It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"

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GEORGIA — Trump’s DHS just bought an ICE detention warehouse for $128 MILLION… that sold for $29 MILLION two years ago… from a Russia-based real estate company.🤔 Nothing to see here, folks! We are being looted so hard by these crooks

Early studies suggest versions of mRNA vaccines could be effective against certain kinds of cancer too. Now companies will have to wonder if the animus towards mRNA vaccine will spill over into those efforts too. Great, just great.

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Remember: Viktor Orban has built a corrupt, stagnant Hungary that is much poorer than it should be www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Did y'all know that NYC was such a slave city that Mayor Fernando Wood proposed that NYC secede from the Union? www.untappedcities.com/on-this-day-... How many New Yorkers do we think know this today?

Now owned by the GOP candidate for Texas Comptroller

This. All of this: #USpolitics #politics #fascism #idiocracy #corporatism #corruption #elections #voting #kakistocracy #oligarchy

One of the most basic tenets of election security is to avoid creating a Single Point of Failure (SPF). Unfortunately, it appears that SCOTUS created a potential SPF by sanctioning DOGE’s access to SSA databases, which are now a key component of Trump’s voter purge election strategy. 1/

It would take a small pickup for Democrats to gain control of the House, where they hold four fewer seats than Republicans, with three vacancies. Winning back the Senate is a bigger lift; they would have to gain four seats, and this year’s map has them mostly playing defense of the ones they […]

Tech billionaires are leveraging tens of millions of dollars to influence California politics in a marked uptick from their previous participation in affairs at the state capitol. Behemoths such as Google and Meta are getting involved in campaigns for November’s elections, as are venture […]

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American Gestapo

"Disqualify people from voting, stop people from voting, stop votes from being counted, and overturn the result. Those are the four broad areas." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...

“which won't work for up to 69M women whose last names don't match their birth certificates”

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A fun thing is to get to the part where he says “this is not who we are” and imagine a certain type of person on here trying to pull a “um actually that’s who we’ve always been read a book for once” to his face

Here's a (non-exhaustive) list of companies to stop patronizing due to their support of ICE & the Trump regime, with direct links to cancel subscriptions. My goal is to avoid as much as possible contributing dollars toward my own oppression, yours, or others. #Boycott #EconomicBoycott #Unsubscribe

Obi Wan says: “I’ve seen a security hologram of Anakin killing younglings” Amidala replies “But the Dow is over 50,000” #trump #uspol #dow50k

This is by far the most cartoonish politics has been in my lifetime. Extremely kind & decent people vs. the absolute dregs of humanity. It continues to baffle me that this is not equally clear to the whole country.

I was back in federal court today. They’re still prosecuting me — my trial date is May 11th — but we’re pressing for evidence discovery. Because someone is “unreasonably obstructing the usual use” of the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza. But it’s ICE, not me. And the evidence will prove it.

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Grand juries across the nation are rejecting politically charged prosecutions. Citizens are no longer rubber stamps for state government intimidation. Cato's Mike Fox explains how the Framers' safeguard is working. https://ow.ly/AO9E50Ye6Ja

Judge says #hegseth is unlawfully retaliating against Sen. #markkelly over ‘illegal orders’ video ​A federal judge on Thursday shut down #defense Secretary #petehegseth’s attempts to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders, ruling that […]

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Marc Elias eloquently explains why we can’t rely on ordinary citizens in grand juries to adequately check an anti-democracy President who has told us he will interfere with the 2026 elections. https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/two-cases-and-the-grease-that-breaks-democracy/

Newly released documents show the FBI's scramble to explain last year why it released a screen recording with a missing minute from the night Jeffrey Epstein died, instead of the original footage.

Totally normal. Everything is fine.

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA. Sounds like Hegseth! www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Rep. Raskin: “You ignored the law and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference, and jaded cruelty towards more than 1,000 victims raped, abused, and trafficked. This performance screams cover-up.”

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i didn't even know things were turning up in italy right now

ICE is thug trash.

did you see this piece? the emotion is justified www.latimes.com/delos/story/...

This week Section 230 turned 30, and you'll see a bunch of posts on Techdirt today and the rest of the week about the importance of Section 230, but my first contribution this week is how the arguments against 230 are so contradictory that it should give everyone pause to consider why.

America is learning the hard way that "we make a lot of money together, you benefit from trade with us" does not actually equal "we own you and you must be subservient," and that countries will forgo some money to preserve sovereignty. Today's corrupt, self-interested US leaders don't get that.

It's done using CSS you can apply custom CSS quickly using extensions like Stylus and we have 2 community-made theming templates here: https://codeberg.org/wafrn/wafrn/src/branch/main/docs/theming.md

@wafrn.net - any possibility of interesting you in adding Diaspora protocol support to Wafrn? Yes, Diaspora is kind of dying off, given ActivityPub is used by nearly all the rest of the Fediverse, but there are still some folks on Diaspora I would love to be able to follow & publish t[...]

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

This proposed act is so evil.

luckily, going mask off *250 years in advance* is also tactically incredibly naive - it alienates potential coalition members, signals incompetence to their base, misses cultural optics, misjudges the likely backlash, and is generally strategically incoherent they're just a permanent target now