This is…a lot. In addition to her husband being investigated, the Labor Secretary herself is also being investigated for “having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a subordinate—a member of her security detail—and abusing her office by taking staff to strip clubs…”

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.

"excuse me sir, there must be some mistake- i voted to create the camps, not live in the zone of interest" is like every trump voter

Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

Huh, what do you know? The Uvalde congressman is a real piece of shit.

What’s so awful and stupid about this is that it applies to every single right-wing “Intellectual.” The whole culture is a snake pit of race science cranks and misogynist perverts. They have not changed their positions meaningfully since the civil war began.

time to pass out a bunch of “fell for it again” awards bsky.app/profile/sbag...

Go birds

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.

Everyone who worked at this camp should go to prison.

These interviews with former Obama administration officials underscore a mistake none of them will express bluntly. They gravely overestimated the character of the American people. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

once again pointing out that Trump vs. US is a treasonous decision--the Supreme Court equivalent of January 6--and the justices who voted for it have forfeited any claim to legitimacy (or indeed due process) whatsoever

The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.

The thing about a rag like this is that the people writing for it know they aren’t making a good argument and they don’t care because it’s what the people with money are willing to pay for and literally the only thing that matters to them is career advancement.

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

Minnesota's top investigative agency says federal government has formally refused to hand over evidence and information in the killing of Alex Pretti www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

10 pm bedtime total cultural victory

Man, I remember watching this technology being trialed at pyeongchang and now it’s so ubiquitous they’re using it on bloopers

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

how we got here

We do not teach students the right things about the Nazis. For example, on March 5th, 1933, Germany held elections. The Nazi party deployed SS, SA, and other Nazi orgs to “monitor” the elections This was done to “defend the homeland”

I’m aware of some behind the scene stuff from one of them, but beyond that major corporations failed the test to support the people of the state during the occupation. To paraphrase Herb Brooks, “Screw ‘em.” They just want to profit off of people’s sacrifices.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

when MAGA white supremacists like Carl whinge abt passing of 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act they are complaining that it overturned 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, a law limiting immigration to people from Northern Europe, which was drafted by eugenicist Rep. Albert Johnson, with BIG support from the Klan

liz bruenig supports forced birth so she can write fanfic about your kid dying of measles tbh

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

Jay would dime you out to the feds in a heartbeat. Head on a swivel out there.

These banners are apparently prohibited from @stlcitysc.com stadium next year after having been present the first three seasons. The club still has a Pride night scheduled and just released a Tina Turner tribute kit. You can't just have values on one day or to sell merch. You have to live them.

When Rubio says "We live in a new era of geopolitics" it's sort of like an arsonist saying "Unfortunately these days the danger of houses burning down for the insurance money has never been higher"

Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!" Cool, cool.

America 2026. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting." What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!

you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Meanwhile www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

The Border Patrol agents lied. They always lie. And they lie to destroy other people's lives for fun. www.huffpost.com/entry/border...

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

In an internal memo in May, Meta laid out its plans to release facial recognition in its smart glasses, to the blind first, & then to the general public. “Civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

5/ On the left? A picture of mass surveillance from #Ring 's ad. On the right? A ring spox saying that they are not doing mass surveillance. The company cannot have it both ways.

UPDATE: Ring just cancelled their partnership with #Flock. Should you trust #ring now? No. After all they thought this was a good idea. And their statement doesn't acknowledge the real issue. More on that in a second. But this shows: pressure works on privacy 1/

There has been no draw down today. ICE snatched someone off Central Ave out of his car because he looked Latino before then letting him go a couple hours later. They were stopping people in Blaine on highway 65, they were all around Fridley, and were in the parking lot of the St Anthony liquor store