BREAKING: Fire and smoke rise from inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait after an Iranian attack. Video obtained by The Associated Press showed the smoke with an alarm wailing.

Iran's what

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data" This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

ICE Contracts (17 MB) Details on ICE contracts with over 6,000 different entities. Some of the notable firms include Anduril, HBGary, L3Harris, Microsoft, Oracle, Palantir and Raytheon. ddosecrets.org/article/ice-... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.com/ddosecrets

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DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org! Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

"My opponent did a good thing but he didn't need me to do it" is strategically stupid and morally vacuous

"XYZ was a brutal dictator. The world is better off without him but I have some mild process-based critiques of how it was done" The strategy of triangulation, made famous by the Girondins in 1792, perfected by the Democratic party after 9/11, both end up with the triangulators on the guillotine.

lmao people worrying about an apple watch in a SCIF when these guys are drawing up war plans in claude and placing side bets with online bookies

What kind of advice do you think decision makers are getting when half the guys in the room bet their mortgages on strikes happening 36 hours from now

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

Procedural liberalism on display. We support the murder of innocents, the immoral and demonic violence, but the President didn't fill out the right paperwork. The same logic that calls for higher police training budgets and more diversity among prison guards. Polishing the bars of the cage.

The mainstream media will be incessantly sharing the 2026 equivalent of the Firdos Square statue toppling made-for-TV videos to distract us from all the dead Iranians.

We have some genuinely anti-war Democrats but Democratic leadership has been pro-war for as long as I can remember. It's genuinely depressing and horrifying.

Roughly 100 ICE vehicles are on their way to a warehouse in Western Maryland, as signs mount of an impending operation here.

Not sure that "refuse illegal orders" message got through tho

War is massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who do know each other but don't massacre each other.

Trump has set the whole region aflame.

Candace Owens is the only person in America still talking about Charlie Kirk, nobody else really cares including Erika Kirk

Jack Dorsey renamed the company to Block because he thought blockchains would be the future, in case you were wondering what his track record of predicting long-term tech trends is

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

Austin police have issued an arrest warrant for a Fort Worth-based U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent accused of sexually assaulting an Austin woman last year. The warrant, issued Jan. 29, 2026, charges Melvin Davis with second-degree felony sexual assault.

Been meaning to learn more about Hans Litten. Currently the choice is between "The Man Who Crossed Hitler" (2011 BBC television dramatization) or "Crossing Hitler: The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand" (the audiobook by Benjamin Carter Hett. Anyone watched / read / listened to either?

If we depend on tech company CEO's to do the right thing we're all gonna die in a fire

Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

Important Friday message from lawyer representing politically active people. Please listen if you want to keep yourself and others around you safe. Avoid easy ways of getting caught up! Always remember - STFU!

Anthony Mangione, 51, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in South Florida, was convicted on July 20, 2012 for transporting child sexual abuse material. He was sentenced to 70 months in prison and must register as a sex offender for life.

I think my chihuahua would scare the hell out of a cheetah for like 2 seconds

@tkdodo.eu Have you ever tried using tanstack-query with a hijacked on-page React? Like in a userscript?

Isreal Gutierrez Jr., 28, a Border Patrol Agent from Brownsville, TX, was arrested on July 13, 2013 on three counts of sexual assault of a child and accused by prosecutors of sexually assaulting a second child. He was convicted on July 27, 2015 on four counts. [his legal name is spelled "Isreal"]

Playing around with some custom Bluesky moderation and safety tooling, let's hope I don't blow up the Earth

The only reason the Trump administration keeps fucking with CISA and firing their best people is because CISA people are blocking his techno-fascist friends from getting their dirty little dick-beaters on all of our data.

The book of Acts ends at 28 chapters, so "Acts 29" is meant to refer to the continued work of the Holy Spirit and the church throughout history. Somehow I don't think this is what people had in mind.

after speaking with zohran mamdani this afternoon, president trump announced that he will kill himself immediately

Also never a good look when non-Jewish people use the word “goyim.” Always feels like something antisemitic is hot on the heels.

The "reactionary left" has a psychosocial architecture where anti-establishment credentials provide a moral license to engage in public bigotry — as long as you can reclassify marginalized groups as agents of power. In the same way, trans-inclusive feminism is dismissed as a "bourgeois" distraction.

Imo what is happening on x is that the algorithm loves racist and anti semitic content, and the people who are on there marinate in it all day, and the epstein files has offered an excuse for even left identified people to indulge in the trangressive pleasure of public bigotry as a little treat

Emergency protest happening now outside Columbia University after ICE agents used a “bogus missing persons flyer for a 5-year old girl” to gain access to a school-owned residence to detain a student. That student posted to her instagram this morning: “DHS illegally arrested me. Please help.”

NEW: WSJ now confirming my reporting that the DOJ is withholding at least three FBI interviews with a woman who told the FBI that Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a child www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

California and Illinois have nearly 800,000 state employees combined. It's the state government who processes the payroll, they could divert federal withholdings to a state-run escrow fund by throwing a switch. That's something like $200 million of federal tax revenue per MONTH to help Minnesota.

The War on Drugs is just a way to corner the market. Always has been.

What better time to do this? It's America's 250th birthday. States participating in the compact could raise bond funds, call them 1776 Freedom Bonds or something corny like that.

I see this idea pop up more and more. I mentioned it at the end of this piece from last month and call an interstate compact for holding federal taxes in trust "among the most powerful measures in a program of soft secession." coloradonewsline.com/2026/01/26/c...

I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS. The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

It wasn't enough to send a racist paramilitary to invade Minnesota, now Trump is implementing a blockade of the entire state. We need our states to enact solidarity measures. Concrete action, not just words. Call your governors. @govpritzker.illinois.gov and @gavinnewsom.bsky.social, step up.

This blind man - a refugee from Burma - was dropped off by Border Patrol at a Tim Horton's in Buffalo, NY. In the middle of February. A mile from a home where he no longer lived. While his relatives were searching for him. Cops found his body 5 days later www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Starting to think this Jesse Singal guy is not exactly on the up-and-up

The simpler explanation isn't the U.S. men's hockey team are pawns allowing themselves to be used for Trump photo ops, it's that they're Trump supporters.

Washington State University's career center is hosting a Border Patrol Agent recruitment webinar tomorrow (Thu, Feb 26).