Aleta B (she/they)

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

With Ring, American consumers built the surveillance dragnet. Ring's Super Bowl ad, which highlighted a feature to find lost dogs, showed Ring is still, again, and always will be in the business of leveraging its network of luxury surveillance consumers www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

austerity chic

In one of our signal chats, a neighbor calls these “fuckaroundabouts”

Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.

But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

hindsight is 20/20 but maybe selecting university presidents on their willingness to debase themselves for private donor money is related to the current difficulties in defending academia from fascism

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Screenshot of an article from the editors of The Nation. A photo shows students holding signs in the cold, with one in the center that reads: AMERICA CANNOT BE GREAT WHILE RULED WITH HATE. Text reads: The Nation Nominates Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize With their resistance to violent authoritarianism, the people of Minneapolis have renewed the spirit of Dr. King’s call for “the positive affirmation of peace.” Photo caption and credit: Students protest against ICE during a walkout at the University of Minnesota on January 26, 2026. (Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

Okay, I might be crying about this, but I'm also howling with laughter at how mad it would make one specific fascist ghoul.

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Appears this is also true for fascism.

But what the images of Liam also do is show the reality of the immigrants that ICE is spiriting off to faraway prisons, where the detained have few rights. In the pleading tone of the officials at Liam’s school – who had to tell an ICE vehicle to leave them alone while they were giving their press conference about his arrest – I can hear the reality that so many native-born Americans are now confronting: that the immigrants that ICE is stealing belong to us. Liam belongs to us the way that every child belongs to us – the way that their innocence and vulnerability make them our responsibility. But the adult immigrants who are being stolen belong to us, too – they belong to us in the sense that proximity, and familiarity, and regular interaction bring us all into a community of principle and mutual care, make us all our brother’s keeper, and calls on us to love our neighbors. Liam’s loved ones miss him as their friend, their son, and their student; we are enraged and scared for him as a child and as a fellow human being. It is the guiding philosophy of the white supremacists shaping immigration policy in the Trump administration that mankind is not one community, that we must not care for all of our fellows equally. The wrongness and evil of this idea is evident in Liam’s face. On Friday, just days after Liam’s capture, thousands of his neighbors in Minneapolis took to the streets to protest ICE’s presence in their city. In them we can see a noble, even heroic counterexample, the other side of America: they hate ICE in proportion to how much they love their fellow man.

Hate ICE as much as you love your fellow man. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Once again: Focusing on their lack of training is a mistake. With "better training," their violence would simply cost more, and they would still kill whoever they wanted, but make it look more professional — to make people more comfortable, the way many of you are at ease with local police violence.

There is no such thing as other people’s children It is intolerable

"We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," @erikhane.bsky.social writes from Minneapolis.

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

Der Spiegel headline: Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf.

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

'Why aren't they in the streets' is answered almost every day in my small town by people in the streets! Rather than asking 'why aren't they in the streets' it's worth asking 'why isn't your media showing them in the streets' and 'who is served by downplaying resistane in its myriad forms.'

A stylized light and dark blue hand grasps a red ice pick that is stabbing down into a block of solid ice, which is also blue. There's small cracks forming. Below it says in red, "Chip away at them." Below that in light blue it says, "Small acts add up - protect your neighbors."

New illustration: "Chip Away At Them." Inspired by a poster imploring people to sign up for military duty and "Stamp out the axis."

Small acts do matter. Someone can't do everything, but everyone can do something.

My patrons already saw this drawing! www.patreon.com/emilyk

because from my vantage point, the white house does not have a win condition. like so many past occupiers, it seems to believe that a sufficient show of force will deter opposition. but like most occupations, the only thing you get with more force is greater resolve.

Congratulations everyone, Big Brother wasn’t imposed on you, you bought Big Brother on Prime Day and installed him yourselves.

look he's seen the polling, this is not a statement about what's effective, it's a statement about what they want to be committed to doing with power should they win. if they run on opposing ICE then they'll have to actually oppose ICE. this is ideology masquerading as electoral strategy

neolithic guys get pissed if you tell them their cultures are organized by the type of pots and jewelry they made. "we called ourselves the blood hunters" "we conquered villages far beyond this horizon" sorry bud you're the western linear pottery culture now

RICO charges against the atlanta cop city protestors and against bail funds were precisely the trial balloons for what they are doing now.

costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country

if only there had been a movement and momentum several years ago to downsize police budgets, clear out the white supremacists and de-militarize local law enforcement

They won't have the numbers to occupy the nation and force everyone to comply, and that's why they're engaged in such an aggressive show of force. They're hoping we all get cowed into submission and do their work of suppression ourselves.

Once again, no.

The mantra remains "fuck you, make me."

A propaganda poster in a painterly style. At the top there is a Nazi soldier in a faded grey with his hands raised at the point of a bayonet. Above him it says "We beat 'em before.." Below him in darker grey is an ICE agent in the same posture, with a hand pushing back at him, its palm out in a "stop" gesture. The hand is from the Portland Frog, a person in an inflatable frog suit. Below it says "We'll beat 'em again!"

"We Beat 'Em Before... (Portland's Version)"

This idea came to me late. I think it fits really well since Portland Frog Brigade literally carries no weapons and yet ICE has no idea how to respond to them. Just feckless incompetent goons all around.