With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet
Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.
Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:
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Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UWβMadison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UWβMadison history professor Jorell MelΓ©ndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album βDeBΓ TiRAR MΓ‘S FOToS.β
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
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And Young Miko on the left of the group, off camera here and there
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BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not βmove onβ from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors
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Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on β¦ Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didnβt even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
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so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.
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Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever.
Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."
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WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. Theyβre signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.
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If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by nameβciting facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
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Protest breaks out at Dilley immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos
A protest broke out Saturday at the ICE-run South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, where five-year-old Liam Ramos is being detained.
Reminder that, in recent days, children have rallied and protested for their freedom inside an ICE detention center where water has been described as "putrid" and meals reportedly contain βbugs,β dirt, and debris. This is where the kidnapped 5-year-old Liam Ramos is being held.
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.
His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Bill Kristol is making a clearer case for what Democrats can and should do in the minority than Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries ever has
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It's like racists in America being dumbfounded by the attack on Pearl Harbor because they'd convinced themselves that members of an inferior race were biologically incapable of flying planes.
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."
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i think this attitude β that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questionedβ is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump β 3 in House & 20 in Senate). Thatβs it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
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AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
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Of course
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
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If 2A gun owners don't protest over this murder in Minneapolis we know what their whole deal has always been...and it's not about gun rights.
25.01.2026 00:15 β π 304 π 56 π¬ 10 π 1
Again, even David Shor explicitly conceded that AOC's argument of "Republicans are looting your healthcare money to fund state-sponsored executions and kidnappings, so Democrats need to abolish ICE to claw back that money for your ACA" is the single most popular message among voters
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There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.
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I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, βItβs like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?β as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity
24.01.2026 16:45 β π 25960 π 9896 π¬ 1052 π 914
Live: Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning, police chief says
A video appears to shows federal agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him.
The Star Tribune reports that federal agents "attempted to order local police from the scene" where a man was shot and killed by feds this morning, but Minneapolis Police Chief Brian OβHara refused and "instructed his officers to preserve the scene."
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Bari Weissβs CBS News Wonβt Even Condemn Israel for Killing a CBS Contributor
Instead, the networkβs new top anchor Tony Dokoupil peddles Israelβs talking points about it killing a Palestinian journalist. A CBS source calls it a βdisgrace.β
β Israel kills 3 journalists, including CBS contributor
β AFP, the other impacted outlet, condemns killing & calls for investigation
βΒ CBS doesn't, instead peddles Israel's claim that they were targeting a group with "a drone affilliated with Hamas"
Inside the Bari Weiss-led CBS response:
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