Remember Home Depot (and probably other places) takes pics of everyone who goes into their parking lots or stores, they keep biometric data, along with all other data, forever and their policy is to share it with any and all law enforcement or "consultants"

They want slavery and slavery was the model for fascism Until that becomes a discussed reality we will stay in hell

"Please help. Please help. Please help us. We have rights, we’re citizens here, please help us" My god. This 911 call with a Chicago woman pleading for help as ICE pulls pulls people from their cars, aiming weapons at them is grotesque. Monsters have invaded our city. Monsters.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

COUNT I Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall. COUNT II The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

Economists: Hope Your Heart Wasn’t Set On A House

Really is Christmas for Criminals out there because all the federal agents and federal prosecutors aren't doing anything about real crime, they're spending their time either kidnapping people or prosecuting stuff like this:

The pardon wasn’t enough. It’s immunity for life.

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

“This is a political prosecution and a gross attempt to silence dissent, a right protected under the first amendment," Abughazaleh said in a video she shared on social media. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty. Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

If you see ICE near a polling place, call State and local police that's a felony (and they are not immune from arrest, prosecution and unpardonable State prison time) New Mexico's Secretary of State directly addresses misuse of law enforcement during elections: www.sos.nm.gov/voting-and-e...

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

A Brief History of Halloween Isn’t Fun Anymore 🧵

Thinking a lot about @michaelsierraa.bsky.social book "The Danger Imperative" about how police are trained to constantly think the entire world is out to get them (even if it is not)

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"

This happened in Northern California. Silvia Reyna Mendoza was deported after reporting years of harassment by an ICE contractor. KCRA aired about story her harassment on Thursday night last week. She was deported on Friday morning. This story ⤵️ aired on Monday, the 27th.

A source familiar with this incident told me today that not only did they arrest and charge the comedy club manager, but the Latino man he was defending from ICE -- who was also arrested and whisked away -- **is also a U.S. citizen.** It's unclear where the Latino man is now.

Happy 43rd anniversary of Gary Larson’s Cow Tools Apology – or at least it’s 43 years since The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, printed this:

my daily affirmation

Buy Nothing Week. A 21st Century tradition.

Maga is the pedo party, full stop. The fascism and pedophilia isn't a bug, it's a feature. Evil. "Elon Musk's A.I. system, Grok, installed in a Telsa, asked a 10-year-old to send nudes during a conversation about soccer, then justified the request when a parent askedí it to repeat itself.

Some bonus historical anniversary content today, because the earlier thread was so nasty. Firstly, it is now 77 years since the world was deprived of a much-loved Ohio dentist called... er, Dr Gay Ludwig Hitler

one way to understand media coverage of the second trump administration is that, this time around, it's really only tracking with the bottom right chart

The Grokipedia entry on “race and intelligence” says that sub-Saharan African IQs average “around 70,” and are largely genetic in nature. It also cites Mankind Quarterly, a white nationalist pseudoscience journal.

1964

Border Patrol Chief Bovino exited the federal courthouse in Chicago today, facing questions over his use of tear gas in communities despite a federal ban without justification. Before leaving, he stood in the truck doorway, fist-pumped, and then placed a CS grenade on the dashboard.

They are also intentionally conflating machine-learning and generative AI slop to confuse and try to make GenAI seem necessary. Google Maps traffic stuff is machine learning, not GenAI, for example. Auto-correct is too. Don't let them make you lose the thread. GenAI slop is slop.

We live in an episode of Veep

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

As a clever form of peaceful protest, a DC man walked along near National Guard troops deployed in the city playing the Imperial March from Star Wars from a portable speaker. To disprove this scurrilous slander... they arrested him. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

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In Old Irving Park, the “new normal” for residents on Saturday included federal agents deploying tear gas as parents and costumed children were leaving their homes on their way to a neighborhood Halloween parade.

Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.

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Welp, add Piriform's CCleaner to the list of essential products for Windows desktops that has become completely enshittified. Any suggestions for a replacement?

not to be confused with quesadilla

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people: Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

Like at this point it's nothing to just stop spending money on anything that isn't a necessity. Cause these people will eat their own arm if they made enough money to do so

Charles Addams

Many Russian serf owners had considerable arsenals on their estates out of fear of unrest. The murder of masters by serfs was nonetheless a not uncommon crime & the serfs who committed it were actually often looked on surprisingly sympathetically by officials &, later, juries given their grievances.

Refusing to feed people while building a massive ballroom is a fast track to eat the rich. No pun intended.

when I was a kid, there were zero LGBTQ+ perspectives or information in mainstream media. if you didn't know where the nearest queer neighborhood or bookstore was, you were completely isolated. Meta & Disney & scared Democrats are all helping to usher in a return to that horrific past

In Japan the role of tattoos, known as irezumi, has varied throughout history. At times they were used as a criminal punishment and later they were banned and came to be connected with organised crime. During the Edo period (1603–1867) the era of... #MythologyMonday 🎨Toyohara Kunichika, 1862. 1/7