BREAKING — Mayor of Lewiston, Maine posts on FB that ICE is coming to the city imminently. This confirms my reporting the agency is planning a surge in the city and state generally. Lewiston is home to a large Somali-American population, which made up 4.6% of the population as of the 2020 census.

San Diego Comic-Con will no longer allow AI 'art' to be displayed at their event "Material created by AI either partially or wholly, is not allowed in the art show" This follows backlash from artists after SDCC initially indicated AI-generated work would be permitted

3️⃣ And to throw in an election result, too: a flip in Florida.

2️⃣ New Jersey just expanded the rights of *350,000 people* by removing the lifetime ban they faced to serving on juries. This was massively distorting the jury pools & outcomes for defendants.

BREAKING: Dan Ceisler, the new sheriff of Pennsylvania's Bucks County, just announced he has terminated his county's 287(g) contract with ICE. Ceisler defeated GOP sheriff who'd joined the ICE program in November, & ran on quitting it; we reported then:

If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.

Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

This is NOT symbolic. If Dems adopt this position as a caucus, ICE get reined in. Full stop. Not after Trump, not after the midterms - NOW. Call your Dem rep and senators and tell them to back this play today.

DEFEATED! Democrats joined by 6 Republicans just took down this anti-worker bill, the final vote was unchanged from below. Mike Johnson spent nearly an hour trying to flip Republican holdouts but ultimately gave up, his first floor defeat of the year and likely not the last.

The worker, identified as TJ Sabula in the Washington Post, said “I don’t feel as though fate looks upon you often, and when it does, you better be ready to seize the opportunity. And today I think I did that.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“I’ve had hotel staff sending post-it notes, bar staff sending DHS IDs, and loads of people saying their neighbour is an agent,” Skinner said.

Murphy: The United States Congress should not fund a Department of Homeland Security that is not obeying the laws of the United States of America

Van Hollen: We are here to say not one more dime for Donald Trump's ICE operations

Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology. https://bit.ly/49xT9Xl

same guy who killed universal healthcare here in California, twice If democrats want my vote they gotta do better than this greasy hustler

HUGE NEWS: the immigrant protections bill package has passed floor votes in both houses and is heading to the Governor’s desk! We urge @govmurphy.bsky.social to pass these bills *as written* to better protect the constitutional rights of all New Jerseyans and make our state stronger and safer.

2+ Hours later: WE ARE SO BACK!! Senate bills are now passing, starting with Privacy Protections Act:

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

But just like that… the Privacy Protection Act PASSES the Assembly! 🎉 If signed into law, your drivers license, license plate, student file, or library membership will no longer be used to sweep you into ICE's hands.

💥 2ND BILL IS UP: Privacy Protection Act! Asm. Quijano introduces the bill on the floor. This bill would prevent the state from sharing personal data collected by the State gov't with ICE. ICE OUT OF NJ! ICE OUT OF OUR DATA! ICE OUT FOR GOOD!

People are being asked to walk out everywhere at 2 pm on 1/20 - www.freeameri.ca

Today, the NJ state legislature votes on a historic package to protect immigrant rights. “... we can make it very clear that NJ has consistently been committed to honoring people’s due process rights & it’s important that legislators are taking this moment to underline that commitment.” #NJforALL

On one hand, Columbo is a police lieutenant, which is bad. On the other hand, Columbo makes more sense if you view him not as a cop but as some sort of supernatural entity, like a fey

Picard morality tip: If one side of a conflict preaches purity of bloodline above communal benefit for all, join the other side.

If there are *any* Democrats in Congress who will still vote to keep funding this administration when it is using that money to terrorize our cities and refusing to allow congressional representatives their clear right to observe their activities, then those reps need to be primaried into retirement

Please encourage the people with weapons, body armor, chemical weapons, and shields to be peaceful. Protest is not a tea party. It doesn’t need to be peaceful. It’s infuriating to constantly urge peace when protestors are not out here choking men for 9 minutes or shooting women in the face.

Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in the face, is local. Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd's neck, is local.

At least eight states have deeply concerning anti-library, anti-literature bills on the docket for their legislative sessions so far. Here's what they are and what you can and should do at this point about them–whether or not you live in these states. *WE* save us. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

About god damn time.

Would love a single consequence.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Heads up, #Jersey!!!!!

WITNESS: "I just can't let this narrative of self-defense go any further. That’s absolutely not what it was… ICE agents didn’t let anyone help her for 15 minutes, then medics couldn’t get through with their ambulance.”

Q: After you told ICE to get the F out, Republicans are criticizing you for escalating tensions FREY: I'm sorry if I offered their Disney princess ears, but if we're talking about what's inflammatory, on one hand you got someone who dropped an F bomb & on other you have someone who killed someone

Minneapolis.

Highly recommend this podcast episode from @socialistdogmom.bsky.social if anyone's interested in a deep-dive on the topic. All kinds of weird projection going on here. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/a...

I don't know, man, if my wife was shot dead right in front of me by armed racist thugs for the crime of caring about people and my governor called that "bait" and threatened to call the cops on me for being angry, he certainly would not be getting my vote for president if that's what he's doing rn

Mayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Bravest motherfuckers you've ever seen. They just saw a neighbor get murdered and still out there. Maybe let's see some local officials with the power to arrest show as much backbone as these voters PAYING YOUR FUCKING SALARY

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I know it's not mainstream conventional wisdom but I think "Abolish ICE" is a perfectly reasonable response to this and you can get the public to buy in. Most people don't want masked murderous thugs roving their streets