Palate cleanser--NYC underground Hip Hop version.

Local cops now have access to sophisticated spy tech. Learn more about cell-site simulators, automated license plate readers, drones, and more at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance project. www.eff.org/sls

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Here's another shot I took last week on my final Milky Way trip of the season. I still have tons of MW stuff to edit and/or re-edit from my 14 trips to the desert this year but I'm already looking forward to next season! #photography

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

"[C]onfirmation from the US Coast Guard that its base in Alameda [..] is preparing to host 100 federal agents." "'[A] likely precursor' to [..] deploying National Guard troops to San Francisco." "[D]ue to start arriving [..] on Thursday." #California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

If you’re driving around in unmarked cars, wearing masks, and kidnapping people, you’re not one of the good guys.

I just saw a video that said cutting SNAP would lower food prices because it would cut demand. I'm starting to think that Econ 101 either needs to be drastically overhauled or that you cannot take it unless you commit to taking four econ courses one heavily focused on externalities and elasticity.

Allowing the genocide of Palestinians didn't work out for the United States.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

It’s a measure of how heinously criminal this administration is that the routine, jaw-droppingly overt corruption has come to feel like the B-story.

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

Updating my LEGO White House

Remember when the capitalist media was amplifying stories about shoplifting to derail conversations about abuses by law enforcement?

The popularity of a Graham Platner (or a John Fetterman, for that matter) underscores the uncomfy truth that Dems have their own dog whistles that many will happily use and amplify. But people don’t want to have that conversation…

ICE are criminals. They are enemies of the US Constitution. Therefore, ICE are enemies of the United States. May justice be served on these traitors.

This is Idaho 💙

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Donald Trump's effort to deploy troops in American cities is not normal. There is no rational justification for such a deployment. It is a breach of the most fundamental values and customs that our armed forces operate on.

📣 Reporters covering #NoKings protests in Chicago over the weekend may want to print this latest temporary restraining order that prohibits federal agents from using excessive force against journalists and peaceful protesters. 🖨️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

there were people saying this is where everything was headed way back in 2020 and they were scoffed at and ignored and sidelined by the dem party. and if you ask me, maybe the people who did the scoffing should be less influential in the party going forward. just imo

ICE & CBP are criminal organizations at war with the US Constitution.

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

This administration isn’t just laying waste to the vestiges of democracy in America. Trump’s policies are tanking the economy, too. Part 3 of…who knows?

I am less offended at the money to Argentina to bail out their terrible, corrupt government than by the fact that there’s no public argument about sending money to Argentina, the pros and cons of it, and what exactly it’s supposed to do for US interests. Congress exists for a goddamn reason!

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

I can also confirm that many white people care more about harm to dogs than harm to Black/brown people, so this is not a bad way to draw them in to the evils being done by this regime.

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

Why the loss of this species shines light on the global extinction crisis.

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

"Despite these war crimes carried out daily and in plain view, the United States has provided more than $22 billion for Israel's military operations since this war began," says Sanders. "In other words, American taxpayer dollars starve children, bomb schools, and kill civilians.“ - Bernie Sanders

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act. I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

While politicians and judges debate the legality of Texas National Guard troops’ presence in Illinois, columnists and creators are debating a really cool and super low-key question: “Are we in a civil war?” thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/13/t...

"[I]t is company policy in many newsrooms to devalue Palestinian stories and to prop up Israeli military narratives. Over the last two years, memos have leaked from media organizations revealing... internal policies for covering the genocide—notably, by banning reporters from calling it a genocide."

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Khan Yunis, #Gaza. When Germany did less than this to Warsaw, it led to the Nuremberg trials. #FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

The latest unarmed flotilla mission intercepted by the Israeli Navy may have played a bigger role in compelling the peace plan than most observers realize. It confronted Israeli belligerence, which prompted a crucial international reaction whose impacts remain largely unobserved.

"Trump reportedly assured Hamas negotiators that he would guarantee that Israel would not resume the genocide after the first [ceasefire] phase ... Israel has a long history of breaking ceasefire agreements, and Trump did not hold Israel accountable when it broke its earlier ceasefire agreement."

ICE agents shooting an unarmed priest feels like a metaphor.

"Yes, an immediate deal that ends Israel's genocidal violence and mass starvation of Palestinians is critical." "But Trump's longer-term vision for Gaza must be defeated." "It's the moment for us to demand more." #USA #WestBank #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike. For many of them, it’s becoming nearly impossible to ignore the sense that the incentives of profit and control are the prime reason behind too many changes.

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"María Corina Machado is a longtime U.S. ally, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize last year by a number of Florida Republicans, including then-Senator Marco Rubio ... In 2002, Machado supported the coup that briefly overthrew Venezuela's democratically elected President Hugo Chávez."