And the rampant criminality in CBP is only what they reported. They have a pretty well documented history of covering shit up, too.

"for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States"

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Murderers with 8 &12 years of experience at it. How many people have they killed and covered up?

The agents who killed Alex Pretti are now identified by ProPublica. The man who shot Pretti in the back ("A4"), is Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa. The man who instigated the confrontation, then shot Pretti's prone body, is CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez. Not new hires - 8 and 12 years service. 1/

Oh, that's why the media talked so little about that EO

Poisoning Copilot by constantly pushing up bad code versions of every algorithm to a public GitHub.

I testified Friday on the history of CBP and ICE's corruption and training problems. It's so much worse than you think. The population of CBP officers/agents arrested THEMSELVES since 2005 would be America's 4th largest police dept—larger than the Philly PD. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Is Henderson’s contract to hold immigrant detainees in its jail worth it? As revenue from ICE and public opinion of the agency fall, city leaders are reupping that question. Read about it here: thenevadaindependent.com/article/hend...

Omg actually, Chomsky is a good example of why I now approach Kropotkin's Mutual Aid and people citing it cautiously.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

I just can't. It's fucking hilarious. People actually believed the guys who are obsessed with dick size as a determinant of everything in society would not be on the pedo list, and now can't do anything but defend them because they can't lose their vaunted value of dick size to society.

I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

Oh, guy with a transphobia label and who talks about evolution imbuing us with innate preferences for social arrangements is all over the Epstein files? Lolololololololololololololollolololololololol

I increasingly dislike it when people put nonviolent direct action in a light that makes it sound like trying to get shit kicked. It's like the opposite. The idea of nonviolent direct action is that *the violence is already there* and the action is asserting the humanity of the victims.

The idea that protests and public opinion are meaningless in the face of the Trumpist assault, that authoritarian regimes are impervious to public pressure, is still widespread. But it is wrong. And it perpetuates the regime's assertion of inevitability.

Hey, just gonna say this: If you're not talking about executive management, if you're talking about someone working for "Big Pharma" (which is a conspiracy theory btw), chances are you're talking about someone whose job is primarily about saving and improving lives. You psychopaths.

Recurring Crises in Psychology "The current responses to the replication crisis, although valuable, are not ultimate solutions because they deflect fundamental questions and postpone the reconsideration of the ideals of psychology as a science." Open Access: doi.org/10.1177/1089...

I've decided I'm never gonna respond to these people. Not gonna like their comments or qrps or anything. Just gonna let that go. Because. That's how I've always handled this (and this is a small example) and it feels genuine.

I want people to stare long and hard at this photo. All three, guns drawn, less than a week after feds killed Alex Pretti in the street and less than a month after they shot Renee Good in her car. They are not de-escalating or drawing down.

Can’t believe people are debating whether opsec is necessary the day after multiple journalists were arrested for covering a protest and a week after a man who it turns out had a previous run in with the gestapo was murdered by them in broad daylight

Even the children who have not been kidnapped are victims of the gestapo youtu.be/0Cw36_u3_7k?...

He was in custody for 4 hours before they took him to the ER? I'm sorry, but guaranteed *they* repeatedly slammed his head into a wall trying to force him to sign deportation papers.

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

I know this was expected given 8th circuit, but it is astounding that courts are evidently more capable of addressing threats to federalism in the form of conditional grants (Medicaid expansion!) and statutory mandates than they are a federal siege of a city (which is a "question of fact").

"Healthcare workers confirm that ICE is abandoning half-naked kidnapping victims in the woods of Minnesota to die. "Individuals have shown up in emergency rooms who require amputations—some with cracked skulls." (1/29/26)" www.reddit.com/r/ICE_Watch/...

You know how when you really don't want to think about something, you just end up thinking about it a lot? I need to stop thinking about work. My goal for the next 2 weeks is to think about work and jobs as little as possible and just de-stress.

Absolutely surreal to continue to hear about drawdowns and lowered temperatures and things calming down in Minneapolis when, as far as I can tell, literally nothing has changed on the ground

Y'know, when ICE takes a guy to the hospital with a caved in face and claim he slammed his own face into the wall repeatedly, you should *absolutely* consider the multiple stories of ICE torturing immigrants by slamming their heads into walls.

*wakes up, opens phone, sees lots of notifications on one post* Uh. I'm going back to bed.

My rule 39 is "Failure is an Option" and that's gonna be the title of my next blog post. Think I'm gonna go on a little road trip and write an essay about failure and whatever road trip I do and the last year and being laid off.

I can't write coherently about my being laid off until I write like an essay about it. Which is annoying but fine. I just have too many thoughts.

Sometimes I write some incoherent bullshit just because I'm in my feels

I'm annoyed sometimes because I'm a loner who everyone sees as really quiet, but I'm pretty socially adept when I want to be. I listen to people. It's amazing that most people just don't.

It's done. I'm disconnected from the old company. HR has my personal email to follow up on, but I no longer have any of their equipment and so no longer have access to their networks.

Anyway, enough of your life to predict when you're about to have a baby before you even know it yourself has been sold around as "data" to advertise to you since before the Internet. Suddenly having your phone on you is another vector, but there's a paranoia I'm just not interested in about it.

They're not *really* worse than the old Christian nationalists, though. They're the same fuckin guys. They're just absolutely cringe-pilled, and it's annoying as hell. But this is who the old Christian nationalists were, too.

There have been many journalists arrested in the US before. I'm one of them. This is still very different. Lemon wasn't arrested as part of a mass of arrests of people surrounding a protest as it was happening and released (as I was). Lemon is being re-arrested for having covered a protest.

It's so bad, I can't find anything about the guy who got out under a misapplied surveillance and while dealing with it created a blog with photos and description of every toilet he used, every time. Just flooding the surveillance with shit.

Btw, "You're already exposed just by having a cell phone, so your privacy measures are pointless," is the most negatively nihilistic thing to say about opsec, and why the hell are so many "omg don't be a doomer" liberals being so negatively nihilistic?

I'm never gonna be one of the types to do these big farewell email chains. Only place I ever spoke to any of these fucks is at work that I've hated the entire time. I'm more of "Fuck off, I'm out!!!"

Everyone's so weird lmfao

Lol wut

It's not just having a high ambiguity tolerance. It's that the land of ambiguity is an abundant, curious land, fruitful for exploration.

I really do like Kaido lmfao. He's such a great representation of a toxic drunk you don't want to be around but I just spend my entire time with laughing my ass off

Reading this book from the 70s that trades he/she pronouns every chapter. His big argument was that he-centric was dumb, but he didn't find "they" or other alternatives as powerful language as he/she. Which is kinda transphobic to us today, right? But that highlights a sense of how the entire thing

If we're worried about a pogrom happening, people who refuse to see it simply showing up is pretty fucking effective, just saying

Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism: