I uh, un-recommend Best Bus

Any one of these daily atrocities should result in a full congressional investigation and a disbanding of the agency. The fact that it’s all just shrugged off by those with the power to stop it is a national disgrace.

Are puppy teeth the sharpest naturally occurring objects?

Lush is such a lovely musical escape, on SOMA.FM. I highly recommend it.

Shout out to everyone currently experiencing everything

If you work for ice please understand that your kids will laugh at a character based on you dying in an action movie before the end of the decade. They’ll be in movies for really little kids. Like Phineas and Ferb shit. There will be an action figure of you with a detachable head

Insomnia? In this economy?

yeah i'll vote for gavin newsom under extreme circumstances. like say we're on a life raft and need to decide who to eat first. or our plane crashes in the andes and we're figuring out who to barbecue for dinner. or if we're wagon-bound and stranded in a frozen pass over the sierra nevada mountains,

I endorse every single word of this.

Do not bring Newsom up to me unless it’s being snarky about him. I live in CA, I love trans people and I will not vote for that asshole (how could you possibly consider voting for a transphobe who hates homeless people? wtf is wrong with you?)

ken is one of the last true american journalists, who is actually doing what journalists are supposed to do. cancel your NYT/WaPo/Atlantic/<Whatever other blinkered and state-fellating “news” tabloid> subscriptions and give him that money instead

Hey, people are permanently losing their eyesight at some of these protests and have been for some time. These people, the ones that have put their bodies on the line, are among the people who would benefit from your usage of alt-text when posting protest related imagery.

"Require alt text before posting" should be the default, not the setting we keep having to re-enable when it gets re-disabled by the software.

AAAHHHHHHHH

something big is happening

why do you think they get so mad when someone like him gets in

I'm baking two sweet potatoes. Who wants one?

I'm just sitting here, trying to figure out how to threat model for armed, masked thugs who may kidnap you off the street, then steal, and possibly sell your phone.

Now would be a good time for someone to invoke the 25th amendment or draw up articles of impeachment.

The latest from my friend who at least I think is still my friend but I just can’t figure her out much of the time lately, especially since she keeps using X/Twitter (paraphrasing): “Yeah it’s disturbing or whatever but i mean I don’t specifically use grok so idk 🤷 ” :headdesk:

"Let me make this CLEAR. Our police officers will NOT protect you from being black bagged by the goon squad. But they WILL beat the shit out of you if you protest too loud."

I broke the story yesterday that masked ICE agents (not DOJ) were removing items including a personal computer from the home of Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot Renee Good. I have yet to see a single news outlet cover this or an elected official even acknowledge it.

holy shit has my mind been primed negatively this week. this is lovely. however, i literally expected, as i read this very enjoyable post, for it to go in some kind of "and then an ogre stepped on it and destroyed it" direction—but then it didn't! this was just a nice thing! so nice!

Protesters making as much noise as possible in front of the Hilton Canopy where ICE agents are staying in Minneapolis.

"Men fear women will laugh at them; women fear men will kill them." -- Margaret Atwood, Waterloo University, February 1982

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

mask technology must've seen ginormous advances since the pandemic, because now every ice agent manages to wear a mask all day despite the fact that (per the science knowers on the right) wearing a mask used to cut off your oxygen supply, cause carbon dioxide poisoning, & wreck your immune system

Anyone else surprised they even release this?

ICE entirely out of existence. Poof.

Heading toward the White House

Turning into P st. MPD seem a little taken off guard

“U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to Portland city councilors.” katu.com/news/local/i...

I created an Apple Shortcut for iPhone that lets you quickly generate accessibility alt text for images using Apple’s Private Cloud Compute model — it’s accurate & the prompt is based on Harvard’s alt text guide Download here: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/61a09e98865b48118b91334d1ae0ddb5

a) fuck yeah, this is the kind of thing that needs to be happening worldwide and is not coincidentally the sort of thing that will actually blunt Reform UK's momentum b) can we preemptively ban all the transphobes who are going to flood over here, please

weirdly silent about ICE killing an unarmed woman in cold blood, surely there's no politics at play here

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

As an immigrant (& naturalized citizen): Talk about how she was a citizen. And white. And a woman. I need even the most privileged & complacent to realize they're not safe anymore. It didn't have to get this far. But you ignored it when they came for the rest of us, so now you're a target too.

So, it's been a while but I'm pretty sure of this, Goebbels remarked in his diary that their regime didn't need to go out of their way to manipulate the press. They'd show up to the briefings and dutifully repeat whatever they said. Anyway.

part of the reason the george floyd protests fizzled out was the shift from summer into fall/winter all the ICE protests from the past year fizzled out because summer shifted into fall/winter this is January in Minneapolis. it’s only gonna get warmer

TIL: people with migraine have roughly a 2–5× higher chance of depressive or anxiety disorders

CNN graphics put the asterisk in the wrong place, it appears…

Ah yes, the Kavanaugh stop. A brief law enforcement encounter that lasts a mere *checks notes* 25 days.

losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?

ICE just murdered a woman here in Minneapolis. A legal observer. Shot her multiple times while she drove away as ordered. She was a US citizen. Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo. Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.

1. See screenshot of DHS statement in a post 2. “Hide this post for me”

the argument that democrats cant act unless they "hold power" is ridiculous. what did they do when they had power? did they pass medicare for all? codify roe v wade? curtail the surveillance systems used by ICE? did they effectively leverage the shutdown to save aca premiums? of course not

Begging Democrats to stop making statements that imply that annexing Greenland would be okay if they had cheap eggs there