so about the relationship between the state and capital

Not sure if anyone else has said this but Sawchik was clearly hired by MLB to write anti labor talking points ahead of the CBA He wrote an article two weeks ago on payroll differences which ended “Removing that cloud, discarding that talking point, would take interest in the game to another level”

They are stealing our money.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way.

The power we had was incidental, based on contingent historical & economic arrangements. We were not organized or prepared to defend ourselves, and even worse, our lack of cross-class solidarity as workers means nobody else is sympathetic or showing up to save our institutions or projects either.

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

For @defector.com, I wrote about the dark backstory behind France’s viral ice dancing team — which currently is in first place and could win gold. Gift link:

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

A hallmark of conspiracy thinking is citing contradictory evidence with no coherent narrative. If COVID emerged in summer 2019, then it also nukes the lab leak theory. Their best evidence is a few Wuhan Lab researchers getting sick in Nov. If the virus was already circulating, then it's irrelevant

Lab leak truthers love to point out that "only" one-third to one-half of early cases were directly linked to the market but you know how many were linked to the lab? Zero. Plus if the virus had emerged in the summer there would have been *far* more than hundreds of cases by January.

*new* from me: As pitchers and catchers report to Spring Training, three front office staffers spoke to me about helping Latino baseball players and their families navigate an America ravaged by ICE raids. They say guidance from MLB has been “minimal” so their teams are getting creative.

There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

I love this article because the reporter found a strong source to speak in favor of retaining the SRG and he’s dumb as hell with a completely vacuous argument. Stunning. gothamist.com/news/former-...

these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social

This document is one of the great political failures of our time. It must be immediately denounced by all people of good will. And it will be a major scandal if any "civil rights" organization gives cover to this capitulation to fascism.

There will 100% be a story in The Athletic this summer about how Latin players "stay close to the hotel" on road trips, with not much talk or opinion about why that is. bsky.app/profile/that...

"stop saying jeff bezos had to fire the whole washington post staff for financial reasons" literally who is saying that lol

Wrote about the pleasure that conservatives took from the killings by ICE recently open.substack.com/pub/somethin...

I know there's probably no blockbuster coming, but this would be my last ditch effort to salvage the deadline if I were in the Warriors front office. If the Clippers are listening on Zubac... is Kawhi gettable? Warriors SHOULD be desperate enough to gamble on a godfather offer.

Warriors probably had the draft capital and salaries to acquire BOTH Anthony Davis and Jaren Jackson Jr. It's just not acceptable that the Warriors didn't come away with at least one of those guys given what they did instead. Maybe there's another deal coming, but I don't see it.

The JK/Hield for Porzingis swap feels all about 2026-27 imo. Gives them the bird rights to re-sign/extend Porzingis on a smaller prove-it deal AND clears the salary to extend Melton on a NTPMLE.

The way people quote posted me like I am stupid as fuck when I said the Dems were fucking us with their 2 week extension

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

Somehow managed to co-opt a moment of mass consciousness and political leverage into a massive funding grab for ICE and the police surveillance industry. Aided and abetted by a number of “progressive” groups along a spectrum from ignorant to nefarious.

"This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood." - @polphilpod.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

am feeling incapable of character limits rn but as part of this: obviously no coincidence that there are some prominent backers of anti-trans animus in the Epstein files!

no better summation of America's unrepentant rape culture than that one of the biggest stories of the last decade is about the abuse of women and girls and every single stakeholder working on it couldn't give less of a shit about the actual victims of the story

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

from someone who has covered movements for a ~decade, studied them longer: it's not that what's happening right now is "new" (we can find precedent for present tactics in treatment of Black organizers in the 2010s onward, organizing on Palestine and ATL's Cop City, others). it's still really bad!

The "violent criminal illegal alien" that agents were pursuing when they killed Alex Pretti has been in the U.S. for two decades. He had a single misdemeanor conviction for disorderly conduct (domestic assault) eight years ago that was expunged from his record. He did not have a deportation order.

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

Speaker Mike Johnson all over the news this morning saying that him and trump WANT ICE AGENTS TO HAVE BODY CAMERAS Because of course they do. They want to expand ICE surveillance capabilities to centralize their authoritarian power. Any Democrat who calls this "reform" is a liar or a fool.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Not ICE, but CBP. ICE is terrible, but CBP is orders of magnitude worse. In many ways, abolishing or radically overhauling CBP is of greater urgency than ICE, but likely tougher to do. One can argue that ~all of ICE's duties can be reallocated. Harder to say that with CBP.

Children. They are literally tear gassing children.

ICE is assaulting and at war with americans. we are all their enemy. no other way to look at it at this point

For the past 25 years, Reshona Landfair has lived with the painful aftermath of her name lingering in the public without her consent. She was the 14-year-old girl in the absolutely sickening R. Kelly videotape. Now, she’s reclaiming her name and her story. We should all bear witness.

I am constantly gonna say read Bradford. there's gonna be some good and important journalism being done here!!

New emails show Musk has been lying about his relationship with Epstein.

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new: Minnesota Timberwolves chaplain and activist Matt Moberg FaceTimed me from an ICE blanketed parking lot about his empathy for Anthony Edwards, Wemby's provocative statement about the Spurs, and the value (if any) of athletes speaking out. we ended early because ICE tried to arrest his mom.

When all of this technology was being sold and cheered on as making the world more convenient, it was clear to anyone who was paying attention and who knew a bit about how Israel’s occupation of Palestine, that the technology was just going to be used to track, oppress, and terrorize people.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold. It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.

Worry more about this than Chuck Schumer’s reputation bsky.app/profile/timo...

Democrats are hoping we'll all be calmer about this in 2 weeks They are hoping we will memory hole every awful thing that's happened this month while the GOP tries to get their people to be more genteel with the kidnappings Calling my senators to tell them to vote "no" actually

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