”This is a world of compensations; and he who would *be* no slave, must consent to *have* no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.”

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Indigenous communities nationwide are increasingly reporting encounters with immigration agents, including detention — despite them being U.S. citizens and members of sovereign tribal nations.

WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side. Will DHS retract the prior claims?

This is not a deportation, this is just a kidnapping

Good time to remind everyone that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a right-wing economist, has made it a personal goal to make sure lockdowns can never return. Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICE has completely broken our social contract. They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

The fleecing of America continues. "Trump administration deported some migrants at a cost of $1 million each, Democratic report says." www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

Who up catching their rye

Insight: Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. reut.rs/4qzZRCE

Steve Bannon discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to “take down” the pontiff, according to newly released files from the US Department of Justice. https://cnn.it/4tH3r0O

America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

I talked to @simonwdc.bsky.social about this earlier this week. Long story short, detention fuels deportation. Once someone is detained, away from their family and lawyer, their chance of being deported goes up dramatically, in part because ICE uses detention to pressure people to give up.

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

So the whole “we are saving money destined for fraud” was a lie? No way. I’m shocked. SHOCKED I TELL YOU

Whoa! Didn’t expect to wake up to this news. “A year into Trump’s term, voters say Biden was better.” Trump’s net approval on the economy is now -18. That’s 26 points worse than this point in his first term and a brutal 53 points lower among independents. 1/2

We first reported these comments several months ago, along with the fact Carl deleted all his tweet and then had them removed from the Wayback Machine - but he forget to ask for his old username removed. bsky.app/profile/cnn....

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

I’ve spent years of my life trying to explain to people that anti-trans conservatism naturally flows from their belief that children in the American nuclear family are not individuals with autonomy, but instead property of the parents and state, and this guy just… tweeted it out

One thing to bear in mind as critical context is that these are the biggest fucking cowards who ever lived. He "survived" being spoken to sternly by a woman.

This is just unconscionable man

“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

Just a reminder that the Trump admin calls immigrants who’ve fallen into drug addiction “the worst of the worst” criminals, no matter how long ago their addiction problems.

Maybe don't signal boost the asshole hip-deep in the right wing outrage arms race to say the most unbelievably vile thing imaginable when its his only means to stay relevant. Just spitballing.

A historian colleague of mine once blew someone’s mind after he asked “can’t you just look that up online?” and she replied “who do you think finds that stuff and puts it online?”

They zip tied children! This administration has not 1 shred of decency or humanity. They lie & attempt to explain their atrocities away. Let's remind them that even the people who aren't actually committing the brutality will be held accountable. Remember the Nuremberg trials. #ICELawlessness

people wonder why nobody ever calls him out for spouting mathematical impossibilities like this but you gotta remember Trump has specifically whittled the WH press pool down to dopes from, like, OAN and NewsMax and MyPillowNews who are both just as evil and also even dumber than he is

WASHINGTON (AP) — EPA revokes scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health, removing key basis for climate change fight.

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

The Trump regime made Epstein camps. There is no hell hot enough.

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.

This is a pogrom

Listen folks, Pam Bondi was Attorney General of Florida from 2011 to 2019 so she's been covering up Epstein's crimes for a loooooong-ass time

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

So, like, are the QAnon folks reacting at all to discovering that Trump’s inner circle is basically just Jeffrey Epstein’s rolodex, or have they found some delusional way to explain it all away? (The question is largely rhetorical.)

into the fucking sun with all of them

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

some people will dive in front of a laser-lined shot just to claim they caught a stray, and all of them are here on Bluesky dot com

Worth remembering amidst the bluster and chestbeating that everyone in this regime will quickly turn smol-bean if we push back with a legitimate promise of consequences.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

looks like the DOJ has wiped the PDF that names Blackstone CEO Larry Fink's son Joshua Fink from the Epstein Files (thanks @robschmied.bsky.social for flagging this!) www.justice.gov/epstein/file... you can still find it here, thanks to the internet archive! web.archive.org/web/20260131...

can't measure what you can't detect

Lotta folks listen to Bondi and reasonably think "the extent she's willing to debase herself for her boss", but imo no one with any moral mettle would stoop *this* low. It's not "debasement", it's genuine evil, Bondi is a poisoned soul just like the rest & thus a perfect avatar for the Trump regime.