Steve "Spike" Spiker

Our local government agency: you can't take new staff out to lunch
DoD: lobster for everyone! wtf

Authoritarianism is so often used as a cover for rampant graft and corruption and abuse, just like this shit.

We Found More Than 40 Cases of Immigration Agents Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken. “I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold. The government ...

Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.

“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.

The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.

(Published Jan. 2026)

Noem associate Madison Sheahan bought 2,500 marked vehicles for ICE Despite ICE employees seeking to keep a low profile in public, ICE official Madison Sheahan placed a bulk order for marked vehicles.

Wild story from @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social:
ICE "wasted millions" to buy "thousands of employee vehicles that the agency cannot use to arrest illegal immigrants"

The problem: the vehicles are marked with ICE logo and motto

“ICE has never had marked vehicles,” person familiar said

It's whole "Bro I found these psychedelic local fish we should try man, it's a buzz, hey, where are you goin dude?' vibe.

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.

Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

Have you pivoted to military strategy innovation services Dan?

So much of what makes excellent technologists is simply knowing what kinds of things are even remotely possible with modest effort. #govtech

Town Legends.

Pardon Industry Offers Rich Offenders a Path to Trump

NEW: Pardon seekers are routinely being asked to pay $1m+ to lobbyists & lawyers claiming access to Trump, often with bonuses if clemency is granted.

I investigated the Trump Pardon Industrial Complex, & detailed the backstory behind 1 interesting pardon.

good news. kristi noem has already found eight new jobs

Something something love language yes spicy thank you

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Credit Scores wasn’t created until 1989
ICE wasn’t created until 2003

Abolish both

If this is what MS is passing off as AI enablment, I have so many questions. This is about as "AI" useful as Clippy was.

Am I missing something here?

What privacy? Meta's smart glasses are filming unwitting naked people Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses are a privacy nightmare, with footage of naked people, sensitive information, and violent acts captured and seen by Meta's AI and an army of employees.

Buried lede: Meta sends all your nudes to Kenya where humans annotate it and feed it to AI

I'm sure there's some equally strong Korean Mexican action in LA too? This one place in Oakland, Belly, was just incredible.

I see how this goes Dan. Throw us to the wolves, I mean Nazis.

I'm a Jesus follower and this stuff is off the chain crazy. Christian Nationalists and Zioninsts together are down for some horrendous stuff.

DURBIN: How does taking dad from child dying of cancer qualify as a violent crime?

NOEM: I don't know what you're speaking of

D: Ruben Torres 2 weeks ago buried his daughter. When he was arrested at Home Depot, he said, 'Please. My daughter is dying.' They deported him. Was he a violent criminal?

Where do I sign away my freedoms sir?

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So me and my bully friend went up in the face of this other bully, and because my friend was about to land the first punch, I also punched them so they wouldn't lash out at me for us collectively threatening then attacking them first.

This is classic self defense theory I am certain. For 9yos.

We need an intervention here people, this is going too far. #foodsky

Pointless?
If we can't point to science, we can't question their actions or logic.

If we can't point to history, they won't be afraid of repeating evils, and won't fear being recorded as doing so.

If they get rid of loving for others, they won't fear anyone coming to help you when it's your turn.

For my kids sake, I blur their faces in socials, you should too.

My eldest turned 14, spent the day w friends in San Francisco, weather was amazing..the Bay Area rocks. I mean, is a liberal hellscape.