got reminded of this, had to watch it again. “I’m prepared to go forward with it.”

Fake Facebook page for the Milwaukee Fox affiliate. Whoever's running it is leaving links in comments in response to posts about videos of ICE abuse. Presumably some sort of phishing scam. Facebook is chock full of this stuff now.

Can people please stop posting random unsupported claims made to law enforcement found in the Epstein docs as if they're proof of anything? The only thing they're proof of is that law enforcement gets a ton of nonsense complaints, especially about high profile people.

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

It’s got to be tough being publicly accused of being a pedo. What sort of monster would ever make such accusations without having a ton of iron clad evidence for them?

"Seattle Police Officers Guild president Mike Solan said he does not intend to let union members do any of this." The Guild won't LET them film and check IDs of ICE officers when there are interactions with the public? www.fox13seattle.com/news/seattle...

stephen miller just a few posts away from recreating the "mudsill" theory from first principles

It’s entirely legal to record LE officers from your car. So they’re brazenly, illegally terrorizing this woman for exercising her constitutional rights. Yet we know that none of these officers be held accountable. We know this administration encourages this behavior. This is police state stuff.

The Epstein story is still absurd and bad and indicative of a lot of things wrong even if you were to remove every single accusation or evidence thereof of child abuse. The fact that he came out of nowhere and seemingly every elite on the planet was connected to him is bad.

there are no mastermind villains. every single one of them is sending 4th grade level emails to World's Most Famous Sex Criminal from their work account

Please give a silent prayer for all of the Gen X and older folks who have been forced to hear Robin Leach's voice in their heads in the context of the Epstein files. "Lifestyles of the Rich and Heinous!" I'm so sorry.

so a LOT of what's been released are anonymous reports and with a case this famous you are gonna get some nuts sending in nonsense. but the repeated references to Robin Leach, Trump and Epstein at the Rancho Palos Verdes golf club make it pretty clear a bunch went on there involving those people.

On the train through Silicon Valley and the last two stations were mobbed by high school students protesting ICE. Good to see...

Newly released emails show Elon Musk was emailing with Jeffrey Epstein to potentially visit the child sex trafficker's island in 2012 and 2014. There's also an email from 2013 where Epstein discussed possibly bringing four "assistants" to a "facility" to meet with Musk.

Activating the anti-Wobbly, anti-Scandinavian socialist discourse from the 1910s Red Scare era in the Pacific Northwest. Rufo has clearly been mainlining some seriously high-grade, well-aged, artisanal American fascism from the deepest recesses of his historical cellar.

This is a better way of actually framing what just happened. Good job, NBC.

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

Really not great every Fed is now masking

Very cool! V1.0 of Osprey is now out. It's open source trust & safety tooling, which is already being used in big environments (Discord and Bluesky).

“He said the boys cried when he told them what was happening and were frightened and asked to hold a school nurse’s hand when they walked into the Whipple Building.”

This actually gives me hope. Even in the hands of a talented director and presumably with a very significant budget, this still looks like shit

ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.

Today's newsletter: there's a new video from 11 days before Alex Pretti was shot to death. Some people refuse to believe it's real. I wrote about why that's going to be a problem moving forward: www.readtpa.com/p/thats-ai-i...

Uh oh.

BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

Apropos of nothing Liam Conejo Ramos is a very cute name. Conejo means rabbit in Spanish. Apparently the apellido comes from medieval Iberia. And it marks him as so very American. Anyone who hears that name and thinks it sounds foreign to the US has their head up their decidedly uncute ass.

Welp. Got laid off yesterday. I was lucky enough to get a decent severance. The company has always been good towards employees. One of the only things I'll miss, other than the team I worked with, but they're mostly also laid off. Talking the week as vacation. youtu.be/WWcxMnpVcDE?...

Give A Fuck Fatigue This song has been playing in my head all day. youtu.be/akqQCtM2QLc?...

how the fuck you gonna reform a children’s concentration camp asshole

NEW: Marimar Martinez, the woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago only to be criminally charged (and cleared), seeks to modify a court order so she can "disclose case materials … to the public." Her atty, Chris Parente, points to events in Minneapolis as well as writings by Justice Samuel Alito:

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Tom Homan downgraded Greg Bovino's YouTube account and now he has to sit through all the commercials like a goddamn GS-1.

People released from the Whipple Federal Building often don't have their phone, their ID or a ride home, said Natalie Ehret. The group she leads, HavenWatch, sits outside the building ready to help.

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

New Ana Tijoux collab just dropped. Vinos y Vinilos == Wine & Vinyl youtu.be/sR58kEWLTZI

In a sane country, the DOJ response to a motion asking a judge to stop the government from destroying evidence after federal officers shot and killed a man in broad daylight would be, "Of course we wouldn't destroy evidence. We agree with this motion." That . . . is not what happened.

is it too late to call Bryan Fuller's Hannibal "Eated Rivalry"

A grassroots network of mutual aid volunteers called Safe Haven has been doing nearly round-the-clock jail support for everyone released from detainment at Whipple, the federal building ICE operates from. They provide medics, rides, food, clothes, phones—anything people need after being released.

Tiananmen Square tank man, but with hundreds of people instead of just one.

a skilled ER nurse with a deep sense of civic responsibility is exactly the kind of person you want carrying a firearm. every ICE employee should be barred from touching anything deadlier than a butter knife for the rest of their natural lives.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

i keep think of this as reverse-reconstruction

I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad. Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS. This smoke is from tear gas:

🇻🇪 Leaked audio from Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez revealed that in the minutes following the kidnapping of Maduro, U.S. officials explicitly threatened her life and that of other ranking Chavista figures if they did not cooperate. "The threats began from the very first minute they...

We murdered two more people in a boat. One potential survivor.

I don't remember how I stumbled on this podcast years ago, but it's consistently one of my favorite listens in spite of (because of) the dark subject matter. Somehow they manage to find a way to introduce just enough levity without disrespecting the subject matter.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing