Michael Kusek

ICE is using a Navy war-fighting contract (WEXMAC TITUS) to turn warehouses into detention sites in the US.

They're using mil procurement to skip transparency & local safety laws.

Call your Reps and demand:

1. Why is ICE using WEXMAC TITUS?
2. Where is the oversight?
3. What are you going to do?

Massachusetts has spent months delaying & denying @boltsmag.org’s public records requests on how many people it has transferred ICE during Trump as part of its formal contract with ICE.

A supervisor of records ruled last week that the state’s denials are improper; we hope to get records soon.

“The plan's $38 billion budget is more than the total annual spending for 22 states, according to state budget data."

I just became a British citizen. The consulate advised that the first thing I should do is get a passport.

Omg. On it.

have you ever thought about how men's figure skating is just twink show jumping

The Roberts have been summoned and the time has come to put out the continental breakfast.

Convert the house to an Inn and you're living in an episode of Newhart.

Looking forward to her nailing some jeans to the door of Vogue.

SO SO SO fun.

tbh, I'd prefer to make a mixtape using side-by-side cassette decks in a boom box.

Or I’ll take my bridge and go home!

The backstory of this bridge (from @99pi.org) is just crazy. I guess the story is just going to get even more bonkers.

Using Data for Good: A Crash Course Our response to "What can I do?"

New from Project Salt Box (featured on @maddow.bsky.social tonight):

A crash course in data for citizen engagement.

projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/using-data...

hard agree.

Say goodbye to free ChatGPT with no ads OpenAI says it is starting to test ads for its Free and Go subscription tiers.

ask and you shall receive.

this thread is a better close read than you’ll find in any media outlet today

Did people catch Pedro Pascal dancing on the front porch of the house.

Wishing you very safe travels.

I had the pleasure to work with Chip on a project about 20 years ago. A great guy and I'll remember him fondly.

Are “air quotes” fingers sufficient?

Did you know that Trump himself had not posted the video when you defended it? Why would you accuse people who were offended by a racist video of lying about their reactions? What percentage of Trump's Truth Social posts are made by someone else? What percentage of Trump's Truth Social posts are made without his knowledge? How many people aside from Trump have access to his social media account? Who are those people? Which of Trump's other Truth Social posts were posted by someone else? How can anyone be sure that posts under Trump's name come from Trump? Why should anyone believe that this particular post did not come from Trump since it is consistent with his well-reported history of racist remarks and conduct? If people can't be sure any post is his, why should anyone take any post under his name either literally or seriously? What was the impulse for the staffer to make that post? Has the staffer been disciplined in any way? Will the staffer continue to have access to his account? What does it say about Trump's judgment that he would choose a staffer with this kind of judgment to have access to his account? Is the anonymous staffer a hastily invented concoction to which you pivoted once you realized that the story was going to outgrow your attempts to dismiss it? How do you react to the almost universal condemnation of the post? The President's late-night posting sprees are filled with lapses in taste and judgment as well as threats and pronouncements that go nowhere. What does that say about the President's emotional stability? What does it say about the President's honesty? What does it say about the President's credibility? Hasn't your own credibility been damaged by your defense of something widely seen as indefensible? What does it say about you that you were comfortable not only defending the video but attacking those who were offended by it? Doesn't the amount of lying Trump does, and that you do for him, undermine your ability to be trusted on anything?

White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!

When it happens and we dance in the streets and certain people tut-tut and say we’re being disrespectful…show them this.

Mine was a card to Puerto Rico! I did get a Christmas card from friends in Amherst....three weeks after they mailed it!

Everything is fine.

Some friends texted today to say they just got my Christmas card.

Well, not the card. Just the envelope.

On 1 May 1517, xenophobic mobs, riled up by preachers who were in turn pressured by wealthy broker John Lincoln, rioted in London. They claimed that foreigners were stealing their jobs and welfare. Thomas More, then under-sheriff of London, tried to stop the mob with an empassioned speech.

Making sure he gets a body cam that matches his spooky mask is SURE to reform these guys.

Someone has a case of the Mondays!

I can't wait to see it razed to the ground.

Definitely was in heavy rotation on my beloved Sony Walkman in 1986.