scared about the impact of the devil on my life today. you know that guy, the cartoon mascot for evil—satan? the made-up bloke from some willful mistranslations and misinterpretations of writing from thousands of years ago? yeah, I think he’s real and does stuff to me. I’m normal

“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)

if you live in maryland please be aware: ICE has access to md's drivers licensing system. they are using our licenses to find matches in their facial recognition systems and pulling our addresses. please share, it's urgent

minnesotans are prepping for a massive statewide protest on friday, a day where it will be -10. that’s how much we hate ICE.

If your average ICE agent on the street wants to get you, they’re not going to hack your Bluetooth. They’re going to smash your window and teargas your baby

A thing to keep in mind about capabilities ascribed to ICE is that state actors do have a lot of ways to go after people if they want to, and if they want to track and target you specifically, they can. These Keystone Kops on the street though? They’re not hacking your car. They’re doing this

flock once left cameras streaming live to the internet that were so high-definition, you could see what someone was looking at on their phone: www.404media.co/flock-expose... ring has a history of warrantless search: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... when these can be smashed together i think that's bad

anyway 1) closed loop, local only, i guess. better: don't do it 2) EFF, WIRED, and 404 have extensive coverage 3) thanks 4) i don't trust ring's data privacy to not share footage with cops, i don't trust that it won't make it to flock & both companies' cameras are leaky www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

here are a few takeaways from responses to my "your ring camera is an ICE agent" poster: 1) some people really want "ethical alternatives" to ring (?) 2) some people don't read the citations 3) some people REALLY like citations 3) some people really want a clear 1:1 from ring to ICE

The better informed the opinion, the more radical the remedies it supports, the more unacceptable it becomes to say out loud.

i was told i cannot be quoted about sheriffs because i wrote we should abolish them. which i suppose is biased? but you can quote a sheriff.

People who were right about the need to divest from policing and criminalization are not platformed in the MSM. The ones platformed are former prosecutors, cops, and pundits who know nothing. Those people keep telling you about "training" and "new tech" "solutions." It's pathetic.

Gavin Newsom cares so much about unhoused people that his administration wants to make it actively more difficult for cities to provide supports and services.

Wait so dems are funding ICE AND didn’t get ACA credits?

the president is absolutely crushing it at this press conference. i am on the edge of seat waiting to find out if his mommy loved him very much because of how good he was at little league baseball which was played in the park outside of an insane asylum. i wonder if we’re invading greenland.

rational market participants really be like

wild-eyed hair-on-fire apocalypseposting in the WSJ opinion page vs "hmm, the bond spread moved a bit this morning, should revert to the mean by lunchtime, not sure what all the fuss is over"

fascinating to compare how Wall Street reacts to the possibility that a socialist might have some power somewhere versus how it reacts to the concrete reality of a literal madman tearing down the American-led post-WWII global order

I imagine saying shit like this with 50% of the job when you were a courtier at a royal or imperial court , and must hit hard as fuck if you’re stupid and or a powdered courtier

The visionary game from Lucas Pope imagines a highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful world where immigration officers are held accountable. paletteswap.site/dif...

what the fuck kind of civilization is this, fuck

this is now up there with kessler syndrome for me in terms of plausible and yet exotic fears

can't stop thinking about how any bus driver can just kidnap a fuckton of people and the only reason it doesn't happen all the time is because what the fuck do you want to do with a busload of people

people already three-cue me saying "trans people should have healthcare" so i'm not wading into THAT shit. but telepathically you all know what i'm thinking, right? whatever you're thinking is what i have the correct opinion of.

you ever see a take that is obviously the fault of falling literacy rates because it is so drastically lacking in basic familiarity with the concept of words which you want to explain the nuance of but you know it's impossible to because of the aforementioned illiteracy? anyway, open the schools.

THE HERO PUT OUT A YT VIDEO www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJsS...

also when mamdani says affordability he means "your bus should be free and your rent shouldn't be allowed to go up" and when schumer says affordability he means "there should be a means tested tax credit you can get by mailing in the upcs from your cereal boxes"

I kept going "why? why would he be like that?" and it turns out he's French. That's just the customer service level they've won through regular strikes is what that is.

I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.

🤷🏿‍♂️Sometimes, a guy will get too drunk at a bar, and start looking for fights. He'll start provoking strangers. If his friends or girlfriend can't control him, they'll try to tell the stranger "He's drunk! Don't respond!🤡" In the times when I was that stranger, I would say, "Talk to him. Not to me."

I'm really stoked about the return of Silverfish and Suspense. Got the Suspense! episodes, and now have started raiding the internet archive for vintage movie trailers and commercials to play on the in-game TVs. This may produce some crossover custom content for Voices of the Void

another thing the transes took from us stop being so pretty. it's causing inflation

i personally think “don’t fund the gestapo” is a relatively small ask in the face of an illegal violent occupation of a US city that has killed at least one citizen and terrorized countless more. any elected who cannot clear even that modest bar is dead to me

yeah i also think it's fucked up that when martha wells invents imaginary people everyone is like "we love this robot who watches tv" but when chuck schumer does it and uses those imaginary people to make political choices people get all mad

embarrassing that you are having this explained to you by someone who works in fucking marketing

Schumer’s focus on affordability is a messaging priority while Mamdani’s is like. an actual plan

part of it could be that Mamdani is actually out there trying to make childcare free while Schumer makes posts about how avocados are expensive

Just the latest example that college journalists have the courage to say what many of their professional counterparts will not.

We are beyond the point where it’s worth calling out the fascists’ hypocrisy but my god

kinda sounds like this story from 2020 where cops tried to spin a PR victory out of a situation where they were, surprise!, the bad guys all along

“These are the domestic weaknesses that helped to make the country susceptible to becoming a concentration camp regime.” degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-a...

Why don't YOU invoke the 25th amendment? It's YOUR job @markey.senate.gov

YOU ARE A SENATOR

It doesn’t matter if ICE still has funding, you grind absolutely everything you can to a halt. Congressional Dems know how this works, this is just feigned helplessness. It’s like a husband who pretends to be bad at housework.

"The guy publicly doing things to improve human lives and says 'affordability!' gets praise, but the guy who is doing literally nothing as we descend into fascism while saying 'affordability!' gets criticism. Curious! 🤔"

I really hate how disingenuous these shitheads are. Like, Gertz knows goddamn well the differences between Mamdani and Schumer; he knows what the criticism is and why it's there. He's just pretending to be a dolt to make a dumbass rhetorical point.

Even better when you and your lil elected friends get together and write those articles and make sure to include in them an apology to Al Green and I believe Rashida Talib . Who’ve both asked for it? and weren’t supported ?

This is the guy claiming to be the leader of the Black Panthers in Philly. Absolute Fed activity

i don’t give a shit if you go into “anarchy isn’t chaos” in the second half the way this information is presented is dishonest at best. you are bending concepts to fit your narrative rather than putting in the effort to formulate your thoughts within the scope of the subject

wanted to be charitable and not just assume the worst based on the headline you described authoritarianism and then cited Hobbes to say we’re experiencing a “new anarchy” akin his idea of primitive anarchy what the fuck are you talking about.