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Exclusive: Major federal immigration operation headed to San Francisco Bay Area The Trump administration has dispatched more than 100 federal agents, including from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to Coast Guard Base Alameda and they’ll begin to arrive Thursday.

Looks like we are about to see a significant increase in snatch-and-grab operations around the Bay Area

408-290-1144 is the hotline for the Palo Alto/Mountain View area

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There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.

There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.

There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.

There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

The most telling statistic I have ever hear is that poverty decreased during the pandemic heights because we were just doing direct payments. We basically had a national UBI pilot and ditched it because Biden wanted to restore status quo ante instead of leading a 21st century New Deal transformation

I met several nerd celebrities on the 2017 JoCo Cruise (all lovely), and have several delightful anecdotes, but the one who stands out in my mind as “nicest” is probably Wil Wheaton who told me he really liked my cool hair.

Headline from the New York Times, 1939: “Goebbels ends careers of five “Aryan“ actors who made witticisms about the Nazi regime.”

www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

A photo of the end credits from an episode of Xena, including the comedic disclaimer “No Unrelenting or Severely Punishing Deities were harmed during the production of this motion picture.”

They already have at least one end-credits disclaimer about the gods

Depends entirely on what one means by “polycule” because there’s a universe of difference between a closed triad and “the chart of everyone we’re occasionally banging plus all the exes” and Gritty would definitely do the second one

I'm actually the Scav person who requested that @seantcollins.com 's tweet be painted in oils, ultimately generating this bizarre AI summary. all of the completions were genuinely amazing, and sorry I forgot to ask permission Sean!

It took a while for us to figure it out too, but it turns out an oil painting of that tweet was an item in 2021, and we posted ours in our archive along with the text of the tweet: www.scavhunt.net/past-years?l... and since the original tweet was deleted... Here we are.

YouTube video by Farm to Taber "Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

“Go to an old cemetery.
See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children against deadly childhood diseases. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone.”

—Michael Okuda

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”

BUSCH! SCHMIDT! GETTELMAN!

(a legit row of brands on my vintage beer can purse)

(I have never gotten over the fact that they’re snowmobiling on the Schmidt can. Don’t drink and drive, even if your beer suggests it!)

In America, the prevailing attitude is "We would rather fail to help *everyone* deserving than ever accidentally help even *one* person undeserving." Whereas decent people don't mind helping someone who *doesn't* "deserve" or need it if it means they can help those who *do*.

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

How To Fight A Military Occupation Friction. Obstruction. Demoralization.

America is no longer descending into fascism. We are seconds away from impact

Military occupation has come to DC. If and when military occupation comes to where you are, there are things that you can do. This article outlines some of them

Heads up that there's a renewed bipartisan effort to keep you from knowing what the law *is*

Just watched LAPD launch tear gas at peaceful protesters live

My biggest concern is for those passengers who need some form of assistance. Think of elderly folks who need bags loaded for a trip to the airport or other folks who are aided by a human driver as a matter of course. What do those people do when that service vanishes from basic taxi functionality?

Tell Congress to Keep Their Hands Off DC’s Sanctuary Laws! As the country watches LA bravely fight off ICE and the military, Congress is quietly attempting to strip away DC’s sanctuary laws that keep us safe. Since the residents of DC do not have representati...

Urgent need to contact your representatives to protect DC’s right to make its own laws!
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’ The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda."

My report:

The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.

Snippet of text: What a wonderful thing it would be if the Motion Pictures Producers Association had said to Mr Thomas, ‘Sure, I guess we have Communists in Hollywood. We don't know who they are. How would you expect us to? We're not the F.B.I. But even if we did know, there's an Attorney General in this country. He hasn't accuşed these men of any crime. Congress hasn't legislated anything that would cause their present or future membership in the Communist party to be a crime, and until it does we propose to treat them just as exactly as we treat anyone else.’ You know what would happen if the producers had the guts to say anything like that? They would start making good pictures, because that takes guts too. Very much the same kind of guts.

Raymond Chandler, letter to a friend, January 1948. Seems relevant beyond the specific Hollywood context.

BREAKING

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell have introduced legislation that would require tariffs to be approved by Congress within 60 days, or the tariffs will expire.

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

The U of Minnesota has informed its community that ICE has detained one of our students. view.ecommunications2.umn.edu?qs=00ec6de46...