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Sometimes you wonder. Bloomberg this morning saying that you can't both believe that AI is a big deal and that we're in a bubble. But you absolutely can! That's exactly the story of the tech bubble of the 90s, major economic impact but not big profits. Sigh.

This really is a must-read story.

This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.

Thx to Michigan state Sen. Stephanie Change for alerting the public

Over the weekend, ICE reported at least two active measles cases at the South Texas Family Detention Center (Dilley). The ICE facility, which jails parents with their children, including babies, has a well-documented record of abuse, including medical neglect.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

In normal times, an unaccompanied immigrant child (separate from family detention) in a federal facility waited an average of 35 days to get released to their family sponsor after the screening process. Today? 189 days. More than 6 months. And that number is only going up.

Think how much we could pay down the debt if children could work…

This made me lol, thank you. Life is stranger than fiction

‘They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

It’s notable to me that they had to use a doctored photo to try to make her look bad. Thank you Ms Levy Armstrong

Donate Your Skymiles — Stand With Minnesota Donate your Delta Skymiles to get people home from Texas

Okay! This has already inspired a bunch of DMs, so I made a page on the website. If you have 50,000+ Skymiles and would be willing to book flights to get someone home, please fill this out.

Also true for those receiving or eligible for cash assistance welfare.

If only the undertrained armed, masked mercenaries would stay in their assigned groups like we told them

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"What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.'"

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Will ICE Ignite a Mass Strike in Minnesota? Minnesota appears to be in gear for a mass uprising. Unions, community organizations, faith leaders, and small businesses there are calling for a statewide day of “no work (except for emergency servic...

The beating heart of a fighting labor movement is in Minnesota. One of the key battles for the future of working people will be determined there. Trump’s goons are treating their assault on the state as a workshop for what to do next. Solidarity is the answer.

labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"

"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

“Why can’t we have any regulations for US tech in Britain?”

Because the US trade rep has gone to every country including Britain and said if we regulate tech in a way that favours our people, industries and national interests, the US will bury us in tariffs and ruin our economy.

It just worked for me, maybe the site got maxed out so try later.

Yes abolish ICE, but I think the language of abolishing quickly or 🫠 is less important than framing for what immigration policy we want (comprehensive reform) and shift the narrative. Yes or no to ICE begs the admin question of “who will deport the criminals?” Center the immigrant child.

They're pretending to be SEPTA here in Philly.

Time for a shout out to Prof. Anita Hill! She tried to warn us

Vilma Palacios was deported back to Honduras Sunday morning despite disputing her removal order.

The LSU nursing grad was arrested by ICE 6 months ago in Louisiana.

Agents said there were issues with her asylum case, which was filed 14 years ago when her family fled Honduras due to gang violence.

This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.

Is this in Chicago?

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I can’t get over the glass breaking photo. Thank you