Can’t share IG here & Tiktok censored their lyrics, so I am sharing it like this. But @subradioband.bsky.social is amazing. I love this so much.

When your only interest is protests, the algorithm shows you ONLY protests. So I can say with certainty that the U.S. has protested EVERY single day since Renee Good died 01|07. Weekday school walkouts Weekend large marches Overpasses at rush hour Daytime ICE facilities Nighttime hotels Constant!

Such a slippery slope. Vaccines are most effective when everyone is vaccinated. Without school mandates, vaccination rates will fall, making vaccines less effective for the vaccinated, and potentially leading more people to conclude vaccines aren't worth getting. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

It's trying to tell me this is incorrect. This is the most correct guess I have ever made

Is there anyone in the Trump admin who isn’t a complete scumbag?

Imagine Charlotte's embarrassment if she'd put *that* in her web.

This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”

I bought cheap notebooks as reading journals for my class this semester, and just about halfway through, it’s been a huge success. I’ve never a higher percentage of the class participating, and coming to class having read well with good questions. In a 2000 level Gen Ed class of mostly non-majors.

Department of Homeland Security Blanket

One of the most fascinating aspects of the America Crisis is how under Trump much of the US Homeland security apparatus seems to understand places like Minnesota or Maine as little as the US National security apparatus under Bush understood places like Anbar or Herat

New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog: thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com/2026/02/13/c...

Special issue of the Journal of Value Inquiry on Linda Zagzebski’s "Exemplarist Moral Theory" link.springer.com/journal/1079...

Twin Cities population: 3 Million ICE agents sent: 3,000 Months spent: 2+ Mo Immigrants they kidnapped: 4,000 Homan claims this a success rate. I think this shows Minnesota KICKED THEIR ASS ✊🏼 4,000 people kidnapped by 3,000 agents over 2 months is like if each agent they sent kidnapped 1.3 people.

I think I need one of these

Drop an alien that’s not from Star Wars or Star Trek.

Incredibly, this father was only able to get on a pastel green card thanks to a law signed by… President Trump. A very very little known fact is that the 2020 NDAA not only had a statutory parole program for military family members, but a small amnesty for several thousand Liberians.

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...

The Trump Justice Department admits: It "logs all searches" by members of Congress who view the unredacted versions of the Epstein files on their data systems. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...

Constantly campaigning we all take a moment to celebrate, honor, and recognize #HazelScott. Her contribution to music and cinema, her mark, her imprint, her legacy, her voice on and off the stage. 1/🧵

Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...

Top public health official in the country

first couple times I saw this drift past on the TL I assumed it was a joke but no, he actually said it

Deep dive into Siegel/Shuster/Superman's origins in class today & wonderful discussion around Action 1. Ss were all new to it & quite taken by how political the comic is & refreshed by Superman as social justice/champion of the oppressed. Class is such a blast! spinweaveandcut.com/superhero-cl...

Your smartwatch, Ring doorbell, and Alexa monitor your most intimate moments, with data just a warrant away from the authorities. In @techpolicypress.bsky.social's episode, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson talks about his upcoming NYU Press book, "Your Data Will Be Used Against You."

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

In today’s @nytopinion.nytimes.com, @seanmorales-doyle.bsky.social explains how dozens of actions by the Trump administration, together, show that an attempted “takeover” of elections is underway. But we can fight back, he writes.

Whoa. Two vulnerable House Rs in Michigan have still not commented on Trump's threat to block Detroit-Windsor bridge, per Michigan Advance. Trump/MAGA miscalculated badly, assuming people would thrill to this idiocy because it hurts Canada and a state that didn't vote for Trump (see my piece below)

Some personal news

I'm delighted that the Harvard Law Review has published a book review of "The Digital Fourth Amendment." The review, by @granick.bsky.social, is here. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

Mid-week energy. Some sparkle and shine to finish the week via #RitaHayworth being stunning with #FredAstaire in YOU WERE NEVER LOVELIER (1942).

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“A quiet street full of broken glass”: every a.m. rush hour in the Twin Cities, a new kristallmorgen. Every smashed-window kidnapping, a new kristallabend.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"For once in my life, I can let people come to me with pitches about why they think they’d be perfect for me, rather than messaging with matches who didn’t even bother to read my profile." buff.ly/ermqrKk

My quick take after reading FBI's Fulton County affidavit: it's a bunch of discredited recycled BS peddled for years by election deniers and it's appalling that a judge signed off on a warrant for the raid based on the "evidence" presented here

An Irishman living in US for 20 years with a valid visa, no criminal record, married to a US citizen, kidnapped by ICE and sent to a concentration camp 2000 miles away for 5 months. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country. Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

It's staggering how this political eunuch has not just done nothing at all as Speaker of the House, but has actually worked to prevent his colleagues from doing anything at all as well. For all the right's fetishization of "originalism," this is a development that would've made the founders weep

Mike Ramsey, an originalist law professor, has a new article out: Birthright Citizenship Re-Examined. He debunks the Wurman and Lash articles. The English common law analysis is a bit thin for my liking, but it squarely lays out the rule and the reasons for it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Ok, you can stop texting me, I saw the Ring ad. Troubling things about it 🧵: -The long awaited (much warned about) intro of “AI” recognition. It starts w/ searching for a “brown dog” but means the tech is there for lisence plate reading, face recognition, searching for suspects by description, etc

*historians’ conference* So what are you guys working on? Starting a book. Finishing a book. Advising Bad Bunny.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

I can answer this one: no (Boy, the New York Times' games section is really easy today)

who wants to tell him?