This is very, very good.

“ICE agents’ tactics often seem to be modeled off what they’ve seen in movies or imbibed via TV shows or video games...ICE agents aren’t moving with a tactical focus; they’re doing what they think will look cool and intimidating in photographs.”

school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history

Forced face scanning of a U.S. citizen with zero cause, just bald racial profiling. This is tech fascism.

This photo by Mostafa Bassim shows an ICE agent scanning someone's face with a mobile app, quite possibly Mobile Fortify as first reported by @404media.co. This is the first image I've seen of the app's UI in action. If you look closely, you can also see an interesting wristband on the agent.

"Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car" "His wife, Destiny Jackson, told FOX 9 their 6-month-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness. She then performed CPR on her baby."

Here's what it looks like if you put all the ICE shootings I know of from the last year on a map. For no particular reason other than that it was just handy, I used the 2024 Presidential election map.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Believe it or not, it was once very unusual to see videos of people getting killed. Now we're all going frame by frame. Take care of your brains folks. You can't make this murder right by replaying it.

I know one day most of us will be looking at this time in the rearview mirror, but right now I’m looking down the barrel of three years that each promise to be worse than the last, after the shit-ass year we’ve just had, and I just have a hard time even understanding what that looks like.

Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”

ICE orphaned a 6 year old boy www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

Cat Follows Man Through Apartment Like Racist Walgreens Employee — theonion.com/cat-follows-...

The only response to this non-sense is posting cat photos.

“No one will be mocking the CDs I’m still holding onto when the internet goes dark forever and the only way to listen to music is through boom boxes we trade canned goods for."

I’m sure it’s fine that we’re all trapped in one old guy’s dying mind

I made these cinnamon rolls from scratch this morning and they were very pleasing and delicious on a Sunday morning.

One of the cool things I found out after researching our 1925 house is that it was built from a Sears Honor-Built Home Kit: “The Wayne.” The description reads: "One looking at the exterior of this house is impressed with its stability.” Ha! I guess that’s like me. Predictable and stable.

I’m posting some things that I’ve bought lately from small companies in the US that I’ve loved. Starting with the Less Litter Box, which is a massive stainless steel round litter box. If you have multiple cats or a big honker of a cat, this is worth the money if you have space. lesslitterbox.com

It really is very stressful to be living through an era of escalating mass deceit and mass delusion.

I started watching this show about a mother/daughter team who are building the last house plan design by Frank Lloyd Wright. Can’t wait to see the remaining episodes www.jsonline.com/story/entert...

ok sure fuck it why not

One of my favorite cat rescues Brooklyn Animal Action has had to pause intake because they’re low on funds. They do such selfless work and rescued my Logan from a parking lot in Kensington. brooklynanimalaction.org/donate/?mc_c...

Yesterday, we released a new report showing just how pervasive online scams have become. Almost 3/4 of adults say the've experienced at least one kind of scam and 79% say it's a major problem!

These are my favorite images from the week.

Ari Aster on the last 5 years in the US: “We're living in a world now where everybody is living in a different reality. Nobody can agree on what is happening. I think people have lost the dimensions of the bigger world outside of themselves.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I cancelled my Paramount+ subscription and have used the funds to increase my PBS monthly donation: www.njpbs.org/support/cont...

Completely relaxed in the most awkward position. #cats

Study: Majority Of Billionaires Consider Selves  Middle Class

Uno says it’s Friday. I believe him.

just got a CEO email predicting a 20% decline in our Medicaid revenue to start

Fast moving storms over EWR. Sorry for the holiday delays.

From my rep @replamonica.bsky.social: the bill "is cutting $360 million from NJ’s state healthcare budget ALONE, leaving 360,000 eligible residents at risk of losing care. Again, that’s JUST New Jersey.” This going to be catastrophic to our healthcare system. It will affect everyone in the US.

I just finished reading I Cheerfully Refuse, and it was spectacular. An epic Lake Superior tale set in a near-future dystopian America that feels just around the corner www.leifenger.com/i-cheerfully...

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

NEW: NJ TRANSIT moves 720,000 people every weekday. We know it's important for the state — and now we've quantified its worth. RPA's latest report, The Value of NJ TRANSIT, looks at the real, measurable value of NJ TRANSIT for the state of NJ A 🧵⬇️ rpa.org/work/reports...

I'm increasingly worried that we're spiraling into an AI-fueled mental health crisis -- tons of evidence coming out that AI is picking up on signs of psychosis/delusion in users and ENCOURAGING it futurism.com/chatgpt-ment...

If our attention stays trapped in 3–5 billionaire-run platforms, democracy suffers. Bluesky is built by all of us—for all of us. It won't happen overnight, but we're building a freer internet where you have a voice and get to choose your experience.

- www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is magnificent and sad and beautiful. It’s not newsy or a joke, it’s just one of the best things I’ve read in a while and I implore you to read it

“Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase...There is no utopian vision in any of this. The people who are advancing this agenda are also building their luxury bunkers and their spaceships to Mars.” @naomiaklein.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Jaw dropping. United Airlines Cancels Newark Flights After FAA Staff Walks Out

Great interview with Adam Scott in @pitchfork.com on the "Music That Made Him" but I didn't see a playlist so I put one together. Pick your flavor. Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/6jE... Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... pitchfork.com/features/5-1...

Gotta say, Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly is killing it out there—clear, resolute, well informed, not giving an inch. Politicians who wanna look like actual tough guys and not insecure macho tantrum babies could take a few notes youtu.be/z3rIlAITjXk?...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

The result? A fragmented public consciousness where competing realities coexist, each self-reinforcing and resistant to correction. When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative - no matter how detached from reality it is.