“The death camps are ruining property values!!!” Latest stage capitalism

This was the argument people successfully used against building an ICE facility to hold 8,000 immigrants in Byhalia, Mississippi—a town of under 1,400 with one family health clinic and no hospital. And Senator Roger Wicker agreed, spoke to Noem and killed it.

Operation Metro Surge is over, but federal agents will remain and many communities are still experiencing abuse across the country. Alongside @aclumn.bsky.social, we'll keep working to demand an end to this anti-immigrant rampage and accountability for the harms inflicted upon all our communities.

“Pretextual traffic stops are the new stop-and-frisk,” said Amy Thompson, staff counsel at Impact for Equity and a researcher on the new study. Police “are not only concentrating traffic stops in communities of color, but also for drivers of color driving throughout the city.”

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

"U.S. employers added just 181,000 jobs last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Wednesday. That was 69 percent fewer jobs than its initial estimate of 584,000. The agency also lowered its estimate of job growth in 2024 by nearly 28 percent." 🎁🔗: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...

palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.

I don't like Republicans. I don't want to choose between Republican lite and Republican classic. I don't oppose people like Newsom and Fetterman and Cuellar because I'm a Republican. Fuck Republicans. I oppose them because THEY are Republicans.

This exhibit will be up another week or two (?, I am so bad at time), and if you are in Chicago or environs you really need to stop by and see it. smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/...

"'She is dead,'" Officer Auderer told Officer Solan, before bursting out laughing. "'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"

God I really love meeting Faith Ringgold art in the wild.

Aside from his obvious ideological flaws, Newsom has become an amalgamation of what is wrong with politicians in general in the Trump era, in that he sees himself primarily as a content creator.

also i will NEVER forget that when it was Mamdani vs Cuomo, the blue no matter who people didn't say a word about voting for the Democrat no matter what. everyone saw that.

"What we all need to agree and commit it to is that journalism is a public good. Journalism is a thing that we need. Particularly when it comes to local news." For @inequality.org, @millsrodrigo.bsky.social interviewed two 51st co-founders, @abigailhiggins.bsky.social and @maddiepoore.bsky.social:

The Mellon Foundation trained me in the art of the sword; she taught me how to love, and how to kill in the name of second-wave feminism. The Mellon Foundation taught me the Weirding Way; my name became a killing word (my name is "Intersectionality").

I’m currently funded by Mellon. Every night my backers leave a little liberalization pill on my pillow, I take it, and then arise each morning to further chill the humanities discourse. So glad someone finally uncovered this abuse of power.

Adam Icky Butt England and Wales, Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008

Black and Hispanic drivers get the majority of Chicago’s traffic tickets — including in mostly white areas. blockclubchi.co/4aLWrrL

"Racist people are firing and laying off Black women at three times the rate of other women." 😬Yikes! It sounds bad when you say it like that! "Black women are losing jobs at 3 times the rate." Much better! Makes it sound like the Black women just need to be more careful or better at their jobs!

Facebook, later: "Some people have face blindness. It's ableist to deny them this adaptive technology. Besides, we added facial recognition for dogs first so that frightened children can be reunited with lost pets."

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Ali al-Samoudi was working with Al Jazeera's Abu Akleh when she was shot dead by an Israeli sniper in 2022.

Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel. One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.

Here’s the thing… a dusty, used-up, gravel-sounding, lying, murderous eugenicist who snorted blow off a toilet seat *is* the best that MAGA can find to do the job. Nobody else is any better than this scumbag. That’s the problem, they’re all this venal. It’s a jobs program for the scum of the earth.

My favorite part of the lost blankie story is that they had to re-hire the pilot because there was no one else to fly them home

Really wish they wouldn't call this "drug boat operations" or whatever. That's not what it is. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Things like this make me cry because it's such a reminder of the good in the world: an Italian guy designing whistles to be 3D printed in the US so we can defend our communities.

Part of why we were so excited about these is that he designed them to print on their sides, so you can pack 100 onto the A1 mini plate easily! I did my first 100 whistle test run and omg I LOVE THEM NOW THE RAINBOWS GO ACROSS THEM??? (teeth grooves added by suggestion of folks using them!) 😍

not ruling out sentience

Some really cool news: share.google/MFcPdFPSeZEx...

The Pride flag is once again waving at the Stonewall National Monument after New Yorkers took it upon themselves to return what the federal government had removed.

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Research shouldn’t be beholden by profit. We gotta get on the universal healthcare bandwagon. Vaccines AND research then become cost saving measures.

Let me get this straight: we're not getting any new vaccines, period? What the fuck?

okay that's quite enough external world for me today. good night yall

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

I'm just gonna start shitposting more and make them regret having to read the things I write. I've always tried to live my life in a manner where if I get dragged into a kangaroo court, i've at least made the most hilarious court transcripts of all time

Tired: be ungovernable Wired: be too annoying to infiltrate

I hope the feds in our group chat enjoy spending the weekend taking online assessments to see if they have adhd

Juno is hardly an unbiased source here, NASA. “‘Guy Not As Big a Deal As He Claims,’ Says Vengeful Wife Guy Cheated On Constantly”

hey y’all, when sharing old stories, stories that should be shared & people we should be thinking about, it’s important to note the date in posts because of where things are right now. this is from 2018. the CBP has always been violent, under Trump 1, under Dems. abolish CBP. abolish borders.

something from minnesota that i would like people to learn, that i don’t think is hitting people yet: helping MN is good. people need it. but people in your community need mutual aid too. care. resources. food. outside of times of crisis. and you can help.

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

Well holy fucking shit. Ring cancelled their partnership with Flock. Keep pressure on them to stop volunteering their feeds to state, local, and federal agencies, though, because that part's still going.

Excellent thread but also, representation makes me love the show more.

WTAF

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

Love seeing my friends get well-deserved shine! Congrats to @slavkobogdanov.bsky.social on this exciting new 🔭 result 🤩