Derek Fincham 🌵🗿🏛️🖼️🏴‍☠️

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Opinion | The Depravity of Trump’s Immigrant Detention The president’s immigration dragnet is vicious but not surprising.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The Trump administration is “using detention to inflict pain on anyone — immigrant or citizen — caught in its grasp,” our columnist Jamelle Bouie writes.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

I will not get a shoe at Muses this year. I am in the wrong city.

The world has gone very wrong

what is with these people and dogs?

Holy shit. The prosecutor who just resigned from the D Minn in revolt against orders to investigate Renee Good after her murder is local counsel for Don Lemon now in Minnesota. Wow.

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.

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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

It also points out how the cultural ignorance of much of our pundit & MSM class fails. 135 million Americans watched an important & controversial cultural event & many journalists are 1)ill-equipped to explain its significance or 2) too arrogant to know that would need assistance in unpacking it.

poster announcing event with text reading: "PROFESSOR ERIN THOMPSON ART CRIME LAWYER, NYC PROFESSOR MARY ELLEN O'CONNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW PROFESSOR, NDLS ART HEIST: A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE ON THEFTS FROM MUSEUMS Join SBA, the Sports, Communication, and Entertainment Law Forum, and the Art, Cultural Heritage, and Museum Law Society for this riveting discussion on the law's response to art heist. Listen to art crime law and international law experts reflect on last year's jewelry heist at the Louvre. Chick-fil-A will be served. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 12:30 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. | ECK 1140"

I'll be talking art heists Wednesday at Notre Dame Law School!

aspirational america is unmeasurably important

not just here, but for the world

"Black paid Epstein $158 million between 2012 and 2017 for advice related to tax, estate, and asset planning. That is a vast amount of money to pay for such services, especially for a Wall Street insider with easy access to top expertise."

My friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.

“Is it too obvious to say that of course the right only values family as a system of ownership and property, only values motherhood as a way to push women from public life… only values babies & births when they are white babies and white births, meant to reproduce the nation as they imagine it?”

In 1973 the US Justice Dept filed a civil case against Donald Trump (and his father) for violating the Fair Housing Act - they'd been refusing to rent to black people (39 buildings containing 14,000 apartments!)

Anyway, yes it's racism. It's always been racism.
It's racism all the way down.

Good news on this, and
Happy about the restitution. But ‘ownership’ is a cramped question when colonialism did the taking. Justice can’t be confined to the paperwork colonialism left behind

Essential reading these days. @exlarson.bsky.social is brilliant.

A historic photo of the Greensboro 4.

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do.

#BlackHistoryMonth

Let's all of us American citizens hope that little Liam doesn't now run off and murder one of us, or rape someone, or defraud a government program, or gobble up some of the neighborhood pets. We're putting our society at some real risk here.

Whew. Judge Biery (Clinton appointee) is not messing around, dropping on the feds the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the Fourth Amendment, Ben Franklin, and the Bible.

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it's like SUPER cold for North Carolina today but I went to the farmer's market and on the way back I saw people 10+ years my senior, which is saying something, holding up NO ICE protest signs and I said hey fantastic job it's cold and they said "not as cold as in Minneapolis" blessed people

Opinion | ICE Took Their Classmate. They Started Writing Letters.

Messages to ICE from students at Liam Conejo Ramos's elementary school. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/o...

ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.”

And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.

Oxman's lab received $125,000 in donations: www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Would be curious from those who know DOJ history better to know how often historically the AG has personally signed an indictment.

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Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

when the free speech warriors aren't suing people for saying things they don't like, they're being deathly silent about journalists be hauled to prison for basic on-the-ground reporting of a protest. brave folks.

"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.