Fake judges. Fake lawyers. Real deportations. Scammers are profiting off Trump’s immigration crackdown, and the impacts on victims are endless.

FedEx and UPS — two private carriers positioned to capitalize on a weakened U.S. Postal Service — poured nearly $20 million into federal lobbying in 2025, an OpenSecrets analysis found.

Writing and creating while going through a physical healing process is not as easy as some people think. My Patreon posts are viewable by subscribers only; subscriptions start at $1 a month for accessibility. www.patreon.com/posts/good-d...

I was sooo looking forward to Zendaya calling out Ryan Coogler’s name for best director Oscar. Would’ve been a huge moment for Oakland. But it’s all good.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

looks like we traded generations of healthcare for 4 days worth of missiles

I wrote this story as a way to imagine what would happen after the next 'Big One' if we built a world where our economic and political systems existed to fulfill basic human needs, rather than to create profit for rich elites. #earthquake #lomaprieta www.patreon.com/posts/from-s...

In June, I wrote about Trump’s dystopian vision for Gaza. His AI-generated fantasy fuses necropolitics with venture capital. And it reflects an extremist Silicon Valley ideology called the Network State. via @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/trumps-gaza-...

This was very satisfying

BREAKING: Trump makes his first appearance at the US Open. There were audible boos and a few light claps. Important to stress the stadium is at most 10% full and the start time has been pushed to 2:30pm ET.

Just in case the world needs to be reminded that most Americans hate him

So can we launch a publicly-funded multi-agency investigation into toxic masculinity please?

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WaPo is now the propaganda mouthpiece of the regime. This is NOT journalism.

I know that 'journaling' is the more common spelling but for some reason I always want to write it as 'journalling'. Holdover from when I was a kid and wished I could be British #thingswritersthinkabout #writinglife

Ooh Mahershala Ali is in the new Jurassic Park 🤩

Another reason AI sucks

Yet immigrants are somehow the “problem”

Calls to “not resort to violence” distort the reality that a bunch of masked men w/ big guns showed up & started kidnapping people & some very brave people said “stop” & had the audacity to film it. If we gave ICE’s violence 1% of attention we give others, we would never stop talking about it.

I also live in LA, the President is full of shit.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

When people said “abolish ICE,” this is why. The politicians from both parties who called that “radical,” blindly funded them and called it “immigration reform,” because they were getting campaign donations from the corporations getting ICE contracts. And now we’re here.

Ooh I like this one. I’ll take it one further: FREE college education for all

Too much “what are the protesters doing” and not enough “why isn’t ICE leaving?”

If it looks and sounds like martial law...

Fellow So. Cal folks - ICYMI - Cisneros, Chu, Tran were denied access to an ICE facility in Adelanto this morning. Just as a reminder: MOC are allowed to visit to conduct oversight without previous notification. ktla.com/news/local-n...

Make no mistake, Trump is testing the waters for the police state he wants to construct, if people don’t turn out now and showcase how they feel about this federal takeover in L.A. then who knows what he does next.

BREAKING The City of Glendale, California — one of the most populous cities in Southern California — says it has terminated its contract with U.S. Homeland Security and ICE.

More than a century after the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, one of the most horrific episodes of racial violence in U.S. history, the city’s mayor announced a $105 million reparations package on Sunday. It is the first large-scale plan committing funds to address the impact of the atrocity.

If you support Ben’s righteous action and live in a blue district, Sign up to do Patch through calls to ppl in Red districts to pressure their Congressional reps on the budget. Just a few Republican reps need to break ranks to defeat this evil budget: www.mobilize.us/peoplesactio...

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I don’t get why they needed so many agents to arrest one person. Seems mostly like an intimidation tactic. Her neighbors are brave and we all need to step up like they did to do the right thing.

My Mother’s Day treat will be a second watch of Sinners: one of the few realistic film depictions of baby loss + loss of one’s only child, and the ONLY one I’ve seen featuring people of color. TY Ryan Coogler, Wunmi Mosaku, and Michael B. Jordan

When I woke up, I forgot today was Mother’s Day. I had one year—when my child was still alive—that this holiday was a truly “happy” one for me. I wish people would expand their vocabulary for holiday greetings on days like this.

“The notion that I or any of my colleagues ‘body slammed’ armed federal officers is absurd. DHS is lying because they know their agents were out of line.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

I hope this shows Hollywood that strong, complex stories centered on Black and other people of color’s lives is what we want and need, now more than ever

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Imagine being a cadet at West Point now--some of the most elite future officers in the world--and being told you can't read an American Nobelist, Toni Morrison, even as the government you're to serve decides that the only refugees it'll permit--indeed, seek--are white Afrikaners.

I frickin’ love her. Gonna play this clip every time I get depressed abt the world

Delroy Lindo is one of the most underrated actors ever. He *made* this movie as much as Michael B. Jordan did.

All the Target money going to Sinners >>>

What you need to know about Trump’s Non-Citizen Registration (a thread, sourced via @the-ilrc.bsky.social). #ImmigrantJustice #TrumpRegistration #Inmigrantes

Why is he still in this high power position? Fire him now!

My new Genre Grapevine report focuses on tech bros trying to change intellectual property (IP) laws so they can keep stealing copyright works to train generative AI models. I also believe they want to rebrand how we see creativity itself to fit their needs. www.patreon.com/posts/127367...

The market manipulation is so flagrant

The boy who cried wolf keeps coming to mind these days. It didn’t end well for the sheep, from what I remember. But I had not heard of this alternate ending. Hmmm…

He's the only Pope I could see myself sitting and having coffee with. He was an example of frugality and humility at a time when the world has become so materialistic that we're literally choking our seas with our castoffs. RIP Pope Francis.

Be a Pope Francis. RIP.

Watching The Floor for the first time. I feel like I should be on this show. 😊 📖💡