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Bad officers should be fired. Flagged. Make their record follow them so they can’t quietly move to the next department and start over.
February 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Bad officers should be fired. Flagged. Make their record follow them so they can’t quietly move to the next department and start over.
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From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
February 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.
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four score and seven years later, lincoln would defend the american experiment in similar terms, rooting the the war effort in a defense of freedom and equality — those were the things that made american civilization distinctive in his telling.
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
four score and seven years later, lincoln would defend the american experiment in similar terms, rooting the the war effort in a defense of freedom and equality — those were the things that made american civilization distinctive in his telling.
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I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
February 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.
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🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
"The day of accountability will come": Rep. Delia Ramirez on abolishing and prosecuting DHS
The Handbasket spoke with the congresswoman who called out ICE long before it was popular.
www.thehandbasket.co
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM
🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
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"Maybe all we do is frustrate," Star said. "Give someone one more day with their daughter or their dad.
"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”
My latest for Slate
"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”
My latest for Slate
Activists Are Fighting ICE Even Though It Could Get Them Killed. Here’s Why.
ICE is still trying to subjugate Minneapolis. It's still failing.
slate.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
"Maybe all we do is frustrate," Star said. "Give someone one more day with their daughter or their dad.
"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”
My latest for Slate
"But if you lost your dad, or you lost your daughter, you would give anything to have one more day with them. And that’s what we can do.”
My latest for Slate
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The *best version* of the Epstein scandal is that a wide swathe of American elites was palling around with a known child predator and explicit eugenicist for years on end — and is now closing ranks to downplay the severity of his crimes and their own complicity.
February 8, 2026 at 10:44 PM
The *best version* of the Epstein scandal is that a wide swathe of American elites was palling around with a known child predator and explicit eugenicist for years on end — and is now closing ranks to downplay the severity of his crimes and their own complicity.
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Don't forget: our children are being abused in taxpayer funded immigrant prisons where medical care is deplorable, freedom is nonexistent, & trauma is rampant.
Imprisoned children are left with a lifetime of anxiety, depression, & PTSD.
They deserve to be as free as Liam is today.
Imprisoned children are left with a lifetime of anxiety, depression, & PTSD.
They deserve to be as free as Liam is today.
Urgency grows as hundreds of children languish in immigration detention—sick, scared, and depressed.
A judge’s order last weekend sent Liam Conejo Ramos back home to Minneapolis. But so many others remain jailed. Leaders nationwide are speaking out to defend a critical legal safeguard. ⬇️
A judge’s order last weekend sent Liam Conejo Ramos back home to Minneapolis. But so many others remain jailed. Leaders nationwide are speaking out to defend a critical legal safeguard. ⬇️
February 3, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Don't forget: our children are being abused in taxpayer funded immigrant prisons where medical care is deplorable, freedom is nonexistent, & trauma is rampant.
Imprisoned children are left with a lifetime of anxiety, depression, & PTSD.
They deserve to be as free as Liam is today.
Imprisoned children are left with a lifetime of anxiety, depression, & PTSD.
They deserve to be as free as Liam is today.
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I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible with insane billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, so it seems we're at an impasse.
Let's put it to a vote!
Let's put it to a vote!
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 AM
I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible with insane billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, so it seems we're at an impasse.
Let's put it to a vote!
Let's put it to a vote!
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You know what's false and defamatory? Saying Haitian immigrants are eating people's dogs and cats. Calling Americans who protest his policies "paid agitators" and "domestic terrorists." Calling journalists "enemies of the people?"
President Trump is threatening to sue Trevor Noah over a joke at last night's Grammy Awards, saying that Noah's crack claiming he visited Jeffrey Epstein's island was "false and defamatory."
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over joke about Epstein's island
President Donald Trump called the joke, which Noah made at last night's Grammy Awards, "false and defamatory," again insisting he has never visited Jeffrey Epstein's island.
www.nbcnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:34 PM
You know what's false and defamatory? Saying Haitian immigrants are eating people's dogs and cats. Calling Americans who protest his policies "paid agitators" and "domestic terrorists." Calling journalists "enemies of the people?"
"The right knows if they polarize something, if they make something miserable to be engaged in — ... — they made it so that if you wanted to have an opinion on climate change, you were basically signing on for total ideological warfare. Most people don’t want to sign on for that."
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
All about "reactionary centrism"
Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.
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January 31, 2026 at 12:33 AM
"The right knows if they polarize something, if they make something miserable to be engaged in — ... — they made it so that if you wanted to have an opinion on climate change, you were basically signing on for total ideological warfare. Most people don’t want to sign on for that."
