“US law enforcement has never experienced a scandal as big, as far-reaching, destructive, and as far-lasting as the wave of corruption and criminality that has overtaken CBP and the Border Patrol since 2005." - @vermontgmg.bsky.social

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

Biden's FBI was trying to build cases right up until the end of his term, victims told Tara Palmeri that they were being invited in to look at photos and everything stopped when Trump came into office.

Abolishing ICE should be easy. ICE hasn't been around that long, and anything it does that ought to be done can be passed along to other agencies or institutions. The Border Patrol has been around for 101 years, and it should probably also be torn down and its useful functions rebuilt from scratch.

This is a good point re: Portland today This wasn't on federal land It wasn't when agents were claiming to do any enforcement activity It was federal agents shooting gas at children and union families in the streets Im not a lawyer, but I dont see how qualified immunity counts here It's assault

No matter how you slice it, ICE’s actions are the preeminent kitchen-table problem for everyone, whether you are balancing your books or sheltering your family from their latest campaign of brutality. trib.al/UDVMr2M

I think we can get to a full defunding of ICE in two weeks, IF Senate Dems are afraid of primaries and Senate R’s are afraid of a 2026 wipeout. Full defund of ICE and get trump brownshirts out of MN. bsky.app/profile/whst...

Republicans should fear electoral wipeout (in the general, to Dems.) Democrats should fear electoral wipeout (in the primary, to Dems that will fight harder.) bsky.app/profile/stev...

Gawker was sued out of existence by billionaires who didn't want to be investigated by really good journalists who had the perfect rolodexes to get dirt on a pervert cabal and maybe upend their whole new world order. It isn't a scandal sheet you dope.

Target called the police on peaceful Minnesotans today, telling us we were on private property. But when ICE comes to brutalize and abduct people in their stores, Target says it’s public space and can’t stop it. Target needs to decide - do they stand with Minnesotans, or masked abductors? #ICEOut

The people who bitch about "virtue signaling" hate the virtue at least as much as the signaling.

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome

This photo made me understand class in America in a way that I was unable to process before seeing it. The rich enjoy class solidarity on a level that is unimaginable to most people.

That's how fascism works: it offers the broken and disgraced a home -- and unlike the nobler organizations that do that, they don't offer forgiveness or a chance to expiate: just money, power, protection, and revenge.

“.. It was laughable, if there was something to laugh about,” said one of the nurses .. “There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/immi...

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

these mfs want to own slaves

We know that that lots of social scenarios will reliably make lots of people go completely insane - put them in a cult, make them a prison guard, whatever - but didn’t consider that “being active online” or “watching a lot of Fox News” are also high-pressure social scenarios

I think what we have overlooked that has made society go haywire is that social pressures are the single strongest force acting on human beings, and the human brain doesn’t really distinguish between real-life, media-sourced, and internet social pressures. Our phones and feeds are pressure cookers

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

Tbh this is kind of what lawmakers should be doing when they show up at ICE detention sites and get illegally turned away. Be like "I'm going in unless you arrest me, so you better arrest me now"

The Melania film reviews are out!

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

ONE WOULD THINK

It would have been so much more dignified for everyone if Bezos had just cut a $40M check to Melania for "consulting" or something. Much less "deadweight loss". But I think the lack of dignity, the degradation, is half of the point here

There's a kind of contrarian who will spend the next decade insisting there is some "thoughtful" way to use AI and he (inevitably He) alone will find it, but there can be no thoughtful use of something that obliterates thought. That is its sole purpose. It's like trying to build a house out of fire.

I can’t stand when people act confused about some clear shit.

As someone who works in this space, I was always told that 'good enough was never good enough'. The people pumping out AI slop are completely trying to shift that narrative to 'you'll like what we tell you to like' I knew things were bad, but this is grim, grim reading.

Q: So you're not pulling back in Minnesota? TRUMP: No no. Not at all.

Love the new Aronofsky scene where the colonist takes off his hat to cheer, revealing that underneath it was a second and somehow larger hat Masterful artsistic choice

The nice thing about working in law enforcement is that you get to pick and choose what laws you’re into

All when we had a very sharp team that had been working together for months that hadn't faced these kinds of hiccups before. And it wasn't improving quality. It was just like adding an additional team member who was bad at their job but whispered in everyone's ear.

As Greg points out, the Times thinks they're doing a dunk on Pretti, when actually they're providing evidence of *motive.* The ICE agents should be charged with Murder 1.

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

It seems that Tom Homan’s shift to a more humane approach is just ICE agents targeting local schools. Reports of parents getting abducted outside of schools, agents entering schools, hanging out around children’s bus stops.

if you manage to get a time machine, and you find early 20s me, i am telling you in no uncertain terms to ignore literally everything he says, he was a fucking idiot

hey remember when Microsoft tried to change all of Windows into this format saying that the future of everything was going to be tablets and touch screens, then everybody said nah it will not you're just wrong and pretty bad, then it mostly of got phased out, anyway that but now for AI in everything

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

Still happening, unfortunately: racketmn.com/mn-ice-watch...

I just agree with the theory that, if he is the source of the shut down, normal people will learn who he is and they will absolutely hate him. Also, could demand both his removal and a change in ICE funding!

These all look like cool people who most Americans would be happy to drink a beer with

I'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.

This is a defeated regime begging the Minnesota working class to play along with their PR strategy and let them save face and leave with some tattered flinders of dignity flapping from their soiled khakis. The Minnesota working class should stay on the streets & force them to scurry away like rats.

All of these people have grown accustomed to being able to say something to get people to stop paying attention to an issue; resolution without action. They are going to keep trying it here and it is never going to work.

I will believe that ICE enforcement has changed on the ground when I stop getting daily notices that armed, masked goons are circling my kids’ schools and trying to sow fear in the parent patrols.

Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump. Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.