Every ICE Agent is the worst person alive

Three key points: 1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February 2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty 3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

I hope I am around when gambling becomes illegal again, and the scholarly work is allowed to progress - the way that the industry, with the help of media and government, has battered away average Americans' common sense is terrifying to behold. People DO NOT understand what they are doing.

This is a power play obviously but also ICE absolutely cannot let cameras in that building. I am confident that the conditions inside would be a massive scandal, even for them. I cannot overemphasize enough how SMALL of a space it is to conduct operations at the scale we've seen.

Remember after 2016 when liberals kept trying to contrast "pragmatic moderate" Bernie with the "radical utopian" socialists in DSA? And how they immediately pivoted and went back to war with Bernie during the 2020 primaries? That's what they're doing with Mamdani now. They'll turn on him ASAP.

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

jesus christ

I spent the 05 draft screaming for someone to draft Sproles, I spent the 25 draft screaming for someone to draft Skattebo - at some point, draft experts and GMs are going to realize that 'unbelievable production in every conceivable way' is a great indicator at the college level for pro players.

Travis Hunter appears to walking the wall of the stadium high fiving any fans that are still there, which strikes me as really terrific energy for a rookie.

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.

The men kneeling on this peaceful protester are not ICE. The reality is that the sheer number of people in a city like Chicago means that without the state assisting in its own occupation, these “operations” could not succeed. Which certainly begs the question of who serves whom.

'A man broke his leg' is wild stenography, man.

It's two parts, I think: 1. Truly, ideologically, the Dems are just the Reaganite Republicans. They dont want the popular things. They think those things are bad. 2. They serve their constituency; it's just that, bc of campaign finance laws and pooled wealth, we arent IN that constituency.

'Astronaut says Sisyphus unwilling to push boulder back up the hill upon realizing he has stumbled into an eponymous task'

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

bring on the wider turn against US tech and social media

Israel committed piracy by illegally intercepting the #GlobalSumudFlotilla in international waters. Human rights defenders, from 46 countries, including Greta Thunberg, were abducted as nearly 40 vessels carrying aid, for genocide & starvation stricken Gaza, were stopped. #3E

Charlie kirk gets killed by a white man, HBCUs get bomb threats. White man shoots up a white church, people talk negatively about the Black Panthers. People get mad about alleged latin american drug cartels, a predominately Black apartment complex gets raided at 2 am I'm seeing a trend

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

ICE reportedly opened fire on rapid responders on the southwest side this afternoon. There are *very few* details on this available at this time. Treat all rumors with caution until verified. This Sun-Times article cites a DHS statement that should be treated, as always, with extreme skepticism:

if this headline seems weird you've gotta understand that for like a decade newsrooms have been pushing the idea that it's never murder if you're in a car because it's always the fault of the person the car ran over, because newspaper owners hate protestors.

Kaleb Horton’s mom has written some comments and asked to spread her thanks for everyone online who’s been sharing their appreciations: “you all made my suffering feel more bearable. Thank you so much and God Bless you all.” @lukeoneil47.bsky.social @nedraggett.bsky.social @alexnpress.bsky.social

Kaleb Horton RIP.

Kaleb's death has caved in my hope. The more shock I see people express at his poverty, the more clear it is that he was killed by this country, by the wealthy few, starved, for the threat of his words. His shadow goes on for days and days.

It's depressing to see them rolling out this messaging, now, while the gestapo is thundering around the streets, instead of *anytime in the last 15 years*. Like, yeah, it's appalling. It's also the thinnest thread that could be pulled on.

Another powerful reminder to free yourself, and as best you can the people in your life, from using this company. Amazon is malignant, across every vector, a burden on society, and the deal you think you are getting (and usually are not) is not worth it.

If any of those people were consulted, then the attacks would be thrown back, and the AI products would not get purchased by states and towns, and the facilitators wouldnt get their kickbacks. Ignorance is a key component to these endeavors; in many cases it is the engine.

Gonna be real: if waffles were responsible for normalizing bigotry against a group of people and were cited in laws to discriminate against them I'd think the waffle haters have a point. That's me though.

It's extremely bleak to see people posting pictures of Sesame Street in their 'NPR wont be silenced' tweets, given the Corporation For Public Broadcasting sold the program off to HBO ten years ago, and just recently to Netflix. PBS hasnt been what people remember for a LONG time.

I swear to the goddess nothing infuriates me more than the faux-naïveté of techbros—they will create and unleash tech that can have monstrous consequences for the most vulnerable among us, and if challenged about it, suddenly they become newborn babies knowing nothing of this cruel world

they need to foot this bill. they can't just outsource AI costs to the public. this is criminal.

40 years old is crazy. Fucking Millennial sniper in Haiti? Absurd how many of these dudes are drifting around, waiting to go off, all armed to the fucking teeth bc its easier to get a gun than a yearly check up.

The End of History and the Beginning of My Bad

ICE is all the dudes who were not allowed to be cops - like, the sociopaths and malcontents who were too undisciplined to be the guys who society lets kill whoever they want. And the fitness level is exactly what you'd expect. That's like twenty dudes, and not one of them could catch a bus.

It's insane hearing auto-readers on primetime tv commercials. There's really not a shred of integrity left in media.

Color Rush uniforms are a crime against the nation. None of them look good. Ever. The Pats, in particular, look god awful. This is genuinely what Madden did for years and years when they didnt have the rights to allow you to actually alter team uniforms.

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🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

There's truly no way to square his accomplishments in print with his poverty, save that he was instantly identifiable as a titan of the art, and a potentially very dangerous one, and the frighteningly small pool of ownership of the paying media said 'no, not him'.

Kaleb didnt so much have a style, as he relentlessly pounded you with lines that, be they funny, sad, insightful, dire, what have you, felt like unassailable truth. The fucking density of his writing is what bowled me over. He wrote things for you to think about. Is there a finer compliment?

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Put together some thoughts here. In an earlier time he would have been the kind of writer being paid $5 a word by magazines to go write about whatever he pleased. And no one would be pissed off or jealous about it either. www.welcometohellworld.com/life-is-a-pr...

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

This is the Kaleb Horton piece that deserved to make him the defining voice of today. He was an poet, a comic, and a cultural anthropologist who understood America on a soul-deep level. It's his 2016 road trip to the Constitution Party's election convention in Utah. web.archive.org/web/20160918...

Absolute bullshit Kaleb Horton died. His was the sort of writing that 200 years from now will be studied to understand the culture and politics of our era.

Kaleb Horton was the voice of an era, it just happened to be the one that didnt pay writers a living wage, and we are all the poorer for it. An incandescent soul, a luminary writer, I think maybe a genius, and though I only knew him through the screen, a humble, kind, and thoughtful person.

Wild that the opening premise of the new season of Slow Horses is 'what if the UK...were America on a day ending in 'Y'?'

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.