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using federal resources to illegally seize the goods of another country and then diverting the proceeds to accounts only the president can control is the kind of thing the framers would’ve seen these men hanged for
January 29, 2026 at 12:47 AM
using federal resources to illegally seize the goods of another country and then diverting the proceeds to accounts only the president can control is the kind of thing the framers would’ve seen these men hanged for
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This is the way.
"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law
YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia
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January 29, 2026 at 10:25 AM
This is the way.
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Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
House Democrat Says Abolishing ICE Isn’t Enough — DHS Must Go, Too
“The problem isn’t ‘training.’ DHS was built to violate our rights,” said Rep. Delia C. Ramirez.
truthout.org
January 27, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Amid growing calls for the abolition of ICE, Rep. Delia Ramirez is calling for the entire DHS to be dismantled. Highlighting how much experience the officers who killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti had, Ramirez said, “DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity.”
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Incidentally, the Franks were a German refugee family who fled to the Netherlands in 1934. The moral challenges facing their Dutch neighbors were not entirely dissimilar to those facing Americans over whether to help a newly anti-refugee govt deport Somalis or Venezuelans to unsafe countries
January 28, 2026 at 8:27 AM
Incidentally, the Franks were a German refugee family who fled to the Netherlands in 1934. The moral challenges facing their Dutch neighbors were not entirely dissimilar to those facing Americans over whether to help a newly anti-refugee govt deport Somalis or Venezuelans to unsafe countries
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On a more serious note, I do actually think it is very important to internalize the idea that believing in a cause means accepting that you might lose, and still going forward anyways.
Equality of Man Before His Creator
Last year, around Thanksgiving, my friend Cooper drove up from Washington D.C. to visit me in Lancaster, PA, where I was visiting family. Among other things, we went to pay our respects at Thaddeus…
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January 23, 2026 at 10:29 PM
On a more serious note, I do actually think it is very important to internalize the idea that believing in a cause means accepting that you might lose, and still going forward anyways.
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you don’t get this without years of centrist bullshit about “divisive concepts”
Signs about the history of slavery in the U.S. and the 9 people George Washington enslaved are being removed right now at the President’s House Site in Philadelphia, across from Independence Hall, months after the Trump administration threatend to do so.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
How far we have not come in 250 years.
January 22, 2026 at 10:34 PM
you don’t get this without years of centrist bullshit about “divisive concepts”
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We deal with this a lot in our civil rights work against the vast system of pretrial detention. Decades of mass incarceration has left our culture desensitized. We have stopped realizing a core pillar of a reasonable society: the state must have very good reasons for putting a human in a cage.
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 PM
We deal with this a lot in our civil rights work against the vast system of pretrial detention. Decades of mass incarceration has left our culture desensitized. We have stopped realizing a core pillar of a reasonable society: the state must have very good reasons for putting a human in a cage.
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It seems to me Congress should hold off on funding elaborate conspiracies to violate the Constitution.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 22, 2026 at 12:27 AM
It seems to me Congress should hold off on funding elaborate conspiracies to violate the Constitution.
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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
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The people of Minneapolis are so far over the line of being justified in invoking their right of revolution
They're so far over that line, literally Thomas Hobbes, who does not believe in the right of revolution, would agree
They're so far over that line, literally Thomas Hobbes, who does not believe in the right of revolution, would agree
January 22, 2026 at 6:47 AM
The people of Minneapolis are so far over the line of being justified in invoking their right of revolution
They're so far over that line, literally Thomas Hobbes, who does not believe in the right of revolution, would agree
They're so far over that line, literally Thomas Hobbes, who does not believe in the right of revolution, would agree
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It's always been abolish ICE.
For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.
I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.
I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
January 20, 2026 at 10:47 PM
It's always been abolish ICE.
For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.
I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
For the first time, more Americans support abolishing ICE than oppose it. But Republicans are proposing hundreds of millions in funding for this lawless agency.
I'll oppose this bill. We cannot give more money to an agency responsible for terrorizing our communities.
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Abolish ICE. Destroy their weapons and melt down their equipment. Deny their agents, employees, and bosses all government employment for all time. Remove the agency entirely from the budget and give the money to public libraries and free health care.
January 19, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Abolish ICE. Destroy their weapons and melt down their equipment. Deny their agents, employees, and bosses all government employment for all time. Remove the agency entirely from the budget and give the money to public libraries and free health care.
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I think Democrats are reluctant to say that welfare fraud is a significant problem because welfare fraud is not a significant problem.
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
January 19, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I think Democrats are reluctant to say that welfare fraud is a significant problem because welfare fraud is not a significant problem.
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?
Do Republicans have any obligation to stop constantly lying about this?