Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.

Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:

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Glimpses here of tension between CBP and the leadership of ICE, in which Bovino prevailed because of a highly irregular chain of command: Bovino told ICE director Lyons, “I report to Corey Lewendowski” at DHS.

CBP has its own director, Rodney Scott, whom Bovino evidently felt he did not report to.

Rocket maker could buy Orbex assets including Tongue spaceport Skyrora says it is exploring the potential of investing up to £10m to make the purchases.

Rocket maker could buy Orbex assets including Sutherland Spaceport. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A sketchbook page with toned gray paper with various half live sketches of animals. The top left of the page says SD Zoo 6/10/25. The top left is a drawing with a fountain pen of a Klipspringer and the words "So Smudgy! :(" written next to it. Some of the lines are smudged. To the right is a Meerkat in profile. To the right of that are two Dik-Diks lying down. Below these drawings are a series of half sketches of hippos and elephants (labeleled). Next to a scribbled out drawing is the text "Ack too fast."

First time sketching live animals, and these were moving a LOT!

I went to the San Diego Zoo and tried my hand with live portrait drawing... it's hard!!!

#art #sciart #zoo #fountainpen #inkart #sketch

Among the cases are that of a man described by law enforcement as having ties to a known drug trafficking organization. Investigators in a criminal complaint said they identified him as a suspect after intercepting a package addressed to his apartment that contained 9.1 pounds of cocaine in September 2025. An assistant U.S. Attorney asked to toss the case in a brief motion filed Jan. 23, saying in a one-sentence memo that a dismissal is “in the interests of justice,” pursuant to federal law. The U.S. Attorney’s Office also asked to dismiss the case against another man whom federal agents accused of having a kilogram of meth and more than 200 grams of fentanyl in his Minneapolis apartment. The U.S. Attorney’s Office cited the same reasoning in its request.

Pam Bondi is now freeing accused drug dealers bc her demand that AUSAs do unethical things got all the prosecutors to quit.

www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...

Manufacturing overall has LOST jobs over the past year (-83k).
Pretty much every manuf subsector is flat or down, with modest exceptions for fabricated metal products, electrical equipment, food.

China’s turbocharged EV market hits a speed bump amid falling sales After years at full throttle, China’s EV sector is slowing sharply, with sales sliding in January as tax breaks fade and costs rise.

Interesting wrinkle here - Chinese EV makers are going to be looking hungrily to Europe this year

EV deliveries in China slumped over 40% in January

January saw average price cuts of 14.8% for EVs, exceeding the 10.5% average for the whole of 2025

www.scmp.com/business/chi...

MrBeast has acquired Step, a teen-focused financial app valued at $900 million, in a deal reportedly worth over $1 billion

SORCERY (Oils, Palette Knife, Chalk, Pencil). A new #painting for #TheBlackCompanyRPG by…me.

#Soulcatcher blasts some annoying troops while taking a leisurely walk across a battlefield.

Bouie is right that Trump neither has state capacity or strategic skill to stop the mid-term elections. But there is a pretty high risk of a potentially violent confrontation between legislative and executive branches of the US system if Trump claims fraud after mid-terms
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Maybe there is something to the observation of the first generations of European Green leaders in the 1970s and 1980s that a viable force for change on the Left needed to come from outside established 20th century Marxist or Social Democratic traditions

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK is next

What’s happening in America is technofascism.

And the UK will be next, says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

Graphic showing Peter Thiel - chair of Palantir Technologies - and some of the powerful figures in his network including Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, Peter Mandelson, Steve Bannon

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here

Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵
www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

Yes, yes!

The American people as a whole are in a weird place where they're simultaneously hyper-cynical and totally dismissive of the notion there are like 18 different psyops going on to undermine their belief in the concept of society.

Jesus Christ, at a certain point Gen Z has *got* to give up on this weird combination of antipathy and malaise that seems to be the only way so many of them are capable of engaging with politics.

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

I do not support the Flesh-King’s plan to bring about the Blood-Moon by enacting the Murder-Sacrament. It goes too far and is not in keeping with our values.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Pew finds 60% oppose pausing visas and 66% oppose nixing asylum! People overinterpreted 2024 as a seismic shift to Trump on immigration. But the data is showing very broad opposition to the restrictionist, ethnonationalist, anti-humanitarian aspects of Trumpism. 5/5

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Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed.

Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/

(new piece)
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Many Trump voters wanted state violence and shows of bigoted cruelty in service of making the US whiter. But other Trump voters bought a fantasy of stopping criminals.

As @gregsargent.bsky.social shows, seeing this in reality—eg building concentration camps—they don’t like it.

That’s a big wedge.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

"Presumably, the PLA is a super smart organization full of highly wired Chinese technocrats who’ve been thinking very hard about all of these problems."

yeah sometimes you can, uh, really tell that Tooze isn't a China expert.

Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things

Thanks to a court ruling today, extending Temporary Protected Status, Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnics cleansing operation. The ruling is notable.

A good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.

The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.