However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"

If a guy in one of the hardest elections is saying this, then safe Dems shouldn't hesitate either.

A major American city is under violent occupation by lawless federal goon squads and Congress is debating how much they should be allowed to wear masks.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

When you're a Bundle of Nerves, don't worry, @tolkoto.com from @giantbomb.bsky.social is here to give you fun facts about Virtuoso! www.twitch.tv/giantbomb/cl...

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Oh look, it's Melania emailing Ghislaine, praising a profile of Jeffrey Epstein, and signed Love, Melania. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

We NEED a documentary about Disney Legend Joe Fowler, who essentially had two extraordinary lives—first with the U.S. Navy, and then building Disneyland and Walt Disney World. d23.com/walt-disney-...

The Washington Post published a clear video of federal agents removing Alex Pretti's handgun moments before he was fatally shot. There's nothing in the video to suggest Pretti even reached for his weapon. wapo.st/49Zqv1L

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This has been hammered through right wing media for decades now, talk shows, Fox News, anyone who isn't a "real American" to their belief system does not deserve the blessing of liberty that we are guaranteed.

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

This video filmed by Ben Luhmann shows the moment a federal agent sprayed chemical irritants directly into a man's face in south Minneapolis. Three agents already had the man pinned to the ground when a fourth agent walked up and sprayed the irritants.

Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol

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Nancy Lacore, who served in the Navy for 35 years as a Navy helicopter pilot, three-star admiral and the chief of the Navy Reserve, announced a run for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District Navy admiral removed by Hegseth announces run for Congress abcnews.go.com/Politics/nav...

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

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Gift link: ICE Places Ankle Monitor on Md. Woman Who Provided U.S. Birth Certificate By Joe Heim Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales, 22, had been detained for 25 days. Her lawyers are seeking to have her immigration case dropped. @joeheim.bsky.social wapo.st/45e0NoG

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

Yes

I can't believe I've never noticed this in the godfather credits

this is a death sentence to a LOT of people

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

What the hell.

I can't believe they had special forces abduct Paul McCartney.

Countless opeds about Mamdani being a "socialist" and are literally any of those publications talking about Donald Trump not just claiming to take over a country but deciding what companies are allowed/not allowed to operate in that foreign country?

I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

I don't think this is going to work I don't think they're going to win the propaganda war over an ICE agent murdering a women in cold blood, because it's not possible to buy their lies if you aren't one of them but what a bleak world we live in that this is a narrative struggle rather than justice

One thing I'd love to see on this platform is a teeny, tiny more self-awareness that this platform (which I use!) is *wildly* unrepresentative of broader popular opinion and concerns.

The protestors in Nepal were flying Straw Hit Pirates flags. Fandom is a much more powerful motivator than political theory these days because we exist in a realm of politics that is essentially a form of fandom. Sorry but Marx and Lenin are dead; long live Luffy and Luthen.

State of play: Forensic reconstructions disprove the administration's account of events (NYT, WaPo, Bellingcat): bsky.app/profile/elio... Local investigators being denied access to evidence (AP): apnews.com/live/minneap... Demonstrators met with violence (CNN): bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is *definitely* how you behave when you're trying to bring every resource to bear, rather than trying to cover up the unlawful behavior of your own personnel.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe. @reuters.com

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

Brown is not a theme. When the Enchanted Forest opened in MK's New Fantasyland, trash cans mattered: stripes for Storybook Circus, faux wood for the forest. Today? Brown boxes with a recycling logo. If theming is storytelling, this chapter reads: “We stopped trying.” #Disney #MagicalTrash

New: DHS is lying to you. At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis. Shots clearly fired while vehicle already turning away from the officer. But DHS lied. Trump lied. Noem lied. Even judges have catalogued DHS' serial lying www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

I just want people to remember that what this was was transparently obvious at the time and universally condemned. Hold on to that fact and don't let people change it under you.

“In the deposition, a confident, candid and straight-to-the-point Smith described in great detail why he believed he had enough evidence to not only try but convict President Donald Trump of conspiracy to obstruct the certification of the electoral votes on Jan. 6…” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

I am no journalist but it seems to be to allow elected officials to anonymously comment on policy related issues is a disservice to the voting public who has the right to know what the stance of their elected representatives are when considering whether to reelect them