*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

the Minnesota and Chicago operations are not attempts to deport people. they are primarily attempts to get images of masked irregulars doing indiscriminate violence to American citizens.

one of the most distinctive things about the second Trump administration is the active attempt to appear as evil as possible. this is his portrait from his first and his second administrations.

It’s seriously past time to just have a fucking binding referendum that automatically enacts statehood upon completion of a vote. There’s really no good argument otherwise.

hi! i’m maya ventura. you probably know me from WTYPpod, or the bots, or the Pebble apps, or whatever. i’m also trans in rural america, & boy, is that untenable. i need out, & i have a now-or-never opportunity. i’m asking for your help in affording it, if you can. thank you. gofund.me/dc160a843

I guess the implication here is supposed to be that we shouldn’t tarnish the good name of conservatives by associating them with Nazis to which I say [waves arms at the last 50 years]

An administration by rapists, of rapists, & for rapists.

both the president and literally everyone else understand any statement of a moral principle -- any moral principal -- as a denunciation

SEATTLE CULTURAL VICTORY. WOKE 1. CHUD 0.

“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him”

The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

Lay's: Our chips were lovingly grown in small family potato farms throughout the great nation of America Pringles: Fuck our chips

Bad Bunny got into the endzone and scored before either offense

i love that for the average american, activism is just watching TV the correct way

This was a little over a year ago

Leading Nazi Organizations at Trade Impasse, White House to Send Envoys

Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.

Part of the reason we drive people who do really evil shit out of communities isn’t just that what they did was really evil. It’s that they seem to be absolutely allergic to admitting it, apologising, or stopping

We’re buying software to run the NHS from this fruitcake.

Just so that people know, this was a conversation that happened in Australia before the social media ban occurred and politicians did absolutely nothing about. We know the politicians don't really listen to people here and it shows. They just pass laws to get a 'public opinion' win.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

The location, which was built as an Amazon distribution center, was chosen because of its proximity to railroad tracks. It can house up to 10,000 beds (not people -- beds), and will be equipped with a medical incinerator.

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

Hard to overstate the extent to which Leon Botstein’s personal scorn for feminist anti-rape politics permeated Bard College’s culture while I was there. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Eliminating ICE is the modern equivalent of opposing the Iraq War, and right now there are two types of Democrats: those who can see where the ball is moving and go to it, and those who will be swept away because they refused to do so.

we have a very beautiful capitol building here in washington (and it's the tallest self-supported masonry dome in North America. we love weird engineering feats) Nikkormat FTN | Ilford HP5 [HC110 1:39] #filmphotography

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Sure this can happen in the bisexual socialist paradise of Iberville Parish Louisiana but what about Real America?

Seems kinda' crazy that a guy getting paid to let the government run a gulag on his property also owns an upscale cafe in a county that went 28 percent for Trump in 2024. Maybe the people who regularly dine there need to be better informed about who owns it.

It’s true that federal agents are attacking our city, abducting our neighbors, terrifying tens of thousands of people into hiding. But you’ve rooted out the real enemy: the liberals who are also fighting them, but not leftishly enough.

i think it's largely that they're embarrassed that they were dicking around while a huge social movement happened

i think it is particularly interesting that Barro, McArdle, and Douthat saw the moralizing change which has happened since the 1970s not as "you might get arrested for fucking a 12-year-old" but rather "your friends on Martha's Vineyard might cut you off for fucking her."

my girlfriends are trying to bully me into doing an Over 9000 meme, which i’d normally be in favor of, but unfortunately, that meme wasn’t even funny in 2008. in any case: jesus christ, thank you all so much

Simple: War with Iran is mostly about Israel. As long as Israel remains expansionist, its project will be regionally rejected, leading it to define its security as regional hegemony - a state of 10 million dominating a region of half a billion. That’s impossible without the USA – thus forever war.

coming up with a new idea called "driving like shit olympics". no more bland, unprovable statements like "california drivers are the WORST" allowed. whichever state wins every 4 years gets a moonshot-sized public transit investment to get those fuckers off the road

There's something very ominous about how the stubborn adherence to "norms" is resulting in looking the other way at highly abnormal behavior

it's kind of depressing that no one on the Democratic side of Congress has written to the state department to ask about the meeting with AB seperatists

Of course he did

we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.

OK, *ongoing* thread of books to read on Palestine. Some recent, some not at all so recent.

it is impossible to convey how spiritually and emotionally devastating it is to know that other people do not consider you to be a real person with an interior (or exterior) life beyond them

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

Democrats have obsessed over fine-tuning MESSAGES at the cost of fatal damage to their BRAND

fwiw i think this would be a perfect format for a modern liberal news outlet to disseminate reports

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.