Ian Ramjohn

Top satellite image of the town of Black River, Jamaica in February, 2025 and below a satellite image of the town on October 29, 2025 after Hurricane Melissa.

This combination of pictures created on October 29, 2025 shows (top) ahandout satellite image by Vantor taken on February 9, 2025 shows an overview of #BlackRiver #Jamaica, before #HurricaneMelissa, and a handout satellite image on October 29 an overview of the town after the storm. (Photo: AFP)

Imagine being such a terrible human — an actual monster to young people — that there’s a measurable positive impact on your departure.

Walters sounds like the type of person who would probably find joy in that.

He also sounds like a small, scared, insecure and pathetic man with a boring life.

Sounds like Tucker Carlson just followed her advice and befriended neonazis.

So "Gen Z" is Gen Alpha?

#Jamaica needs our support more than ever right now and, never ones to shy away from self-reliance, they’ve set up an officially sanctioned website for recovery donations. The footage of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction in St. Elizabeth coming in from my family is HARROWING.

supportjamaica.gov.jm

This is a plea to Massachusetts residents, particularly Cambridge residents and Harvard grads.

I've spend the last 3 years looking at old maps of western Jamaica while researching the history of absentee sugar planters who lived in Massachusetts while enslaving thousands of people in Jamaica.

This might actually be THE point where Christian Nationalism starts either splintering...or the NAR literally just joins with Christian Identity and REALLY returns to its roots

(I'd have thought the SBC/NAR widening split would have been the fissure, but a neo-Nazi/NAR split has been growing)

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This headline is chilling, but it gets even worse when you realise it's literal.

Stagflation

The Fed Chair is describing stagflation but does not want to say the word.

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

And Gondor were the closed-border isolationists who were so fearful that they failed to help their friends in Canada, I mean Rohan. Which almost led to disaster for them when they needed their allies.

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I feel like anyone who uses AI to screen applicants leaves themselves open to discrimination lawsuits.

"(An incorrect AI summary previously at the top of this story was removed.)" 🫥

A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that. Meghyn Booth says she didn’t know she was married to a neo-Nazi influencer, not exactly.

It's one thing not to realise your spouse had become a nazi podcaster. It's quite another to still be married to him after you discover this.

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

This is a few days old but I wanna shout @anildash.com for this very necessary pan of Atlas, ChatGPT's attempt at an internet brower. I didn't expect a game that I used to play religiously on my Apple IIc as a child to catch a stray in this. 😆

Talk about an in-flight meal.

For the first time, researchers have captured rats hunting bats by grabbing them from the sky. Learn more: https://scim.ag/3Jqldmn

“Every major AI system trains on Wikipedia’s freely licensed knowledge,” said Stephen Harrison, a journalist and author who has covered Wikipedia extensively, on Friday. “The irony is that Grokipedia will be built on the unpaid labor of the volunteer Wikipedia editors Musk has gone out of his way to vilify.” —Washington Post

called it

I watched a presentation trying to improve media literacy using @mikecaulfield.bsky.social's SIFT method at #wikiconferencena last weekend. While "liberal" and "conservative" improved their abilities (a bit). But the students in the middle didn't seemed impermeable to new info.

And what happened when you reported it? H1B compliance investigations have always been pretty serious, as far as I understand it.

US Department of Labor launches Project Firewall to protect America’s highly skilled workforce

A TPM Reader told me to look at the Department of Labor page on Facebook for something called Project Firewall. It's basically their name for cracking down on highly skilled foreigners on H-1B visas. Here's the Dept's description here. www.dol.gov/newsroom/rel...

These lovelies are Lolo and her 7 playful kittens~she got her name from "The Adventures of Lolo the Penguin“ cartoon. She gave birth to her babies last spring. 😻

Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground

“It’s not a partnership…If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's most powerful storm in history “There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight.

www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

Hello Chief and APD Leadership, I just wanted to jot a quick thank you note for those who participated in this meeting with the Latino community about ICE in our neighborhoods. Sadly, this problem is not going away anytime soon. Historically, the police have been on the wrong side of history during the civil rights movement and the labor movement - defending capital. The pivotal points in American history are when police realized that their solidarity should be with labor; not capital. Labor vs. police: Learning from working-class history Workers World In this current struggle, I believe that we are 2-3 years away from a moment where we see the shift in solidarity. I would like to see Aurora lead, and show something different. It will create discomfort during the transformation. I noticed during the march towards Blue Kangaroo, when the police escort disappeared, that activists I didn't know used their vehicles to block the intersections and protect the marchers.

All living things have the capacity to evolve and grow. Government is about to go through a huge evolutionary period and shed that which is not necessary, and re-focus on what is important. As government continues to disintegrate from the top down, we have an opportunity to re-invent the ways we find food, water, shelter and protection. We would like the Aurora Police Department to play a historic role in defending the United States of America, and our city against fascism. We have a unique opportunity to do something different, leave our mark in the history books, and make a difference. I'm excited about the opportunity and look forward to discussing it further. Respectfully, John Laesch Mayor, City of Aurora laesch@aurora.il.us

I haven't seen people here mention this letter from the mayor of Illinois' 2nd-largest city (Aurora, 40+% Latino)

to the Aurora Police

following egregious attacks by immigration in Aurora and related protests

So here it is!

Protecting jobs against immigrants and foreigners (and Black and brown people) has a long history in the labour movement.

And it's almost impossible to purge unexamined prejudice.

This is who I thought Bernie was in 2016. There was a lot to like about him, but I saw this side of him when he talked about race.

I'm not suggesting Hilary was better, but I felt like I saw this (and got yelled at by some many people for saying so).

WTAF? Bovino throws a canister of teargas, *in person*? This blows my mind.

Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."