Also/alternatively, that’s the price of 20 bottles of night wince wine—the pillow pays for itself in a month👍
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Also/alternatively, that’s the price of 20 bottles of night wince wine—the pillow pays for itself in a month👍
fun fact: the Strategy Cheese (Elbridge Colby) was roommates with Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam
Acknowledging & unworking that capture is a huge task, & US Christian people need to face up to it.
Also relevant: both black & white churches have a history that precedes the evangelical right capture that’s ruled since the late 70s. jacobin.com/2026/02/dorr...
My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.
Instead he slips into the lame argument that Iran has killed Americans in the past in Iraq, Lebanon, etc.
Yes, they have. As a lawyer, he knows that retaliation for such acts done decades ago is not a legitimate casus belli.
He just hasn't really reformed from his neocon ways.
Any key pickups Rams could make to help edge past Seattle et al in ‘26?
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Martin Wolf’s last two FT columns agree
The birthright citizenship IS an easy case. That’s the point. That’s the flex. “No matter what rights you think you have, no matter how universally acknowledged you think they are, no matter how central to American values those rights are, WE decide whether or not you have those rights”……
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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.
Schmitz, elite enough to have his engagement announced in the NYT, makes a career sneering at ‘elites.’ His wife Julia Yost (also an Ivy) penned a tee-hee brunchlord obit of Toni Morrison in First Things that’s exhibit A of projection.
"He was yelling 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe' as they hit him"
DHS deported one of the witnesses to the death of Geraldo Lunas Campos at Camp East Montana. He was held in disciplinary segregation at the time when guards choked the 55-year-old Cuban immigrant to death.
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Read this thread. "Did airport employees in Portsmouth even know 100-200 shackled people were likely sitting on a plane on their tarmac all night?" #NHPolitics
This story really stuck with me, largely because it showed how people already living so precariously -- little money, no access to banking, reliance on informal systems -- fall prey to an immigration/criminal system supercharged to the max.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF
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On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.) The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.) O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.) The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id. ¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud, and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)
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...
Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73
Reminds of this, & of leafing through print periodicals/papers because of the unexpected finds… www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
(@gregsargent.bsky.social does great work, as does Krugman. What was troubling was the acceptance that Biden’s border policies were open/liberal. They were not.)
I heard the Biden-soft-border line repeated by someone as good as @gregsargent.bsky.social in his pod interview with Paul Krugman this week. “Biden’s Open Borders” is an accepted narrative across the spectrum. It’s true there was a surge of folks coming! False that Biden policies were at all ‘open.’
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social This thread might be of interest re what it’s like to represent clients under this admin.
So it’s a race: how quickly can a person’s family realize they were snatched and find a lawyer, and how quickly can that lawyer get a habeas petition of file? And is that faster than ICE can load the detainee on a plane to Texas?
It’s exhausting and terrifying. It can be life and death.
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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.
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:
- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown
This is unprecedented.
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
