Migrants languish in US detention centers facing dire conditions and prolonged waits

Criminals in Southeast Asia are using inexpensive AI tools to target bigger pools of potential victims at high speed, senior officials at Interpol say.

I arrived too late to an abduction yesterday. Ice vehicles boxed in a food delivery driver on the highway. They took him, and when I came on the scene (with a few other neighbors in cars), his keys were still in it. We found his phone, a debit card, his car title and registration.

The White House just sent a "Don't Panic" email. That'll do it

We're living in a terrifying new reality. Trump's DHS mob are killing US citizens, kidnapping kids and terrorizing hard working immigrants - including the farm workers who feed us. Call your Senators TODAY! Tell them don't fund ICEs terror campaign! act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun... #ICEout

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

www.wired.com/story/bad-bu... Fascinating. 400 people dressed up as trees because loading carts up with real trees, which is what Bad Bunny initially wanted, would have hurt the real turf.

ALL of this is extremely on-point:

Louisiana special election: "Trump carried this district by 13 points in the 2024 cycle, fueling GOP hopes about flipping the state House seat. Instead, the Democratic nominee prevailed — by 24 points." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

More Than 1,000 Google Workers Call On Company to Cancel Contracts with ICE and CBP

Wow, not the post I expected to read this evening. Well done #DinoCon for standing firm 💪

"The sheer number of Epstein’s connections to the rulers of our world is dizzying. So, too, reading the emails, is the willingness of his circle to continue their relationships with him despite his convictions for sex crimes..." By @moiradonegan.bsky.social

wrote about the sweeping Republican backlash to Trump's racist video post. I don't think the GOP has suddenly found a line it won't cross. I think trump's poll numbers have scared them. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-obam...

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

I finally have a newsletter! It's called The Fine Print* and I'll be writing about tech, media, politics, consumer rights (and whatever else I damn-well please). It's free, but if you have disposable income, you can support independent reporting for just $50/year or $4/month.

For all you government tech nerds: The CIA says it's overhauling how it procures tech from the private sector, as part of an effort speed adoption of cutting-edge capabilities. A DARPA procurement alum is leading the effort, a CIA official tells me: www.nextgov.com/acquisition/...

I've got a spare 15 minutes between Zoom calls. Time to watch Bad Bunny's half-time show for the third time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Fu...

“You were not a bystander”

Hey, my name is in the Epstein files! I've told the story before, but should probably re-up. TLDR: never met the guy, never took (or asked for) any money from him, never visited the island. I was invited to the island, and said no. It's not that hard to just say no.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

I think we need to post more of our wins vs ICE, at least I do. Northside RR successfully got a few abductions deterred this morning. We also have seen an uptick in folks joining doing stationary observation in the last week since we started doing that.

The Federal Trade Commission sent letters to 13 data brokers warning them of their responsibility to comply with the Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2024 (PADFAA). www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Epstein files reveal emails between Ghislaine Maxwell and L.A. Olympics chair Casey Wasserman, along with new details from a 2002 Africa trip aboard Epstein’s jet. The disclosures are fueling calls for him to step aside from LA28

This morning at @propublica.org, we published a pair of stories about the children held at the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. www.propublica.org/article/life...

In highlighting a CBS reporter's story debunking the Trump admin's lies on immigration enforcement, Bari Weiss appears to briefly forget that she now works for CBS and tweets that his story was for The Free Press.

i think maybe they laid off the wrong people

Cuban government has informed airlines that they only have about 24 hours worth of fuel left for planes. Beyond the obvious damage that suddenly shutting down any country's air travel would have, a not at all small % of food and medicine in Cuba comes by luggage on airlines efe.com/economia/202...

As a "safety measure," Discord will require a face scan or ID starting next month. discord.com/press-releas...

"As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

A load-bearing pillar of Trump's electoral coalition is people who hate all his bullshit but accepted the premise that it's the price they pay for a good economy; it has absolutely no currency in a bad one.

"we fired all of our Black and Brown journalists and media critics and for some reason are writing bad articles about the Bad Bunny halftime show"

The Washington Post—for which I wrote editorials for nearly a decade—has closed its Kyiv bureau. @lawfaremedia.org has not—and we will not. We now employ more people in Kyiv than the Washington Post. Let me tell you about what we have done in Ukraine over the past year and why we are not leaving

Check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including --The European Commission's mobile device platform was hacked, likely via Ivanti flaws, 1/5 www.metacurity.com/the-european...

🏈 Bad Trump, Good Bunny It’s not just the Super Bowl. MAGA’s culture war is epically backfiring. And as a blue wave builds, Trump is only escalating his crackdowns. Swin Suebsaeng has this morning’s First Draft newsletter from Zeteo:

Mike Tracey is a greasy right wing opportunist posing as a journalist, whose latest trolling engagement shtick is harassing victims of Jeffrey Epstein Notice how Newsnation and The Hill prop him up as a serious good faith actor

America must follow China in treating data as an asset ft.trib.al/etJA5ts | opinion

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

In case you missed the moment. Art is powerful

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

Susan Collins says that Krisi Noem has learned her lesson. Please Maine, yeet her into the sun so we can be rid of her for once and always.

404 Media just had an ad during the #SuperBowl! We Googled "smallest TV markets in the United States" and bought an ad for $2,550 that only ran in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 25,000. That still counts www.404media.co/watch-404-me...

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

The Puerto-Rican-specific details in this thread about Bad Bunny’s performance are worth reading:

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi