Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

HUGE UPDATE: we confronted Congressman Tom Suozzi. He is one of seven Democrats casting the decisive votes to increase ICE funding by $10,000,000,000. Hideous, grotesque, fascist-loving coward, this man has blood on his hands. We will not forgive and we will not forget.

Minneapolis built more housing and rents fell. Austin built more housing and rents fell. San Diego—one of the most expensive cities in the country—built more housing and rents fell. Maybe Portland should be pulling out all the stops to build more housing.

It occurs to me that Stancil’s lack of familiarity with organizing traditions is a thread running through a lot of seemingly disparate elements of his lore.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

A "change in payment history" just erased 70pts from my credit score 😭

Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp

report from St Paul: "Very bad car accident involving ice agent who left the scene"

I reject authority because I don't believe any human being is "good" enough or incoruptable enough for that degree of power. Some are much, much better than others. But that doesn't change the fact that authority is a fundamentally flawed notion.

Apropos of nothing... If I fall, please do the smart thing, not the cathartic thing. And tell your family you love them. If they deserve it.

Q: Can you confirm that CBP actually hit a party balloon it thought was a drone with a laser? And why wasn't that coordinated with the FAA? KRISTI NOEM: You know, this was a joint agency task force, um, mission that was undertaken. And um, we're continuing to work on communication *ends presser*

I think we all like to focus on Nazi Germany for our analogies (and I include myself in this) because the comparisons to integration in the 1950s/60s (a far more informative comparison) hits too close to home and rings dissonant with myths of American exceptionalism that we are still un-learning.

Friday fit check #fixyourheartordie

I love that people are announcing what candidates need to do to earn their votes well in advance of elections. Even if the posts are like pennies pitched into a wishing well, having standards of any sort is infinitely better than lesser evilism.

The Portland Timbers had some glaring holes in their squad build coming into the season. They didn’t fill them. This should be interesting.

Man, I love how well @prophiphop.bsky.social cuts through the bullshit. Tap in with him...

Ilhan Omar said they execute pedophiles in Somalia and Republicans were like "WHY ARE YOU THREATENING TRUMP?"

Your taxpayer dollars are being used to imprison children. CHILDREN. It is sick, but we cannot look away. I’m grateful Diana is home, and will continue to show up and fight for all children to be free.

I just love how before the Super Bowl ad only a small corner of the internet was aware of let alone worried by what Ring has been up to. Now everybody BIG mad 🤣

Zero. My answer is always zero.

Not every issue in our politics needs to be shirts and skins. Republicans don’t need to automatically be against everything Democrats stand for. We could decide together that no president should ever arrest a political opponent for free speech.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Fuck the IOC.

"I talk like this because a tapeworm I got from eating roadkill hollowed out my basal ganglia; do you think I give a fuck about a germ?"

The entire MAGA movement:

"Being a good person is the opposite of lucrative."

CATO: “.. The whole idea that Trump tariffs would ‘protect US manufacturing jobs’ was all lies then, and it is all lies now.” @cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cato.org/blog/trumps-...

The greenhouse effect was first experimentally demonstrated in 1856 by American scientist Eunice Newton Foote, 170 yrs ago. For reference, germ theory was presented by Louis Pasteur in 1861, 165 yrs ago. Before that we thought it was 'miasma' making us sick.

“This book scrutinizes how the behavior of many Democrats assisted Trump’s electoral triumphs. That scrutiny is important not only for clarity about the past. It also makes possible a focus on ways that such failures can be avoided in the future.”

Yet another way Trump is hurting our standing in the world, in addition to costing us billions in tourism dollars by shutting out visitors, is by crushing the power of the American passport and making it harder for his own citizens to travel. My latest: www.cntraveler.com/story/the-am...

four months in one room...

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

I was skimming the Epstein files images (bc I hate myself I guess) and among thousands of pages of creepy scanned photos and documents was this page. It was an otherwise blank piece of paper that read: CSAM MATERIAL NOT SCANNED: 32 PAGES I assume there are more like it, but I had to stop there 🤢

This is fucking insane and we need to find the low-life running this thing and shame them into oblivion

Dude if my butthole exploded I would sue too!

Bully tankies.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

🚨BREAKING: The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Our friends over at @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social got a permanent account ban, presumably for doxing fascists. They’ve appealed, but it looks like Bluesky is not really a safe place for antifascist researchers who expose fascists.

Don't threaten me with exactly what I've always wanted now...

I expected to show up, hold a sign, help occupy. Instead, night after night, I witness depravity from those sworn to protect. Each incident leaves me more shaken, more aware, more radicalized, a word that was not even in my vocabulary before October. ❞

Is there some sort of award for perfectly missing the point?

Post a banger that isn't in English

y'all need to read theory www.ir101.co.uk/wp-content/u...

This is bad y'all. Real bad.

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

So, apparently the folks upset that they couldn’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics really like these: