Daniel Westreich

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Fwiw bsky.app/profile/bsky...

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(And it seems like it’s maybe not as bad as people thought?)

The rampant crime is coming from inside the (White) House.

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

I think you are bringing a wiffle bat to a nuclear war, Ro.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

it is genuinely shocking how much rage @jay.bsky.team and the devs seem to have for their user base. suspending Erin Biba over an old post just because she’s been criticizing you is deeply fucked up. fix this shit.

The protests are on one block. Nothing is burning down. His justification for sending in troops is all based on lies.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

"a tradition"???

It's literally the law.

This matters because the law is not self-executing. If we treat it as non-binding, its constraints grow even looser.

Please amplify this demand. We need y'all. I was there. We were not in the road. ICE simply let loose on us to film themselves brutalizing and arresting protesters—and state police assisted them. They brought charges against scattered people to create a pretext for this inexcusable violence.

Reminder that tear gas is banned by the Geneva Convention, www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...

News coverage of the Trump administration's proposed "compact" with universities has been, so far, shockingly bad.

I hate to pick on NPR reporter Elissa Nadworny, who's usually a solid reporter, but almost every important thing I heard her say this morning about the proposed "compact" was false.

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

A still from the movie MEMENTO (directed by Christopher Nolan) in which a character looks confused; the caption reads "I don't feel drunk."

"Memento-ing"

Let me make this clear: If you are white and just stand by and watch your fellow white person doing this and you say nothing, it's as if you did it yourself.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

He can’t stand untruths — but he also blocked me so he also can’t stand *truths*, I guess? 🤷‍♂️

And Now a Word From the Director (Published 2011)

Why are you so eager to make excuses for a guy who palled around with Nazis?

“[A] month after…Kristallnacht made headlines across the world, Walt Disney gave Hitler’s pet filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, a tour of his studio.”

www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/m...

Alternatively, wrapped in the matzah covering and hidden in the bookshelf; if I find it before the kids do I accept the cash.

Your occasional reminder that Article IX, Section 9 of the NC constitution reads as follows:

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

So he’s spending nearly 40% of his waking hours trying to…gain more waking hours?

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Quite aside from whether this really happened (per @anamariecox.bsky.social) — how exactly would public health folks weighing in on the public health risks of a public event be “way outside their lane”?

Shocked, shocked to learn the president lied.

A rickroll.

the corollary to the absolutely true “one day, everyone will always have been against this” is that they’ll also never truly forgive you for being loud and right long before they were, unless you play along and pretend for them