In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

Purchasing and converting these warehouse detention camps will cost the U.S. government billions of dollars. So far ICE has purchased at least half a dozen warehouses at a cost of $70-$110 million each. It'll cost billions more to refit them into detention camps, and hire staff.

People in El Paso are pretty alarmed about this, why would they close a commercial airport for ten days

Does he not know about the right-wing noise machine that's been pumping out propaganda 24/7 for the past 30-40 years? I mean, he is part of it

By the way good white people, it's y'alls own people, your friends, your family members, the people your work with, people who are in your phone, people you go out to meals with, people you have cherished memories with, who are racist trolls online. They get online to let out their racism.

Friends, I am starting to suspect that society is run by a small group of elite superwealthy sociopaths with plans for Earth that will end in literal Armageddon. Like, it's wall to wall psychos in the halls of power, AND they've got nefarious plans. WTF do we do about this. Where tf do we even start

TIL there are Dog Bongos too. Much more insistent than the cat kind

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

This is maybe the weirdest facial hair configuration I have ever seen. Does this have a name? Nudechin? Neck goatee?

I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

THAT WAS A REAL WEDDING! That couple actually got married during the halftime show

“You were not a bystander”

2️⃣ Still, people are better off not using chatbots. Participants who used a chatbot identified conditions in less than 34.5% of cases, and the right course of action in less than 44.2%. They were no better than the control group using more traditional tools.

Breaking MS NOW: Some of the Epstein docs the DOJ invited members of Congress to view are STILL redacted, despite promises otherwise. Raskin says DOJ's reading room has just four computers. It would take seven years to get through the files in the current conditions established by the DOJ.

Nixon Pierre-Louis, who has been a U.S. citizen for three decades holds two jobs as a nurse, is nervous. “Why the animosity? Why don’t you want us here?” he asked. “We pay taxes, we follow the law, we follow the rules … we’re just making a living.” trib.al/7IE8ksk

(call center, Superbowl Sunday 2003) customer: will you get off work in time to watch the game? Me: Oh, i never watch it Customer: WHAT? Not even the commercials? Me: I am *especially* avoiding the commercials Customer: (long ass pause) Are... you.......American?

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."

Why would he need to keep an ob-gyn on retainer? I can think of a couple of possiblities

Happy Monday! After utilizing clinic block grants for the past month, our intake line is reopened and we already have an urgent need. We have a caller who needs $1700 extra on top of what we’ve already pledged ($500) in order to be seen TODAY. Can anyone help? www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund

Or, and I know this will sound crazy, we could just listen to the survivors and believe what they say. Instead of letting the Queen of the Pedophiles out of prison

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I don't know how genuine the 50/50 split is, it seems like maybe that's an artifact of our team-sports media approach. We regularly find that specific progressive policy proposals garner 60-70% support if not marked "Dem".

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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...

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This question is weirdly hard, bc the starting place itself is a result of anti-trans propganda shaping the debate. Trans surgeries, for all ages, are vastly rarer than hormone therapy only, which is itself rarer than social adjustments alone. Youth trans surgeries are *incredibly* rare.

“They come from a very traditional society in which grandparents and elders are very much respected. The extended family is very much alive in Haiti, and the values of that are reflected in their work.”

So ICE is forging people’s signatures to say that they agreed to be deported and then holding them hostage if their lawyers appeal their cases www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

In Minnesota, the MAGA regime must now reckon with the fact that a lot of white “heartlanders,” who Trumpist intellectuals love to idealize as “authentic Americans,” are not willing to let race and religion define the boundaries of their solidarity.

“Be a neighbor, not a Nazi.” ICYMI yesterday: A reflection on the anatomy of the resistance and the regime’s response - on “neighborism,” cross-racial solidarity, and the responsibility we bear for what happens in our community.

So do you think "licensing restrictions" are the real issue or is it something else so stupid that they can't admit they fcked it up? this is a real question, please and thank you

going through the comments on this has been extremely funny so I’m going to post some of my favorites

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state ground.news/article/hard...

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“If I can generate a book in a day, and you need six months to write a book, who’s going to win the race?” God this is bleak

This looks like a vintage ad, maybe from the 50s. Also, "microlearning"? WTF is that? I prefer to follow rabbit holes allllllll the way down

I used to start a therapy group by: thinking it up, inviting clients, running the group, done. But now there's an elaborate 3-page procedure document that seems designed to deter me from ever doing any groups due to the opaque complexity of the policy. Groups just don't happen now

If we limited our wealthiest families to $1 billion each, that's half a trillion dollars we could put toward our national debt

Why do we have these hierarchies? Who made them? Who keeps them going? Why do we normalize them? What’s the purpose of having them? A good question to ask is: WHO BENEFITS FROM THEM?

Children who are taught to blindly obey their parents and to lack curiosity are more likely to blindly obey other calls to authority without much curiosity or push back. “Authoritarian parenting” is often attached to right wing movements and ideology.

Decluttering prior to offspring visit, and the stuff is endless. Where did it all come from. I moved in here six months ago with a carload of stuff and now I own a million things. I've taken 4 carloads to donate and it didn't even make a dent. It's like the stuff is procreating while I sleep.

TIMELINE CLEANSE youtube.com/shorts/2GJTX...

It would be good if @bellingcat.com could verify this story. Really important. @eliothiggins.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Let's keep the sand inside the sandtray, okay?"

I think people really underestimate the function of ritual, grounding, self regulation, and co regulation in collective action.

I love this stunning quilt I saw on IG from @pamdorra.bsky.social

Is craftivism performative? Yes. That's the point. Resistance includes a public demonstration of opposition at accessible events with a low barrier to entry. The red resistance hat pattern has raised $300k for the people of Minnesota. That's not effective?