Great piece from @skennedy2504.myatproto.social on the disturbing likelihood that we are dealing with a Supreme Court staffed by justices whose only contact with the larger world is through the filter of right wing partisan media.

Being in the reality-based community is good, actually

I said DON'T panic

lol

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind. This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine. Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

“The danger is not confined to any one doctrine or term. It lies in the normalization of a judiciary that no longer sees, hears, or understands the country as it actually exists—and therefore cannot meaningfully claim to judge it” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

also www.thedailybeast.com/anti-cancel-...

“The danger is not confined to any one doctrine or term. It lies in the normalization of a judiciary that no longer sees, hears, or understands the country as it actually exists—and therefore cannot meaningfully claim to judge it” @LiberalCurrents www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

"What most distinguishes the present Supreme Court is not merely its conservatism, or even its willingness to roll back settled rights. It is the degree to which the conservative majority appears severed from shared facts altogether. This is not accidental." www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

Trumpworld assumed MAGA-adjacent parts of the culture would thrill to ICE brutality. ICE recruits among fans of UFC, Nascar, military tactical equipment. But even MAGA-friendly constituencies and parts of the culture are now rejecting ICE and mass deportations. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2062...

No! ...no!!!

We truly live in the stupidest timeline www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

The Republican war on kids

Steve Kennedy today on Fox News conservatism at the highest levels of power

Amazon has been planning to turn consumer Ring cameras into their own private network was the plan all this time. They even planned the whole lost dog feature in 2019: www.cnet.com/tech/service...

The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

I recommend this interview with @interfluidity.com on the first point www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...

The changes of our times go beyond Trump or Brexit or any particular figure or national event. Nor is ours a time of reduced support for liberalism. Instead, writes @polphilpod.bsky.social, the center-right worldwide is collapsing into fascism, while liberals consolidate the opposing political bloc.

And to be clear, it isn’t at all certain what’s happening. No one doubts individual officers are friendly with ICE. But a policy change to work more closely with feds, if it happened, would be a historic and dangerous misread of the public mood - literally negotiating with terrorists.

It’s not totally clear to me what’s happening, but the suspicion is that law enforcement has essentially made a deal with ICE - they’ve accepted Homan’s blackmail offer. The problem is that this is how you end up doing 2020 again. It would be extremely foolish. Law enforcement needs to stay out.

Yes: one of the things that has kept protests peaceful is that the insider/outsider dynamic was so pronounced. The feds were invaders; local and state police were separate and not really against us. What we’ve seen in the last couple days feels like the sheriff and state patrol switching sides.

I just want a nice night on the internet ca 2014 when you could think about Denver Airport conspiracy theories without worrying that maybe they were right

“When our country grew tired of the broken people it called heroes, they went to Alex Pretti at the VA. He found them on their worst day and asked them, “are you okay?”” www.liberalcurrents.com/he-served-th...

The actual point of football is to score touchdowns, and I think the sport has made some efforts to improve player safety (though more are needed). But there are people (Trump) for whom violence and injury are the point. With that in mind, re-upping this www.liberalcurrents.com/merry-christ...

Our publication specifically will do our part by laying out not only the path to taking power, but what to do once we have it www.liberalcurrents.com/a-preview-of...

We intend to win the narrative, win the politics, win the power of the state and then win by using it effectively and energetically www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...

Our theory of victory is emphatically NOT one involving “a tent big enough for bigots but too small for critical race theorists,” to quote @victorerikray.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/a-tent-big-e...

Hey man. You work at a newspaper. Have some self respect and try to write at least one sentence that doesn’t feel like sandpaper on my eyeballs.

ICE chief counsel in Minnesota leaves his job amid burnout and dissent

Daily Mail sent one of their propagandists to do the equivalent of the Stalin gulag tour in Minneapolis I see (though “documenting” arrests rather than the detention center)

For the Sunday morning crowd 👇 🧵

Aside from being a lie about how they behave when Democrats are in power, this has to be the most pathetic and “strongly worded letter” vision of politics imaginable www.liberalcurrents.com/s/

Ordinary Americans and the press gave us the understanding of free speech we have today. The founding generation of political leadership didn’t actually see criticism of government as protected by and large; it was “sedition.” But the press fought tooth and nail and the understanding changed.

Every word of this essay from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com on how we beat the fash and rebuild a new America is, characteristically, solid gold. www.liberalcurrents.com/from-powerle...

Here's an idea, why don't you fuck right off

LOL eat shit

Lots of details in this NYT report on MN US Attorney's office, including that Greg Bovino described he was going to "put it down" in MN. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

I know I’ve posted this piece a lot, but it’s about so many of the things that matter most to me, especially the relationship of empathy to democracy. I hope you’ll read it. www.liberalcurrents.com/none-more-wo...

Can't wait to add this KSTP interview to the "And Magda Goebbels made a great strudel" local media list of softball ICE interviews and profiles www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-doing...

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Here’s @gawattia.bsky.social on Trump, Humboldt, and censorship

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

Just putting it out there to the universe that I am willing to star *as* Charles Murray in a mockumentary of his life.

“.. farmers are increasingly dependent on federal support to pay their bills – while also taking on record levels of debt .. “..Without government payments, net farm income this year would fall nearly 12% ..” 👀 @scottlincicome.bsky.social farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2026/02/farm...

BREAKING: New reaction from Leader Jeffries to the racist Trump video: "This disgusting video posted by the so-called president was done intentionally. Fuck Donald Trump and his vile, racist, and malignant behavior. This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder."

Don't forget to listen to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social!