The two animals chosen as the mascots of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are stoats, a weasel-like animal that’s at risk because of climate change.

Anyway, a reminder that the Massachusetts Department of Correction has a 287(g) agreement with ICE. It would sure be great if @massgovernor.bsky.social could do something about it.

Bondi Spying On Congressional Epstein Searches Should Be A Major Scandal Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Among the more notable exchanges was when Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked some of Jeffrey Epstein's victims who were in the audience to stand up…

I lived in El Paso until I was 12 and then lived in a very small town, Alpine. For our district debate tournament in high school, we went to El Paso. And I swear to god, the teacher gave us a safety lecture about putting our money in our shoes and never walking without a male companion....

It's true! Right-wingers really do start to believe their own bullshit about big cities. I remember when my parents first visited me in NYC. They were legit terrified of the subway. When they got on and saw how normal it was, they were genuinely shocked. www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...

We have issued a correction for our originally posted incident: mn-ice-witness.org/entry/2026-0... Canister identified by munitions experts as Defense Technology "Pocket Tactical Green Smoke," not hexachloroethane. See full correction in incident listing.

Tired: Getting mad at Pam Bondi for high school theater-level theatrics at a hearing Wired: Getting mad at Pam Bondi for letting the Ticketmaster monopoly continue and settling the case that would break it up. From me: prospect.org/2026/02/12/t...

CNBC: What about the horrific conditions in DHS detention centers? Do they need to be looked at? REP. JASON SMITH: I'm sure those conditions never existed under Biden or Obama CNBC: I'm sorry, sir. I'm not asking about Biden. I'm asking about conditions right now. I think it's a natl embarrassment

If the government can take away your voting rights for a felony conviction, and they also decide what constitutes a felony, and they also decide who’s charged with the felony, and they also decide who’s prosecuted for the felony, you don’t have a right to vote.

Everybody stop what you're doing and look at this cat I'm sitting

My conversation with the White House's special election cybersecurity expert included allegations about poison soda, medical experimentation, "Satanists," and a moment where it sounded like he began to cry. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Trying to figure out whether this has ever happened before. I doubt there any official statistics so it would have to be an anecdotal historical example, but not a single person voting for the indictment strikes me as unprecedented.

It's one thing to get a "no true bill." It's quite another to get *shut out* in the grand jury.

My teenage nephew just experienced his first breakup/heart break. I told my sister this is where his villain story starts if you don't help him through it.

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote. The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

The SAVE act will not pass the Senate. They need 60 votes and they do not have it. Just to be abundantly clear.

This is beautiful. Thank you, @laurajedeed.bsky.social , and thank you to everyone who was interviewed.

In case you missed those photos from the Epstein files:

BREAKING: Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, blocks the Trump admin's efforts to transfer people whose death sentences Biden commuted to the "most restrictive prison in the federal system" (ADX Florence) — regardless of individualized assessments — during litigation.

I know some of yall are ride or die AI fans but thats the reason for the spike in electricity bills. There are 79 ai hubs in Indiana. With almost half of them being in Indianapolis. And all of our bills have increased :-))))

This whole thread (from a didn’t-used-to-be-immigration lawyer in Minnesota) is worth reading, but I’m specifically sharing the posts surrounding the one for my many health folks. This is what the resistance against ICE is fighting to save people from.

stupid and cruel - She bounced a $25 check in 2014. ICE tried to deport her. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

"C'mon kids, I know we own homes you couldn't dream of. We've even grandfathered in our property tax rate so we only pay 20% of what you'd pay in taxes - if you could ever afford to buy. But won't you please think of the millionaire boomers? Can't you pay higher taxes so we can take even more?"

Ashley Hinson has now voted multiple times to keep Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs in place — tariffs that have slammed Iowa farmers, squeezed our ag economy, and raised prices on hardworking families and retirees.

Womp, as they say, womp

Canada and Massachusetts do $16 billion in trade every year. Trump's tariffs have only made housing and energy more expensive in the Commonwealth. Time for them to end.

One way to keep our community safe is by eliminating minority and immigrant profiling kept in the BRIC database @wutrain.bsky.social boltsmag.org/boston-polic...

Boston is a home for everyone. Know your rights and help keep your community safe. Find more information at miracoalition.org/KYR.

When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

Pam Bondi brought a document to the Judiciary Committee today that had my search history of the Epstein files on it. The DOJ is spying on members of Congress. It’s a disgrace and I won’t stand for it.

This story is fucking insane

WATCH: “In any remotely sane political climate she would be impeached, fired, or just have the good sense to resign in disgrace,” says Chris Hayes on Attorney General Pam Bondi.

This kind of small scale work actually matters in creating the societal pressure we need to exert on these creeps. Consequences.

Please do not praise Fox News reporters. If they were good at their jobs they would work somewhere besides the racism factory

Rep. Subramanyam on the SAVE Act: This bill makes it harder for military members who move a lot to vote, for Americans impacted by natural disasters who have lost documents, and for the nearly 70 million women who changed their name after marriage whose IDs do not match their birth certificate

AOC: We all saw the performance Bondi had. She was screaming and crashing, and I think it’s because she knows she is implicated in a massive cover-up to protect a ring of pedophiles through:

They say any half-DECENT prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich. Silver lining in Trump’s DOJ? They don't even have that. After failing to indict 6 Dems for reminding troops to refuse illegal orders—they’re left blustering. Kelly & Slotkin’s response says it all: Speak Truth to power—not backing down.

I can’t take Democrats seriously when they claim to oppose the GOP’s SAVE Act and voter suppression—yet tolerate it in their own backyard. But make no mistake: this bill must be defeated. Organize. Mobilize. Kill it in the SENATE before it kills the vote.

As a Black man covering Boston politics for 25+yrs, I can’t take Dems seriously when claiming to oppose GOP-led SAVE Act & voter suppression —or push back against Bannon’s call to flood polls w/ ICE agents. Cops at poll places shouldn’t be ok in “Boston‑only” —it’s voter intimidation plain & simple.

Trump didn’t really TACO. Homan didn’t change tactics. They just wanted the media to look away

With MA hosting the World Cup, everything #NoBostonOlympics said would happen if we hosted the Olympics is coming true (on a smaller scale) (but also maybe with ICE seizing fans) @gintautasd.bsky.social

IMAGINE if the white politicians also spoke like this. If they dared to stand with others rather than constantly calculating how many people they can sacrifice to win over the "moderate" right.

The Pentagon has told a second aircraft carrier strike group to prepare to deploy to the Middle East as the U.S. military prepares for a potential attack on Iran, three U.S. officials tell WSJ.

The most effective way to avoid a "nightmare scenario" is for Dems to blow out the GOP, rather than twisting ourselves into knots and declaring the election is going to be stolen, so why bother.

Putting aside that the old House doesn't seat the new House, the buy-in for a conspiracy like this would have to be massive. It would take thousands of polling places giving up ballots, nearly every state-level official going along with it, and likely require tens of thousands of armed enforcers.

She’s playing to an audience of one, and he probably thinks this is going well.