THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY. I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

The current situation in one graphic. ProPublica is tracking the volume of habeas petitions by state and court, as they overwhelm legal advocates and government attorneys. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

idk i think in a time when it feels like nothing matters & all is futile it might actually be time to double down and write your stories & make your paintings & sing your songs & do your art. create the things that make us human and share them.

If they can do this to find a dog, they can do this to find anyone. That’s terrifying.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

No children in camps!! Public health and medical colleagues we need to keep speaking up! No camps. No more families torn apart and mistreated. End this now!

Anne Frank died from a typhus epidemic that spread through the concentration camp where she was imprisoned.

Renee Good's widow shared this statement with us today. It's absolutely heart-wrenching. 💔

6.6% of adults in the United States are immunocompromised. They clearly want us dead. No matter what my public health colleagues say about "collaborating with MAHA", MAHA is an explicitly eugenicist ideology that has as a goal the destruction of disabled people.

He's disabled. They're going to murder him because he's disabled.

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

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.

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

CORRECTION: This is happening February 11th at 5pm EDT. See info below...

Someone made an actually-organized version of this!!

Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

Jailing journalists. Murdering protesters. Calling for a political party to run elections. Democratic backsliding should be the top story on every single news outlet right now. This is not normal. We cannot let it feel normal. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Just as a quick note while we discuss all the new (and familiar) names in the Epstein files: be careful about saying "everyone knows" about prominent people who are predators. People new to the field, people less connected (often marginalized folks), people who are adjacent, etc. may not know.

A newborn in Minneapolis hadn’t eaten for a day and a half. ICE agents took her mother when she went to work, trying to make money for diapers. Her 16-year-old and Bri, a local mother of two, saved that baby's life. @chabeli.bsky.social tells their story

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

As far as we know, the primary cause of death in ICE custody is a refusal to provide medical care. It’s a form of structural violence and extremely common component of eugenics and ethnic cleansings.

For Renee Good "We haven't forgotten you— not the blood, not the plushies in the glove box, not the voice that called out like ours..."

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

This is Nathan Wolfe. Nathan is a virus hunter. Nathan has a bit of a reputation. Through the years, I've told multiple journalists stories I've heard, like "Nathan thanks Jeffrey Epstein in his book." Somehow no one ever wrote anything up. Want to see what Nathan was up to in today's Epstein files?

Federal agents fired pepperballs on journalists and peaceful protesters in Eugene, OR on Tuesday. Check out my interview with student journalist Agostinho Da Silva. Despite clear press identification, he was shot six times. Subscribe to Last Week in Hell to support more work like this.

They're coming for gay marriage

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist in Minnesota, was also among those arrested. In her video, she says that she was told by the agents who came to her door that this came out of a grand jury.

Did you know baby shampoo is mild enough, when used with water, to rinse eyes if they've been sprayed? Like when walking on or around ICE? We need to be careful and listen to this ophthalmologist about pepper spray. #ProudBlue 📹: drglaucomflecken/TT (a.k.a. Dr. William Flannary)

Jesus fucking holy hell. This is what you should get loud about. If you have any Republican representatives, call them now -and repeatedly. Do what you can to stop this from passing. This is a nightmare.

Happening now: Candlelight vigil for Alex Pretti in Eugene, organized by healthcare workers of Oregon. Alex was murdered by ICE

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

It's the end of the month. Lots of folks haven't been able to work all month because of ICE. They will be evicted in a few days. @governorwalz.mn.gov could stop this right now.

McSweeney’s has gone feral.

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

“Just following orders,” huh?

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

This is his obsession. He has been a virulent xenophobe since he was in high school. The violence in Minneapolis and around the country by ICE is Steven Miller's doing. He must go. NOW. This is the basic fundamental requirement at this point to stop this.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.