is so resisted by Canada's defense establishment. More candour is needed.

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Republicans can end this anytime they want by agreeing to a national gerrymandering ban. Until then, they are going to be made to understand pain.

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

All the college and university "leaders" who chose to surrender in advance on this, take a bow And then get in the fuckin sea

Absolute fool whose views will cause preventable deaths.

So much for drawing down in Minneapolis.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson says he spoke with Supt. Larry Snelling about the apparent failure to comply with this requirement and promises a report "very soon." @wttw.bsky.social

Just awful. People (like Ryan mentioned in the article, who is living out of his van) have been staying awake all night for weeks keeping watch over the memorial for this exact reason.

Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody deserve to be underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care? presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

It’s pretty funny that the right adopted the whole “we reject guilt by association” line while actively running from the Epstein Files, more people should ask about that.

No one has ever deserved the apology form more than Conor Lamb

A 5,000-person, 75% MAGA town in Georgia is pushing back hard against a massive detention center ICE is planning to establish there. We're gonna need a whole lot more of this going forward: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

*I blame science fiction utopias, even though I should be blaming something more "trad," such as Brook Farm Transcendentalism during the remote 1840s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_F...

Dems do very little to set the news agenda. They have to realize they are dealing with a hostile press owned predominantly by Trump allies. So Ted Lieu's approach is the way forward. Create an event and have free donuts so the press shows up. Then make headline worthy accusations.

Let me get this straight, we've built a venue that serves alcohol to 80,000 people, surrounded it with a moat of deadly asphalt, and made walking back to your hotel illegal?

The dirty little secret with all of this is that the employers of illegal immigrants *love* the current system of labor without any rights or recourse whatsoever

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

“Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture.” I can’t even snark about such an obscenity.

The NYTimes often doesn't quote Trump at all, instead reframing his words with a summary falsely suggesting coherent thought, in contrast to the gibberish he actually said. They also don't mention how he routinely mumbles and slurs even prepared remarks, like here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zsd...

No War but the Class War against the Epstein Class