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I read a lot of books, Some of them are interesting enough to write about at emptywheel.net. Retired lawyer. Currently essays by Doerfler and Moyn and Regime Change by Deneen. Avatar: detail from Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden by Masaccio.

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“ICE aren’t actually fearful of their safety. What they’re fearful of is not being invited to baseball games or not being invited to the pub with their friends. Community exclusion – that’s what they’re fearful of.”
– ICE List Founder

bsky.app/profile/mria...

10.02.2026 17:26 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Smug and Vacuous David Brooks Is Perfect for “The Atlantic” The former New York Times columnist is a one-man cottage industry of lazy cultural stereotyping.

Always fun to read a takedown of the insufferable David Brooks. This is by Chris Lehmann in The Nation.

I wonder if Brooks has ever read a book cover to cover.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

10.02.2026 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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ICE is killing and wounding us.

Holy Speaker Mike is worried someone might say something ugly to the shooters or their families.

This is your Republican Party.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/n...

10.02.2026 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Democrats say White House offer on ICE is ‘insufficient’ as Homeland Security funding set to expire - The Boston Globe Democratic leaders said that a White House counterproposal to their list of demands does not address “the concerns Americans have about ICE’s lawless conduct.”

Possible spinal growth?

Dare we hope?

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/10/n...

10.02.2026 16:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stephen Miller is a top Trump adviser. Katie Miller has a podcast. So who’s advertising on it? - The Boston Globe Amid her episodes with Trump administration officials, celebrities, and health influencers, Katie Miller’s podcast has attracted advertisers and guests who are trying to shape policy.

American Beverage Association
Merchants Payments Coalition
Polymarket (?)
These and others want something and pay Stephen Miller's wife to help get it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/04/n...

10.02.2026 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@atrupar.com you recently sought input from subscribers like me on issues we'd like to see covered. I suggested State Bar Discipline Boards.

We need public scrutiny of their actions on matters like this.
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09.02.2026 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

More of this, please.

A whole lot more.

09.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
VA Terror Prosecutor Accused of Anti-Muslim Bias A federal prosecutor who has led a series of investigations into Islamic militants and Muslim groups based in Virginia, Gordon Kromberg, may soon be facing a trial of sorts himself, if defense lawyers...

This guy?
www.cair.com/cair_in_the_...

09.02.2026 19:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The NFL Told You Why It Booked Bad Bunny The league's own executives explained the strategy, on the record, for years. Conservative media pretended it wasn't happening.

The right-wing outrage grifters shriek about solid business decisions by the most popular singer in the world and the billionaire owners of the NFL. They try to hold their audience with Kid Rock [Suppresses a snicker].

This is why I subscribe to Parker Malloy. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

09.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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County's top prosecutor calls Mayor Brandon Johnson's ICE executive order 'wholly inappropriate' Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke said an executive order requiring cops to document potential violations by federal agents could raise issues of political interference that could jeop...

Chicago DA Eileen O'Neill Burke says she'll prosecute ICE/CBP agents who act unlawfully.

I assume any day now we'll see an indictment of the thug who tried to kill Marimar Martinez months ago and then charged her with assault.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

09.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Susan Collins' office refused to comment.

The article quotes the lies of DHS. People in Maine know they're liars.

09.02.2026 17:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A racist Kavanaugh stop.

Attacks on Somali-Americans justify attacking every Black person in the nation. Focusing on Latino people was just the first step for Trump's racist regime.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

09.02.2026 17:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Maine shaken by ICE raids as backlash threatens Republican Senate control Workers and unions condemn ICE operation as ‘horrific’ as pressure builds on Susan Collins, facing re-election this year

Susan Collins always feels troubled and writes sad letters and sadly votes for evil. She told Kristi Noem she's troubled by ICE goons assaulting her constituents. Nothing changed.

Collins, 73, has gotten away with this for decades. Time for her to go. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

09.02.2026 17:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That'll be harder with all the public stuff from the Epstein Files. I bet it would be even harder if we had all of them.

09.02.2026 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What *about* that 5-year-old US citizen? Finish the sentence, Congressman. What does that hypothetical child have to do with Liam Ramos? Spell it out. Don’t just say “but what about our kids” and stop there. Explain your logic.

08.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 1290    🔁 284    💬 74    📌 11

LOLOLOL

09.02.2026 01:51 — 👍 3372    🔁 381    💬 12    📌 1

I'm guessing these clods never saw an opera.

09.02.2026 04:55 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Somebody's never heard of Genius Lyrics.

09.02.2026 04:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
An additional very important point: AIPAC never mentions Israel in its attack ads (for obvious reason) and instead hits whatever negative thing polls best. 

