Bondi and Noem getting the boot while the equally corrupt and incompetent menfolk keep their jobs reminds me of this Table of RFK Jr’s CDC Directors I made last week. Only one person needed actual qualifications to be the CDC Director and that person was the only woman who had the job.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

"We've been carrying the trauma, carrying the load, and we've not been the ones that are getting the resources to support the networks and the funding that are necessary to sustain it." Kayla Alexis, CEO and founder of Sustained Equity Group, tells us. publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g...

On top of the concentration camps, kidnapping, and murders, the news now reports ICE is buying microwave tech to kill the car engines of first amendment legal observers. And Democrats are still not even asking to claw back the 2025 budget increases.

Too many women in the workforce and delaying or foregoing childbearing? The Heritage Foundation has a plan for that. And it is the opposite of Robin Hood: It's a huge cash transfer from poor single moms to to wealthier married parents. www.throughline.news/p/the-conser...

The Great Capitulation Is Over. What Comes Next? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/o...

Trump is the biggest liar in presidential history. His lies from his #SOTU speech has been fact checked. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Trump takes credit for lower crime rates in Washington, DC after sending federal troops last year. Fact check: Since peaking in 2023, D.C. violent crime fell in 2024, before Trump took office, and has continued to fall at similar rates before and after federal intervention.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/s... I appreciated Al Blumstein’s in-depth analysis of crime and CJ systems. I came to know him early in my career when many were grappling with the surge in gun violence connected to crack cocaine markets. He was right on many issues and always kind.

While I’m happy to be part of this webinar, I don’t love the title chosen by CCJ. The weight of solid research evidence refutes the notion that more guns (civilian ownership and carrying) leads to less crime.

I’m looking forward to participating in this upcoming webinar sponsored by CCJ.

Two issues I'm pondering. One is that you can't move this many people without inflicting tremendous physical and psychological harm on those deported and on society itself. The second is that left in place for years, mass detention on a whole new level will be normalized. It rarely vanishes. [1/3]

Love this article by @marclevin.bsky.social It includes lots of evidence-based insights and recommendations for reducing violent crime, promoting justice, and enhancing community views of the acceptability and legitimacy of law enforcement. Obviously, ICE & CBP threatens all of these outcomes.

link.springer.com/collections/... Researchers studying political violence, please consider submitting your manuscripts for a special edition of Injury Epidemiology focusing on political violence. Injury Epi publishes many studies on violence and its prevention including political violence.

“Watchfulness is the most dangerous form of resistance because it obstructs the Trump regime’s project of habituation. Fascism works by making the extreme normal.” @fotoole.bsky.social “The sin of civic “interference” is in fact the saving grace of democracy.”

Congratulations, Elon Musk! The #1 cause of US job loss in 2025! #bankrupttesla #teslatakedown #cancelstarlink #boycottspacex #ElonMusk #doge #swastikars #USpol

Meanwhile www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

I hope this gets a lot of attention and kaitlancollins.bsky.social asks Trump about his pardons of J6 criminals.

Pam Bondi’s Epstein Testimony Exposed the Whole Game - Slate Excellent piece that gets to the core of Trump’s and Bondi’s use of federal law enforcement to protect the powerful, aid Trump, punish those who don’t bow to Trump, and fail everyone else, especially the most vulnerable.

tracreports.org/immigration/... Less than 2% of immigration deportation orders during Oct-Dec, 2025 were prompted by crimes committed other than illegal entry. Billions of $s, countless violations of civil rights, many deaths & injuries, millions traumatized. This isn’t about public safety.

“I will not apologize because I did nothing wrong” defines who Trump is as a human being. The fact that so many people voted for and continue to enable this is sadly defining what America is as a country.

The United States government is retaliating against 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his family for having the temerity to challenge their unlawful detention with a habeas petition. That’s retaliation. This is Kilmar Ábrego García all over again. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I have this, too. They are getting rid of one of the best things about The Post and one of the best sportswriting teams of any newspaper.

A souvenier in more ways than one. This freaking sucks.

I gasped: "Melania shows off her custom-made inauguration gown, stark white with black ribbons overlaying it, a dress that now looks unavoidably like the redacted Epstein files." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Minnesota shooting scrambles America’s gun debate - The Washington Post The WaPost spin: both sides are being hypocritical! But the inconsistencies are mainly from the right. They’re fine with bugaloo & militia pals at political events with AR-15s. Dems aren’t praising Pretti for carrying a gun.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01... It’s nice to see MN corporations and pro sports teams speak out; but what a lame statement, to call for a deescalation and for federal, state, and local govt to work together. Push them further, to call for ICE & CBP to leave and stop their lawless reign of terror.

👇This.

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara: "The video speaks for itself. We have identified this person - 37-year-old, white male, resident of the city. The only interaction that we are aware of with law enforcement has been for traffic tickets and we believe he is a lawfully gun owner with a permit to carry"

Republicans: everyone must be able to carry any gun at all times, up to and including high powered rifles, to protect themselves against tyranny also Republicans, without batting an eye: carrying a gun is unquestionable justification for federal agents to shoot you dead in the street

FBI Field leader to NYT: "I remember praying that we didn’t have a terrorist attack, mass shooting or cyberattack slip through the cracks because my agents, who were highly trained to protect against such threats, were assigned to immigration enforcement."

FBI agent with high-level undercover experience previously tasked with protecting the US from foreign threats now sitting in a parking lot grabbing up immigrants www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Justice Department weighs rollback of gun regulations Trump & Bondi cloak their gifts to the gun industry, especially its worst actors, as some sort of respect for the 2nd Amendment. It’s such BS. None of the regs they’re rolling back infringe on 2A rights. The regs keep guns from violent ppl.

This isn’t inevitable. A few Republicans in Congress could still stop a reckless annexation or attack on Greenland — right now. Silence is a choice.

"The abduction of Maduro was not about naming his crimes, but about ignoring them. The worst thing Maduro did is what Trump is beginning to do: killing civilians and blaming them for their own deaths. After Minneapolis, Maduro’s lies are being repeated: in American English, by American authorities."

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

It is the Biden-Harris Admin who is to thank for reversing the historic surge in violence that took place in 2020 (Trump’s last year). Biden banned ghost gun kits, signed the BCSA expanding $s for community violence intervention & other public safety initiatives, curbing gun trafficking.

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

And this is just less than a year. Each day RFK Jr. stays in office as the head of our science and health system, the more his negligence compounds. Congress made a mistake confirming him, but they still have a chance to fix it. It's time they #ImpeachRFKJr www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

So Baltimore & StL local leaders, public safety professionals including CVI workers faced enormous challenges and yet reduced homicide rates from their recent peaks by 40-45/100K in just a few years.

BTW, St Louis & Baltimore have commonalities that go a long way to explain their high homicide rates relative to other cities. Each is geographically small, are their own county and thus don’t benefit from suburban resources, lots of race- and policy-driven concentrated disadvantage & disinvestment.

(Side note: As a journalist I am still shocked by how quickly the attack on the CDC was set aside. How rarely I have read the name David Rose in the past few months is for me a pretty good indicator of how much a large swathe of US media has failed to meet this moment.)

Can anyone think of a death rate from ANY cause in a major city drop by ~40/100K population per year over a 3-year period? St Louis and Baltimore did what many thought couldn’t be done to lower their homicide rates. 👏👏🙌

A new report from researchers at the Yale School of Public Health warns that the U.S. government’s abrupt cancellation of funding for mRNA vaccine research could have devastating health and economic consequences for the nation.