“If you mistreat dogs, that’s a 100 percent sign that you’re gonna be a really terrible person.” - J.D. Vance, apparently forgetting about Kristi Noem

A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine. www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

George Soros is kind of a fascinating figure in that he’s the right’s boogeyman for ostensibly espousing socialism yet he is actually more like the platonic ideal capitalist in terms of how he sees his interests as relying on the predominance of true liberalism rather than market fundamentalism.

A software developer worked on this app and I'm sure they got paid a pretty penny for doing so. As IBM in the '40s, so today.

"blathering on about Western civilization and the threat of the lesser races is a sign that you're a smug asshole that nobody should listen to" has been reliably true for at least a century, enough that the trope is a joke in THE GREAT GATSBY, but JD Vance thinks it makes him clever and innovative

Camouflaging cars and swapping license plates: How federal agents hide their identities while making immigration arrests

He’s a toddler

If someone is advocating for doing high risk activities, esp if it's someone you're new to, STAY AWAY from that person. Guide: Is S/He an Informant? A Ten Point Checklist

The only way GenAI companies can approach recouping their investment is by stripping away the basic life skills that kids learn in schools and creating total dependency. It's already well underway with a new generation of teachers who cannot do the basic stuff without it.

There is an entire political party which is vehemently against free school lunch.

it is the most JD Vance thing ever to look at an actual problem (bosses using racism to bust unions for profits) and blame something other than the bosses or the racism

China bought 27 million metric tons of soybeans from US farmers in 2024. But somehow this “deal” to buy significantly less is a huge victory.

"Critical Race Theory", "Woke-ism", "DEI". These people really are just afraid to drop the n-bomb publicly.

Someone recently managed to get on a Microsoft Teams call with representatives from phone hacking company Cellebrite, and then leaked a screenshot of the company’s capabilities against many Google Pixel phones 🔗 www.404media.co/someone-snuc...

The @thebulwark.com's ever-talented Art Director @avecruth.bsky.social has some thoughts on the Department of Labor's Heroic Realism propaganda. Read today's Morning Shots — "What We Choose to Nazi" www.thebulwark.com/p/what-we-ch...

I won't be surprised when we learn the ballroom was not a bribe to Trump but extortion by Trump

Again, Latino politics don’t work the way people think. Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, both immigration hawks, performed well with Latinos. Obama, the “deporter-in-chief,” did better with Latinos in 2012 than in 2008.

The America First movement is not about improving America’s position or strength in the world. Rather, it’s about the allocation of spoils within the country at the expense of American competitiveness

I get the intent here, and don't want to pick on Justin ... but ... let's be clear that there is a difference between words, policy, plans, training — and implementation. Two of the three times Trump has tried to do this without support from the governor, it is currently blocked.

Here's an important one that slipped by on Monday. Fed. judge quashes DOJ subpoena seeking the personal health data of trans patients as "prosecutorial coercion" and "for an improper purpose," namely, intimidating trans people and their medical providers. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

the name “Merrick Garland” really ought to go down in history alongside the completely ineffectual presidents immediately preceding Lincoln - all-time historical wimps and losers

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

"Mamdani isn't popular outside of NYC!" well gosh, I guess it's a good thing he's not running for an office outside of NYC then!

NEW: we tested Zenni's anti-facial recognition glasses coating. "ID Guard" adds a pink sheen to the surface of the glasses that reflects the infrared light used by some facial recognition cameras. www.404media.co/zennis-anti-...

"The next presidency is going to have to embark on a sweeping de-Trump-ification of the entire federal government to purge it of the culture of abuse and lawlessness that has taken hold, and there are few more vivid examples than ICE."

In a perfect world, it would be very funny that the president is this proud of passing a test for dementia.

They said the same thing to Italian immigrants and now they treat Italian culture and cuisine as high-class. Bigotry is a moving target.

"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

Folks, if we had sectoral bargaining with wage boards and the best anti-trust imaginable, we'd still need a welfare state. If we had a fully socialist economy we'd still need a welfare state. There is a lot we can do to empower workers but poverty is a household level phenomenon.

Six months after ICE apprehended 47 people, including nine kids, in Hays County, Texas, County Judge Ruben Becerra says DHS has ignored his attempts to get answers: “We’re not told why they took them, and we’re not told where they took them. By definition, that’s a kidnapping.”

Rent control is a useful tool to insulate people from price shocks in the short term. It is not a substitute for housing policy. When you have it long term, you just end up with all sorts of perverse incentives and disparities that you can see in every city that thinks it’s a magic bullet

ICE kidnapped a man in Hillsboro, OR over a week ago and he’s still detained. They know they got the wrong “Victor Cruz” and that his papers were all in order. Yet they are still holding him in jail. Just a blatant abuse of power. www.kgw.com/article/news...

the entire modern political landscape is a war between smale-scale bigotry and tradition and outdated values, and the existence of systems on a scale that only giant corporations and governments can provide, and for various cultural reasons, government housing is practically off the table

if rent was where it was 15 years ago, or I didn't live in Seattle, I'd be legitimately rich right now, rather than in substantial debt. it's absolutely housing

Marc Andreessen, who sits on Meta's board, is funding a click farm www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

We must show up for our local communities during this time, especially the most impacted and vulnerable among us like our federal workers, children, elderly, disabled and unhoused.

The East Wing demolition is 9/11 for college grads who moved to DC to become staffers.

It drives me up a wall when I hear/see Dem voters propose American civics tests or having to present a diploma/GED to be allowed to vote. Just an entire class of people who fundamentally don't believe in rights for all and prefer tiering people based on education and perceived intelligence.

Mamdani, AOC, and others to come are really terrific candidates who got a boost they otherwise wouldn't have gotten because this guy did well in the Democratic primaries. I am eager to see the future they build. That future will not look like this guy. That's all I have to say.

Updates coming soon! This project needs your support — Please consider donating and sharing this project. Pardon Tracker is an independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the Capitol Rioters pardoned by Donald Trump.

Really not enjoying this extrajudicial killing meets GWOT stabbed in the back myth-making. @mikeblack114.bsky.social @sharonk.bsky.social

Trump was not "better" on the border, he pushed the violence "out of sight and out of mind." Biden eventually adopted a different tactic of apprehending, processing, and tracking immigrants in our still-backlogged domestic immigration courts. And also... greatly increasing border security!

Literally, CBP and ICE were terrorizing civilians on the Mexican side of a border crossing during Trump 1.0, which only had a backlog because Trump refused legal entry for valid claims. Biden followed the law. Trump is now deploying the same thugs in our neighborhoods. www.npr.org/2019/01/02/6...

It's also important to remember that the reason for the "drop" in net-migration under Trump wasn't that he was "better" on the border... it was that he made America unappealing to immigrants. In Trump 1.0 we literally just enacted violence on them in Mexico. In 2.0, we've brought the violence home.

Not exactly breaking news. Sanders has always been a protectionist.

I’m old enough to remember when #Bernie used to say problematic sh!t like this on Lou Dobbs’ nightly punch an immigrant show on CNN in the early 2000’s. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/san... s-on-immigration-bill-in-2007-i-dont-know-why-we-need-millions-of-people-coming-into-this-country/ 💅🏿

There are huge, interconnected bubbles in tech, along with defense and space tech, and they could all pop at anytime. Happy Friday!

i don't think it's incompetence. it seems to me that esther ghey and the british establishment actively want to murder more children like her daughter. they'd rather they all die and make grift money off of it than let them live happy lives

Go fash loose cash