David M. P. Freund

My almost 105 year old abuelita-in-law is VERY excited for Bad Bunny. She came from the island, and for her entire life, she’s been an American citizen! Voted for FDR! 🇵🇷🇺🇸

As a totally anecdotal measure of how normies are fed up: I’m on a peloton Super Bowl ride right now where 80 people are riding with #AbolishICE as their leaderboard tag

YouTube video by Black Sabbath - Topic Black Sabbath (2014 Remaster)

This helped today. You know, "without warning, a wizard walks by."
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nice

"Cobra" is phenomenal. That album is scary-good.

Digable Planets on Front Porch?!

Happy Black History Month!!

Yes, AND it created (by managing and insuring) the modern mortgage market. Government spending is public money, and bank lending is money created with permission and heavy lifting from the Treasury.

Yesterday, thousands of LAUSD students held a walkout at City Hall to protest the federal government's immigration raids.

Their message was clear—ICE out of our schools, ICE out of our city, ICE out of everywhere.

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About 500 BYU students, alumni and others protested Thursday against Border Patrol’s presence at a job fair on the Provo campus, chanting “BYU get ICE out” and “Border Patrol has got to go.”
(Video by The Tribune’s Francisco Kjolseth)
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mastermind! what's this from?

whoa

Neighbors: Blockades are pop-up parties that also slow down ICE agents Organizers are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods: pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets. Tom Homan, the Trump administration border cza...

Minneapolis residents are trying a new tactic to slow and deter federal agents from entering city neighborhoods. Called filter blockades, they’re pop-up block parties in the middle of city streets, and they’ve already earned the ire of Trump border czar Tom Homan (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

New York City and Illinois join WHO network after Trump pulls US out of global health body Illinois governor pledges to put ‘science, preparedness and people’ first by participating in global response network, following similar move by California

New York City and Illinois join WHO network after Trump pulls US out of global health body

Let's go!

yup

VIl. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Ana C. Reyes Date: February 2, 2026 ANA C. REYES United States District Judge

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

Talk about losing the news cycle. Meanwhile Fox is defending a line-up of men who just wanted to "party" with Epstein. And check out the lineup for the alternative Super Bowl half time show. The GOP is on a role.

bravo!

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from ending temporary legal status for Haitians in the US A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the United States.

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S.

Israel to halt MSF work in Gaza, NGO slams ‘pretext to obstruct’ aid Israel on Sunday announced that it was terminating Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operations in Gaza over its failure to provide a list of Palestinian staff. MSF called the…

Israel is terminating Doctors Without Borders operations in Gaza (MSF). MSF calls decision "pretext to obstruct humanitarian assistance" and says it did not hand over staff names because Israel failed to provide assurances to guarantee their safety.
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Behind the Bleachers The business of sports looks a lot like the rest of our unequal, excessively financialized economy.

Behind the Bleachers: The business of sports looks a lot like the rest of our unequal, excessively financialized economy. buff.ly/c4aAG8l

‘Backing down isn’t an option’: Minnesota ICE shootings mobilize Americans to join ICE observer groups The killings of Minneapolis residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti have inspired people across the US to document federal agents’ activities in their communities

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed.

ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

without and despite the elite institutions that were supposed to serve as guardrails, this country is standing up and saying fuck no to the fascists

and there are so, so many more of us than there are of them

Mayor Mamdani stands beside a young toddler at a home-based child care facility.

Mayor Mamdani waves at young children seated at a home-based child care facility.

I just visited one of our city’s child care providers to spread the word about 3-K & Pre-K.

50,000+ families have already applied & we’re going block by block to make sure every eligible New Yorker enrolls.

Applications are open through Feb. 27. Apply: myschools.nyc

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

Among the saddest, most predictable, and *hillarious* headlines of the day. The Larry Summers of social/political commentary? ("Could go this way. . . or the other!"). He'll teach classes on "saying nothing in particular."

This ICE Rapid Response seminar has 5000 people in it. People are activated.

I've been teaching Schoolhouse Rock's "Elbow Room" for almost 30 years. Generally start the U.S. survey with a group viewing and discussion. Here we go.

❤️

Liam is in ICE custody and his health is deteriorating.

Joaquin Castro says Liam is depressed, lethargic, sleeping excessively and barely eating, repeatedly asking about his mom, and when he can go home. He’s withdrawn and not the bright preschooler he was just days ago.

LIAM NEEDS A DOCTOR
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