And if birthright citizenship is revoked, a birth certificate will not suffice as proof either. The goal is for citizenship to be relegated to the arbitrary discretion of the president, with no way to challenge that discretion.

As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.

Great & smart that we live in a country where we require vaccines for dogs & not for people.

This week had more new measles cases than sales of “American Canto”. Hope the media is proud.

Your ring camera is helping ICE deport people. Think about that.

I’m a strong skeptic when it comes to data. I try to stay away from purchasing goods that connect to the internet. Amazon is selling your Ring data to Flock which is deeply involved in surveillance of immigrants, women seeking abortions. Flock shares this data with 🚔 techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a...

“several tech companies were accused of profiting from crimes including illegal occupation, apartheid and genocide in occupied Palestine…The report referenced AI systems that were developed by the Israeli military to process and generate targets during the war on Gaza.”

“This is an agency that demonizes immigrants who have committed no crimes yet it fails to police its own ranks. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, & the threat to public safety is clear.” This ⤵️ is who is behind the mask, grabbing people off the street. www.citybeat.com/news/cincinn...

Exhibit 430 — Dems hand Trump $901 billion in military funding bsky.app/profile/step...

Folks, the Dem establishment must be culled. They aren't your fighters. They don't care about you. They will not champion reform. Here's Exhibit 429 prospect.org/2025/12/12/d...

Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a U.S. citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.

The government has decided, with no basis other than feeding its new tech, that our biometrics are only IDs that count.

What is the legal authority for ICE to say that valid IDs and passports are not sufficient vectors of identification and that they are allowed only to rely on databases that they have created with out any legal authority? This decision, my friends, seems to be a major question left to Congress?

AI industry lobbyists rubbed shoulders with 2028 hopefuls at the Democratic Governors Association holiday meeting. Big Tech is pushing hard to ban states from regulating AI, like the 100 AI safety laws passed this year.

If I were traveling to a country with a government unbound by laws and carelessly vindictive, and they asked me for iris scans, fingerprints, selfies, and access to 5 years of all social media posts (which means made public if they’re currently set to private) I would not travel there.

If you are arguing for more surveillance to enforce safety, especially now, you are a fool.

This is your reminder that nothing human-made is inevitable and you hereby have all the permission you need to reject bad/harmful social, technological, and political paradigms and to work toward something better.

Real ID proves legal immigration status in the U.S. but Border Patrol dismisses Real ID because people who aren’t citizens can also get them. Green card holders, DACA recipients and asylum seekers with Temporary Protected Status can get Real ID. Trump is trying to purge the country of those folks.

It's an unpopular opinion but I don't think it's good to live in a society where men can grab you off the street and there's literally nothing you can do about it Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

Minneapolis residents have noticed a new strategy in the ongoing ICE operation in the Twin Cities this week: helicopters flying overhead.

ICE agents arrest Latino father driving his kids in Richfield More: https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/ice-agents-arrest-latino-father-driving-his-kids-in-richfield

Brutal but effective public health messaging from New York Public Health. The CDC is compromised. They’re no longer a reliable source of information. They push anti-vaxx & anti-science grift. Get your vaccines. Wear a respirator. Clean the air Get public health advice from experts, not RFK Jr

“Some of them are very sadistic. Some of them are just in it for the love of the game because they think that they are doing the Lord’s work and that every single person they detain … is some violent criminal. ... That couldn’t be farther from the truth.” talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

FFS, just go ahead and ban ALL the best people, why don't you.

My dog's reaction whenever the cat starts licking or snuggling him is this combination of euphoric "oh my god my friend is here and he loves me!" and anxious "I must remain perfectly still or else my friend might decide to try to murder me."

Dangerously cold wind chills sweeping Minnesota, sparking frostbite warning. More: https://ow.ly/Vtfv50XIMfl

“VA plans to abruptly eliminate as many as 35,000 health care positions this month, mostly unfilled jobs incl doctors, nurses, support staff” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

House members who voted for the $901 billion military bill received four times as much money from military contractors as those who opposed it. www.stephensemler.com/p/congress-i...

Their net 5-year profit under this model is -$496.68 billion. That'd make OpenAI the losingest company in history, eclipsing AOL Time Warner's record of $143 billion in 2002, not for its single-year loss, but for its ability to burn $100 billion+ 3 years running. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I love this rant, Pookle. For what it's worth, this is the best estimate of OpenAI's "informed business-as-usual" financial futures. OpenAI is expected to pay out $30 billion on revenues of $13 billion in 2025. They're set to lose $2.42 for every $1.00 they earn. www.ft.com/content/23e5...

"Trump admin issued notice of default to the group that manages DC’s 3 municipal golf courses, escalating struggle over who will control some of District’s most visible public land & effectively positioning the pres to operate its public golf properties" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

"The spotlight is on Oracle, but the market move underscores a broader shift in how tech giants are perceived: from huge cash generators to companies making enormous AI bets using debt."

"US tech stocks slumped on Friday as a sharp decline in Broadcom’s shares following the chipmaker’s earnings reignited investors’ nervousness about high valuations in companies linked to the artificial intelligence boom."

The Department of Labor held its first-ever prayer service for its employees this week, in a highly unusual move that mirrors an initiative at the Pentagon. The service included a speech by Yaakov Menken, a right-wing orthodox Jewish rabbi, according to a Department of Labor employee.

This is what David Ellison paid for:

COLD MORNING 🥶

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

White House Refuses to Rule Out Summary Executions of People on Its Secret Domestic Terrorist List The Trump administration ignored questions about whether it would order the killings of those on its NSPM-7 list — even while answering our other queries. theintercept.com/2025/12/12/t...

The new DOJ memo for implementing NSPM-7 calls for bounties and a network of informants: “FBI shall establish a cash reward system for information... [and] establish cooperators to provide information and eventually testify against other members and leadership of domestic terrorist organizations.”

"But the last time the economy saw so much wealth tied up in such obscure overlapping arrangements was just before the 2008 financial crisis. If the AI revolution fails to materialize on the scale or the timeline that the industry expects, the economic consequences could be very ugly indeed."

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

I have been murmuring from months of about the abuse of the Infrostructure—government-provided information—who is giving ICE this information? Under what legal authority?

SCOOP: The Trump administration is providing the names of all travelers passing through U.S. airports to immigration officials in search of people with deportation orders, a substantial expansion of government efforts to draw on data to hunt down immigrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Grandpa loves to play dress up! Today he's a cowboy! You've never seen someone who more needs to be in a home.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed seven straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

A U.S. federal judge in Washington was appointed on Friday to oversee at least five lawsuits accusing major class action settlement administrators of running a kickback scheme with banks that distribute settlement funds.

In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.