Aaron Wignall

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

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this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

What the actual fuck

Imagine writing a law to specifically fuck with 380 people who are minding their own business

I live in Utah- Mike Lee will always do whatever is in Mike Lee's interests. That has always been who he is. From that perspective, he is always consistent.

2024

Scenes from a personalist regime

Happy birthday @nbasarah.bsky.social !

Ally. This is an ally.

Sophia Bush is a good example of a white ally to Black and Brown people. She used to follow me on Twitter, back in the day.

Hopefully she makes it to Bluesky soon.

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of February!

so far i think in the last 48 hours trump has called

- michael scherer at the atlantic
- jonathan karl, abc
- jake tapper, cnn
- axios
- bret baier, fox news
- the new york times
- the washington post

just noting that when he wants to sell a war, suddenly theyre not "fake news" anymore

After Netflix Drops Warner Bros. Bid, GOP Senator Cancels Planned Antitrust Hearing; Top Democrat Vows To “Exercise Congress’ Oversight Authority” — Update Mike Lee dropped plans for a hearing next week.

months and months of phony "antitrust concerns" by the GOP (propped up by a press that lets them pretend they have credibility they never earned) magically disappears now that it's a Trump-allied billionaire zealot buying Warner Brothers

Transpose this 1970 campaign speech by antisemitic white supremacist Asa Carter into the voice of JD Vance or Elon Musk or Matt Walsh and tell me if you could tell the difference.

The Hughes bros, Megan Keller, and Hilary Knight on SNL with Connor Storrie

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Hey I’ve heard this song before

Love checking POTUS’s twitter knockoff to see whether the U.S. is engaged in an illegal and completely unnecessary war.

Taking the Joker moniker a little too seriously...

I smoke infused chocolate Crown Royale using a pinch of walnut chips and a couple pinches of rosemary leaves.

Pretty happy with it 😄

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.

Full statement from the band:

Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Justice sure took a long while…

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The global wellness industry, at $6.2 trillion a year, is 4 times larger than the global pharmaceutical industry.

I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF

Unlimited resources solves the problem, but who has unlimited resources?

Nobody.

Agentic AI has a collision problem.

Hash collisions occur because infinite input is being converted to a finite output.

Agentic AI is setup essentially the same way. A token cap, to keep it from bleeding you dry, creates a finite output.

We aren't the good guys evidence 28375844

after failed military incursion, us government responds with economic sanctions