We don’t need to reform ICE. We don’t need alternatives to ICE. We don’t need to engage in dishonest debates wondering what the U.S. would do without ICE. ICE isn’t even 23 years old. Most adults know a world without ICE. And the billions used to fund ICE can be used to meet people’s basic needs.

The numbers tell the story.

Rotten apples don’t fall far from the tree.

The fact that the White House is whipping so hard to stop the Epstein files should be scandal enough to bring a president down. Should being the operative word there because its effectively an admission of guilt.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Brutal 😂

My biggest question re: Steam Frame: how do I get XPlane running on it (even using a companion machine)? And can it do AR mode with masking so I can use a physical sim rig? I want to IFR train on it!

So when do we get an official Xbox(™) release for the #Steam2 #SteamMachine that is akin to (better than) the 'Xbox edition ROG Ally?' I predict we will.

if the steam frame is at all competitive with the quest headsets price-wise then this could be the big one. i am manifesting the failure and demise of meta as a company. pleasepleaseplease.

Into S3. The Diplomat remains amazing. Russell and Sewell are so damn good. And Alison Janney I will watch in anything.

The news loves to scream, "New York subways have gone totally Cannibal Holocaust!," but anyone who's spent time in NY knows that, at their best, they are a mutant social marvel. I remember Hollywood Blvd Halloweens like this in the 80s. All that's gone, but the NY subways live on.

They are very clearly judging their staff and finding me wanting.

Hear, hear!

Trump's superpower is lying. He builds up lies within, as shadow power; the inverse of Superman whose absorption of *light* is the key to his power. Trump, enabled by his minions, creates a void of truth, where the spurious, the self contradictory gain strength. Even *his face lies*--that fake tan.

Yes, we indeed have a serious problem.

This is what the Nobel Committee ACTUALLY said. Sorry Donald. Most of the world can see you for what you are.

Purely hate vendors that take my permission to send marketing emails (however inadvertent) to send...multiples per day. Even *daily*. Like, what the fuck, man.

OR GOP posts low-effort fake photo, badly merging old scenes from S America (!) claiming it's current Portland protests, and when called on it says "we're not reporters" and leaves the fake up

Time for a book/writer boost post. Joel Shepherd's 'Spiral Wars' series. I described it once thus: this is someone with as deep a love for CJ Cherryh's starships and combat systems as I but is also a fantastic writer, which makes his use of the above homage and mine fanfic.

Does anyone know if Joel Shepherd (Cassandra Kresnov, Spiral Wars) is on here?

it's weird that a clown car full of freaks like stephen miller and jd vance feeding the populace a strict diet of state violence, austerity, and cringe are not getting more popular. bread and circus but there's no bread and the circus is one sclerotic monkey vomiting on his balls

History repeats. That’s why in Europe we have the ECHR. 🇪🇺

Hey, @democrats.org - the constant flood of pleading and dire warning SMS messages all with one goal - getting money from me - are causing me to filter ALL MESSAGING FROM DEMOCRATIC CAUSES. You are HARMING your message. Why am I getting 3 para msgs for a STATE REP on the other side of the country?

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

Peter Thiel giving lectures about the antichrist is just another illustration of the fact that the most dangerous thing about billionaires is that they exist in a world where nobody tells them their stupid ideas are stupid and are therefore prone to inflict their stupid ideas on all of us.

To everyone who sits on the stairs in Grand Central Terminal: fuck you, tourist, we’re busy fuckin’ people here, get out of the fuckin’ way

The entire Trump machine/admin agenda is to do as much damage to progressive America as possible as fast as possible, because they know they can't hold this. But they want to roll back as much as possible to accrue as much pwer and $ possible before they die.

I’m old enough to remember that “I was just following orders” was no defense. Nor is it now.

I just cancelled my annual Disney+ subscription. #boycottdisney

Trump's ordering flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk. Which he did not do for Democratic Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman and her husband when they were murdered by a right wing gun nut targeting democrats.

This Apple event is super well produced and very professional, of course, and has cool stuff, and...is convincing me to spend $99 replacing the battery on my iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Still frustrated by this. I'm a huge TRON fan. But Jared Leto is such a talentless jarring constant headache that there is now almost no chance I will see the film.

It is coming time for all of us to channel Iphigenia Deme.

Every member of Congress that votes to approve or expand the use of the U.S. military on US soil for law enforcement is violating their oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, and should be treated accordingly. DO NOT FORGET. DO NOT FORGIVE.

🚨 NEW from Drop Site News: Google’s $45 Million Contract With Netanyahu's Office to Spread Israeli Propaganda The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging. Story by Jack Poulson and Lee Fang www.dropsitenews.com/p/google-you...

Dude, you knew he was a vaccine-denying piece of shit whose plan was to dismantle the public health apparatus in the US when you confirmed him, don't try the "shocked, shocked" act now

One of the primary reasons 'government' exists is because it meets a set of human needs completely orthogonal to those of 'business.' But the Trump administration seems to thing that 'business objectives' and 'government purpose' are a union set. No kings and no CEOs will govern me.

To every single Democratic campaign spamming me via lists bought from Act Blue: you're losing me. You're driving me to have the kind of blind lethal hatred for you that you smugly ascribe to the other side. You're poisoning the fucking well. And one day, It will be payback time. I swear to you.

The advocates of the global market push weren't wrong about the prosperity it could create. They didn't know or care that wealth could & would be captured by a tiny group, and they also didn't understand that the success of the system would generate resentment even among intended beneficiaries.

Woke: the radical notion that EVERYBODY deserves to be treated as well as a mediocre Christian straight white male.

As a staunch and lifelong Democrat, if I ever meet whoever is responsible for Act Blue's handling of its donor lists in a bar, I swear to fucking god there will be a reckoning.

The new Tron: Ares trailer makes me feel marginally better about the story, but God, I hate Jared Leto so, so, so, so much it's still gonna be hard.

As an Underworld fan I am considering having my first tattoo be “Banstyle 13:29” IKYKY

If/when we get out of this mess, we need to understand that a democracy cannot rely just on norms and forbearance. Rules will need to be codified and spelled out, like in other countries with better, more robust institutions.

Business may be the muscles of a society and necessary, but government is what keeps business in service of the people and not the people in service of business.

The level of confused entitlement shown by cold-caling salespeople amazes me. Once I say 'remove my name from all lists and don't contact me' they should either hang up or acquiesce. "But why don't you want my service???" tells me you're an asshole that thinks your job means you get my time.

The demographic most likely to piss me off and/or make me feel unsafe in NYC on a regular basis: bicyclists. This doesn't mean all (or most!) bicyclists are bad. But bad/inconsiderate/entitled bikers are incredibly annoying and most likely to trip my 'fuck you, I'm walking here' response.

They know exactly who the release would expose. Rep. Ro Khanna proposed the amendment, defeated by 7 GOP votes, all no, vs 4 Dem and 1 GOP member who voted yes.

There will be more of this. Because the pressures put on people by the Trump Administration and its policies will drive it. But I guarantee you they'll blame 'wokeness' or 'Biden' or ANYBODY ELSE, because taking responsibility for anything is beyond them. www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr...