I spoke with WABE about the proposal to extend the TADs. If we need $5 billion, instead of robbing Peter to Paul, we should tax the ultra-rich and fairly appraise luxury commercial properties! www.wabe.org/what-are-tax...

Bandcamp bans AI music

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Hi perhaps you would like a little break from the news in the form of an essay about my trip to Centralia, Pennsylvania, the town that’s been on fire since 1962—a place where surprisingly I found a great deal of hope, wonder, and mystery.

Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center. Read the full story here: www.propublica.org/article/vide...

my friend is involved in this fundraiser to help support immigrant parents & families in south Minneapolis who are facing hardship—and in some cases eviction—because they can't go to work. please give if you can:

This is why no chase policies are important and it is important to point out the police regulalry violate them. www.washingtoninformer.com/dc-photograp...

Bring in more immigrants! Slightly increasing the birth rate at great expense so we can have a tiny number of additional workers 20 years down the line is not a serious strategy.

Every journalist of color I know was taught or told to avoid making themselves the story; and were even punished for drawing attention to themselves and their work on social media.

as far as i am concerned "The Birthrate!!!!" is a right wing culture war concern and you can make it easier and more humane to raise children without addressing this beef tallow-ass framing

even ignoring all other evidence showing that trans sports bans are about discriminating against trans people, not protecting cis women... I'm supposed to believe that the Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade and has two justices credibly accused of sexual misconduct cares about womens rights?

I was compelled to draw trans Dilbert again and then I blacked out what’s that other thing on my tablet

Kevin Ku, professional wrestler, and also major Snoopy (etc.) fan

Prosecutors have discretion about which cases to pursue. There is no reason why they could not have clarified to the people involved that they did not have the right to vote in any elections, and left it at that. Instead, they chose to harm people who had no idea they were doing something wrong.

I can't stress enough how cynical and useless AltNPS is. They could be sharing links to places like the ILCM, galvanizing their millions of followers to donate to Twin Cities mutual aid and bail funds, but they aren't. They just don't care.

Oh cool, which ones? WHICH ONES?

Go to the “Report a Fundraiser” page and fill out the form. This was how I filled out the form since there wasn’t an option for violating the Terms of Service. Report Fundraiser: www.gofundme.com/contact/sugg... Ross Fundraiser (you need this for the report): www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuve...

hey so this is blatant false information punishing people for doing the right thing. no, it was not a "grabber". it was a reputable survey site that discord has used previously for limited surveys. nothing can """grab""" information if you dont provide it, which an anonymous survey didnt ask for.

Here's a way to help in Minnesota right now.

Stop falling for the “untrained” narrative.

So a CBS Evening News reporter actually did a pretty solid breakdown of the ICE murder video, talking to a former agent who details all the ways Ross messed up. And yet: It didn’t air on the actual show tonight. CBS did post it to YouTube—and it has nearly 800k views already youtu.be/6ywLEESFDu0?...

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

Just to get this information out there, in case it helps anyone: I have it on good authority that DHS/ICE has set up an office at St. Paul and Wilshire. It's just beyond the 110 past downtown LA, on the edge of Westlake.

ICE isn’t bad because they’re doing a bad job at something that is necessary. it is that they are wholly unnecessary, and their function is evil.

Worth noting that Minnesota Public Radio is NOT doing that. They're interviewing people on the ground, chasing down witnesses and facts, and treating ICE statements with the appropriate amount of skepticism.

Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026

This thread from Amy Hoy is excellent, but just to add to it: social media is a machine for producing self-serving emotional gratification, thus social media activism is always in grave danger of confusing such gratification with meaningful political action.

you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks” whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to” don’t give them cover on it

"Well, he's a dictator whose people don't actually want him in charge" is an interesting precedent for this guy to set

I think we need to be able to balance the reactions "this is another expression of 250 years of American imperialism" and "what do you MEAN we kidnapped the president of Venezuela and renditioned him to the US and are now claiming to run the country" Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

REINFORCED STEEL

This seems like important information.

I went to 404’s website looking for different article and saw this headline and laughed harder than I’ve laughed at anything else all week

This isn’t a blanket endorsement of church-run facilities, but an indictment of the failure of government at all levels and a widespread desire on the part of citizens to pretend that they have the right to never be reminded that people in desperate need exist.

Every time someone tells me that if the church-run emergency homeless shelters in my county shut down it would be fine because a secular organization would step up to take their place it makes me want to tear my hair out. We have a shortage of shelter beds and people sleep outside every night.

kinda weird how liens are harder to enforce if you insist on being paid in a paper check and not direct deposit, and always go to the bank and cash it instead of ever letting money hit your bank account real weird. definitely nobody do that. too weird.

if you don't play or follow golf (or just don't get why so many people love it) this probably isn't on your radar but it should be understood as both a naked land grab and an attack on a part of DC's black history

very specific to DC complaint here but when trump is threatening to take over the city's historically significant public golf courses so he can privatize them and make them another getaway for the 1% i don't think going "well maybe they shouldnt be golf courses to begin with" is helpful or realistic

With CECOT being in the news, I want to repost this article my wife wrote about our adopted kids' birth father. He finished a prison sentence and was deported to El Salvador and landed in CECOT. If anyone can help with this, please contact me. We're feeling pretty helpless.

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

I am pro alt text but some of you need to learn how to self-soothe better

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

I mashup lines from #futurama with pics from #gundam every day until I don't part 9. #zgok

I mashup lines from #futurama with pics from #gundam every day until I don't part 238

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

ICE whistles work.

Yes, someone in the SHFS was selling cels. I did not buy these, but they are awesome

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...