Derek Johnson

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Trump and Netanyahu’s attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression | Kenneth Roth Their actions are no different from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo

Kenneth Roth: It is a perilous world when the fate of entire countries rests on the whims of the likes of Trump and Netanyahu. I would love to see the Islamic Republic end, but not at the expense of a world where our destiny is dictated by the men with the biggest guns.

The facts suggest two interpretive frameworks for Iran: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the U.S.
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If only someone could have predicted this.

📣 LOUDER

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

U.S. Boat Strike Kills 2 in Pacific, With One Survivor

We are murdering people and it is basically just background noise at this point. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.

Fuck ICE

“God bless America” 🇵🇷🇲🇽🇧🇿🇬🇹🇭🇳🇸🇻🇳🇮🇨🇷🇵🇦🇦🇬🇧🇸🇧🇧🇨🇺🇩🇲🇩🇴🇬🇩🇭🇹🇯🇲🇰🇳🇱🇨🇻🇨🇹🇹🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇪🇨🇬🇾🇵🇾🇵🇪🇸🇷🇺🇾🇻🇪🇺🇸🇨🇦

The Venn diagram of people who want their own halftime show and people who want their own water fountain is a circle.

The Venn diagram of people who want their own halftime show and people who want their own water fountain is a circle.

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

“America is fucked”

Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."

A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.

Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Though I will say “human warehouse” is doing some good work 🥴

Another fact that bears repeating: These are concentration camps.

There’s no better or more accurate way to describe this. And the reluctance to use that term — to say what is, to say what’s true — can only strengthen the regime’s hand by preserving a false and dangerous sense of normalcy.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Kafkaesque barely begins to describe the situation of the people DHS illegally deported without due process.

Because of what it did, the government is basically saying their habeas petitions are functionally impossible to pursue.

“Have you tried unplugging it and counting to 30?”

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

Reject appeasement. Reject counter-insurgency. We can stop at nothing less that the total dissolution of ICE

There’s a temptation to settle for less than abolishing ICE. The establishment certainly wants to stop at far less than abolishing ICE. But our future depends on its abolition. In Congress and in the streets we need to push harder than ever, not accept appeasement.

www.jphilll.com/p/reject-app...

First, they came for the immigrants—
And I spoke up because I know
The rest of the fucking poem.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

I’d be very interested in an expert opinion on the following question: can Trump as party to the case propose a settlement offer, and then as president direct the IRS to accept the settlement offer that Trump-as-party proposed?

These are, by definition, concentration camps. And we should all be clear-eyed and brave enough to say so.

Their leadership also refers to that restaurant as existing in a theater of war they’ve been deployed to

What is Nick Shirley? Slop doesn’t need to be AI-generated

The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong.

I landed on "slopagandist."

Gift link (open in a web browser) www.theverge.com/news/869824/...

‘Fascism is here now’: the US athletes pushing back on Trump’s America World Series winner Sean Doolittle, Super Bowl champion Doug Baldwin and college star McKenzie Forbes have strong opinions on a troubled era

"Do not forget the police departments that used physical force against nonviolent student protesters who stood against genocide. The system is rotten to the core and we must recognize that in this moment.”

- McKenzie Forbes

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...