NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

NEW: Trump has announced that the US will admit the lowest level of refugees ever at 7,500 in FY 2026. The US will only be admitting as refugees White people from South Africa and "victims of illegal or unjust discrimination," which leaked memos suggest means far-right Europeans.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

I wrote about how Border Patrol taking the lead in immigration operations mirrors a shift that happens often in concentration-camp regimes, including Nazi Germany, and some ways we can respond.

Another case of retaliation is Alma Bowman. Alma is a disabled 58 year old woman who spent 30 months in an ICE camp during first Trump regime When released, she worked as a whistleblower to expose abuse within the system In March of this year, ICE grabbed her again She’s been detained ever since

Reminder: The only 2 nations that voted AGAINST recognizing food as a human right is the United States and Israel.

Just a reminder …

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it. The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

The Statue of Liberty was dedicated on this day, October 28th, in 1886 in New York Harbor. 🗽 In 1987, President Reagan signed a proclamation designating October 28th as National Immigrants Day. 🗃️

We don’t hear anything from Republicans about how Donald Trump makes more money in public office than in private life, and that sure seems telling.

“The boat strikes constitute murder,” Eugene R. Fidell told me. He used to be a JAG in the Coast Guard and is now at Yale Law School. The entire operation amounts to “treating the world as a free-fire zone,” he said.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

1/ Was proud to be among 300 former NYT opinion contributors who pledge to boycott writing for the New York Times opinion section until our demands about Palestine are met www.boycottdivestunsubscribe.com/opinion-boyc...

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.

70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.

The types of viral DARVO rhetoric that have been leveraged against celebrity women like Amber Heard are now being weaponized against everyday, working-class women who report sexual violence. And AI is helping accelerate these narratives. My latest dispatch from hell: spitfirenews.com/p/doordash-a...

There is always a reason to be hopeful. There’s always something positive we can do. Wear a mask & show vulnerable people you care. Boost someone’s mutual aid. Donate to a food bank or community fridge. Visit & support your local library. Smile at a stranger. Help someone else.

When people glorify ‘Tough On Crime’ they are just saying that they are gleefully punitive & nothing more. Being tough on crime isn’t the same as addressing crime. We know that the largest predictor for reducing crime is addressing need. Reducing benefits increases crime, endangering everyone.

"They're not supposed to do that to ME" is not a position worthy of respect. "They should never do that to ANYONE" is.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

🙋🏿‍♂️I have some words! It's easier to see the destruction of physical institutions than organizational ones. If you picture the whole building being bulldozed, that's what we did to the USAID org. We've also destroyed our relationships with our allies, our foreign trade position, and the rule of law

Deliberate starvation is a war crime. Ecocide is genocide. Please stop coming into my mentions telling me how how every subatomic particle in Gaza is Hamas. It's tired, it's evil, and it's pointless. I'm not going to argue with you. You're just wrong.

This is amazing, all! My initial offer to match $500 in food bank donations tonight was quickly used up, but many stepped in to match too, & by my count we've given more than $2,200 to food banks tonight! Go fabulous BlueSky community!! 💪 See thread for more donations awaiting matchers 🔥 #NoHunger

President says the government's policy to contend with drug traffickers is indiscriminate murder.

“The public should be able to read the government’s legal justifications for itself … now, when there’s still something that might be done to change the government’s policies and hold accountable the officials who are responsible for them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...

If you don't want your money going to ICE's enablers, learning more about these companies is a good place to start. It can be overwhelming to see all the companies involved, but remember that boycotting/divesting doesn't have to be an all-or-nothing endeavor. Every dollar counts.

34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death. adamisacson.com/boat-strikes/

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning. www.wired.com/story/aws-cl...

Israeli forces shut down the Islamic Charitable Society in Hebron, occupied West Bank, detaining staff and seizing equipment while providing no explanation or timeline for the closure of the charity supporting over 6,000 orphans. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/l7r9qw

ICE has reported 20 detainee deaths in custody since Trump took office — the most in a single year in decades — reports Politico.

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It’s almost like when you don’t have a rabidly trans-hostile media ecosystem, people generally support human rights. lens.monash.edu/@politics-so...

On April 1, ICE apprehended 47 people — including 9 children — at a birthday party in Dripping Springs, Tex. The agency’s only disclosure about the raid describes the operation as targeting people believed to be connected to the Tren de Aragua gang. 🧵

This is something people who are chatbot-curious should be doing by default: ask it about something you *do know about*, not something you *don't know about*.

It’s getting harder for immigrants to win release from custody, even when they're in dire health.

"Some have won legal relief. Others have been pardoned for their crimes, or benefited from policy changes. But what unites them is donations made to the favoured groups of President Donald Trump." just incredible scenes on.ft.com/4naHRgy

I needed to read this today. Thought someone else might need it too.

"Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer."

Generating a 5 second video is the energy equivalent of running a microwave for an HOUR

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.