Seth D. Michaels

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

we may someday look at this like we currently look at using radium paint so you can tell time in the dark

this is a very good point. The danger is not that it’s going to produce “better” art, but that it’s going to produce good-enough content that can be easily targeted at the vulnerable bsky.app/profile/opin...

find me in the club, the Clean Plate Club / I’m into having snacks and I’m into having lunch / so come give me a hug when I finish all my grub

Here it’s worth recalling the many predictions from a century or so ago that we were entering a period of abundance that would allow all of us to work only a small amount while devoting the rest of our time to leisure, hobbies, etc.

We did achieve that level of abundance. And yet.

sethdmichaels’s profile sethdmichaels uses Letterboxd to share film reviews and lists. 921 films watched. Favorites: Raising Arizona (1987), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Jurass...

easily found under the same name everywhere: boxd.it/epOf

a book worth reading on the origins of the US's actually-longer-than-50-years war on Iranian self-determination: revolutionbooks.org/book/9780470...

"Fact-based feeling" is his only good one in a long while. If he said this in 2017, it would be an instant classic.

planning to win a war instead of planning to spread as much death and destruction as possible and call that winning: peak wokeness

🐳🎵 stop reposting accounts that don't source their infooo 🎵 🐳

right, his take is that the consensus of medical professionals and their organizations is itself suspect - since their informed take is one he disagrees with, it must be inherently corrupt

note that the rollback and non-enforcement of vehicle efficiency and emissions standards, a major priority of the Trump administration, results in people spending more of their income at the gas pump and exposing them more to this kind of volatility

Trump’s First EPA Promised to Crack Down on Forever Chemicals. His Second EPA Is Pulling Back. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin claims to prioritize combatting long-lasting chemicals called PFAS. Despite this, the agency has delayed enforcement of standards and terminated over $15 million in fundin...

8/ It's yet another example of how dismantling EPA’s independent research paves the way for deregulation that harms our health. EPA has rolled back limits for PFAS in drinking water at the same time they're cancelling millions of dollars in grants for research on the health effects of PFAS exposure.

"you should be focusing on how cool and badass it is that *we* killed so many people" bsky.app/profile/kyle...

he outlines this massive surveillance society under the pretense that ethical, responsible people will be in charge, undermined by his effort to cement a permanent zealot kakistocracy in a country too corrupt to have working regulators or corporate accountability of any kind

The MSM presumption is that leading with faith must mean you're trying to win over Republicans.

But lots of Democrats are religious. They just tend to focus their exercise of faith in the political realm more on the plight of the poor and oppressed rather than on abortion and anti-LGBTQ beliefs.

this is absolutely how Hegseth thinks about it. his one qualification for the job was that Trump liked watching him on tv! bsky.app/profile/ones...

it's giving

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

i hear that. i can be a little happy about the near-term, small positive shifts, though! it's better than the alternative!

these motherfuckers dined out on "Portland/Milwaukee/Chicago have been burned to the ground by antifa/BLM" for years!

i'm seeing Cornyn+Hunt adding to 1,186,590 and Talarico at 1,188,253 - what am i missing?

screenshot of the NYT feature reporting results from the Democratic primary for the TX US Senate seat, showing 2.25 million total votes

screenshot of the NYT feature reporting results from the Republican primary for the TX US Senate seat, showing 2.14 million total votes

damn, Talarico got more votes at 52% of the Dem primary than Cornyn+Hunt did combining for 55% of the Repub primary www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.

Colombia Identifies a New Genus of Deer: Andinocervus rufinus, a Lineage Unique in the World In Colombia, a new genus of deer has been identified: Andinocervus rufinus, a species belonging to a lineage unique in the world.

New kind of deer just dropped

Not every vote is in (the outlined counties don't have >95% counted, and Maverick hasn't reported at all), but this shows the swing between Harris' margin in '24 and the Dem margin in yesterday's primary turnout. You can see in south Texas the shifts were >100%.

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Truly cannot say I know a single editor who would prefer to deal with AI-generated stories over those written by a human reporter