Literally anything can be true about a plaid on 82nd. I once saw a very drunk Darius Miles buy all the red vines the store had while smoking a blunt. At a plaid pantry 82nd. Doesn't matter which one. It was all of them.

Bessent: I got a feeling the American people won't see the $175 billion in tariff revenue we collected

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

This is so bad you guys. So SO bad.

I am neither dead nor wealthy. I am, however, beginning to question what "soon" really means.

I've had this thing since Trump season 01. Feeling as good as ever about that Etsy purchase.

A point I’ve been making a lot is that the tariffs are 1) the policy most personally important to Trump 2) the least popular policy with the American people according to polling 3) substantively destructive and incoherent 4) genuinely opposed by large swaths of conservative constituencies.

This would be no commitment, occasional you quote they pay work. None of the welding profiles are difficult per se, but it's all 6061 aluminum that needs to be minimally warped.

Do I know any skilled aluminum welders interested in small job contract work?

For reference, a former coworker, who is a registered member of the Federalist Society, called this guy a "walking hate crime." He's been working here longer than I've been alive. HR won't touch him.

Coworker: Whats the word for half-white half-black? Mulatto? Me: 🤨 CW: What? That's not racist! Me: Maybe. But it's used exclusively by racists. CW: You learned too much down there in Eugene... Me: To hate the Klan? CW: Exactly! I am the Klan! Go Trump! (actual real conversation I just had)

one of the fake-savviest things people say online is “pharma companies don’t wanna find a cure for ___ because it’s more profitable to keep you sick” and like, no, they would love to make a shit ton of money very quickly, that’s kind of, for better and worse, capitalism’s whole deal

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

🎶 and we'll never rest again 🎶 until every nazi dies #HonorTheDead #FightLikeHellForTheLiving

The 1988 murder of Ethiopian immigrant Mulugeta Seraw by neo-Nazi skinheads shocked Portland, but white supremacist violence had been roiling the city’s counterculture for years before the killing.

Kat Mahoney has tea on a bunch of high-level grifters

A cyber truck is just proof that you can really convince people to purchase anything

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

So... turns out if you are staying in one of the overnight shelters that Wilson popped up - if you are taking hormones via injection, you're tossed out. There is no secluded or supervised space where you can do that and dispose of the needle. They just say "NO NEEDLES" and kick you out.

The resource center downtown was filled with folks on Monday, just trying to get warm, maybe get a warm jacket (they were low), or a hot shower (we're nearly out of towels) The next few days will be brutal. That there is no plan hurts my heart to hear.

Journalists are reporting that Juan Nicolas, a two-month-old detainee at the Dilley, Texas ICE Family Concentration Camp, has deteriorated so severely that he was rushed to a hospital in an unknown condition on February 16, 2026.

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas. As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. She replied: “To get out of here.”

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

In the early morning, ICE raided the elementary school bus stop during the pick-up time, causing panic among the 4th and 5th graders. This unfortunate event took place outside the Woodland Village Apartments in Lindenwold, New Jersey.

Guys I found the best Epstein Files email. The one that illuminates an elite class that's cocooned themselves into an unaccountable shell of wealth and privilege, fighting to protect their secrets and offenses. I could write a novel about this email. prospect.org/2026/02/17/e...

ngl I got a little misty-eyed when John Oliver said ICE must be abolished 🥲 #ICEOUT #ABOLISHICE

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

People are learning in real time that 'All Cops Are Bastards' was never hyperbole... ...your mythological "good cops" are aiding and abetting those murdering our neighbors. #ACAB #ICEOUT #abolishICE

The people who engineered the end of all life on earth have airports and courthouses named after them, unironically. That's the nation we live in.

We used to be worried about wasting trees on paperwork and now we’re poisoning towns for fuckall

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

HUGE UPDATE: we confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi. He is one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000. Hideous, grotesque, fascist-loving coward, this man has blood on his hands. We will not forgive and we will not forget.

Minneapolis built more housing and rents fell. Austin built more housing and rents fell. San Diego—one of the most expensive cities in the country—built more housing and rents fell. Maybe Portland should be pulling out all the stops to build more housing.

It occurs to me that Stancil’s lack of familiarity with organizing traditions is a thread running through a lot of seemingly disparate elements of his lore.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

A "change in payment history" just erased 70pts from my credit score 😭

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

report from St Paul: "Very bad car accident involving ice agent who left the scene"

I reject authority because I don't believe any human being is "good" enough or incoruptable enough for that degree of power. Some are much, much better than others. But that doesn't change the fact that authority is a fundamentally flawed notion.

Apropos of nothing... If I fall, please do the smart thing, not the cathartic thing. And tell your family you love them. If they deserve it.

Q: Can you confirm that CBP actually hit a party balloon it thought was a drone with a laser? And why wasn't that coordinated with the FAA? KRISTI NOEM: You know, this was a joint agency task force, um, mission that was undertaken. And um, we're continuing to work on communication *ends presser*

I think we all like to focus on Nazi Germany for our analogies (and I include myself in this) because the comparisons to integration in the 1950s/60s (a far more informative comparison) hits too close to home and rings dissonant with myths of American exceptionalism that we are still un-learning.

Friday fit check #fixyourheartordie

I love that people are announcing what candidates need to do to earn their votes well in advance of elections. Even if the posts are like pennies pitched into a wishing well, having standards of any sort is infinitely better than lesser evilism.

The Portland Timbers had some glaring holes in their squad build coming into the season. They didn’t fill them. This should be interesting.

Man, I love how well @prophiphop.bsky.social cuts through the bullshit. Tap in with him...