One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

THE MAN THEY TOOK WRAPPED IN A BLANKET IS A U.S. CITIZEN. This is the Kavanaugh Stop of all Kavanaugh Stops.

Nationalised racketeering.

If Biden – or in fact any sitting president of the last 100 years – had put out a memo like this, there would have been a stampede to impeach. For Trump? Nothing. And that's why he's extremely dangerous.

There will be THREE MORE YEARS of this wholesale destruction of the US national interest unless four GOP senators and four GOP representatives put a stop to it. There will be nothing left of America's reputation in the world.

Explosions in Dnipro , Ukraine, just now. Russia just bombed the city with ballistic missiles with cluster warhead.

Abu Ghraib-coded

The U.S. has reduced its military presence in Greenland massivly over the years. If the strategic security of the Island is the real concern for the U.S. it could immediately return the troops there in coordination with Greenland and the Europeans. Obviously this argument is just a pretext to annex.

Man könnte lernen, dass das Nachgeben bei Erpressungen nur zu neuen Erpressungen führt. Das setzte allerdings Lernfähigkeit voraus und damit sieht es ja bei einigen Führungskräften leider eher dürftig aus.

Absolute horrors are unfolding in Iran.

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent

Demokratische Oppositionsparteien täten gut daran, noch viel offensiver die Verbindungen von #Spahn, #Merz und Co zur Heritage Foundation und deren Netzwerken herauszustellen und zu betonen. Hier ist wesentlich mehr Lautstärke und Klarheit erforderlich, denn dadurch wird die EU gerade ausgebremst.

The UK government – Trump is threatening to destroy NATO, so let's give our military data to a company owned by a political extremist who wants to abolish democracy, and whose money and influence put Vance in the White House.

We can pull the rug from under the US economy.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Iets met intrappen en open deuren.

Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.

Meep meep

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is now making an explicit link between the US desire to annex Greenland and the continuation of US support for Ukraine. "What would happen in Ukraine if the US pulled its support out? The whole thing would collapse," Bessent told Meet The Press.

Het is niet veel maar heb mijn Goodreads account in ieder geval al verhuisd naar Storygraph.

Greenland crisis means we're going to be talking a lot more about what a breach with the US would involve in practice & this is worth reading on the granular bits

I also noted that I think there is reason to suspect that it is not just Dutch intelligence that has halted sharing. bsky.app/profile/paul...

De fuckers gaan er echt voor gaan.

We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate

Work faster cholesterol

If you listen very carefully, you can hear Charles de Gaulle screaming I BLOODY TOLD YOU SO from some rural French cemetery.

Viele glauben, dass man auf X wichtig ist & sich viele für dich & deine Meinung interessieren, wenn man viele Follower hat. Das ist so, als ob du ins Bordell gehst und glaubst, dass die Damen/Herren dich unfassbar attraktiv finden. Du bist nicht der Käufer, sondern die Ware!

The "ICE is using military tactics suited for a warzone, not for American streets" rhetoric kinda misses the point that warzones are not naturally occuring. The US military creates war zones from residential neighborhoods and the tactics are not more justifiable just because it's overseas

Now the actual military has to dress like it’s not the military cuz federal law enforcement agencies dress too much like the military

Dat klinkt nu niet bepaald goed.

11th Airborne division is also specialized in arctic warfare, btw...

Her mother called 911 for help… and got turned into ICE instead. They placed her and her five year old daughter in a hotel and told them not to contact anyone. ICE didn’t want the community fighting for them. Mother & daughter have been deported to Honduras and the local police were complicit.

Het, wat het kan, zou genoeg moeten zijn om Palantir buiten te gooien en te houden.

They are going to do it. It's all to set up martial law. War against Americans. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Anne Applebaum

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

Over 200K Danish citizens signed a petition to buy California as a response to the orange felon’s hunt for Greenland. The petition states that they’ll provide Californians with universal health care, fact-based politics, rule of law, lifetime supply of Danish pastries. Love it.

Khamenei confirms a death toll of “several thousand” in the Iran protests. (Human rights groups have confirmed that many and are in the process of confirming several thousand more.)

This is what the Russian fascist invaders do to the homes of Russian-speaking people in Ukraine. For the moment the city of Kostyantynivka in Donetsk region is under the control of Ukrainian defenders. But all the residents have left to get away from the terrorists from Moscow.

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump was intentionally trying to destroy the United States, how could you tell the difference?

For someone who I’m told is the only person capable of defeating fascism Gavin Newsom sure does love agreeing with whatever fascists say.

only other thing i’d add are the phoned-in bomb threats at polling places. in GA, the calls shut down dozens of precincts for *hours* on election day 2024. it will almost certainly be worse this year. and the threats were largely traced back to russia, of course

Lmao send us a photo of everyone at your house so you don't need to expend energy counting while ordering pizza from Papa John's is the funniest fed post I've ever seen

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.

Why am I not surprised that he did and said nothing in response to a federal raid on one of his own WaPo reporters?

More than nine years ago I wrote that Americans need to rise up against the Russia-backed Trump regime just as Ukrainians overthrew the Russia-backed Yanukovych regime in the Revolution of Dignity. When representative democracy fails, people-power direct democracy is the answer.

@ntone.bsky.social ik heb het misschien gemist, maar ging jij hier niet iets over schrijven?

Yes "Russia" definitely not the US.