Michael Craig
I try and post daily; mostly orchids, but occasionally birds or pets or food or plants.
Abolish DHS
- Trump: "I'm starting to get great polls on the economy." Llamas: "The polls on the economy, they're not great."
- Women who took their spouses’ last names (& others with name changes) could get around the birth certificate problem if they have passports. But not everyone has one. And getting one takes time & $$$. The GOP’s bill doesn’t even offer to cover the expense, making it equivalent to a poll tax.
- The destruction of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ is an unfathomable loss for the American people. But there are so many brilliant civil servants dedicated to righting this horrible wrong — there is hope. rondac.substack.com/p/grieving-t...
- None of these fuckety fucks own me.
- Mayor Frey: “The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not de-escalation…The restoration of peace…throughout our city depends on one main thing, which is for ICE to leave.”
- “Abolish ICE” is not “defund the police” because the vast majority of the American people now know that ICE is the antithesis of law enforcement.
- On X, @osinttechnical.bsky.social reacted with this bloosk by @tommchenry.bsky.social
- We are in the midst of another racial reckoning. This one purging all the gains of the former and then some.
- If you are in the Austin area next month I’ll be around talking about voting rights at the LBJ Library! Put it on your calendars!
- Americans, we are living in a time of viciousness. We are living in a time where speaking the “wrong” language or having the “wrong” skin color puts you in danger. Congress must disband ICE and impeach Kristi Noem.
- The Billionaires Bill worked! Billionaires made over $1.5 trillion dollars last year; more than 20% richer!! The looting and polluting continues…
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- And those are just the charged crimes. They’re committing uncharged crimes daily right now.
- This remarkable fact caught my eye in a piece that I don't otherwise agree with "One remarkable fact is that today.. customs officers and Border Patrol agents have committed crimes at a per capita rate that is greater than the crime rate for people who immigrated here illegally" tinyurl.com/2bkkc22b
- Trump's "Gold Card" scheme sells visas to the highest bidder! What happened to the land of opportunity? It's not just unAmerican, it's ILLEGAL One rule for working families ... Another for oligarchs More👇 on why this case matters -TN
- Federal Goon Slams woman onto Concrete. Ventura, California
- The federal government is just disappearing children.
- These 2 kids detained last week were brought back to MN today. But school officials say many others from the Columbia Heights district are missing. They're not sure if they're in ICE detention or have moved away with their families. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- The level of expertise gap between members of the Trump Regime and Democratic members of congress is deeper and wider than The Grand Canyon. Members like Congressman Sean Casten (D-IL) are priceless to The Democratic Caucus.
- This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...
- So, remember that Episcopal bishop in New Hampshire that told priests to get their wills in order because “we are entering a new era of martyrdom"? I ran across historical precedent for that today. It's from a radio transcript @rns.org produced about a Lutheran bishop in Denmark… …in 1943.
- NEW: I spoke with this bishop, who offered more context for his (entirely unprepared!) remarks. Turns out other bishops (e.g., in MN) agree with him, and he recalled the moment he told local priests to get their wills in order. “There was a little gasp,” he said. religionnews.com/2026/01/15/t...
- I’m not a Texan, but it’s hard to ignore what’s happening in the Democratic Senate primary in the state. We’re all clocking it, right? Let’s start with what should be obvious: whoever wins the Democratic nomination, we Dems should support him or her. 🧵
- “The official story—promulgated by Kristi Noem, and Stephen Miller and JD Vance—was a lie. They are lying to you. They're lying to us. They know it. And in fact, they seem proud of it,” says Chris Hayes on JD Vance saying he won’t apologize for labeling Alex Pretti an “assassin.”
- Wait until you get a load of his latest grift. Don’t forget to ask about his one hundred year mortgages. Because nothing says “American dream” like debt your great-grandkids inherit.
- going through some old photos and found this from years ago that i took in richmond. what a building!
- He keeps bragging about passing a test where you point at a zebra and say “zebra.” The fact that he brings it up over and over is the part that should worry everyone. How many cognitive tests does this guy take in a year?
- DHS keeps touting a program that offers free plane tickets and “exit bonuses” to immigrants who self-deport. But last fall, we spoke to a dozen immigrants who said they followed Trump's instructions, yet never received the promised assistance. ➡️ Read their stories: propub.li/3Zeb4xF
- "Wicker, the senior Mississippi representative in the U.S. Senate, said opening a detention center would prevent economic growth opportunities." Just how toxic Trump/Miller's immigration/ICE polices have gotten in America? They don't want this [ICE gulags] in - checks notes - Mississippi.
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- Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- There are no more “principaled Republicans.” If there were, two or three of them would simply caucus with the Democrats and start to hold this lawless administration accountable of its crimes.
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- Oh yeah, the congresswoman should definitely sue and demand the full amount that a reporter was paid for this piece. What kind of windfall would that be? Millions? Billions? Who can say.
- “They haven’t seen federal agents de-escalate…In fact, the agents have moved to aggressively pursuing or using dangerous tactics to try to box them in…’I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us.’” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Christopher Steele, who used to head up MI6's Russia desk, told Tom Swarbrick that the latest Epstein files published by the DOJ on Friday show the extent of the connection between the disgraced paedophile financier and Russia.
- BREAKING: A federal judge blocks immigration agents from arresting people in Oregon without warrants unless there's a risk of escape.
- The chair of the first law firm that bent the knee to Trump’s extortion and agreed to do pro bono work for him is featured in the Epstein Files, you say? Huh.
- Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B
- "I don’t pretend to know the exact nature of what this letter is regarding, but I’m not gonna lie to you, folks: it has me worried. I am worried."
- that tweet about how vance has 4chan politics with tumblr cadence - "pretty problematic of you to want to tax the rich when there's literally a (checks notes) white genocide going on right now"
- Congressman “January 6” Loudermilk doesn’t want to be around when Dems take back the House in November. Republicans will be subjected to two years of nonstop accountability hearings and a lot of them now want to disappear into obscurity. They have nothing to gain in the minority and lots to lose.
- Loudermilk won’t seek reelection, opening fourth Georgia House seat www.ajc.com/politics/202...
- This feels personal. 😠
- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- There's nothing more fundamental to our democracy than the freedom of speech and the freedom to speak out about our government.
- The SAVE Act won't help America's elections. Quite the opposite. The facts: over 20 million Americans don't have access to those documents and nearly 50% of Americans don't have a passport.
- it's probably fine
- Abolish ICE is too confusing. What we meant to say is that "no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion."
- It's the Winter Olympics, so my once-every-four-years chance to note that my wife's aunt was once the head of the Canadian curling federation. Her husband? A leader in the Mounties. If this family were any more Canadian, they'd be maple-flavored.
- Billionaires are fearmongering about California’s proposed billionaire tax. Baloney. Just look at what happened when Massachusetts raised taxes on the rich.
- This is like mom hissing WE'RE GOING TO TALK LATER ABOUT WHAT YOU DID to dad in front of the kids
