Drew Conry-Murray

This video is from the Canadian (CBC) broadcast. The commentators of the NBC live broadcast on Peacock (Mary Carillo, Terry Gannon, plus Shaun White specifically for the Parade of Nations) ignored the booing and kept talking. I’m wondering if it seems NBC turned the sound down on the boos too?

I applaud your opening line in this piece: "President Donald Trump, the most vile racist to hold the office of the presidency in the modern era..."

Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I am now raising rent funds for another Minneapolis family who has been impacted by ICE. For this family, the remaining need is $775.

Can we make this happen for them today? I believe in us & will post receipts!

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It's fun watching parents come in with teens as they vote for the first time!

Your local elections always need poll workers! I do it myself. It's a great way to see how elections actually work, to meet your neighbors, and to participate in our democracy. Contact your county elections office to find out how to participate.

This is in fact one of the things congressional Dems can do - and they're doing it (and have been on this and other topics). Hard to break through, but this one seems to have a bit and even when it doesn't creating a public record is worthwhile.

Despite the Trump administration's gaslighting, only 22% of voters think the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti was justified — including only 16% of Independents — according to a new Quinnipiac poll.

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Striking from new Quinnipiac poll:

*Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33

*Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe

Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)

Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

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‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

Is the misogyny of big tech bug - or feature?

@beccalew.bsky.social, on Silicon Valley's decades long fight against the “pussification” of tech.

ICE attorney to judge: ‘This job sucks’ A federal judge admonished DHS for repeatedly defying court orders to release detainees, as government lawyers described widespread noncompliance during Minnesota’s immigration crackdown.

Lots of excellent work today by my @mprnews.org colleagues. This one from @msepic.bsky.social, though, is especially memorable.

Federal atty tells judge: “The system sucks. This job sucks. I wish you would hold me in contempt so I would have a full 24 hours sleep."

www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

Extraordinary US government surveillance of ordinary people is beginning
www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

“.. Not a single Republican member of Congress showed up to the public forum .. on the violence inflicted by federal immigration agents, featuring testimony from the brothers of Renee Good ..”

@newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/post/206100/...

Friends, when the history of this sordid period of America is written — assuming it’s not written by historians trying to curry favor with a future fascist regime — I hope the leaders of American business are condemned to the hellfire they deserve for helping destroy American democracy.

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Listen in" = collect data
"Provide value" = make me richer

Heh

YouTube video by ProPublica A Year in Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign

Year 1 of Trump’s immigration crackdown:

- U.S. citizens were held against their will.
- ICE placed at least 600 immigrant kids in federal shelters.
- Student activists became a target.

That’s not all. Our year in review:

Despite 3 million files, Epstein release leaves big questions unanswered The members of Congress who wrote the law requiring disclosure of the files are still looking for explanations.

The Justice Department finalized its release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. But the Trump administration won’t release millions of other files and many other records with heavy redactions, concerning from those critical of the administration.

Why not both?

Is Thompson's the best tea or just the strongest tea? @drewcm.bsky.social

IT'S HAPPENING

AI controls are coming to Firefox | The Mozilla Blog AI is changing the web, and people want very different things from it. We’ve heard from many who want nothing to do with AI. We’ve also heard from

Starting with Firefox 148, which rolls out on Feb. 24, you’ll find a new AI controls section within the desktop browser settings. It provides a single place to block current and future generative AI features in Firefox.

What it's like to see ICE tear gas kids Attendees at a Portland, OR protest describe a vicious, unprovoked and sudden attack

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets.

These are their stories: