tired: abolish ICE wired: abolish DHS inspire: repeal the patriot act

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm. The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now! Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows. FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

ICE's lies keep piling up. ICE: 10 cars rammed ICE Video shows: No cars rammed ICE ICE: She boxed ICE in Video: ICE boxed her in ICE: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle ICE: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired There should be some punishment for this firehose of lies.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

Kat Abughazaleh: I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague... It is not normal to have masked men repel down from helicopters into apartment buildings, to arrest families in the middle of the night.

would love to hear more congressional democrats say "should we win power next year we are going to treat every one of these as bribes and act accordingly" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

ok selfishly, one more good chatgpt thing: www.cnbc.com/2025/09/29/c...

79. American citizen.

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

No, because people who actually know how polling and persuasion work will not give satisfactory answers. They will say “it’s complicated” and “polls are limited tools” and “we can’t predict the future,” while consultants get hired by promising political miracle cures with a high degree of certainty.

I am converted on ChatGPT. If its only utility is explaining regex to me, it will still have been worth it.

You guys do yourself a favor and look at what Eric Adams wore to Rosh Hashanah services at the Sephardic Lebanese Congregation

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Chris Van Hollen. The Senator with tenacity and determination who had the guts to go down to CECOT and see Kilmar Abregu.

@theverge.com please tell Jake that while I enjoy the lightning round more than the thunder round, I hate his weekly meta commentary on the differences commensurately more than I care about any differences between the formats.

Okay it should be a much bigger deal that they reduced their projections for selling agents by $26bn, and no, the reason isn't "they'll build them into ChatGPT," it's because they don't god damn work. Sam Altman said this was the year that agents would change the workforce! Nasty!

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

#ZcavengerHunt location #1. Literally thousands of people lined up around Union Square. #CuomoCouldNever

Your first clue.

Maybe they could review this list of indicia, from Rick Perlstein:

I'm confused. Was the murder of 6 million Jewish people not a genocide because it went on too long or not all of them were eliminated? That seems to be the implication of your statement.

It took Germany 7 years to wipe out 95% of Polish Jews. Are you telling us that WW2 Germany didn't have the capability to do that much quicker? And that genocide started with 2 years of ghettoizing and blockading those homes where they "only" killed 7k Polish Jews. So nothing to see here, right?

NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.

i’m hardly sympathetic to bolton but we gotta call this what it is bsky.app/profile/adam...

the times objectively thinks bribery by the staff of the current mayor is less urgently newsworthy than the admissions application for a mayoral candidate to a college he didn't get into.

I know Nilay always says he was a terrible lawyer, but I need someone with a JD back on the Vergecast asap

Gilbert Gottfried reincarnated into the guy yelling two seats down the bar from me in Astoria tonight

If you pull into the crosswalk on a red light but then take five seconds to realize the light has turned green, I think you should lose the right to honk ever again (and also your license).

We mustn’t forget the atrocities going on in Sudan.

One of the ironies of Musk's Twitter crushing - as well as the death of new media like BuzzFeed - is that there is basically no ecosystem any more for nonsense woke overreaction to stuff. Which means the right now has to invent it to react against

You're so close

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

From a report today on @npr.org: People held at Alligator Auschwitz have no legal path out. ICE says they're held on state charges, so Federal immigration judges can't hear cases for bond or anything else. The state hasn't charged them, so state judges can't hear the case because there's no case. 1/

Everything about this story is horrific: 1. The student never mentions Jews 2. The university is going to expel a student for criticizing a country over genocide 3. A Republican congressman is taking credit and implying the student is a Muslim terrorist 4. The U.S. Justice Department is involved

Zohran didn't win by relying on standard turnout patterns. We had to fundamentally transform the Democratic electorate. I was part of a group of NYC-DSA members that applied lessons from our previous campaigns to design the “universe” of voters to talk to. Here's how we won 🧵

NEW: We interviewed nine Venezuelan men who were sent to CECOT by the Trump administration. Some said their feelings about what happened were still raw. All of the men said they were abused physically and mentally during their imprisonment.

Israel killed World Central Kitchen workers in April 2024. APRIL 2024! Politicians issuing statements now as Palestinians are on the brink of mass death feels hollow and also like a terrifying confirmation of horror. Air drops are pitiful. Borders need to be open significant lifesaving aid.

"Can we ever trust an AI lawyer?", a question that could only be asked on Decoder when @reckless.bsky.social is on parental leave, or the pod would just be "lol no".

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

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Hey, since it seems more people are coming to the realization that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, here are a few things I wrote at the start that you might try reading with fresh eyes. From October 11, 2023: theracket.news/p/the-iron-w...

@theverge.com The Thunder Round on the Vergecast is fine, but just sharing the perhaps parasocial feedback that I'm here for the hosts vibing/riffing as much as I'm here for news, and don't mind a 90 minute episode.

This is an absolutely horrific read. Reminder: the dateline on this story is within the Gaza Strip. Per a recent joint statement from AP, AFP, Reuters and BBC, their own journalists — e.g., possibly at least one writing this story — are also facing potential starvation. apnews.com/article/gaza...