This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…

Racism and AI enshittification is the United States in a nutshell.

I used to tell people that if they hated what Hollywood was putting out, they had a lot more power than I thought they did. Hollywood’s whole raison d’etre is to entertain people, to give them what they want. Now, though, these morons like Zaslav and Ellison either don’t know or don’t give a shit.

"It does not take a scholar of legal ethics to conclude that government lawyers should not be allowed to make up a violent and organized terrorist invasion of a major American city." Read about our bar complaint: freedom.press/issues/doj-l...

This guy gets it. Seriously though, this feels like a moment of transition from the post-911 era into something darker, more Torrian, and more focused on policing American citizens

News outlets "likely hesitated to publish important leaks after seeing what happened" to Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson, whose home the government raided, FPF's Seth Stern said. Read more from @brianstelter.bsky.social:

The last sports editor at the Washington Post signs off.

In a video last week, @trevortimm.bsky.social made the point on why the FBI’s raid on WaPo reporter’s home was so shocking -- the gov't failed to disclose a law that specifically bars such raids when it sought its warrant. Now, most Americans didn't know about this law, but we do. And DOJ did too.

Guy who oversaw large-scale abuses of power answers to serial assaulter and boyfriend of the DHS Secretary, not actual boss

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

It’s time to break up Ticketmaster-Live Nation! 💪

meant to post this ages ago, but this is hard proof that if you put me in front of a microphone long enough, at some point, i will probably talk about @sunsetvisitor.studio's 1000xRESIST (queued) youtu.be/XpepG5GPNZM?...

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

I genuinely missed putting together live videos, and have been quietly, aggressively scaling up my camera setup. It was time to put a few items together, and dip a few toes back into the pond. This was the loveliest possible way to make that happen. More coming. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdE7...

once you understand that the right's entire platform is structured on imparting and catering to an authority complex, a lot more of what their base says and does makes sense

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

dems really don’t want people to vote for them ever again, holy shit

it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”

ICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk

Just got done with our hearing. We have another status hearing next month with a trial date (hopefully) in the spring. It’s more important than ever to stand strong against ICE and with the people protesting it. We’re fighting these charges and we’re going to win.

Disappointing to see people on here talking about their ideal ICE/CBP reforms. It is a terrorism organization that is conducting terror campaigns. Abolish. At minimum. That's it.

I am currently on my way to another hearing regarding my federal charges for protesting ICE. When I say our leaders must be willing to put everything on the line, I mean it. And frankly, I see it as the bare minimum in this moment.

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

it reveals pretty plainly that "merit-based hiring" means "you belong to the correct class and hold the right set of identities"

Every instance in which the Trump administration is forced to make changes, even cosmetic alterations like removing Bovine, is a good sign that US democracy is not yet dead. Trump wants unchecked power. But public and political opinion still matters - and that should encourage resistance.

A lot of Dems are going to take Bovino and Noem being fired as the finish line, and it's very important to make it clear to them that it is a starting line

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Politicians gotta start calling for Miller to go. Right now.

SCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...

Today’s retreat is absolutely an attempt to take pressure off of Congress to rein in ICE so that a funding package can get through. That pressure has been effective. We can celebrate Minneapolis’ win but we need to keep the pressure on. They’re not going to stop forever.

Martinez took five bullets from a CBP agent, and DHS went into overdrive claiming she was an armed threat to the agents who were merely defending themselves. Sound familiar?

I refuse to die until I get to see Stephen Miller humiliated as publicly and devastatingly as possible. It is the most important thing in the world to me.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

We’re airing a new campaign ad, starting tomorrow. Here it is:

ICE is a terror organization and must be dismantled, abolished and its members prosecuted. Full stop.

Clay Travis is a moron

If you only read the opinion journalism in elite media over the last decade, you would have been convinced that wokeness, and not fascism, were the greatest threats to American society. Now some of those authors are retconning by trying to relabel fascism as "the woke right."

NYT’s framing knowingly enables fascism out of nothing but an interest in self-preservation When you abandon the core responsibility of journalism—which is to report truthfully, regardless of political consideration(s)—then you’re still making an active, political choice Soft-gloving cowardice

Filming ICE is an act of journalism. Cell phone footage is vital source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once. Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.

We agree, @reprashida.govpeeps.us — ABOLISH ICE NOW

Good piece from @theguardian.com about the two eye-witness accounts of Alex Pretti's murder, including a link to the full testimony of the woman in the pink jacket. Protect them at all costs!

ICU > ICE

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights. There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us. This is my favorite guide.

“May they never know peace!” I see Kyle Rittenhouse getting dumb paid for pointing an assault rifle in my face every other goddamn day. These guys won’t be protected, they’ll be pampered. They’ll make more money than you, they’ll vacation more often, and their kids will have nicer shit. Do something

A nurse. A researcher. A helper.

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

Trials for every ICE member.

Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

i do genuinely think we need to jail every single person currently working for ICE