@shadowjenn.bsky.social
As a White House ethics lawyer I told staff:
“Be allergic to free stuff” and not to even accept a can of soda from someone with business before the White House.
So how has the story of a UAE royal making a deal worth nearly $200m to the Trump family fallen out of news? www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
"Tapper bristled at the loaded term “concentration camps”, rebutting that the phrase conjures something specific. The pushback led Schwesnedl to point out that the Whipple Building is located at Fort Snelling, an actual venue for the extermination of Native Americans through the 1800’s"
16.02.2026 17:17 — 👍 95 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 3"It is beyond comprehension that the Senate confirmed this man to oversee America’s health."
@jilldlawrence.bsky.social on the nightmare that COULD have been prevented if some Republicans had worried more about our health instead of their political standing with Trump & MAGA.
New hard data show the same pattern of intense anti-Trump backlash that polls do. Protests against Trump are happening at 4x the rate as 2017-18, and special election swings offer more data on the same point
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-back...
NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure.
Her whereabouts & health are now unknown.
The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.
in the light of seeing Lula do to Bolsonaro what we should have done to Trump, and what that's done to the Brazilian right in a country with a significantly worse history of political violence than ours, I am not in the mood to be charitable about John Roberts, Mitch McConnell, and the filibuster
10.02.2026 02:51 — 👍 308 🔁 56 💬 8 📌 0I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
09.02.2026 19:18 — 👍 6700 🔁 2504 💬 3 📌 3
I wrote about Minnesota @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...
02.02.2026 18:55 — 👍 18 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.
But did you look at the judge's order?
It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."
Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
#Worldcon
I am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History
Due by February 23rd
munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
Wasn’t on my bingo card
31.01.2026 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
31.01.2026 20:03 — 👍 4641 🔁 2002 💬 90 📌 105
The director of Melania movie
31.01.2026 18:59 — 👍 19752 🔁 7870 💬 776 📌 538some might say that revelations of Epstein-related sexual misconduct on the parts of famous social scientists are meant to distract us from Trump‘s complicity; I believe in our ability to multitask on this one.
31.01.2026 20:38 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Just note that this is an undercount because there are many bodies buried under rubble who haven’t been found and identified yet.
29.01.2026 16:19 — 👍 103 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 0This is the escalation cycle I've been talking about for months, one Homan can't pretend DHS is not part of.
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
They refer to Minnesota-St. Paul as a "theater" which is a military term for a geographical area of war -- the European Theater of Operations and the Pacific Theater in WW2. That's the Trump regime mindset of how it sees the nation, as theaters of war against people. Ethnic cleansing theaters.
29.01.2026 15:16 — 👍 928 🔁 258 💬 31 📌 4An organization cannot conduct a fair and objective investigation when its head has announced the outcome of the investigation in advance—because the organization is structurally committed to confirming the preannounced outcome. The technical term for this kind of investigation is a farce.
28.01.2026 16:52 — 👍 306 🔁 73 💬 6 📌 1Renee Good and Alex Pretti's families have no way to hold their murderers accountable. We need to abolish qualified immunity now. @ayannapressley.bsky.social and I are fighting to do just that.
28.01.2026 17:02 — 👍 254 🔁 51 💬 4 📌 3The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
Perkins’ concern was not limited to U.S. citizens. Using a legal loophole, she helped secure visas for more than 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
Had she not faced so much resistance from her fellow government officials, she could have saved far more. thebaffler.com/latest/a-pie...
Yes! It’s still considered a wonderfully smart and playful tour-de-force. If you enjoyed it you may want to see William Empson on Othello and on sonnet 94 which she herself knew and recommended.
25.01.2026 13:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Pritzker: "The GOP is nowhere to be found. They're the ones that scream and yell about 'federal tyranny' about interference with states' rights. And now, their president is violating states' rights and attacking our states and Republicans are nowhere to be found to talk about it."
24.01.2026 18:32 — 👍 5892 🔁 1873 💬 178 📌 86
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez v @AOC Americans are being killed in the street by their government. Our Constitution is being shredded and our rights are dissolving. Resist. Senate Dems should block ICE funding this week. Activate the National Guard. We can and must stop this. 10:26 AM • Jan 24, 2026 • 228.7K Views
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24.01.2026 18:00 — 👍 783 🔁 183 💬 2 📌 0Minneapolis Police Chief O’Hara: "Our demand today is for those federal agencies that are operating in our city to do so with the same discipline, humanity, and integrity that effective law enforcement in this country demands…We urge everyone to remain peaceful."
24.01.2026 18:04 — 👍 243 🔁 72 💬 29 📌 13Mayor Frey: "To everyone listening, stand with Minneapolis, stand up for America. Recognize that your children will ask you what side you were on. Your grandchildren will ask you what you did to act to prevent this from happening again."
24.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 1188 🔁 373 💬 43 📌 17
Stella Carlson said that before the shooting, the man was helping vehicle traffic get around the area where ICE agents and observers had started to gather. "The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. The ICE agents approached us, told us to back up, back up. I'm not even sure why we were helping them, if anything. And I got on the snow bank, and next thing I knew, they shot him," Carlson said.
"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ...
"Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Time and again, ICE is the only violence at the scene of ICE’s violence.
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