I would remiss if I did not adequately amplify @cherylrofer.bsky.social's concise, clear, and unassailable summary of why one of the Trump administration's main rationales for its illegal war is bullshit.
As the Kurds who had depended on US support, were betrayed and massacred in their thousands in the 70s, Kissinger famously dismissed the deaths: "covert action should not be confused with missionary work."
…🤔
Willem Dafoe implies the existence of Willem Dafiend which also implieshis inverse existence of Willem Dafriend except when that’s Willem Dafied, Willem Dafouled, and Willem Daflowered by the mutant Willem Diefledermaus who takes Willem Daflight and is the only one allowed to Willem Daflourish.
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
Important thread and article by Greg Sargent about ICE and CBP stockpiling military-style weaponry. They claim they‘re targeting the “worst of the worst” undocumented immigrants, but it looks more and more like the target is any American who refuses to submit to the regime.
File this under "argument that any decent, normally intelligent person would never make because it's completely stupid."
Excellent! Slavery exhibits restored.
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I wrote a short article for @myhnn.bsky.social analyzing the hemispheric histories behind Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime shown. I show that hemispheric discourses have long been used to combat the politics of empire. Link below!
www.hnn.us/article/the-...
Seeing this out of context was a little alarming
I heard Dahlia Lithwick speculate that he would appoint Jeanine Pirro and y'know, it could happen.
“You have to use AI to save time and meet your production metrics”
“But it has a high error rate; why would I use something that unreliable?”
“You have to check it’s work”
“Okay but that eats up all the time I ‘saved’”
“Use it anyway”
“Upon arrival at the center — which is the same where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was held with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias — Amalia's health worsened quickly, the lawsuit said, and on Jan. 1, she developed a fever that peaked at 104 degrees and would not break.”
An anti-tax group’s $526,000 donation highlights how ‘leadership committees’ are fueling a financial arms race — and drawing new legal challenges. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
A MAGA freak in Texas murdered his own daughter in cold blood after they had an argument about Trump.
A grand jury in the Dallas area then *declined to indict him*, and he has not yet faced charges.
Seems like many Texans believe a man has the right to kill his own child for disobedience.
The Hill: Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years by Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/11/26 10:38 AM ET
Politico: Gallup retreats from political polling , again under new leadership Gallup will announce friday that it plans to measure President Donald Trump's job approval rating only on a monthly basis. 12/21/2018
If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
image from today's hearing
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them
(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.
If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...
God the people mad about music like this must live such sad miserable little lives
Bonkers headline: "We're all in the Epstein Files (feat Ross Douthat)"
raise your hand if you are not, in fact, in the Epstein files
Breaking MS NOW:
The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official.
At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance.
www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...
This is what reminded me of this goofball’s existence. bsky.app/profile/goph...
Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
never mindthe jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1) History of the English People
2) Russian Literature in the Gogolian Tradition
3) African-American History
4) The Nature of Soviet Ideological Language and Thought
5) student run seminar on history of Apartheid South Africa
There is an obvious and striking asymmetry between how the government thinks about the value of privacy for ICE/CBP and the people that they stop, monitor and detain. bsky.app/profile/qjur...
shocking that the member of the Trump regime whose defining personality trait was "Cosplaying Reinhard Heydrich" was the first to get canned
YouGov is out with a new poll after ICE killed another person in Minnesota today. Abolishing ICE is now +5 among all adults, and **+12 among independents**
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THEY TRIED TO GET A WARRANT TO CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN THEY SHOT DEAD
