According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Paying the blood tax, he thought, was not so bad, though some complained: The wagons came around only once a month, and at worst you were left a bit weak and shaky. But once in awhile the finial on a blood-priest’s staff would die, and a fresh heart was needed for the magic. Those were bad days.

Called @meng.house.gov to thank her for voting against ICE funding. If your rep did the same, call to let them know that you appreciate them voting to help keep their constituents--and everyone--safe. Hassling electeds when they don't act is important, but so is checking in when they do.

Every representative who voted yes voted for more brutalization of our neighbors, more kidnapping of our children, more trampling of our rights, and more murder from this government.

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

Rubia Garcia, J.D. (from FB) The deadline for releasing 100% of the Epstein files was December 19, 2025. That was 33 days ago, and we’re at 1%. That's not incompetence. That's a COVER UP. And it’s criminal.

From what I've read as of today the US version of Tiktok is now owned by the far-right red-pilled Trump-licker Larry Ellison, but I haven't seen anything in the news about it. Given it's one of the largest social media on the planet, I'd expect mroe noise about this. www.semafor.com/article/01/2...

I generally feel that people deserve the protection of the social contract by default, as humans; but whatever part they violate, they lose the right to. Decorum, basic respect, freedom from assault, whatever. Once you opt out of the contract, you're out.

WTF happened to the Epstein files? Full release was required December 19 by federal law. Today, 99% are still undisclosed. Initially, there were rolling releases. Now, nothing in weeks. REMEMBER: The DOJ said the review of these documents was complete in JULY.

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

It’s a weird feeling I’m not entirely comfortable with to feel proud of my country’s current leader, someone I indirectly voted for. But he seems the man for the hour to a nigh Churchillian degree. Scary times, but we’ve an adult at the helm. Trump retweets catturd2, Carney quotes Thucycides.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

We have no functional national media in the way many people still think we do, so the more regular folks we can show this stuff to, the better. Make sure your friends, family, co-workers, REALLY see what’s going on. If you still have personal Facebook, blast it with these videos. Make it inescapable

ICE is writing secret memos claiming power to invade homes without warrants. They're using children as bait. They're killing. Congressional Democrats are about to vote to increase their budget by $18 billion. Call your House rep tonight. The vote may come tomorrow. www.patreon.com/posts/148814...

Trafficking the boy after using him as bait, pinning someone in the snow to spray into their mask, shooting Marimar Martinez, murdering Renee Good—Bovino and Miller are asserting the right to harm anyone they want. The only acceptable response is to make sure they can no longer harm anyone at all.

ICE must be abolished and everyone responsible for this decision making process, as well as those who carried out the orders, charged and prosecuted with severe jail time. This is a CLEARCUT violation of the Fourth Amendment, and shows a complete contempt for our Constitution and the rule of law

wow just woke up from a nap, i guess everyone else on Air Force One realized we aren't going to the right place

Under less horrifying circumstances, Carney quoting Thucydides while Trump’s intellectual bedrock consists of people called things like “Cat turd” would be extremely comical. How does any Republican fail to drop dead out of sheer embarrassment?

Important perspective from Greenland.

The president of the United States out there retweeting "Moni Fun Girl". But then, a kid named BigBalls has data on every living American and Cat Turd is the top Republican intellectual.

It’s weird how many news headlines make no mention of Trump threatening to go to war against NATO to steal Greenland. Yes, grocery prices and healthcare premiums are very important, but could they please prioritise avoiding WW3?

GIFT article Trump's Letter To Norway Should Be The Last Straw Will Republicans in Congress Ever Step In? by Anne Applebaum www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Jfc. This isn’t it. We forged these alliances in blood. Now, the capricious, power-mad fascist in the White House is threatening to unravel them and ignite the worst international crisis since the Nazi invasion of Poland. If the U.S. invades a NATO ally, the entire world is on fire.

Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.

It's really impossible to overstate how much *everyone* is watching the US threats towards Greenland, not just Europe. If you want to break not just NATO but Five Eyes and maybe our Asian defense alliances too, taking Greenland is how you do it.

That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.

They call themselves “ICE” and they act like snowflakes, and yet they cannot handle winter?

The Trump admin is moving to quickly deport two men who witnessed, they say, ICE guards choke a fellow detainee to death. The admin moved to deport men right after they spoke the Washington Post. This is the death that the medical examiner has already ruled likely homicide. wapo.st/4qR1T1U

ICE seems to get completely flummoxed when they’re being yelled at by white men over 35. They kind of put their heads down and shuffle their feet. It’s like their kryptonite.

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

I want Blue States to do this now! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

I live in the slender Venn overlap of target demographics for this production: We Didn’t Start the Fire, Silmarillion edition. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBvo...

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

I feel like I’m taking fucking crazy pills why isn’t the fucking media telling anyone we’re about to go to war with NATO

Finally got my copy of @kitkerr.bsky.social's The Fire Dragon (long after its sequels arrived). Thrilled to read it at last! but I think the table of incarnations lost a blank(?) line in the third column. (Also seems strange the columns aren't in chronological order.) Maybe a mass paperback SNAFU.

Hair colours, piercings, whatever…but the one thing that strikes me as weird about the Youths is how many young guys wear nail polish. Weird! —I’m amused to watch myself turn into one of the Olds. I figure it’s OK as long as I’m aware it’s a me issue, not a them issue.

I think Dem electeds should take moral stances & then work to change public opinion. But it's notable that another centrist Dem group has a memo that 1) contradicts Third Way's "don't say 'Abolish ICE'", 2) is based on actual research, 3) didn't get an NYT story. newrepublic.com/article/2052...

the only reason "abolish ICE" is seen as radical is that no one will say it but the far left. if every normie Democrat started saying it tomorrow it would move the overton window so far you'd have to squint to find it. my kingdom for leaders who understand they can shape public opinion.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

ICE must be abolished. It has become a lawless, rogue agency. Federal law enforcement agencies must follow the law, if they're going to have any credibility enforcing it. We are demanding justice for Renee Good and the prosecution of ICE agent Jonathan Ross for her murder.

It also can't be stressed enough that political leaders being in the streets alongside protesters can PHYSICALLY PROTECT the people around them, because ICE will be less likely to attack them. If ICE does attack peacefully protesting political leaders, they have zero room for plausible deniability.

It's depressing that there don’t seem to be any real patriots in the US Secret Service. If they didn’t want to be aligned with the *other* SS, they could solve this oh, so very easily.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

So what’s the plan to keep ICE from rolling up on polling places during the midterms and kidnapping people to suppress the vote?

Goldman: Until DHS reins in this rogue and authoritarian ICE secret police force, there should be no more funding provided to DHS.

I can’t emphasize enough how shocked my out of state friends and family are when I tell them what has happened in Minneapolis since Renee Good’s murder. Without reliable media, most not-chronically-online people are completely in the dark. If you want to help Minnesota, tell people what you know.

BRAVEEEEEERN!