James Tang

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

All these people and companies just been rolling over like fucking dogs, it’s been so nauseating to watch

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.

“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.

By @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Extremely important article. Please share.

"These numbers matter because they dismantle a myth that has shaped public safety for generations: that without armed authority, chaos will follow."

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

Photo shows a young girl with her cat

This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.

She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.

Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/

So glad you’ve finally accepted it

Newly revealed emails undermine RFK Jr testimony about 2019 Samoa trip ahead of measles outbreak Kennedy later said the purpose of his trip had nothing to do with vaccines. US embassy and UN staff at the time said otherwise, emails show

Of course RFK Jr. lied about the Samoan people whose deaths from measles he is responsible for.

Literally no one believed his lies except people like Bill Cassidy who chose to believe him in order to please the King.

And now RFK Jr. will continue to get people killed by preventable diseases.

Calls to shut down Texas ICE facility for children grow amid measles outbreak At least two cases confirmed at detention center for children and their parents in Texas

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It is terrifying that measles is spreading among children held in US concentration camps.

This is not a policy debate — it is an immediate threat to children’s lives.

Measles can cause encephalitis (brain swelling), brain damage, and respiratory failure in children.

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Good lord Wonder Man hits so hard as an actor

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

It's hard to overstate how NORMAL it was to sexualize teen girls when I was growing up.

"Jailbait" jokes were everywhere, I was constantly sexually harassed by men in cars when walking to school in 6th grade.

Epstein is of an cohort where it was GENERALLY maybe a little edgy but not extreme.

We know that 4more children from Liam's school are still in ICE custody in TX. But we still do not know how many children from MN in total have been detained by ICE.

I am once again begging everyone to remember, once the WGA and SAG-AFTRA contract negotiations begin, that *this* is how the trades we rely on operate

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP Democrat Taylor Rehmet has won a special election for the Texas state Senate and flipped a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024.

BREAKING: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips GOP-held Texas state Senate seat in special election for district Trump handily won in 2024.

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day

Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.

people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

The administration that spent the first half of 2025 telling us there was nothing wrong with coordinating literally classified war plans on Signal now is saying that it believes it’s a crime to post publicly available information on Signal.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

THIS

This scene from the 1998 film ‘A Bug’s Life’ hits just as hard today.

Black and orange text that reads “5 Easy Ways You Can Help Right Now”

Cartoon of a man standing at a fruit car surrounded by masked ICE agents.

Cartoon of masked agents holding a person down while phones record.

Two men standing in front of a car wash.

Feeling helpless? Here’s how YOU can help take a stand against ICE!

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By @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social

LA folks in Echo Park/Silverlake: ICE is staging at Vons on Alvarado, and have kidnapped vendors on Sunset and Alvarado and Sunset and Echo.