Nicholas Toloudis
@toloudis.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science at The College of New Jersey. Europe, social movements, the history of American teachers' unions...I'm all over the place, really.
In which ICE appropriates Article 3 authority for itself.
‘Secret’ ICE memo allows agents to forcibly enter homes without a judge’s warrant
An internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) memo states that officers can now forcibly enter people’s homes even without a judge's warrant – despite a 1980 Supreme Court ruling that found en...
www.france24.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:38 PM
In which ICE appropriates Article 3 authority for itself.
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AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 PM
AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
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It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.
Every lie told by this regime, no matter how brazen, shocking, or dehumanizing, makes perfect sense when I think about their claim that immigrants were eating pets in Ohio. It's not about evidence or credibility, it's about pushing narratives to facilitate ethnic cleansing.
January 24, 2026 at 11:15 PM
It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.
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We condemn the removal of the Freedom and Slavery exhibit and firmly reject “federal actions and the systemic efforts to distort the historical record and impose through executive orders and actions a narrow vision of the American past.”
Read our statement: https://ow.ly/rNTq50Y2T9v
Read our statement: https://ow.ly/rNTq50Y2T9v
January 24, 2026 at 3:01 PM
We condemn the removal of the Freedom and Slavery exhibit and firmly reject “federal actions and the systemic efforts to distort the historical record and impose through executive orders and actions a narrow vision of the American past.”
Read our statement: https://ow.ly/rNTq50Y2T9v
Read our statement: https://ow.ly/rNTq50Y2T9v
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Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...
January 23, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...
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When Mr. Rogers died in 2003 Westboro Baptist Church showed up at his funeral to protest against him. Fox News ran that hit piece on Mr. Rogers' supposedly toxic influence in 2007, when Meghan McCain was 23 years old. Eight years later she signed up for a job with them.
January 23, 2026 at 3:21 PM
When Mr. Rogers died in 2003 Westboro Baptist Church showed up at his funeral to protest against him. Fox News ran that hit piece on Mr. Rogers' supposedly toxic influence in 2007, when Meghan McCain was 23 years old. Eight years later she signed up for a job with them.
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Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Here are the signs the Trump administration removed from Independence Park
Following last year’s review, every sign has been removed from the President’s House site.
www.inquirer.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
January 22, 2026 at 8:05 PM
This is 100% FALSE. Immigration judges do NOT play any role in issuing administrative warrants. They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves. ICE’s own training materials say they can’t be used for a search of a home!
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
Here’s a blank warrant form. Note who signs it.
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Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
January 15, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
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The EU making a free trade deal with Mercosur and opening the path to more Chinese electric vehicle sales.
Canada buying more cars from Mexico and South Korea while also cutting a deal for Chinese EVs.
The world didn't stop because the US threw a tantrum. Mostly just pushed others closer together.
Canada buying more cars from Mexico and South Korea while also cutting a deal for Chinese EVs.
The world didn't stop because the US threw a tantrum. Mostly just pushed others closer together.
January 16, 2026 at 4:14 PM
The EU making a free trade deal with Mercosur and opening the path to more Chinese electric vehicle sales.
Canada buying more cars from Mexico and South Korea while also cutting a deal for Chinese EVs.
The world didn't stop because the US threw a tantrum. Mostly just pushed others closer together.
Canada buying more cars from Mexico and South Korea while also cutting a deal for Chinese EVs.
The world didn't stop because the US threw a tantrum. Mostly just pushed others closer together.
At one point, the pastor says "based on our information, we know the agents have reservations in hotels through the beginning of June."
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
January 16, 2026 at 3:14 PM
At one point, the pastor says "based on our information, we know the agents have reservations in hotels through the beginning of June."
About the upcoming municipal elections.
Paris election exposes deep divisions on the French left | Euractiv
The rift between the Socialists and the far left, sharpened by months of clashes in parliament now appears entrenched
www.euractiv.com
January 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
About the upcoming municipal elections.
About the cosmetics billionaire who encouraged Trump to take over Greenland.
