"Police say the victim told her story to officers whom she happened to run into the next day at a luncheon."

This is dreadful! I'd never heard of this "Anna's Archive" before, but you know what I have heard of? Libraries. If you cannot afford to buy a book, the library is right there. If it's not available, suggest it to your library. Ahem. Stealing from authors isn't it, my darlings.

Silicon Valley guys casting government employees as lazy, parasitic, and malevolent seems like a giant case of projection imo

New Orleans version of NO ICE in business poster, seen elsewhere on social media. #NewOrleans #ICE

The Trump administration's gross incompetence is horrible, but at times it's the best thing about them. #USpol

BREAKING: The indictment of Comey has been DISMISSED because Halligan was unlawfully appointed. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Three U.S. Air Force B-52 strategic bombers, accompanied by KC-135 aerial refueling tankers, are currently heading toward the Caribbean, where they are expected to conduct another show-of-force flight near Venezuelan airspace.

Summoning Zombie J.K. Galbraith to the mic: "The man who is admired for the ingenuity of his larceny is almost always rediscovering some earlier form of fraud. The basic forms are all known, have all been practiced. The manners of capitalism improve. The morals may not.” [Age of Uncertainty]

Trump's secret police vandalize houses and cars, assault citizens, fire potential lethal weapons for the hell of it, and assault children, often as sexual predators... and claim impunity for all of this. CATO proposes the fix. In the meantime it's essential to document all these crimes rigorously.

The Trump administration arrested and detained two gospel singer brothers from Guatemala who have lived in Memphis for 10 and 20 years. The administration lied and claimed one had an extensive criminal record. Neither does. One has now been deported. www.psrmemphis.org/christian-si...

"In fact, most of the nine men... did not say a word besides their names and inmate numbers. Only one was even eligible for parole." “Today you’ve been paroled...to go straight into an ICE facility for deportation..." "These days, a 100% grant rate is unheard of for the Louisiana Board of Parole."

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

People are afraid to go to church. This is the worst timeline.

New rule: if you’re a Supreme Court Justice and you’re mentioned in the Epstein files, you have to recuse from any future lawsuit about the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy

Home Depot could implement a policy requiring ICE to present a judicial warrant before operating on its property. Businesses are fully within their rights to decide who is allowed on their premises.

I was raised by my grandparents. My grandfather grew up Dickensian- street- urchin- poor on the streets in Manhattan; fought in WWII; and then got a good union civil service job that allowed him to retire after 30 years with a pension at age 61. The loss of that historic connection is a problem now.

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

It's amazing what you can hear when everyone's AC isn't running

#NOLASky #NOLATwitter A gift for you from Chicago.

"Silicon Valley is taking on all this new debt with the assumption that massive new revenues from AI will cover the tab..there is reason for doubt." "If we get to the point after spending.. billions of dollars on data centers that we don't need...then we're talking about another financial crisis.."

planned economy but it's just the president dictating what he wants to see on his television

DHS claims that an accused murderer was released from a Charlotte jail and was “back onto North Carolina’s streets because of sanctuary policies.” The local paper reported that was false. So DHS quietly removed that statement—and never admitted they lied. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/c...

A depraved and decadent Trump WH dinner for MBS was a stunning low for an American ruling class that's stopped pretending to carry a moral compass It was really a celebration of death - of democracy, of an overheating planet, and ultimately themselves. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ceos...

“A tamale vendor was detained outside a Home Depot. “Soon after, federal agents arrested a flower seller in Archer Heights. “Then they came for a cotton candy vendor in Little Village.” apnews.com/article/chic...

Accounts on X of “Trump supporting independent women" used stolen images from European models and influencers and were posting content very supportive of Trump, as well as posting content targeting Islam and LGBTQ. Almost all the accounts were based in Thailand. www.linkedin.com/posts/bendob...

Today we are reading vintage Richard Scarry

Imagine where we would be if Twitter did this in 2014

Chaos on TwitterX as they roll out a new change which shows the location of the user and inadvertently reveal how many fake accounts there are and how much foreign interference. Earlier a vocal Scottish independence campaigner was outed as an Iranian account. Then there’s this pro Trump one:

NEWS: I spent the past 24 hours going through major MAGA accounts on Twitter, and a bombshell development has become clear: most of the right-wing ecosphere is being fed propaganda from foreign actors. This impacts elections. This impacts discourse. This is major. Subscribe to support my work:

As projected here www.nature.com/articles/s41... we are steadily moving toward a situation where are major town or city runs out of water There are early signs of this everywhere, right now Iran seems to be a hotspot at ~1.5ºC of heating We are *utterly* unprepared for what comes at 1.6, 1.7 & 2ºC

Trying to get us to advertise as: "No AI, small classes, people-first." Or something similar.

Cassidy is incredibly vulnerable next year and is probably gonna lose his primary to a MAGA lunatic. Could the Louisiana Democrats please ATTEMPT to win a seat here in a blue wave election? Do we have a Warnock in our state?

I presume Foreign Affairs is not yet running my one-word rebuttal "don't" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Yesterday I tried to put everything I knew about whistles—where to get them, where to get instruction sheets, how to distro—into one place so you can build off it for your own community's whistle needs: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...

All this to say that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer and DOGE was not a failure. It functioned as designed. I wish people would cover this accurately. It's not difficult.

Your friendly reminder that Elon's DOGE cuts have already resulted in mass death.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

Bill voted to confirm RFK because he was afraid of being primaried by yahoos for going against Trump. So he fell in line. He is getting primaried by yahoos anyway. One of America's most hapless oafs.

So many mandatory reporter failures. One of the church employees said they "thought it was on" the victims to report.

Saw a post where someone pointed out that a judge at Nuremberg rejected “just following orders” and sentenced people to death by firing squad and that’s just not right. Most if not all death sentences from Nuremberg trials were hangings. Because firing squads were for soldiers, not criminals.

Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago. She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media. All charges against her have been dropped. In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.

Big demand for whistles in New Orleans and 3D printing is the fastest/cheapest way to produce them right now. If you can help with printing, DM me. There are volunteers already handling pickups, dropoffs, regular printed materials and bundling. We could just use more people printing.

Mid-City New Orleans #ICE #NewOrleans

Gift article—read for free (thanks to NOLA Library’s eternally renewable 3-day free subscription) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...

Seattle is using stencils when neighbors go missing

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

"She wrote that she worries millions of women might not get the care they deserve after she was given a dose of misoprostol to stop her postpartum hemorrhage. Because the drug is part of medication abortion, it is currently under review at the (FDA), she wrote, due to her cousin's urging." #Pinks

somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day