This is an INCREDIBLY important podcast ep. It's long and inside basebally, but this is a hugely important force shaping our media and political reality right now. I really hope people will give it a serious listen, and if it's confusing or there are parts you disagree with, please ask questions.

"One of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire" "One of" "Ceasefire"

ICE can be abolished tomorrow. Not just reassigned or reorganized, but abolished. Politically maybe hard, but policy-wise pretty low-hanging fruit. But abolishing CBP is trickier, and likely requires some restructuring, more than just reassignment. It's time to start working that out now.

"[Money] decides which candidates get to run, which policies are thinkable, and whose voices get amplified or ignored. It has rewritten the rules of self-government—slowly, invisibly, and almost entirely within the law." This describes something other than "democracy." What is an accurate term?

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

It’s good for elected officials to rescue individual people who have made headlines. But people need to consider why they aren’t spending time actually fixing the underlying problems given that’s their primary job.

No respectable person would‘ve dared say “Wait for a more convenient time“ to try to bring Weinstein, Cosby, etc. to justice, so I’m unclear why this is still a socially accepted stance on Trump? “Impeach now” should be default—”We have to wait” is the stance that needs defending (it‘s indefensible)

It’s now been a few days since Schumer called up Trump, gave him advice on immigration, and made a deal with him. Not a single senate democrat has called for his resignation over this.

Once again, being an undocumented entry is a civil misdemeanor. Being an undocumented overstay is a civil infraction, not even a misdemeanor.

AI is literally a consent manufacturing machine.

Meeting in solidarity with Haitians in Springfield, Ohio now - over 600 people and still growing.

*blank stare* “Weaponized against us”—this person is confident that “us” couldn’t include me.

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:

"The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength." Amazing report from @crimethinc.com on the recent general strike in #Minneapolis. crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/c...

“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”

Alex Acosta should rot for all time.

All right indulge me for a moment because there’ll be a link to Fox at the end of this thread for sourcing purposes. But it’s valuable to see what the other side is saying. In short, they mix some actual facts in with some completely deranged fantasy. 🧵

That the Democrats never bothered to convert Reagan-era permission for Haitians to work and live in the US from temporary to permanent is—I know this about them and yet.

Impossible to overstate how big of a deal this is ( re: /pol/ and Epstein → gamergate / trump / etc )

Part of what I’m saying is that university presidents and finance apparatuses knew and supported these relationships We can and should blame the individuals named in the files but they represent a larger structural phenomenon and it’s not just rape culture

I want everyone who has spent years in therapy wondering what is wrong with them, wondering why they had so many bad relationships, why they felt so much dread, to know that it was in part because you were living in a world run by evil, evil people and you could tell that somewhere deep down

"Rehmet believed the core message of his campaign—working-class solidarity—could be the glue in a winning coalition of unions, progressives, blue-collar voters, and disaffected Republicans. Early analysis indicates just how much that was true."

Measles immune amnesia is going to rip those people apart. They'll lose acquired immunity to other diseases which are common in prisons.

It’s the single most important thing anyone in this state can do right now. That way people can shelter in place safely. At the local level we be voting on funding support for rental assistance, legal assistance, small business support, and more.

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something. Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

What I’m seeing here is that Epstein is a nexus point for the “intellectual” cabal that shores up the race science justifying our current immigration and anti-DEI policies (Huberman), as well the tone policing moderates (Brooks) that hamstrings oppositions. Oh and their billionaire benefactors.

Here's my full 50-page indictment of CBP and ICE and decades of corruption, abuse of force, racism, and misogyny. I promise you — however bad you've ever thought it was, the full reality is even worse, deadlier, and more corrupt. This isn't a "Trump only" phenomenon:

👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

I remember when political scientists sounding the alarm about a Jan. 6-type event in ~October 2020 were ridiculed by "smart" pundits as radical leftists. One called an article in The Atlantic "too magazine-y." The good news is people seem to be taking 2026/28 much more seriously

Concentration camp things happening at the concentration camps

That is the part, I think, that I dwell on most often: how many people – how many creatives, how many innovators, how many organizers, how many workers, how many *human beings* – have been systematically silenced and driven out and re-abused by institutions' and individuals' protecting abusers?

This is our culture. It is rape culture, but also more broadly it is abuse and exploitation culture. It is pervasive and it is the reason my career was wrecked and it is the reason Trump is president and it is the reason armed state abusers feel justified executing a mouthy woman in the street.

Anyway, if you want to know why we live in the world we do, it has a lot to do with the fact that we live in a culture that is structured and predisposed across the board to protect privileged people and specifically white cis men who leverage abuse for gain or pleasure.

so is New Reconstruction

Woke 2 is going to need to go a whole lot further than Woke 1

multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.

The way my grandmother understood what happened in her village was that the Poles killed the Jews of the town because they wanted their houses and all their stuff. Greed leads to greater evils.

I'm so relieved Liam is home, but we can't stay silent about the thousands of other people who have been "disappeared" across borders or into US concentration camps by this administration. No peace till they are all brought home and I.C.E. is abolished + prosecuted.

I finished reading Let This Radicalize You by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social and am so appreciative of their words and this gift of a book. There are so many sections that are underlined for me to refer back to, so these are just a few of my favorites.

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📆 January 31, 2025 📣 Say Their Names 📍 Trump Tower, NYC Rise and Resist shut down Trump Tower on Saturday. We read aloud, the names of all of those killed by I.C.E., or who died while in I.C.E. custody since Trump was inaugurated in January, 2025. Police was forced to close the 5th av entrance.

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All of them.

This is my worry, too—coasting on the polls. My lesson is: public opinion is way more malleable than we’ve been used to believing, and the Dems need to fucking fight and earn back trust if they’re going to retain these numbers.

I know Tarrant County, I've lived there, and this is exactly as insane as everyone says it is, to the point that I'm actually concerned that the lesson learned will be "things are so shitty right now that we don't have to offer or do anything to win"