ICE agents spent Christmas Eve arresting a man in a Walmart parking lot—even taking his groceries for themselves. A bystander asked ICE if she could take down the phone number of his wife to let her know her husband had been detained. The ICE agents refused. trib.al/kF8CDpe

lol

The separation of church & state exists to protect both religion & democracy by keeping either from controlling the other, lessons learned the hard way after centuries of abuse & persecution, when faith & power were mixed. However, America is now determined to discard the lessons of its history.

Hope everyone had a merry Christmas

This former fundamentalist agrees. Also any god who would condemn anyone to eternal damnation ain’t worth worshipping. He’d be a monster of staggering proportions.

A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.

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I'm honored to find Design for Privacy in Daniel Solove's in Notable Privacy and AI Books for 2025 list. It's great to see Dr M.R. (Mark) Leiser's book there, too: Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law: AI’s Hidden Influence on Our Digital Experience. teachprivacy.com/notable-priv...

About those Venezuelan immigrants Trump cruelly sent to CECOT A judge ordered that the administration must facilitate their return to the United States so they can pursue their removal claims “with hearings that satisfy the requirements of due process”

Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal

Mr. Cuban, I'm a professor at Yale School of Public Health. Here's a paper published by one of my colleagues in the top medical journal evaluating the Medicare for All Act, which would not only get us there, but would save $450B per year. Happy to discuss! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A judge ruled that members of Congress can show up at ICE detention centers without warning. The goal is to see real conditions, not a cleaned-up version. www.kjzz.org/fronteras-de...

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

Yep, this is just the language used by folks want to privatize the mail service altogether so they can chip away at government services and taxes.

“Like prime, but with human beings”

General notice to all reporters: It’s imperative to remember to be fair in your reporting on the state of U.S. concentration camps.

And if they won’t release it, somebody pop that on Internet Archive too, so the people collectively can do the good work of maintaining government transparency.

I'm honored to find Design for Privacy in Daniel Solove's in Notable Privacy and AI Books for 2025 list. It's great to see Dr M.R. (Mark) Leiser's book there, too: Dark Patterns, Deceptive Design, and the Law: AI’s Hidden Influence on Our Digital Experience. teachprivacy.com/notable-priv...

Thank you, Mary! 😍 Hope it proves a compelling read!

A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt. “I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/0xSiFOr

Before she spiked the ‘60 Minutes’ story on CECOT, Bari Weiss praised El Salvador’s brutal dictator for making the country safe, and The Free Press made jokes about Trump sending immigrants to prison there. Read the full article: zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

I see another link to the 60 Minutes CECOT episode, I repost it. It’s what I do.

The minute the Ellisons took over the former news operation at CBS, it became CBS "News" -- and the network's propagandist-in-chief proved it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Glad to say the "60 Minutes" segment was posted publicly, though not by the company that produced it.

Holy shit, was googling around to find out if this could possibly be real and came across this Rolling Stone June 2023 story about the EXISTENCE of this letter, but the content wasn’t known — until now www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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When the president says “national security” he gets additional powers And when the president says “emergency” he gets additional powers And when the president says “terrorists” he gets additional powers Requires presidents who do so rarely, in good faith, only when circumstances make it necessary

ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.

Keep downloading and uploading, friends. The internet is forever. 😎

This document, with the bad redactions, seems to have been around for a few years. Here’s an Archive.org copy from 2023. web.archive.org/web/20230920...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

This is a direct link to the 60 Minutes episode about one of our concentration camps (specifically CECOT) the administration (and Bari Weiss) didn’t want you to see. Let's distribute broadly. archive.org/details/60mi...

Why is Bari Weiss so sympathetic to the violence of fascism?

Excellent.

“We have been promoting this story on social media for days…Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.”

a note from the CBS reporter behind this story to her colleagues tonight

Loved the new Knives Out entry and its examination of belief versus non-belief and how people of both persuasions can find deep respect for one another—even as Rian Johnson makes it quite clear which camp he falls into via the observations of *both* Benoit Blanc and Monsignor Duplenticy.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

“Additional reporting” to make concentration camps where immigrants are getting tortured in the United States look a little more palatable? Provide some necessary context for the litany of human rights violations? Both sides the nationwide coordinated acts of cruelty!

Here’s one from PBS m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...

Someone should leak the episode. Pop it on Internet Archive anonymously and let folks repost it on YouTube etc. 🥰

Guess the themes involved weren’t very Christmassy.

Bari Weiss is really bad at her job, until you realize it's her job to be really bad at her job, in which case she is excellent at her job

The subway advertising startup billionaires are just fucking with us now.

Australian birth English ancestry United States citizen Triples makes it safe. Triple is best.

<points around wildly>: I’m more “heritage American” than all y’all because I was born in Australia with ancestors from England.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

I love it! 😍

What I don’t get is why the board voted unanimously for this. Were they all replaced with stooges? Or was that made up?

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