Wow at this 2019 @radleybalko.bsky.social piece. The NYPD tried to use the "vehicle was a deadly weapon" excuse for excessive force The video showed the officer was never in danger. Not only was the victim ruled innocent--the officer got convicted of perjury www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/201...

ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.

We've crossed the Rubicon here, especially if any of these blue states/cities follow through. The only historical precedent I can think of for this is police in the North arresting federal marshals who kidnapped people under the Fugitive Slave Act in the 1850s.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) put out an official statement saying the threat of fascism has come to America & the labor movement must commit to ending it: www.ilwu.org/the-ilwu-ver...

Filling out the Captcha to train AI for free, because websites overwhelmed with AI traffic need to confirm I am not AI myself

Today, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics published data that showed workers' share of business income is the lowest *ever recorded.* By this metric, workers now receive a smaller cut of the revenue they generate than at any other time in recent history.

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/

A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

I'm old enough to remember when tariffs were supposed to turn into big stimulus checks for every household instead of an excuse to increase the bloated military budget another half trillion to fund more wars

Frey: So, they are already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense. Having seen the video of myself, I want to tell everybody directly: That is bullshit.

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

MPR playing an eye witness account right now of ICE shooting directly through the windshield at her face and not giving her medical care for 10 minutes.

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

“I want a progressive movement that is aggressively pro raising wages at the bottom and aggressively pro immigration. These are completely coherent goals.” Great piece by @polphilpod.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

In this week's CES product announcements, it looks like most chip, laptop, and phone makers are doubling down on faster on-device AI speeds as the main marketing and benchmarking standard. I'm a bit confused about who is really asking for this though, even among AI power users.

One of the most lopsided results you'll ever see in a poll, from our weekend Washington Post poll www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want? M: *yells*

This is how you do it. No preamble to swear to God you don't like Maduro.

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

It can be about oil (amongst other things) without that goal being entirely rational economically. There's a bit of a tendency for the public to overestimate the assumed hidden 4-D chess of American geopolitics.

thanks timeline

oh okay www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pet...

Hakeem Jeffries is absolutely worthless. His only demand is that Dems get a briefing on what just happened. “Far too many questions remain unanswered…”

When it's definitely about narcoterrorism

look at my opposition party dawg

I'm old enough to remember when they had to pretend an illegal invasion was about weapons of mass destruction for half a decade before anyone would admit it was always about oil

DSA is the New York City of leftism.

Mandy Patinkin and the PS22 school choir singing "Somewhere Over The Rainbow," notably written by blacklisted socialist writer Yip Harpburg

For fans of colour and of 19th C natural history, this is a rather glorious read. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The reactionary vibe shift of 2025 has ended. Socialism was inaugurated in New York City in the first few minutes of the new year. Prepare for Woke 6.

The reactionary vibe shift of 2025 has ended. Socialism was inaugurated in New York City in the first few minutes of the new year. Prepare for Woke 6.

at the center of every major city is a place called THE MUSEUM OF SENSES consisting of 3 rooms with random lights being projected on all the surfaces. it has less interactivity than a flip phone minigame, no one has ever been inside, and it is the #3 top attraction on tripadvisor.

Currently in Helsinki for a history of science workshop

No parent wants this text. Thinking of the Brown University community.

Starting soon!

December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age. Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...

December 4 at 10am @ UMich and on Zoom, I'll be talking about the labor & environmental impacts of AI in historical context. Computing's long history of automation & pollution reframes how we understand capitalism in the digital age. Register for free: sessions.studentlife.umich.edu/track/event/...

UNION THANKSGIVING: - TENTATIVE AGREEMENT turkey -COLLECTIVE ACTION cranberry sauce -PREPARED TO STRIKE pumpkin pie -MATERIAL WINS mac n cheese -WILDCAT STRIKE wreen bean casserole -bread (& roses)

A pretty Fall morning in my country, Philadelphia

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

I don't think toddlers should be doing all that @nytimes.com

Yup, the point is helping workers build economic pressure during a strike. Starbucks needs to hear customers are refusing to cross the picket line, not that some people are the purest ethical consumers who don't like Starbucks regardless.

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

There's actually a historical reason for the ruling class's poorly written emails: typing and computing was feminized, working-class labor until fairly recently. So male business leaders from earlier generations often view writing as below them/view emailing as similar to dictating to a secretary.

The contents of these emails are barely even intelligible. The one thing holding up the regime right now is Epstein's lack of coherence and literacy. Humanities education matters.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

One thing that elections when Trump is not on the ballot make clear: the GOP is so ready to entertain Trump 3 and/or egregious gerrymandering and voter suppression because they know if they play fair then there's not really a future for the party.

The votes are in four years later: unions and @organizeworkers.bsky.social confirmed cool