Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban https://aje.news/ljjuww

Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them: 1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens 2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar 3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia

Why is Tulsi Gabbard at an FBI raid on an elections office in Fulton County?

Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody. She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care. We need to reform immigration detention.

1/27/2026 - Minneapolis ICE just attempted an illegal entry into the ECUADORIAN CONSULATE to abduct someone They did not have a warrant

ICE in minneapolis are causing international incidents because agents don’t understand what a consulate is and tried entering ecuador’s the country has put out a statement in spanish

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

There's no way you can keep funding a federal government who's primary mission is to inflict pain on the population. Every federal agency from McMahon at DoE to RFK shredding HHS and everything in between. Every day we let them stay open is more time we'll need to repair the damage they've done

Am I the only one who feels stuck in a loop, where - people answer email using AI - recipient asks another AI to translate it to "human readable language" because the AI fluff is unreadable - same recipient then uses AI, to answer yet another more unreadable stuff, to said email - rinse and repeat ?

Watch this space. The idiots in the regime are including ICE agents in diplomatic protection details abroad, and Italian elected leaders are not having it. The mayor of Milan calls ICE "a militia that kills."

Friends, I’m once again asking you to donate. But not to me! @claireforny.bsky.social is a union organizer, democratic socialist and my former Assembly colleague running for Congress in NY-7. Chip in today: secure.actblue.com/donate/clair...

Great read on what it means to run different kinds of ATProto services, that along the way does a good job of explaining that we don’t run instances here.

Proud to work with the @washingtonpost.com's fearless international reporters. They're the heart of this newsroom, and we'd understand our world less without them. #SaveThePost

I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.

On top of everything else that needs to be done when this mess is all over, America needs to apologize to the trans community. Those poor folk were the canaries in the mine, and OH BOY DID THEY TRY TO WARN US ... and very few listened. This administrations regime started with attacking they/them.

The opening of “Melania” seems to be going well.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911! “I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

GOG job listing says Linux is "the next major frontier" for Galaxy client I just spotted a job listing for a Senior Software Engineer over on GOG's website and it reveals a lot! #Linux #LinuxGaming #PCGaming #gog #proton #RetroGaming gardinerbryant.com/gog-job-list...

We're getting a snowstorm tomorrow. But New York City is prepared.

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Up and down the west coast, Seattle to LA..

the erroneous ruling of the supreme court, where millionaires, billionaires, can put unlimited amounts of money, give legal bribery the chance to prevail" - Jimmy Carter

Photo by me

Dog documentary I'm watching w/kids: These animals can operate machines, smell cancer, & read our emotions. Their brains/physiology have evolved to mirror ours. They are perfect companions. Cat doc: Cats are murderers who, with years of training, may jump through a hoop. My kids: I WANT A CAT

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

As promised, here is a multi-camera timeline, with sources and screenshots. Other people have drawn the same conclusions - that it was murder, that Pretti's shooter saw his gun taken - but this document can serve as a general reference. 2/ docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The people defending the murder of Alex Pretti are Exhibit A of why you can never appeal to MAGA’s sense of humanity. It doesn’t exist.

The local sheriff was horrified by the arrest of his recruit, and said the federal government is telling a different story of what’s really happening. trib.al/jvJF4OO In the video, the man can be heard shouting, “What’s wrong? I’m just coming from work. I don’t understand this.”

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

We are at the part of fascist consolidation where maddow is sharing crimethinc on Main. Which is massive. The Neoliberal establishment has no idea how how fast people are radicalizing away from neoliberal status quo compared to where they were even a month ago. This is a major sign of things.

Kash Patel is firing senior agents and directors at the FBI with connections to investigations into Donald Trump. trib.al/HZikPgm

. @vermontgmg.bsky.social: "There is no bright line between democracy and autocracy, it’s a spectrum, and not all of the country will experience that switch at the same moment in the same way" www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

Greg Brockman, OpenAI's COO, donated $25m to a MAGA Superpac, spare me finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...

Right wing white dudes finally noticing things a lot of women do for their kids, offices and communities on a daily basis: PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

During the Great Depression, the WPA hired 274 librarians, mostly local women, to carry books from local libraries to rural Appalachian residents, riding 100-120 miles a week, across rugged terrain. They also prepared special collection scrapbooks with recipes, canning techniques, how-to guides.

I’m fairly high-info, and I didn’t know half the details in this. “CBP officers and Border Patrol agents commit crimes at an equal or even greater rate PER CAPITA than the population of undocumented immigrants do in the United States”. Also, they only get 47 days of training. Yes, that’s why.

For those of us who have to learn tonal languages later in life....

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths,...

For those asking where we go from here: Not voting to fund ICE is a great place for us to start.

In the wake of another fatal shooting in Minneapolis. AG Pam Bondi sends Gov. Walz a letter today making several asks including: "Allow DOJ Civil Rights division access to state voter rolls"

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...