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These SF Bay Area companies have ICE and CBP contracts ICE relies on a massive network of third-party contractors to conduct its operations, including companies that specialize in mass surveillance and others that make the clothing worn by agents.   Amid ...

The Bay Area has five companies that have contracts with ICE and CBP.

They're selling everything from flight restraints for deportees to car wraps to digital infrastructure, all to the tune of millions of dollars.

Here's the scoop:

(Free story, share widely) sf.gazetteer.co/these-sf-bay...

editing my own writing makes me feel like lil wayne... talking to myself because i am my own consultant

when white ppl are like "growing up i didn't see anyone who looked like me on the screen" and they are dead serious about how no one on screen had their exact physiognomy

my favorite purchase this year was my privacy screen protector (from spigen)... why tf does anyone need to see what's on my phone.

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Marnie is the Skyler White of Girls

jesblog #2: soothed by the unknown writing about books on my to-be-read list instead of actually reading them <3

jesblog #2: soothed by the unknown
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it occurs to me that the waymo failure in the SF blackout is precisely the kind of failure we were trying to help with: when traffic lights go out navigating intersections resolves to social negotiation, which requires theory of mind, which AVs ain't got

i'm only now getting into st vincent... indie cred REVOKED

writing a 2,000 word post about books on my to-read list instead of actually reading >>>

i hate how everything is a jpeg nowadays -_- give me the info in text format so i can copy and paste it. just give me a link to click on instead of only putting a qr codes on an image that i'm already looking at on my phone/computer

just got so scared of this list getting deleted for whatever reason i hit cmd-p and saved it as a pdf on my computer

jesblog #1 why I am writing this newsletter

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a year since I left my old job and it’s crazy how much more time and energy I have now… in the last month I’ve started doing Spanish audio lessons, finished the Neapolitan Novels, started selling my old clothes on depop, and wrote my first substack post 🫣

flew to LAX for the first time this weekend (i usually fly to Long Beach). there are airlines at LAX I have never heard of before. what the hell is BREEZE?!

Congrats to the BDS.

FREE PALESTINE.

my music taste at 14 is still the same as my music taste now... pavement pixies and garbage still fuck. and i still dgaf about dinosaur jr

Burmese restaurants that appeal to the palates of people who are used to eating at Thai restaurants that then appeal to the palates of people who are used to eating at Chinese restaurants that appeal to an American palate…

Sorry to Malcolm Harris but Stanford is a goated music venue

don draper is always like I need to get some pussy about this

i never say “no pun intended.” who cares

The Dirt on Pig-Pen | Elif Batuman Pig-Pen was dirty — visibly so... That’s who and how he was. And yet — what was that dirtiness? Was it essential or incidental? How did it work?

Elif Batuman- The Dirt on Pig-Pen: "Pig-Pen here conjures the dark side of the system of class. Pig-Pen is the one whose function is to be lower than the others, ensuring the smooth running of society." astra-mag.com/articles/the...

What happens to the people who survive the end of the world? I can tell you if you want.

Meg Conley- What happens to the people who survive the end of the world?
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE: "A White House rooftop sniper said that she had had “amazing experiences in foreign countries” and that the camaraderie of her sniper team reminded her of her college volleyball team."
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Asialatina Películas/cortos sobre: La comunidad asiática en Latinoamérica. Directores latinos de ascendencia asiática. Directores nativos, asiáticos, que hayan rodado en Latinoamérica. NO ESTA EN LETTERBOXD: HAL...

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Listening to the audiobook on 1.5 speed while I do chores

(it’s the invisible life of addie larue)

reading a book im not fucking with for book club 😐 the price i pay for community

bored. gonna confuse a behavior that is simply annoying with a behavior that is antisocial at best and morally depraved at worst

I am very excited to chase down your questions -- send us on some fun reporting rabbit holes please!