Centrists constantly browbeat the left about defunding the cops and now they're shrugging and wondering why Trump has a pre-built occupation force for any city he chooses to subjugate

ICE is absolutely out of control in Chicago.

ICE - a federal agency in which every salary & each weapon & all the paper clips are paid for by you & me ARRESTED A SITTING ALDERPERSON - a duly-elected queer Latina opposition politician & leader in Chicago's Latinx community AS THEY WERE SEEKING TO ARREST A PATIENT IN A HOSPTIAL

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

I still miss Twitter because it dramatically changed my life in a number of mostly positive* ways, I would rather not lose access to yet another platform. I always have Mastodon as a fallback but it’s not ever going to fill the same niche. * not the death threats

The MAGA machine evolved at lightning speed this year and you need to know how the pieces interact. -They will arrest you -They will harass and intimidate you online -Their TV stations will distort reality -And their extralegal militants will target you All the pieces are connected now.

Chicago, Portland, and everywhere else. This is how it's going to work now: ICE raids, National Guard occupation, far-right militias, spree shooters, and constant digital static. It's not a question of if the Trump meat grinder will come to town, it's when. www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources." Oracle is about to own TikTok.

And there it is. The entire attack on Netflix is just a grift for far right influencers to promote a religious streaming site.

It's almost certainly the case that bluesky is going to be jawboned by Republican congressional committees and faces being delisted on app stores. I don't envy her position but publicly antagonizing your user base is absolutely the last thing you want to do right now.

Incredible watching poster's madness strike the CEO of Bluesky.

iOS 26 is really great if you like a warm phone that kills your apps all the time. Like a pocket hand warmer that is also 30% of a working computer.

I've been calling for State AGs and Governors to do this for the last 3 months, and fuck if I ever expected Gavin Fucking Newsom to be one of the first to follow through.

Note that the compact is broad and involves way more than trans people, so I'm under no illusion that this comes from some deep seated desire to protect trans people in California schools.

I literally hate to give Newsom credit for anything, he's a snake when it comes to transgender issues, but he's legitimately doing a good thing here. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Stop 👏 discriminating 👏 against 👏 the 👏 puter 👏

Welp

unlike trolling your userbase, which always works out incredibly well

Opinion | My entire career is based on being a seemingly hip, young lesbian who says things that old men like to hear. Here's why DEI is wrong. by Bari Weiss

Inflation is to 2024 what economic anxiety was to 2016. Nearly 70% disapprove of Trump on inflation, yet his overall disapproval is just 43% about the same as on immigration. His base cares less about the economy than mass deportations; they’ll happily suffer so long as immigrants suffer more.

the trump admin is taking aim at every point of access to information and protection. app stores, media outlets, platforms, AI tools, everything.

It’s actually incredible how wrong Ezra is about “needing” to welcome anti-abortion and anti-trans politicians. Democrats were unable to protect vulnerable people BECAUSE they had conservative lawmakers in their ranks—including one Joe Manchin. Alongside Sinema, he blocked codifying Roe v. Wade

The CEO and CTO caught a cumulative 1200 blocks in 24 hours and made the leaderboard.

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening www.404media.co/google-calls...

I cannot believe actual journalists are referring to an animated character as an "AI actor". Its honestly embarrassing that even when they're not completely falling for the tech bro bullshit they’re still parroting the marketing language.

DHS has effectively reinterpreted (also illegally) “reasonable suspicion” as racial profiling, so now here it is making a statement that it uses racial profiling to arrest and cuff people, even Americans abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

Multiple major news outlets such as the NYT, AP, and CBS news all omitted mention of that requirement in their articles describing the proposals despite having copies of it. It's infuriating. They're hiding what this administration is doing to trans people.

The university compact being offered to universities requires colleges to eliminate the recognition of trans people and ban them from bathrooms, locker rooms, and gender segregated dorms. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

Trump: we will do project 2025 Harris: he will do project 2025 Public: oh that’s bad Trump: I’m not gonna do it have never heard of it Harris: he’s still gonna do it Media: no one can predict the future 77 pinocchios

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in. If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

These guys are just plain bigots, and it pisses me off that so many in the media are just playing along with their sick hatred.

A lot of us know what this is, but for the average person on here: circa 2015 the Alt Right (the explicitly NeoNazi wing especially) appropriated the obscure McDonald’s mascot from the 80s, and made it into a NeoNazi ridden meme. So yes, this is straight NeoNazism being posted.

This is why the changes to sideloading rules on Android (sideloaded apps must now be signed by a Google-Play-registered developer account) sucks. It means not even Android is resistant now to the government applying pressure on Google to take down apps it doesn't like 😫

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Samsung confirms its $1,800+ fridges will start showing you ads www.androidauthority.com/samsung-conf...

Tech companies are complicit. The police are complicit. The military is complicit. Our representatives are complicit. The courts are complicit. None of the people who are "supposed" to help us are going to help us. This problem can only be solved with the unity of those who won't be bought.

i don't mean to single out baseball fans here, because you see this in lots of fan communities, but in certain corners people talk as though baseball is real. they think all the players are real people and the stadiums are places you can actually visit. to each their own, but that cannot be healthy

If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure. Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

start telling your friends and family now that CBS is no longer reliable, because I'm still explaining how Newsweek was hollowed out by Republican ghouls and that deal was like a decade ago

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Needlessly smarmy an antagonistic. Embarrassing for this platform's CEO to now be in day 2 of this crap.