John Jackson

"Let’s be clear. They are engaged in a program of ethnic cleansing. Anyone who is foreign born is on the chopping block. And most of them are non-white." digbysblog.net/2026/02/12/d...

She's made it smell really bad!

6 Deaths in ICE Custody and 2 Fatal Shootings: A Horrific Start to 2026 - American Immigration Council 2026 has already seen a shocking number of deaths tied to ICE. This includes fatalities in detention as well as shootings involving agents.

Ya can't deport an omelette without breaking a few eggs and children! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-dea...

A cartoon drawing of two clowns on stilts playing with children's balloons.

Big Petey Hegseth "neutralizing threats" with his new war system.

I'm 64 and you do NOT want to hear about my prostate! Yikes!

The Stupidest Sport of All Time Has Been Found: Professional Concussion Receiving Runit is a "collision sports" league that simply involves two men running full speed at each other. A 19-year-old has already died doing it.

There is nothing, NOTHING, so idiotic that macho shitheads won't do it provided you call it a "sport." www.jezebel.com/runit-sport-...

Do you think MAGA Catholics who've sung the Ave Maria now are saying how un-American it is because it is not in in English? Should the Pope open a help line for them?

JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.”

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The question about what to do with DHS funding is nowhere near as easy as Kristol wants it to be, though Bernie already showed us how to defund ICE. Until such a vote can command 60 votes, the optimal outcome might be to include $1 of funding for both CBP and ICE, with all the requirements tacked onto it, applying it back to the Big Ugly boondoggle funds, because tying rules to funding is a necessary, if insufficient, tool to making Trump follow the law. Kristol has the luxury of scolding “scoundrel,” while throwing up his hands in hope that in 11 months Democrats will have tools to do something more, all the while letting ICE spend its existing billions unmolested.

I'm all for abolishing ICE, but I've been frustrated by the lack of an actual legislative method to do so. This seems like the kind of mechanism we need to start the process. Oh, and nepo baby, Bloody Bill Kristol is still a pinhead. emptywheel.net/bill-kristol...

Judge swats down Trump administration’s pursuit of Michigan voter data The Trump administration is now 0-for-3 in court cases over its requests for confidential voter data.

"Judge finds that even though it is Trump's DOJ, it must still follow the law" www.votebeat.org/michigan/202...

What? Illegal aliens? Criminals? In our country? The media has said nothing, NOTHING, about this! Thanks goodness this woman, whoever she is, stood up and spoke out because that is the first I've heard of this!!

I Wasted 30 Minutes of My Life Watching the Turning Point USA Halftime Show So You Don’t Have To It’s hard to mount a culture war when your big counteroffensive looks like a youth-group lock-in made up of kids who found God in a megachurch but lost their personality somewhere in suburban Atlanta....

" It’s the lowest circle of the culture war: not just bigoted, but bigoted and terminally dull. Worst of all worlds." www.jezebel.com/turning-poin...

"Former employees of the second most wealthy man on the planet have to rely on a GoFundMe to get them home after being abandoned in far far flung foreign locales. Talk about callous." digbysblog.net/2026/02/09/t...

Let's start a rumor that Trump is organizing an alternative winter Olympics. Kid Rock will do the shooting competition. And that's it because all the other events are "too European."

Science!

An Honest Assessment of Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue We say very clearly that rural America is hurting. But we refuse to justify attitudes that some scholars try to underplay.

This isn't difficult to understand. Rural voters are racists. The Truth that dares not speak its name. newrepublic.com/article/1805...

"Look at all the brachycephalcs! Someone fetch my calipers!"

For Republicans, it also helps that there’s no obvious policy change here. The only real ask GOP critics made was that Trump take the video down and apologize — and they’ll probably mostly ignore the fact that he didn’t do the second. They can now move ahead cheerfully with their plans to disenfranchise and terrorize people of color.

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Great Performances - Much Ado About Nothing : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive For the first time in over four decades, Great Performances presents a Public Theater production recorded live at Free Shakespeare in the Park. After a highly...

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SCC FINAL: Magnus vs. Alireza For The Speed Chess Crown! Hikaru v. Denis For Third Place Match! YouTube video by Chess.com

Huge sports day, of course! Magnus Carlsen v. Alireza Firouzia in the World Speed Chess Championship! I'm not sure who the halftime show is though. www.youtube.com/live/LDVhPqR...

Ewry's specialization was the standing high, long, and triple jump. No running start at all.

My expert judgment is, "Kinda cool-looking in a function-over-form way."

A black-and-white photograph of Ray Ewry clearing a high jump bar in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Here on sports day, let us remember 8-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Ray Ewry as a reminder of how fleeting fame is.

If one absolutely must football today, this is the way to do it.

I was with you up to "seagull" and then I got lost.

Expert Survey on DHS, CBP, and ICE Reforms Experts detail targeted reforms and legislative pathways Congress could enact to improve ICE and CBP accountability.

www.justsecurity.org/130972/exper...

Musk turns bigotry into a contest with cash prizes This certainly undermines any of his arguments that the EU's fine for X being a platform for hatred is unfounded.

LIck Elon's boots and win big prizes as long as you are a white supremacist! open.substack.com/pub/boingboi...

I'm really not trying to. I'm asking what do y'all propose? ICE has guaranteed funding until 2029. That funding simply up for grabs, it was part of the fucking BBB. If you know a way to "abolish" ICE that has nothing to do with funding, the only power Congress has, let's do it. But what is it?

What is an example of Mitch doing this when he was in the minority? Could the same tactic work now? What exact legislative actions are you proposing? I'm asking these questions honestly, some things are possible and some things are not.