Max Osborn

Screenshot of text: unfuck google drive by shooting gemini Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again! Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever? Open your gdrive (web OR app) Settings > Manage Apps Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push) Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

By Slashing Foreign Aid, Trump Is Fueling the Spread of HIV in Uganda Reporting from Uganda, The Intercept saw how Trump’s effort to slash foreign aid is encouraging the transmission of HIV.

For the Interept, I reported from Uganda about the effects of USAID cuts on LGBTQ people, HIV prevention activists and sex workers—and tried to tell the story from the POV of these important but criminalized communities. Please read and share.
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Another key example is the COVID-19 pandemic - @victorialaw.bsky.social's book "Corridors of Contagion" offers an excellent, meticulous, completely infuriating explanation of this

We expose incarcerated people to disease just as we expose them to violence, then dismiss both as a natural or expected consequence of lawbreaking: if you didn't want to get sick in prison, you simply shouldn't have gotten yourself arrested.

Thinking about Katie Tastrom's book "A People's Guide to Abolition & Disability Justice" in which she talks about "carceral epidemiology," the way the state "uses communicable disease as part of the informal punishment of incarceration."

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

I think people underestimate how big this is. Like a city-wide strike is not something that has happened in the US for nearly 100 years

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.

Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.

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ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.

Right, I'm not trying to step on people's optimism, but it's hard for me to share it. If anything, I think "abolish ICE" is a *much* easier sell than "abolish police," given that it's only been around for a few decades, so why *not* start there?

The exact example that came to mind. There are plenty of police and prison abolitionists who have put together very compelling arguments that if your starting point is "reform," you're already conceding that the org/institution should exist in the first place, and are thus on the back foot already.

The tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished.

I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy.

Time to melt ICE.

How dangerous is it really to work for ICE? According to ICE’s own data, none of its officers have been killed by an immigrant in the agency’s history.

The leading cause of death by far among ICE officers is COVID-19.

I got to dive into a lot of this literature when I wrote about immediate media coverage of the shooting of Tamir Rice, who was only 14 at the time of his death. It was eye-opening to apply the frameworks from prior research and see it unfold exactly as predicted

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Fox is signaling to their viewers that this woman was from the enemy tribe, so their viewers should not be upset or be concerned about how she was executed in the middle of the road for no reason.

"He was no angel" for 2026.

Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State

this book is good, is what I'm saying www.dukeupress.edu/freedom-with...

thinking about chandan reddy's argument about the state laying claim to "legitimate violence" (which also necessitates codifying the "legitimate" *targets* of such violence vs those ostensibly being protected, and designating other types of violence as illegitimate by comparison)

they are already turning this into a "debate" and an excuse to scold the left
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“The worst thing I’ve ever experienced” – comparing experiences of affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare provision for trans adolescents in the UK Within trans youth healthcare two fundamentally different models of care persist, with a significant difference between affirmative and non-affirmative healthcare services. To date there has been l...

Incredibly important new study from Cal Horton @fiercemum.bsky.social - the first to look at England's post-Cass child/adolescent gender clinics. Dr Horton found patients and families are being actively harmed, with one young person describing appointments as "the worst thing I’ve ever experienced”.

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social on point as usual

in comparison, in 2020, multiple states gave lighter sentences to motorists who drove into protesters, while charging protesters charged by cars with misdemeanors for "blocking traffic." some police unions backed immunity for people who drove into protesters

This is excellent coverage: it gives readers context beyond the specific incident, showing a pattern of excessive force, and also documents that DHS keeps using the same and increasingly debunked explanations. Much better than both sidesing the shooting.

ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...

As always, Defector gets it right: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

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this store is 18+ and they’re strict as hell about it. none of this has ever been about “protecting children,” it’s about trying to force trans people to disappear

Newly Unveiled Photos of MLK Jr. Show Depth of NYPD’s Surveillance After J. Edgar Hoover cast the civil rights leader as a “liar,” NYPD’s spy unit heeded the call. by Joshua Clark Davis

My new Intercept piece on the NYPD’s targeting of MLK is up today, with never-before-published police surveillance photos of King.

This whole thing really demonstrates how many people see the end goal of a political campaign as "help a specific candidate win a specific election" as opposed to as part of a broader project of movement-building: building community relationships, getting constituent buy-in, empowering people, etc.

6 years ago, a federal ban on gender-affirming care for young people was absent from the national Dem agenda, seemed unlikely to almost everyone who isn’t trans. 6 years ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene was a QAnon crank with a crossfit gym. Yesterday her ban passed out of the House with three Dem votes.