Google removes a variety of longstanding GMail features if you try to withdraw your default consent (!) to having all your content read and used by Google Gemini via "Smart Features." That's an obvious attempt to coerce consent for privacy violations. Legislatures must act to make this illegal.

Body Meat, Boko Yout, Wombo and more

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

California Gurls are indescribable
Eldritch, squamous, foetid, and swart
Tenebrous, cyclopean, sepulchural
O! [x12]
California Gurls are inconceivable
Rugose threats to mind and to heart
Bachatracians, now put your flippers up
O! [x12]

—H.P. Lovecraft's California Gurls

Resentment against Albuquerque ‘deliveristas’ may have sparked viral Walmart ICE arrest • Source New Mexico Source New Mexico spoke with the family and friends of the man captured on video being violently arrested by ICE. They fear he has an untreated head injury.

"gig workers call ICE on their immigrant coworkers who they view as competition" is a pretty concise summary of the 21st century, cybourgeoisie class warfare as a way to discipline labor.

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You got this @hindrajabfoundation.be

Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

My final complaint, and this is really on behalf of the actors involved, is that after Dr. Santos in this and Young Shauna in S3 of Yellowjackets, we need a summit to figure out how to write confident but troubled young women that isn't "they're just an asshole all the time, I dunno, good enough"

I just don't know how anyone with any self-respect could still work at the ADL

best part of any given season of Master Chef is when the contestants have to feed a bunch of fishermen or something and somebody undercooks a chicken breast and Gordon Ramsay screams "you're disrespecting these fishermen!" and throws it into the ocean

everyone will tear schumer apart and then also say blue no matter who, this is a direct result of the blue no matter who stance. it actually matters who.

The level of antisemitism like actual antisemitism against Jews that people are willing to tolerate for the sake of Israel is truly extraordinary.

And I'm not even addressing the racism against Palestinians here.

other than Eric Adams who needs to perform for his boss I cannot reiterate how misguided it is for these other mayors to appear before this committee. They are not being subpoenaed and this committee is not conducting a legitimate inquiry. These people learned nothing from the college presidents.

It's Oliver Reed's birthday, which is as good a reason as any to post this magnificent turn.

Gonna say this in my review of the Season 2 premiere but I wish Severance would settle on just how much of the outside world the "innies" understand/remember. They know what brothers-in-law are but they need the sky described to them? They know what jobs are but think finger traps are good bonuses?

Bobby Briggs bursting into tears at the RR Diner. Twin Peaks S02E01 - May the Giant Be with You.

Twin Peaks: Bobby Briggs bursting into tears at the RR Diner.

Just read Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina. Would love someone smarter than me to put it in dialog with Red Rooms. Two great works on alienation, societal impacts and relationships to violence and contemporary news media

"These kids need to be killed from the day they are born. When a commander does that, it becomes legit."

"I felt like... a Nazi ... it looked exactly like we were actually the Nazis and they were the Jews."

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wait but i thought the big threat from AI was it exceeding our intelligence and destroying humanity. are you telling me it has real-world consequences today me should actually be concerned about?!

This is great work.

Another way to say these businesses are “erasing progress” is that they are re-segregating. The latter more pointedly gets at what’s at stake.

Please give your television show at least 10 episodes. 8 episodes is just not enough.

Just a normal news story that everybody is scrolling past now

For Too Long The Left Has Ceded the Mantle of Populist Assassins to the Right. my latest for Jacobin

"We're not looking to prosecute fellow law enforcement officers" said Eric Harden, former special agent

Han Kang’s Human Acts (This was written in 2017, for a publication that no longer exists) At the beginning of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian (2016), a woman stops eating meat. Her dull and conventional family is confused: to…

Loved this @zunguzungu.bsky.social piece on Han Kang's Human Acts which was a top read for me this year (also wonderfully discussed The Vegetarian!) shellsinanorange.blog/2024/10/10/h...

Engels on 'Social Murder' When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ... Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)

The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore

Jesus. What is this from?