New from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern?: The SAVE Act is a truly extreme voter suppression bill, but in ways that might surprise you. White Christian Nationalism is driving the bill more than a cynical focus on maximizing GOP vote share. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Whatever the motivations, the SAVE Act is a classic example of gendered administrative burdens: the intersection of gendered patterns of name changes and identity requirements predictably make it much harder for women to demonstrate citizenship. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

This is what I was talking about last year in my piece on the Everglades camp for MSNBC, when it was already clear the US government was talking to several countries. Not only is the US creating a domestic network of camps, "we’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network."

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

"The share of national income going to the bottom 90% of earners has decreased dramatically since the 1970s. This shift is stark: if the distribution of income had not changed from 1975 to 2023, workers would have earned an additional $79 trillion over that period.” labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

Put this one in the lack of self-awareness hall of fame

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week. apnews.com/article/tran...

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I think it goes without saying that we all need to get behind the FUCK ICE Act. Call your reps and tell them you've seen what the good people of New Jersey are doing with FUCK ICE and you want FUCK ICE for your state too. We need a federal FUCK ICE. Do you support FUCK ICE?

These groups are exploiting the real pain & anger people rightfully feel towards Big Tech while positioning Section 230 as the problem when their true aim is to restrict resources/online free speech of groups they don’t like. Please sign + share: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/jose...

“Watered-down ICE policy reforms do not serve as a break from the Democrats’ years-long rightward shift on immigration, but a repackaging of immigration enforcement to maintain the status quo.” - Lydia Pelot-Hobbs truthout.org/articles/ref...

This is a level of state control of university teaching curricula you don’t even see in most authoritarian regimes.

Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

Workers have begun restoring the slavery exhibit in Philadelphia that was removed by the Trump administration

As millions worldwide break their fasts during Ramadan, escalate the boycott of companies implicated in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

They've definitely killed more and not telling us. Everybody involved—the murderers responsible and the accomplices after the fact—must be prosecuted.

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

I’ve asked Omni and their owner, Stonepeak, several times if they are concerned they could be held liable for human-rights abuses onboard and facilitated by their planes. No response. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Rev. Jesse Jackson has died at 84. No social media post could do justice to such a large and consequential life. His 1988 speech to the Democratic National Convention is easily one of the most remarkable — and personal — political addresses you’ll ever hear.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

This is from THE CATO INSTITUTE, people. A right-wing think tank. www.cato.org/commentary/e...

None of this is normal

Police departments across the US are quietly leveraging school district security cameras to assist Donald Trump’s mass immigration enforcement campaign, an investigation by @the74.bsky.social reveals.

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already. Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

"I forced the shape of English onto resisting tongues and then dared to call it 'broken.'"

Why Has This Columbia University Protester Been in ICE Detention for Nearly a Year? Leqaa Kordia's family worries about her health after she was briefly hospitalized last week. DHS refused to give them information about her condition and she is still 'very sick.' zeteo.com/p/why-has-th...

We've got the numbers: Last year we published (in partnership with the @brennancenter.org and @umd-cdce.bsky.social) survey results showing that some 21.3 million Americans could be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act, which the House''ll vote on tomorrow. Time to send this thing back to its grave.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

IT'S HAPPENING: Great Horned Owlette season is upon us! Several weeks earlier than last year, not one but TWO owlettes have been documented AND verified. By me. 10 minutes ago. Let's goooo!!! And observe from a safe respectful distance! Alt status: IT'S A SUPERB OWL MIRACLE! 🪶 🐣

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. 🧵

please don’t let your takeaway from the Super Bowl halftime show be “statehood for Puerto Rico.” Rather it should be “independence and reparations for Puerto Rico.”

Y'all need to pay attention to what's happening in Europe. They're not messing around. The Epstein scandal is causing heads to roll. In America, eh, not so much. I wonder why. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/w...

“True leaders understand policy and anticipate how the public will react to it. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what a mass deportation force will do. But it does take knowledge and a desire to make voters understand the stakes.” @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social:

“Ruled by the Epstein Class” feels like a real solid message, to me.

New version of GOP suppression bill would impose nationwide proof of citizenship, photo ID requirements. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

MN ICE WAREHOUSE CANCELED! bringmethenews.com/minnesota-ne...

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said. “You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

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