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.

rod dreher is not that interesting. he is a guy very clearly filled with self hatred tied to repressed feelings related to his gender and sexuality, and rather than deal with them, he blames “modernity” and “secularism” for why he’s unhappy. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

I am unspeakably angry about this. This brave new world, brought about in part by my former tribe, the evangelical church, is riddled by stupid conspiracy theories and abysmal leadership. I invite the institutions that make up this movement to stick this news up their nostrils in place of oxygen.

For anyone who needs this, here you go.

The Democrats idea of fighting fascism.

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

An important note about this. Curling is a very northern Midwest sport and its rural/suburban clubs may find these voices resonant. Signed - a former Grand Forks ND resident who remembers the curling club on DeMers Ave. @lollardfish.bsky.social

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

@bonhoefferchild.bsky.social did you clock this? It’s directly analogous to both Al Qaeda thinking as well as the Russian Orthodox Church *and* medieval Christian crusaders. Not great, Bob.

Flashback to 2008 when John McCain shut down a racist line of questioning. I miss this Republican Party.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Back at the start of the Trump II administration, it was disorienting to watch powerful law firms preemptively surrender and genuflect before the King Turns out it was because the people in charge were close friends with Epstein and were worried about getting outed www.ft.com/content/7001...

Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Trump has posted on Truth Social about 65 times in the last 90 minutes, including a video he posted at 8:44 PM PT describing election fraud lies that shows racist AI images of Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys at the end. I’ve confirmed this is real and watched it myself. 25th Amendment now.

It's hilarious that Trump is lazily going through the motions of the National Prayer Breakfast as his cult is planning to erect a literal golden idol of him.

That last line really sneaks up on you

*reads the White House post* *chuckles at folks questioning whether Christian nationalism exists*

The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

This speaks volumes about the so-called “Christians” who host this event. Disgusting.

“Doomerism” is when you say “holy shit things are going to get bad and there’s nothing we can do.” It’s not when you say “holy shit things are going to get bad and we better get prepared for that”.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Speaking on behalf of a religion that actively sought to spread itself to every country in the world whether invited or not, Speaker Johnson would like to share with you the Biblical case for strong borders.

"open your eyes, jeff bezos deliberately ran the Post into the ground as part of his evil plan to take over the world" i have an alternate theory:

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠

holy shit

I think this is the essential quality that made CBP/BP and ICE so easily convertible into fascist squadristi www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Worth remembering: White evangelicals are the only religious group whose majority supports Trump's handling of the controversy over the Epstein files. @prri.org prri.org/spotlight/am...

This week, Temporary Protected Status for 350K Haitians in the U.S. was set to expire, with no White House plan to renew it. Many warned this would lead to mass roundups of people unable to safely return to Haiti. Today, Judge Reyes blocked it from happening. Her ruling was scathing. 👇

Do we, in fact, have a government?

I hope when all this is over Mark Burnett is chased out of the country permanently by people wielding tear and feathers.

As I argued yesterday: www.pbump.net/o/its-worse-...

To be clear, we're in such bad shape because the U.S. regime has been a detention regime for a very long time. Now the long-term crisis is getting exponentially worse, with funding already allocated to do incalculable harm. But not all the necessary materials are at hand yet, and we can still act.

"Also note that MS NOW’s Carol Leonnig is reporting that career prosecutors in Minnesota and Los Angeles refused to be involved in the prosecution of Lemon" So who presented this to a grand jury, in criminal violation of the First Amendment? Lindsey Halligan?

One move, no look-ahead to further moves. Just the one move over and over and over again. It's worked for him because pissant elite people and institutions let it work for him. They must be restrained in favor of the public interest after this is over.

it is really important to recognize that the administration does a lot of things that are terrifying and dangerous and at the same time stupid and counterproductive arresting journalists is very bad and also this will end in humiliation for them

Col Mustard, in the bedroom, with the hooker.

White House did not study the manual to execute a proper hadoken.

the practical effect of arresting lemon et al is to spark widespread condemnation, especially since these arrests will certainly be thrown out. this doesn't mean the action isn't a dangerous escalation, it does mean the white house doesn't know what to do but spam its only attack

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

What's morale like at CBP & ICE right now? New survey data are damning. *21% of CBP respondents (9% of ICE respondents) believe their agencies' political leaders maintain high standards of integrity. *Only 23% at CBP (18% at ICE) feel confident they could report illegal acts without retribution

"Require" -- of agents already demonstrating their willingness to break the law. "Enforce" -- how? See above. You cannot trust the honor of Nazis. *ABOLISH* ICE and the DHS, none of this slap-on-the-wrist nonsense!

my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

But lots of these are rape whistles, why would Republicans want to ban ooohhhhh right