White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

columbia, cornell, and northwestern could, with these precedents, start fighting now. knuckling under fascists is always bad, and the time to stop doing that is always right now.

Delia Ramirez is a real one www.thehandbasket.co/p/rep-delia-...

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

All those kids & nurses & mechanics & service workers that we are deporting? It costs us $133,333 a head. Again: we are spending $133,333 per migrant worker that we deport.

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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

A sudden 10 day closure of airspace in a major US city like El Paso should be THE STORY, with nothing else getting any air time until at minimum someone within the US government says what’s happening and why. It barely even registers on CNN’s site. It’s literally the last item before the page ends.

“the action to close airspace over a major U.S. for security reasons over extended period hasn’t happened since immediately after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001”

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The president is monetizing the presidency & it is basically just background noise at this point We have concentration camps & it is basically just background noise at this point We are threatening the sovereignty of our NATO allies & it is basically just background noise at this point Etc.

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

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I hear there’s a Bad Bunny concert on TV today?

As @andreapitzer.bsky.social has said, the correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards Trump’s concentration camps don’t need “reforms”—they need to be shut down

The violence against immigrants, protesters and civilian observers in Minneapolis has sparked renewed calls for oversight of the Border Patrol. It is a pattern abuse with a long history in Mexican American communities on the border, icymi from me and Eileen Sullivan. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

I may or may not have read this thread a couple hundred times

🧵, with the reminder that the pessimists have been more accurate than anyone else so far

You know, a true opposition party could non-cynically make hay out of this, if so inclined.

They’re trying to create their own nomenklatura. Lenin would approve.

Reassuring

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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what is the actual solution for media when oligarchs buy up the private, corporate media and the government they control also de-funds the public media?

Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Graham objected to unanimous consent. And he blocked the business of the Senate. Any Senate Democrat could do this.

they shot tear gas at people protesting the ICE facility where they're keeping a 5-year-old outside San Antonio news4sanantonio.com/news/local/p...

After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Focusing attention where it should be: Are there accountability procedures in place to examine what ICE is doing in MN (and elsewhere)? And, if so, how should they work? www.justsecurity.org/129710/quest...

CBP defines 'border' as 100 miles from a coast. Two-thirds of the US population live in the 'border zone.' And we literally have viral footage of them executing people. So keeping CBP 'at the border' and bodycams would mean much of the country can still be terrorized by CBP and executed on film

Remember, folks: Greg Bovino won't see your jokes about how short he is- because you put them up too high lol

Historians, aux les barricades!

Wolfers: This is the most interventionist government of my lifetime. It’s the least conservative government of my lifetime. When you are the richest country in the world, maybe you are not the ones who should be tearing down your existing institutions. But that’s exactly what this president is doing

Not only is authoritarianism not new, it is still in our living memory. Southern racial apartheid is more recent than the Nazis, and more relevant to understanding our current politics. As American politics have nationalized, the South anchors one of the two parties and exported its politics 5/x

Albuquerque protest against ICE today. This was a short notice event that was well attended by people who care about our country. #NoICE #2ndAmmendment #WeThePeople

One of the key takeaways from history for the political opposition in regimes sliding into dictatorship: use whatever power you have while you still have it.

The numbers were bigger than these videos make it look — I thought it was +/- 1k

When Mamie Till was on the stand during the trial of her son's murderers in 1955, the defense argued she had misidentified her son's body, was lying in order to claim insurance money for her son, & had staged the whole affair with the aid of Communists & the NAACP. Tills murderers walked free.

this is in Der Spiegel, a very mainstream publication known as an "opinion leader" throughout Europe

They stopped cancer drug trials to fund this.

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

Didn’t come to Bluesky to get attacked like this

Concentration camps are the biggest story in American public health right now

Pretty much every non-hype defense of LLM products begins with "first you must already understand your work extremely well, have ironclad ethics, and also verify all of its outputs in their entirety" and these are simply not realistic conditions for a product to *require* before it can be useful.

Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested. It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.