Christian Foust

it should go without saying, but iran's military is not ba'athist iraq

Graph showing estimated ICE deportees at MSP Nov 10 - Feb 17; sporadic activity of around 40 people per flight some days is shown before Jan 5, followed by a large crescendo to 250 people per day that lasts several days, before decreasing, with no flight on Feb 13, and a handful of people shown each day for the last few days.

Anecdotally, my friends doing observation and legal work haven't seen a steep drop in ICE activity, but at the airport, the trends are looking pretty promising - over last five days, the average number of ICE detainees getting flown out is 8 per day.

📊 Spreadsheet: ottergoose.net/ice-flights-...

me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.

Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.

Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

whenever someone says "western civilization" im just like... say "white people" cause thats the shit you really wanna say. its a product of our education system that operates like white cultures were peak while ignoring everything happening in africa and asia for thousands of years.

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.

People would be more determined to vote.

Also, even if they tried in a handful of places:

-ICE has about 10-12K field agents (& will shrink if forced to de-mask)
-US has 100K voting locations, many w multiple entrances
-Any place they tried would risk a riot so they’d need prob >15-20 per site… /1

Can we please make sure we keep this in mind when everyone decides to make fun of people concerned about their safety in regard to civil disobedience.

How to protect democracy in two easy steps:

Step #1: Vote by mail or vote early in person as early as you can in the voting window.

Step #2: Volunteer as an election clerk, poll worker, phone banker, or canvasser in your home area or the nearest competitive jurisdiction to you!

Each arrest takes like a half dozen agents. They just don’t have the manpower for this. I am not even sure where the marginal utility of this type of thing would be. Maybe if they concentrated their efforts in one congressional district or something.

The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.

the appeal of UBI (which is great!) from tech ghouls reflects this aspiration to maintain a consumer base while eliminating the working class as a class in the traditional sense

This deferred responsibility approach to anti trans enforcement is one of the things that is being deployed globally.

No "bathroom cops checking your genitals" like people used to joke. Instead everyone aiding or abetting trans existence is subject to punishment, denouncement or legal threats.

Republicans are a hate movement disguised as a political party

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way

Kamala did not lose bc of the hippies at the lunch table behind you in the mind palace school cafeteria. Every non-Mexican incumbent in the world lost on inflation. Trump won 2024 on 2020 nonvoters. The 2020 Biden --> nonvoter 2024 population was to the right of the Dem median, not the left.

About one of the Trump accusers in this piece:

“The interview [with the alleged victim and her attorney] was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell.”

“The bases of authoritarianism have been hiding in plain sight: the jail, the prison, the police stop, the police union. Even as Trump’s administration embraces authoritarianism from above, in recent months it has also been steadily strengthening these sources of authoritarianism from below.“

something we don't talk about is how gullible the current ruling class is to chinese propaganda. these guys are cucks and morons who bought into state-created lies about han chinese ethnicity

"OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCKS ICE" banner

"OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BLOCKS ICE" banner hangs on Chicago Avenue and 38th Street at George Floyd Square.

Minneapolis, February 2026

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

Look I have thick skin, and I know we are hated, and yet this statement still makes my breath catch. What kind of society allows for this sort of thing to be said

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. (Or. Online.)

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured?

Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

organizing gets the goods