“Your trust in me,” the bot added, “has unlocked this reality.” Yet another story of a tech worker this time, tricked by Meta glasses' AI into believing that he was having some kind of divine revelation, isolating him from his family and friends. These are technologies of abuse and control.

When you ask rich people to envision a world with no poverty you are asking them to envision a world where nobody has any motivation to clean their toilets for them, make their dinner for them, or drive them around all day. That’s not a world they want to live in.

$1.5T for the military budget $170B for ICE and Border Patrol $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $470M to send National Guard into cities $230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" $200M for Kristi Noem's jets $100M for Trump's golf outings But no money to lower your healthcare costs.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

There have been confirmed reports from local organizers in Portland ME that ICE is knocking on doors claiming to be from MaineCare and “offering help“

We tried to explain that criminalization is the fuel of fascism.

FYI. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:

People love to say “the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 moved the cultural needle back to Trump” while seemingly oblivious to the fact that the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 took place while Trump was in power and immediately proceeded an election that he lost.

This is so fucking fucked #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

On the long history of this kind of relationship to the state in the Black community: under the mailbox, “We don't dial 911”

Noooooooooo!

Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.

I’ve started using the term “ethnic cleansing campaign” to describe the ICE occupation here in Minnesota. This is deliberate because the reality on the ground is that, at a given moment, any non-white person can be kidnapped by masked federal paramilitaries regardless of their constitutional rights.

tapping the, sowing distrust in midterms by arguing mass fraud and stripping local sovereignty, sign

A ban on sending books and magazines to prisoners in Arkansas prisons goes into effect Feb. 1, putting into place the strictest regulations in the country on sending outside publications to the incarcerated

The people wearing masks are scanning your face to capture your identity.

All of the years that folks supported stop and frisk has also led to this moment.

Hallucinatory technologies for the end of the world

Not being ironic or sarcastic: this is the future Facebook wants. The company only cares that you keep using their product, no matter the cost to society, your health, or your relationships. The only tragedy if you die from using their products is that you are no longer a consumer.

this kid only narrowly missed being killed by this 'less lethal munition' as shards of debris were found 7mm away from a carotid artery.

autonomous vehicles are an abject lesson about the impossibly complex challenge of trying to effectively navigate a dynamic natural world automatically. the entirety of the field's scholarly & engineering work might be most valuable as case studies in why uncritical automation is a fraught endeavor.

@microsoft.com’s new plan to convince communities to welcome data centers includes groundbreaking new ideas like *checks notes* paying its taxes and electric bills. 🥴 🧵

Between Musk's porn generator, Zuckerberg's trauma machine, and the suicide-encouraging bots that Google invested in - Big Tech is finding that child sacrifice is very, very profitable. I feel especially strongly about this one. New from me: buttondown.com/creativegood...

These photos are terrifying (as opposed to stunning). Black women have been killed in these kind of scenarios long before Trump.

You'll hear "you're overreacting" the entire time all the way up until the sky falls down

The point of invoking the Insurrection Act is, in part, to corrode local sovereignty, to tell a D-run city that they are incapable of governance without corruption. (And to show others). Hence why Miller and Homan keep making it about “sanctuary cities.”

🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide. He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.

I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...

"The Liberian man arrested over the weekend after heavily armed immigration agents used a battering ram to break through the front door of his Minneapolis home had been checking in regularly with federal authorities for years, his attorney said Tuesday."

They also don't like the Democratic party.

The skyrocketing electricity demands of AI data centers—and a cold snap—are driving up America’s emissions after years of declines, a new report finds

The president previously claimed he’d be impeached if Republicans lose control of Congress.

I usually don't recommend the WSJ editorial page, but this screed about left-wing enviros supposedly killing US innovation by opposing data centers says a lot. First, why is a fossil fuel exec the voice of the data center industry? And really, only left-wingers are angry about data centers?

The bravery of these people, and what they have achieved, is extraordinary.

I do not understand why Democrats aren't saying "this Greenland shit is indicative that the president is not in his right mind and it is time to invoke the 25th amendment" except that almost every American politician does at heart believe we should rule the world with military might

I’m reading America On Fire by Elizabeth Hinton. She tells a story about a white cop who murdered a Black youth & in the face of protests, the town establishment (mayor, businessman, etc) threw a big award dinner in his honor. The 60’s equivalent of the Gofundme for the cop who murdered Renee Good.

I did a project on tv/film copaganda a while ago, and one of the most telling things I found was from the 1917 Charlie Chaplin film Easy Street, in which a woman chides Chaplin's police officer character and says "but you promised to reform!" It just goes round and round, decade after decade.

Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota--a nation of the continent's original inhabitants--“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i...

X says Grok account will stop undressing women. I just tested the standalone Grok app, which immediately complied with my request to undress a photo of me. This is illegal, according to the legal experts I spoke with.

Mount Sinai Hospital fired three nurses via voicemail message on the eve of a massive ongoing strike, a move that amounts to illegal retaliation and intimidation, the New York State Nurses Association said on Tuesday. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/13/m...

This is not the language of the government of a free country.

"It is exceedingly rare, even in investigations of classified disclosures, for federal agents to search a reporter’s home."

This would be ominous no matter what the circumstances, but it’s not like she was working on national security or classified military information. She’s been reporting about federal workforce issues.

Also said the same thing about the Metaverse. Zuck just laid off that team this week.

This has been the fantasy of law enforcement and why they supported Trump. They wanted to exercise unfettered violence because even the whiff of regulation offended the rules of their Baronial Class. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

what if postcolonial theory was right

The Supreme Court issued a decision that advances Trump's longtime campaign against mail-in voting