IMPACT: New York Homeless Families Placed in Hotels Weren’t Guaranteed Social Services. New Regulations Could Change That. W/ @nysfocus.bsky.social

Paul Dano is 'incredibly grateful' for everyone who spoke up for him after Quentin Tarantino called him the 'weakest fucking actor in SAG' “That was really nice ... the world spoke up for me so I didn’t have to" (via Variety)

"My brave boys are so sensitive! If you're mean to them, they *have* to beat or shoot you, or they'll feel bad about themselves!" Man, buck the FUCK up.

"If I were to /happen to witness/ my daughter being raped by an illegal alien..." Ma'am, wtf. You are a 43-year-old hairdresser from Delmar, Maryland. You better worry less abt an "illegal immigrant" hurting your daughter & more about your PawPaw. Or the guy you just got engaged to in November.

None of these guys actually live like this, it’s a social media aesthetic they maintain so that if their start up does make it thy can pretend it was grit instead of luck that got them there. This is actually a model how thy want other people to live, particularly their employees

Free Liam and his Dad..! No 5 year old should have to endure being a political pawn and the fact that he is, is the largest flashing red light you need to recognize how far away from normal we are as a nation. I’m thoroughly disgusted and every American should be ashamed if you voted for THIS!

A report this morning shows interview with Joaquin Castro. He visited Liam and his father in detention. This little boy is wondering where his favorite hat and backpack have gone to. Wants them back. Probably being worn by an asshole ICE thug's kid by now.

Liam Ramos is also experiencing stomach pain, vomiting, fever and a complete loss of appetite, made worse by poor-quality food in detention. Attorneys who have visited the facility say the children inside are mentally broken. LIAM NEEDS A DOCTOR.

Look, all I'm saying is, what /is/ the right thing to do if the Japanese Imperial Navy abducts the captain of a Nazi ship from the Port of Singapore in 1937

"[P]olice ... killed a father of six in front of his family. This, too, was an expression of institutional weakness: a police force unable to solve crime, and therefore increasingly reliant on excessive force and collective punishment."

"[T]he Twin Cities have a ... rich history of radical and working-class organizing that stretches to the beginning of the 20th century."

"Alone among wealthy nations, the United States does not provide federal paid family leave or health insurance and does not subsidize childcare. ... The desire to impose racialized ideals of 'morality' and family structure have outweighed measures proven to help future generations."

The only two chairmen of the NEIC have both been appointed by the government, have both been involved in financial scandals. Rather telling isn't it, the type of people who get handed these cushy jobs?

"Federal immigration officers have shot and killed at least four other people in recent months ... [I]n the last four months, federal officers have fired on at least nine people who were in their vehicles."

"[A]ctivists are pushing for the California Mandela Act on Solitary Confinement, which would put strict limits on the length of isolation in state facilities, and ban it outright for pregnant people and people with disabilities. ... Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a version of the bill in 2022."

“Walsh spent a later segment of the same episode denigrating a Somali-American woman who said she was assaulted by ICE. He mocked her pride in being both Somali and American before alighting on the impossibility of assimilating “exotic” people from the “third world.””

I'll also freely admit that again, this whole thing is difficult for me, because again, on the one hand, I do not want to let anyone abduct people from Scotland for any reason, but on the other, these people were literal Russian agents. They too were violating our sovereignty.

"They know that [immigrants] are an integral part of the city, and the city will not survive without the contribution and participation of the immigrant populations."

"[I]t's very, very scary to think of th[e] lack of oversight ... [Y]ou're putting babies in a privately run jail."

"[A] Black man named Keith Porter was killed in [LA], allegedly at the hands of an off-duty ICE officer with a documented history of abusing children and being racist ... It was only after [Alex] Pretti was killed that Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer signaled his party would take a stand."

"Luther runs a unsanctioned library out of a broom closet, for which his fellow prisoners pay him $5 a week from a mutual aid fund of their own money. He logs every book ... and writes short reviews on index cards to help people decide what to read next."

Unlike Palestine Action activists, this guy who planted a homemade bomb in a public place was granted bail.

"[Silverio Villegas] González, [Marimar] Martinez, and [Keith] Porter [Jr.] didn't garner the same widespread attention ... [M]any white citizens are acknowledging, decades too late, the brutality immigrants face. White citizens who naively felt immune to ICE's violence are waking up."

Today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange theme is Light & Dark. We have chosen Two Miners Drilling by Graham Sutherland, sketched in a Welsh coalmine (1942) as a War Artist. Ink & red crayon heighten the miners’ monumental forms and the rock’s looming threat.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

Russian Tg channels report that Caspian Shiva,an Iranian tanker en route to Russia's Makhachkala,ran aground about 8km from Makhachkala's port. It’s being flooded by water due to high waves. There are unconfirmed reports that it might have been carrying Iranian weapons to Russia

"[E]ssentially, our immigration policies have created a mass grave down here on the southern border, which ... most of the media has ignored, and most of our congressmembers don't seem to care. That is what our immigration system is. It is an obstacle of death."

"[T]he Department of Justice is not pursuing a civil rights investigation of the killing of [Alex] Pretti, despite such a probe being standard protocol when law enforcement carry out fatal shootings."

The mayor recounted the tactics of ICE and the Border Patrol in Chicago, including putting a man, who was a legal resident, in a chokehold on the West Side and storming a South Shore apartment building in the middle of the night with the aid of a Black Hawk helicopter.

Baltimore bridge collapse: crew members from ship still held by US two years on

"[U.S. District Court Judge Fred] Biery also forbade the feds from transferring [5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father] out of the district they're currently imprisoned in ... likely to prevent the administration from being able to re-litigate the matter in a different jurisdiction."

Minotaur in the labyrinth, Roman mosaic at Conímbriga, Portugal Frank Stella, Labyrinth, 1960

They stole his Spidey backpack.

"The question before us is not whether the U.S. is 'turning into' something else. The question is whether we are ... willing to tell the truth about how power has always worked here — and what it costs to keep pretending otherwise."

"[T]here is a huge 'consulate of Ecuador' sign over the door."

"[T]hey locked me up, cuffed me up, took me down to the hole, stripped me naked and left me ... exposed to the elements in a building that is not heated."

The Board of Peace plans to build a prison camp in Rafah (they call it a city) for 25,000 Palestinians, where the prisoners will be monitored 24/7 & every aspect of their lives will be controlled by Israel. Sharif Kouddous from @dropsitenews.com explains its already being built.

"They mix baby formula with water that is putrid. The food has bugs in it. The guards are often verbally abusive ... One of my clients had appendicitis, collapsed in the hallway, was vomiting from pain, and the officials told him, 'Take a Tylenol and come back in three days.'"

Winter, Vilhelms Purvītis, 1910.

Chuck Schumer just announced demands on DHS to avoid shutdown: 1. End roving patrols, tighten rules on warrants 2. Enforce accountability & unified code of conduct for agents 3. No more masks & require bodycams There are *already* standards on much of this. The issue is DHS isn't following them!

The technology exists to limit the speeds of motor vehicles. We limit the speeds of people on ebikes but allow drivers of cars to go as fast as they want so they can kill people and dogs on our streets.

I'd like Barack Obama to do a podcast on the downriver effects of his decision to "look forward, not back" vis-à-vis not prosecuting his lawless war criminal of a predecessor and that entire lawless administration.

Even if I didn’t have elderly parents who receive essential help from wonderful care givers, I would find this appalling. But knowing the women who help my parents do the things they are no longer able to do for themselves, highlights the obscenity of this policy of disrespect for care workers

"We have a financial ecosystem hiding behind what we're calling treatment and recovery ... [T]he current situation creates a lot of wealth and not a lot of recovery."

This government clearly don't really understand the complexity or the danger of the situation. They show no sign of beginning to understand, and every sign of asking the monorail salesman how public transport should work. It's going to be an uphill struggle, but don't leave this to politicians.

This woman hates poor children.

"[T]he federal and state government had records confirming that they closely partnered on this facility from the beginning but failed to disclose them to the district court ... They cannot continue to evade responsibility for what they've done to the Everglades. The government is not above the law."

"When ICE enforcement occurs in or near places where children should be safe ... children experience fear that disrupts their sense of stability."

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NEW: Dozens of Cuban men designated for deportation from the United States have been stranded at the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, since before Christmas in one of the most puzzling episodes in the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/u...