Jen DeRosa

There’s no President Barack Obama without Jesse Jackson. It just doesn’t happen.

The thing about ICE and DHS is that I was 28 or 29 when they were created. I remember people arguing that they would become an authoritarian tool specifically designed to terrorize Americans. They knew.

Btw, I am working under the presumption that this Epstein drop is heavily fucked with, as to leave no trace of Trump in it on purpose. So it's interesting to me what and who remains in this drop, and who they therefore deem disposable. Elon, obviously, but maybe Melania?

Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more orderly and humane policy than currently in place. Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026. 7um Jing FRED BIERY UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE Credit: Bystander Matthew 19:14 John 11:35 There is also the photo of the boy from the viral stories included.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Brett Ratner:

You mean as the character he invented after being a Rhodes scholar.

People keep saying "Getting arrested is bad, actually" and while I'd certainly prefer not to be, the administration's entire strategy is built around the idea that I will live in fear of it, and shape my behavior to avoid it, and cry in shame if I am. That is how THEY CONTROL YOU.

btw the civility panic a few years ago was about precisely this: the ability to have polite conversations about how black people are racially inferior in public without criticism or backlash bsky.app/profile/hann...

Nellie says this was about journalism (she wrote about Epstein.) But it's important to note that she's from a Gold Rush dynasty, something she notably did not disclose when writing her critiques of contemporary California.

Another example of uber-wealth affinity.

www.latimes.com/business/sto...

ICE will respond by requiring all non-citizens to wear special badges, perhaps in a unique shape and color so everyone can recognize who's who in the streets.

To be fair, World's Economy Held Hostage by Child Sex Trafficking Ring is much less important than Plan to Save Elephants Turns Deadly.

Folks, you know what the most effective counterterrorism tactic we used in SOCOM was?

Making the enemy so scared of getting hit by a drone strike or a strike team that they hid and isolated themselves.

A single drone or strike team + a bunch of people talking too loudly in public = suppression.

The paid out of state agitators are literally the ICE agents.

I’m on a list.
You’re on a list.
The goal is to make the list so big it’s unusable.

OUR SAFETY COMES FROM OUR NUMBERS, NOT OUR ANONYMITY

Now that TikTok has changed ownership in the U.S., it's as good a time as ever to again say how much I truly hate algospeak euphemisms like "unalived" and whatnot. I wish people would knock that off.

Wouldn’t have made it out of the VEEP writers room

They were meant for peace times through legislation they can’t meet the moment but no one is listening to us, the Dem voters.

We have to get rid of Jeffries and Schumer. We have to. It’s unendurable that these men are the most prominent Democrats of the moment. They are two of the most broadly undistinguished men I could imagine in politics, zero fire, zero fight, zero zeal, machine politicians with sinecures.

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could

The images and stories coming out of Minneapolis are extraordinary. We can't say we did not know what was happening. Lots of people are putting their bodies on the line to make sure we do.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE MENU = • Knut Hamsun (Literature Prize 1920): In 1943, the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun travelled to Germany and met with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. After returning to Norway, he sent his Nobel medal to Goebbels as a gesture of thanks for the meeting. Goebbels was honoured by the gift. The present whereabouts of the medal are unknown.

Trump joins a not-so-long list of people who have acquired someone else's Nobel medal, including... uh... Joseph Goebbels. www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...

The most illustrative reply I’ve ever seen.

Someone just called in ICE knocking doors in Uptown and within 5 minutes maybe 100 people had arrived. Probably a false alarm but extremely hard to see how ICE operates with this kind of suffocating neighborhood response. Incredible work Minneapolis. ICE, just give up and get out already.

The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.