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He just tweeted it out …

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

it must be annoying to be a 90 year old Republican congressman and have to pretend like you know what's going on anymore. you got into politics to pass laws giving out tax breaks for every horse you own but your groyper staffers are like "you need to condemn a new YA novel about bottom surgery"

This is civic action. Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside. 130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

chat they had to stop the surgery and call the bomb squad to this man’s ass

once again: lawyers are morally responsible for their professional decisions. people get really mad about this but … you picked the job. you took the money. you own what you’ve done.

2 weeks ago, the El Paso Medical Examiner ruled the death of a Cuban ICE detainee a homicide. This time, when a 32-year-old Nicaraguan man died, ICE bypassed the county medical examiner in favor of a military facility. They won’t publicly release a ruling. www.texastribune.org/2026/02/03/t...

Mackenzie Scott will not save the Washington Post. It's done. A billionaire murdered it and billionaires will not save us. Support local and independent news, friends. Here are some starter packs. go.bsky.app/FzSc9z

I'm still processing the news. I loved this gig so much. Getting to shout about great books by especially newer authors has been one of the most uncomplicated sources of joy in my life, and I'm gonna be sad about this for a long time.

y’all know I was skeptical but Spanberger has been great. Her people have been great. Had a meeting earlier today with some of her folks and they’re saying exciting things about employee rights and enforcement. very happy so far.

WHAT'S up me hearties it be thy boy Ahab, with the biggest ounce of gold giveaway ever hath ye seen on the channel. Swerve not thy fixed purpose to attend this one, guys! But first I must tell ye the tale of SQUARESPACE, who be thy sponsor today

Fire every agent who does this. Publicize their names and notify the neighbors every time they move into a new neighborhood.

Working theory: If one had a chance to improve society by injecting just one piece of knowledge into every human — so that they truly UNDERSTOOD it, not just knew it on a surface level — "the difference between a million and a billion" would be pretty high in terms of return on investment

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 04,1948

Not really breaking news here on Bluesky, but "line must go up" is literally the root of every single problem we have! It's why everything fucking sucks now. More so than ever.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 04,1956

Judge Reyes: "Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program."

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 04,1954

quite seriously: AUSAs are going to start filing briefs written with ChatGPT and the sanctions situation is going to be like nothing we’ve ever seen

I love being safe inside of my palatial bunker after destroying society when a knock comes upon the door. Ah must be my men. Coming to thank me no doubt. I'll have to award them an extra ration of broth.

This is just awful news. Patrick is one of the best reporters out there, and we relied on his work constantly, including his reporting for the Texas Tribune before he went to WaPo. We would hire him if only we could. x.com/PatrickSvite...

Any successful news operation that emerges going forward will have to be unabashedly left wing. Landlords fucking people over? That's a left wing cause. Businesses polluting? Left wing. City councilor is corrupt? Left wing. Workers being mistreated? Sports stadium displacing housing? Buddy,

Izolde is a super cool person who's been dealing with a lot of health issues and a shitty job market. She really really needs help paying her rent today, so please give if you can! <3

Fun fact: Every single one of these guys is a mortal human being just like you and me who will one day rot into dust.

so Heated Rivalry-pilled, I had to find the local angle about it 🏒🌈 New York’s queer hockey club is seeing a LOT more interest these days! (and so are leagues like it around the country.) new story from me:

Something’s happening

The "I'm rich so I bought myself a pet cheetah" to "Oh, the cheetah? Yeah, the cheetah was a lot of trouble, I had it put down" pipeline

First, a story about a St. Paul woman who was detained by ICE. They keep coming back to her house

For YEARS, my cholesterol has been high. When I weighed less and more. When eating healthily and stress-eating. Doctors always told me to eat better and lose weight. Two months ago, I started a low dose of a statin. Just got bloodwork. My cholesterol is normal for the first time since my early 20s.

I have a low opinion of Schumer, but this is mostly a good list of concessions that would be good to win. There's no mention of how any of it would be enforced or what the consequences for violating things are, but it's mostly a good list. One exception: body cams. They'll only use them for evil.

We have a ton of great journalists. What we need is an army of Excel geeks to figure out a sustainable business model for independent, worker-owned media outlets that can scale up and down

after everything else this week, it’s really hard not to imagine what bezos’s friends in his inbox are telling him about how awesome what he did to the post is

Counterpoint: they were both angels. Abolish ICE in its entirety. Never vote for a Republican. Demand the MOST YOU CAN IMAGINE from every politician. We can do better. We must do better.

