I still can't actually believe this btw. Mandleson, *whilst sitting in the Cabinet* was leaking documents to a millionaire sex trafficker to undermine the government. An excellent metaphor for how hollow the British ruling class is in the 21st Century.

Just so we’re clear this isn’t Brown emailing Epstein it’s Mandelson leaking cabinet communications to Epstein to undermine his own government. He was trying to get Jamie Dimon to threaten Darling.

NEW: Who was John Pond? This August 2009 email exchange which was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein included Mandelson, the PM's PPS Jeremy Heywood, the minister/adviser Shriti Vadera and... John Pond. Two sources have told the BBC that John Pond was in fact Gordon Brown, then the PM

I should not have to say this but if you are a legal observer your job is not to go snitch on any and all illegal things. Your job is SPECIFICALLY AND EXCLUSIVELY to record law enforcement brutality, illegality, and overreach. It is ABSOLUTELY NOT to snitch on protests you find too spicy.

"document everything" puts innocent people at risk because the state cares not that they have done nothing illegal. they will use OSINT from the video you took of a crowd with faces visible to identify people to prosecute. your video "exculpating" them is useless because the ride is the punishment

The police are already looking for anything they can use against protestors. Some of them may be recording the public as well, for court or for their files. Your job is to do what they do not: record *their* activities. Keep an eagle eye (and your lens) trained on *them*.

I know a lot of folks think that any time people get into it about this sort of discourse it is a clout game. But please hear me when I say that trying to disingenuously redefine "legal observer" to mean "guy who records crime he disapproves of" endangers people, including actual legal observers.

Kinda orthogonal, but it’s a bit maddening how normalized it is that sitting members of Congress are so openly transphobic that they refer to trans women as “men” with no pushback. Like we’re back at “trans women are women” being radial to them.

If evidence were so prevalent of trans women defeating cis women in sports, I don't think they'd continually scream about the same instance where a **cis woman beat a cis woman** over and over.

American car companies trying to out-compete each other on features and range, pushing EVs fully into the luxury market, was a mistake. People just want cars that drive decently. Reporters saying like “how are Chinese EVs cheaper?” without acknowledging this is also really frustrating.

One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now

yeah seeing the "Minneapolis took off because the so-called 'activists' got out of the way and let normal people in" takes is really frustrating. that's not at all an accurate look at what's happening in Mpls or anywhere else. All these movements rely on cores of people who have experience.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Meanwhile in Denver PSL ran a live-streamed and in-person ICE out preparedness event to help people learn their rights, learn what works, and pick up some basics on protecting themselves. There will be more people here prepared _because_ of the activists.

A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.

I’m sorry but what did libertarians think that the anonymous money laundering racism coin that you could only functionally use for illicit activity was doing other than this, exactly

Sometimes I get a really good quote in. “Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s @evacide told @RollingStone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

sorry maybe this is an unnecessary level of stating the obvious, but sometimes when someone says they don’t think puerto ricans are “american,” it isn’t an opportunity to do a little civics gotcha & tell them about the insular cases. they just mean they think real americans are white.

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

No one who has seen the Epstein case unfold should have any doubt left about why victims don’t report. When reporting means facing more abuse, more exploitation, and more betrayal at the institutional level, while the perpetrators are the leaders of the very systems of “justice” supposed to help you

every week there's a new problem caused by trump that i thought was definitively solved in the 1880's

Unfinished. #LiamRamos

While ICE is a straight shot from the enslaver patrols & the Trail of Tears & every white supremacy story on which the US is built & maintained it’s also not for nothing that fascism has distinctive hallmarks— & one of the oldest is that you control a population by going after their children.

The bottom line is that we're encroaching on people's safety and human rights over paperwork issues; the functional equivalent of an expired car registration. We must keep pushing until the paradigm has changed, utterly.

No, it's not just Trump; lots of this happened under Biden. It's the office. Which must be abolished. It cannot be reformed, fixed, bodycamm'd, miracled into submission with more money poured into it.

Elon, ten hours ago: “Epstein hounded me relentlessly to go to his pedo island and I always declined.” So, Elon knew who was going and what was happening and never tried to get justice for the children he claims he knew were being trafficked on the island? But he cares so much about child safety.

An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.

This is another outrageous attack on the dignity and safety of trans people — part of the ongoing campaign to eliminate them. Also, *everyone* is less safe when a state is stripping legal ID from a scapegoat group. It’s a direct attack on trans people. It’s also precedent.

I've been getting back into @worldsbeyondnumber.bsky.social During one of the fireside chats Lou said he had an image of some people riding a scifi ATV on the outside of a ship hovering above earth as inspiration for their new show and I wanted to have some fun visualizing that. #art #scifi

The anti-trans movement will use connections btw one trans surgeon and Jeffrey Epstein to further the conspiracy theory that doctors make us trans. What our community needs to know is that trans journalists have known and cared and brought attention to unethical surgeons the whole time.

making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal

Endorse (click thru for context)

This is a very shocking profile of Mace that nonetheless makes no mention of her obsessive and abusive behavior towards trans people in Congress, one of the more dangerous manifestations of her desperate addiction to attention

*blank stare* “Weaponized against us”—this person is confident that “us” couldn’t include me.

Not ICE, but CBP. ICE is terrible, but CBP is orders of magnitude worse. In many ways, abolishing or radically overhauling CBP is of greater urgency than ICE, but likely tougher to do. One can argue that ~all of ICE's duties can be reallocated. Harder to say that with CBP.

Confused as to how Josh Shapiro thinks it is appropriate to compare student protestors to the KKK but inappropriate to compare ICE to the Gestapo

After what I've learned today, it's not an exaggeration for me to say that I've been personally harassed by 4channers for over a decade now, across multiple platforms & that it was all part of a larger RW psyop funded by eugenic white supremacist pedophiles & I'm not exaggerating even a little bit

The Republican students at the U. of Illinois later deleted the graphic of a federal agent holding a gun to a person's head and the words "Only traitors help invaders." They said unconvincingly that “the image is, in fact, not intended to target nor incentivize violence against a particular party.”

I understand that elected officials can’t do everything, change everything, or take action on everything, but I am always infuriated when elected officials talk like they’re bystanders rather than people with enormous power and influence. You’re Governor of the state. Tell us what you can/will do.

Governor Walz:

You’re describing an emergency. The world is also watching you and waiting for you to do something. Are you going to establish an eviction moratorium? Rent is due today.

👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

A measles outbreak at an ICE family detention center means not only risk of serious and very infectious disease, but also complete lockdown conditions akin to solitary confinement. Awful.

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.