Reminder that ICE was invented after 9/11 to terrorize people on US soil. W’s “war on terror” incl mass surveillance, even more racial profiling & aggressive policing & treating immigration as a security issue. Muslims & Brown folk perceived as such can tell you how that went. Abolish.

crickets from the free speech crowd, of course

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

If you were writing pieces a year ago about the "cultural dominance" of MAGA and now this year you are writing that this was actually a mirage, then perhaps your judgement can't be trusted.

according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle

A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law

I admit to being confused by some of the discourse re: protest on here. Community defense and mutual aid can in fact be forms of protest. Definition of protest is: "a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something." Community defense is an objection to something, for ex.

I disagree with Congressman Gonzales that 5-year-old American citizen children are helped in any way by their kindergarten classmates being kisbnapped and disappeared by marked, armed thugs.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I don't even think he's that bad of a bunny

I of course feel for Nancy Guthrie and her family, but there is something really grim about days of breathless CNN headlines about the kidnapping of one celebrity-related white woman, even as armed agents of our government are systematically kidnapping huge numbers of families every single day.

A bit on the nose

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

"No matter what happens, we'll be here" is yet another line that should go on the Minnesota wall of quotes about *all this*

Can't believe most of bsky was treating this guy like a modern John Brown as recently as last month. This dweeb would lose his MIND if he saw what Indigenous people in Brazil do with blockades.

Look I'm all for changing the entire system from the streets but obviously only if the police say its ok

Shit like this is what I'm talking about. Just the latest example of someone who doesn't know anything about the blockades, understand their purpose, or see their success. I've seen ICE turn around and not enter a neighborhood. I saw it with my own two eyes, on the ground in Minneapolis.

“Amalia had been healthy before immigration officers arrested her family… Amalia’s health quickly deteriorated [in Dilley]. On Jan. 18, she was rushed to a children’s hospital where doctors treated her for pneumonia, Covid-19, RSV and severe respiratory distress.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Fondly remembering the months of weirdness/unhinged comments we got from Pritzker fiends on this app and others for simply (and accurately!) covering state police attacks on protesters outside Broadview. Godspeed to everyone in Minnesota facing the same from the Walz fan club

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

Oh I'm stealing that coinage for sure

Four year-old, playing with Magnatiles in corner: No Trump No Trump No Trump

Can't say it enough, if you are going to build ANYTHING, you are going to be criticized much more than you will be praised. Do not be deterred. Build what you want to exist. Find your people and seek their counsel. Keep it moving.

I can't really prove it but based on my customer service interactions of the past few months, I kind of think retailers are absorbing inflation costs somewhat on pricing but then recouping costs by being just fucking terrible with returns, quiet rate hikes, nuisance fees, etc

genocide

Brockman had to have INTENTIONALLY avoided inviting non-white scientists to these events where Epstein would show up because Epstein didn't believe in the intellectual equality of non-white scientists to white ones If you're a white scientist in an all white space, ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY

Been thinking a bit about the way that John Brockman acted as Epstein's scientist collector and would organize dinners where Epstein would just happen to show up and I think a lesson here for *white scientists* is if you're being invited to all-white events, that might be actively intentional 🧪

this may be the single most insufferable thing about the radical centrist caucus - not just extending good faith to obviously bad faith people but demanding everyone else do the same and chiding them when they don’t

at this point when someone gets on substack I just assume that they know and don't care.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Is it too quaint now to ask if the ADL leadership cares about musk now?

One thing that really gets me with the Epstein revelations is the laziness of it all. The folks like Lutnick who absolutely could figure out and afford a luxury vacation for their kids *not* on Pedophile Island, but Pedophile Island is just easier

And they all know that a Vacation on Pedophile Island means they owe the Pedophile Island pedophile a favor now. But the idea of doing a favor for that man in the future does not bother them in the slightest

Hard to shake the sense lately that this world order is just disgusting and has been for some time

One of the guys who's playing the TPUSA halftime thing posted something on his social media accounts about it, and the way he words this makes me think he believes that this is the real Super Bowl halftime show. Lol

In other words, a large amount of the time when Jeffrey Epstein asks someone "anything cute?" he is asking "does this event you are inviting me to have anyone underage and young-looking I can rape".

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023

I gotta say this reads as spooked. GOP has always played like they're the ones with agency and do the ratfucking. They're not really built for a world when the dems don't engage them in good faith and just go to war with them back.

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

This has been without question the funniest part of watching progressive liberals discover mutual aid organizing

I mean. Yes I *could* but also if I did that they would kick me out of the Signal chat

I don't entirely disagree with the sentiment but also I really think that at this point progressive liberals would really do well to learn the difference between the socialist left, the labor left, and the anarchist left

TrueAnon/Brace Belden, I assume

she's free to become a private citizen if she wants to keep her morality a private issue.

When your representative says "Don't talk to me about my own morality," I suggest talking to them about their own morality INCESSANTLY.

A street medic said “I’ve been working in this field for over 8 years now and I’ve seen a lot of shit, but that was truly one of the most terrible things I’ve witnessed and I never thought that I’d have to see actual children getting gassed like that, but here we are I suppose”

I’m proud of my independent, strong willed daughter. Here in Jenks, Ok. she and 100+ of her classmates walked off campus to protest the criminal way ICE is assaulting and murdering other humans. She was worried about the consequences. I said, “it means more when it costs you something.” ICE out!