Matt Y comes across here as not interested in engaging with even the most quotidian social challenges

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Love how the authors decide who has or has not done something “sufficiently wrong” to face consequences. They almost get it!

This is real good.

The AOC Munich story becoming a thing was obviously inorganic but the truth of the information environment behind it is even worse than I realized

‘Among the exams that are no longer listed as being required…are “Judgment Pistol Shooting” and “Determine Removability,” a reference to how agents decide if people they encounter have legal status in the United States. It was not clear from the documents when those exams were removed.’

“The Trump administration is sending all pregnant unaccompanied minors apprehended by immigration enforcement to a single group shelter in South Texas” Some are as young as 13. "This is 100% and exclusively about abortion”—former head of unaccompanied minor program www.tpr.org/news/2026-02...

Well that’s interesting isn’t it. The DNC reportedly described the Biden administration’s support for Israel as a “net-negative” in the 2024 election

The BlueSky meta discourse needs a civil war letters home account

Surprised that so few people remember J Edgar Hoover partied with the Miracle on Ice team too

‘This banal blueprint for inhumanity is the embodiment of the notorious words last April from ICE’s acting director Todd Lyons, who said the Trump regime want to make deportation “like [Amazon] Prime, but with human beings.”’

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Apart from the obvious damage (far less accountability for local governments/police/business titans), the death of local newspapers also means the loss of a (relatively) less toxic source of community and civic sense about where we live

Really into this piece by Minh Tran and how it explores the way we are spoonfed things we don’t (often) realize we are being spoonfed www.couldabeenatthe.club/p/the-intern...

OpenAI employees pushed for the company to inform Canadian police about a user they thought would engage in real-world violence months before the person did just that, killing eight people in a horrific attack in Tumbler Ridge. The company only reached out to police after the shooting had occurred.

It's interesting that the angriest and most indignant opinions pushing back on this bullshit are coming from some of the oldest judges. I could speculate on several possible explanations. But I'm glad they're doing it.

One of the biggest lies of our time is “you’ve been placed on our do not call list”

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Feel confident this will get thrown out but such arrests will proliferate nonetheless

Chilling: she was “charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after encouraging students to partake in an upcoming walkout protesting federal immigration enforcement efforts”

Some details on cash incentives. These are not directly paid to arresting officers but their employers are getting significant cash rewards for their turning over undocumented immigrants — which in turn incentivizes dragnets www.police1.com/federal-law-...

Doesn’t get reported often and clearly enough that local law enforcement are getting cash bounties for people they turn over to ICE (at least under 287g partnerships, if not in other ways). The incentives to racially profile and arrest are extremely corrosive

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A bit on the nose to be asked not to use the word fascism when promoting your show about fascism because people might think you're talking about fascism www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

That Atlantic measles story was so poorly/deceptively edited that even the site's own flack thought it portrayed the actual account of a suffering, soon-to-die little boy. Via @laurahazardowen.bsky.social www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

Yes I doubt James Cameron is clocking that Paramount ownership is the alternative he’s effectively asking for here. I also doubt that many people working under Warner Bros will be grateful for Cameron’s intervention

When I saw this headline I did not realize these are allegations of sexual assault AT the Labor Department, not historical ones

‘This is what so many of us kept pointing out throughout the “Twitter Files” hysteria: the “free speech” grift was never about protecting individuals from the state. It was about protecting a specific type of speaker from the social consequences of their speech.‘ — good stuff from @masnick.com

This feels like an ancient parable, demonstrating how immoral behavior breaks down societal trust

Third-country renditions. The global war on migrants

Between Bret and Cenk, it’s weird to see 9/11 trutherism making a comeback. Or maybe it never receded

Thank goodness Bret was canceled, only thru his sacrifice to the Woke Mob could he become the All-Seeing Prophet that humanity needs right now

Casually learning that the deputy director of the federal prison system is a Trump-pardoned drug trafficker, which qualifies as an oh by the way in this story

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

I think (and hope) this is right

This ruling is from a GW Bush appointee

An unpleasant but illuminating read. Here’s a typically disturbing snippet of what sort of edgy “ideas” these guys thought were worth elevating

"This version of campus “neutrality” resulted in a two-tiered system for free speech. Free inquiry and academic freedom for most topics; censorship and chilled speech when donors and politicians complained."

Sunday mornings with The Onion 👌

Jeremy Carl, whom Trump has nominated for a senior position in the State Department, made precisely the same claim --white people are becoming "second-class citizens"--in his 2024 book as David Duke did in 1975, when he was the leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Susan Smith of For Women Scotland is quoted in this piece saying that Dr Upton leaving the NHS will be "a relief to female patients." The employment tribunal found that Upton had done nothing wrong! She was completely innocent of any kind of harassment! www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/1592555...

"White people are becoming second class citizens in America because of the radical left agenda." Is it Jeremy Carl in 2026, or an Oregonian's white supremacist screed written in 1959 in opposition to a proposed Civil Rights bill?

Oh it wasn’t a concubine’s fault it was climate change

Yeah had the same thoughts about Jay Bhattacharya at Stanford. Elite institutions have something to answer for but it isn’t wokeness

This is a catalog of human rights violations that need urgent attention and action before they get even worse and at unimaginable scale

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

Great piece. I had the same misplaced optimism about Bezos, with the accompanying lament that media has so come to rely on the munificence and whims of billionaires. On trust in media, I commend this essay that Lydia cites by Michael Schudson, esp this passage direct.mit.edu/daed/article...