yep — this (gift link) is the top story on WSJ now: www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Like Euclidean geometry, Israel is only ever approaching Apartheid and Genocide, at infinity so to speak, but never crossing the line into it. Hence it can never be accused of it, let alone held responsible for it. The perfect crimes against humanity.

Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2024 because anti-system voters flocked to him. Democrats need a strategy for competing with anti-system voters in 2028. This is, in some ways, a very strong case for nominating someone like AOC over Newsom. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/meet-ameri...

Happy Presidents' Day @elliottpayne.org! You're the only president I'm celebrating today. Thank you for everything. You were there when Minnesota needed you, and I'm proud to have you leading my City Council.

We spent the afterboon marching through south Minneapolis demanding an end to this illegal ICE occupation at the @mnaflcio.org Day Out for Democracy.

"The interview was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell."

Short term, medium term, long term: We have to stop funding ICE. Period. #stopICE

Despite *hundreds, if not thousands* of videos of IDF soldiers looting homes and institutions in Gaza and Lebanon, only *one criminal case* was put forward by Israeli military prosecutors on the issue. And it was closed yesterday with a plea bargain.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

[chef’s kiss]

My point—the singular theme of my campaign for Congress—is this: Whatever your specific policy priorities and preferences may be, wherever you think the public interest should take us, we can’t and won’t get there unless and until we … (1/7)

I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate. And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials. As the Constitution requires. Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

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.

Wrote some of these for you and your beloved🗞️💘

“…in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.”

A marvelous piece of journalism about a Baltimore blues icon.

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

thank you to the thousands of people who have posted, commented, private messaged, texted, and phoned to offer condolences over yesterday morning’s passing of my wife Claudia Long. I deeply regret that I can only reply to the smallest fraction of you, but I want you to know that ... [1/2]

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

Shameful stuff

The Trump administration, back turned and eyes averted from the truth about Epstein.

seen in my neighborhood in south Minneapolis

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Everyone should support J.P. Cooney. We could use 535 people in Congress like him. The normal insider parochial political bullshit won't save this country.

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"

This and more on the latest episode of EoS’s Out of Left Field. @endofsportpod.bsky.social

Many Canadians are horrified about Israel's use of AI in the Gaza genocide. Please share your country's "lessons" with the ICC and ICJ.

Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week). This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.

Over the past three weeks, the "nightmare scenario" for November's midterms has grown more plausible www.vox.com/politics/478...

Hard to overstate how big a loss Rumeysa Ozturk’s case is for the Trump admin. Immigration court is an extension of the executive. It’s very hard for them to lose there. Here she is being arrested by men in plainclothes. Over an op-ed. Still disturbs me.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet: www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

An 18-month-old baby held in ICE detention was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening respiratory failure. She was then sent back to detention, where she was denied daily medication.

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. 🧵

7/ Read the rest of the letters:

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.” 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

4/ “Mi Familia,” by 5-year-old Luisanney Toloza from Venezuela, who had recently crossed the U.S.-Mexico border

It is perhaps a good time to check if your university, city, retirement account, etc hold CoreCivic stock, and if they do, make your feelings about that known

We’re onto you, Ring

VA Senate president responds to Ted crying about VA’s redistricting, which should add 4 new Dem seats.

The Winter Olympics start today, and we will feel pride and honor for our country. But when we see our criminal, delusional President, we feel none of those things. I’ve faced off with him before, and now I’m ready to take him on in Congress.

Criminal president.

#Caturday Cairo rescues. Found them on my street two days ago.

Can't wait until thirty seconds into the deposition when Norm asks whether Elon has taken any medications that could affect his testimony

Philidelphia DA Larry Krasner warns ICE: If an agent commits crimes in Philly, I will charge you. You will be arrested. You will stand trial, and you will be convicted in state or federal court and you will do your time. Donald Trump can't pardon you for a state court conviction.