SB351, SB352 and SB783 will prohibit masked law enforcement, end raids on courthouses, schools and hospitals, and require reforms to ICE before they can cooperate with Virginia law enforcement. Virginians spoke up and demanded this, and we delivered! @acluva.bsky.social @vayd.bsky.social

Man Who Spat on Allies For a Year Demands the World Clean Up His Catastrophe

holy crap, they have learned nothing. "The agent draws on publicly available information from third-party LLMs" Is it publicly available because the third party stole it?

As usual, too many banger quotes to pull just one. AI doesn't work for its advertised abilities but it is great for generating clouds of doubt, semi-plausible deniability, and misdirection. Will we let the LLMs pull triggers? (Has it already happened?)

some semi-secret soundcloud shares from Your Thing! they don't stick around long, but new bits cycle in #experimentalpop #audiomayflies soundcloud.com/user-585694313

"Sunday 'Cricket's Revenge' Toons" bradblog.com?p=15659 — THIS WEEK: A dog's life for Noem ... Weapons of mass distraction for the rest of us ... The week’s best toons! …

AI-powered spearphishing (personalized spam/cons/hack attempts) is going to make email ever more dangerous as a mode of communication. I've seen several writers report being attacked this way in the last week. I'm sure it's happening in every art and industry.

The killing of Iranian children during an illegal war is an impeachable offense.

The first casualties of World War Epstein had to be girls.

Republicans are being racist liars about the Virginia redistricting effort. Shouldn't have expected any better from them.

one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contempt

"Sunday 'No, More Wars!' Toons" bradblog.com?p=15652 — THIS WEEK: Latest Epstein Distraction ... SOTU That Was (or Wasn't) (or Whatever) and more in our latest collection…

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... Trump regime femicide

EXCLUSIVE: Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, following revelations of close ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Hugo C. Chiasson and Elise A. Spenner report. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... “So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity”

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

May those who are observing Ramadan be strengthened in spirit, sustained with patience in moments of hunger and thirst, and surrounded by peace. May this holy month deepen our shared commitment to compassion, service, and care for those in need.

I identified four (4) NBA teams part-owned by a firm that sold a property to the Department of Homeland Security for a planned ICE detention center. And I explain why more owners could follow in the warehouse to megajail business. it's the new [eyeblack]:

Hello, I’m from the government, and I’d like to see what it’s going to take to get you and your community into one of our lovely new ICE immigrant detention facilities! www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Wild story here. Apple just paid $2bn for an Israeli tech company with no revenues that builds infrared sensors which map imperceptible facial movements to determine the words you're thinking. 30% of its staff were called up to do genocide open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

Track 4: Slipping Out I play bass on a lot of this album, but on this instrumental I play lead synth. It might be my favorite thing I've ever improvised. (This whole album is extemporaneous! We do write songs but we also love to just jam. Hope you enjoy!) yourthing.bandcamp.com/track/slippi...

Track 18, Hathor Auteur In which the narrator, his loving wife, and arsonist son Will, have an unfortunate carriage breakdown, meet an unusually rude personage painting a field of sunflowers, and fail to warn the artist of a nearby bee #freemusic #YourThing yourthing.bandcamp.com/track/hathor...

Track 10: Knicoteen Knic from Marketing is our wordsmith, vocalist, keyboardist, saxophonist, field sound snarer, and producer. 💞 Free music this weekend! 💖 yourthing.bandcamp.com/track/knicot... #freemusicweekend #allhumanmade #experimental #artfunk #jazz #noiserock #sludgepop

Lab Book, new album by Your Thing!! Our new album drops today! 💖 For YOU, for Valentine’s Day! Free downloads through Sunday the 15th! 💞 "Pristine vistas Cool deep ravine, In unison sing in the nick of time, No Kings” Enjoy Your Thing!! yourthing.bandcamp.com/album/lab-book

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

Here’s your morning mood, courtesy of Javier Mayoral.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps

Concentration camps. This is how Anne Frank died, btw.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

bsky.app/profile/pris... #abolishICE #PoliticalCartoon #OC

Sometimes when I'm too mad to write, I draw #abolishICE #politicalcartoon #OC #drawing

we are never getting over this

here's a video from this afternoon in Eden Prairie MN of ICE agents camping out as a bus stop. Again, this is terrorism.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

This isn't about "training issues." The murderer who executed Renee Good has been with ICE for 10 years, and according to DHS, the murderer who executed Alex Pretti has been there for 8 years. These aren't "new recruits," or officers that can be "retrained." ICE can't be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

There's a whole lot of options at www.standwithminnesota.com fyi, you can take your pick of many options.

There has NEVER BEEN AN IMMIGRATION PROBLEM IN THIS COUNTRY. There has been a racist, nationalist fear-mongering problem in this country. There has been an immigrant worker exploitation problem. But there has never been an "immigration problem."

"Grandpa, what side were you on during the Great Fascist Revival of 2026?"

I am asking my fellow Republican and Democratic Governors across the nation to have a unified response. We must all stand against the lawlessness being inflicted in our states.

Masked federal agents in Minnesota just shot and killed another person. We must put a stop to Trump’s ICE. Now. Stop the funding, stop the occupations, stop the killings.

"The man shot by federal agents this morning has died, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told the Minnesota Star Tribune."

Hakeem Jeffries comes out against the bill funding ICE and DHS. This seems like quite a big deal.