Trans people in Kansas just had their drivers licenses canceled. It’s immediately illegal for them to use that ID. They can’t vote or even drive legally

Isn’t emergency evacuation like…the main purpose of embassies???

Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:

This is absolutely TERRIFYING cause the people making these bets are administrators in the Trump regime. It’s been proven time and again.

"City hands out goggles, flippers and shark repellent yet still Swim To School Day not getting the numbers they hoped."

Change in Headline

"To Dismantle The Principle Of Birthright Citizenship Would Undermine Both The Legal And Moral Foundations of American Society" — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network), in this brief

I feel like younger people don't realize that the internet wasn't always optimized solely to make you as angry and miserable as possible, and people are having a lot of nostalgia for 2000s internet vibes now because it wasn't like that back then

“Columbia University officials and local lawmakers say ICE posed as NYPD cops and used the excuse of a phony missing child to gain access to the building—a narrative that differs sharply from ICE’s account.” www.thedailybeast.com/ice-seizes-c...

the US will never add another state because no one wants to redesign the flag

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

After Isabel was released from a Minnesota detention center, ICE didn't return her work permit, ID, checks worth $700, or her daughter’s US passport. She's one of many now missing key immigration and identity documents.

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

When Bezos fires, @51st.news hires. We're up to $3171 ($2537 donations, 634 follows), which means it's time for me to cut another check. Keep it up and make me send a third. The overall fundraiser is at $215,736‼️

Don’t spend the precious moments of your life watching an old rapist lie to you on TV tonight, do something healthier like chew on roofing nails

Feel like it should be a big deal that the part of the government that is growing most quickly is teaching its new hires to violate the constitution. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

I've never been a Catholic Church fan, but they have been terrific about standing up to this regime. They have a massive global audience, so it's important that they are speaking up. www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...

The Supreme Court tried to save him from himself, but he's too stupid to grab the life preserver.

The Supreme Court:

This really is a great picture:

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

This is happening to a ton of people in their 40s and 50s who fled Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Bhutan pre-1995. It’s crazy that people with convictions can just be declared no longer refugees! One more way our “justice” system keeps punishing post-sentence. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/more-on-omni...

U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

There's a mass shortage of memory for consumer tech as resources are being diverted to build AI chips. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

Asked my kid if he knew who Charlie Kirk was and he said he’s the guy “who got Kirked”, I have faith in the next generation

Argentina, 1978: “The armed men who roved the city were at once secretive — driving cars without license plates and obscuring their faces with women's stockings — and brazen, abducting people off the street in broad daylight… daring bystanders: Acknowledge you've noticed us, see what happens.” 1/

Virginia lawmakers cleared a paid family & medical leave program, putting the state on track to offer up to 12 weeks of paid time off for workers — a big win for labor advocates. virginiamercury.com/2026/02/18/v...

So AI is supposed to give us a utopia with limited numbers of video games, TVs, and computers? Like I genuinely don't understand how the AI economy is supposed to work after we hit AGI.

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.

Know the difference between an administrative and a judicial warrant. One important distinction is that a judicial warrant authorizes entry into private spaces (your home, your work, etc, etc) where as an administrative warrant does NOT authorizes entry.

This is a stark departure from common practice in journalism. Looks like an attempt to punish AOC for having the temerity to talk overseas. If the NY Times quoted everyone like this – not cleaning up stammers, repeated words and "um" – its quotations would look much different. They'd be a mess.

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state can put a redistricting plan on the ballot this spring that could add as many as four more Democratic seats in Congress. The referendum will take place on April 21.

The event these resisters are protesting hasn’t gotten as much attention as it deserves. One place I did see a report, believe it or not, was the CBS Evening News. It’s worth watching their story followed by the protest video. youtu.be/YGwv1C5BNnQ?...

This week's sunrises and sunsets have been absolutely stunning. I've even pulled over a few times (safely) while driving to get a good shot.

A genuinely alarming piece in the NYT about how the developers, scientists and assorted techbros behind "AI companions"/"synthetic care" do not even know or understand the potential harms of the tech they're developing but they're too greedy to stop themselves from developing it.

just remembered that recently out of the blue my 7-year-old asked “dad, what was the collapse of the soviet union?”

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

If you follow Joanne Freeman she reported last week that Holocaust survivors living in assisted living homes, I think in Florida, we asking home administrators if they could hide their Haitian nurses and care-givers in their apartments to keep them safe.

Remember to tell people that things have NOT DEESCALATED. Pulling 700 agents means there's 2,300 agents on our streets, terrorizing us and kidnapping our neighbors.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

For all of the right's outcries over "erasing history," the Smithsonian audits, absurd plaques at the White House (which is a museum), threats to important works of art & architectural history + wildly inaccurate historical storytelling is shameful and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a...

Agency is a choice. newrepublic.com/post/205831/...

Mockler: Do you agree with Kristi Noem’s characterization that she made, like an hour after Alex Pretti was murdered? Seat: Can you just wait until the investigation is done? Mockler: That's such a good point. Can you say that to Kristi Noem?

The order says federal agencies like 🧊 can't use city property "as an unpermitted staging area, processing location, operations base.. in furtherance of civil immigration enforcement." Also that Boston will investigate "criminal conduct by federal officials," and release any surveillance footage.