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Historian of technology, & dad joke aficionado who lives w/a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. I won’t share AI generated content, except to critique it. If you see me in person I’ll be wearing a KN95. If you care abt me, put one on too. www.marhicks.com

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Post image 27.01.2026 02:23 — 👍 2114    🔁 395    💬 2    📌 0

ICE operations are spinning up in Maine. @themainemonitor.org is looking to help report on ICE activity there and has set up a page to report what you're seeing. Also includes Signal and encrypted Protonmail options for secure communications.

26.01.2026 23:34 — 👍 505    🔁 383    💬 12    📌 15

in terms of violent confrontations, though, homan won’t be out on the streets stirring that up. he’ll be nestled safely in the whipple building. just as evil as bovino but a different energy.

27.01.2026 02:16 — 👍 1015    🔁 147    💬 42    📌 7

The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.

He's got to go.

27.01.2026 02:48 — 👍 2312    🔁 593    💬 82    📌 38
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Unseen Post-COVID Diabetes: Causes and Forecasts As we navigate through the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the most alarming outcomes is the increasing prevalence of diabetes among those who have been infected with the virus.

“Epidemiological studies have begun to show a concerning trend: individuals with a history of COVID-19 infection are at an elevated risk for developing diabetes, often within months of recovery...” This has actually been known for years, but I’m glad to see more attention on it.

27.01.2026 00:49 — 👍 77    🔁 43    💬 2    📌 2

Please see the DEI backlash where across corporate and journalism most DEI pledges in 2020 have been rescinded and Black women are now at levels of unemployment

LOWER than White women were during the Recesssion 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...

27.01.2026 01:41 — 👍 115    🔁 51    💬 0    📌 0

"The number of downloads...surged by 529% after Mr. Mamdani’s news conference"

"there had been 3,000 people on a waiting list to access a limited number of e-book copies"

"2,000 people applied for a library card over the weekend, roughly twice as many as had applied by this time last year"

A win!

27.01.2026 02:28 — 👍 1205    🔁 333    💬 10    📌 21

Why did you hide the reply asking if you cosponsored Noem's Impeachment?

27.01.2026 00:45 — 👍 21    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Have you co-sponsored the Noem Impeachment resolution yet? If not this is nonsensical virtue signaling.

27.01.2026 00:32 — 👍 25    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
CHARLES RAFFERTY
The Problem with Early Warnings

People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres.
How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives.
Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following
the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

26.01.2026 20:52 — 👍 5940    🔁 2245    💬 30    📌 40

democrats will now sieze this moment to run surreptitious damage control on behalf of the regime, plead for bipartisanship and moving forward as americans together, unified, and triangulate us into a position that's just to the right of where we were the day before Renee Good was executed

27.01.2026 02:19 — 👍 256    🔁 66    💬 6    📌 6
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

27.01.2026 02:07 — 👍 8445    🔁 2997    💬 110    📌 269

Bovino losing his job “might give others the idea that they are not immune.”

Yes. Bovino isn’t facing especially serious consequences—though he might at some point—but it probably got some ICE/BP types to wonder if they’re as protected and on the way up as they’ve thought. Not nothing.

27.01.2026 02:30 — 👍 118    🔁 13    💬 8    📌 1

MAGA has been trying to meme its way to consolidated authoritarianism, relying on images, bluster, and voluntary compliance to make up for the Trump regime’s insufficient capacity.

They’re not done, things will probably get worse, but one of MAGA’s main tools just faltered. Yeah, that matters.

27.01.2026 02:21 — 👍 612    🔁 91    💬 4    📌 4

another amazing own goal from UW-Madison😟

27.01.2026 02:30 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Martinez has evidence from when ICE shot her 5 times that she wants us to see:

"Ms. Martinez came into the possession of body camera footage, photographs, electronic communications, and other evidentiary materials related to the encounter between herself and Border Patrol agents"

26.01.2026 23:10 — 👍 132    🔁 50    💬 0    📌 1

Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.

26.01.2026 22:27 — 👍 3045    🔁 1740    💬 5    📌 52
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TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized | TechCrunch Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on open protocols, has had a busy weekend.

TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized

26.01.2026 18:51 — 👍 430    🔁 152    💬 13    📌 33

This NYT video shows DHS using explosives to blow the door off a home of a U.S. citizen wanted for "injuring government property" in Huntington Park CA on 6/27 as Bovino watches nearby. The case, involving a collision with a CBP vehicle, was flimsy and later dropped.
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

26.01.2026 15:36 — 👍 484    🔁 229    💬 12    📌 11
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Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...

The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.

@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

26.01.2026 23:18 — 👍 4226    🔁 1507    💬 40    📌 76

One hateful lawbreaking little worm down, plenty more to go.

27.01.2026 00:02 — 👍 157    🔁 15    💬 5    📌 0

That tripartite yell is so relatable. We’ve all been there.

27.01.2026 00:02 — 👍 27    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.

26.01.2026 22:07 — 👍 1667    🔁 559    💬 1    📌 15

fuck all y'all

26.01.2026 23:45 — 👍 28    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

well, it's partly because many people have worldviews deeply shaped by US government propaganda and find it easier to compare the actions of ICE to authoritarian forces in other countries than to connect them to our own history of slave catchers, racist policing, vigilante mobs, etc etc etc

26.01.2026 21:39 — 👍 115    🔁 23    💬 5    📌 0

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

26.01.2026 23:35 — 👍 13222    🔁 5880    💬 177    📌 469
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ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’ The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.

www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

Palantir’s Gotham software...doesn’t just track information—it makes judgments. It could influence everything from how benefits are distributed to who gets flagged for closer scrutiny by law enforcement or immigration officers."
m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

26.01.2026 22:34 — 👍 27    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 0
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I can’t stop laughing at this

26.01.2026 23:55 — 👍 47    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 0
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Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

26.01.2026 23:40 — 👍 9376    🔁 2946    💬 1203    📌 3601
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Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

26.01.2026 16:25 — 👍 3846    🔁 737    💬 1333    📌 2450

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