Columbia administration looking especially craven and incompetent about now.

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

gut wrenching

Basically what Bannon and others recognized was that status anxiety over the changing gender norms was a way of selling the elite grievances of billionaires back to the masses as their own fear of someone else's freedom

Basically a straight line through Gamergate/Access Hollywood, MeToo backlash/Depp v. Heard/trans panic/Dobbs and Thiel/Yarvin/Epstein hunger for monarchical city-states immune to democratic accountability

The rampant sexual violence, the rape apologia in response to MeToo, and the fostering of misogynistic hatred under the guise of "populism" are all part and parcel with the Epstein Class's fear of democracy. It's an abhorrence for the very notion of consent, be it of the raped or the governed

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

this is a very cool thing to do and also highlights one of the biggest keys to Zohran's appeal: he just thinks New York City is really neat people who live somewhere want to vote for someone who likes it there and wants to make it better, not someone who wants to use it as a springboard

Harvard is an incredible place full of amazing opportunity for the most dedicated academics and also the genuinely most evil people on the planet, not mutually exclusive.

Hey thanks Hillel for doing antisemitic tropes

My tweet from nearly a DECADE ago is on the front page of Reddit. How sad that ICE fascists have only increased in their fascism since with increased funding from Trump, then Biden, and now Trump again. smh. Abolish ICE. Period.

this is some real newt gingrich stuff

I'm so glad that Tulsi is in charge of hundreds of thousands of ballots. I'm sure they are safe

Abolishing ICE is necessary but not sufficient. A Nuremberg is necessary but not sufficient. It is the bare minimum. We must completely repudiate the fascist ideology that led to this.

You know who knows guns and gun laws? @stephengutowski.bsky.social. Very pleased to see him at The Next Move, the publication of Garry Kasparov's @renewdemocracy.bsky.social. Gutkowski addresses a very important case, one that has roiled the nation. www.thenextmove.org/p/a-primer-o...

Also we should reject the notion that even attempting to uphold our laws and constitution is pointless because the members of his party are gutless sycophantic worms and don't care.

Take a look at this insane image the Illinois College Republicans posted and then read their statement about how they're not trying to excuse or glorify violence.

Was built by a foreign power - the British - shortly before it was forced to quit India in some ignominy. Would seem an odd inspiration for something celebrating 250 years of freedom *from* British colonialism.

Trump's affordability message could still use some work

lmao it begins the distancing

I guess that means God wanted the Democrat to win. bsky.app/profile/atru...

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

Seems like maybe Chucky should resign for saying this. It's completely insane.

Doesn't seem like this should be his job

Video of his remarks where he says, verbatim, that one of his jobs as leader is to funnel more aid to Israel 75% of Democratic voters oppose sending Israel more military aid, as do 66% of independents and 60% of Americans overall according to recent polling

Of the many Democrats not grasping the moment, Shapiro is definitely near the top.

love this. i mean, ice agents in mn are already eating 60% pube by volume for every meal, but i believe in us. we’re the OG malicious compliance generation. millenials can cause every agent to develop paranoid psychosis before valentines day if we all Do Our Best

reposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)

This story is just crushing. I had no idea. It infuriates me even more that on the island, they have to learn the American things, yet they are not citizens. I know there are many logical people in Alaska. Please let them be on the jury.

the government is gassing our children.

There is literally nothing the Republican Party can do - including the fascism, the fourth round of giant budget-busting tax cuts in my lifetime, & looting the federal government for the One Special Boy - to cause them to lose their fiscal hawk reputation or get treated like Democrats in the media:

Two wildly different standards for two wildly different parties:

To be clear, the other biggest story in AI right now is that NVIDIA is specifically NOT giving OpenAI $100 billion, which they need so that they are able to start paying Oracle, who needs that money to pay the debt. Hey where’re you going didn’t you want any stock

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

Egypt is secretly hosting a major military drone base in its Western Desert that has become central to Sudan’s civil war, marking a sharp escalation of foreign involvement, the New York Times reports. Satellite images, flight data, videos, & interviews reviewed by the Times indicate that advanced...

Tonight other dumb napkin cartoon…

Such is the outrage in Denmark over both Trump’s desire for Greenland and disparaging remarks about NATO that one of the country’s leading newspapers devoted their Saturday front and plenty of room inside to the bios of all 44 Danes slain during NATO missions in support of the US

multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.

NY Sen. C. Schumer (not up for re-election till Jan 2029): “We delivered more security assistance to Israel, our ally, under my leadership than ever, ever before. We will keep doing that… I have many jobs as leader & one is to fight for aid to Israel.” Video: Jacob N. Kornbluh, X (@jacobkornbluh)

Quite the contrast: In one part of the Epstein files, DOJ published unredacted nude images of women and potentially minors. In another part, officials redacted President Trump’s face from a news image that was shared in a text exchange. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines. Alternatives: "With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely" "Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

If only there was a Congress - or something, y’know? - that had power to do something about this

Perhaps even yet to be committed. THAT'S THE POINT. WE CAN STOP IT.

Heroes come in many forms and this is one of them

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for the Palantir-made tool called ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

concerning

Ex-wife with the receipts

Generally the people in these emails are not doing anything illegal. But they are showing themselves to be willing participants in an exchange with a convicted sex trafficker of minors. None of these people defended Epstein publicly. They just assumed their lack of principles would not be revealed.