Brian Drury

have been in a generally grumpy mood for days and felt better today and realized it's because the sun is out and i have a large glass of water. i'm literally just a plant that's been cursed with the ability to complain.

These are some interesting numbers out of Texas

I have spoken to two people now who have told me that only part of their FBI interviews are in the released files, and the parts of their interviews that are missing include mentions of Trump. 1/

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

Happy 50th Birthday To Kelly Macdonald
Kelly Macdonald (Born 23 February 1976) Is A Scottish Actress. Known For Her Performances On Film And Television, She Has Received Various Accolades Including A BAFTA Award, A Primetime Emmy Award, And Four Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., won’t move forward, governor says - The Boston Globe “We can breathe easy again,” said the chair of the Merrimack Town Council, which had opposed the warehouse.

“Today, the people of Merrimack and all of New Hampshire proved that organized, local voices are more powerful than a federal agency’s ruthless expansion,” she said. “This is a victory for us and all of New England but it is not the end of the fight.”

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/24/m...

Wow. Mike Johnson only took 2 Qs during today's House R presser - he usually takes at least 4 - and neither was about Rep. Tony Gonzales. Johnson is refusing to call for Gonzales's resignation following the release of texts showing he pressured an aide who later committed suicide for sexual photos.

Ahead of his State of the Union address, Trump’s woeful approval rating ‘amazes’ him At a White House event, the president, expressing a sentiment he rarely shares, said, “It just amazes me that there’s not more support out there.”

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

On Twitter's End A Moment of Truth for American Business

When I left Twitter in 2022, I wrote this:

On Twitter's End
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Trump is melting down. One minute he’s raging, then he’s whining, then he’s threatening, then he sounds like he’s about to cry. Rambling off on tangents. Totally unhinged manic.

More explosions in Kharkiv‼️ There was 6 or 7 already.
Fuck russia ‼️

This isn’t the first time ICE shattered a car window with a newborn inside

An ICE observer found a baby in Minnesota covered in pieces of glass

They grabbed this man & wouldn’t let him say goodbye to his wife & newborn baby

He had valid ID

Their response? “That ain’t shit”

I will admit Bluesky can be kinda annoying at times, and one of those times is when relatively prominent people come on here solely to insult the entire userbase over some silly drama

My "hot take" on the tariff decision is that Justice Alito would never stay silent amid a full-on SCOTUS food fight (which the many squabbling concurrences & dissents reflect), unless he was busy cooking up something else nefarious & genuinely awful in which he is writing for the majority.

Sorry.

We’re all whores here.

Brooklyn 8:37 PM

They Were Convicted of Killing Their Abusers. A New Law Offered a Second Chance at Freedom. An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of women who killed their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

My latest, with @propublica.org + @nytimes.com:

An Oklahoma law was supposed to help reduce the sentences of domestic violence survivors who fought back -- women who are serving long sentences for killing their abusers. Why are nearly all of them still in prison?

www.propublica.org/article/okla...

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

Just an amazing string of coincidences that the Republican Party has so many pedophiles, pedophile enablers and pedophile protectors in its ranks.

$1.2 billion on one of the richest companies on earth is genuinely, sincerely, criminal. That is quite literally money stolen from us on multiple fronts.

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Quietly, the Trump administration is now ending even the life-saving aid that they had promised would be preserved

Reporting from @hana-kiros.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

This is what I was talking about last year in my piece on the Everglades camp for MSNBC, when it was already clear the US government was talking to several countries. Not only is the US creating a domestic network of camps, "we’re watching the imposition of a global concentration camp network."

The Week Ahead The primary focus this week is probably going to be on the State of the Union address.

Every Sunday I write a column called “The Week Ahead” that focuses on what we can expect in the coming week. Tonight’s column also focuses on some news the gov’t tried to conceal from us. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

U.S. Immigration Deportees Held in Secret African Detention Facility Sending migrants to Cameroon skirted judicial orders, lawyers said.

"As the journalists interacted with the migrants, uniformed police barged in and detained the lawyer and four journalists. Police confiscated their cameras, laptops and phones..."

www.wsj.com/world/africa...

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

Slavery exhibit returns to Philadelphia's Independence Mall after Trump administration ordered its removal Workers on Thursday began restoring an exhibit on the lives of the nine people once enslaved at the former President's House in Philadelphia amid a contentious legal fight between the city and the Tru...

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Proposed location for ICE facility in Merrimack sits within PFAS contamination zone Many Merrimack residents have long faced issues with chemical pollution in their drinking water.

Merrimack, NH:

"Testing of a groundwater sample from a well near the warehouse [site of proposed Trump prison camp] in 2021 found PFOA present at 109 parts per trillion. That’s far higher than the state standard for PFOA in drinking water of 12 parts per trillion..."

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026...

no matter how incompetent he is (and he definitely is) if you had serious shit going on with the fbi right now — like, idk, maybe your elderly mother’s abduction — i imagine the anger seeing this would fuel future generations