At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures. Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:

RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

This timeline gets dumber every day

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."

Rand Paul: "I see not even a hint here of anything aggressive on [Pretti's] part. I don't think this should take months and months. There needs to be a conclusion ... the public needs to know, if I go to a protest and shout something at people, could I be killed?"

Ending this operation is not enough. We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

"Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape, sources said."

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

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I finally got an invite to Eurosky today & rather than migrate my account again from Northsky, I thought I'd just make a fresh new start & try to curate a less US-centric feed for my own wellbeing. So anyhow, if you're in the EU, esp Portugal, you can follow my new account @jdgoulet.eurosky.social.

She is an empty suit, of course. And an absolute nasty piece of cornbread. She is also, to my somewhat trained ear, absolutely, positively terrified here. She is either intimidated by the process or deeply anxious about her relationship with her boss. Or both. But she is terrified.

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

The Greek experience demonstrates, first, that the struggle against the far right never ends. There is no room for complacency or for thinking that “we won” because the far right is always waiting for its next opportunity. 1/

Kalecki said that capitalists are more comfortable with fascist governments because together they can squash organized labour, while getting a bigger share of the pie.

Dell has been on this beat since the very beginning and points out a thing often missed: the cost to all of us for Amazon’s loss prevention strategy is a nationwide surveillance network.

Dentist: Have you been flossing? Me: *deflects by consulting my burn book of dentist insults* Big talk from a guy who looks at tongues all day

I watched the whole thing because it's astonishing

Palantir must be destroyed.

Every time Bitch McConnell makes the news for receiving healthcare, I will repost this essay.

🌟 Sex workers at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel in Pahrump, Nevada, are unionizing with the Communications Workers of America @cwaunion.bsky.social Last week, management fired several pro-union workers—including the union’s primary organizer, Jupiter Jetson thenevadaindependent.com/article/sex-...

that’s it, i’ve finally taken my best photo of all time 😅 (this chubster is an unapologetic beggar so don’t feel bad for him) 🧪🌍 #bird #birb

“Are you firmly in favour of rejoining the European Union?" - Robert Peston “Firmly very much in favour. Brexit has been a disaster under any criteria, under any measure" - Zack Polanski

feels like i should re-post this every few weeks

no joke here, just a reminder that the ultra wealthy do not see you as human but rather as a resource to extract for profit

Gandalf really is heroic when you consider that there were originally five wizards and one of them turned evil, two of them fucked off and went out east to have orgies, and one is just super into talking to gophers. The one last hope of free peoples was the stoner and that crazy mfer did it.

Though an American-born emigrant to Portugal, I'm a Euro Hawk in my head & a Euro Dove in my heart. I strongly support a Values Coalition. "Europe cannot be prosperous without being secure, and cannot be secure without being prosperous." 💯

Pam Bondi “is using the fascist authoritarian playbook in the same way that my family was on the receiving end of those same tactics and strategies during the Nazi-era,” Vermont Congresswoman Becca Balint told me in an interview after the unhinged hearing. www.advocate.com/politics/pam...

It's kind of insane: the obvious lane open today in US politics is fiery left populism that vows to restrain & discipline the Epstein class ... but our only left party is run by that same class & its quisling pundits! Something is gonna break.

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

Damn, @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social's got hands today.

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Everybody stop what you're doing and look at this cat I'm sitting

Rep. Jesús García comes out swinging: "You're one of the worst attorney generals in our history and an instrument of Donald Trump's lawless authoritarian agenda, and I'm glad the American people are seeing who you are."

BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein BALINT: Weak sauce BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution-- BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*

A handyman from Florida who received a pardon from President Trump for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted on state charges of child sex abuse and exposing himself to a child. n.pr/4tx7oVq

Who emerging technology benefits is, as always, a key thing to understand. U.S. Big Tech is going all in with the power of the regime they bought & well-funded think tanks & lobbyists at its back because they need to crush the EU's protections for their plans of domination & control to work.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

💯 Especially in its Silicon Valley / 🇺🇸 context, AI is the latest 🔧 for capitalist accumulation via lowering labor costs to increase surplus value by: - deskilling to reduce wages - concentrating the means of production in the ✋️ of the few - weakening workers' bargaining power Who it's FOR matters.

Everyone needs to watch the whole hearing! The Dems are on FIRE and Bondi is performing for an audience of one in her contemptible testimony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vrQ...

one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

New from @ledbydonkeys.org

Me switching back & forth between coverage of the most awful people in government as they implode under well-earned interrogation in both the US & UK at the same time. What did I do to deserve this (complementary)? "A moral black hole... revolting," @aaronjbastani.bsky.social re: Keir Starmer

Meanwhile, live from *this* side of the pond...

Please stop, I might pee myself from laughing 😂

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Careful, Bondi, you might drown in all those tears you're choking back right now.