Gary Singh

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, monthslong expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

The folks at @wired.com are doing great work these days.
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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

True. I came back from Vancouver a few months ago and before I even left Canada, YVR was more empty than I've ever seen it. Been through there almost 20 times since 2004. The US departures area was a ghost town.

Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer?

You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators.

So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

So good

The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...

First page of The Godfather.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

The other day Manchester United’s co-owner Jim Ratcliffe said the UK had been "colonised by immigrants"….today there’s this billboard outside of Old Trafford 🔥….way to go Manchester 💪!

Merz warns Munich Security Conference freedom 'is no longer a given' Speaking at the opening of three days of high-stakes diplomacy, the German Chancellor delivered a stark diagnosis of a global order "under destruction". #EuropeNews

👏👏

"The culture wars of MAGA in the US are not ours," he insisted.

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A Vote for Republicans Is a Vote Against Democracy Can we reject the politics of concentration camps, election denial, and oligarchy by showing up in numbers too large to ignore?

A splendid summary, as usual.

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Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

This is utterly deranged behavior from a U.S. attorney general

I remember when you started ...

If you missed the exchange between @raskin.house.gov and Pam Bondi today, watch this masterful statement from him on behalf of the Epstein victims:

“You are siding with the perpetrators and you are ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy.”

Repost if you agree she is the worst AG in history.

Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...

“Vance will go down in history as the only person ever told to fuck off by two popes in one season.”
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Who is more patriotic, the man that says "Together, we are America" or the man that depicts black people as monkeys?

Bad Bunny Turns ‘God Bless America’ Into a Celebration of the Americas His Super Bowl half-time show elevated the beauty of all Americans. But that's not the only reason Trump hated it so much.

In case you missed it ...

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Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal I don’t expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs.

“The closer you get to these vampires the more you become enslaved. Our role is not to socialize with them. It is to destroy them.”
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Why BAD BUNNY Terrifies MAGA and Inspires the World Bad Bunny is one of the most popular musicians in the world, producing art celebrating decolonization, resistance, love & joy, which is why he is one of the biggest threats to MAGA's racist agenda.

Excellent.

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How Bad Bunny Became America's Most Dangerous Artist The Puerto Rican singer saved my career as a journalist covering authoritarianism. Now, his Super Bowl show could break MAGA.

Best thing written so far, about the Bad Bunny spectacle, especially with the Super Bowl right here in town ...

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Have Money Daddy • EQUATOR Kafe Hu was a pioneer in the underground scene that made Chengdu into China's hip-hop capital. But what happens when the counterculture blows up?

This magazine -- @equatormag.bsky.social -- is publishing some amazing work. Have a look.

www.equator.org/articles/hav...

There was a Pasolini film that essentially predicted all of this, thanks to the 18th-century writings of Sade ...

So apparently white Americans in Minneapolis are putting Mexican flags on their cars so ICE agents waste time pulling them over. They call it ICE fishing

Y'all are so damn clever.

A letter to the 300 axed Washington Post staffers from Carole Cadwalladr There is life for journalists after being sacked by a major brand, says Cadwalladr.

By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social, a letter to the axed WaPo staff.
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All true. 👇

Progressives ‘Usually, if you’ve read someone’s stories and seen their photos, you’d feel like you knew the man.’ A short story by Saadat Hasan Manto, translated by Matt Reeck.

Newly translated story by an old hero of mine, the long gone Saadat Hasan Manto, thanks to @grantamag.bsky.social. (Matt Reeck with the translation.)
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Dear @washingtonpost.com
journalists. Solidarity on a terrible day. But also: it’s an opportunity. The @theguardian.com also fucked over its journalists last year.

Months later, 5 of us launched @thenerve.news - with zero £ - & it’s working! Rebuild your own media from the ground up 👊👊👊

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

Make Peter Thiel into the villain, Democrats.

It's all there.

He is the node that connects Trump, Vance, Palantir, Musk, Epstein, and so many other terrible players.

Just expose it and make him and Musk the face of these psychopathic billionaires ruining our lives.