Got his head rocked so hard it made him a politician. Was it worth it? Not for us, probably.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

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“Penn recently received a grant from Google to bring more school districts into the program.”

Former LA Times managing editor @sarayasin.bsky.social launches The Key, a new publication about Palestine that will be "a home for journalists who have had their stories spiked in mainstream outlets." Her opening essay is worth every second of your time: www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...

this skeet is dedicated to the Brave Mujahideen Fighters of Afghanistan

prediction markets' depravity economy is the culmination of deregulation and kleptocracy, lobbying to legalize sports gambling, the collapse of advertising markets, hustlebro culture, crypto, memestocks, ai bubble ... venn diagram of horrible: www.404media.co/with-iran-wa...

Iran is experiencing a near-total internet blackout, with connectivity down to about 4% of normal levels.

Hey just following up on this

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Conde Nast just sold them.us to the parent company of Out, The Advocate, etc. so there goes like 95% of the trans staffers at the company (after they got rid of 2 of us in November <33)

Like, The Handbasket was started because I couldn’t make enough money freelancing but i couldn’t not write, so i just gave myself assignments and started writing. That spirit (perhaps mental illness) is something billionaires will never understand. We want to do this work against all odds.

Currently tearing my hair out because I adopted an urgent rent need for a family that needs to pay $3050 RIGHT MEOW to stay out of eviction court and then I got an urgent request from another rent fund and there’s $320 left in my Venmo account. So much need and I wish I could be everywhere at once 😭

I know I’ve been asking for $ these past few weeks but in light of last night’s barbarism: if you would like to help trans folks in Kansas get a ride to their nearest DMV + cover any license fees they can’t pay, please consider donating with the comment “TRANS RIGHTS” donorbox.org/solidarity-w...

for those who may not know.... fpds.gov was just decommissioned :( it's been a retro-looking but extremely reliable tool for surfacing + sorting through data about federal contracts. im mostly irritated at the whole thing, but tbh I'm also a little sad lol

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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

was having a late night look through the court records in a case I've been following and stumbled across this www.daylightsandiego.org/ice-in-san-d...

Over the weekend, violence erupted across parts of Mexico in the wake of the killing of major Jalisco cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho, leaving stores ransacked, residents sheltering in place and flights cancelled. LA people who know these neighborhoods, how are you feeling?

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Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

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I am a wheelchair bound trans woman about to be evicted from my assisted living home onto the street where I could die tomorrow. I have less than 24 hours. I am begging. If you have accessible housing in the DC area please contact me or donate: givebutter.com/iG0zWz Help me.

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The LAPD is citing truancy laws in an attempt to squash the ongoing school walkouts against ICE. The LAPD is also threatening to arrest any parents or adults who support the kids in their acts of civil disobedience.

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The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

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Schools contracting with Flock are letting ICE search their data to deport their kids, teachers, staff and parents. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NEW: CBP signs a new deal with Clearview AI to access its scraped image database for "tactical targeting," including efforts to “disrupt, degrade, and dismantle” networks of people labeled security threats.

Tech companies turning over personal data to this US administration before they are legally compelled to do so is collaboration techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

I am currently in the hunt for work , I can do whatever , I will do anything , for a price

A protester was hit by a car tonight while attempting to cross Alameda outside the Metropolitan Detention Center in Los Angeles. DHS officers immediately rendered aid until paramedics could arrive. A bunch of masked SRT assholes also came running out for no apparent reason and set the crowd off

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

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NEW: It's Not a General Strike, but It's a Start 🪧🚩🏴 Will January 30th see a true general strike? Almost certainly not. But that doesn't mean we should write it off, argues BRRN member and rank-and-file unionist Cameron Pádraig. www.blackrosefed.org/not-a-genera...

The Kansas bathroom bill applies to state government buildings. State Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat who is trans, was selected to fill a vacant seat earlier this month and it's believed this bill was specifically targeted at her. Disgusting and hateful. Details here:

ICE & CBP have been out kidnapping people in Los Angeles every day since June. The media has moved on and acts like this isn’t still happening. The crises are ongoing. Solidarity with the people fighting back in Minneapolis and everywhere.

I need to mention that Bovino was not fired, he was demoted. He will return to El Centro, where there have been two deaths in their ICE death camps. While not commander-at-large, he is still active in the siege against our neighbors.

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ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

Marimar Martinez was the first US citizen shot by ICE. They claimed she was a terrorist. Said she was brandishing a weapon. They lied. Video footage exonerated her and showed the ICE agent shot her five times. He bragged to other agents “five shots, 7 holes”. A 🧵 of ICE abuse

Nation's largest nurses union repeats calls for ICE abolition, pledges to do "everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people."

I’m keeping an eye out for us. www.joeyscott.xyz