rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

not for nothing, but this is in direct contradiction to what microsoft's own research team says. once again, the hypebeasts are the problem.

Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!" Cool, cool.

Jason Statham is set to play Jason Statham in Jason Statham Stole My Bike, a new action-comedy from Bullet Train director David Leitch. Read more: www.empireonline.com/movies...

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New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...

Billionaires should be taxed out of existence because no one human being should possess the unilateral power to launch the kinds of environment-destroying and world-changing projects that billionaires can approve.

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

A man who was deported after being released from a Massachusetts state prison wonders how the state can justify working in partnership with ICE. “The governor has the power to hold back. But they played a role to allow this to happen to me.”

In the sci fi novel Mickey-7 Mickey is a historian, and when asked at one point why historians would be needed since everything is available on line, he points out that someone still has to read it.

The largest federal prison in the nation is Fort Dix, which has a rated capacity of 4,600 people. The largest of these warehouse camps may hold more than twice that number of people. The federal government hasn't operated a prison camp inside the United States that large since Japanese Internment.

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

HORRIFYING - Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025 🧸Most were children ⌛️ Many died within the first year 😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from: - HIV, TB, malaria - Maternal & fetal deaths - Malnutrition news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

Massie indicated today that he may read the names of Epstein’s redacted co-conspirators on the floor of the House or in Committee. If he does so, he will be protected from prosecution and/or lawsuits (like defamation) by the Speech and Debate clause of the Constitution. These guys know what’s up.

‘According to Heritage,… the government has to address multiple factors that “conspire” to drive down birth rates: “These include the proliferation of birth control, more prospects for women to receive higher education and work outside the home…”’ [@jessicavalenti.bsky.social is a careful reporter]

TJ Sabula, the @uaw.org worker who called Trump a “pedophile protector,”has kept his job and has no disciplinary record for speaking truth to power. The working class can beat the billionaires. I’m proud of my union for having TJ’s back.

It's absolutely an embarrassment that Governor Healey has not taken action to terminate the DOC's 287(g) agreement. She has proposed barring *future* agreements, but there are people being hurt right now.

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

does anyone else remember when the 2022 Super Bowl had so many crypto ads people were calling it the Crypto Bowl and then crypto just absolutely fucking tanked? anyway

I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.

This just has no relationship to crime or immigration and everything about state sponsored terrorism

VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.

Yeah this doesn’t look good at all www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Back at the start of the Trump II administration, it was disorienting to watch powerful law firms preemptively surrender and genuflect before the King Turns out it was because the people in charge were close friends with Epstein and were worried about getting outed www.ft.com/content/7001...

Democrats don't have the power to do this now, but every member of Congress and all the leading candidates for president should lean very hard into this message because it will crater ICE's already low morale, encourage defections and stop up their recruiting pipeline.

Every time. It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines. futurism.com/advanced-tra...

in real terms, #7 would give states leverage to put an end to surges, #8 would give states the ability to outright stop construction of new detention facilities, #1 and #6 would slow the rate at which DHS could train and deploy officers, #2 and #10 would likely shrink the pool of recruits

Seems real bad that the end point of ~25 years of War on Terror architecture is an agency of thin-skinned goons who will send armed men to your house if you email the government asking for compassion on behalf of someone else. newrepublic.com/post/206088/...

US House Democrats call for Kristi Noem’s firing in rally outside ICE headquarters missouriindependent.com/2026/02/03/r...

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

This is all pretense. They know they're going to lose big in November. So, they're preemptively establishing (false) claims and manufacturing (false) evidence. Which they'll use to justify (illegally) invalidating state election results and refusing to give up power.

I read this, and I almost regret it. What do you even do with the knowledge that Epstein wanted and was trying to engineer societal breakdown via far right populism bc he thought it would benefit his sex trafficking business?

Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.

Kids got off at the bus drop-off in Ypsilanti and their parents weren't there to pick them up because ICE kidnaped them

People just going out here saying the literal opposite of what happened. Thune caved! Thune did! This is a cave by Thune and Senate Republicans, any possible way you cut it.

Besides all the other ways this is stupid, I could at least appreciate this dedication if you were, say, curing cancer. You still shouldn't work like that even for good reasons, but at least your heart would be in the right place. This guy is sacrificing his life to build stupid shit no one wants!

www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history. “There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.” My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

The massive government funding package just failed badly in the Senate, 45-55. Needed 60. Zero Democrats voted for it. SEVEN Republicans opposed it: Budd Johnson Lee Paul Moody Rick Scott Tuberville (John Thune switched his vote to no for procedural reasons.)

“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack that are in the picture,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.” www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/u...

I love Maine and this is good for Maine. But it also deeply terrifying. ICE is being used for political retribution and to keep and gain political control.

Violent settlers in the West Bank are burning Palestinian villages & beating residents with impunity. These attacks have been met w/ silence from the Trump Admin & Netanyahu govt. US taxpayers shouldn't be giving the Netanyahu govt an annual $3 billion blank check for weapons. (1/2)

Young children are the chosen of Nurgle

“Unfortunately, Liam’s health is not doing great right now,” said Stenvik. “He’s been ill. I’ve been told he has a fever. So I’m very, very concerned about his well-being in that facility.”