No. You don’t get the skater with facial piercings and weird hair. You get country singers named Bunt Gruntley and Mormon wife influencers with poorly done extensions and that’s what you get. Sorry

What problem is Trump's new global 10% tariff meant to solve? If it's about leverage, ask: How much leverage do you get from a tariff that disappears in 150 days? If it's onshoring: Who builds new factories based on tariff that disappear before the factory is built? It's a tax. That's all it is.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

OK I finally read the Verge piece on Stancil and god it's f'ing annoying. I can't believe an editor let it through. As someone who has tracked reactions to Will, it's just very clear what went on here: Will himself is affable & earnest & engaged in something obviously virtuous, but ...

3/ The SAVE system had at least a 14% error rate in one Texas county, as reported here. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/13/s...

Guy who oversaw large-scale abuses of power answers to serial assaulter and boyfriend of the DHS Secretary, not actual boss

I received notification of yet another death at an ICE facility, meaning 38 people have died in custody since Trump returned to office. ICE is failing to ensure the health and safety of the people it is responsible for. We need immediate oversight of this entire operation.

CATO: “.. In short, seven independent research teams have now examined the “who’s paying” question and have reached essentially the same answer: We are.” @cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/white-h...

Watch, listen, shed a tear, and pass it on.

Wrote this in 2020: newrepublic.com/article/1561...

"What do I think of the Board of Peace? I think it is a colonialist operation: others deciding for the Palestinians." -Cardinal Pizzaballa, Latin patriarch of Jerusalem

I’m skipping the State of the Union. I won’t normalize Trump’s corrupt, authoritarian regime. Instead, I’ll be joined by Sonia, whose loved one Yari has been detained by ICE for a year. Watch with @meidastouch.com + @moveon.org next Tuesday: MoveOn.org/Live

This is how "detention centers" become death camps. This is historically how regimes create death camps in a straightforward progression: 1 Detain people 2 Let detainment centers get full 3 People start getting sick/dying 4 Start murdering detainees pre-emptively (claim health reasons) We're at #3

You need ID to pet your neighbor’s dog. You need ID to mumble lyrics while waiting for a bus. You need ID to put mayo on French fries. You need ID to quote Anchorman to your parents. You need ID to do the electric slide. You need ID to go back and wander the paths of Mirkwood. So the President thi

AEW fans are again chant "F*ck ICE! F*ck ICE!" in response to Brody King during tonight's show in Sacramento

We’re excited to announce our pre-primary Texas Supreme Court endorsements! Justice Maggie Ellis and Judge Kristen Brauchle Hawkins bring a deep commitment for their communities to the courtroom, and their election is critical in defending Texans’ constitutional rights.

Host: "Anger over Pretti's death and the killing of Renee Good has catalyzed state lawmakers to take matters into their own hands. A new bill introduced today would allow US citizens to sue ICE agents if their constitutional rights are violated."

Go birds

Ramadan Mubarak to all who are celebrating the blessed month of Ramadan. I wish you and your loved ones a prosperous and peaceful month of reflection.

The claim that America’s European alliances are all charity isn’t just wrong in the sense that we get nothing out of it. It’s also wrong in the sense that we’re just giving and our allies are just receiving.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

The SAVE Act turns missing paperwork into a reason to doubt your citizenship. If you cannot quickly produce a passport or birth certificate, your registration is at risk. It quietly shifts the burden of proof onto voters instead of catching rare bad actors. #Sheshed

I'm writing about the rapid spread of Epstein-related misinformation. If you are in social media groups where people are making unsubstantiated claims and/or confusing documented communications with uncorroborated FBI tips, please DM me or reach out on email or Signal. Contact info in my bio. TY!

They're coming for adult care and they're explicit about it.

More here. www.startribune.com/carlyle-grou...

Blue Owl is the private equity fund that owns part of the Timberwolves & Lynx AND in invested in the new ICE concentration camps. My guess is they are going to have to pick one or the other!

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

In a new co-authored research paper, Prof. Mitu Gulati finds that an elite group of attorneys have an outsized success rate in getting certiorari granted at #SCOTUS.

Here’s the video that CBS banned at Trump’s demand. This might be the video that will help the democrats take control #Midterms

We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.

NEW: Denver’s Auditor says he will not countersign Mayor Johnston’s unilateral contract with Flock that bypassed City Council approval. The Mayor says he doesn’t need the Auditor’s approval. 9NEWS has reported Denver is looking to replace Flock with another company anyway.

Tomorrow, I’m leading a deposition of Les Wexner for oversight dems. Wexner was Epstein’s largest benefactor and contributor of wealth. Why? And what does he know? I have a bunch of questions, and I bet you do too.👇🏾

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

Trump 'clown show' & racist post REBUKED by Obama! Brian Tyler Cohen discusses his wide-ranging interview with President Obama on The Beat with Ari Melber www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAOk...

I obtained a copy of Gisèle Pelicot's wrenching, remarkable memoir of how she approached the historic 2024 trial against her husband, who had her drugged and raped by dozens of men for years, for @ms.now:

I identified four (4) NBA teams part-owned by a firm that sold a property to the Department of Homeland Security for a planned ICE detention center. And I explain why more owners could follow in the warehouse to megajail business. it's the new [eyeblack]:

As @projectsaleos.bsky.social reported on Friday, GEO just got a huge boost via a complex Navy procurement system tapped to disburse most of the $45 billion it got last year — allowing ICE to give it contracts with no competitive bids. Notably, GEO's competitors did not get similar treatment.

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

We are all deeply concerned that Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan’s health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE’s monstrous cruelty. I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them.

Juan’s mom went in front of an immigration judge this morning. She was told she will be deported, but was not told when or where. Both Juan and his mom are back at Dilley and their future remains uncertain.

Me and my team have been in contact with Juan’s family. Juan has bronchitis—according to his mom—and at some point in the last several hours he was unresponsive. Juan was still discharged from the hospital despite that around midnight today.

I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.

A two month old-detained in the ICE concentration camp at Dilley-was rushed to the hospital this weekend The boy’s extreme youth made him particularly vulnerable in a prison setting Worse, they knew he was sick-and couldn’t care for him-because the facility didn’t even have a doctor ABOLISH ICE

Reuters: New Mexico lawmakers on Monday passed legislation to launch what they said was the first full investigation into what happened at Zorro Ranch, where the late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually assaulting girls and women.

Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

"It really has to sting for Bari. The person she wanted for the Evening News anchor chair is choosing to leave CBS altogether because of her," one CBS News staffer told me tonight. "This is 'fuck you' to Bari."

The land registration process will apply to Area C of the occupied West Bank, which is under complete Israeli control.

"In a withering opinion Monday, Judge Cynthia Rufe invoked George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” saying the administration had attacked the concept of truth itself as it sought to erase details of America’s legacy of slavery." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

"Increasing AI productivity will actually make our society worse."- Geoffrey Hinton

It's also part of a very direct negation of the latest stupid tweet by Musk: people have given so much, two of them their lives, to defend a multicultural city and the rights of people not exactly like them. And that multiculturalism is American culture.