Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

Here's an idea: paid political tumult leave

No no — tyranny is when you have to have health insurance, not when I send a rogue paramilitary force into your city to gas protesters

he went from a federal prisoner to a federal agent in less than a year!

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

Here's an idea, constrain the executive *before* they do something crazy. Congress was Article I for a reason

This is why you can't afford RAM anymore

How long must the liberty and prosperity of nations be beholden to the psychosexual tantrums of insecure perverts?

Washington prevails in case protecting more than $1 billion in transportation grant funding as Trump administration drops appeal https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/washington-prevails-case-protecting-more-1-billion-transportation-grant-funding

Starting to suspect that these chucklefucks are planning a new horrid legal immigration thing every two weeks just because

Deleted these two posts because we now have confirmation from the State Department that this suspension is limited ONLY to immigrant visas — visas which let someone enter the United States with permanent residence status and on a path to a green card. There is NOT a suspension on nonimmigrant visas.

A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.

this, driving a person to suicide because they had the temerity to want to work in public service, is what russ vought hoped to accomplish

"[A]n ICE agent liv[ing] in that complex ... went inside, put on his tactical gear, came back outside and shot Keith Porter dead in front of his own home on New Year's Eve."

I window shopped at a bookstore for titles that jumped out at me, and then checked the books out from the library and read them. For free! It feels like you're downloading a book but it's legal, encouraged even. Have you heard about this?

Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump screaming "fuck you" in a Ford plant at someone calling him a "pedophile protector," presidential norms have been challenged in the 21st century

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

220,000 federal workers made jobless by the Trump admin. This doesn't include forced retirements, resignations, and non-renewals This was not about "waste, fraud, and abuse". It was about ransacking the people's government to fund tax breaks for billionaires www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. . . It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder & Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder, & I could not move." — Claudette Colvin Claudette Colvin ¡Presente! has died at age 86. 💔

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

new bluesky slogan dropped

There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter

A few months ago, ICE hired me I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!" My latest for Slate

I was mad earlier today bc I was like “damn, dropping a crypto coin is so EXPECTED” and I was hoping for something with more pizzazz from mr eric adams. Well, looks like I have egg on my face bc he did an evil speed run.

I didn't grow up next to one (Duwamish was the closest) but maybe Carkeek Creek, since we live in the watershed?

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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Kitchen table issue! This is how you do that messaging more effectively.

crazy / but that's how it goes / millions of people / are scaring the hoes

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

"the slave catchers are different from the immigrant snatchers" ahh rhetoric

NEW: State of MN, Minneapolis & St. Paul have filed a federal lawsuit to halt a federal government "invasion" by ICE agents, arguing the deployment amounts to a constitutional violation and a direct threat to public safety.

it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training. it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf

I mean, Bill Fucking Kristol is saying "Abolish ICE." It's not a "far left" view at this point.

living in a world where the only two jobs are “gambling” and “murder” isn’t nearly as cool as Cowboy Bebop made it out to be

in practice, it's important to look at who is trotting out talking points about the need for better training to understand whether they're trying to build the political will for something more radical or (as is the case here) looking for a way to defuse activist energy and dodge the issue entirely

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be reborn. Now is the time of Will Stancils.

With great power (being unbelievably annoying), comes great responsibility (logging off and bothering fascists)

I'm so glad that everyone gets to have and share opinions on how we rhetorically frame the problems with interior immigration enforcement, she said, gritting her teeth

America is now at the heavily armed secret police doing warrantless door-to-door house raids in search of undesirable ethnicities and/or political dissenters stage. The difference from well known historical cases is down to scale.

the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor he’s the kind of guy they get training from the whole institution is rotten, throw it out

The existence of Matt Ryan, President of Football for the Atlanta Falcons, implies the existence of other presidents of things other than football for the Atlanta Falcons, a football team.

The animating force at the heart of US conservatism currently is incandescent rage at the mere idea of women's autonomy and independence. An image of a smiling woman who looks insufficiently deferential for their tastes riles them up enough to tear up the social contract.

sometimes The Good Lord grants you the honor of showing you how you fucked up. it is important to not take this as an attack but as a blessing

so pretty soon ice will have deployed every officer they have to minneapolis and the thing to do then is cut a huge hole in the ice in a big lake and have bugs bunny dress up like a lady and stand behind talking all "help help rescue me from all the foreigners!"

[transition glasses fade to black]

Um … so it’s Gender all the way down, is it?