How Bluesky feels on a #NoKings Day ☺️

Trump to deface the dollar bill!

If someone were to suggest this on tomorrow's Fox & Friends there's a nonzero chance it would happen.

Here’s an idea. Send ICE to the Strait of Hormuz.

Citizen and independent journalists are the Little Engine that Could. #EpsteinFiles @apnews.com www.wdio.com/ap-top-news/...

Watch this open.substack.com/pub/cybeleca...

Truly the Fyre Festival of strategic campaigns.

The NCO said that Pres. Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.” It was not well received. Who could have foreseen that telling troops they're fighting a brutal, bloody war to bring about the End Times would be bad for morale?

A sadistic 80s mobster was grafted onto the poison tree of Southern Baptist fundamentalism. We must hack it down or be obliged to eat the fruit.

This gave Hollywood “chills”?? It’s crap. Looks like jump cuts from a bad video game. The sound effects resemble vintage Hong Kong martial arts… “flying fists of fury”. Holy Batman. Whoosh, zap, pop.

Top lawyer at Goldman Sachs resigns after revelation of Epstein relationship www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed cops are buying access to GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds. Doesn't use metadata, but clues in the photo like soil, architecture, to pinpoint where social media photos taken. Being used in investigations www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

This sums it up

Apparently, Tesla moved from California to Texas so they can dump toxic waste water on their neighbors without fear of any consequences.

Pam Bondi's throaty tantrums are a sound-alike for Divine in Female Trouble, denied cha-cha heels at Christmas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cYZ...

Okay. Time for a thread about the Accelerationist propaganda mod for Hearts of Iron 4 and why it's bad that I don't see anyone in the field really talking about how video games and the networks around them are working to radicalize young men at an alarming rate. It urgently needs to be addressed /1

LOVE the symbolism of this. Canada opened a consulate in Nuuk today, signaling support for Greenlanders rattled by President Donald Trump’s sovereignty threats while trying to avoid a fight with Washington. -Politico They also plan on opening one in Anchorage, AK. ❤️#northernsolidarity

#tumblr is down…

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

Media, journalism, and the press are not interchangeable terms. Yet they are bound up with one another. Media is the attention industry Journalism is a social practice The press is a key institution in a democracy Put it all together: Journalists who work in the media carry forward "the press." 9/

"When in doubt, draw a distinction." Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that. This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one. I will post them one at a time. Ready?

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

The Faustian deal struck between governments and the tech we welcomed and worked for: a betrayal of our hopes for the internet. To connect us; a repository of knowledge; communication tools. Good, when in the hands of good people.

The problem won’t be gone until you are, Tom. Pull all ICE and CBP agents out of Minnesota and stop attacking American communities.

Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio are here legally. But now, Trump is stripping them of their legal status in the same week that he plans to deploy ICE to Springfield, leaving them with no defense. Here is the Trump Playbook: 1/5

Jenn Budd worked as a Border Patrol agent from 1995 to 2001. Since then, she has become an outspoken immigrants' rights activist. "The management of the Border Patrol has been corrupt for many generations," says Budd.

DHS/BP goons who killed Good & Pretti are LONG term employees, 8-10yrs. They both went for kill shots, & both looked very unmoved afterwards by what they had done. 💯 these were NOT their 1st murders. Q no one is asking: WTF has been going on at the southern border all these years to immigrants??

You can’t write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen. ⸻ Bertolt Brecht

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

They did it again with the killing of Alex Pretti—instant coordinated lies about “domestic terrorism.” But even beyond recent assassinations and shootings, the distinction now is that the deaths Trump seeks to exploit are at the hands of his own deportation forces www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Yes, they were doing this in Los Angeles last summer but it was barely reported. However, the New York Times put together this extraordinary 20 minute report on it in late December, but no one really picked up on it. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

The Department of Homeland Security isn't killing people indiscriminately Pam Bondi made it crystal clear The Trump administration dispatched Noem and Bovino-with their secret police-to Minneapolis so they can grab full control of future elections They are cementing their fascist hegemony

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Nice, that The Boys parody is also posted (for now). www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0sY...

Stay home, Austin. You don’t want to dance with a Waymo today.

This analysis by the New York Times paints a damning picture of ICE's decision to kill Alex Pretti after Pretti had attempted to help a woman who had been shoved (assaulted) by ICE. ICE had Pretti pinned on the ground when one agent appears to come across a gun. After taking the gun, they kill him.

It's nice to see that high-minded hair-splitting over Renee Good's death can be ended with an official ruling of HOMICIDE. Now, the timid can start to split hairs over the violent murder of a nurse, Alex Jeffrey Pretti, by ICE thugs. people.com/renee-good-d...

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

For those too young to remember, here's the context for this iconic war photo. Tet Offensive, Saigon Execution. Photo by Eddy Adams (AP). 1969. Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executes Viet Cong Captain Nguyễn Văn Lém. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigon_...

WE.ARE.HERE. Choose up and hit the dance floor.

“If Minnesota falls, everything falls. We’re done as a nation.” Fury. Grief. Anguish. Locals on the frontlines of Trump’s attack on Minneapolis are speaking out following the killing of another one of their neighbors. We’re on the ground with @samveep.bsky.social tracking the aftermath.