It’s not just that they were “deported to Cameroon.” They are being kept in a facility that they can leave only if they agree to be deported to their home countries. The ones courts have ordered that they not be returned to.

@bostonglobe.com Why no gift links? Not even one? In any case, this is depressing: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

I imagine Musk is trying to say “Scots-Irish” (i.e. Ulster Protestant planters, not Irish Catholics), but who knows what really goes on in his ketamine-soaked cream cheese brain except straight-up racist nonsense motivated by whatever desperate, howling need propels his stupid maunderings.

This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape. After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

Some of my ancestors fled England because of persecution. One fled the Netherlands because he was wanted by the police. My mom came because she married my Dad, but I don’t think that was because of his anglo culture.

This always gets me. I have been lucky enough to know a lot of genuinely brilliant people, and the only President in my lifetime who was clearly brilliant was Obama. (Obligatory note: OF COURSE you can be brilliant and also an awful person. It’s just that this criticism was so plainly false.)

I have seen serious street violence in Berlin. It was the autonomen against the police, who were remarkably calm, using their shields to protect themselves from the cobblestones that were being thrown at them as though they were hockey goalies, and not responding to calls of: Wie heißt du? SS!

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

Yep. The first time I read early 19th century American writings on the Irish, I was aghast.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

Thread.

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

Excellent article, and it’s a gift link.

What is a common culture supposed to be, anyway? (Adam Serwer thinks it’s really race, and I agree, but I’m wondering how the argument that we need a common culture to survive is supposed to work.) When I was growing up, we used to celebrate Sankta Lucia day. My best friend: Hanukkah. This was fun!

I keep thinking about this, and the parable of the Sheep and the Goats. The Goats, to whom God says “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire”, just failed to feed the hungry. They did not lead the hungry to food, burst out laughing, and say: Ha ha ha, this is for us.

I don’t want anyone to be run over by an F150. I do want this person who is so dumb as to display that sign while wearing Revolutionary War clothing to be visited tonight by the ghosts of three founding fathers.

This.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination an apologist for US foreign policy, but: people who think the US was the worst hegemony ever, or even average, need to read more history.

i can’t stop laughing

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

People treat people they are deeply unfamiliar with differently from people they know, especially when the refs have been worked and they’re scared they might be biased.

Nah; some of us already have the OED. 😏

Those notorious hippie institutions MIT, Stanford, Princeton, and LSE. All well-known for subversiveness, with no contributions to defense, military tech, or intelligence services. NB the inclusion of Columbia, Penn, & Brown despite their having struck deals with the administration on other fronts.

Serial killer shit

Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

I would buy this game. I would take this class.

I do not for a moment think this matters to the broader point, but, being me, I feel obliged to note that holding someone’s head in a sink full of water, while plainly child abuse, is not waterboarding.

Note the word MAY. That said, the fact that this insanity has made its way to the White House is also insane.

Defining “our culture” to exclude African-Americans is vile.

white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP

Montesquieu: proto-liberal or prototypical-conservative? Apparently both.

I see no reason not to look at the online gambling and prediction market craze as a new opioids crisis. It will wreak havoc on lower-income Americans and leave a trail of destruction and despair in its wake. The companies are just Purdue Pharma 2.0 www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

I bet you don’t need to read the rest of the thread to know exactly who he’s talking about.

I think we need to be clear that breaking our elections is the goal. They're trying to find a predicate for tyranny, as if they need one. And there's a non-zero chance Trump gets his way, especially with a standoff over DHS possible, Trump will push against the filibuster with all his gunt.

GOP state rep working to eliminate school vaccine mandates: “If people decide not to be vaccinated, that is their choice,” he said.” The problem is not just that an unvaccinated person infects others. It’s that we’re talking about CHILDREN.

Good. It should never have been suspended.

Holy shit. Abbe Lowell's argument that DOJ is not entitled to presumption of regularity in Don Lemon case consists of: 1) A page on irregularity in this case. 2) A page on irregularity in MN. 3) Other adverse rulings in MN. 4) One page plus TWO PAGE footnote on similar rulings nationally.

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.

Look obviously it's Not Ideal that just 8% of American adults said they believed it was individuals' responsibility to pay for news: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/most...

Does Ro Khanna not have staff that can research this stuff for him? Because this sloppiness undermines everything.

Note: Judge Tenheim initially ordered these memos to be filed under seal, meaning the public wouldn't have access to them. Law Dork moved to intervene on Tuesday, asking, among other steps, for the sealing to be lifted. The judge lifted the sealing order on Thursday. So, the memos are now public.

Bob Kuttner has some news here: Democrats offered to fund all of DHS except ICE and CBP, while negotiations continued on reforms. Republicans rejected that. prospect.org/2026/02/13/i...

I wonder what they think of Trump.

More details here: jayapal.house.gov/2026/02/11/j...

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

I’m just going to leave this here

“Staff members at the United States’s premier infectious-disease research institute have been instructed to remove the words “biodefense” and “pandemic preparedness” from the institute’s web pages, according to e-mails Nature has obtained.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...