It’s common to see someone react to an action by a big company, rich person, or public official with ‘how is this not illegal,’ presuming that if it were, the thing wouldn’t happen. But that isn’t how law works.

Big Tech is huge in immigration policing and detention.

I think also it’s inconvenient that Democrats in office have been empowering Big Tech for decades and many are still chasing their support.

How extreme is Jim O’Neill, Deputy Health Secretary who just froze federal childcare funding to every state based on a viral video? As a leader of the Seasteading Institute, he praised selling human organs on the free market b/c “There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused” 1/2

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

BREAKING: Democrat Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor of New York City, taking the oath of office at an historic subway station in Manhattan.

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is officially mayor of New York City

Happy new year friends, keep fighting the fascists and loving our neighbors

To which the interviewer replies:

“This year, the belt tightening turned to the Sun-Times, with buyouts that culled 20% of the news staff, including senior editors, high-profile columnists and most of the editorial board.” chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/12...

“Gov Landry said in a post on X that it was an honour to serve in a ‘volunteer position to make Greenland a part of the US’.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

if I were elected mayor of a city I too would insist that every ceremony took place in an abandoned tunnel or secret passage of some kind

Australia will start a gun buyback program to take surplus, newly-banned and illegal firearms off the street, following the terror attack in Bondi Beach which left 15 people dead

regular US policing.

It’s day 25 of the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities. The surge continues. Neighbors were kidnapped today outside grocery stores and going about their regular errands. We continue to see heavy ICE activity throughout the metro area. Stay alert - we know many kidnappings happen very fast.

My mom has phone records that can demonstrate his time of initial detention to hopefully straighten this out. But from what it looks like, they tried to arrest an LPR, went after his buddy instead, and then got into an accident and are now implicating the guy they already got into a shooting…

“‘They will lie constantly, like you saw in the Chicago courts. They will not think twice about doing it, and nobody will hold them accountable.’” chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

“In a world filled with violence, and in that same world where our government is itself a violent actor, we are required to come up with solutions that don’t endanger members of our communities.“ pvdeye.org/goldman-rv/

A coalition of 19 states and DC have filed a lawsuit challenging the Kennedy declaration seeking to ban gender affirming care for trans youth by fiat by creating a federal "standard of care" based on pure pseudoscience. ag.ny.gov/press-releas...

“As with so many of the mass shootings that afflict our country, there is no good reason why this happened. There is no explanation that will bring closure. There is no way to make this right.” — @phileil.bsky.social pvdeye.org/grappling-wi...

Powerful opinion piece in @ms.now by @phileil.bsky.social. "Using our tragedy to demonize immigrants doesn’t help us heal. It deepens our wounds. And it can only serve to erode what makes this city so special." www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Interesting 180° difference in how the Illinois AG handles wage theft versus, say, “organized retail theft,” which includes a multi-agency “task force,” $5 million per year to cops for spy tools, a PR machine, & tons of low-level arrests for property crimes, while biz owners stiff workers & walk.

We observed lawyers from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office who showed up to wage theft court hearings unprepared. Since 1993, more than 300 cases were initially dismissed because no one from the Attorney General’s Office showed up at all. (with @crainschicago.bsky.social) buff.ly/WJHXcax

I’d just add that several US citizens detained by the feds during protests—people never charged with a crime—also had dna samples collected and presumably catalogued. For what purpose, idk.

We need an intense propaganda campaign just like....telling people what government spending does & how it benefits them, to undo the decades of the right brainwashing people that it's all fucking waste

PG&E is having a massive outage in San Francisco. Waymo robots aren't handling the traffic light outages well. Cell service is also out is some places. No surprise as Waymo robots & cell have repeatedly failed during power outages. CPUC regulates both Waymo and PG&E (Profit Greed & Explosions).

It is wild how there was a mass shooting at one of the top schools in the United States and everyone just assumes nothing is going to happen.

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.

"Nenko Gantchev, 56, lived in Chicago for 30 years, died Monday at North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin, Michigan"

Cool, cool. They’re counting on getting from people who couldn’t afford to pay the bills/fees/fines in the first place. Sic the collections vultures on people. All because these corrupt pricks don’t want to raise taxes on rich assholes and corporations.

These 29 Corporate Caucus alders approved: - $35 million in revenue from advertising on city light poles, the downtown bridges - instead of the Head Tax, selling debt people owe for red cameras, utility bills, etc. to collection agencies - removed the cap & oversight on police overtime spending

Brilliant MIT professor pioneering fusion research was an immigrant from Portugal So reaction of Trump admin is to further shut down immigration to make sure same mistake of recruiting brilliant researchers to our country doesn't happen again www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

I need emergency preparedness people to grapple w/ the reality of our Rx drug system, where “having extra on hand” is damn near impossible w/ most insurance plans. I have ONE allergy pill left & am only able to pick up my Rx today, due to insurance (can’t reorder early!) and pharmacy supply chain.

We can do even more.

In the United States, the people who love guns more than humans are trying to finagle the law so that "forced reset triggers" (which provide, essentially, a 'machine gun' rate of fire) will be allowed. Australia is moving to tighten gun control.

More questions from another community member—commissioners can't actually respond to any of the questions—about whether this proposal would limit the feds from expanding their operation or enable it.

“Within the current dataset, there was an overwhelming number of shooters who had easy access to firearms (86%), which is not surprising given the relaxed regulations on gun acquisition in the United States” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/17/m...

WCVB - Police have identified a person they believe is connected to the mass shooting at Brown University and the killing of an MIT professor in Brookline earlier this week. www.wcvb.com/article/mit-...

By 2011 Epstein had already: -registered as a sex offender -plead guilty to solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18 -settled multiple civil lawsuits brought against him by victims www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

MTG's bill passing the house is an escalation. Just introducing it was an escalation. And we have seen constant escalation for years. Whether or not this bill dies in the senate, there is zero reason to believe that next year will be better than this.

White men—30% of US population!!—are CEOs at 72% of Fortune 500 companies, direct 83% of the movies made in the US, serve as 70% of US Senators, & on & on. Their representation in key industries is at least double what their share of the pop predicts but it’s still not enough for them!

On Monday, ICE agents violently restrained a woman in Minneapolis, dragging her in the snow and pinning her face down as onlookers shouted the woman was pregnant. In response, one agent fired a taser into the crowd. “Who wants more?” he taunted, according to a WCCO reporter. trib.al/vdWc3qj

Paul Vallas has added another L to his ever growing collection of L’s. This is the lawsuit where Vallas paid China Enyia ~$700,000 that Vallas claimed was unauthorized after he lost, and his campaign checks to workers started bouncing.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms. 3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers. 4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against. It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power. Story to come.

Is it really an "immigration crackdown" when they're targeting citizens?

video streamed to facebook shows multiple chicago police cars ostensibly block community members + rapid responders from following a caravan of roughly 10 border patrol suvs, including one carrying greg bovino. before this, the streamer followed agents from i-55 all the way up lsd to edgewater.