Here is the newly-unsealed State Department memo confirming -- finally -- that the detention of Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was based on an op-ed. No antisemitic activity. No support of terrorism. An op-ed in a student newspaper. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Something I have repeatedly been saying to my friends in Massachusetts is: Look at all the people fighting in Minnesota. If you're inspired by them (which you should be) then *now* is the time to get ready to protect Massachusetts. Involvement is empowerment. Doom is surrender.

This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.

What a lying whore.

Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

The feds slapped all kinds of labels on Chicago's Juan Espinoza Martinez when they arrested him last fall. They called him "depraved" and a "thug." But Thursday, a jury called him "not guilty." From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Glad to see this went viral on the Nazi site.

This is tomorrow’s front page for The Minnesota Star Tribune. In a moment in which much of legacy media are enabling and condoning the worst actions of the Trump admin, the reporters and editors of the Star Tribune are not holding back one bit.

Judge William Young ends his order protecting noncitizen students targeted for deportation for their activism or speech with this quotation. It’s by Ronald Reagan, who appointed him to the bench four decades ago.

Went to grab the link to my article from almost a decade ago about children's literature whitewashing George Washington's slaveholding. It was published in the journal Social Education. Colleagues, if you didn't know, AI is now summarizing our articles on Google. I'm pissed. This is not OK.

Is it just me, or do his hand bruises look like the ones you get after having an IV in the hand?

BREAKING: When ICE agents dragged out ChongLy Thao half-naked in the snow, they were looking for a man named Lue Moua. He was already in prison. bit.ly/3ZwwVjK

FFS, that didn't take long. (To be clear, I'm not blaming @orinkerr.bsky.social, who cited and discussed the same two SCOTUS cases I did in reference to the ICE memo)

Early press accounts, presumably informed by DHS, claimed that the teenage girl in the first photo and another teen passenger were arrested after "colliding" with a vehicle driven by federal immigration officials. The second photo depicts the "collision." (Both photos via Getty Images)

Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so. How far we have not come in 250 years.

Hey good news for everyone from the “bring back the Fairness Doctrine” camp www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Thirty-one known defendants have been charged in Chicago with non-immigration crimes tied to “Operation Midway Blitz.” With today’s acquittal, 15 of them have been cleared. No one has been convicted.

Not great Bob.

Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines. This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

We just filed another mistaken identity case A SWAT team showed up to arrest someone as a nearby school let out students for lunch. They held a random kid at gun point because he had the same skin color as the suspect, & still perp walked him after realizing their mistake ij.org/case/maine-m...

In addition to all the other things Matt Taibbi is just fucking stupid.

in case you didn’t click through, what she had the nerve to do was go to a football game that the school she is currently attending was playing in

The funny thing about this standard MAGA response to protest is that in this case not only is it once again a lie, but the people they’re protesting — immigration officers — are literally paid agitators and chaos agents from out of state.

To be fair the average five-year-old probably presents a threat to Greg Bovino

Kick all seven of these fuckers out of the party

incredible work by the Forward who found the one Jew in Greenland so they could work the Jewish angle on the Greenland story (spoiler alert: he does not want Trump to take over Greenland)

How personal fortune has grown by AT LEAST a billion dollars. How kids have also seen huge boosts. Every accusation is a confession.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Love it

Sometimes a house is so infested you have to burn it to the ground and build anew.

I’d add that even if there powers were appropriately restricted, the culture that had obviously developed within the agency is so heinously toxic and abusive that it’s beyond realistic remedy by ANY policy reform in the short term. You’ve got to fumigate and start over.

Everyone: Judges have ruled several times that the President has broken the law. Do you support impeachment? House Leader: Yes... Everyone: Oh, okay... House Leader: ....of the judges.

This is a very grim measure of how bad things are: Every year, some amazing federal public employees receive awards. This year's winners were not asked to speak. The organizers "wanted to protect them from being singled out by Trump administration cost-cutters." www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/...

I love the charization of amos is just what if samwise gamgee was also a murder hobo but importantly also samwise gamgee

goddamnit i just realized it’s the Democrat version of “thoughts and prayers”

Trump: Give me Greenland or I'll take it Denmark: You can have a couple military bases, which you already have Batya: ART OF THE DEAL!

That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault

A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.

In a sign of how explosive ICE knew this secret memo would be, one whistleblower says he was only allowed to read the memo and was barred from taking written notes, and warned that employees had been punished for disagreeing. At least one ICE instructor resigned rather than teach the illegal memo!

the "americans will be pariahs when they travel!!" discourse is so funny. 1) we deserve it, 2) people in other countries (excluding, say, large parts of Iraq) are in reality pretty chill about americans, great satan or no

We are building and financing a corrupt detention/industrial complex. It’s human trafficking, and it has to end.

1/21/2026 - Minneapolis Federal agents abduct two teenagers (15 & 16) from a doctor's appointment At one point, it appears an agent tases one of the children

Heartbreaking cruelty visited upon children in our name

BREAKING: Magistrate judge halts government's access to devices/data seized from Wash Post reporter Hannah Natanson in leak probe, sets Feb. 6 hearing on newspaper's request for return. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is a phenomenal critical profile of the infinitely detestable Stephen Miller by @gregsargent.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

Trump demands Carney give him his standing ovation from Davos