"We can't stop the machine that keeps encouraging people to kill themselves or the economy will implode" is such an apt description of the state of global capitalism.

This is the most comprehensive reporting released on the DHS-alleged shooting so far. Read the entire story (reminder: reporters don't usually choose headlines). For folks asking if it's true an ICE agent was shot: no, that is a verifiably false rumor. No injuries. A lot else remains in question.

Federal immigration agents have deployed gas in Little Village, on 26th between Komensky and Pulaski, per videos shared online after 11 am this morning.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Graffiti at Clark and Irving Park

“Greg Bovino, you a bitch!” yells heroic Waukegan man, as Greg Bovino walks by.

The cop fentanyl psychosis has breached the military

The claim that “emissions have come down” in this @nytimes.com @sominisengupta.bsky.social article on where we are ten years post-Paris is FALSE. Global emissions were at an all-time high in 2024. As it stands this claim is misinformation. They need to issue a correction!

As far as we know, these are not yet death camps, but they follow the camp's logics. Zones of exception, where the Law is equally unapplicable to the detainees or the sovereigns who organize the terror. Where political beings are transformed into bodies of bare life.

He said there was no room to sleep. People sat up, slept on the floor, standing up. He saw many pregnant women there too. The conditions were unbearable. His wife is horrified by his account.

Her husband was at Broadview one month and she was never able to talk to him. Not until he was already in Mexico. He had been in Chicago for 20 years. Her husband shared that the numbers of people there were astounding. It just makes me think how many people that are not counted/just disappeared.

He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.

Her husband told her that detainees at Broadview had to get up at 5am to get in line for one bathroom. He often peed himself. One time he had to wait until 2pm to use the bathroom. You could only use the bathroom once a day. He said the agents would beat you if you used the bathroom on yourself.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Update: Chicago journalists and press groups won a preliminary injunction on Thursday, extending restrictions on federal agents’ violent tactics in response to protests outside an ICE facility in Illinois.

Can't stress enough that these goons are reveling in the pain they're causing. They see themselves transcending the boundaries of good and evil, acting as the righteous pervert-sword in the service of their primal father against the great unwashed homo sacer. Fuck these fascists.

We Used AI Learning to Meticulously Map the Ridges of the Mayor-Elect's Skull - YOU WON'T BELIEVE What We Learned About His Capacity For Lying

I can't tell you what it will be, but expect the Democrats to learn the exact wrong lesson from tonight.

The reviews are in

can't be stressed enough we're here now, thanks to Dick Cheney and the War on Terror era PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security, ICE, all created in a bi-partisan effort leftists said and protested as much, the biggest world-wide anti-war protests in history did we stop any of it? nope what now

A good buddy of mine made bumper stickers in the mid-aughts that had a picture of Harry Whittington - the shotgun victim - riddled with shrapnel that read "Never Forget, 2/11"

It's good when bad people die off but, even if he's no longer physically with us, we are knee deep in Dick Cheney's residue. Few did more to shape the current moment than that guy.

Heartbreaking: Mayoral candidate comes to the realization that he can no longer publicly celebrate the death of American war criminals.

But have you considered, Penny?

I'm sorry but even an array of super-advanced computers, bleeding the planet dry in its efforts, cannot construct a convincing reality wherein cops are standing up to ICE.

People really haven't realized that we're in the "post-USSR collapse" stage yet. Go look up what the '90s did to the average Russian lifespan.

It never stops surprising me that they take themselves literally. That they are truly who they say they are. There are no reams of paper being passed around behind the scenes that are then distilled down to slop for the hogs on twitter. It's all surface and the surface is all low effort greentext

Beyond the thing in itself, a plan for regime change formatted in such a way that it would be suitable for doing numbers on twitter is breaking me.

I haven't seen any news stories about this until it showed up on Reddit tonight. This photo was reportedly taken in the Oval Office on Oct 21. Person holding the folder is James Blair, Trump's deputy chief of staff. Paper on top appears to be a plan for regime change in Columbia. (Text in ALT)

More serious discussions between Jimbo Wales and editors about the role Wikipedia is meant to play in society.

Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales is trying to use his name to convince Wikipedia editors to deny the Gaza Genocide, recognized by many human rights organizations. Although he's not seizing control, this is an extreme attempt to sway Wikipedia content in violation of its founding principles.

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

Lots of uncanny things about this movie, but its crazy how much of Lockjaw's energy Bovino exudes

"Avalanche of numbers," "passion for counting" and "numberlust" are all great little turns of phrase.

I think everyone should read this, but if you are curious about the experience of madness - what's going on during word salad or the unusual dynamics that can occur between neurotypical people and those experiencing a hallucinatory state - I can't recommend this enough.

I read a great study on how schizophrenia expresses itself around the world and the "violent" thoughts are largely a feature of living in the West. It seems clear that the hallucinatory violent voices are a reflection of how we're taught, by people like Walsh, to look at people w/ schizophrenia.

I don't think y'all mentioned it, but to add to the abortion reading of Alien Rez, the most common type of abortion is the vacuum aspiration abortion, which is more or less what happens to the alien hybrid at the end of the movie

"This is fascism" "This is some gestapo shit" No, pay attention and get your ills straight: This is the LAPD functioning as intended, as it has for decades, as a violent arm of the state. This is America's normal idea of policing. This is why the police aren't going to save people from ICE.

I think a lot about how Halloween has been fucked up for the last 5 years. At the beginning of the pandemic we put runners on our porch so we could stay well more than six feet away and still give out candy. Now we have to patrol our neighborhood for stormtroopers looking to kidnap people.

ALAN WATTS: “Zen and the Art of Trick or Treat” (1971)

The pleasure people are getting from imagining pain inflicted on their enemies is more psychically potent than the pain they get from the policies of the people they support or the ostracizatiom they receive from their loved ones. Simple as.

In this podcast @skittishprey.bsky.social drops an interpretation of the xenomorph that retroactively creates a brand new meaning for the series as a whole and will forever change how I watch these movies.

When I read things like this I'm compelled to consider that the shock from this bubble will be so catastrophic, and the resources already invested in the project so vast...

In this podcast @skittishprey.bsky.social drops an interpretation of the xenomorph that retroactively creates a brand new meaning for the series as a whole and will forever change how I watch these movies.

I’ve written an entire book showing how centrist economists & techno-optimists provide a permission structure for climate propaganda, creating an overlapping false consensus that we can keep using fossil-fuels and still deal w climate change anyway. Here’s a good example of that dynamic 👇