Dear @governorferguson.bsky.social, What's your plan? Why would you dine with a convicted felon, rapist and the main character in the Epstein files? Sincerely, Concerned citizens.

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If you are in Seattle and have been wondering where all these protests have been heading, we're moving out. Come join us. @cascadiadaily.com @cascadiaresisting.bsky.social @cascadiabioregion.bsky.social @cascadiademocratic.bsky.social

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

We've reached a place where people are ready to call these folks the liars, hypocrites, and bigots that they are. But that's not gonna stop them. They won't remove themselves. They have to be removed.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Remembering how cops tossed Kyle Rittenhouse - who was open carrying a semiautomatic rifle - a bottle of water and told him, “We appreciate you… we really do”

I have been watching live streams from MSP all morning. Watching ICE murder and terrorize a community. I am sickened, and horrified, and enraged. I am watching the people of Minnesota come together, with courage and solidarity to oppose the tyranny. However sick my heart, it knows ICE will loose.

@murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @jayapal.house.gov @wilsonforseattle.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social Your duty is clear. Abolish ICE. With every word. With every legal action. With every breath. Abolish ICE.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

That's because one side IS at war.

Federal agents take a photo of a legal observer in Maine who is videotaping them and say they are adding them to a database for “domestic terrorists” This is exactly what happens in Russia

In summary: - National secret police can shoot you in the face and lie about it later. - Local police will protect that power. - Local political leaders will protect that power. - National political leaders will protect that power. Only we can protect our rights. Today is the call.

nine years old

Been thinking about this more today, and I think it's a seed for how i would like to describe my politics moving forward. I am opposed to the status quo because it requires people to be awful to succeed. I want to build a world where success demands being a full, kind, creative human.

Neither snow nor rain nor ICE nor mad kings stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds, and FUCK ICE.

A perfect answer for "What actually effects the bottom line?"

This isn’t immigration policy. It’s a business model. ICE keeps growing, not because it makes America safer, but because corporations are raking in billions off cages, bodies, and suffering. ICE’s existence is a massive revenue stream.

Block block block.

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they believe in their hearts that they were born masters and the rest of us are their slaves

There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.

I now firmly believe Trump’s handlers are constantly showing him AI slop content - created to support those handlers own individual, often-clashing agendas. GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.

TIRED: AI Slop from MS Copilot WIRED: Nadella Bukkake

A human web of trust, like I’ve been talking about

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

A good time to work on local community is when you feel frustrated or powerless in the face of international events.

Trump is trying to force US oil companies to rebuild Venezuelan oil fields that are too expensive to invest in at current crude prices while a full blown energy revolution is happening with cheap solar and electrification growing exponentially. This is a dying empire shit.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

Where is the call for an emergency rally? Locally, there are two happening. 2 pm at Pike Place 3 pm at the Overlook walk. Murdering people on the seas, seizing oil tankers, starting an illegal war, and kidnapping a president are the most "king-like" things Trump has done to date.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Bot-driven social media political manipulation, as with Cambridge Analytica, is a threat to national security and economy. Black-box, sycophantic, hallucination-trained chatbots are a threat to national security and economy. The evidence of the past decade could not be more clear.

The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.

But here's the real cherry on top re: discovering a published paper that I can only assume was written by an LLM, full of fabricated citations. When I was searching in various places to confirm that those citations were fabricated, Google's AI overview just kept the con going.

It’s always delightful to recieve a mysterious package, lost to memory and the package room, with a serendipitous treat from @richardkadrey.bsky.social. Also impressed by the archival scan of original text supplied by @archive.org. It tickles to have hardcopy of the treasure from that journey.

Former US military lawyers speak out: "The Former JAGs Working Group unanimously considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both." Statement on Media Reports of Pentagon “No Quarter” Orders in Caribbean Boat Strikes 1/2

with news of Tom Stoppard's passing, reflecting fondly on Arcadia - which I've seen staged multiple times, and this quote from him - which I quite enjoy and share with my Making Comics students when I talk about scripts in class. What a giant...

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Reminder to self: 1. Don’t feed trolls. 2. Don‘t wrestle pigs. 3. Don’t answer rhetorical questions.

We will get through this by doing what we have always done, showing up for each other.

With today’s update, Katie Wilson now leads Bruce Harrell in the Seattle mayor race by 91 votes! #SEAelex #WAelex

If you haven't checked to make sure your vote counted, you need to do it now - the race for Seattle's future depends on it!

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

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"The technocapital hyperobject at the end of time." i.e. The Mobius Grift

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Musk effectively copied over all of Wikipedia and had Grok go over it to give it a far right bias in its framing in articles to turn it into a propaganda tool. It's conservapedia 2.0 backed by the world's richest man. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...