Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

stlpr.org

This sounds niche but around 2/3 of Americans live in this zone. It’s at least 200 million people. Tons of entire states and cities are inside it.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · last wk.

The ACLU has put together a know your rights guide for people within 100 miles of a border. If you are in that swath of land, please take a look at this and learn your actual rights. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...

After Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)

Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state...

nytimes.com

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

Rush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is the latest hint of a US brain drain. go.nature.com/45S5Mvz

US grant applicants surge at prestigious European research agency

Rush for funds to relocate laboratories to Europe is latest hint of a US brain drain.

go.nature.com

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

nature.com

Man it would be so mortifying to ask someone to do this

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 6mo ago

lol nymag.com/intelligence...

How did I miss that Melania was directed by Brett Ratner. Very funny.

Catherine was so talented that she was funnier than almost everyone but also didn’t feel the need to be funny all the time. She was just Mom in Home Alone. But if she decided to be funny, oof, watch out.

Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Catherine O'Hara was so talented she managed to be funny in Schitt's Creek, a show that didn't have any jokes in it

If you watch “The Oner” be prepared. It is one of the most stressful things I’ve ever watched and it is itself all done in one take. A masterpiece.

Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio)@kleinman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Now more than ever watch Season 1 of The Studio because Catherine O'Hara is aces in every scene she's in.

Vaguely racist

This isn’t theater. They’re so lame. They want to be Delta Force guys from the movies so bad.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state? HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down

one of the reasons bari weiss is going to fly cbs news directly into the side of a mountain is that she’s clearly been given not just editorial, but operational control, and while she doesn’t know much about the former, she has absolutely zero experience in the latter

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

Ricci@riccisergienko.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ICE & CBP have been out kidnapping people in Los Angeles every day since June. The media has moved on and acts like this isn’t still happening. The crises are ongoing. Solidarity with the people fighting back in Minneapolis and everywhere.

No. The president is not on board. The whole point is for him to not be on board.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A potential off-ramp that senators are weighing: pass a CR for DHS (while negotiations continue) plus other full approps bills. “It's an item that has been discussed on both sides,” says GOP Sen. Mike Rounds. But he says a revised deal only happens “if the president is on board first.”

Schumer calls for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to be removed from their jobs.

1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.

Wyden, Merkley and Markey Demand ICE Stop Using Mobile Facial Recognition App | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

wyden.senate.gov

This stuff is new too. It is all post 9/11 and it’s a mess.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7mo ago

There shouldn’t be a Department of Homeland Security. It’s a grab bag of various agencies under a dangerously murky heading which can and now has been co-opted for a fascist transition. Abolish ICE and redistribute the other agencies.

Yeah people are saying that because they looked at the coverage. Literally not a response

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In today's town hall, a staff member asked Bari Weiss about accusations CBS has become a right-wing outlet. "I would respond simply by saying, look at our coverage. Look at the coverage that CBS News has put out since I started. Look at the coverage of The Free Press," she said:

This stuff is actually kind of hard to predict. NYPD is majority minority and local cops tend not to like the feds much.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Meanwhile, there are a ton of unexamined assumptions about the loyalty of key groups. Local cops may be no friends of protestors, but are they so tied to MAGA that they'll jump on the 30-side of a 70/30 national split with potentially fatal personal consequences? Will the guard? Active military?

He was the lead investor in my company, unfortunately, though I rarely had to deal with him. Guy’s weird as hell.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last yr.

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale RTd this thread, which says Trump shld act fast & “Fire people who can't be fired. Force them to litigate. Mass deport people who can't be deported. Force them to litigate. Cancel 100s of billions in funding that are not lawful to cancel & force them to litigate.” 1/

Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

Burrowcrat@burrowcrat.bsky.social · 7mo ago

His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

I agree.

John Brown stan account@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I will never forgive Trump's voters. I will go to my grave hating them.

What union? There’s no union.

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

My favorite Larry/Steve story is from when Steve went back to Apple. Larry goes, Gil Amelio is saying, “Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom. And my job is to get it *pointed* in the right direction.” Steve laughed so hard he fell off his stool.

I remember in “Super Pumped,” Eddy Cue calls up Travis, the CEO of Uber, after Apple finds they are abusing App Store rules: “You need to be in Cupertino at 9 AM tomorrow and Tim is going to sit in and decide whether Uber exists or not.”

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

It’s even worse than this because he deliberately whitewashes the thing in his inbox and tries to make it sound like they all want these laws enforced legally and peacefully. They absolutely do not. Where is the description of that?

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 7mo ago

What an indecent waste of syllables--three paragraphs of "Gosh, things sure are complicated in this big world of ours and if we could all just sit and talk..." about the murder of an innocent woman by masked secret police. Centrist banality combined with narcissistic I-am-America's-pastor preening.

It’s a ludicrous idea. We were not allowed to accept gift mugs or chocolate when working for the NYC government. Forget about being violent. The standards are higher not lower.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo ago

Frey: "I think [Vance] also asserted that because you work at the federal government you somehow have absolutely immunity from committing crimes. That's not true in any law school in America, whether it's Yale or Villanova or anywhere else. That's not true."

Can’t believe this is an actual headline