on @halftheanswer.bsky.social i have been referring to this as the “mean little thrill” of hurting somebody, which is why the dem electoralist strategy of meeting republicans halfway doesn’t work: it doesn’t offer that thrill! and we shouldn’t be hoping to appeal to that impulse because it SUCKS
People don't have enough respect for the kid from Mary Poppins who collapsed an entire bank because he wanted to feed the pigeons
I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...
They think every single political or military or social crisis is a personal test of their masculinity, to see whether they’re willing to escalate, get even tougher, hit even harder. They think the solution is more brutality and the obstacle is the feminized moral scruples society wants them to have
This administration is doing wonders for my imposter syndrome.
[guy who has only interacted with rapture evangelicals interacting with their second religious person]: getting a lot of rapture vibes here
No. The correct response is "Trump is a madman. Voters in America do not want this war. This war is risks mass chaos and suffering while likely leaving the Iranian regime in place. It was started illegally by violent authoritarians in our government, who should be prosecuted, convicted, and jailed."
NEW: Minnesota's top federal judge is threatening to hold Trump administration officials in criminal contempt if they continue defying court orders in immigration cases.
"One way or another, ICE will comply." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Border Patrol dropped a blind Rohingya refugee at a Tim Hortons 5 miles from his home on a freezing February night. Didn’t call his family. Didn’t call his lawyer.
Five days later, Nurul Amin Shah Alam was found dead on a Buffalo sidewalk. He was 56.
#Accountability
“However alarmed you are, it’s not enough.” www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...
"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.
"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Learning recently that this lady has some sort of bloodlust for sea lions has been really funny. Somehow on brand but really funny.
will the prices that went up because of tariffs now go right back down? or are we now living with higher prices on some goods because of this unconstitutional decision?
I agree with all the slave ship & forced labor camp comparisons, but also, on a practical level, this is not how you build a detention center where you expect either violent inmates or long-term prisoners. The very floorplans betray the obvious lie; they are meant to warehouse harmless folks.
NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found.
The government keeps doing it nonetheless.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
How I feel about AI
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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NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
I dearly wish that, in the dark small hours of the night, my mind would not be filled with the songs from KPop Demon Hunters.
!["On December 2, 1783, then-Commander-in-Chief George Washington penned: “America is open to receive not only the Opulent & respected Stranger, but the oppressed & persecuted of all Nations & Religions.”1
More than two centuries later, Congress reaffirmed President Washington’s vision by establishing the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. See 8 U.S.C. § 1254a (TPS statute). It provides humanitarian relief to foreign nationals in the United States who come from disaster-stricken countries. It also brings in substantial revenue, with TPS holders generating $5.2 billion in taxes annually. See Part VI.
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has a different take. [screenshot of tweet].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreicrroq5taft777rmau2ffjlsphbcatlxnwwigf2yekoke533yycim)
![has terminated every TPS country designation to have reached her desk—twelve countries up,
twelve countries down. See Section IV.A.2. Her conclusion that Haiti (a majority nonwhite
country) faces merely “concerning” conditions cannot be squared with the “perfect storm of
suffering” and “staggering” “humanitarian toll” described in page-after-page of the Certified
Administrative Record (CAR). See Section IV.A.3.a. She ignored Congress’s requirement that
she “review the conditions” in Haiti only “after” consulting “with appropriate agencies.” 8
U.S.C. § 1254a(b)(3)(A); see Section IV.A.1. Indeed, she did not consult other agencies at all.
See id. Her “national interest” analysis focuses on Haitians outside the United States or here
illegally, ignoring that Haitian TPS holders already live here, and legally so. See Section
IV.A.3.b. And though she states that the analysis must include “economic considerations,” she
ignores altogether the billions Haitian TPS holders contribute to the economy. See id.
The Government’s primary response is that the TPS statute gives the Secretary
unbounded discretion to make whatever determination she wants, any way she wants. And, yes,
the statute does grant her some discretion. But not unbounded discretion. To the contrary,
Congress passed the TPS statute to standardize the then ad hoc temporary protection system—to
replace executive whim with statutory predictability. See Section I.A.
As to irreparable harm, the Government contends that, at most, the harms to Haitian TPS
holders are speculative. But the Department of State (State) warns [screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nwnlnixtjh3qhkwpz2uy5uwv/bafkreid3cmawech25ummuj2tjvgxsrvufma2kmrijlfpglalwddd3qkikq)
Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction.
It's a tour de force:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I do not regret to inform you we are going to win.
What do people mean by "lower the temperature." People should stop getting som upset by the Trump Administration's authoritarianism and the use of DHS paramilitiaries? Everybody relax and stop complaining?
NEW: “Liam Conejo Ramos and his father have landed back in Minnesota following a judge's order,” @mprnews.org reports: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Dems should press hard for impeaching Kristi Noem right now, says @jenrubin.bsky.social.
"Make Republicans defend her. Make them go on record.
Make them take the hard vote and defend the indefensible."
On the pod, Jen suggests new ways to keep Trump/GOP on defense:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Odds that the federal government complies?
I just keep wondering how we got to the point where we just accept that Trump will openly defy court orders.