In NJ11, AIPAC slammed Malinowski with $2M of ads for…VOTING TO FUND ICE IN 2019.

And it worked! It destroyed his numbers. 

Pragmatic Dems will learn the lesson: if you vote to fund ICE or publicly defend ICE, your future opponent will destroy you with it. 

If anybody has the ad handy, please post below

An additional very important point: AIPAC never mentions Israel in its attack ads (for obvious reason) and instead hits whatever negative thing polls best. In NJ11, AIPAC slammed Malinowski with $2M of ads for…VOTING TO FUND ICE IN 2019. And it worked! It destroyed his numbers. Pragmatic Dems will learn the lesson: if you vote to fund ICE or publicly defend ICE, your future opponent will destroy you with it. If anybody has the ad handy, please post below

Michael Lange
@MichaelLangeNYC
Rare national politics tweet, but this is WILD! New Jersey’s 11th District is:

— Very wealthy (97th percentile)
— Very educated (96th percentile)
— Very Gen-X (97th percentile)
— Very homeowner (72%)

Welcome to the Democratic Tea Party!

NYC equivalent: a socialist wins NY12.

Michael Lange @MichaelLangeNYC Rare national politics tweet, but this is WILD! New Jersey’s 11th District is: — Very wealthy (97th percentile) — Very educated (96th percentile) — Very Gen-X (97th percentile) — Very homeowner (72%) Welcome to the Democratic Tea Party! NYC equivalent: a socialist wins NY12.

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An additional very important point: AIPAC never mentions Israel in its attack ads (for obvious reason) & instead hits whatever negative thing polls best.

In NJ11, AIPAC slammed Malinowski w/ $2M of ads for…VOTING TO FUND ICE IN 2019.

And it worked! It destroyed his numbers.

Pragmatic Dems will...

08.02.2026 17:05 — 👍 52    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

Gonzalez asked Jesus "who is my neighbor".

Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan.

Gonzales: obviously the first two who passed the beaten man and did nothing.

08.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Taking the leap: Why more Black women are making the move to live abroad - The Boston Globe In their 20s and older, Black women are meeting online to share the pros and cons of beginning a new season of their lives outside the US.

Here's something you don't see very often: an article about Black Women.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/05/m...

08.02.2026 16:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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She's 8 MONTHS PREGNANT & was kidnapped by ICE...or someone!

When ANYONE can mask up, dress as ICE & rent a black SUV, what's to stop them from just kidnapping people?

In California, we passed a law against masks & it's not being followed.

Police aren't protecting us, no one is.

#ICELawlessness

07.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 1448    🔁 801    💬 68    📌 22

To watch ICE murder people and abduct children and then have the gall to say “I totally stand against this but calling to end this could hurt our election chances.”

No, it won’t, and if you can’t stand against fascism you don’t deserve to win an election anyway.

07.02.2026 19:14 — 👍 175    🔁 50    💬 1    📌 2
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Epstein's Russia connections, explained Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk became the first high-ranking official to ask the question on everyone’s mind — Was convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein working with Russia? He added that Poland ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk became the first high-ranking official to ask the question on everyone’s mind — Was convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein working with Russia?

He added that Poland would investigate possible links between Epstein and Russian intelligence services.

05.02.2026 20:44 — 👍 1522    🔁 565    💬 56    📌 25
A gray Jeep Wagoneer with an Arkansas license plate, seen from behind. A dildo with testicles is flying past the back of the car, obscuring the "N" in Wagoneer. There's a purple dildo in the street where the car has just passed. Beyond, there is a concrete barricade with chain link fencing, protesters beyond with an upside down US flag and a bunch of signs, one of which I think is accusing local law enforcement of being cucks.

A gray Jeep Wagoneer with an Arkansas license plate, seen from behind. A dildo with testicles is flying past the back of the car, obscuring the "N" in Wagoneer. There's a purple dildo in the street where the car has just passed. Beyond, there is a concrete barricade with chain link fencing, protesters beyond with an upside down US flag and a bunch of signs, one of which I think is accusing local law enforcement of being cucks.

Second picture:

07.02.2026 19:17 — 👍 49    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

It will speed up the loss of smart people from these states. No smart kid is going to choose Oklahoma higher ed if they can get into a serious college. And few, if any, will go back.

07.02.2026 23:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ask Ron Wyden.

07.02.2026 23:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This isn't about proper procedure, that's a given with this lawless Regime. Arguing about procedures as the Trump ally Tom Cotton does is an effort to hide the substance of the phone call.

The call and its contents are the crucial issue.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.02.2026 23:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this what Ron Wyden's letter references? bsky.app/profile/dell...

07.02.2026 23:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff

Gabbard's press secretary says this story is false.

Therefore we know it is true.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

07.02.2026 23:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

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