How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:46 PM
About the cosmetics billionaire who encouraged Trump to take over Greenland.
Tbh, if you told me that even a year ago, I don't know how seriously I would have taken it.
If you had told me during the 1990s that Europe would send some sort of symbolic expeditionary force to Greenland to make it more unpalatable for... the Unites States to invade the island... I would have asked you what variety of mushrooms you had put in your risotto & tried to acquire some myself.
January 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Tbh, if you told me that even a year ago, I don't know how seriously I would have taken it.
The alternative would be monetary policy decided by a person who does not understand trade deficits. So, that really ought to spook everyone. But here we are.
If I was Jerome Powell, and I was old enough to remember that Trump chickened out after spooking the bond markets last April, I too would make a very public statement intended to spook bond markets.
January 12, 2026 at 4:23 AM
The alternative would be monetary policy decided by a person who does not understand trade deficits. So, that really ought to spook everyone. But here we are.
Immigrants like Taher Muse, discussed in the final paragraphs of this article, will be the ones to repair the damage the current administration is doing to the United States.
Somalis Fled Civil War and Built a Community. Now They Are a Target.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Immigrants like Taher Muse, discussed in the final paragraphs of this article, will be the ones to repair the damage the current administration is doing to the United States.
This is excellent
Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)
1. Pat Bagley
1. Pat Bagley
January 10, 2026 at 5:49 PM
This is excellent
"“Public school teachers and other employees do not surrender their first amendment rights simply by virtue of their employment,” the lawsuit reads."
Ok, am I supposed to stop writing my book about a Red Scare-era teachers' union to weigh in on all this? I mean, I've got a goddamn deadline here....
Ok, am I supposed to stop writing my book about a Red Scare-era teachers' union to weigh in on all this? I mean, I've got a goddamn deadline here....
Top union accuses Texas of targeting teachers over Charlie Kirk posts
American Federation of Teachers sues over what it says are unconstitutional investigations into social media comments
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:42 PM
"“Public school teachers and other employees do not surrender their first amendment rights simply by virtue of their employment,” the lawsuit reads."
Ok, am I supposed to stop writing my book about a Red Scare-era teachers' union to weigh in on all this? I mean, I've got a goddamn deadline here....
Ok, am I supposed to stop writing my book about a Red Scare-era teachers' union to weigh in on all this? I mean, I've got a goddamn deadline here....
Some of my best memories from grad school are of teaching The Republic, going through it chapter by chapter with my students. I can't think of anything that makes me want to teach Plato again more than reading things like this.
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Some of my best memories from grad school are of teaching The Republic, going through it chapter by chapter with my students. I can't think of anything that makes me want to teach Plato again more than reading things like this.
Good news, everyone. We can relax now.
Leading AI expert delays timeline for its possible destruction of humanity
Former OpenAI employee Daniel Kokotajlo says progress to AGI is ‘somewhat slower’ than first predicted
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Good news, everyone. We can relax now.
This was true a year ago. It feels truer now.
I know it’s not everything, but it’s something: how each of us, in our little spheres of work & community, can help foster & sustain places of care, decency, & intelligence even when powerful people celebrate venal, coarse, mendacious practices. What a gift, to be able to do something so worthwhile
January 7, 2026 at 12:17 AM
This was true a year ago. It feels truer now.
"retired general and former national security adviser Michael Flynn urged the president to “ask former Venezuelan President Maduro who in the United States worked with him to overthrow the 2020 election.”"
Trump’s Venezuela raid revives MAGA ‘Stop the Steal’ fantasies
For right-wing conspiracists — and maybe Trump, too — the president’s surprise military strike wasn’t about oil, but the ‘stolen’ 2020 election.
www.ms.now
January 5, 2026 at 9:57 PM
"retired general and former national security adviser Michael Flynn urged the president to “ask former Venezuelan President Maduro who in the United States worked with him to overthrow the 2020 election.”"
This is pretty good.
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
This is pretty good.
The transition has to be "judicious. Because that's what we're all about."
January 4, 2026 at 1:03 AM
The transition has to be "judicious. Because that's what we're all about."