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INSPIRING: Students walk out of a high school in DEEP RED Texas in protest of ICE. "They k*ll people and get no punishment at all… ICE IS A TERRIBLE THING" Share this widely to support the young generation!

Indeed. ICYMI inquest.org/the-ice-refo...

I cannot stand the "this is a good start" discourse. The Democrats in Congress do not want to abolish ICE. They have proposed a series of bog-standard reforms regurgitated by a think tank. Everyone knows they do not work. The Democrats supporting this do not care. They just want to move on.

Lawmakers in Florida (a non-expansion state) are apparently considering a Medicaid work requirements bill. Except Florida's income eligibility thresholds are so low that forcing people to meet an 80-hour/month requirement would force them off of the program. floridaphoenix.com/2026/02/03/m...

Just now getting to last week's story on the admin's $600M "deal" with vendors of software and services for Medicaid work requirements implementation, and I'm just not sure how anyone could show this is different than what Amazon does for Black Friday (mark up prices in order to discount them)

Muslim university students were arrested and expelled for protesting genocide. Let's see if college Republicans get even a slap on the wrist for advocating extrajudicial killings.

👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

Bad Bunny, Album of the Year #GRAMMYs

Cutie patooties are up!

Two more students from Liam Ramos' school are now in ICE detention, joining their mother who was detained first. The school principal "said the boys cried when he told them what was happening and were frightened and asked to hold a school nurse’s hand when they walked into the Whipple Building."

One reason you can't just tinker with ICE/CBP is the whole thing is facially illegitimate. The intent is rotten. It's run by a white supremacist maniac and will continue producing white supremacist maniac results

When you think about it, pretty pathological that media firms basically just have horserace campaign politics journalists covering Trump when they have democracy and rule of law experts covering Orbán, Putin, etc

Attention everyone! The Atlantic says it is now acceptable to call it fascism! Thank goodness our dispassionate elders have weighed in to let us know.

The cowardice of so many elites has led us to this moment

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Mamdani: "I'm trying to inspire amongst New Yorkers a sense of faith and belief in what government can do, and it's very hard to do that when they look at masked agents and see them as another face of a similar government"

Man dies in ICE custody, Mexican consulate says #usnews

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Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

I hope someone is making a database! That would be some incredibly useful data. I’ve had a lot of students studying right wing politics and if I had one right now I’d be nudging them to collect this treasure trove of data.

here we go

This YouGov poll on ICE is really eye-opening. Public opinion has really swung against DHS/ICE and their terror regime. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/IC...

“My deepest fear is not that we fail to survive this moment—it’s that we survive it only to return to the status quo that made it possible….The point is not to get back to normal. Normal is how we got here.”

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

Professor Peterson response to censorship at Texas A&M. (philosopher) king

important story that has flown under the radar due to all the other news

huge Ws on the horizon

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

Hakeem Jeffries with a message this afternoon to calm an angry and distressed nation

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

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The *liberal* news network

lol the punishment for the students was more swift than for the person who had to resign from multiple leadership roles. Huh. #harvard #academicsky

Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?

If you drafted Project 2025 in order to replace the American project with racist patriarchal Christian nationalism but this is your bridge to far I honestly don’t understand.

New in Health Affairs last week, we evaluated the impact of New York’s Basic Health Program (BHP) on pregnancy-related insurance coverage: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Circulating a petition against a proposal to force UNC system faculty to share their syllabi publicly, a move that would potentially exposing faculty to bad faith actors without necessarily improving student access to syllabi (which are already accessible in the course catalog) #AcademicFreedom

This column in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social is hit piece on Mary Bassett. The premise of the article--"controversial public health school center" is simply biased and the whole article goes downhill from there. www.harvardmagazine.com/university-n...

Dr. Mary T. Bassett is one of the bravest people I have met in my lifetime - her moral compass and commitment to justice are unmatched. Shame, shame, shame on Harvard. Her ouster is shocking yet unsurprising and on brand for the University. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A finding from this survey that challenged my priors is that ~50% people with individual/Marketplace coverage have had it for 3+ years If the subsidies expire, it won't just affect people cycling in and out of coverage — it'd hit a stable group who’ve built their budgets/care around these premiums

Medicaid “spend down” — how we force individuals to impoverish themselves to qualify for Medicaid coverage of long-term care — is one of the most messed up things I’ve learned about the US health care system In a new paper, we look at how often spend-down happens in nursing homes specifically

1/5 - Current policy debate often assumes workers who lose Medicaid coverage can get employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). A new Shift Project article in JAMA Health Forum shows why this may not be the case for hourly service-sector workers. shift.hks.harvard.edu/employer-spo...

The “Trump Accounts” proposal is a bastardized version of an actually transformative idea - Baby Bonds - a universal benefit - long championed by economist Darrick Hamilton. Read about it below.