Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future.

At the risk of giving this thievery
more respect than it even deserves, this isn’t just unconstitutional but anti-constitutional; completely rejects the very notion of law itself.

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:

“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender

just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

A sample question on the Illinois 8th grade Constitution test:
"Describe at least two methods the framers of the Constitution used to ensure government power is limited."
Republicans know this perfectly well.
graphics.suntimes.com/education/20...

Canadian sketch comedy delivers.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0iQ...

The United States is not actually in a constitutional crisis. Our Constitution works just fine.

We are in a crisis of character — where nearly every single person who has sworn an oath to uphold our Constitution and enforce the law lacks the courage, moral fiber, and decency to do what is right.

This 15 year old pranked the NY Times. I love it.

It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.

"Minnesota can free itself of ICE/CBP if it gives up its rights to self rule.... Draconian immigration enforcement is at best a convenient additional benefit to the pretext through which the White House has imposed an occupation of a peaceful civilian city." Gift article.

Good thread. I will add that populist anti-intellectualism has a long US history that prevents both sides from listening to experts who have solutions that do not reduce to populist slogans. Cardinal Cupic of Chicago is correct here that Congressional immigration reform failures led us here.

man.

Alex Pretti's parents found out about his death when the Associated Press called them. They then had to make phone calls until they reached the county medical examiner. So heartbreaking. coloradosun.com/2026/01/24/c...

I keep thinking about how he was a federal employee too. Even that doesn’t stand in the way of the vicious posthumous defamation from Trump admin mouthpieces.

The Secretary of Defense praising the murder of a protestor and posting "ICE > MN."

Minnesota is an American state with almost six million residents.

Q: What's the difference between someone in NATO and Donald Trump?

A: Donald Trump would never put on a uniform to defend the United States.

ICE let a man accused of stealing $100 million in jewels choose between deportation and continuing to be tried in court, and he chose deportation. I can't get over how frustrated those prosecutors must be to have all their work go to waste. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.