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Man, what's gonna happen with the world?

Homan also says that bloodshed will continue until cities like Minneapolis end their sanctuary policies. The terror campaigns and political police murders of ICE/CBP are intended to overcome and break the policies won in previous struggles that have imperfectly protected immigrants.

This post brought to you in part by today's Businessweek ep, where they were almost about to talk about what the employment numbers indicate about recession prospects, before, instead, turning back to financial markets.

A stupid Marxish joke I chuckle to myself about whenever I think about that show Industry is that it is quite precisely not about industry at all, but, obviously, finance.

Call me sentimental but I do find myself moved by the tragedy of the gesture—the desire to act in solidarity, the lack of knowledge of how to do so. Its completely of a part with the failed Democrat gerontocracy but unlike those figures still bears a hint of nobility if absurdly.

There are many great images of boomer political ineffectuality. One of my favorites is of someone standing solo at an arbitrary roadside location holding a cardboard political sign. Seen just now: an elder resting on their seated walker holding one reading DEI NOW.

PURISTS WILL OBJECT We have the looks you want: The gonzo (musculature seemingly wired to the stars), Colors like lead, khaki and pomegranate; things you Put in your hair, with the whole panoply of the past: Landscape embroidery, complete sets of this and that. It's bankruptcy, the human haul, The shining, bulging nets lifted out of the sea, and always a few refugees Dropping back into the no-longer-mirthful kingdom On the day someone sells an old house And someone else begins to add on to his: all In the interests of this pornographic masterpiece, Variegated, polluted skyscraper to which all gazes are drawn, Pleasure we cannot and will not escape. It seems we were going home. The smell of blossoming privet blanketed the narrow avenue. The traffic lights were green and aqueous. So this is the subterranean life. If it can't be conjugated onto us, what good is it? What need for purists when the demotic is built to last, To outlast us, and no dialect hears us?

Ashbery by the ambient light of the airplane. "It seems we were going home."

Often in life it is necessary to read or listen to the sentences that follow before deciding that you disagree with the present sentence you are encountering. I have lost much time over the years in disagreements that I imagined because I didn't finish the paragraph.

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Recently the focal point of my mother's free floating anxietyhas pivoted from concern about being scammed to volcano eruptions and earthquakes. I wonder if this is more or less agitating for her. At least she has gained some resilience against scammers?

I have this creeping sense that I'm forgetting to record essentials on my task list, which I have fallen way behind on maintaining, and it's got me vibrating

I just learned wikipedia has its own wrapped now, and while I love this I am even more deeply embarrassed to see the results of what I read there than I am to see reflected to me statistically what I listened to this year.

Yeah this was a weird thing, but in hindsight, it wasn't totally wrong. The thing that was wrong was to assume it would be this one product, rather than a full range of them, from hoverboards to scooters and ebikes.

Meet the sword-wielding man hired to kick squatters out of empty Oakland homes A squatter removal cottage industry has grown out of California’s housing crisis, catering to property owners who don’t want to go to court.

This article is a wild ride. Very thorough coverage of this vigilante squatter evicter by @natalieorenstein.bsky.social, down to sketching the range of landlords that hire Jacobs. Toward the end we get an encounter with comrade Christine Hernandez, as an examplar of squatting as reclamation.

I did not think about the possible reprecussions of this for myself, until I recovered my jacket from the closet the following day, noticing the entire closet stank of the "freshener." Hours of scent removal tips later, I am still dealing with my hubris. What a terrible object.

Last Friday I attended a gathering at the apt of a friend with a passion for petty theft. When leaving the apartment later w others, we noticed near the elevators the offensive scent of a plugin air "freshener." I did my part & pocketed the plugin, tossing it a few blocks away.

I always think about this kind of project when I see public and private fruit trees unharvested, but I had no idea this was going on at this scale, pretty cool...

That this immigrant is an alleged murderer of servicepeople makes him a perfect alibi for the admin to block third world immigration (just the kind of escalation guard deployments aimed at). That this is all blowback shows the violent futility of imperial immigration policy.

The tragedy of Rahmanullah Lakanwal strings together blowback after blowback. Trained in CIA deathsquads in the aftermath of chickens coming home in 9/11, his family is granted asylum in the wind down, then his demons drive him to attack representatives of the war machine.

You had to have guessed that though it went unreported at first, Trump's comments about his & Mamdani's alignment on public safety/crime indicated they had come to an agreement on ICE. It sounded just like the story about SF Mayor Lurie's call with Trump.
(The post cut off below so here's the tweet)

May have mentioned a while back. but I've been intermittently working through the Bible for my first time. So much wild stuff in there lol. Like today, I read about how soon-to-be-king David was running a protection racket in the wake of Samuel's death.

screencap of a tweet from Dylan Saba with a photo of zohran mamdani shaking Trump's hand at the oval Office with the caption "synthesis: yes they are fascist and yes they are in the coalition"

Hearing Zohran and Trump express their intent to collaborate on affordability, and Trump affirm his sense that Zohran would take on public safety and crime, brought to mind the old Comintern phrase for social democrats, "social fascism." Not defending the concept, per se, but...

As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.

NEW: Federal prison workers are jumping ship & heading to ICE for better pay + bonuses. Already BOP lost >1400 people this year, reversing all of 2024’s staffing gains. It’s an unintended consequence of Trump’s push for mass deportations

My 1st for @propublica.org
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This story from yesterday's attempted ICE kidnapping in West Oakland somewhat implies but doesn't claim that the ability of the parent to escape had to do with the anti-ICE patrol identify the feds earlier that morning. Would be curious to hear someone's on the ground assessment.

A conspiracy theory I believe in is that two factor ID code numbers sent to text display potentially meaningful patterns. They give me the pleasant feeling of the flarf poetics of old school, pre-"AI" but obviously compute generated spam emails.

The fact that they can't get a random sampling of citizens from any city to indict people for interfering with ICE seems more informative than any political poll, tbh

Raids, Retaliation, and Radical Solidarity in Chicago “History shows us that repression always breeds resistance,” says Chicago organizer Miguel Alvelo Rivera.

As ICE storms Chicagoland, Chicago’s organizers speak. Stacy Davis Gates, Benji Hart, Arti Walker-Peddakotla, Ric Wilson, and others discuss ongoing ICE raids, Trump’s threats to send in the National Guard, and the solidarity we need to survive these times. Audio + transcript:

Evergreen school shooting suspect posted online about mass shootings and neo-Nazi views, report says Experts say a teenager suspected in a shooting attack at a suburban Denver high school that left two students in critical condition appeared fascinated with previous mass shootings including Columbine...

Far-right and neo-Nazis school shooters have carried out numerous deadly attacks this year - many influenced by and posting on, the same websites - yet the mass media and politicians focus on manufactured fantasies of left-wing violence. www.kunc.org/news/2025-09...

Things are getting even worse on just about every front. People are afraid but we are also getting angrier and angrier. The collapse of the center/left raises the stakes. It was inevitable. Who knows what will provoke the next upsurge? I can promise you it won't be Jimmy Kimmel.

Leadership, in the sense of setting a militant example, will have to come from mass struggle, & it cannot be conjured out of nowhere. We are still following the path set by LA in June. Let a thousand community defense centers & neighborhood assemblies bloom.