this is simultaneously much more than i expected and not nearly enough. IF the Reps abided by this it would make things LESS awful but i just don't see why we'd expect them to abide by any agreement they make once they have cash in hand

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵

5) ICE also begins warehouse buying spree to convert into immigration detention facilities. Gift 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

A first step, sure. But there’s usually only 150 in the entire state. This drawdown means there will still be around 2,300 (15x the normal amount) unaccountable federal agents roaming our streets.

Walk out in the ruby red district of Brentwood, Tennessee (for context, the home of Marsha Blackburn and district of Andy Ogles). These kids are brave, intelligent and powerful 💛🔥 #ICEout

The targeting of Native Americans by ICE is so widespread, tribal governments all over are responding. To protect tribal citizens from ICE raids, tribes are holding events to help citizens get updated IDs and even speeding up the printing and processing times.

Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.

One of the world's best historians of ethnic cleansing, @timothysnyder.bsky.social, also happens to be from near Springfield, OH, which may be the site of the next big ICE attack. Here he reviews what got us here and revisits a "tricky city" targeted by fascism. snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

Marimar Martinez talks about being shot by CBP: “My arms, legs, and chest were all wrapped in bandages. I had 7 bullet holes in my body. I remember the agents rushing the nurses to finish up so they could take me with them.”

at the protest on Saturday i saw someone with a faded "Read Noam Chomsky" t-shirt and that day i, in fact, had

A fanatical child rapist supporter decided to hurl racists insults and attack a teenage girl after she insulted his dear leader Donald Trump, he was then immediately beaten by a crowd of children and teens.

Retiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469. Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by. Hello?

Let’s say youve got valid ID and are even “happy” to show it, bith to register AND to get a ballot. What are the obligations of the authorities to recognize your ID? Where in the bill does it say what the punishment is for a bad faith rejection of your ID? www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

The way to attack Johnson is not to go after his lies; he will just make a new lie. Johnson was chosen for this role because he lies so easily and smoothly. The way to attack Johnson is to go after his horrible secrets, which media have chosen to overlook. It's right there! Now is the time to do it.

Hey folks in Dover or in the surrounding areas of NJ! An opportunity to learn nonviolent observation and support your neighbors. Be brave with others. Together and united. Unpaid and unafraid!

“Weikal says she is pursuing legal action because Burke’s office has not investigated ‘pretty straightforward crimes’ committed by federal agents during the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ‘Operation Midway Blitz.’”

Just read this tremendous novella, which is so intense that it demands to be read in one gulp. Out next month.

"Jeffrey Epstein partied with Trump's closest advisers including Wilbur Ross, Rudy Giuliani, and Steve Mnunchin at dinner hosted by David Koch just TWO MONTHS after his release from prison" (h/t @arkancrow.bsky.social): www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Immigration officers with guns drawn arrested some activists who were trailing their vehicles in Minneapolis, a sign that tensions have not eased since the departure last week of Greg Bovino. At least one person who had an anti-ICE message on clothing was handcuffed while face-down on the ground.

Interesting paper, especially interesting it's coming from researchers at Anthropic arxiv.org/pdf/2601.20245

Bodycams. What the fuck do bodycams do? We already have two murders on video. They'll just lie about it again, or have the cams *whoopsie* not working when they kill somebody. Not a good enough reason to fund ICE, Dems!

Sadly, this is the ICE M.O.: Assault innocent people and then tell elaborate lies to blame the victim. No judge should give any credence to anything a DHS lawyer says to them. They have proven themselves to be liars too often.

I have a friend in Springfield & they are so worried about their Haitian community. Neighbors all over town are doing trainings, getting whistle kits out, sharing resources with their community, etc.

This, along with the seizure of ballots and voting data, is another massive red flag for Americans: This is the kind of thing authoritarians say and do when they are preparing to rig the vote. They are preparing to steal your vote, and you have to take action now to stop them.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

Periodic reminder: When someone shares news with "BREAKING" and they aren't a journalist and don't link to a news story, it's probably not the best source for people to be resharing. It might be trying to get rage reposts, even! Better to find a news article that is accurately describing facts.

Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

“The word for immigrant or refugee appears 92 times in the Old Testament, said Carl Ruby, a pastor who was among Springfield faith leaders leading the event… “Faith cannot be neutral when families are put at risk,” Bishop Dwayne Royster, executive director of Faith in Action, [a nonprofit], said”

Hey want to help the whistle goblins I print with make more whistles? There are approximately eleventy-billion wishlists here with filament begging to be bought and turned into whistles to deploy to across the country. Buy some filament and help the cause: linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

ICE is now claiming it can arrest people without a warrant. This comes after another internal memo asserting ICE agents can forcibly enter homes without a judicial warrant. Hello? Democrats cannot let these blatantly unconstitutional actions continue. Not another penny for ICE.

Why Are We Not Purging People in the Epstein Files from the American Government? "There's Musk, Steve Bannon, and all these people that are still somehow involved in our public life, and yet there’s no price... rudepundit.blogspot.com

Did we all miss the fraud in Kristi Noem’s South Dakota?

BREAKING: Judge blocks Noem's second attempt to keep members of Congress out of immigration facilities. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued a temporary restraining order on Monday morning. New, at Law Dork:

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

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Molecular biologist Dr. Millie Hughes-Fulford died #OTD in 2021. She was the first female payload specialist in space (Space Shuttle Columbia, STS-40, 1991) & spent her career studying the effects of spaceflight on the immune system at the cell molecular and systems biology level. #WomenInSTEM

“.. Their full names were available Sunday afternoon in the Justice Department’s keyword search, along with personally identifying details that make them readily traceable, including home addresses.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

at the ICE protest tonight in Portland, after we all got gassed, I found what I thought was a zippo pouch. It is in fact a medicine bag, in the indigenous use of the term. I only opened it enough to find that out. If you know who belongs to this let me know and I can get it back to them.

I think it also really drives home the important job that the observers and protestors are doing. Everyone knew about Liam because the image of the tiny boy with his hat and backpack, but there are so many children still locked away. They all need to be fought for.

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

It's been one month since Trump and Republicans ended Affordable Care Act tax credits for millions of Americans, forcing families like these to face an impossible choice: pay more for worse health coverage, or risk going uninsured.

Just left an ICE Protest in Portland OR that started at City Hall and marched to the ICE building. Main demand was "revoke" the lease that lets the agency use their building. Crowd was 500-1000. They gassed massively after about an hour. Had to pull a lot of 16-17 year old girls out of the gas.