Raspberry Cordially

Ending this operation is not enough.

We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too

the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

this thread is harrowing but these lawyers are fucking heroic

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

Spoiler alert: When top officials have to start saying in an agency’s defense “no, no, no, that’s a totally legitimate law enforcement agency,” they have already lost and it is, in fact, no longer a legitimate law enforcement agency.

Not just a liar, but also a hypocrite 😡

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.

But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.

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These are the conditions under which the Trump regime wants to detain noncitizens indefinitely. It violates international law, the Eighth Amendment, and our own laws & regulations.

And the DOJ and DHS are willing to manipulate any law, defy any court order, to keep doing so.

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A Collection of Miniature Bridgerton Rants In a Regency world that implies a mass print culture capable of speedy and pervasive distribution of colored images, no gripe is too small.

a lesson i will never learn is if you complain enough in your work slack about how ridiculous it is for a regency era character to shuffle through a stack of miniature portraits like a collection of pokemon cards, eventually someone will make you blog

www.vulture.com/article/brid...

There's plenty to criticize Democrats for, and I do it here all the time. But criticizing them for telling people they have to vote is so counterproductive it borders on malevolent. If in 2026, you don't get how important it is, you are as much a part of the problem as anyone you're angry at.

Years ago I talked to a woman at Sesame Street whose kid had spent an afternoon being filmed talking to Elmo for a promo, and her kid’s only complaint was that the other guy who was hanging out with Elmo wouldn’t take a hint and leave.

Also

Cole Escola
Jane Krakowski
Billy Joel
Bad Bunny

People who should host The Muppet Show:

Quinta Brunson
Mel Brooks
Connor Storrie
Chelsea Perretti and Jordan Peele
Stephen Colbert
Fiona Apple

I have a bunch with similar covers to that Unnatural Death with the purple border. Love knowing you're a Sayers reader and collector.

Anybody who thinks DC isn't a cultural hub needs to shut their mouth. You probably think that because Black culture isn't real to you. We have a local great music & arts scene. For us. Maybe it's not international class to you. And that was the point of the Kennedy Center. Art accessible to us.

Just a great reminder that these clowns don't understand cultural production at all, never mind art, because DC is a major cultural hub, in no small part BECAUSE OF THE KENNEDY CENTER

somewhere Alan Dershowitz is crashing out

🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂 thank you for this

Moopsy!! 🤩 It would sweetly drain that pierogi's filling.

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

In a declaration submitted as part of an immigration lawsuit late last month, Mr. Rosen described an office under extraordinary strain as a severely understaffed team found itself contending with a “flood” of cases that have grown out of the federal immigration crackdown. He said detained immigrants had filed more than 420 lawsuits in January alone. The office, he wrote, “is operating in a reactive mode,” with lawyers and paralegals “continuously working overtime.” Chief O’Hara said he was disappointed that Mr. Rosen had been unable to keep veteran prosecutors from leaving the office. “I couldn’t imagine being the leader of a team where so many of the best players that are just so central to the mission decide they’ve got to walk away because they don’t want their integrity to be compromised,” he said.

The new appointee in charge is learning the costs of politicization. He has no criminal justice experience. The people who know what they are doing are leaving. Actual criminal prosecutions are not being done.
Authoritarianism inevitably bends towards incompetence.

At one point, Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol leader who was the face of the administration’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles, Chicago and Minneapolis, called federal prosecutors, pressing them to charge demonstrators with crimes. When a prosecutor asked what the operation’s end goal was, several people familiar with the call recalled Mr. Bovino saying that he did not intend to “calm it down,” but instead, he said, “We’re going to put it down.”

This creates an environment where people like Greg Bovino rise, and say things like “We’re going to put it down" about the demonstrations. No fear of real accountability, no sense of duty or obligation to the public. He assumes the King will protect him.

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling.
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Actually, the Washington Post Layoffs Were a Bigger Bloodbath Than You Thought - Washingtonian The layoffs announced last week at the Washington Post were disfiguring to the esteemed news organization, with whole sections and departments—sports, books, staff photography—wiped away, and…

The Washington Post layoffs were a bigger bloodbath than you thought. New figures reveal 44 to 47.5 percent of the paper's newsroom was eliminated during last week's cuts.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Brett Goldstein.

Back to this transcript this morning bc I’m befuddled.

