Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

“They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation,” said one attorney. Superb, deeply reported story, via @charpentier.bsky.social

Right now, Democrats have the power to defund and abolish ICE. We should do it. This is about right and wrong—and the murder we are seeing on the streets is just plain wrong. Anyone who supports funding DHS and ICE is supporting the murder of Americans. We can stop this.

Congressional Budget Office: “Federal troop deployments to US cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month.” www.cbo.gov/publication/...

This Saturday! Boston rides for ALEX PRETTI! Meet at Copley Square at 2:00pm.

Reaching, reaching, reaching

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...

This is perfect. The DOJ's embarrassing snafu with disappearing redactions was the fault of Elon Musk. Musk cancelled government subscriptions to Adobe programs that would have made the redactions permanent. What a pack of fools.

MVDP on the front row after two races. Night night!

Back in the wood shop for the he first time in almost a year and goddamn I can’t even make a picture frame without fucking up 5 times in a row

Dreamed I got Dot brake fluid in my mouth last night

Massdot got excited for these snow “squalls.” The amount of salt on a dry I93 right now is patently absurd

On my way back from the first Modern Adventure Pro Cycling team camp and I gotta say I am impressed

The true journalism scandal is a pathological liar can’t ask for better propaganda than a headline that’s just what he said as if it’s true and the entirety of the story is just his quote with zero context or explanation or skepticism, all published under the name of an established news brand

Your friendly reminder that Salvation Army is extremely homophobic. Also they brought a truck into Chicago to feed ICE agents to give them the energy to shoot more priests in the faces with paintballs. Many more worthy charities out there.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Waiting patiently for the moment when various important peoples direct connection to Epstein becomes undeniable and all of a sudden the new narrative is “oh what Epstein did wasn’t THAT bad.” Maybe it’s already happened tho

Fact-Checking Claims About Zohran Mamdani https://theonion.com/fact-checking-claims-about-zohran-mamdani/

You know what makes it really obvious your society is fucked? The only thing behind lock and key at the grocery store is baby formula

Man a night of SOME good news finally after an entire year of feeling like we’re in a slowly crashing plane hits different

Update to windy mtb forest ride: the trees all do a good job together of hiding the majority of the woods from the wind but I did find one 4” branch that had fallen firmly wedged several inches into the dirt trail so there’s that

Hmmm how stupid is it to go mountain bike in the woods during a high wind warning?

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/

For the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @josephcox.bsky.social about the administration’s new-found love of content moderation as the DOJ has been pressuring Apple, Google, and Meta to remove apps and groups decided to helping people document ICE activity:

After enough time, riding a bike on the road will radicalize anyone to some key aspects of US culture

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

They’re lying because they want you to support them cutting your healthcare, and they want you to blame immigrants. - undocumented immigrants aren’t eligible for Medicaid or the ACA - 700 rural hospitals will close - Health insurance premiums will double, or more - 15 million will lose coverage

“Classic vehicle”

Thoughts on epic vs epic evo for general New England riding and maybe some racing? Cc @latimeriidae.bsky.social

“Now that President Donald Trump is perverting the Justice Department into an instrument of political persecution, jury nullification may be one of the only mechanisms that everyday Americans have to protect the rule of law,” Adam Serwer argues:

Pog just doing a training ride interval tearing the race apart on that 17% ramp at the end of Mt Kigali. Making remco look silly, even if he did have a slow leak “Call an ambulance, but not for me” etc etc

Philly is back! Hopefully! escapecollective.com/dailynews/#t...

Who’s he gonna fire now for these numbers?

I think there is literally no better way to peacefully protest than disrupting entertainment being broadcast live to millions of people...

There is a tongue-in-cheek unit of volume called the Hubble-barn, equal to the volume of a cylinder with cross-sectional area of one barn (100 fm^2 - about the size of a uranium nucleus) and height of one Hubble length (14.4 billion light years). It works out to three and a half gallons.

The weirdest thing about Trump deploying the National Guard to the Nation's Capital is that he still hasn't released the Epstein files despite campaigning on that pledge, probably because he's directly complicit in a massive sex trafficking operation that targeted children.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Why are we supposed to care about Leadville?

Heavy show this week @onthemedia.bsky.social: - Adel Al Salman, AFP editor, describes works with starving photojournalists documenting starvation - Diana Buttu, human rights lawyer, shares a heart-wrenching story about a 12-year-old Gazan - Oren Persico skewers the Israeli media

Old man still cute wit it

Hey, the common loon called. Yeah, it was hauntingly beautiful

As a matter of practice you should always expect to make two trips to the RMV to get one thing done. Holy fuck!

You get back in the grave this INSTANT it’s 95 degrees out here

Excuse me it is JULY

I truly intended this just as an email and not a public thing but fuck it we ball. The New York Times is not alone in its culpability but it is deeply culpable and its near-monopoly status in our blighted American media ecosystem allows it to do what it does.