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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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alexi Lalas is the least of our troubles, but he is also the most, because he exemplifies a base ignorance of morality and knowledge, while still portraying an educated talking head.

it's not the billionaires, it's the enablers. the thoroughfare for the billionaires, and that includes everyone on the Dem wing.

you are constantly missing the target.

What … a … week for American top striker Folarin Balogun, who scored twice for Monaco vs reigning Euro champion PSG in Champions League and ignited three-goal rally at first-place Lens today with a second-half goal. #usmnt

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

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An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Do not let Brett Kavanaugh's increasingly reactionary politics distract you from the simpler fact that Brett Kavanaugh is a dullard and a shitty writer whose colleagues all (albeit for different reasons) very obviously have nothing but contempt for him

Every time I see a report of ICE leaving Minnesota or Minneapolis I think "I wish" because uh, they're still here being assholes & terrorizing people, just not as much in some places but more so in other places best I can tell and of course people are still imprisoned in misery at Whipple & . . . 🧵

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy.

But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing.

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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Today I’m celebrating the release of Getting to Reparations by Dorothy A. Brown.

This is one of the most thorough arguments I’ve read on how the federal government and state courts have intentionally worked to sanction the theft of black wealth.

Professor Brown maps a legal path forward 👌🏾

a video taken by the eyewitness, Emily Heller, shows agents denying a self-identified physician access to the victim and telling bystanders to “just relax.”

“How can I relax? You just killed my fucking neighbor,” Heller responded. “How the fuck do you show up to work every day?”

In memory of Dennes Dale Boon, a bundle of energy without equal ⚡⚡⚡

April 1, 1958 – December 22, 1985

Minutemen – Corona

#punk #punks #punkrock #dboon #minutemen #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Jerry Jeff Walker & The Lost Gonzo Band - KZEW-FM, Dallas, Texas, February 27, 1974 For some reason, I'm listening to a lot of Jerry Jeff Walker these days — especially Bein' Free from 1970, which...

A beautifully bleary 'n' boozy Jerry Jeff Walker radio broadcast from 1974. doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7968495...

We are the richest shithole of a nation to demonstrate our inhumanity in the long, miserable history of this failing planet.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Sister Rosetta Tharpe. ⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️💙⚜️

She was there before Little Richard, Johnny Cash & Elvis Presley swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars.

41 years ago
The Minutemen, Eugene, Oregon, "The Campaign Trail '84" tour, July 1984.

Photo by Hank Trotter

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #minutemen #dboon #mikewatt #history #punkrockhistory

YouTube video by GHLab MAGIC SAM - LOOKING GOOD - BEST LIVE VERSION

Still the best 2 minutes 21 seconds of electric guitar ever caught on film. Magic Sam playing Earl Hooker's cheap-ass Japanese Les Paul copy with flower power stickers on it, live in Europe back in the 1960s. The tone is in his fingers. Good lord, it's GREASY! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2Q9...

1949: Tom Waits 75 great Tom Waits moments for the great mans 75 birthday

Happy 75th birthday, Tom Waits.

In no particular order, here are 75 great Tom Waits performances, lyrics, songs, quips, quotes and roles. Could have done 75 more.

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YouTube video by TMoQ Pancho and Lefty

Link your number one* live single-song Bob Dylan performance YouTube video in the replies. Bonus points for saying why it's your top choice today.

* One video per customer

For me: Pancho & Lefty w Willie Nelson. Perfect pairing, full of character, and his '93 voice is just right for the song.

88 years ago today, Robert Johnson stepped into a San Antonio hotel room and changed music forever. His first recording session and recorded blues classics like 'Sweet Home Chicago,' 'Terraplane Blues,' and 'I Believe I’ll Dust My Broom.' The birth of a legend.

Newspaper story on Scott Joplin with a large image of sheet music for his big hit The Entertainer

hbd to prolly my fave ragtime composer scott joplin

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One of the most difficult reckonings of this election is that the incentives we thought inspired voting choices - a better life for your family etc - may not be as decisive as the desire to inflict cruelty on outgroups. Explanations that don't grapple w/this point read to me like liberal wishcasting