i don’t need generative AI to write a song, all i have to do is write a little bit of a song and then harass all my friends who are better at music than me about what i should do

Continuing with our commitment to publish on the ground accounts of the occupations and related conflicts with DHS, Audrey Lee this week provided a harrowing account of the punishing abuse that Portland protesters have been subjected to for more than half a year

i don’t think we should have to rely on our ability to get a small child’s photo to get enough internet attention so that their representative can successfully physically extract them from the concentration camp for children

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

fucking swine

THEY ARE COMING HOME

the groypers are mad at stephen miller because he tweeted “no sanctuary for criminal aliens” and they were like, that’s not enough kinds of aliens

Don't forget to listen to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social on with @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social!

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

"John Roberts thought he could do both. Like, he could be the institutionalist while day-to-day, he could chip away at people's rights and implement his vision for the law." www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...

it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

It’s true! @liberalcurrents.com and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and I can attest to this!

Liam was one of hundreds of kids in this facility. Now, my constituent Diana is locked up there, surely frightened and traumatized. Putting kids in cages is so morally bankrupt it’s beyond words. Release them all.

thank you maxine, please bring her home

Been a hot minute since this was my main beat but an immediate and enduring lesson from writing this in the summer of 2020 is that many of the tools of policing have their origin & are in feedback loop with the tools of colonial riot control, across decades www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

One detail I didn't include in today's video is that Jeffrey Epstein texted Lawrence Krauss to shit on Michael Shermer for telling people that Krauss grabbed Shermer's wife's ass. This has not dissuaded Shermer from posthumously defending the pedophile.

Speaking of moral panic… sciencebasedmedicine.org/fakeskeptics...

guess she couldn’t find anybody

"In our book, Why We Fear AI, we argue that it is in fact precisely the error-prone and brittle nature of these systems that makes them work so well for political repression. 1/2

@caitlinmoriah.bsky.social, @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social and me discuss AI as a political project here, and get into that particular question of terror-production, too

you don’t say!!!! youtu.be/lp8SeaO_gTc?...

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

the charge was PROCURING A CHILD for PROSTITUTION (read: sexual assault) it’s not very opaque, megan!!

did an evil baby write this

Update on Bari Weiss University If I worked for any reputable organisation, I'd flag the use of '88' in any messaging, since it's an infamous neo-Nazi bullhorn, especially if your first reading list for 'Origins of 21st Century Right-Wing Thought' (w/ selections from Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin?)

Half the Answer #63: Trent and Caitlin talk to Chris Geidner of Law Dork about the absolute deluge of legal news that seems to be crashing over us like a tsunami. What are the current assaults on our constitutional rights? What are judges and lawmakers doing to defend those rights?

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

@tinakotek.bsky.social hi

something about the agents at these facilities that’s evident from this and from audrey’s many videos is this: they enjoy hurting people and they think it’s fun and funny

I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described

beloved guest audrey lee! youtu.be/J8PJBGMsY9U?...

What really got to me in this essay, other than the horrible particulars and the inspiring details about the community response, was when she first looked into the protests, on October first, and learned it had already been going for 119 days

audrey was curious about how the stories about the Portland ICE occupation compared to reality. once she got to know the people on the ground, she was determined to stick with them. what she saw, felt and learned over the last four months is summarized here: www.liberalcurrents.com/what-its-rea...

there’s a training coming up for those of us in other states 👀

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.

wokeness, like a conquering religious army, floods the irrational mind with such righteous fervor that the afflicted will declare any minor moral infraction worthy of cancellation, such as staying bffs with someone after everyone finds out they trafficked children. my latest in the free press

“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”

influencers (propagandists) are working overtime to normalize the idea that regular people who are unhappy with the cruelty of the DHS and aren’t afraid to say so are actually rabid animals, not even really people at all, so it’s okay to do whatever you want to them. you know, like nonwhite people.

right wing twitter accounts have decided that actually that guy’s a teacher and the teenaged girl attacked HIM. so. there you go

i don’t want to go back to how things were before the armed freaks started publicly and aggressively throwing people in vans and assaulting the public. i want something better than what we had

Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8

Lol you can buy my book about what antifa actually is here. In stores TOMORROW www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

i just,

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

can’t believe i exchanged polite nods with THE leader of antifa that’s wild

what did i SAY

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

For those commenting on the agents' surnames.

after tear gassing small children and babies in their strollers, feds are still mocking the protesters who occupy the ICE facility in portland oregon, including grinning at @halftheanswer.bsky.social guest audrey lee and jeering “you’re gonna need that helmet” they’re so happy with themselves