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What’s one way we can rein in ICE?

We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty.

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make

Counselor: These feelings of "everything sucks," how long have you had them? Butt-head: Uhh, since everything started to suck, I guess.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

A photo of Linda Davis, surrounded by a reef

Linda Davis, a K-8 teacher in Savannah, Georgia, was killed in a car crash by a man fleeing ICE

Local authorities said they were unaware of any ICE operations in the area. "We have a no chase policy," a county chairman said

www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/s...

Dr. Linda Davis, a teacher in my city, is now dead because ICE began a chase in a school zone in a county with a no-chase policy. Local police were not aware ICE was conducting operations in the area.

Dr. Davis would be alive were it not for the cruelty and stupidity of these agents. Abolish ICE.

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hello i haven't been on here in a long time. but i know someone who's in chicago from austin if u need a pal

those camps were built under obama and kept open under biden. ICE budgets increased every year under obama and biden. no one from the first trump term was prosecuted and biden told trump "welcome home" on inauguration day

neo-liberalism doesn't fight fascism it enables it.

There’s a reason privacy advocates are fond of Sen. Ron Wyden, and its not just because he routinely champions legislation aimed at protecting civil liberties. From his perch on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Wyden is uniquely well situated to spot intelligence programs that strain the limits of the law or unduly encroach on Americans’ privacy. And while Wyden takes his obligation not to reveal classified information seriously, he has a history of doing all he can to draw public attention to those potential problem areas. Long before Edward Snowden revealed the NSA’s now-defunct mass database of domestic telephone records, Wyden was sounding the alarm about a secret and radical interpretation of the Patriot Act’s “business records” provision. Most notoriously, at a public hearing in 2013, he pressed then–Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on whether NSA collected any type of data on Americans in bulk—and received the now-infamous answer “not wittingly,” which seriously weakened Clapper’s credibility when it was revealed to be false just a few months later.

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Letter from Senator Ron Wyden: Dear CIA Director Ratcliffe, I write to alert you to a classified letter I sent you earlier today in which I express deep concerns about CIA activities. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Sincerely, Ron Wyden U.S. Senator

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Well said.

The Border Patrol agent in Chicago who shot Marimar Martinez five times “was back at work within, I think, three days of the incident in our case,” her lawyer told me.

www.huffpost.com/entry/marima...

CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.

This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting

i am absolutely a different person than i was before treatment. i tell people that all the time. "he apologizes and then does it again" is frequently seen in bipolar people who have limited to no treatment.

i don't forgive him, but i can acknowledge and move on.

-- that irreparably damaged relationships and my life in general. if i was surrounded by racists and antisemites and had millions of dollars, who knows what would've happened? absolute chaos - that's what it does.

i don't believe bipolar causes racism. obviously. but i do believe it changes you.

no one owes ye anything. he did irreparable harm. if you hate him forever it is absolutely reasonable.

that said, as someone with bipolar type 1, i cannot help but read with sympathy.

i have never, in a manic phase, become racist or antisemitic.

i have, however, had moments i don't remember --

ICE put six kids in hospital after throwing explosives at family car The family's mother had to use CPR on her baby until paramedics arrived. Yet ICE bosses claimed the family were "agitators".

ICE put six kids in hospital after throwing explosives at family car

The family's mother had to use CPR on her baby until paramedics arrived. Yet ICE bosses claimed the family were "agitators" - and then deleted the claim. @skwawkbox.org reports:
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

Earlier, we shared part of the text exchange between Donald Trump and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Støre. The BBC's US partner, CBS News, has now received the full version, after it was released under Norwegian freedom of information law. The message Jonas Støre sent was on behalf of himself and the Finnish president, Alexander Stubb. Here's the exchange: Message from Støre to Trump, 18 January at 15:48: Dear Mr President, dear Donald - on the contact across the Atlantic - on Greenland, Gaza, Ukraine - and your tariff announcement yesterday. You know our position on these issues. But we believe we all should work to take this down and de-escalate - so much is happening around us where we need to stand together. We are proposing a call with you later today - with both of us or separately - give us a hint of what you prefer! Best - Alex and Jonas Message from Trump to Støre, 18 January at 16:15: Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT

Oh dear CBS has FOIA'd the full text exchange between Trump and the Norwegian PM

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters

"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

For example, an Amazon delivery driver, who sits in a cabin surrounded by AI cameras that monitor the driver’s eyes and take points off if the driver looks in a proscribed direction, and monitors the driver’s mouth because singing is not allowed on the job, and rats the driver out to the boss if they do not make quota.

This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING

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CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining

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The Politics of Abolishing ICE Some Democrats say it's not feasible - they're wrong.

My latest premium newsletter is about the increasing public appetite for getting rid of ICE, and what the centrists who tell you it's not feasible are getting wrong.

taking trump seriously rn would be too damaging to a US in decline so the whole system is squirming to not look at him directly. press translating what he says to sound more sane, democrats just talking about eggs. he's too big to fail

‘It breaks my heart’: Facing public pressure, SLC officials are adamant about backing immigrants and not cooperating with ICE Facing anti-ICE protests at City Hall, Salt Lake City officials say they are sympathetic — and won't formally cooperate with federal immigrations agents

Facing anti-ICE protests at City Hall, Salt Lake City officials say they are sympathetic — and won't cooperate with federal immigrations agents.

Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis

Holy shit.

Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’ Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom

It rocks that everyone at CBS News is blabbing www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

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“…the creators of these [nonconsensual, violent AI] images often seemed to be treating the action like a game or meme, with an air of laughter & detachment.”

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn