BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

Hearing this from a member of Congress is like asking a plumber "What's this pipe for?" and having him respond "That's a great question. I don't know the answer. It's like, a metal tube thingy in your wall? Not sure what's in there. Maybe grape juice? Or hamsters? I guess we'll never know."

The most shocking read I've had lately. www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

That Bari Weiss. Such a free, independent, brave soul.

I... had not noticed this, and it seems inarguable. Algorithmic media and social media are completely different things. Smashing the two together in different dilutions is leading us into weird places.

The BBC is an international treasure that should not depend on domestic political disputes. Fund the World Service before its funding dries up in 7 weeks! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

We have a culture of sprawl and short-term thinking regarding the land, so an unexamined "abundance" buildout is appropriately threatening. But good land use needs to be promoted. I don't know enough about this particular proposal but density with conservation is key.

Massie: "The DOJ wants to say they're done w/ this Epstein document production. The problem is they've taken down documents before we were able to go over & look at unredacted versions. They took down some of the most significant ones. They can't keep those down after they've already produced them."

Good morning team. Russia's war against Ukraine continues.

not precisely the same but for decades Bill Donohue of the Catholic League - one angry asshole with a Fax machine, basically - was presented as the Pope of America

Part of the reason Trump failed to steal the election in 2020 is that he only tried the last of these four possibilities (which is the hardest to pull off). He’s indicating very explicitly he intends to also try the first three options this Fall.

Love this fellow American.

Government is nothing more or less than people serving people. It's so refreshing to see a politician who gets that - and embraces it with joy.

The infantilization of the MAGA cretins is ridiculous. They are adults who made adult decisions. They decided to put evil fucks in power. They decided to ignore reality. They decided to stand by and let horrible shit happen. Saying someone pushed them to that is to say they are babies with no agency

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

*rubs temples* As I've spent the better part of the day explaining why I don't think Newsom should be the Democratic nominee for president, it pains me to "defend" this, but... The governor of California is legally obligated to proclaim each Feb 6 Reagan Day per a 2010 state law.

C’mon, Chuck. You’re fighting to “rein in” ICE? DEFUND ICE.

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

The Friday Breakdown: Typically when a politician gives a speech, they are laying out their worldview and larger ideology. It's often a tea leaf they want to run for president. So is AOC teasing a run for president? Or something more important? www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It's not even a surprise anymore. Fight. Fight. Fight. We're going to take our country back.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

In govts around the world, people in the Epstein files are resigning in disgrace. In private business, executives in the files are resigning in disgrace. In the Trump admin, nothing happens since the boss is in the files more than anyone and his party is filled with cowards.

Ice De Ville. Make it happen.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

ICYMI

This story is just heart crushing.

I’m currently writing a book about the attempted Nazi demonstration in Skokie in 1977. This is indistinguishable from how American Nazis talked in public.

Oh no they don'y

My take on Trump ordering the removal of the Pride flag at the Stonewall National Monument in NYC is that he's a pedophile and rapist who is actively covering up his role in a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children and doing everything he can to distract from that cover-up.

Republicans have had a supermajority for 22 years and some folks have the gall to call me “partisan.” Lol. I just look around and report the truth.

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

They all need to go down for this. Lose their positions, their security, their ties to one another.

As a parent, it's nearly impossible to read these stories without breaking down. It's on all of us to make sure these kids and their families come home. The people who did this, and those that enabled it, must be held to full account.

People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...

Extremely exciting news: We're hiring a full-time film critic to come work with me at The A.V. Club! You probably have an idea if you're qualified for this, but if there's something that's not in the job listing, I'm sure I can answer Qs www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Great piece from @skennedy2504.myatproto.social on the disturbing likelihood that we are dealing with a Supreme Court staffed by justices whose only contact with the larger world is through the filter of right wing partisan media.

A proposed “truth commission” to investigate possible crimes committed by Jeffrey Epstein at his Santa Fe County ranch could, state lawmakers hope, make New Mexico a leader in seeking accountability in a scandal that has become one of the biggest issues in national politics.

This. It's a matter of character.

Pop quiz: both same age, both tea totalers. Can you spot the physical differences?

I'm thrilled by the reference, surprised it took so long, and deeply saddened by its applicability.

Of 3800 children & infants taken into immigration custody Jan-Oct 2025, 2600 were detained by ICE officers. Those kids weren't arrested at the border. They weren't new arrivals seeking help. They were kids going about their daily lives here—often with legal status. The GOP *owns* this horror.

Jonathan Brown (@jbcartoonist.bsky.social) on the Republican party's complete lack of true patriotism.

This is a perfect example of "I saw a thing that I could do and I started doing it"

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year. She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again. Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

#boo #jd #Olympics

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