Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Sorry but my favorite example of this was making the brain surgeon head of HUD. Just an all timer giveaway

This is your regular reminder that the idea that Christianity is a thing uniform beliefs that everyone within “Western Civilization” believed and agreed on is a fiction that just ignores centuries of Christians killing each other and fighting literal wars over their different beliefs.

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

Kristi Noem's DHS searches totalitarian states around the globe for ideas. 'In a Feb 11 social media post, the Department of Homeland Security listed oppressive regimes like Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE agents.' www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

What these sloppers can’t explain is how or why anyone would pay to see someone else’s slop when they can make their own bespoke slop with the same low effort. They aren’t making movies, they’re making junk mail

How is this not all some AI Mad Libs? www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...

The complete refusal from the Department of Justice and FBI to investigate the allegations in the Epstein Files and made by Epstein survivors is also proof of what victims everywhere go through every day when authority figures refuse to do anything about what happened to them

end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance

There’s absolutely no rationale for any of this whatsoever, except to create targets for hate. And once they finish hating on one group they won’t say “Job well done, guys!” They’ll just keep finding new targets. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already. Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.

Democrats believe in hiring experts to run things, and they believe in trying something else if the first thing doesn’t work. Say what you will about them, that competence and flexibility makes a difference.

As powerful a visual as one can imagine about how insincere “tough on crime” types are when they claim they put victims first. They only see victims as useful tools for advancing their desire to engage in punitive social control. Victims who do not advance that goal don’t count.

Where’s the “They enslaved Irish people too!!!!11)!!!!” crowd now?

Senator Avery Brundage would like you to know that criticism of authoritarians will not be permitted at the Olympics.

Well then play it. Play it again and again until there’s an answer. Make them answer for sending Nazi death troops to wage a war of terror against the U.S. civilian population.

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”

Yes. Miller knows those people can't all be deported. He knows they will be in camps. We need to understand: many, many people in Trump's circle read about the Nazis, openly admire Hitler, and want to emulate what Hitler did. We have to accept how serious this is - we cannot hide from it.

So did Trump watch the TPUSA show or did he just hate watch the real one

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.

A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked. A judge ruled his arrest was unlawful.

They accuse anyone besides white christians of not being real Americans but it's the MAGA folks whose patriotism is conditional.

If Al Gore had done this as vice president, it would have been a 24/7 scandal on Fox News culminating in impeachment proceedings.

this administration isn't leaning into AI from mere laziness. they're flooding your centers of discernment with hyper-real fakery so that those in power are those who determine what's real.

America’s failure to reckon with all the abuses of the “war on terror” is a big part of how we got to today.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

A lot of the people had never been tear gassed before. I talked to someone in the center of the cloud who had never been gassed and had only been to big protests like No Kings. She said the march had felt like the exact same vibe, right up until she was gassed for the first time in her life.

Trump has finally delivered the Jade Helm presidency the far right warned of in 2015: a techno-authoritarian assault on the White House’s enemies. Only now instead of raising an alarm over a hoax, they’re cheering the real thing. theintercept.com/2026/02/02/t...

Everyone who opposed Trump, then bowed to him, never had an issue with him, they just feared he’d ruin the brand.

when you're planning on ending democracy but don't want the people to know until it's too late:

Adopting a one-year-old from another country was stressful enough when we did it in 2012. The assistance the U.S. government gave at the time was much appreciated.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Or, you know, like Trump & Elon Musk tearing down large swathes of the federal government, a set of entitled literally & legally designated & funded by Congress for a wide range of purposes. Again, there is one & only one constitutional solution to this problem, & everyone is just pretending now.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

I think I’m starting to understand why Jesus kept talking about how wealth corrupts people.

“They want to go about their lives and to enjoy life without being recognized as kidnappers and abusers in their community,” Riley said. “We identify ICE and DHS agents for the same reasons we identify any violent, dangerous people intent on doing harm. They have chosen to prey on the community.”

“It is striking that the capital offense for which both Pretti and Renee Good … were summarily executed was the crime of witness…. If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.”

Literally half the country wants to abolish ICE and the Democrats are going to make them pinky swear not to deport U.S. citizens anymore

We need to expand the House, artificially frozen at 435 members a hundred years ago, when the U.S. had two less states and 220 million fewer people. 1500 members would be a decent adjustment for now.

The lynching of Francis McIntosh is widely considered the first public lynching in the United States modern history. Part of McIntosh's history as a victim is that they left his charred corpse, tied to the same tree at the same street corner he was burned in downtown STL, for years as an attraction.

The fact that Vance and Miller - the most powerful members of the administration - are publicly socially intermeshed with open and unapologetic Nazis is the Chekhov’s gun of Trump’s second term, even if the press have refuse to acknowledge. Now it’s shooting us in the face.