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Epstein files fallout takes down elite figures in Europe, while U.S. reckoning is muted Unlike in Europe, officials in the U.S. with ties to Epstein have largely held their positions of power.

JUST IN: Autocracies propped up by cults protect sexual predators, while democracies don’t as much

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records ...

The US Government is illegally disappearing thousands of people, according to hundreds of federal judges. #ICEout #AbolishICE

Trump's border czar is pulling 700 immigration officers out of Minnesota immediately President Donald Trump's border czar says he is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to turn over arrested immigrants.

Journalists: Claims like Homan’s “the ICE operation in MN has been a success, checking off a list of people wanted for violent crimes who were taken off the streets” should be immediately followed by verified figures or a statement that none could be obtained.

Don’t let them lie. #ICEout

Ten Simple Questions for Congress to Ask Senior Immigration Officials in Public Hearings Ten questions to inform conversations over immigration enforcement policy.

I just published:

10 Simple Questions for Congress to Ask Immigration Officials

- Overstaying a visa is not a crime (that's nearly 50% of all undocumented migrants)

- Unlawful entry (18 usc 1325) is only a misdemeanor. For vast majority of those, the statute of limitations expired long ago
- more

Or it’s more useful rendered more useless

Some things you should know about Fulton County, Georgia The county has already seen numerous claims about election fraud — all debunked. There's no reason to think that Kash Patel's FBI will find something new.

I felt obliged to write up an overview of all of the Fulton County fraud claims that have already been made — and dismissed. Let me know if I forgot any. www.pbump.net/o/some-thing...

I'll take Shades of Nuremberg for $800, Aaron

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That graph speaks for itself, but the DNC platform does not. I hope all liberals and progressives get specific with their voters next year about what laws they’ll pass to improve citizens’ lives vs primarily relying on our presumed hatred of the present low bar for governance.

DFL Party Statement on Trump and Bondi's Attempt to Extort Our State Voter Rolls "Donald Trump and Pam Bondi are demanding access to Minnesotans’ voter rolls in exchange for relieving us from the federal siege we are under," said DFL Party Chair Richard Carlbom. "Let us be direct: Fuck off."

Bondi outlines terms for Walz to ‘restore the rule of law’ in Minnesota after fatal shooting: Reports Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday outlined terms to “restore the rule of law” in Minnesota, just hours after a second person was fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. “You…

In exchange for pulling ICE out of Minneapolis, Trump wants to see Minnesota voter rolls and welfare program info. I hope Walz doesn’t compromise. Doesn’t look like he’s in a mood to.

At the risk of sounding pedantic: America is 💯 about secret arrests and secret police. I side with Mills. But let’s stop defending a historically shitty country and shift to saying “I’m fighting for an America that DOESN’T use secret arrests or secret police.”

One subtle lie the super-rich find convenient is that “politics” only refers to elected and appointed officials.

Politics, to quote my poli sci prof, is “simply the art of determining who gets what.” And leaders of industry have always been in politics.

Elon didn’t start in ‘24 and he never left.

Tl;dr: America’s leading Dem candidate for 2028 is hanging his hopes on keeping big business and multi-billionaires happy.

Can progressives please leave the Democratic Party now? Caucus with them all you want, but please start peeling votes and dollars off these liberal-cosplaying elephants.

Independent autopsy in ICE shooting death of Renee Good released by law firm in civil investigation The results of an independent autopsy for Renee Good have been released as part of a law firm's civil investigation, two weeks after she was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis.

An independent autopsy of Renee Good reveals that she had 3 gunshot wounds: to the left arm, right lung, and left temple that exited the right side of her head. That means the third shot, the most unlawful one, from the side, likely killed her. abc7.com/post/minneap...

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.

Paging Dr. SCOTUS to the OR. We have a Constitution with fractured Amendments 4 and 6…

Trump ties his stance on Greenland to not getting Nobel Peace Prize U.S. President Donald Trump has linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s prime minister that he no longer feels “an ob...

Aw man, y’all should have let Trump into art school—I mean given him a Peace Prize

Very few people think that *relative to the other charts in this set.* I think it’s astounding that 40 years ago, 20-25% of American adults held the belief in Chart 4, and more so that ~5% do today. We can make these targeted observations *and* look at the data as a whole.

Interesting

YouTube video by Gabe Dixon - Topic Bend the Curve

Happy #MLKDay
"...but it's gonna take more of us / to do this work."
- @gabedixonmusic.bsky.social

Interesting to note, re: Graph 4, that Dems and Reps are equally racist about Black people’s inherit ability to learn, and that their equal %s believing this racist myth is still significantly higher than zero.

Minneapolis right now—

At 35th and Park, a crowd has gathered after a car crash involving the feds. Agents just launched tear gas and pepper balls at people.

“ICE is allowed to kill people on the clock” is the weirdest pro-life stance I’ve heard

This is not a radical position. This is a very moderate position. This is a conservative position.

That’s how far gone the Dem and GOP leadership are

EU Parliament eyes freezing US trade deal over Trump’s Greenland threats Unpopular trade agreement could be blocked because of U.S. president’s rhetoric on seizing Greenland.

Please freeze us out. Do not appease my authoritarian imperialistic leader who will do anything to keep the #EpsteinFiles out of the news cycle. Europe knows how appeasement turned out last time.

Everyone please keep your phones charged a your eyes peeled for anything worth recording. For our families, for our neighbors, #ForGood ✊ 🇺🇸

#ReneeNicoleGood

I think of the police shooting scene in V for Vendetta when a crowd surrounds the officer. I shudder to think it could happen soon and suspect the feds and their supporters want it to so they have an excuse to escalate.
This is the 5th ICE-crackdown-related shooting, according to @apnews.com

Don’t leave us hanging; how’d he get it?

MacCALLUM: You have about 100,000 dying from drug overdoses, most of those drugs from from Venezuela and other places

CROW: That's actually not true. The majority of the deaths by drugs in America are the result of meth and fentanyl. Almost none of that comes from Venezuela

That’s a high bar for next year’s FIFA Peace Prize candidates to clear