No really I think datacenters in space are a great idea. So great, in fact, that they should freeze all datacenter construction on Earth until they can get this space thing going.

It was a prize for peace WITH FIFA.

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

Nola said it best: We are the Northern Mariana Islands We need your help to stop deep sea mining near the Mariana Trench Drop a 🦈 in the comments if you support us Please sign and share our petition Si yu'use ma'ase

Even before this we had a construction labor shortage. Estimates put around 25% of the construction industry is undocumented. And not only are they incredibly skilled but they often get fucked over by employers. I wrote about it earlier this year.

Also, of course, the State Department changing typefaces for reasons that boil down to "fuck accessibility" is both utterly in line with the overt bigotry of this administration and a signal indicator of how unserious these people are, it doesn't matter what typeface you use when you're a joke

It's great that the media, Congress is going all Watergate on one of Trump's many crimes, the 'double-tap' murder of 2 Caribbean sailors But the reality is that Trump's death cult has killed hundreds of thousands, mostly through senseless USAID cuts My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Much of the current immigration policymaking—if this rampant clampdown and unleashing of brutalizing force can be called that—seems to be now distilled to a simple modus operandi: we do it because we can. My reflection on a year of hell for immigrants and the Trump administration's casual cruelty:

1. This is good 2. People have to enforce it 3. Those people are police 4. It will definitely be challenged by the administration

The answer to why people from Nordic countries don't come to the U.S. is they know their overall quality of life would markedly decline because of our lack of free health care, child care, and other basic social benefits. So they don't!

If ACA subsidies aren’t extended, the CBO estimates 2.2 million people will lose their health insurance in the first year, and even more thereafter (www.cbo.gov/system/files...). Some of those people will die.

The more unhinged this regime gets, the more they have a narrower and narrower definition of what's "acceptable" the more I suspect people are going to rebel

American toy and tourism sectors before Christmas 2025.

People are going to die because of the pending insurance premium hikes. I know the terrain of discourse is inconsistent and goes through a tumble cycle every 24 hours, but I really think we need to hone in on this reality and drive it home for people.

To summarize: ballroom, memorials and unlimited golf vaycays for Trump and extravagant lifestyle for him and his cronies on taxpayer dime. Inability to afford a pencil, tough choice of food for family or Christmas present for your kid for us.

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and my town is flooded with cocaine now that Trump pardoned all the traffickers. But at least the State Department is using Times New Roman again.

This makes facially neutral policies--like poll taxes and literacy tests--that we know were adopted for discriminatory purposes legal. Organizations can now simply claim there was no discriminatory intent regardless of outcome. It's unconstrained institutionalized racism.

Isolating someone from their friends is typical abuser behavior.

Something every 2026/28 Dem should commit to is investigations of any company that did deals with Trump. A kind of forward guidance to get companies to think twice in advance of what’s coming.

Under this new proposal, if you're a European who wants to visit New York City for a vacation, you now have to turn over a TON of information to the United States government, which they will keep forever. The days of just showing a passport will be long gone.

ICE is kidnapping and locking up little kids, denying them medical care, and feeding them contaminated food. They aren’t going after criminals, they are going after Black and brown people, because this isn’t about immigration, it’s about white supremacy.

Kill the tourist industry, and also increase the trouble and expense for Americans to travel outside the US - other countries will respond by imposing like measures on US citizens.

So they can make the rest of us as miserable as they are.

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

This story should be covered waaaaayy more than it is. The US has sanctioned six judges if the international criminal court ICC, because Trump didn’t like them issuing arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

the horror of what ICE is doing feels like it is really really really breaking through to people, and it's opening up big overdue conversations on other topics (that prisons have always been this inhumane, that Homeland Security has always been this racist) if we wanted to wedge those cracks open

this dude is basically just a spree killer who's too cowardly to do it himself

The entirety of the bloated ICE budget should be repurposed for climate security. Infrastructure, resilience, research, refugee reparations. Real homeland security. For a start.

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

it's really a deliberate white supremacist choice that "lynching" is now a generic term for any public shaming. 1

“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.” - Garry Kasparov

It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship. The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

this genuinely, for real, does make me feel better sometimes every time you really land a joke, just remind yourself, "wow, all that money and Elon Musk still can't do that"

As awful as this, the focus on whether the woman was complying obscures the more important issue: in a democracy, there should not be armed agents demanding to see papers of every passing person.

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.” www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social

a once respectable news outlet partnering with this kind of predatory sleaze is such a signal that we are truly abandoned on the sea of misinformation, wholly on our own against truly malign forces that are determined to make us as ignorant and angrily opinionated as possible because it's lucrative

It was bad at FDA 5 months ago, it has now become a total disaster. 90% of senior staff gone.

Yet again, a district court showed its work Yet again, the Supreme Court showed its ass ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/texas...

Tomorrow marks two years since the Israeli military killed beloved Palestinian professor, writer, and activist Refaat Alareer in an airstrike on his sister’s home.

The FIFA World Cup of Lifetime Achievement in Corruption

They were just waiting for the Injustices to give them the green light.

amazon threatens this every year and every year they come to the conclusion that actually attempting this would cost them significantly more than what they currently pay, this is *always* an attempt to renegotiate their costs, but the post has not *always* been owned by AMZ’s largest shareholder

Eileen O’Connor, Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center, spoke with @motherjones.com about the Justice Department suing states across the country to obtain their complete voter files, which contain private voter data like driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers. 1/2

coming soon: "the constitution is unconstitutional"

Elon sure needs a lot of cash.

Children dying of preventable diseases is going to be the Kennedy family legacy. Anything brainworm's father or uncles might have been remembered for is going to be overshadowed by this.

Are Democratic voters asking the party what their Project 2026 plan is if they win the House? What's the written plan and the timeline? What's the first thing a Dem House would do in jan 2027?