Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

NEWS — MLB's Take the Field initiative, which is meant to help "develop and grow women looking to enter various aspects of baseball operations" is no longer an initiative just for women and is now "a co-ed event," and has been since at least October. www.mlb.com/inclusion/ta...

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

If anything good can come out of this (and I am not optimistic) perhaps people will be forced to see all the ways in which our immigration system has always been fundamentally inhumane and cruel and false.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

The people pushing for the elimination of birthright citizenship are currently committing atrocities against immigrants within our country's borders and murdering fishermen overseas. This cannot be ethically discussed as an abstract legal question. There is no law here, only a fascist will to power.

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

Incarcerated Californians are bearing the brunt of the climate crisis — and the state’s water restrictions. buff.ly/p3MNKmQ

The proliferation of voice memos & ChatGPT are starting to gut the last toehold of writing in the lives of folks who don’t get paid to write. We are probably not too far off from think pieces on the death of texting.

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.

Just want to make sure everyone knows about this microsite! If you have suggestions for what would be valuable added resources to collect and share on the site, please email us. www.thirdcountrydeportationwatch.org

I highly recommend this piece on the real role of money in politics, and how to combat it. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

This year I've clocked 72,477 minutes in the music mines so you don't have to. Here are my favorite jams of the year: SAME KIND OF LONELY - Benjamin Booker You got time and I've got money - Smerz Automatic - Dijon Cow Song -The New Eves Links for each one below - enjoy!

“In the last two days, ICE agents were observed conducting arrests or surveillance activities in Greensboro, Apex, Catawba County, Durham, and Charlotte,” Siembra said in the news release.”

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

"Cora" harvests pomegranates in Selma CA area. It's supposed to rain and she's worried. She only earns minimum wage and rain causes days she doesn't work. When this happens she doesn't have enough to pay her bills. She's a single mother and depends on the salary. #WeFeedYou

Joint Statement of the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just announced it will hear our case challenging President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. Every child born on U.S. soil has a right to citizenship. We’ll see the president in court.

FYI: I’m listening to Judge Charles Breyer’s arguments over continued National Guard deployment in Los Angeles.

RIP to a true talent & through and through Angeleno.

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

The administration is relentless in its escalation of chilling tactics to limit free expression & equity. Now, it's doubling down on reviewing social media accounts to determine if immigrants are loyal enough or have engaged in "censorship". www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

📍 𝐋𝐎𝐒 𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐒, 𝐂𝐀: A 39-year-old man was detained by ICE during a green-card interview in downtown L.A.— even though he said he came to the U.S. as an infant and has no criminal record. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

The 75th U.S. deportation flight (EAL8280) to Venezuela this year is currently en route to Maiquetia airport from Phoenix, AZ. These flights have continued twice a week (Wed & Fri) despite ongoing tensions and Trump’s announcement to close the airspace.

If they can do this to them, they’ll eventually do it to us.

Habeas petitions are an invaluable tool in our fight against Trump’s arrest & deportation machine. Pass on this upcoming training by my team @chrclla.bsky.social & @acaciajustice.org to attorneys that may benefit. We need to push for freedom in every way we can.

The truth is, immigration enforcement policy has never been about "reducing crime", "protecting our national security", or "boosting the economy." 🧵

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

NEW — Cutting less than one day of the Chicago police would cover the $4.5M needed to ensure there are no cuts to library staffing and resources, one resident writes. Read this opinion submission about protecting city libraries in the 2026 budget. thetriibe.com/2025/12/opin...

Yes, and, ICE is holding more than 60,000 people in detention each day, and more than 20 people have died in ICE custody this year. www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

PBump doing god's work - check out this graph of California ICE arrests - you can see the impact of the raids in Southern California on the broad numbers and on the type of arrestees - a giant spike in those without criminal charges.

HBO Max putting out a remastered version of this post where you can see the friends

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

We need less fanfic about armed heroes who resign due to their personal principles, and more honest conversations about the failures of professional ethics across the board.

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

The Olympics are (mostly!) due to take place in a county of over 10 million people. LA28 can & should find folks who don't back the government that has been destroying our families, our economy, and our justice system for nearly a year.

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

I grew up on welfare & my working parents were often so tired + unavailable that the only affordable & feasible option was fast food. This biased paternalism obscures the fact that groceries are (and always have been) too expensive & our poor are overworked.

Rodney Taylor is a disabled double amputee who came to the US when he was two years old. He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him. He’s been in a camp ever since, and his health has deteriorated considerably. The Governor of Georgia is fighting for his release:

Today we returned to the Board of Supervisors with members of the EVICT ICE NOT US (evicticenotus.org) coalition to demand eviction protections in the wake of the financial devastation of the ICE raids.

Los Angeles County supervisors vote to ban face coverings for law enforcement

This shit is so fucking tiresome. Give working people more free time, BETTER HEALTHCARE, help w/childcare, & more money if you want them to be healthier & if you think they should make everything from scratch, which is essentially what is being pushed for in demonizing anything that has additives

In a democracy, it is on you & me & the community to educate folks so that they vote in sync with their interests. Don’t waste air blaming Trump supporters & non-voters for our current plight. Instead, ask yourself & others: how did we fail to rally against fascism? Then: Do different.

ICE is arresting, detaining, and refusing to release far more people than ever before. How the Trump administration is ensuring there is almost no way out of immigration detention other than death or deportation.🧵

Today is Giving Tuesday- a day you can directly support our work fighting for immigrant & refugee communities. Our goal is always to defend human rights. That is why we fight for justice, dignity & protection for every person. We rely on your support. Donate today: centerforhumanrights.org/donate

This giving Tuesday, put your $$$ to work by supporting @chrclla.bsky.social and its fight for immigrant & refugee rights in our courts. Our team's efforts to fight Trump & Co. are crucial to keeping families together & delivering on the promise of a society that welcomes all. (1/?)