Claire Bond Potter (Tenured Radical)

But of course it was fictional. I think it was a reading failure to not understand it.

Opinion | I Hold Pam Bondi in Contempt

"But Trump, his aides and many of his supporters haven’t purged contempt from our politics. They’ve mainstreamed it. Purified it. Industrialized it."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...

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People line up on a sidewalk at dusk in a line, holding lighted candles.

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

If you haven't seen this, Jackie:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

We are in the Caribbean: lots of older white Midwestern independents here who say they were anti-immigration before the ICE surge. Now that they have seen enforcement first hand they believe the Trump administration lies all the time and they support immigrants.

My 2 cents about The Atlantic’s Mellon Foundation polemic and humanities funding:

Beyond its specious content, the article illustrates something truly dangerous: the normalization of conspiratorial tropes about externally funded research in universities originally seen in extremist propaganda. 1/5

"In an incident last year that rankled some senior staff at the agency, Lewandowski made it known to top ICE officials that he wanted to be issued a law-enforcement badge and a federally issued gun...Officials are typically only issued a badge and a gun after undergoing law-enforcement training."

A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

"After photos in the Daily Mail showed Lewandowski going back and forth between his apartment and Noem’s across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington. Lewandowski also spends time at the house."
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

These people are so sick.

When Trump was looking for replacements for Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary, he turned to... Jeffrey Epstein

If I had been the pilot I would have told her to fly her own fucking self home: we have a shortage of pilots. No one needs to work for an abusive boss.

How The Times Is Digging Into Millions of Pages of Epstein Files

An astonishing story about the #EpsteinFiles what it means to do forensic reporting in the digital age:
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/i...

Exclusive: ICE Masks Up in More Ways Than One Feds could be in your group chat

🚨 ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me:

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What kind of an adult broadcasts this?

Line graph that shows a blue line of # protests since Trump's 2nd inauguration surpassed, showing these to have exceeded 42k by the end of Jan 2026. A green line counts # of protests during the same time period in Trump's first term and just exceeds 10k.

Overall, we have tallied 4x more protests through Jan 31, 2026 than we had through Jan 31, 2018

Map showing tens of thousands of protests across the US between Trump's inauguration last year and January 31, 2026.

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

Rand Paul to ICE officials on moments before Pretti's killing: "No one in America believes that shoving that woman's face in the snow was deescalation."

Note that ICE officials then confirm it was improper for her to be thrown down.

Breaking: Judge grants Mark Kelly a preliminary injunction against Hegseth, who is reconsidering his rank: "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Sen. Kelly's First Amendment freedoms & threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."

Notes on AI: The Master’s Tool, by D. P. Snyder “If we reassign our role as language creators to AI, we will lose what makes us human.”

I just read this terrific article about the dangers of #AI for humanity: it is really important, and this writer deserves a bigger stage: @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social @nplusonemag.com
worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...

Opinion | What Kennedy Doesn’t Understand About Schizophrenia

"But even a charitable nod doesn’t erase the fact that Kennedy’s hyperbole is dangerous advice. Spreading incomplete and misleading information adds to our culture’s widespread misunderstanding of mental illness and the ongoing stigma these families face."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

True—I am not sure it is territory that has been explored. But they are acting as representatives of the people doing due diligence—I don’t think she gets to surveil them without cause.

What a sweet bunny

It’s also illegal.

Millions of Americans Don’t Have Documents Proving Their Citizenship Readily Available Requiring Americans to prove their citizenship to register to vote would exclude millions of citizens from the political process.

More than 21 millions Americans do not have documentation proving their citizenships, and would be disenfranchised by the SAVE Act the GOP just passed through the House. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Honestly, this doesn’t hold a candle to Jason Kelce’s obscene, incoherent, and drunken rant, delivered while wearing a full Mummers costume

My cat poops in a box every day and feels no shame. Be like my cat.

Is the foolish choice to "cancel" Bad Bunny a sign that MAGA is beginning to buckle?
clairepotter.substack.com/p/magas-self...

🚨 NEWS: Representative Becca Balint (D-VT) reviewed unredacted Epstein files at the Department of Justice today and told Drop Site they contradict Trump’s claim that he expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, stating flatly, “That is not true. It’s a lie.” In July 2025, Trump told reporters about a fallout stemming from Epstein “stealing” and recruiting spa employees from Mar-a-Lago. Trump claimed he warned Epstein to stop and, after Epstein continued, declared him “persona non grata,” citing the case of Virginia Giuffre, who he said was recruited from the Mar-a-Lago locker room at age 17. @RepBeccaB | @JulianAndreone

🚨 NEWS: Rep. Becca Balint (D-VT) reviewed unredacted Epstein files at the Department of Justice yesterday and told Drop Site they contradict Trump’s claim that he expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago, stating flatly, “That is not true. It’s a lie.”

In July 2025, Trump told reporters about a fallout...