Enraging that this took a court order: "Catholic nuns and clergy had visited the facility for years, offering prayer services and holy communion to detainees during visitor hours. Trump Administration immigration authorities rolled back that access in September..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.

The part of the Olympics that is all just Poles and Ukrainians practicing to shoot Russians

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

You have failed this beach!

The average wine mom (who is the exact person who votes in Dem primaries) is regularly saying things that are against the terms of service of every social media platform but also 1A protected speech, they will see one clip of Newsom buddying up to Steve Bannon and then ask both to face the wall

Not really sure how you can see Evelyn Normielib (D, Texas) setting fire to a facility that might have the possibility of becoming an ICE concentration camp and despair about how Dem primary voters are gonna pick Gavin "We are Charlie Kirk" Newsom as the nominee

One word I would excise from the political lexicon is “bipartisan.” Let parties sink or swim on their platform instead obfuscating with the word bipartisan.

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

The economic impact of ICE in Minneapolis -$203 million total economic loss January alone -$47m per month of income loss to families afraid to go to work -$81m loss to small biz -$4.7b in hotel cancelations -$37.9m loss construction evaluation

Less than a month ago, I was checking the news each morning to make sure American little green men hadn’t occupied Greenland. Like, what the fuck are we even doing here?

A friend told me that they had a nap about Jerry Seinfeld being a demon slayer and for some reason this popped straight outta the mind palace. An unexpected bit of joy.

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.

You won't believe this, but Biden/Harris and Carter/Mondale were the only tickets since the Great Depression to not have attended an Ivy or a T14 law school. It doesn't surprise me that their presidencies followed the same trajectory, including the part where they got pummeled by the elite press

I’ve been seeing news articles in Spanish, French, and German language publications about the deprivation caused by the US blockade of Cuba but just absolute crickets in US media.

related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter

A federal judge in Minneapolis has ordered the dismissal of felony assault charges against two Venezuelan men, including one shot in the leg by an immigration officer, after new evidence undercut the government's case.

Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

10 out of 10, certified fresh

Biden could have made this argument and if he’d worked to authoritarian-proofed the US it would have been plausible. But Americans can’t plausibly argue anymore that they don’t have an insane fascist contingent uncontained and strong enough to wield power.

this is wishful thinking. there's no magical snap-back, certainly not if dem leaders (which seems the case right now) lack the vision to imagine & promote a new way of thinking about america's role in the world & hold the criminals accountable at home.

Big D donors escape accountability? Fuck that. Nice billionaires? Sorry folks, y’all didn’t earn that through your labour. It’s a through line! Why do we taxpayers have to fill out our taxes? Because of Intuit. You can tie in administrative burden!

If I was running Democratic politics, I would be going so hard on elite impunity and rent seeking. Just relentlessly hit the GOP with their status as the party of car dealers and billionaires. But importantly, the call for consequences must not be specific to the GOP. Everybody is fair game.

Keep in mind that USAID had a lot of food and medicines in warehouses that only needed to be distributed to save countless lives. But the Trump administration had it destroyed instead.

If in a country of 330 million ppl you cannot find a second candidate without a nazi tattoo then just cancel elections and stop the pretense, you're fully cooked

🚨BREAKING: In a big win for Virginia Democrats’ efforts to counter President Donald Trump’s GOP gerrymanders in other states, the Virginia Supreme Court said the state can hold its special election on the redistricting plan. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

the Palestine Action ban really was a classic Starmer govt move: a hysterical overreaction that won them zero plaudits from the right, cost them badly to the left, and which got shot down in the end anyway.

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

Tillis trying out the ‘bad boyars’ argument at the Munich Security Conference to a scornful European audience. “Bold strategy Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for him.”

To think Bryan Singer is the not the most problematic X-Men director.

This ruling shows that proscribing Palestine Action was a grave misuse of terrorism laws. Labour must accept its mistake, drop its appeal and stop wasting taxpayers' money suppressing civil liberties. Degrading counter-terror powers is a genuine threat to national security.

“I asked why he was laughing and I was told that he was pro-Russian, wanted Russia to win the war.” Of course he does. MAGA is so thirsty for 🇷🇺. From the pres & cabinet to Ted Cruz to ICE losers to your MAGA uncle— they all admire & feel inferior to RU. They hate the 🇺🇸 and want to make it into 🇷🇺

This is just unconscionable man

Supreme Court: Colleges can't use race as a factor in college admissions. Also the Supreme Court: ICE can use racial profiling to stop people on the street. The underlying legal principle: The concept of race can only be used as a tool of oppression, as it was intended to be.

They are in fact concentration camps in the original usage of camps for concentrating a civilian population for control or collective punishment or to facilitate deportation or population transfer. They are not concentration camps as a euphemism for extermination camps.

Imagine spending a gazillion dollars on a Super Bowl commercial and end up shooting yourself in the foot in front of 138 million people

How Trump's withdrawal from Minneapolis is being covered abroad. In Le Monde, the lead French daily, the homepage article starts with: "Two people dead, thousands arrested, two cities shaken, and Donald Trump defeated." www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Maybe, just maybe, the US Senate is incompatible with democracy/repugnant to a free society.

Ill be clear about why I am so angry and critical about it: Im seeing a good portion of my students who have imbibed the notion that they dont have to read, think or write for themselves because ChatGPT/CoPilot will do their thinking for them, and its terrifying. It should scare all of us.

uday and qusay would have loved the twenty first century

They hate big cities but they aren’t fond of medium cities or even small but urban towns. The local clashes between city & county governments demonstrate this well

There were a couple themes of the 2024 election but one was a declaration of war on American cities by American rural/exurban voters

The damage done to Minneapolis is probably the clearest example of how Trump is simply not like other presidents. Besieging and occupying a city for weeks like that is nearly unheard of

If/when we beat back this authoritarian attempt, the role of Minnesotans will likely be recognized as decisive. The regime wanted to make an example out of them, to intimidate everyone else, and they turned into an example of successful resistance. Their effort and sacrifice won't have been in vain.

The actual lesson is that if you try to engage in draconian immigration enforcement to appease the xenophobic right, you are just confirming to them that they are right and encouraging their xenophobia.

your favorite chinese saying is english!