Tom Schumacher

ICE "Withdrawing" from Minnesota, but Intensifying in Pittsburgh & Elsewhere Immigrants’ rights activists are also concerned that the withdrawal of thousands of federal agents from Minneapolis could simply lead to a transfer of these agents to intensify ICE operations in other...

ICE "withdrawing" from Minnesota, but using those agents to already intensify deportations in Pittsburgh & elsewhere.

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Opinion | How A.I. Companies Are Preying on College Students

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

Futurama Slurm Factory meme: THAT'S THE META AI. YOU CAN ASK IT ANYTHING says Slurm tour leader. ASK IT TO FUCK OFF says Prof Farnsworth.

Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?

more people lived in the Maya lowlands than on the Italian peninsula during the peak of the Roman empire – all crammed into an area a third of the size

but the 1950s "law of environmental limitation” held that lowland rainforests, with thin soils, simply could not support large advanced societies…

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Need to stress that, like the Pretti killing, this terrorism is happening in extremely mixed use residential neighborhoods. Cafes and restaurants just down the street. The St. Paul Curling Club that's put out so many Olympians competing *this week* is like two blocks away.

It's infuriating that everyone has memory-holed the slogan "Kamala Harris is a cop!"

so far tonight bad bunny has sung more reggaeton songs than the patriots and seahawks combined

I made waffles.

Tratado de la aceptación - por Vicente Undurraga - Revista Santiago <p>Se cumplieron 25 años de Nocturno de Chile, la novela que Bolaño escribió después de Los detectives salvajes y en la que ficciona, entre otras, la historia de Mariana Callejas que había leído en un...

Nocturno de Chile, a novella I think about all the time as it captures the global Right’s definitional ressentiment of writers and intellectuals, has turned 25. Vicente Undurraga on the work’s lasting power and real-life referents from the Pinochet dictatorship revistasantiago.cl/literatura/t...

Over an article saying that Mamdani will be raising minimum wage for grocery delivery apps in NYC someone comments with a facepalm emoji and says "So if you have ADHD and live in a food desert... you should just... starve. Got it."

Can't now find it but there's a classic old tweet which said something like "Every time we're on the verge of achieving class consciousness in America a CIA sleeper agent activates and, their eyes glowing red, they just tweet out "John Brown was a white saviour"" and I think about it often.

From a Marxist POV I guess it's convenient you don't really have to explain what a ruling class is when they're all in a poorly-spelled email group chat with each other

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

it’s about to get weird

That book was so frustrating in its obvious disdain for the progressive parts of Madrid's history.

The Chaplain Helping the Timberwolves Stand in Solidarity with Minnesota “God has gifted you with extraordinary abilities, and that’s not a small feat,” Matt Moberg tells NBA players, “but that didn’t remove you from your brother next door or your sister down the road.”

NEW: I spoke with Matt Moberg, team chaplain to the Minnesota Timberwolves, about that viral statement floating around social media, how he approaches his role, sports and social justice, and liberation theology.

my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter.
name a fucking high school after him.

mmhmm setting up to sacrifice noem and blaming her. i noted homan has been quiet

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

El titular de @nytimes.com es ilustrativo de la situación y, a la vez, del gran problema en USA: la absoluta negativa por parte de la America blanca liberal a reconocer, asumir y nombrar lo que está ocurriendo.
Los vídeos no “parecen contradecir”, los vídeos “contradicen”. Pero por alguna razón…

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say More than a hundred protesters and observers have gathered near E. 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue.

Witnesses say a man was shot by a federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning. The Minnesota Star Tribune is on the scene:
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At the same time, ICE is telling its employees and prosecutors that observers are “domestic terrorists” and agents have been threatening and even arresting such observers. They also then use software that provides the name and addresses of observers, letting them know the government knows their identity and address. Such violations of privacy data are only supposed to occur in the context of a criminal investigation. There have been multiple reports that ICE officials will drive past observers homes to intimidate them.

This is our government now donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...