so, looks like we're going to need nicolas cage to steal the constitution in order to protect it
14.02.2026 19:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@malatesting.bsky.social
chicagoish ecocentric
so, looks like we're going to need nicolas cage to steal the constitution in order to protect it
14.02.2026 19:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This post is really taking off. I know the Thanksgiving detail is grabbing, but I would encourage everyone to also read the full article about this familyβs struggle at Dilley.
Theyβve been locked up for 130+ days.
I spent hours with them on Zoom this week, and their story deserves to be heard.
I think it's a good sign that normies today are doing things that Willem van Spronsen gave his life doing only 7 years ago.
13.02.2026 18:03 β π 212 π 51 π¬ 9 π 4π§ͺπΊ Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Much of my youth revolved around the website ZineLibrary. It went down around Occupy in a massive loss for a movement whose ideas and knowledge mostly doesn't circulate online but in person.
Anyway I've put it back online with a *thousand* anarchist zines:
zinelibrary.org
Kid pulling back to knock out a fascist
THIS MAN IS YOUR FRIEND.
HE FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM.
For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com
13.02.2026 19:42 β π 1730 π 549 π¬ 18 π 11all DHS employees have voluntarily exiled themselves from humanity and all the rights and dignity that go with it
13.02.2026 21:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0we were considering a congressional bill to have somebody use a highlighter to highlight a few of the relevant laws ICE agents are breaking, but we didn't want to seem divisive
13.02.2026 17:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0she tried to douse the flames of the fire that the ICE agents had set in that building. an absolute hero.
13.02.2026 17:15 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0itβs untested by i think it couldnβt hurt to spike the water supply with hallucinogens or mdma. make nimbys realize other people exist with hopes and dreams, and that fundamentally we are all one
13.02.2026 16:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0nah man, i saw the whole thing. it was an electrical fire after they sent elon in there to chew on the wires for a bit
13.02.2026 16:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0importantly, this largely goes away when you look at camera-issued tickets. also, alluded to but not highlighted is the fact that we found out the cops arenβt keeping accurate records of the people they pull over on pretexts & donβt find anything at all to ticket, so itβs presumably even worse.
13.02.2026 15:58 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0π¨ ICE is authorized to covertly infiltrate and interact with social media accounts under a new program called "masked engagement," per documents leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...
NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons.
We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team.
Read more:
iβve got some terrible news: since that person was at the caucus that was almost certainly one of the most well-informed voters in the country
12.02.2026 23:27 β π 28 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0guys, iβm starting to suspect that maybe not everyone involved here is on the up-and-up
12.02.2026 21:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0worse, the only way we know works to get the dipshits to stop always making the same mistake every time is to have them be members of unions and mainline churches and maybe bowling leagues. and, well, good luck!
12.02.2026 20:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0a illustration of our standard kitchen onion, Allium cepa, from 1586. Handcolored engraving
a black and white photograph of a white man in a suit, holding stalks of some plant, possibly corn or some sort of grain. Photo depicts Nikolai Vavilov (1887 - 1943)
The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results
On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data
like, we know the solutions to would-be dictators. but what do we do about these scumbags?
12.02.2026 00:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0it turns out that fawning courtiers are actually more offensive to my libertarian socialist sensibilities than some evil jackass who thinks himself king. these people have been living among us the entire time!
12.02.2026 00:52 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0He got out after 3 months in an ICE gulag.
11.02.2026 18:56 β π 3622 π 967 π¬ 6 π 25for all its many faults in its current form, itβs really worth noting that the jury system has been one of libertyβs strongest soldiers
11.02.2026 16:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege
10.02.2026 18:46 β π 5455 π 2899 π¬ 102 π 289AP, ABC and CBS all reported that Wagner was charged with threatening federal agentsβ which wasnβt reflected in the complaint or even said by DOJ explicitly. AP has now finally changed their headline and added a correction.
11.02.2026 13:55 β π 363 π 132 π¬ 7 π 4NEW: The Trump admin publicized the arrest of an "antifa domestic terrorist," implying he was charged with threatening federal agents. But the criminal complaint suggests Kyle Wagner was charged with Instagram beefing with controversial rightwing agitator Jayden Scott.
zeteo.com/p/trump-admi...
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
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