Dharma Police

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees.

"This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law."
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I think most of us could see it back then, too. The gaslighting and sanewashing has been wild.

Incinerators. I've read that new-build federal prisons haven't included biohazard incinerators for over 30 years. Medical waste management is contracted out. Why do detention centers need incinerators? Do you all see yet? Believe your eyes. Believe your ears. Believe yourself. You know the truth.

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Seems clear that the regime is using counter-insurgency tactics to punish cities for their legal & institutional opposition to the fascists.

The obsession with going back to the way things were under Biden by some members of congress is wild to me.

Who wants to go back to being one election cycle away from masked death squads roaming our streets?

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

208. The Fifth Circuit Jumps the Immigration Detention Shark Late Friday, two of the nation's most right-wing circuit judges adopted an odious legal claim that district court judges from across the country (and ideological spectrum) have overwhelmingly rejected

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.

It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

Sen. Wyden @wyden.senate.gov used to shop at my former workplace in Portland. I was one of his constituents for nearly two decades. We're not besties, but I know him well enough to know that seeing a letter like this, from him, must mean something pretty dire. He is NOT one for theatrics.

Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

My Daughter Lived the Liam Ramos Nightmare. It Turned Out Worse for Us. The constant threats took a toll on my health. My daughter’s health deteriorated even faster.

Kelly Vargas writes about what happened to her, her husband, and their 6yo daughter in the family camp in Texas.

Filth, illness, medical abuse—her child has lasting complications from being injured by a staff member.

We don't know the half of what's happening in the camps, but we know enough.

The American people deserve better than this "leadership" and mealy-mouthed BS. Abolish and prosecute ICE.

Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency "That reminds me of Anne Frank,” said the CEO of one Jewish senior residence reeling as Temporary Protected Status for Haitians is set to end.

"About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors.

Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments..."

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The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

GoFundMe for Alex Pretti's family: $1,739,317.

GoFundMe for Renee Good's family: $1,499,557.

GoFundMe for Keith Porters's family: $302,423.

GoFundMe for Silverio Villegas's family: $57,642.

Even in death, some lives are less valued.

Brilliant piece. Portland in 2020 was a practice run. And here we are.

What is ICE Air? Learn more about ICE’s massive, secretive and cruel air operation, which companies are profiting off of it, and what you can do to stop it.

NEW: The Definitive ICE Air FAQ

ICE’s abuses aren’t just happening on the streets and in the camps -- they are happening in the air. Here I answer your questions on what we know, what we don’t, and what you can do to stop these dangerous flights. 1/

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screenshot of text from Adam Serwer in The Atlantic: "The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive - because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force."

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A drawing by a 5-year-old child in detention:

I feel like I’m losing my mind. Obviously they were doing something illegal, which is why they were hiding from legal authorities. What is legal can also be immoral and shameful.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here

> "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility

that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

People have been saying this for over a decade now and here we are. But still, hard agree.

What were y'all expecting from the proud Deporter-in-Chief? He bragged on Tom Homan, FFS. Miss me with this drivel. Abolish ICE. Prosecute them all from the top to the bottom.

You can tell things are going well in America because accounts with names like MovieTVFunZone are posting things like, "THE PIGS ARE KIDNAPPING CHILDREN AND PRIESTS. THE TREE OF LIBERTY DEMANDS TO BE WATERED"

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

this is the key problem with continuously executing random members of the populace: you can’t kill everybody, and the ones you don’t kill are more likely to start squaring with the possibility of it than fleeing in terror

Minnesota Star Tribune 1/24/26

New York Times front page 1/24/26

#FrontPage comparison

NYT editors are entrusted by their readers to prioritize what’s important. Their editorial decisions such as layout of the #FrontPage contribute to public memory.
Democracywashing Minnesota under siege by Federal agents and #Minneapolis community mobilizing in frigid temps
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