ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.
Y'all see what time it is?
Robby Starbuck is a far-right activist. Meta putting him in the position of being a "bias advisor" for its chat bot is insane.
Very rigorous vetting process
After assuring undocumented immigrants for decades that they should pay their taxes honestly and their records would not be shared with immigration authorities, IRS now prepares to hand over their information to the Gestapo. Shameful.
www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
THIS
This is a very important article pulling together a fact pattern: people taking domestic flights ending up detained bc ICE, bc while they had pending legal immigration applications ICE alleged they were out of status.
In some cases that seems correct — eg visa overstay — in others less clear.
I've tried multiple times to record a Common Sense show about what we are living through. I run into the same issue every time. It's not Trump...it's those who like him and what he's doing. I try to be a "solutions person",but I don't know what to do about THAT.It stops my recording cold every time.
Seems like most of them went to bed early.
Trump claims he “brought free speech back” after removing a man from exercising his free speech.
#StateOfTheUnion
US Rep Al Green removed by Trump's Nazi while others sat and watched or jeer at him. He stood up to Trump and told him he had no mandate to disrupt Medicaid for millions of people. Make a list of which politicians you are going to keep. So far it's a short list. #3E #SOTU
We'll say it again: No, 150-year-olds are not collecting Social Security benefits. #SOTU www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Sure am glad I got to see the full 12 minute James Bond montage without interruption earlier
Did DOGE get to #hulu?
Would be nice to watch the #oscars if #hulu could keep it up for more than 5 minutes
Roll out the red carpet.....
Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.
the most ashamed i have felt as an American was recognizing all my Iraqi friends had a specific facial expression when talking about dead loved ones that meant, "they were killed by your military but i don't want to say that because we're buds and i don't want you to feel bad"
NEW - Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall
Folks, I've been covering politics for a dozen years in Kansas and Missouri and this is probably the most intense, angry town hall I have ever seen
www.kansascity.com/news/politic...
Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics.
Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.*
So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
What’s the loss of a few million lives when proving a point takes priority?
I was once a child refugee, surviving on USAID rations—without them, my family would have perished. I will never understand the deep-seated cruelty some people carry in their hearts.
folks really need to accept that "lawful" and "lawless" don't matter, what matters is being able to marshal and deploy force (force of capital, the force of arms, the force of a crowd...) none of the people running the country right now give a good goddamn about the law
I just started a monthly donation to the Internet Archive @archive.org
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
Gonna be great to grow up and see this headline and be like "yeah my dad's a fucking idiot"
the people who built this thing need to be caned in public until they lose consciousness
