If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Nick Shirley at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

In a lawless, way-too-online administration, all it takes some fucking weirdo with a camera turning up at daycares to block a federal program abcnews.go.com/US/hhs-freez...

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

I missed this from the Manhattan Institute survey on December 1 of the "current GOP." 37% are Holocaust deniers, which, to my surprise, is greater than the percentage (33%) that believes vaccines cause autism.

Israel to block dozens of aid groups working in war-battered Gaza https://aje.io/7yw579

Watch Lucy Dacus perform the women's suffrage and workers' rights anthem "Bread And Roses" at @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's NYC mayoral inauguration

I'm not a campaign strategist but if I was running against Hochul she literally handed you an excellent talking point. She doesn't care what her constituents say.

‘Their first instinct was to loot’: how Trump’s acolytes are plundering the Kennedy Center

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance’s friend & ideological influence, ended 2025 by claiming “only Hitler spoke the truth” about “too many subjects” & “Hitler was a genius.” Extremism isn’t fringe on the right. Once marginal online extremists like Yarvin are influential at the highest levels of government.

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.” via @floridaphoenix.com

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.

Don't forget Rick Scott... www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

The entire reason they’re locked is to prevent weird freaks like this who have no right to be there from marching in and endangering the kids.

One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.” See this article from 2017: www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...

Thinking about those months of dialogue on whether or not it was against the rules to mention white supremacy. Remember that?

GOP: Did you interact with Fani Willis. Jack Smith: Well maybe to hunt down what a criminal shithole Rudy Giuliani was to Ruby Freeman.

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee just released — on New Year's Eve — the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith's closed door deposition. House Republicans continue their attempts to bury Smith's testimony. Read it all here: tinyurl.com/cndtn3ez

NEW: Jack Smith's team interviewed Giuliani, and when asked whether Rudy believed his own lies about election fraud, Jack Smith said he did not, and that neither did Donald Trump.

Q: “To the extent members of Congress are up in arms this happened to them, who should be held accountable?” JACK SMITH: “Trump. He directed his co-conspirators to call them to delay the proceedings.” As @MarshaBlackburn @SenatorHagerty try to take millions from taxpayers. 🤔

Republicans think releasing the Jack Smith deposition on New Year's Eve will make it get lost in the fray. Prove them wrong by spreading the word; here are some key takeaways to get us started. www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-2...

A friend suggested Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li and I finished it last night. I don't have words. It was devastating, beautifully written, and a powerful example of how to write about grief without making it mainly about grief. Highly recommend. bookshop.org/p/books/thin...

>1 million Americans died in a traumatic viral pandemic, and America responded in the most American way, which was to make it more likely people would die of diseases we’d already contained by tearing up the social contract in the name of “freedom” while disregarding the actual concept of freedom.

This is the impact of networked incitement. And now every other “citizen journalist” wannabe Nick Shirley is on the ground in Washington, Ohio, and I assume elsewhere trying to break/make the next viral story. There’s potential for this to spin further out of control, hoping it doesn’t

I'm so proud of ProPublica's journalism from 2025. In case you missed it, here's our most-read stories, as well as some you may have missed: www.propublica.org/article/prop...

As @meron.bsky.social posted, Eritrean asylum seekers set to be deported by ICE are saying they'd rather commit suicide than face the monstrous regime. This happened before when Habtom committed suicide in Canada after his asylum was denied. 💔 www.cbc.ca/andthewinner....

It's also worth noting here that the *minimum* salary for these ICE positions is $52,205. While the *median* salaries for childcare workers and home health aides are less than $35,000 per year.

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Same person.. FWIW

To be fair, some of the people Trump pardoned for Medicare fraud were rearrested, for other crimes www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

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JUST IN: AG Pam Bondi deletes a post touting a chart as proof of the Trump administration's success in reducing drug overdoses—after being informed the data actually reflected the *Biden* administration’s record.

All based on a “gotcha” video claiming that 3 daycares had no kids. One hadn’t opened yet for the day; one is actually closed. Dude arrived with no I.D. No call ahead. They DIDN’T LET HIM IN! The fraud they’re referencing was investigated & prosecuted by the Biden DOJ. The ringleader was white.

Recall that Trump/Miller have refused to deport Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica even though he's signaled acceptance of that. They must deport him to the country of *their* choice because otherwise it won't look dehumanizing and cruel enough. This is abominable conduct. newrepublic.com/article/2043...

BREAKING The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community. Important: allegations along these lines have existed for years, which has resulted in prosecutions starting with the Biden DOJ.

Sometimes I think about how even when Trump and his crew are overthrown, the rest of the world will never trust American voters and politicians again and soft power was its most successful foreign policy, and while the ideologues in charge don’t understand that, Putin does

banging on child care centers doors yelling "SHOW ME YOUR CHILDREN" until i get tased

Family members carry the burden and costs of caring for America's aging population. Federal policy change is slow to come but a new movement and state actions are building momentum. n.pr/4pSCHIa

“The word ‘doctor’ had a price. We’re now paying this price.” Gaza doctor and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, has been in an Israeli prison for a year after being detained without charge or trial. Watch the film: aje.news/DrAbuSafia

This year Angelita Morillo has gotten so much good, humane policy passed that capital is having brain hemorrhages and lining up a bunch of awful people and some really dirty lies to try to make her stop. She’s one of our best posters and brutal in replies but needs cash to run again so kick her some

USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked

What a quote.

I think that if you have a podcast with millions of subscribers and you get on your show and share inaccurate things that could harm people, you should be launched into orbit

🧊 ICE bounty hunters going through mailboxes with no warrant. No police gear or ID visible on person

"What I think is lacking is, was there even an attempt made to try to verify the accuracy of what he was saying, or did they simply take him at his word?" says University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley about a recent video made accusing Somali-owned day care centers of fraud.

[NSFW] "Newly released footage of ICE agents in LA cornering, shooting and abducting journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias as he is clearly unarmed. Carlitos is still in ICE custody." Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...

A great live show tonight from LA on @maddow.bsky.social ATM. Talking about her podcasts on the incarceration and imprisonment of Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbour. Yes, history repeats. It's happening now with US Immigrants under Mein Trumpf ICE Goons