there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

There is absolutely no theory or philosophy of US government where it is appropriate for the Department of Homeland Security to taunt, mock, and terrorize the citizenry of the Homeland. It's pure evil - an authoritarian campaign of vindictive terror.

Kristi Noem needs to spend the rest of her life in prison.

I think it might be a good idea to start framing this stuff as DHS/Noem/Trump “covering up” murders, i.e. using a vernacular of scandal that even stupid people understand

More brutality from the federal government in Minneapolis today as authorities have shot and killed yet another person. After the two federal-involved shootings in Chicago, one thing is clear: do NOT trust what DHS says about this incident.

This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.

ice agents simply aren't trained well enough to be on the street. they are a genuine danger to citizens

the president is using the government to harass and kill people living in areas of the country that didnt vote for him

Arrest and imprison (at least) for all ICE and CBP agents and officials. Reassign any of those agencies’ actually necessary functions to other agencies and/or rebuild from scratch.

well at least that Karl shithead got suspended finally

I mean, I think this is not exactly an unlikely outcome

I’m loving the whole NFC South situation, just by the way.

The significant part of it for Americans is going to be recognizing the role the republican party as currently constituted plays in the alliance of global antidemocratic forces

the thing is that i am all for regulating big tech into the ground, but only if we come at them with enough force to actually win and like, break up the companies and redistribute their IP the regulation i’m against is the kind that almost always passes, where end users get pain & companies adapt

New York City has an immigrant mayor for the first time (since 1977)

I’m pretty adaptable I guess. Some places are just too depressing to consider though.

Translators work hard to make sure that the translated words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, etc, not only convey the author's meaning, but also the author's *style.* Translators are alchemists. They are artists, and poets, and researchers, and editors. They are magicians and wizards.

AND ANOTHER THING, WHILE I'M AT IT: ENOUGH WITH THESE BULLSHIT CLAIMS THAT AI CAN REPLACE HUMAN TRANSLATORS!!! Translation is *not* the science of finding the perfect definition of a word from a foreign language and putting that definition into the text. Translators translate, of course. But!

Every podcast host references these movies constantly and claims to love them, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone talk about them irl

Figured I’d find out what this so-called “super man” is all about. With an interlude for a Tobe Hooper joint that doesn’t quite come together.

Nobody told me that in the film Superman III (1983), Superman eats dog food.

This headline and summary post are dripping with mockery, right?

Exactly, you don’t hire Bari Weiss to run your tv network as a political apparatchik, not because she doesn’t know how to run a tv network, but because she doesn’t know how to do the work of a political apparatchik

Yes. And translators, badly paid, have been trying to make people aware of this, but they have only a small platform. Need writers and readers to be aware and speak out. All my foreign language contracts going forward will stipulate that a real person translates.

holiday cookie time chocolate peppermint edition

That’s an absurd penalty. Love lowered his head into that hit at the last second, what the fuck is he supposed to do?

If things keep moving in this direction, 2026 could be an extinction-level event for congressional R’s Pretty sure a D+16 election would result in something like a 374-59 D majority lol

A potpourri of horror stories.

Trump take Christmas

Man this is what it felt like arguing about the end of the Bears-Eagles game with that guy who kept ranting about his weird misunderstandings about game theory

lol I just opened bluesky after looking at some raw unexplained test results in MyChart and this is the first post I see

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

#LetterboxdFriday: Hallie Meyers-Shyer double feature, undersung Murray, Casablanca: Port of Call Martinique

thinking about the Harvey Fierstein exploding slacks monologue from Safe Men again

I have a huge sweet tooth but I’ve always found the mere sight of these “cookies” nauseating.

I have no interest in defending Bill Clinton and I think Monica Lewinsky got mistreated horribly, but the problem was never that people “didn’t believe” her.

people are desperate for anti-AI leadership from any public official or any big company. it’s the easiest win in the world, why is no one willing to just grab it??

Seriously, Netflix can foster a lot of goodwill by reviving a number of projects Zaslav nixed

it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.

What will he have to say about the situation when companies “hiring whomever they want” when most of them end up only hiring single, childless people because they can pay them less and demand longer hours?

of potential interest to mattmcclure.bsky.social: today I have eaten Pita Inn for the first time in my life

tbh this is more legitimate than the usual Argentine “claims” to the islands, like “we acknowledge they’re culturally British, we just think we should govern them instead”

I do not know exactly what this passage is supposed to mean but “mumblecore Shakespeare” and “conceived for the TikTok generation” feel like ideas in tension with each other

Bears, huh?

Impossible not tell to yell “I’m back in the pants!” when Charlie Brown shows up at the Thanksgiving parade now

chocolate twizzlers is good though

An additional wrinkle is the further you push a gerrymander, the more you necessarily push down your margins in your own safe districts, and if you’re on the wrong end of a particularly large backlash, you’re likely to end up losing more seats than you would’ve if you’d left the districts alone…