Attia has a lengthy statement out about his Epstein connection but this is key: post-conviction, Epstein used his connections with influential and powerful people to whitewash his image, enabling him to keep abusing girls for years.
MAGA takes on terrorizing Minnesota as an extracurricular activity. "Classes have been called off in the Columbia Heights school district today due to what officials are calling a bomb threat. The closure comes as 5-year-old preschool student Liam Conejo Ramos & his father from Columbia Heights
The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/
Incredible stuff...and you're reading Graff's summary correctly: if you counted the number of officers/agents in CBP who have been ARRESTED you would have the country's fourth largest police department!
"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."
So where are all of my fellow ICE protestors collecting their paychecks?
After all of the stories from the Regime about paid protestors, I’m feeling like a rube for doing it simply because I am anti-fascist.
I’ve also never collected a dime of that filthy Big Pharma lucre.
MAJOR UPSET ALERT: Democrat Taylor Rehmet has just been projected the winner of the Texas SD9 special election — flipping a district that went Trump +17 and hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1991.
Trump personally endorsed Leigh Wambsganss and spent days hyping this race… and still lost.
The journalist and historian Garrett Graff traces how post-9/11 immigration policy, which led to a surge in Border Patrol hiring, set the stage for today’s crisis in Minneapolis on the latest episode of #PoliticalScene. swap.fm/l/tny-tps-Awdxs
GEORGIA — @ossoff.senate.gov : “This is a SEISMIC event. This should have people across 🇺🇸 absolutely shook. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County elections office… this is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections.” (H/T @atrupar.com )
The Secretary of Homeland Security is asserting that the Deputy White House Chief of Staff ultimately bears responsibility for the murder of two American citizens, which is something that would normally generate a dozen congressional inquiries.
So Bovino has indeed been demoted and lost his title of Commander at Large of the U.S. Border Patrol.
I’m sure he’s feeling even smaller now.
Also his last name should be Porcino and not Bovino.
M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis.
AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including:
"Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
M Gessen provides the essential read of the morning: “The toolbox isn’t particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality;
“There are no sidelines any more, friends.” - @philtajitsunash.bsky.social
1942. Mochida Family awaiting deportation in Centerville, CA. Photo by Dorothea Lange.
2026. Five year old Liam Ramos taken away by ICE returning home from pre-school, Photo via Columbus Heights Elementary, Minneapolis.
"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality."
-James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980)
#everynightapoem#ofsorts
they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child.
ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents.
the family is here legally.
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With humans depleting freshwater systems to the point they can’t recover, a new era has begun of "global water bankruptcy,” according to a United Nations report.
NEW POCAST: One year into Donald Trump’s second term, I discuss how big law firms, legacy media, corporate elites, and government institutions capitulated, collaborated, or stayed silent while democracy was under sustained attack.
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I'm livid and I can barely type this
This is the follow-up to the woman who was pulled from her vehicle on the way to the doctor
"I'm autistic and I have a brain injury...it takes me a second to understand" a woman pleads as she's carried by her arms and legs and stuffed into the back of an SUV
A few months ago, ICE hired me
I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable
And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"
My latest for Slate
