There is no specific language in the Constitution that prohibits the president from using the National Guard to taunt his political opponents, so it's hard to imagine any reason for withdrawing troops from Chicago and Portland. by Jonathan Turley

Amethyst Conch Shell Bowl, central Europe, 17th century 9 x 15.5 x 9.1 cm

remember how Caroline Ellison, formerly of FTX and now of jail, was a Effective Altruist deeply concerned about the suffering of wild fish and *also* such an extreme race scientist she theorised about the genetic basis of Indian castes rationalists, man

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

As bad as this headline is, the details are worse. Russel Vought is trying to roll back SS for the elderly, the disabled, the widowed and orphaned and FURTHER cut food stamps. Make sure to read and share this gift link: wapo.st/4qa8yoq

Pleased to speak with the BBC about the lethal and lawless US strikes in the Caribbean. "There is no legal basis for these premeditated killings in the Caribbean."

A main focus of my whole career has been “harm reduction,” which is a general medical principle (EpiPens, taking aspirin after a heart attack, so much) but is most synonymous with reducing harms from illicit drugs. The President signed an executive order banning “harm reduction” and research into it

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

JD VANCE: "My mother got the drugs that almost killed her from Mexicans." REALITY: JD's mother got the drugs that almost killed her from her hospital patients, whom she stole from.

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

CPD just relieved feds from this line too. Then a moment later the feds gassed the whole area, including the cops.

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.

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

listen if you get to be fuckin ASTRONAUT you can think this way but if your job doesn't come with its own unique type of ice cream then maybe you should try to have an actual life

So much to mourn here. ICE shot and killed a single father just after he has dropped his two kids off at daycare. Their justification for stopping him was traffic violations form 12 years ago. Their justification for shooting him was that he was driving away. A completely needless tragedy.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Turkish activist Ersin Celik, a participant in the Sumud Flotilla, reported that Israeli forces seized Greta Thunberg, pulling her by her hair in plain sight, beating her, and coercing her into kissing the Israeli flag.

If you’re white, your accomplishments are your own and you can resent and criticize the country all you like, but if you’re black and successful you should be grateful to white people for allowing you in their presence. bsky.app/profile/jess...

South Carolina is attempting to do what Louisiana couldn’t 3 years ago: make abortion a crime punishable by death. They are also introducing a bill that would ban birth control, force students to watch propaganda videos on it, restrict IVF, & make all info about abortion online & via phone illegal

Today is the 12th anniversary of 369 Eritrean refugees who drowned in Lampedusa (Italy) exactly 12 years ago. As @meron.bsky.social wrote, one of them was 22 years old and was giving birth as she was drowning. Her body was later found with an umbilical cord attached to her baby.

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel fired an agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year, according to three people familiar with the matter and a dismissal notice reviewed by MSNBC. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

Short thread... This week ICE fascists: •Attacked & detained Black U.S. Citizen children in Chicago. •In a Chicago hospital ER, arrested Alderman Jessie Fuentes for demanding they show a judicial warrant before arresting someone. •In Broadview, IL, arrested US Veterans peacefully protesting. 1/3

“The law says he can’t do it so it’s not clear whether he can” is such a 2025 headline

Now holding forth about the Netherlands producing more food per capita than anyone else. WOMAN: You come over the hill and it looks like an alien autopsy! SENATOR: The whole Netherlands looks like that.

give the court room sketch artist a raise immediately

“‘We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure,’ the memo says.”

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Beyond the fact that legal immigrants and tourists can attend the Super Bowl, I find it absolutely hilarious that they're gonna have ICE harassing a bunch of rich people. Tickets are almost $10k. Please own the libs harder.

oh its the thing everyone said was going to happen when this got brought in and it immediately happened

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

i was explaining some of the tells that this is AI in this thread, because i have nothing better to do i guess lol bsky.app/profile/lime...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

a person at Treasury gave Defector a rundown of how this process—which appears to be against the law—was expedited in order to avoid public scrutiny defector.com/treasury-dep...

Pete Hegseth: “Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed..”

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening www.404media.co/google-calls...

There’s a retrocomputing newsletter that I want to like. On the most recent issue cover, there is an AI generated Atari computer that’s just so terrible. If you have a hobby, do the hobby. Don’t let an LLM create it for you. I’d rather see a 3 year-old’s crayon drawing over this monstrosity.

Today in “AI is a scourge”: I’m in an embroidery group on Facebook, and it feels like every day brings a new person who says “I bought this pattern on Etsy but it didn’t come with instructions and I don’t understand how they got this effect”

This thread is fun.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

Name a Videogame you've played 100 hours. Two of my top five: Stardew Valley at 2016 hours and RimWorld at 1015. Make that make sense!

i have something for this but first: please enjoy the cannons of judicial conduct

My author, Todd Arrington, was forced to resign as director of the Eisenhower Library and Museum because he wouldn’t give Eisenhower’s personal sword to Trump to use as a gift to King Charles. www.kake.com/home/directo...

NEW: By inflating numbers and narrowing definitions, the Heritage Foundation is promoting a false link between transgender identity and violence in a push for the FBI to create a new category of terrorism. By me & @couts.bsky.social:

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

The request for a gift for King Charles came from a State Department liaison who used the email address “giftgirl2025” and initially told the museum that they were looking for “like a sword or something,” according to a person familiar with the discussions.