This exchange between the judge & the lawyer could be a case study for the brain-hooked-on-AI. Instead of correcting/writing a new brief w/out AI, he decides to write something which wouldn’t use citations at all - but still uses NotebookLM!

the arguments that I was making at that time was correct, and that the errors in citation should be addressed that way and should be informed to the Court, which is what I wanted to do on Monday. THE COURT: Which you didn't do on Monday, sir. MR. FELDMAN: Because Monday was -- because then, at that point in time, I knew that Mr. MacMull would not run his check cite in Westlaw. THE COURT: He had no obligation to -- MR. FELDMAN: Absolutely. THE COURT: No, but you chastised him in your emails for declining to give his cases to you and for declining to run a cite check on your submission. He had no obligation to do that. I want you to answer my question. You did not tell me on Monday, June 23, that you had submitted a brief that contained citations that did not exist. MR. FELDMAN: That is correct. THE COURT: On Tuesday, you still did not tell me. On Tuesday, you did not send me a letter telling me that you had filed a brief that contained citations to cases that did not exist, true? MR. FELDMAN: True. On Tuesday, I was revising my papers, true. THE COURT: On Wednesday, June 25, you did not tell me that you had filed a brief that contained citations cases

that did not exist? MR. FELDMAN: On Wednesday, I -- was Wednesday the date that Mr. MacMull contacted the Court? THE COURT: No, sir. I believe that is Thursday, June 26. Let me just confirm. MR. MacMULL: I'll so stipulate, your Honor. THE COURT: I just wanted to make sure it was a Thursday, and it was. Yes. It was a Thursday. Monday is the 23rd. You keep me in the dark. Tuesday you keep me in the dark. Wednesday you keep me in the dark. Thursday you keep me in the dark, and it is not until Mr. MacMull advises me -- will you acknowledge, sir, that the first time I'm made aware that you have cited cases that do not exist is when Mr. MacMull tells me on the 26th June? You never told me before then? MR. FELDMAN: I did not tell you. THE COURT: You made a conscious decision not to tell me. Yes, yes. I don't know why you did that, but you refrained from telling me. MR. FELDMAN: I made a conscious decision to tell you. THE COURT: You never told me, sir. MR. FELDMAN: I had a letter -- THE COURT: You never submitted a letter, sir. That's like a tree falling in the forest. You did not submit a letter. You did not let me know. He threatened -- not threatened. That's an overstatement. He let you know that he

was going to tell me. You didn't even bother then to tell me. He sends you an email on the 26th of June at 2:58 p.m. "Mr. Feldman, clearly continuing to engage with you in connection with this matter is not productive. Accordingly, we'll proceed as we deem appropriate." You didn't tell me, and I don't know why. Well, you've given me an explanation, but there's no real reason why you should have kept this from me. MR. FELDMAN: I drafted and redrafted my letter to the Court. THE COURT: That you never gave to me. MR. FELDMAN: Because at that time, it was too late because the Court already wrote its order to show cause. THE COURT: Sir, you had four days to tell me before Mr. MacMull did, and you chose not to. You didn't have to give me a corrected brief then. You simply could have said, Failla, there's a problem with my brief. I need to submit a corrected one. You didn't even bother to do that. You knew, as of the night of the 22nd, that there were problems with your submission, and you never told me. That's correct. I had to learn from Mr. MacMull that you had filed a brief with improper citations, yes? MR. FELDMAN: I wasn't sure what to do. THE COURT: How could you not be sure what to do? You wanted me to persist -- you let me live for actually six days thinking that you had filed a proper brief when you hadn't. I

don't know why you think that you needed to wait. I don't want to know your conversations with counsel. I don't understand how you thought it was appropriate to keep me in the dark, but you did. MR. FELDMAN: I did not think -- I thought it was appropriate to give you a full accounting of what happened, and I thought that I should clarify exactly what was right and what was wrong and then let you know that. THE COURT: Yes, but then you didn't. Because you did submit a response to the order to show cause on July 11, which is when I get your accounting of what happened.

I’m running out of ways to describe how unfathomably badly this is going

Reclassifying Social Work Degrees Will Harm Students, Communities, and the Profession

Public comments needed!

The admin wants to define grad programs in many "helping" fields (social work, nursing, teaching, etc) to no longer be "professional" degrees. This would mean major student loan restrictions: only $20,500/year. Tuition alone is often more.

Please comment by March 2!