NEW: This isn't about "training." The two agents who murdered Alex Pretti - Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez - have been with Border Patrol for 8 and 12 years respectively. You can't reform CBP. Abolish ICE/CBP. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

American schools in 2024 spent $30 billion on education technology, with limited (or negative) results. "Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead" www.economist.com/united-state...

New: Just how furious are Americans about ICE? Sewing influencers, bourbon vloggers and the mod of r/catbongos are all taking a political stand. "I refuse to wake up in five or 10 years and look at myself in the mirror and say, ‘You had a platform and did nothing,'" a golf YouTuber told me

Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Huge love to @trungles.com @christinenorrie.bsky.social @shing.bsky.social @wilfredotorres.bsky.social @gregpak.com and @ethansacks.bsky.social who have contributed art and words to the initial launch of #Comics4Liam. Check it out at comics4liam.com - and then draw your own pictures for Liam Ramos!

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!

Here’s Europe’s response to the behavior of the United States of America. I’m really not sure how Trump arrives at the conclusion that America is respected around the world. It’s just another of his fantasies. While Trump is a legend in his own lunch break the world is making other plans.

There may be no gas chambers-but that doesn’t change what these warehouses are destined to become Concentration camps With ICE killing people in the streets, Trump prosecuting his opponents and the DOJ arresting journalists, it feels like America has entered a modernized version of Nazi Germany

"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Media, journalism, and the press are not interchangeable terms. Yet they are bound up with one another. Media is the attention industry Journalism is a social practice The press is a key institution in a democracy Put it all together: Journalists who work in the media carry forward "the press." 9/

Most journalists are employees of the media, and thus part of the attention business. This creates endless problems and compromises, which I read and hear about nonstop. The press — to my way of thinking — is the institution that endures over time as journalists come in and out of it. 8/

Gonna be a fight every damn day until November 3. 276 days Primaries start in MARCH Get ready Vote.gov Learn who’s running where: BallotPedia.org

If this is the same Peter Attia MD who was just revealed as one of Bari Weiss's big new additions to CBS News, he can just tell the stories about the "outrageous" life Jeffrey Epstein led on the Evening News. Think of the ratings!

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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When it comes to the fascism of the authoritarian Trump regime, historians agree: America's pedophile führer checks EVERY FUCKING BOX. 😳👇

DOJ's Epstein lies are obvious. DOJ claims it withheld hundreds of thousands of documents because they are being used in active investigations (a permitted reason under the law). DOJ announces that there will be no more indictments and all Epstein cases are over. Release ALL the Epstein files!!!

This is what those backing science feared. Without a financial incentive, manufacturers of vaccines will curb or stop vaccine production so those of us who want them - won’t be able to get them. This is by design by the Trump Administration. 😡

* MODERNA IS CURBING INVESTMENT VACCINE TRIALS DUE TO US BACKLASH -- BLOOMBERG NEWS * MODERNA IS CURBING INVESTMENT IN VACCINE TRIALS DUE TO OPPOSITION TO IMMUNIZATIONS FROM US OFFICIALS -- BLOOMBERG NEWS @reuters.com #$MRNA

Democrat Christian Menefee wins special US House runoff in Texas, shrinking GOP majority even further www.cnn.com/2026/01/31/p...

I say this all the time about media control and the rich. It's not a conspiracy. It's class solidarity in action.

Conspiracy theorizing is a cognitive error, it’s what happens when our powerful ability to find patterns and construct narratives loses any real braking mechanism and runs completely off the rails, operates unchecked People are especially vulnerable to it when they feel beset and helpless

And if you start falling into the trap of thinking that all the worst things in the world exist because a bunch of evil people got together in a volcano lair and planned it all out, you’re going to be constantly blindsided and confused by what actually happens in the real world

Without that insight, patterns of behavior look like X-Files-style superconspiracies. But that’s by and large a misreading of a simultaneously much more complicated and much simpler picture We aren’t going to be able to fight against this shit unless we understand the shape and nature of it

Systems of power and domination are a feature of the sociocultural landscape. Incentive structures are a feature of the sociocultural landscape. Groups of like-interested people flow across that landscape like water, their movements shaped by it. They have agency and intention but also it’s this

Something I picked up pretty early when I started studying sociology is that things that look like grand highly intentional conspiracies are so often just systems of power and incentive structures that connect people who have the same interests Which isn’t to say there are no conspiracies but

This is it. Part of why it has been tough for me to weigh in on the Epstein discourse is because we’re really just seeing an extreme manifestation of white patriarchy. The men involved have consolidated an obscene amount of power. But the violence itself is horrifically ordinary.

some good news buried among the horrible behavior listed: “The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”

Everyone traveling should be calling ahead to ask just that "are there ICE agents there because I don't feel safe allowing my family to stay someplace with armed, dangerous men"

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

Keeping with his focus on labor and working-class solidarity, Taylor Rehmet dedicates his flip of SD9, in Tarrant County, "to everyday, working people."

Another reason Democrat Taylor Rehmet soundly flipped a solid red district last night in Texas. He was a good, focused candidate who ran a good, focused campaign. How well a Democratic candidate 'fits' with their electorate (i.e. 'candidate quality') matters in purple and red areas!

Epstein-related reporting raises serious, disqualifying questions about Donald Trump. Congress must act now. You don’t have to call your own rep. Call ANY Republican House office and demand impeachment immediately. Silence is complicity. Delay is a cover-up.

Just as this news was announced: mRNA cancer vaccine shows protection at 5-year follow-up, Moderna and Merck say The vaccines are tailor-made to target each patient’s unique cancer. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The Epstein Files reveal that the world's most wealthy and powerful men are either raping girls OR have absolutely no problem with other perverted men raping and trafficking girls as long as it helps their bottom line. I can only hope this infuriates the majority against the elite.

I guess they are pretty upset. For some reason.

Thanks to the 130+ pro-democracy citizens who attended our Democratic Candidate Meet and Greet yesterday. Thanks to our local, district, and statewide office candidates who came to our county to meet voters! Come out to vote on March 17th and remember early voting that starts February 5th!

From the Epstein documents: The FBI having to Google where Wisconsin is???

What gives you hope in these awful times? I’ll tell you my answer: the people of Minneapolis.

Peter Dinklage reading Amanda Gorman's poem about Renee Good, a fellow poet.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Liam is home, with his bunny hat and backpack. A small but important victory for everyone who spoke up. And a sign that our legal system can still work to protect us. But there are still too many children trapped in ICE detention camps. Including a 2-month-old at the same facility Liam was held.

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