In Broadview, IL this morning outside Chicago— Federal agents have kidnapped hundreds of immigrants in recent weeks. Outside the ICE processing center here, protesters are gathered for another Friday morning demo. Last week's ended in tear gas and arrests. ICE vans periodically rolling in.

AI is a lack of consent machine this attitude about creativity is descended from out attitudes about creativity and chattel slavery we look at certain people's / professions work as a "right" It's public property so they don't deserve respect or credit most of academia and policy agrees

This is it. This is exactly right.

these people are embarrassing! they should be embarrassed, I am embarrassed for them and I hate them! frank castle would be embarrassed and he's a fictional character!

Lead exposure video. Environmental protections are important. youtu.be/vm_1XLKtGpI?...

The DOE has refused to release a list of cancelled awards, but I obtained a copy and dove into the numbers. Here's what they revealed. techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/l...

Well this leads to an uncomfortable question I think the electeds themselves are avoiding, who do we think the police will listen to?

I need a file for the details such as this. Not main events or even close, but the little daggers that cut deepest.

Idk how you can see this massive body of evidence and not come to the conclusion that the US government is trying to kill women and children by blocking these vaccines

The saddest part of this is all the people who were snitched on and lost jobs, or threats called in to HBCUs. How many people were harmed so a conservative "martyr" could be forgotten in three weeks. That is all that this bastard left behind.

AGENT: *flips the mental sign for "It Has Been X Days Since My Author(s) Did the Thing" back to 0* (It was already on 0)

Day Four of Book Tour! After a marvelous two days with the locals, during which much Important Business was discussed—including the Important Business where Our Heroine and her editor split a bottle of champagne on a rooftop bar and descended into I LOVE YOU MANning—our heroine heads out again!

Federal agents reporting to Secretary Noem have spent weeks snatching up families, scaring law-abiding residents, violating due process rights, and even detaining U.S. citizens. They fail to focus on violent criminals and instead create panic in our communities.

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

Can we stop calling a few frames of autoplagiarize video an "actress"? Hatsune Miku is more of an actress, because real humans use Miku to create actual art. Likewise Miss Piggy. And the only true Tilly is @tillybridges.bsky.social , this is established fact.

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

"This case is meant to chill all of us." Atlanta-based journalist Mario Guevara faces imminent deportation to El Salvador despite having work authorization in the U.S., where he has lived for decades. He was detained while covering a "No Kings" protest and has spent over 100 days behind bars.

Fun fact: deaths due to overdoses of all kinds massively decreased after it became required to write prescriptions more unambiguously, numbers spelled out, etc. Making it harder for mistakes to happen in between prescribing and receiving the prescription, saved countless lives. Chatgpt flips a coin

Translation: fuck um amirite!

About two dozen residents gathered at Marydale Park Thursday to show solidarity with a group of Latino roofers who were detained by federal agents while on a job in the North End neighborhood of St. Paul.

It gradually begins to dawn that replacing web sites with apps distributed through easily-controlled chokepoints was a terrible idea

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Here’s the SIDS mortality graph 1991-2021. Babies who recently recovered from a respiratory infection are believed to be at a heightened risk of SIDS. RFK Jr wants to make this line go up and to the right (Enlarge: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/...)

He also cut the office that oversaw the Safe to Sleep campaign, that caused drastic declines in the rate of SIDS.

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military." The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

This “is a really concerted effort from the gov to try & deport a journalist who was very well known in [Atlanta], esp in Spanish language communities, & to curtail the ability of other reporters to go out w/confidence that they could cover & live stream police activity without fear of retaliation.”

He also invented “major question” doctrine which bans Biden from doing things clearly authorized by law but apparently allows Trump to eliminate a congressionally-mandated agency.

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Director 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...

Just ban this crap next time. Only a small minority actually uses it. There is no natural constituency, just a ton of bribe money. Same as crypto.

I would like to know how we can identify the specific persons at CNN who researched, wrote, edited, and approved this and hang it around their necks for the rest of their professional lives.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

super duper illegal

'The fact that we can quickly...evaluate places from our phones has made our lives immeasurably easier and better. I am as grateful that we have this technology as I am not beholden to it. Just because I have the option to use my phone...doesn't mean I always need to or will'- @enbrown.bsky.social 👇🏼

"The journalist Jane Coaston has a theory that a lot of people's nostalgia for earlier eras is actually just yearning for a time when they were younger and less burdened. . . . it's just that they miss the lazy freedom of childhood or the ignorance of current affairs and tragedy that comes with it."

It's no secret that I am no fan of Kamala Harris. But her new book was made bearable by its hilarious undercurrent of disappointment in, disbelief at, and sometimes barely concealed rage about Joe Biden

This is an excellent takedown of a lot of popular "phone bad" sentiment, which sits at the intersection of moral panic and nostalgia for the precise time in your life you were a carefree young person.

It's worth asking how differently things might look on the ground right now if #SCOTUS hadn't eviscerated Bivens—and made it all-but impossible to bring damages suits against federal officers (like ICE agents) who violate our constitutional rights. This is from my rebuttal in Hernández v. Mesa:

Flatly untrue: *No legal requirement to cut programs/employees under shutdowns. Never happened before. *In Feb, Vought told agencies to prioritize firing employees deemed non-essential during shutdown to enable DOGE mass firings that occurred before the shutdown. www.opm.gov/chcoc/latest...

I am weirdly upset about the pansy-ass Nazi wannabes in the DoD getting their disgusting little hands all over the Ike jacket. Those bastards aren’t allowed to ruin the Ike jacket by association, it’s too sexy for that fate 😭

If the president fires a bunch of people, it’s not because of his shutdown—it’s because HE decided to fire them. People aren’t negotiating tools & it's sick that the president is treating federal workers like pawns. Making threats and choosing to hurt people won't win my vote.

why are all the harvard business review tips emails this week like "what to do if your CEO falls off a cliff" "how a CEO can fall off a cliff gracefully" "can AI replace your CEO" "how to manage-up with a CEO who is literally satan"

Yeah, well, this is what abusers do when they don't get their way. They destroy the house that everyone lives in because long-term consequences take a back seat to short-term indulgences of fear-inducing rage. We're in the smashing plates and taking a baseball bat to lamps phase of this now.

Amdahl's law. Parallelizing stuff *was* an important and real task, GPU's are linear algebra machines and linear algebra is highly parallelizable, so it made perfect sense. Then they all snorted a mountain of cocaine at Epstein's, got kicked in the head by a horse, and started to believe in magic.

bsky.app/profile/orpa... Nope, just like with crypto the used GPUs are totally fucking useless for graphics processing, but *also* the brand new $50,000 ones too.

These guys now are selling magic beans back and forth to each other with money *they can't possibly afford* each desperate to not be left holding the bag because they all know that: There is no pivot to a new grift left.

One way of thinking about the AI bubble is that it's the final gasp of a grift based on specialized GPU's instead of tulips, a logical continuation from crypto and NFT's and the metaverse. Like, there's nowhere else for it to go, no other magical use for this shit other than as electronic waste.

My dad is decidedly not thrilled, as his current computer isn’t capable of upgrading and he has a LOT of files he’d have to migrate

you need to stop giving into to doomer impulses. these are fights we can win. We've won some of them BEFORE, with LESS public outcry (tho do not let that engender passivity!) quite a few of these dogshit bills have failed before! we can change the future!

Among the many services indefinitely postponed because of the government shutdown: the hearing + trial in the American Academy of Pediatrics' lawsuit against RFK Jr. over the actions he's taken to limit Americans' access to COVID vaccines.