Our reporting: www.texasobserver.org/revealed-fou...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller February 10,1940

"Nothing preserves a child’s dignity like being forced to trek to the other side of school in the middle of a class to pee in the only room they’re legally allowed to use without fear of being assaulted, Tom. Thanks for that." By @alyssaur.bsky.social www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Obviously small news outlets need money to get going, and the ones we have now can't replace newspapers, but they also cost a lot less once you take out all the inflated exec and "star" salaries, expensive real estate, dumb tech brained gambits, and, most importantly, infinite profit motive!

Reminder to never fucking post on X again in your life.

The Democrats are stupid enough to do it

I will die on the hill that not everything should have to exist for profit margins and that public interest and profit are often deeply misaligned.

Thanks so much to @mprnews.org for covering #Comics4Liam. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

tfw when you want to have fun and chant too but you can’t because you’re at work

curious how many off laid off journalists might spend some free time doing a little reporting on their former employer

He should give me half of his money, and I will kick him in the nuts until he gets happy again.

Absolutely serious real talk: join the DSA and the Working Families Party if they have chapters in your towns, friends. They're not built up as strongly everywhere, but without them, we would not have Mamdani in NYC right now. Key orgs in this movement.

Again, if you need further proof this isn’t about money—photojournalists are cash cows if you’re selling photos to Getty/the wires. They pay for themselves!

Too many people with ideas of how journalism needs to be divorce from capitalism but not enough people thinking about how journalists are supposed to pay bills

look ashley is some kind of hero and you should go to the website she made, www.standwithminnesota.com, and see if there's somewhere you wanna throw a few bucks

I worked at the Washington Post for abt 18 months, from early 2014 to late 2015. And one of the main reasons I joined was because Bezos had recently purchased and said he'd stay out of the newsroom while also giving folks across the company runway to do their jobs. A shame he didn't keep his word.

kalecki, kalecki- kalecki, KALECKI KALECKI KALECKI KALECKI

Expanding upon this, something I’m not yet seeing discussed about today’s Post news is how it further consolidates the power of the New York Times to set the national narrative. I hope you trust Joe Kahn’s editorial judgment because it is as close to monoculture in news as you can get now.

Costco CEO launching a hostile takeover of Amazon:

I *love* freelancing. I have done the best work of my career as a freelancer. But the idea that several hundred new freelancers, newsletter writers, and worker-owned co-ops is remotely feasible, much less a replacement for The Washington Fucking Post, is insane.

"The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is probing Nike in response to unspecified allegations that the company discriminates against White employees, the agency said Wednesday." www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/b...

The 22-year-old's family is now calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to stop the NYPD from responding to mental health crisis calls, which the mayor says has underscored the need for the City agency he pitched during his campaign: the Department of Community Safety.

Most of you (white people) are naive to how Americans are targeted by govt. State "(violent action)"? Then say "No one should do it, 😉" won't let you off the hook! D.A. may say it shows an affinity for violence. And argue for a search warrant or no bail. For you and anyone liking it. Will Block!🔳

Here's another #transcrowdfund: Hailey Kaas is a brilliant writer, translator, educator and activist in Brazil, and one of my fav humans. She founded Brazil's first transfeminism website/collective. Hailey's mom has cancer and she's had to quit working to take care of her: ko-fi.com/haileykaas

So they’re gonna end up legitimizing the use of masks.

As a Texas journalist, I cannot say enough how absolutely stupid it is to lay of PATRICK SVITEK during an election year. What idiocy. Also harrowing: An already impossible job market being flooded with the most talented reporters of my generation. God help us all.

Billionaires hate competent journalism.

The thing you notice with gender critical journalism is that a thing can never be just what it is. It has to be dipped in 15 layers of hysteria so every single court case about detransitioners is now The Final Domino of Gender Ideology To Fall

Here's a brief note at Law Dork from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on this order: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

Turning 34 today! If you'd like to help me celebrate, I'd be thrilled if you'd leave a compliment, a memory, or tell me about any work of mine (journalistic or fictional) that you've really liked or that meant something to you ❤️

I like this. Incredibly simple, absolutely true.

