“The main event is this: the world is building optionality away from U.S. policy and platform dependence. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it — because it’s showing up in procurement decisions, supply chains, defense budgets, and capital flows”

The US government is shut down again. I mention this only because if some place like Canada were to come down and run things, we could certainly use the help. We’ll leave the door unlocked.

This is why winning the midterms itself isn't a strategy. Trump plans to ignore the results. Acknowledging this doesn't make you a doomer, but it does mean you have to plan for worst case scenarios. We gotta be ready, especially since they're telling us the plan outright.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Believe your own eyes. Nothing about this is normal. Trump and his goon squad are trying to undermine a fundamental principle of our democracy: free and fair elections.

This is what we've been warning about. I dont know what more people need to WAKE UP!!

LONG ISLAND FIREFIGHTERS VS ICE EXCUSE ME WHAT IS HAPPENING

170 children are in ICE custody on an average day. Bring every single one of them home.

It really feels like all of our theories of conspiracy are coalescing.

Quite a kicker here @nikobowie.bsky.social

When historians reflect on this regime, cruelty will be the word most often used to define it. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Leading scholar and professor on authoritarianism and author of “On Tyranny,” Tim Snyder is warning us about ethnic cleansing. He fled from the USA upon 2024 election results & the soon-thereafter assault on educators and our educational institutions. Are we clear, yet? 🆘🇺🇸⏰

This would be akin to President Biden speaking to the FBI agents right before they searched Mar-a-Lago. I'm sure Republicans would have been totally fine with that.

In this week’s newsletter: Fighting for Congress’s right to inspect immigration detention centers, seeking transparency about ICE’s tactics, and demanding answers about Trump’s records. americanoversight.org/newsletter/k...

Trump posted screenshots that suggest he is using a disappearing messaging app to communicate with foreign leaders. We asked for confirmation that these messages are being properly preserved and maintained, as required by federal law. americanoversight.org/demanding-an...

Well well well. Looks like they were correct. They just lied about who it was.

Veterans, people aging out of foster care, and parents of teenagers are just a few of the groups who will face dire consequences from work requirements for people receiving SNAP benefits, which took effect in several states across the country on Sunday.

I am finally fully recovered from food poisoning and back to work. I'm working on a piece that I've been trying to complete for months and, knock on wood, it will be out in time for the one year anniversary of my rolling stone piece tomorrow. www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wa...

"Classes have been called off in the Columbia Heights school district today due to what officials are calling a bomb threat. The closure comes as 5-year-old preschool student Liam Conejo Ramos & his father from Columbia Heights were released from an ICE detention center in Texas and returned to MN."

Since a lot of the coverage is omitting this detail: The Kennedy Center HAD a $250 million renovation and expansion just a few years ago, in 2019.

This is the kind of fight we need from opposition leaders. Thank you Chicago!

We are living through one of the most shameful and dark periods in American history.

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

That Bad Bunny speech really got me. Amen.

I've been a critic of NYT for two decades--sometimes as a job--but I don't have monolithic view. There are great reporters working there. Headline writers, not so much. This is actively misleading. By framing it as a question it takes a side, asserting that he wants to w/out plausible evidence.

NEW: EXCLUSIVE: I spoke with one of the anonymous tipsters from this last dump of Epstein Files. Trump trafficked girls to Epstein and Maxwell through his modeling agency. You can watch here, no paywalls. Ever. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

And while I understand it's gauche to mention stuff like this in 2026 I do think it's worth noting that he has no legal authority whatsoever to do this bsky.app/profile/verm...

Shut it fucking down

Newly released U.S. Justice Department filings in the Jeffrey Epstein case describe the financier as a “wealth manager” for Vladimir Putin. The claim comes from an FBI report dated Nov. 27, 2017. Putin is mentioned 1,055 times in the documents; “Russia” 5,876. ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/01/v...

Children wouldn’t be protesting state sanctioned violence & systemic, systematic dismantling of our constitutional rts if it did not exist. We are deep into the throes of tyranny where *everyone* is affected, attending protests or not. Zero tolerance for vilifying victims. 🛑

For all my fellow gardeners who also get weird looks from neighbors & passersby, a little science to justify talking to your #plants and #pollinators, #invertebrates and #wildlife friends. 🐛👂🥰🤓 #gardening #SmallJoys #TIL 🌱 www.popsci.com/environment/...

“America cannot survive as a free society if ICE and CBP continue to operate as they have over the last year — let alone as both agencies are turbocharged and empowered with even more funding, more officers, more guns, and more arrests." Garrett Graff www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

death from disease in concentration camps is so widespread and so predictable that it's pretty clearly a feature, not a bug.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

The hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that's more powerful than hate is love, so, please, we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. If we don't hate them, we love our people, and we love our family. And that's the way to do it, with love.”

Also, I want to say to the people...I know it's tough not to hate on these days, and I was thinking sometimes we get contaminamos....

Bad Bunny at the Grammy Awards: “We're not savage. We're not animals. We're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.... revkin.substack.com/p/musicians-...

Transcript of the above Bad Bunny acceptance speech video:

Full Bad Bunny speech

Bad Bunny: Before I say thanks to God, I'm going to say, ICE out. We're not savages, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans.

The nighttime protest at PDX ICE facility is now huge after ICE tear gassed children yesterday.

To paraphrase Carrie Fisher, things are getting worse faster than we can lower our standards.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

Billie Eilish used her acceptance speech to say: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” And CBS censored her when she said “Fuck ICE.”

SHABOOZEY: “Immigrants built this country.”

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..." slate.com/news-and-pol...