This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

“gives itself?"

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" Paul Farhi @farhip · 57m Here’s the math, according to my convo today with @SarahKaplan48 , a very fine Post reporter who is the steward of @postguild : Paul Farhi @farhip · 57m Sarah says nearly 300 *Guild-covered* employees were laid off on Wednesday, a figure that has been widely reported. But this doesn’t account for layoffs among Post journalists who aren’t covered by the Guild’s contract with the Post. Paul Farhi @farhip · 57m These include some of the journalists in the Post’s foreign bureaus, as well as editors and managers in Washington. Sarah didn’t have a specific number, but the figure is easily “dozens” more, she said. Paul Farhi @farhip · 57m The entire “news hub” in Seoul, for example, is being shut down, affecting more than a dozen people. About half of the Post’s foreign bureau network, built over decades, are being closed. Paul Farhi @farhip · 57m All told, it adds up to “well over” 300 people, per Sarah, or around 350-375 in total. Paul Farhi @farhip Given that the newsroom’s pre-layoff employment was 790 people, this reflects a purge of between 44 percent of the Post’s journalists at the low end and nearly HALF (47.5 percent) at the higher end. Which is to say, the bloodbath was even bloodier than realized. End."

"Given that the newsroom’s pre-layoff employment was 790 people, this reflects a purge of between [44%] of the Post’s journalists at the low end and nearly HALF...at the higher end. Which is to say, the bloodbath was even bloodier than realized." - @farhip.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/02/with...

"We're not doing mass surveillance under the aegis of a single corporation. We're finding lost dogs!"

The marketing person that recommended cloaking it under the mission of finding lost dogs should either get a million dollars or be buried head down in a pit.

WATCH — @patryanforcongress : “DHS and ICE are attempting to build a national network of warehouses for mass detention… 80,000 at a time… tens of billions of dollars… Trump’s multi-billionaire donors will benefit…”

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

Jerry Nadler 👑

Outside in the evening. An office building with video and the words "Palantir Powers Fascism" projected at top. Below, a crowd of people with signs and candles memorializing people who have died at the hands of ICE.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

Preserving Democracy Vigil today (Monday)! Thomas Paine Park in Foley Square NYC. 6-7pm. Today’s speaker will be Norman Siegel, Civil Rights lawyer, reviewing the week in legal news

Ron Charles is/was my favorite person in books coverage. He combined natural readerliness with good humor and a human touch. This is an insane decision. WaPo was the best newspaper books coverage in the country. Bezos just keeps finding new ways to harm reading. Immediate subscribe (✍🏼)

I have been wondering (as an alumna) how @yale.edu has escaped the Harvard/Columbia treatment and assumed there was some sort of #capitulationinadvance going on. Here’s the rose on the tomb. Well played #timsnyder

#BoycottDavos: the whole point of it is to give tycoons even more access to government than they already have

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." MLK, 1968

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The Consequences of Rejecting "Defund the Police" Political cowardice is paid for in blood.

You can’t just talk about how the police should be better. You have to defund the police. You can’t just say that you hope nobody will ever pick up one of the loaded guns you have laying around. You have to get rid of them. Excellent @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

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Pastor: I said to this ICE agent, 'Take me, stop harassing her.' The agent got in my face, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Are you afraid now?' To which I said, 'I am not afraid.'

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What strikes me about S Wiles is the realization of how much the normal GOP of yore was driven by hatred and a yen for destruction. She seems, ideologically, as like a standard operative of the old school & she’s fine with this because it’s tearing govt down. Banality of evil encore une fois

Not The Americans?

A thing a like about it is she’s a genre writer so she works out plots. You can see her different way of thinking from the guy in Paraguay; they will be two pieces of the puzzle. I just think this is a question she would ask.

I thought they punished her for asking if it was reversible

I can’t get why she seems so uninterested in the why of it

Look up St Andrews

from a state party director