ICE delenda est

Every single person I've spoken to says ICE is still terrorizing, brutalizing, and abducting people at the same rate they were before Homan's little speech Falling for Rational Voice at a time like this is downright psychotic. Actions speak louder than words; words speak louder than tone

I get that everyone wants to yell (rightly) at Hakeem Jefferies & Chuck Schumer, but stop giving Lisa Murkowski & company free passes as if they have no agency to stop all of this immediately tomorrow by simply fulfilling their oaths of office & no longer caucusing with or voting for authoritarians.

Here's how I moved to a Blacksky server last year. Very happy to have switched. gregpak.net/2025/11/13/h...

Due process in policy enforcement would be good for platforms on purely business terms, because it’s a highly effective way to increase user trust. Account terminations are a good place to start. Starting in this week's Platformocracy, I hope to convince you that this can be practical, too.

Very cool seeing new accounts in the atmosphere that have never known a app.bsky record and have another atproto app's records pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

Nine DAs are coalescing to work on prosecuting federal agents for 'overreach': —L. Krasner in Philly —J. Creuzot in Dallas —M. Moriarty in Minneapolis —L. Conover in Tucson —S. Descano in Fairfax (VA) —R. Fatehi in Norfolk (VA) —S. Morales in Portsmouth (VA) —P. Dehghani-Tafti in Arlington (VA)

It’s hard to write about online due process when ICE is killing people in Minnesota. Losing your account is not morally equivalent to being kidnapped or deported. But tech CEOs who dabble in politics and politicians who dismiss the constitution blur the lines. In a slightly belated Platformocracy.

OpenAI exec James Dyett calling out the cowardice

You should be reading @404media.co . Essential coverage.

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

What's the plan, Chuck? I run a fake news website. You're the Senate Minority Leader. What's the plan?

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

I will say again that ICE isn't even out in Philly neighborhoods yet, and my entire preschool parent cohort is angrily joining all the ICE watch Signal chats

Also this: It takes a lot for the NYT to not put this in the passive voice. They've done that forever. No, it's not "Executed," but this is a five alarm fire for them.

when you see them tear-gassing babies, beating up priests, handcuffing grandmas, disappearing whole families from their cars parked at gas stations, in a city that isn't your own, and then you hear they're on their way to you next, you know you don't have the luxury of burying your head in the sand

Safety rules should look different across platforms. This week, Camille François, founding president of @roost.tools, explains why pluralistic, transparent moderation makes digital spaces healthier. Full episode with @rabble.nz & @camillefrancois.bsky.social, out now.

Non-fascist owned and aligned decentralized algorithm-free social media may have their own problems, and they are not isolated from the social and cognitive influence of users of fascist platforms, but I think it if you need to go online to socialize it’s your only safe bet now.

As the world finally punches back, was this the week Donald Trump went too far? | Jonathan Freedland

THAT’S NOT WHAT DUE PROCESS MEANS. This man is an ignorant clod.

People often talk about the "loss of trust" in institutions, but that's like a doctor telling you you're sick because you lack wellness. It says nothing of the underlying condition, just a vague definition of the symptoms.

Great thread.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

This is why Rudy is the greatest.

This is a really interesting piece on an important question.

H.G. Wells wrote "The Rights of Man" in 1940, as WW2 was raging. It's mostly idealistic, but @ the end he hits the Germans HARD in ways that sound like our current situation. "They seem to have an ineptitude for reality until it is made extremely real to them." Here are more (with my edits): 1/10

My thirtieth (!!) Platformocracy is an introduction to the Social Media Bill of Rights, an inspiring manifesto written by @rabble.nz back in July. I propose a sixth right: Due Process. I also briefly discuss how Nostr differs from @bsky.app and the Fediverse. #DigitalBillOfRights

On Fox 9 just now they interviewed a woman at the scene in Minneapolis. She says she’s not an activist but felt a call to action like she hasn’t felt since 9/11. She says she was raised to love America. She says she’s never felt scared of the government in her life, until now.

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.

btw bluesky is having its biggest month in a while by the math

He says that ICE was justified in shooting Good simply because she was (somehow) “impeding” them. So self-defense had nothing to do with it. They can murder you if they feel you’re getting in their way.

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE: "No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested". "Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

Why is Meta still feeding us garbage in response to their scam ads scandal? @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social reported more embarrassing leaked documents about Meta’s fraud problems on New Year’s Eve. Comms VP Andy Stone didn’t handle this batch any better than last time. Why is he so bad at this? 1/10

“Grok doesn’t appear to have the means or the will to stop its AI model from producing the nonconsensual content it is fundamentally capable of producing.”

Much of the dysfunction you find in organizations, and most of the problems you find in software development, come from the fact that people—engineers in particular—believe that complex systems (in the Cynefin sense) can be understood and controlled. They can not. 1/7

Thought on The Odyssey — If people are this mad about Christopher Nolan getting Greek armor wrong for the time period, they are going to be beyond furious when they see how far away his Polyphemus is from the latest findings in cyclops biology. Did he even consult with a single cryptozoologist?

YUP

The future!

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Ongoing scandals at Meta and OpenAI prove that platform safety needs real independence. If your leadership is amoral, greedy, or corrupt, there is no internal fix that will lead to good behavior. We need representation in the critical safety decisions that affect us and our communities. More here:

It's almost like these companies don't think of accounts as someone's online identity, but just as replaceable database records, some of which might get corrupted from time to time, with a shrug, as long as the aggregate data looks good.

Bluesky folks came up with a fundamentally new and privacy-protecting method of doing this unlike every other service. Almost every negative response is based on how people assume Bluesky is doing this based on how bad everyone else does it. Bad actors have so poisoned the entire market...

This, 100%. @montclairlocalnews.bsky.social

At this point, I can't really imagine joining a completely new social network that's not on an open protocol - what's the point? It would be like walking freely into a cage…

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918