*To quote a guy on Mastodon: We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.

the trump administration attempted to assassinate a critic and when she lived, they prosecuted her for surviving

I've posted this picture before but I do find it interesting that the police here arresting Carlo Gambino, at the time one of the most dangerous men in America with dozens of killers at his command, didn't feel the need to cover their faces because they are not ashamed of their work

reads like some hack editor saying 'nobody cares about municipal portland politics, can you tie it in with mamdani somehow'

This is the state secret police committing acts of public humiliation and torture. Americans don’t have a language for this in the public consciousness but that is what this is with no exaggeration or embellishment.

A poster, a true poster, replies to the permaban with "did I fucking stutter"

I think a real problem in this world is a lack of posting bushido. You can go to war with the mods, with the big accounts, hell with the government itself on X the Everything Site, sometimes it is the honorable thing to do. But you should have your death poem written.

“i don’t like that word” “which one?” “the r one” “oh! that’s good! a lot of republicans right now are trying—” “representative! ugh!” “…oh” “it makes me sound like a servant!” “well, a civil ser—“ “they gave me power! now i have power! not them!” “well, the midte—“ “DAMN PEASANTS!”

Weather is getting nice, what if 10 million people went outside at the same time

Look at what we could have. look at what our tax dollars could pay for. Instead we’re paying to have ICE pepper spray directly into the air hole of a guy in an inflatable frog costume

it's pretty, don't @ me!

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What happens when news orgs try to apply the 'pool reporter' model to this? IE, have one staff member whose job is to hold a PFAC and attend briefings? When do they add a requirement for everyone at your paper to comply? To never share the material with non-compliant writers and outlets?

"[This policy does] not prohibit you as a PFAC holder from engaging in constitutionally protected journalistic activities, such as investigating, reporting, or publishing stories." It does, though. That's exactly what it does.

the biggest issue with LLMs remains the way that we think about them. and by 'we' I mean everyone from detractors to evangelists. we cram them into concepts they don't fit into, and in doing so, we impair our own ability to think clearly about them, let alone put them to useful purpose.

and the obligatory "messing around with colors" test kinda falls into the same issue as our Green Monster piece, where the amount of characters used for the dark parts makes colorization not ✨pop✨ the way it does with some of our other work probably not worth the effort. always fun to try though

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

I keep thinking about this- along with the fact republicans have NO idea how many gay/trans people work in cybersecurity and tech, they also have no fucking idea how many tylenol enhanced americans there are in the military

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John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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twf you hit 'like' on a post that the author already deleted

fix it.

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Murderer says that his murders are good, actually.

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If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out. Every single one.

I think a lot about how the conventional wisdom went from “Assad has basically won and will reign over the ruins of Syria for the rest of his life” to “Assad is cooked, it’s Bashover” in, like, a day

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

you can't ratio me in a way that matters. you can't ratio anyone in a way that matters. it's really hard to overstate how insignificant a social media ratio is. haven't you ever just sat down to think long and hard about the universe and your place in it? about what really fundamentally matters?

She’s still out here ✌️

The No Kings stuff on the 18th needs to be really big. If it is too cringe for you, do therapy or deep breathing or something and then grow up

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Look. Invading our own country is about as straightforward a case as you can have for impeachment. The GOP abandoning the Constitution is kind of the only story there is and it gets no coverage.

Every DoJ attorney promoting and defending at this stuff should never again eat food that is less than 10% spit

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

It is exhausting for everything to be so historical all the time, why are we doing historical things at 10pm on a Sunday 😭

Judge: Based on the conduct of the defendants and now seeing TX National Guard called up, I am going to grant alternative TRO requested. Let me ask plaintiffs—I'd prefer not to modify original TRO, but I am troubled to hear of CA and TX NG being sent to OR, in apparent violation of my order

Judge: Mr. Hamilton, you are missing my point. Basis for my TRO was situation on the ground in Oregon. Is there any legal authority for mobilizing NG for one purpose in CA and redirecting them to diff state where there is no showing that military help is necessary? DOJ: Few precedents for 12406

DOJ: CA NG is already federalized Judge: You are an officer of the court. Do you think this is an appropriate way to deal with my order? Appropriate way of dealing with ruling you disagree with? DOJ: Well, I'm not a policy maker Judge: You're a lawyer

Judge Immergut: it's the conditions on the ground in Portland. You are missing the point. There is not a legal basis to bring federal troops into Portland. I repeat: she sounds pissed.

Forgive me, these are phonetic, Scott Kennedy is arguing for Oregon; Carolyn Turko for Portland, and Eric Hamilton for Trump. Judge Immergut starts with a point blank to Hamilton: how is this not a violation of my TRO issued yesterday. She sounds pissed.

This is effectively an invasion of Illinois.

they are really leaning into the explicit white nationalist stuff because it’s dem plus seven in every generic poll and they have no default other than be more racist