Lovely.

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

Love this Mark Twain quote @jonkingnews.bsky.social included in today's @michiganadvance.com "Weekend at a Glance" newsletter. "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

GEO Group operates the largest detention center in the Midwest near Baldwin, MI. Profits for the private prison contractor went up 700% last year over 2024.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter

This also came up in very similar language in the now-famous “this job sucks, please find me in contempt so I can sleep” hearing. The judge was kind of like, “When you say it’s a lot of work to follow due process, you realize I kind of don’t care, yes?” But said it nicer.

i cannot stress this enough, as a transplant, the marouns fucking SUCK & you learn all the ways in which they suck very quickly

You can't make this stuff up. A Highland Park (MI) cop blows through a red light while messing with their dash cam, crashing into another HP cop. One officer injured, both cars destroyed. This is the system we rely on for traffic safety and safe streets.

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"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

I wish people outside of Detroit knew how fucking awful the Marouns are. They are the only reason Canada had to foot the bill!!

NEW via me and @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social: Cardinal Blase Cupich, who runs the Archdiocese of Chicago, says that DHS has stopped priests under his purview and demanded proof of citizenship “because of their color.” religionnews.com/2026/02/10/c...

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

it's all been building to this since he told brant what's up ten years ago

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

once my son woke me up to ask what a three dimensional hexagon was called. yes, please. ask me about the gay instead.

Via @yonat.bsky.social: 140 rabbis train in Washington on how to resist authoritarian governments, ICE —> religionnews.com/2026/02/09/r...

who wants to guess

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Online betting sites shouldn’t be able to advertise. You should have to learn about them through your unreliable uncle or your friend’s older brother who should really be hanging out with people his own age.

You need yourself, you need your neighbors, you need a functioning public sector. It’s not that complicated!

I don’t believe there is a god, but when Benito said “God bless America,” I was moved nonetheless. All I want is for everyone to just live how they want to, and let others do the same while causing as little harm as possible. Is that too much to ask for?

Introduce an Alex Pretti remembrance bill that claws back funding and gives it to VA hospitals instead for example

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

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you personally have the ability to secure elections for yourself and your neighbors.

anyway i know how many of you hate that i’m so vocal about this and think it makes me a naive shitlib or whatever. but again, i think the best thing you could do for yourself here is to get involved in election administration where you live.

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

“Your mountainish inhumanity” We’re doing this to ourselves

Getting rid of your photojournalists is a good sign that you’re turning to takes and not reporting as your bread and butter.

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The thing I keep circling back to is that, when Bezos originally bought the Post, it legit seemed like the least-bad option. The expectation was that billionaires would treat media outlets like they do sports franchises — something to boast about owning, as a form of expensive status.

I’ve been using the CIA World Factbook online since I was a little kid. What a stupid, pointless desecration.

NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

The cycle from Amazon killing bookstores to Bezos axing the books section of the Post is something

No one can be trusted with the general federal police state. Left, right, or center. The nature of the institution fosters abuse of power under the guise of the asserted morality of those in momentary control of it. The federal police power needs to be strictly limited, as the Framers intended.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

This whole thing where billionaires snap up media properties so they can run them into the ground to make it harder for people to call them and their cronies to account is extremely obvious and very tiresome. It also limits our access to largr information about culture and the world, also by design.

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Arrest him.

The SCOTUS case that, for the first time in US history, found an individual right to own a gun in the 2ndA, struck down a gun ban in… Washington, DC. “DC vs Heller.”

An Oscar-nominated Iranian screenwriter behind “It Was Just an Accident" was arrested in Tehran weeks before the awards. His arrest comes days after signing a statement condemning Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the regime’s violent crackdown on protesters.

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

In retrospect, “When you’re a star, they let you do it; you can do anything” was the truest thing he ever said.

Remember when "Sunday scaries" meant "I don't feel like working tomorrow" instead of like "Trump is destroying a cornerstone of DC cultural infrastructure" and "the concentration camp for kids has a measles outbreak" and "most wealthy and famous straight men are pedophilic monsters"?

Liam Conejo Ramos is not alone. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...