“What do you think she was trying to say here?”

There is so much evidence of bad faith behavior it feels like the really egregious acts get lost in the noise, but see: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Really hope both journalists and Senators ask Markwayne Mullin these @radleybalko.bsky.social questions. radleybalko.substack.com/p/questions-...

Kathleen was asked by a coworker about how they could learn more about the ASL Interpreters Union, which is organizing workers who serve Deaf people making phone calls. Kathleen's manager overheard. Two days later, she was fired. My latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I write about Elizabeth Cady Stanton for The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/books/under-...

Here's some of the detail I've been looking for on Steve Witkoff's nuclear ignorance. h/t @marktfitz.bsky.social

Ok. First point: the filibuster doesn't exist in Senate rules. It's a *consequence* of the rules, which lack a way for a bare majority to easily force an end to debate. If debate doesn't end, there's no vote. Upshot: to filibuster, you just get the floor, start talking. 3/

In 1990, when Congress created a protection for migrant children subject to abuse, it didn't anticipate backlogs would get bad enough that beneficiaries would wait years for a visa, and so never thought to explicitly bar deportation for winners. Today the BIA greenlit deportation in that situation.

The whole thing is brilliant

Alyssa Thompson!!!!

That is not who I expected us to sub out at halftime.

Bob STUNS at Tobin Heath’s retirement ceremony 🤩

"Over the past decade, the Boring Company has dug only a few miles of operational tunnel. It has never cracked $23 million in reported annual revenue.... Yet, for reasons inexplicable to anyone who doesn’t worship at the altar of high finance, it is valued at $7 billion."

This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

Sentnor!!!!!!

if not war then why war shaped

It's impossible to describe the kind of moral violation it is to leave shipwreck victims in the water with no help, even when you're the one that caused the shipwreck. At sea ships help each other and sort out the diplomatic bullshit later because at sea you can only rely on each other.

We've seen some of this in recent months and will get a lot more before June, but it's surreal this morning to look at the sports pages that were justifiably critical of previous World Cup hosts and see almost no mention that the U.S. spent the weekend bombing Iran

Post-game selfies with Claire Hutton (agreed to take our poster to team), Jameese, WHO WAS ROBBED!, and Our Queen, Becky. Next time i see that pocket-sized phenom I gotta up my game from,”Ohmigod, Becky, we love you: you’re the best!” ⚽️💖⚽️💖 Does Becky even have a stance on fan gushing or emojis?

Claudia! (clap clap!) Claudia! (clap clap!)

O Canada

The ref says cards for everyone!

Democrats should promise that every refugee, asylum seeker, and green card holder illegally deported, arrested, sent to CECOT, or sent to a third country can come back to the U.S. with a fast track to citizenship.

A reminder that Girl Scouting of America has welcomed trans and nonbinary girls from the first one that asked, has always had lesbian and bi members and adults, never declared bankruptcy to avoid paying for sexual assaults, and never poached the other side to recover from said bankruptcy.

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades. In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

worth reading the whole story for all the awful details - including literal bounties for other people to rat out trans people using the “wrong” bathroom

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

*swims in essays, Scrooge McDuck style*

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

"All adults and some children on ICE flights are shackled at the wrists and ankles attached to a chain around their waists for the duration of the flight. Shackling for more than a few hours can cause fatal blood clots, permanent nerve damage, bruising, chafing, swelling and excruciating pain"

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

One of these days I should learn the actual rules of hockey instead of just trying to translate everything from soccer to myself in realtime.

This Spanish soccer ice dance routine at the exhibition gala is making me happy

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Congratulations to Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk for earning her PhD despite being unlawfully targeted by ICE for protected political speech. Our victory in AAUP v. Rubio will enshrine rights for non-citizen students and faculty like Dr. Öztürk. Everyone deserves to learn and speak freely on our campuses.

Took my car in for an oil change, which means I am a captive audience for this press conference. Wish I had procrastinated either a little more or a little less.

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

me when the students have done the reading

ALYSA MF'N LIU

OUR QUIRKY NIECE IS SKATING GO GO GO

The Board unexpectedly postponed the this year’s tenure decisions. “I was shocked and sick at heart to learn that four of my colleagues who did everything asked of them, and who should have been celebrating their achievement, are now in an indefinite limbo without any clear explanation as to why.”

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

This really was as fantastic as promised! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/m...

I 💖 the Quiet Car 💺

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Breaking: Emma Hayes is team Chock and Bates, believes they were robbed of gold. Relatable!

The return of The Pants makes me so happy. thecurlingnews.com/news/news/no...