Go WSJ

just forget this ever happened

and now I'm flushing U.S. public health down the toilet

Is this real?

How can I get gmail to stop offering to write my emails for me?

What, fire myself, what?

Homan can have his fig leaves, but the fact is the people of Minnesota drove ICE out.

This tracks with my longtime intuition as I watch luxury apartments go up in my inner-ring suburb. My perpetual "yes but" to YIMBY tenets. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/r...

My mother told my 6-year old sister that to get lamb chops, only "old lambs' were killed .

Yup, that's his party

"In the backrooms of MAGA-land, passing around under-age girls is a lot like passing around insider crypto deals." Krugman

We now have confirmation that the Social Circle warehouse cost ICE $130 million, bringing the total spent on warehouses to $714 million. ICE is also reportedly planning on buying a second warehouse in Oakwood, GA and is finalizing the sale now. Billions more will be spent on retrofitting/staffing.

I opened my eyes—and all the sea was ice-nine. The moist green earth was a blue-white pearl. The sky darkened. Borasisi, the sun, became a sickly yellow ball, tiny and cruel. The sky was filled with worms. The worms were tornadoes. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

Trump: Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane, I cannot taint with fear.

Stalingrad didn't last

read this thread these are the hardened criminals Stephen Miller, Trump, and ICE want to protect us from

Kudos to independent journalist Anna Oakes, who hung out in the Delaney Hall visitors' tent yesterday, the coldest day in years.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Good in depth coverage of lawless torture of lawfully present noncitizens

Every American needs to watch this:

How did 25 Delaney Hall detainees get a handwritten letter out, detailing their lawless treatment? www.lahuelga.com/elgrito

Lawfully present asylum seeker in Minnesota: ICE’s tactics, he said, are the ones used by government forces in Ethiopia: checkpoints, warrantless searches, profiling based on skin color or accent and arrests for nothing more than being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

WE HAVE AN UPSET BREWING FOLKS

Whoa. Analilia? www.njspotlightnews.org/2026/02/11th...

Brendan Gill also stood to gain from the AIPAC attacks and echoed them -- and he lost big. UDP, the AIPAC funding vehicle, has now set its sites on Chicago-area races -- may they lose big there too. jewishinsider.com/2026/02/illi...

NJ Monitor covers open letter from 25 Delaney Hall detainees

Delaney Hall detainees speak out in a letter co-signed by 25 www.nj.com/essex/2026/0...

Hey, is Cook's David "I've seen enough" Wasserman on BlueSky? Need a follow for NJ-11.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

It was always a sick, performative, coercive phoney shitshow.

From 25 Delaney Hall detainees: an open letter www.lahuelga.com/elgrito

With that said, I'm sure he's learned his lesson.

Whew

Apropos of nothing: This was on my mind, but I couldn't place it in CS Lewis's works. It's "Learning in Wartime," 1939 www.christendom.edu/wp-content/u...

cc Senate Dems writing conditions for DHS funding

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

Shakespeare's what? Oh... www.english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-b...

Tje day is coming when countries will compete for immigrants

Meanwhile, during all the delays, ICE agents are pressing detained individuals to self-deport, claiming they'll never get out otherwise. All AFTER the Court has ordered their release. And then when they are release, they're dumped on the side of the road, in 0° weather, in Crocs.

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

As a Christian literalist, C.S. Lewis was a Christian chauvinist, but he was also an astute observer and dramatizer of the dynamics of tyranny and its use of misinformation.

In case it's not obvious by now

One thing I learned from a friend at risk from the ICE rampage in Minneapolis: The whistles aren't just to bring more protestors to the scene. They are an active warning system. He goes out when no whistles are blowing.

Thread. We're being triggered -- channel it.

The headline should be, "DHS to keep 2,000 immigration officers in Minnesota." Instead, it seems the entirety of the traditional media went with, "DHS to withdraw 700 immigration officers from Minnesota." This presser worked like a charm.

Parsing my reaction to "Talking Filibuster Explainer": In 2009, that might have triggered a feeling like: Okay, true sports fans! Know the mysteries of our august gov bodies... Now it's yada yada, corrupt fascist flunkies may tap an arcane ritual from our self-parodying parliamentary procedures

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

As a voter in NJ-11, for some weeks I've had inappropriate campaign songs in my head for my top 2 candidates. For Malinowski, It's Anatevka, a rhythmic rhyme w/ Malinowski www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWiR... 1/

Just thinking that Murdoch never gutted the WSJ as Bezis os doing to WaPo