To my knowledge, moving prisoners around the country in an attempt to avoid habeas corpus review has been banned since at least the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. Habeas corpus is, of course, protected in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

Time to die. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

a powerful account of what’s happening in Minneapolis from Amna Akbar www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Important connection because this is something Tim Walz can do something about bsky.app/profile/swee...

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

We are still over 2000 ICE ans DHS agents in Minnesota. In November there was 150. We have thousands and thousands of people living in de facto House arrest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.

Following its genocide against Native Americans, brutal repression of Blacks, keeping Hispanics in a de facto position of second class citizens, the Texas GOP has now decided that the vilification of Muslims is is top priority.

"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not." The perfect encapsulation of what has clearly become the systemic failure of higher-ed leadership

"A threat to anyone’s constitutional rights is a threat to us all. Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s [view], American citizens could be subject to the same treatment. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution."

“At the turn of the 20th century, when our great-great-grandparents had no choice but to eat “real food,” malnutrition was rampant. Anemia was common, as was iodine deficiency, which could cause a disfiguring swelling of the thyroid gland known as a goiter”

Every February, it's as if there's a competition to see how egregious the racism can get during Black History Month. Because how dare we take a month for ourselves? An entire month? The sheer audacity.

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

"Trump threatens to block opening of new bridge between Ontario and Michigan: President says he won't allow opening until U.S. 'is fully compensated for everything we have given' Canada" -- www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

Take any of those shitty self-help books about brain-hacking that ketamine-fueled sex pest finance dudes like to read, swap out the modern sciencey words for ancient Greek humors, and the content would be perfectly recognizable to Hippocrates.

Immigrants at ICE’s Adelanto detention center denounce lack of medical care and “inhumane” conditions. A federal lawsuit by immigrants detained at the ICE facility alleges they’re treated like “dogs in cages” and denied food and water. lapublicpress.org/2026/02/la-i...

gift link. so horrifying www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

You’ve seen the halftime show … now read my friend Petra’s new book from @dukepress.bsky.social about how Bad Bunny became the global voice of Puerto Rican resistance! 👏🏽👏🏽 www.dukeupress.edu/p-fkn-r

Sums up the whole game

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

"The Kremlin viewed the assault on the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 as proof of the weakness of theAmerican political system." Great roundup of recent books on Russia. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

This is so much true. There's even an organization solely set up to help whistleblowers psychologically. @whistlep2p.bsky.social

Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supporters said Sunday.

They obey basically zero rules of the road. They speed, they go the wrong way on one way streets, they run lights & stop signs. Even if you aren't someone they try to intimidate, arrest, or abduct they're putting lives at serious risk. Slowing them down may save lives for multiple reasons.

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

A lot of what makes red states seem viable for young ppl is having colleges in them theyre interested in attending, which, for a long time, was mutually beneficial: those states/communities got economic boosts & those young ppl got good schools. Like so much else now, Rs want to burn that down.

Epstein was in and out of Russia every few months according to his travel documents, but Mandelson was partying in nightclubs in St Petersburg and regularly in Moscow. How did our intelligence services fail to pick this up? Or were their reports and investigations suppressed?

Even the Post’s AI bot still thinks Will Lewis is still in charge Probably because its “answers are AI generated from Washington Post reporting.”

Full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...

How Minneapolis Taught America to Fight Back revealnews.org/podcast/minn...

Days after Washington Post laid off 300 journalists, publisher Will Lewis -- conspicuously absent during the notifications to those whose jobs were cut -- is stepping down. Attached is Lewis' memo to staff, courtesy of my NPR colleague David Folkenflik. READ: https://loom.ly/vZyjS90

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

The Epstein files also reveal that employees from the FBI’s FOIA office provided training to dozens of field agents on how to process and redact the documents using Adobe Pro. I found some of their training slides in the trove.

Welp.

State Department will delete all pre-Trump X posts www.npr.org/2026/02/07/n... We have always been at war with Eurasia

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

This is correct. In-group policing is continous.

"In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the front lines." www.glamour.com/story/the-wo... @glamour.com

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Y’all, I’m losing my mind over here. I need everyone to read this article. I can’t go it alone!!! “Epstein argues that teaching children to write may be harmful because writing forces “linear” and “narrow” patterns of thinking, whereas the greatest thinkers never wrote.”

Please, if you're in need of [insert every journalism role]

Isn’t it supposed to go the other way