Mike Johnson: "On Saturday, things are gonna become very dire."

The Trump administration is going to restrict the number of refugees it admits into the US next year to the token level of just 7,500 – and those spots will mostly be filled by white South Africans.

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

I just can't imagine my bf sending me a note like this, it's a really weird thing to say. It's dressed up as a joke but he can't hide the fact that he's bitter that his wife who was meant to just trundle behind him being worshipful has a gig.

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

Wow. Extremely moving piece by a ski instructor in Maine.

Platner is only a small part of it. I've never seen someone so viscerally distill how betrayed we've all felt by our "leaders" over these past few years.