Jon Spaihts

yeah, once more with a cover photo - I really, really encourage all tech folks to read this

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the Mid-East peace deal.

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

Chuck Yeager shook Orville Wright's hand.

It goes without saying that the deployment of military forces into civilian spaces is infinitely more reckless. This is not why the National Guard exists. We're going to need some new laws.

The militarization of police forces, and their eagerness to turn out in riot gear, makes it all worse. We need a radical reinvention of policing. Public safety officers, not soldiers, trained for politeness and de-escalation. These are not new ideas. We have lacked the will.

But police departments all over the country seem to have become convinced that when there's a protest march, they should show up, not just to keep the peace and direct traffic, but to disperse the protesters and suppress dissent. As if dissent is a species of crime.

The idea that it's the duty of any branch of our police or military to suppress peaceful protest is as un-American as it gets.

I was a skeptic about the import of the Epstein files.

But 3 invasions of cities, one military buildup outside Venezuela, a government shutdown, and so many other things meant to distract have me convinced whatever’s in there is the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign.

Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

All the food groups.

I'm tryin'. How's you?

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

This is how Trump ends democracy The past week has revealed Trump’s policy road map to veto one-party rule. Will Americans let him follow it?

The past week has shown us something scary — the concrete and specific outlines of a durable authoritarian state in America.

Here's what this state would look like, and the precise policy levers Trump is pulling to get there from here.

www.vox.com/politics/462...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.

Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.

See how this works?

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’ The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Note well that this is a rousing call for journalism -- as it was and as it should be.

Almost all major sunglasses brands are owned by a single conglomerate. It's a cartel. Look at goodr.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions.

Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.

These are just Helldiver gamer memes, they don't mean what they appear to mean. "Bella Ciao' is a popular Helldivers 2 mod and "hey fascist! Catch! Uparrow, right arrow, three downarrow" is Helldivers 500kg bomb strat. Calling enemies "fascist" while actually being fascist is the joke.

Horrible violence in Utah. Political violence, if that is the motive, is an aggressive cancer that kills us all.

This isn’t Moscow or Beijing. It’s Chicago. Masked federal agents grabbed U.S. citizens protesting ICE and threw them into an unmarked van.

“Who are you? Where are you taking them?” people shouted. “You are kidnapping them!”

What has America become?