gen ai, which has been available for a couple years, is about to change everything you do, saving you time, money, and vastly increasing your productivity. [long pause] here are 4,000 ads trying to convince you of that.

Some good news! “Boston City Council has voted unanimously to ban its government from using facial recognition technology, including the police department, making it the largest city on the East Coast to do so.” www.builtinboston.com/articles/bos...

NEW: I spoke to original Halo devs about that ICE Halo post One: "abhorrent” Another: "Using Halo imagery in a call to ‘destroy’ people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation” www.gamefile.news/p/halo-ice-d...

In 2022, Microsoft forcefully responded to a shareholder proposal that was skeptical of its diversity & inclusion programs: "we believe this request is motivated by an animosity to diversity and inclusion commitments " Three years later, MS is avoiding even using the word "diversity" (thread)

From @stevanzetti.bsky.social: In February, the Texas Observer confirmed that James “Jim” Joseph Rodden—an ICE assistant chief counsel in Dallas—operates a white supremacist X account. Now, ICE refuses to tell us, or members of Congress, if he's still employed.

When was the last time we experienced such catastrophic food insecurity? 2020? Remember how well that shit worked out for the government last time

Sigh

signs like these are up all over Chicago cafes and storefronts (here, cafes in Brighton Park and Back of the Yards) warning ICE not to enter without a judicial warrant

This is what I'm talking about when I say that Bluesky tolerates Nazis

Whole lot of people liking this who somehow completely missed 1) his character arc 2) the entire point of the movie!

The Economist, a magazine that's been predicting China's collapse for 30 years and was still calling "Peak China" a few months ago, now say that China is now "on top" and changing the world. They finally got tired of predicting the "downfall" of China. Can't wait for them to go bankrupt!

In May 2023 this article came out and exposed that Rep. Paul Gosar’s digital director, Wade Searle, was a dedicated Groyper who was literally a mod for Nick Fuentes’ livestream and stood behind him at AZ Stop the Steal. Anyway, Searle says he’s now part of the Pentagon press corps for LifeSite News.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Almost every day now…

the American century of humiliation is in full swing

An American teenager, Mohammad Ibrahim, has been in Israeli prison for *8 months.* Israeli settlers killed his 20-year-old American cousin, Sayfollah Musallet, in June. These are the conditions Mohammad is being held in, where he's lost dozens of pounds and got infected with scabies:

Statement on LAPD targeting our reporter @shoton35mm.bsky.social 🧵 Video by @filmthepolicela.bsky.social

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more

i need Ms Rachel to find Marxism-Leninism and lead the revolution.

sending in a bigger, more masked force to round up all the illegal ice agents

Threatening to call immigration authorities when you're like 2-3 generations removed from having your last name halved at Ellis Island is a wild move.

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

Samuel Alito preparing to raise absolutely the craziest flag you've ever seen at his Long Beach Island compound.

Israel’s far-right leadership is already suggesting future ceasefire violations. interc.pt/3IOJZwx

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has issued a stark warning to U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson: Seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, or face a lawsuit. Johnson has thus far refused to seat Grijalva, who won a special election more than three weeks ago.

Media is awesome because it can show an organization trying to get rid a guy who is underwater with state Democrats by 50 points, undermines any Democratic policy, and is just completely off-putting to anyone who has to spend five minutes around him; and they phrase it as “seeding discord”

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

Oh they mad

I am going to solve the "have young Republicans always been like this" discourse in one sentence: While it has long been possible to correctly identify their racism, either because you were politically educated or racially minoritized, they are now racist in a way that even white liberals can tell.

important note from libcrusher:

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

The bush era Nazis signed up to kill and torture people in the Middle East with great zeal. The anime Nazis wouldn’t. Is that the difference

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Oh man, are we gonna see Israel go back to their genocide by claiming that Hamas broke the peace deal by not being able to return the hostages that Israel buried under a city's worth of rubble?

Would love to see socialists focus this line of criticism on the fact that it's a bailout for *rich Argentinians and Americans* at the expense of the poor rather than making this about national self-interest

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” • They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me • Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked • She was filmed while stripped naked Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

• Prison was 40 degrees but no water was given to Greta and her friends for days • People fell sick. Guards mocked them saying they would gas them, showing them cylinders • She was kept in solitary confinement for hours with bugs

All 45 bodies of Palestinians returned by Israel arrived with their hands and legs cuffed, CNN reports. They were transferred to Nasser Hospital tagged with numbers, not names, and have yet to be identified. “Some are blindfolded, and there are signs of gunshot wounds in some cases, while others...

Always funny to think back about how the GOP uniformly blamed antifa for J6 in the immediate aftermath… fast forward a few years later and they’re like “no J6 was good and we did it and only we can assault Capitol police officers #BackTheBlue”

This cracked me up (by Justin Charity at The Ringer) www.theringer.com/2025/10/15/v...

i want computer to make movie for me. i want computer to talk to me. i want computer to take my job. i want to fuck computer. i want computer to mock and devalue the very spark of ingenuity and creativity that makes us human

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

No... No!!

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Standup comic John O'Donnell does a better job explaining NSPM-7 than basically all of major media:

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...