Lawless, criminal behavior

Just posted: It's hard to believe a politician as experienced as Mariannette Miller-Meeks could botch questions about her residence so badly, for years. My take on the news that she's no longer registered to vote in #IA01: www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/12/12/m...

I don't have words for this.

i've never been big on chomsky but this is still surprising to me. the epstein stuff isn't, tbh, but this photo is.

You can reach out to the ACLLU of Iowa to learn more and get more involved in your local community to educate others and campaign to have these removed. We don't want warrantless surveillance, especially one monitored by a 3rd party with no oversight. @acluofiowa.bsky.social

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

I hate to say I told you so, but… Wait. I LOVE to say I told you so. It’s one of my favorite things. And I fucking told you so.

1980s: “We think this heavy metal group is hiding garbled messages backward in their music. Better convene a congressional hearing.” 2020s: “This company’s chatbot is straight up encouraging teens to off themselves. We better give them billions of taxpayer dollars.”

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

Nixon didn’t go to prison over Watergate, but 48 others were convicted and served time for the scandal - notably, his Attorney General. Attention: Pam Bondi meet John Mitchell.

If at first or second or third you don’t succeed,try try try try try try try try try again

(Yeah I know it's in German, deal with it)

Oh shit, this is a good point -- cloud computing that goes through US companies/servers is now forthrightly accessible by the US government (no need for subtle spy shit). Cloud computing means DOGE can go rifling through your files.

Wow, this guy is REALLY unreliable! He's wrong pretty much all the time. Good thing we didn't listen to any of his ideas about government administration or foreign policy or immigration! That'd be embarrassing.

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

ICE are thug scum.

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

BREAKING: Judge Paula Xinis orders the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from immigration custody

just going to reiterate this. if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...

Similar thing for me and the NICU. Oh, my kid needs to be transferred within three hours to stay alive? Hold on, let me call around on Christmas Eve for the best price on a condition we haven’t even ID’d yet. These people are deeply unserious. Signed, another economist who generally likes markets

ACLU of Iowa calls for statewide regulations for license plate reader cameras

And that’s the thing: the lesser evil is still evil

Don’t look away. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

Breaking: Donald Trump ends Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan, raising costs on millions of Americans.

The EPA has removed references about humans causing climate change from its website. No US government website can be trusted for science information.

A GOOD nyt article - Pentagon changed policy toward survivors after murdering those two in September. The strikes are still extrajudicial murders.

ICE is kidnapping and locking up little kids, denying them medical care, and feeding them contaminated food. They aren’t going after criminals, they are going after Black and brown people, because this isn’t about immigration, it’s about white supremacy. FUCK ICE apnews.com/article/immi...

This is the way.

A U.S. citizen who in October was dragged from her SUV by masked federal immigration agents in West Town testified before a congressional public forum in Washington Tuesday that she has experienced panic attacks and daily nightmares after being held in federal custody.

Fairly remarkable article here: ICE's acting director is publicly demanding that a parish in Massachusetts remove its nativity scene because it offends the administration. www.masslive.com/news/2025/12...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

...huh. We are beset by carwashes ("Champion-X" in particular) that don't seem to get enough business to justify their expansion. Hmm

OMFG. A post-C section mother who was an asylum seeker seeking a visa for crime victims who had a newborn baby struggling in the NICU was held in Broadview in Chicago w no medical attention (POST C SECTION), no breast pump (right after birth), and no treatment for her diabetes. MONSTERS.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

folks, is "let's murder everyone for whatever reason we want" a good policy

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.

Seems bad

Conservatives just really hate trans people for no reason.

ICE is building new detention centers across the country, with very little oversight, endangering thousands of people in immigrant detention. Our elected leaders must act to hold ICE accountable.

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

It would be funny if Trump croaked and the ballroom never got built and it was just an empty spot until the next Dem administration came around and rebuilt it like it was in 2024.

Look at this man's face and tell me he is long for this world.

ICE and its fellows aren't interested in law or peace, only ethnic cleansing.

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

I've read this book already, can we skip to the denouement?

These sanctions were never serious, were never enforced, and now are being walked back. Why exactly?

That's where they went wrong. If you want to move drugs into America and get away with it you gotta move weight. Think 400 tons of cocaine. Create an entire new class of addictive painkillers but pretend they're harmless. Build the dark web to facilitate P2P illicit shipping.