Racist-ass people

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

We're getting numb to impeachable offenses, but this is an *artisan* impeachable offense. It's the good stuff. Top shelf. Fine, Corinthian constitutional crisis.

This gives you a sense of scale of the Trump admin's new refugee detention policy; they are claiming that all 100,000 of these lawfully present refugees MUST be arrested and detained for "re-vetting" and interrogation about their status.

me: [crying] gus: why are you crying you don’t even care about hockey me: i just love sports so much

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EAGLES HAMBURGERS AND CRIPPLINGLY EXPENSIVE HEALTHCARE USA #1

LESBIANS!!!!!

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

Federal judge rules ICE can’t take Kilmar Abrego Garcia back into custody | via @arianalfigueroa.bsky.social #ksleg

We’re still seeing ICE a lot in the suburbs, following legal observers to their homes, and holding tons of our neighbors at Whipple and then dumping them out in the middle of the night. We still need to stay vigilant until every last one of them leaves our state and our neighbors are back home.

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE. Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program.  That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract! And New Mexico did the same last week:

A heartwarming tale of the feds failing to get any CODIS DNA matches thus being "forced" to continue the once quiet tradition that started around 2018 of running suspect DNA thru databases like 23andMe and Ancestry who all claim not to release info to cops without consent but obviously still do

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

Going to go out on a limb and say that this 2-month old wasn't a "hardened criminal" as ICE keeps pretending that they are targeting www.commondreams.org/news/ice-dep...

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science. By @megomatz.bsky.social

The Dallas ICE field office is the #2 office in terms of arrests. We found the office has routinely violated federal limits on detention, even as that limit has expanded. Family members of detainees have alleged inhumane treatment. Activists want the city to act. www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/...

I give more of my net worth to the homeless on the street in an average year than Elon Musk has given to anyone, ever, in all forms of charity combined, over his entire life.

There is no bottom with these people. Think of how much we don't know about what is going on inside the concentration camps. I want to hear from every Democratic elected official and candidate about their plans for accountability once this regime is out of power.

⚠️ US war with Iran could begin in days. Reports out of Israel via Barak Ravid could be negotiation pressure, but the US military build up in the region exceeds what one would usually expect for mere gunboat diplomacy. The USS Ford strike group is in the Atlantic on its way to join the USS Lincoln.

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

Perhaps most telling is that by signing onto the WEXMAC TITUS program, vendors are contractually not allowed to refuse ICE jobs. “So if there was a US citizen—a baby, or someone sick that clearly shouldn’t be there—the contractor can’t say they don’t want to take them," a fed worker told me.

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision. After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

A system built to eat people never stops eating people.

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

I still think the best way to think of the ending of US AID is as the single worst genocide committed by any one US presidential administration. even given all the horrific things the US has done, it's not really that close. 750k dead already; expected 14 million.

Omni transported the first group of nine third-country nationals to Cameroon last month. The migrants and their attorneys told the NYT they were being held at a government compound and pressured to return to their home countries. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

BREAKING: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader from the era of MLK to Black Lives Matter, has died at 84, his family said.

I have got a whole lot of bridges to sell you if you actually believe prosecutors love to bring charges against famous and powerful people

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

The President of the United States most likely raped girls along with his best friend Epstein. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

I have multiple videos of ICE agents doing this to legal observers. They did it to me too.

There had to be a better way to state that this CPB used his position to coerce his married, *biological* neice into a relationship.

I will admit this was one that I had to both click through and then search for myself to believe it's real.

This is just unconscionable man

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Once again, a reminder that you now live in a country where there are two classes of citizenship, & approximately 26 million of us are being reminded on a regular basis by the far right authoritarian party that we have the lesser kind.

Still around 100 community reports of ICE activity around the Twin Cities today, the most of any state by far. In case you’re wondering why so many of us aren’t quite taking Homan’s presser today at face value.

Famously Americans hate foreign wine

Considering the previous "draw down" was purely symbolic, I'm skeptical about what this will functionally mean. That said, for the sake of the people of Minnesota, I pray it's true and that this campaign of terror will soon be over.

I heard about a killing of a Black man in DC by US marshals on a call from someone in the neighborhood then saw it confirmed by the organization @harrietsdreams.bsky.social & here. A Black man in DC was killed by the state today. Make the same noise for him as for anyone else when we have his name.

Steve Jobs had the most treatable form of pancreatic cancer around and he refused conventional treatments which he admitted at the time of his death cost him is life. I'm BEGGING you not to use celebrities who only reveal tiny bits of their medical diagnosis to make a larger point about society

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Trump's Department of Justice was apparently monitoring members of Congress as they search through the newly-unredacted Epstein Files, tracking their search terms. Rep. Jamie Raskin calls it "Orwellian" and a "violation of the separation of powers." @premthakker.bsky.social