This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

This is extraordinary. An East End woman remembers the arrival of television. I would listen to this woman give a ten hour lecture on the history of media in her lifetime.

www.instagram.com/reel/DMw4yrg...

What does China offer that the United States doesn't? Small hands, a massive, seasonal work force and millions of engineers. Young Chinese women have small fingers, and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said. In a recent analysis the company did to explore the feasibility of moving production to the United States, the company determined that it couldn't find people with those skills in the United States, said two people familiar with the analysis who spoke on the condition of anonymity. China has millions of people who migrate around the country to work in factories as Apple revs up production around a new iPhone. They often work from the summer until Chinese New Year, when production slows down, so Apple's suppliers don't have to pay them for a full year of work. They live in dormitories connected to factories

In the year of our lord two thousand twenty-five, guys named Tripp Mickle still write racialized nimble finger stereotypes into the pages of the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/t...

Keir Starmer: I've already returned over 24,000 people with no right to be here. And I won't stop there. twitter user: @grok Is this post misleading? Grok: The claim of white genocide in South Africa is highly debated. Some evidence, like reports of farm attacks and political rhetoric, suggests violence against white farmers...

a user asks Grok to translate Chinese text on a photo, and it responds with a translation of "Kill the Boer" into Urdu

a user asks if something shown in a video is an effective way to clear sinuses, and Grok says the query is unrelated to "the provided analysis on white genocide in South Africa"

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

Fortune 500 company abruptly fires lawyer who helped immigrant family On March 4, Clay Jackson, an attorney in the Dallas area, was at a gas station near his home when the attendant asked if he would help a local immigrant family.

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation

Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation"

Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

Lutnick: "It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life and your kids work here and your grandkids work here. We let the auto plants go overseas."

The most salient dimension of the AI debate is the larger issue of who owns, governs, and oversees the infrastructure that our lives depend on.

That's the same set of issues whether we're talking about AI, the Internet, the financial system, our food and water supply, transportation infrastructure.

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well

ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...

I have gotten confirmation from sources inside the Coast Guard that this is in fact true and happened in Key West.

ICE went into military housing and took the spouse of a USCG member who is currently out to sea.

Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

Hanno intervistato l’avatar

Estratto del Ocdpc n. 1139 del 23 aprile 2025 - Primi interventi urgenti ai fini dell’organizzazione e della gestione delle esequie del Santo Padre Francesco e della cerimonia per l’inizio del ministero del nuovo Pontefice. ART. 7 (Utilizzo gestori di telecomunicazioni e IT-Alert) Per le finalità di cui alla presente ordinanza il Capo del Dipartimento della Protezione civile può: a) avvalersi dei gestori telefonici per il potenziamento di tutti i sistemi di trasmissione sia dati che fonia, attraverso l’utilizzo anche di sistemi mobili. b) installare, gratuitamente, su siti pubblici e privati, apparati di telecomunicazione anche in deroga al decreto legislativo 1° agosto 2003 n.259 e successive modificazioni; c) fornire adeguata informazione alla popolazione mediante il sistema IT-Alert, integrativa e complementare ai canali istituzionali degli enti preposti.

Può darsi. Fatto sta che la cazzata era anticipata da un’ordinanza di quarantotto ore prima. Se disponi una roba del genere dovresti sapere che bastano due o tre fesserie nel momento sbagliato per snaturare un “sistema nazionale di allarme pubblico”. L’ordinanza la firma il capo del dipartimento.

So many remarkable exchanges in the Time transcript. A less remarked upon bit is that Trump appears to learn information that has been driving markets *from the interviewer*. time.com/7280114/dona...

Funerali Papa Francesco, il sistema IT-alert utilizzato per fornire indicazioni utili ai fedeli In occasione dei funerali di Papa Francesco il sistema di allarme pubblico è stato utilizzato oggi alle ore 13:10, per fornire indicazioni utili a tut

Non si tratta di un colpo di mano, a quanto pare è una modalità di comunicazione attentamente pianificata www.protezionecivile.gov.it/it/notizia/f.... L’autorizza un’ordinanza del DPC emessa l’altro ieri.

www.protezionecivile.it/it/normativa... con tanto di ordinanza (art. 3)

Funerali Papa Francesco, il sistema IT-alert utilizzato per fornire indicazioni utili ai fedeli In occasione dei funerali di Papa Francesco il sistema di allarme pubblico è stato utilizzato oggi alle ore 13:10, per fornire indicazioni utili a tut

www.it-alert.it/it/notizia/f... sembra che ora lo stiano rivendicando

From the AP: President Donald Trump arrives on the Blue Room Balcony to participate in the White House Easter Egg Roll Monday, April 21, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

that really isn't the case, Emmanuel!

domains work really well for cases where the domain is recognizable, but not everyone has a well-recognized domain

this means domains can be really useful for many cases, but they can't solve all cases

Pro-natalists: you need to have at least 10 kids

Normal people: why, are you expecting half of them to die before puberty due to lack of modern health and sanitation?

Pro-natalists: you're never gonna believe what we also advocate

Here's Trump saying to Bukele that "homegrown criminals are next" and talking about how El Salvador will need to build "about five more places."

Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported The judge gave Khalil until April 23 to request a stay of his deportation and said that if his attorneys miss the deadline, she will order him deported either to Syria or to Algeria

This is a calamity www.npr.org/2025/04/11/n...

DOGE descends on FDIC The Handbasket was first to report the nefarious team's entry into the agency that protects our bank accounts.

My latest scoop:

Fairly undeniable at this point that abolish ICE was always the only reasonable position

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

Strelnik – Da qui non si passa, niente concerto La Gran Bretagna ha avvisato i propri cittadini sui rischi che corrono nell’intraprendere un viaggio negli Stati Uniti, viste le tremende situazioni

Rimpatriata in catene dopo 19 giorni di detenzione: è successo a una cittadina britannica che voleva entrare regolarmente negli USA.
A 3 componenti degli UK Subs è andata un po' meglio, ma anche loro sono stati rimandati indietro senza tante spiegazioni.
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