Y’all think these are dance moves when they really are tactical maneuvers for when they are deployed to suppress us. But keep thinking it’s cute to watch how deftly robots dance.

Required reading. “This is not just the worst mass killing in the contemporary history of Iran,” said Mr. Akhavan, now a human rights lawyer and a co-founder of the Iran Human Rights Doc. Center. “It is one of the worst mass killings in contemporary world history.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Impunity 101 The good news: Canada ruled against a Guatemalan ex-military officer, calling his actions in the horrific 1982 #DosErres massacre “crimes against humanity.” The bad news: Canada refused to use its own War Crimes Act, so the ruling strips his citizenship and kicks him out of Canada.

This guy gets it.

The FOIA strikes again! Excellent reporting, great collab. Don’t believe the DHS lies.

Protesters were outside hotel in Washington demanding the release of political prisoners in Azerbaijan

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...

looks like Mamdani is gonna get his rent freeze this year after all. big news on the housing beat from @smaldo.bsky.social:

They are OBSESSED with this man.

‘From one perspective, the Trump administration is taking up the practices once enabled by the McCarran-Walter Act, but with MAGA’s prejudices, conspiracy theories and obsessions substituted for those of the Cold War.’ @jameeljaffer.bsky.social on ideological exclusion www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors. youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40

😭😭😭 a community member just handed this off to a patroller in our neighborhood

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Myself and @sesmith.lol and others were interviewed for the Lancet’s obituary of our friend Alice. <3

They keep changing tactics but keep kidnapping my neighbors. Every time they claim they’re drawing down things get a little worse.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Wednesday unveiled a statewide portal for residents to upload photos and videos of federal immigration activity, as her administration moves to more aggressively scrutinize the work of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

For crying out loud #ColumbiaUniversity Really???!! careerdesignlab.sps.columbia.edu/events/2026/...

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

interviewed Ramirez about her plans to dismantle DHS, abolish ICE, and put money towards housing and health care for communities ICE is terrorizing. www.publicnotice.co/p/delia-rami...

“NY sanctuary laws are not enough currently to prevent collusion between local police and ICE, and we need to ensure there is no data sharing occurring whatsoever among those agencies,” says S.T.O.P.’s Will Owen. Read more. documentedny.com/2026/02/05/n...

Stunning investigation into the ICE surge everywhere all at once. ICE-watchers, start taking notes.

Congressmember @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social criticizes conditions at an ICE jail in Texas where hundreds of immigrant families are held — including kids as young as 2 months old. "None of them have committed any crime. … There’s cameras everywhere. Their movements are controlled. It’s like prison."

Last September, Silverio Villegas was gunned down by an ICE officer near Franklin Park, Chicago. The United States has already forgotten his name. Even the New York Times, the paper of record, recently identified him only as “a Mexican immigrant.” #CentralAmericaLens beta.elfaro.net/en/ef-photo-...

The Trump admin continues to refine the unitary voice of his authoritarianism. Now, all State Department tweets dating before Jan. 20, 2025 - including from embassies, consulates, ambassadors, bureaus and programs - will be deleted. www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n...

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

people not in MN cannot comprehend how hating ICE is now a core cultural component of being Minnesotan. it’s babe the big blue ox, loons, hot dish, and ICE OUT NOW

Master class on ICE and Border Patrol from @vermontgmg.bsky.social (available at @motherjones.com) There’s so much here but love this point: “Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005. …

28 days, 28 Black librarians. So many awesome women here. H/t @prisonculture.bsky.social oaklandlibrary.org/blogs/post/2...

Trump Administration Doesn't Want Us to Call Medgar Evers' Racist Assassin a 'Racist'

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

🚨 URGENTE | #CasoDosErres La Corte Federal de Canadá revocó la ciudadanía a Jorge Vinicio Sosa Orantes, exmilitar señalado como responsable de la masacre de Dos Erres (1982).

Disappearing facts replaced with platitudes. “Though the World Factbook is gone, in the spirit of its global reach and legacy, we hope you will stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it… in person or virtually.” www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Trump wants to take over voting in at least 15 places FBI raid in Fulton County GA now fueling MAGA calls for election takeover there That would allow them to purge voters, cut polling places, limit early voting & challenge election results. Very scary for 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A dispatch from Surprise AZ where residents gathered to protest plans for a warehouse concentration camp in their community by @azrww.bsky.social “Despite this evidence of authoritarian power, it is possible for even the most local form of government to take a stand in the name of the people.”

Serious and scary stuff.

How Human Rights Watch Killed a Report Calling Israel’s Denial of Palestinians’ Right of Return a Crime Against Humanity open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

WOW: State leaders say NH Governor Kelly Ayotte lied about her knowledge of ICE's plan to build a giant human warehouse in the state. Documents obtained by @aclu-nh.bsky.social show the state government has known for weeks about the Merrimack facility bc ICE is actively pursuing legal approval.

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

Follow, watch, document, expose.

Some excellent lessons here for right here, right now jacobin.com/2026/02/arge...

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home. Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).

Take a minute. Open the linked court decision. Read. It’s 3 pages. Mic drop.

Terrifying. Madness. Observers have the right observe Protesters have the right to protest Journalists have the right to report And immigrants have the right to live their lives here in the USA without being hunted by goon squads

Trump is building a global gulag www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/w...

There is no reason any of these men need any of this gear. This entire situation is not only dangerous and illegal. It is absurd and stupid. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Excellent piece about ALL THE OTHER KILLINGS