JUST IN: A federal judge has barred ICE and DHS from using taxpayer information provided by the IRS. Judge Talwani says that DHS' view that noncitizens lack 4th amendment rights — combined with ICE use of administrative warrants — is a recipe for abuse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

Why don't they say anything? Well, because when it happens to YOU, if you say something, that's frequently the ballgame. You get driven out of your community; you get to see what the people you thought loved you look like with the masks off. And way, way too many of them are monsters.

We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.

They will denigrate literally any kind of perceived decency because any deviation from the vileness they represent must be crushed. They have to discredit good itself. It's been a long-running project with the right, to cultivate cruelty and mock morality. They went after Mister Rogers.

Please enjoy Sir Ian McLennan as he delivers a powerful speech from Shakespeare .. about immigrants on Colbert. He tells the audience to shout, portraying the angry citizens who were mad at the immigrants. Then he answers:

Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.

In stories like this, the news media should include a sentence reading: “Many recent accusations by Homeland Security against protesters and observers have fallen apart when more facts have been revealed.”

“The first of several students detained by immigration officers...” shouldn’t even be a sentence

And right on cue, the Dem-bashing accounts are trying to create voter apathy ahead of the midterms by making ridiculous claims about how the Democrats have the power to do so much in the minority, but are just refusing to do so.

"What’s most alarming here is that Director Gabbard’s own team acknowledges there was no evidence of foreign interference, yet they seized voting machines and election data anyway," U.S. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence panel, said. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I don't know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don't. *crowd groans* I know we have some here today. I don't know why they're here, because they certainly don't give us their vote ... they cheat."

11. Which is to say eventually I will probably find out if you're one way with me and another way with others. That won't be great for either of us! Maybe make the effort to treat everyone with the same level of kindness you would practice on me, and want from me. That has benefits of its own.

5. Who are you to the people new to the community? Who are you to people who can offer you nothing in that community but encouragement? Who are you to the people attractive to you? Who are you to those NOT attractive to you? Are you happy to talk to a "nobody" or looking to trade up in conversation?

4. And it's this version of people - the person you are when the power dynamic is equal, or where YOU have the power - that interests me. It's that whole "pay attention to how the people you're with treat the waitstaff" thing, but applied more widely. Who are you with the people who AREN'T like me?

“Why do they want Fulton County? Well, that’s obvious. It’s the biggest county in Georgia, and it houses Atlanta. If you control Fulton County that basically guarantees for Republicans they win every statewide race.”

A+ ⬇️ "The problem isn’t the restrictions on the monster; the problem is the monster."

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I’m betting Comer will suddenly lose interest in this hearing.

And this is why I will never ever forgive anyone who spent their time and energy attacking and kneecapping Kamala Harris and Democrats.

Trump administration: "Beckwith was a man ahead of his time." Truly sickening stuff happening at the National Parks Service these days.

wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."

For the straight men out there, this is my straight buddy's review after having watched the entire thing (no spoilers, just his impression of the show & how he received it). I pity the people who bail on Heated Rivalry after just one or two episodes. They're missing everything. Please give it a try

This show is obviously appealing to gay men and ALL women all over the world, but straight men shouldn't shy away or be afraid to dig in too. There's a lot here, especially once you get to episodes 5 & 6, that will draw you in. It might open your eyes (and your heart) too. It's a hell of a journey.

As it ascends to the status of global phenomenon, creating an entire new cultural shorthand along the way, Heated Rivalry offers a cinematic universe that references our own but casts an alternate vision of a world that’s possible,a world of pleasure, mutuality, humanness, intimacy, creativity & joy

Thorough overview of Epstein's connections to researchers — and how it is all connected to the broader issue of misogyny in the sciences www.theverge.com/2019/9/19/20...

On the very same day that Bezos published a climate-downplaying op-ed by newly Epstein-linked climate denier Bjorn Lomborg:

Children are dying and being disabled by measles because RFK Jr has spread so much anti vaxx rhetoric He already contributed to the deaths of over 80 children in Samoa. Now a newborn baby has died of listeria which health officials believe was from raw milk her mother drank. Don’t drink raw milk!

This is superb. Ian McKellen delivers a blistering pro-immigration monologue written by Shakespeare, that makes you want to punch the air with exhilaration. Wow, wow, wow. An absolute must-watch. (Starts at 20:10 but the entire interview is a joy.) youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag

The regime is going to court to overrule a judge’s order to release 5 year old Liam Ramos from custody. They’re spending tax dollars fighting to lock up a child Arguing to send him back to a camp where children scream “let us out”. A camp with a measles outbreak. Monsters.

The hate for Harris on the left is a symptom of how naive a lot of voters are and how fractious and fractured the political left is. A woman of color who was a DA in SF, AG and Senator of the 4th largest economy in the world and VPOTUS who lost a POTUS race by 1.6% after a 100 day campaign. JFC.

At this point, I think the entire publishing industry needs to have a serious conversation about the degree to which the last 15 years have increasingly seen book promo become an online venture, and what that means now that entire social media and digital platforms are getting torched overnight. 🧵

People use music to set moods, create a desired atmosphere and evoke memories of family and friends. The right song at the right time can have similar effects for some dogs.

He can never be happy because he cares more about other people thinking he's cool than being happy. he's so incapable of joy he pays people to play games for him.

I'm fascinated by how many people think that the guy who has a 0% track record of his declarations coming true is a valid source for yet another lofty declaration being reality

Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost

Huawei’s and Xiaomi’s flagship devices are packed with impressive features, but Apple is dominating the Chinese smartphone market again—for now. www.wired.com/story/how-ip...

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

For this Black History Month, given the regime’s vile smearing of Ohio’s Haitian population, I think it’s a good time to remember a literary giant of Haitian descent, Alexander Dumas, père He gave us the Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Cristo & so much more en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexand...

Today, the Philadelphia Inquirer is still hiring a National Politics Reporter, and the Washington Post just laid off a third of its workforce. bsky.app/profile/alex...

If ICE guys are miserable, they can quit today and testify against their bosses tomorrow.

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

In my first college humanities class the professor was pointing out the symbolism in a poem when a student asked “how do you know that’s what the author meant?” Without pausing the professor said: “It doesn’t matter what he thought. It’s not his anymore. It’s ours. We decide what it means.”

Thread. Shitty people can make good and even great art. Likewise, dropping a favorite artist after you realize you can no longer support them can feel like a divorce or a friend breakup because they and their work were just that important to you. That shit hurts, even when it's necessary for you.

There is not an endless ICE army. In the largest DHS deployment in history, they can’t muster enough dudes to subdue one single mid-sized US metro. Good luck seizing America by force, guys

There’s a reason these guys mostly only win when things are decided by online vibes. They can simply conjure up the most terrifying fantasies and gleeful abuses and have millions of people treat them as if they happened. But move offline and they get wrecked by cold hard physical reality

Always remember THEY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS. In the realm of Online, they can just say things and have them treated as true. In the realm of Real Life, there are 115,000 polling places in America and DHS has like 15,000 dudes total.

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.

This is a good point, and only emphasizes that how those who resist Trump report RIGHT NOW on threats he and his supports make to election integrity matters. These threats work by being spread, creating a fear they cannot back up. DO NOT DO THEIR WORK FOR THEM.