I teach at the RJD state prison near Otay Mesa, and I've been struck by the geometric growth over the last several years of Amazon's distribution centers in the area. The conditions conducive to mass incarceration are clearly conducive to big tech logistics, and their convergence merits scrutiny

opened Facebook for the first time in ages and it’s just feeding people AI ICE videos???

insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man

The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

One of these things is not like the others. (But literally none of them will happen.)

Aided by genAI models like ChatGPT, “writers” hoping to get paid for fake stories have become an even bigger problem for publications big and small. One such writer almost pulled one over on COYOTE — until @soleilho.com, who is a nerd, spotted a key idiosyncrasy.

Black History Month zine available @oaklibrary.bsky.social Magazines & Newspapers Room. The California Voice was a Black newspaper in Oakland that ran from 1919 to 20??. I went through 20 years of microfilm to find the coolest (mostly) local Black music coverage and ads in the paper. Dig it.

Braver than all of dhs combined

I genuinely cannot believe the degree to which we are pissing away this generational breakthrough, even given the fuckmuppets who are involved www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

We really do need to rebuild the capacity to meet strangers in public places, and stuff like this ruins it for everyone.

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

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

I’ve watched Gavin Newsom’s career for 20+ years. It’s a buffet of big lies & failed hopes Like Trump, he breaks promises, serves billionaire interests & mistakes social media theatrics for leadership. Is that what we need in 2028? via @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Amazing a whole story about Eddie Bauer filing for bankruptcy can leave out the fact that it was owned by private equity from 2009 to 2021 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/b...

“i hung out with the known pedophile, but my children were there so it was ok”

What, did you think they were going to stop with trans people? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Bari Weiss bravely invites us to focus on the real fascism in Minneapolis www.thefp.com/p/mob-rule-c...

Emma here. Massive turnout at SF Civic Center rn in support of UESF and the teachers strike. Teachers, principals, parents, students.

oh my god how bad are these jobs numbers going to be lol

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this

also the venn diagram of people mad they can't understand the lyrics and the people who think born in the usa is about how good america is is a circle

Join a union.

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said

one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Jesus if you’ve lost the owners of Vegas sports bars your movement is toast

If you are watching the opening ceremony on NBC, you won't hear the boos of JD Vance because NBC cut it. Corporations working to keep Americans in the dark about how unpopular their elected officials are. The White House reposted the censored clip. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

a little too on the nose that the washington post increased our library subscription rate a not insignificant amount like a month before the layoffs

I mean of course there is a burning man board but also “the burning man board” is one of the dumbest phrases to ever take up space inside my brain

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

Hey thanks man, very timely, I’m feeling better already 👍

Holy shit it’s not great political strategy to constantly denounce your own voters?!

Anti-woke messaging is a net negative among Democrats

kamala harris's 6-7 themed zoomer digital marketing group has already changed its name after getting made fun of. for some reason they changed it to "68." we're witnessing a level of political instinct never before imaginable

top schumering lately. his party's supporters want ICE abolished; he proposes ICE being reformed, & then those reforms are a bunch of half-measures like the agents not wearing masks, & then he waters that down until we land on the agents not wearing masks unless they say they have a reason. 10/10

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them. The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

The word don't is censored. Don't, or Don T. If you're looking for just some fun proof they're doing control+f censoring

embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down

I say this often but it beats repeating: the United States is a signatory to international law protecting and defending the right to seek asylum.

oh no whatever will we do without the department of homeland security

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas. Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member. We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

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