Amy Shefrin

This guy gets it.

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

@Virginia Heffernan remains an assassin with the pen.

Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved.
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Patients cite prior authorization as the biggest healthcare navigation burden: KFF Patients view prior authorization as the biggest burden in navigating the healthcare system, according to a new KFF poll. | Patients view prior authorization as the biggest burden in navigating the he...

Patients cite prior authorization as the biggest healthcare navigation burden: KFF www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/patie...

AOC on ICE: It’s our task to figure out how to claw back what has essentially supercharged this agency into becoming a relentless domestic paramilitary that is also a blank check to Palantir to create facial-recognition scans on U.S. citizens.

A news article displays a photo of a person in a dark face covering and blue jeans being led away by two heavily armored officers in tactical gear, one wearing a gas mask, on a city street. The article's headline reads: "ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They're Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises," with the photo caption stating "ICE in action in Portland."

Employees of a system built on exploitation did not expect to be included in the exploitation.

#leopardsatemyface #Politics #News

Line chart titled 'US backsliding under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent' showing backsliding scores over 12 years for multiple countries. The y-axis shows backsliding scores from 0 to 30 (higher is worse), and the x-axis shows years since the start of backsliding. Five lines are plotted: A red line labeled 'US (Trump 2nd term)' shows the steepest initial decline, dropping from approximately 11 to 17 in the first year. A dark blue line for Turkey drops from 5 to 29 over 12 years. A medium blue line for Russia declines from 5 to 25. Light blue lines for Hungary and Venezuela both drop from near 0 to approximately 20. The US line's trajectory in the first year is notably steeper than the initial decline of any other country shown. Source note indicates this is a 30-point index based on FT research across 10 domains including use of state force against civilians, political prosecution, and independence of judiciary and civil service. Graphic credit: John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times.

"In Trump’s second term, by contrast, most of the action has taken the form of shocking acts or events that bypass rather than permanently corrupt institutions." www.ft.com/content/b474...

What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank hiding from ICE Is it ok to invoke Anne Frank in discussing kids hiding from ICE? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum disagree.

For @forward.com, I wrote about Anne Frank, ICE, and what we risk in making - and in refusing to ever make - comparisons
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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.

Opinion | ‘Kristi Noem Needs to Go.’ Three Columnists on ICE in Minneapolis.

‘Kristi Noem Needs to Go.’ Three Columnists on ICE in Minneapolis. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...

🔥 “This started as a pretext about immigration and fraud… it’s WELL beyond that now. It’s into your 2nd/4th/6th Amendments… We’re performing CPR on what may already be a corpse called the Constitution… Wake up. This isn’t just Minneapolis. It’s ALL of us.”

(H/T @allenanalysis.bsky.social )

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

This piece by M. Gessen should have been co-signed by the entire NYT editorial board. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Makes me think hard about this Feb 2017 Isaac Chotiner interview with a Nazi historian about how Hitler seized power through paramilitary violence in the streets.

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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

218 people voted to fund the child kidnapping ring and masked death squads.

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

This thread is life giving.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

PSA: You do not, under any circumstances, fund the Gestapo

Jeffries Won’t Whip Vote Against ICE Funding - The American Prospect While the House Democratic leader announced personal opposition to a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, he won’t pressure his colleagues to do the same.

To quote one source:
“They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.”
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He really is doing all of it.

Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow

DOJ wants to investigate Renee Good's widow, but won't investigate her killer. As a result the people running the real investigation into the fraud that DHS pretends is the reason they are in Minneapolis just quit. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Tweet from January 6, 2021 at 2:18pm, with the text: Don’t ignore a coup. In 1923, Hitler led a failed coup and went to jail for a year for treason. 10 years later he took power through legal means - (1) Taking over the judiciary and (2) Paramilitary violence in the streets. What happens now matters. Link to Slate interview with Third Reich historian Richard Evans: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/02/historian-richard-evans-says-trumps-america-isnt-exactly-like-the-third-reich-but-its-too-close-for-comfort.html

Zohran Mamdani in August 14, 2020 interview: “I think Bernie was great. I mean, Bernie is a big part of the reason that I am where I am. But I think that, you know, we kind of only had Bernie. I don’t know how to put it but he had to put the whole team on his back.” 🥹