Honestly can't remember the last time I loved an MCU thing the way I love Wonder Man

on bluesky, we measure times in twenty month cycles between attempts to cancel dril

the texas democratic senate primary is deeply mind numbing because Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico believe basically the same things at their core but they're both rorshach tests for whatever you already believe about Texans and their voting preferences

Update: The Monday after this story ran, Sonya was punished for "soliciting" donations. She told me in a letter today that her custody level has been lowered, meaning that she "must live in the unit cell block with the more misbehaved women, my freedom inside the prison is severely limited."

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 3 ErinReed: In groundbreaking move CA Atty Genl sues Rady Children's Hospital for dropping GAC by charging it w/ breach of contract for abandoning ~1.5k trans patients. The strategy sidesteps often-hostile federal courts & keeps jurisdiction in state courts.

Doomposters on here are going to handwring tha the administration has already won but instead of posting, the correct answer in this case is to sign up to be a poll watcher and saying “I’d like to see you try”

NYC's pension system is a significant shareholder in Palantir. We are using that leverage. I have made a formal request for the company to secure a third-party assessment of the legal, reputational, civil-rights & human-rights risks associated with their work with ICE.

Another GOP retirement from the House: Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk. #GA11, in the NW Atlanta suburbs & exurbs, went 61-38 for Trump in 2024, per our calculations.

A link to SAUSA Julie Le's admission that ICE & DOJ haven't released individuals who were ordered released because no one in the entire system has responded to her repeated entreaties to get the individuals released. Kafka told from the prosecutor's prospective. drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

WHEN YOU'VE LOST THE GD CATO INSTITUTE

👀 @nationalsecuritylaw.org

It is simply impossible to reform organizations as deeply corrupted as ice and CBP. They need to be abolished.

folks I can only do so many release the Mr. Beast files jokes

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Republican Rep. Barry Loudermilk announces he won't seek a seventh term representing Georgia's 11th Congressional District. Trump carried this constituency, which is based in the northwestern Atlanta suburbs and exurbs, 61-38.

Finally! State employees doing this is an excellent supplement to volunteer networks and will make everyone safer.

They should run on shaming the dumb shits this time. For the first time by the way.

Every day my taxes go to pay for armed goons harassing my neighbors and I spend money out of my pocket for an endless series of GoFundMes to help out people in need and honestly I think this is a deeply fucked way of doing things

I cannot think of a person whose take on this I care about less. My dude your job is to cover the administration and the political culture that created the conditions of a bleak day like today before it happens, not post what you think is pretty prose after it’s a fait accompli.

It’s never not insane to read about layoffs rationales at the paper owned by wealthiest man in the world

A bill banning ICE from setting up detention centers in New Mexico has cleared the legislature, and Dem Gov. Michelle Lujan has said she'll sign it. But three Dems in the state House voted against it. From @palabrasdeabajo.bsky.social www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Two days in a row 💪🏻

Yikes. Yikes www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Sharing this print I came across on IG that I thought y'all might like

Notably, this district went 55-45 for Trump in 2024. Particularly given New Hampshire's notorious fickleness, though, it's likely to swing back to the left this year.

Patrick Svitek was one of the best in the biz when he was working in Texas. Laying off someone of his caliber is like trading Shohei in his prime. Actually unbelievable.

I'll wave hello as I cast my vote

I think the reaction of anyone seeing ICE agents in a polling station should be to tell them directly what you think of their presence and to cast your vote, then tell them again on your way out.

I live near Boston actually and I was right.

Friends we are watching Face/Off and white possibly this is the worst movie I’ve ever seen in my life

"One of the Germans replied that this was done by, quote, 'a few people, and you cannot blame all of us'." They were standing in liberated Buchenwald - or, as this gentleman said, "you might call a detention center."

doesn’t help that the most high profile ban was a much loved black account which did nothing nearly as egregious as other accounts who’ve seen far less discipline, if any

When, even, Fox News, is running this headline Ex-Washington Post chief blasts 'gutless' Bezos as paper rocked by major layoffs 'This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world’s greatest news organizations,' @postbaron.bsky.social wrote www.foxnews.com/media/ex-was...

he doesn't and he doesn't care about the newspaper! destroying it was a feature and not a bug. he does not want it to be restored! this is not hard!

More proof that men don’t grocery shop