Cary Moon

Um. No. We don’t want an internal paramilitary security service targeting us. We don’t want a Stasi-Lite, a Gestapo that tastes great with less calories. This man is so clueless. This is an authoritarian private army.

again we do not really do a good job of explaining how wealthy people like Jeff Bezos are

his net worth is $253.2 billion.
so he could take one million dollars, and just light it on fire
and then do it again tomorrow
and again the day after that
and then do it every day for 693 years and 8 months

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

Suburban observers say ICE has only been more aggressive since Homan: “I think they’re getting angry that we’re winning and the country is rallying around us. We’re so organized and we act with such integrity. They don’t want to admit they feel threatened by us.”
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Just wow.
Read this thread and article.

at best billionaire media owners create a pseudo-journalistic agitprop safe space that coddles their ideology and interests; at worst they destroy outlets that used to speak truth to power

I'm not trying to diminish anyone's shock. We are all conditioned to ignore systemic violence that is occurring all around us. When something punctures the veil, and we react, that's an essential jumping off point. I do want to challenge folks to understand the broader context, bc that's necessary.

This is civic action.

Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.

130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.

#Minneapolis Personal Me: This is so much b.s. This AM, neighbors on my friend’s block foiled a kidnapping despite being assaulted and gassed. A school bus driver had to block the door to keep them from entering the bus while they were at it. 4 legal observers were kidnapped near us yesterday. 😡

Absolutely, I see a lot of people go down conspiracy pipelines due to cognitive dissonance over inaction toward sexual violence. And with victims I empathize greatly because it really is too much to bear for no one to care about what was done to you.

it's legit amazing how he continues to be 100% the wrong guy for this moment

It's like he's living in a completely different reality but still governing in this one. Wild time to be an austerity centrist with factory settings. Meanwhile, freshman Black millennial socialist abolitionist @organizewithshaun.bsky.social has emerged as the measured voice of reason & foresight.

I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

YES!
This analysis nails it. Thank you Charles.

Minneapolis and the Rise of Care Activism What ICE has done is actually strengthen, rather weaken, the bonds between urban dwellers.

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Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

If our "environmental protection" frameworks can stop an affordable housing project but can't stop a detention center or a highway expansion we really need to start talk about ripping things up root and branch.

This was the kind of treatment the union activists got today from Oregon’s largest unions alongside coalitions like @jwjpdx.bsky.social. They fired projectiles and injured many demonstrators and broke out neighbors windows. Gas for a half dozen miles in each direction. #iceout

I feel like someone's gotta say something, so l guess it's going to be me. I'm 100% certain that I either know, have met, or have sought meetings with people who have done horrible things in their lives, too. How about y'all? Association is not causation, and it's not guilt - of anything. (1/8)

The problem with applying this logic to Epstein associates is that vanishingly few have come forward before their names show up in these document dumps.

Epstein has been an issue of public concern for a decade! Where is the public reckoning among elites for their entanglement with this asshole

Seems like much of the courage & cohesion & power in MN is built on what came before.

I recall the “Greater Than Fear” solidarity organizing to block the right wing power grab in 2018, and then George Floyd protests in 2020. This is their 3rd battle (at least); they have networks, trust, & skill.

Comparing US response to authoritarian threat with that of other places I've worked, witnessed or studied, one striking difference has been how much default toward thinking "someone" - institution, leader, legacy org - will step in has kept us pursuing approaches unfit for the task.

This thread is spot on.

Realizing what oppressed communities have long known - ‘We keep us safe’ - is a powerful shift in understanding. And a real spark to our internal sense of agency.

THREAD. ICE is in the news, and rightly so, but a lot of the commentary fails to see how the underlying surveillance tech, militarization, infrastructure, policies/practices/training, and corporate profiteers are shared by other domestic agencies and repressive bureaucracies in other countries.

I wanted to shout "Yes" and "Amen" at virtually every line of this @volts.wtf and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social discussion. I flagged one particularly important section, but the whole thing is essential. www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-...

This episode of Volts is so. SO. good.

Thank you @volts.wtf @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for yelling into the void about something that's been driving me absolutely insane for years, particularly the bit about reactionary centrists conveniently ignoring the influence of asymmetrical media ecosystems.

This is GREAT.
Go for a walk and listen!

Two of my fave thinkers exploring a dynamic anyone involved in progressive politics or public life or envisioning a better world -at any level - faces daily.
If you’re frustrated with the constant ‘I agree with you but…’ this is for you.

Local cops have put out a statement saying they will expressly disobey the Mayor‘s order to protect Seattlites from ICE violence. In case anyone was wondering

Protests! Get Your Protests Here! The demands are simple: Get Target to denounce ICE, those chuds terrorizing and murdering people in Target’s hometown, and to stop allowing them to operate in their stores. Shouldn’t the c...

Get your protests here!

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

The billions to DHS have built the for-profit panopticon surveillance state they were unable to fully push through after 9/11 because people fought back.

It took 25 years but they have it now.

This cannot be reformed. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

In addition to arresting Don Lemon, the arrest of my courageous friend and Emmy award winning independent journalist Georgia Fort for REPORTING the church protest in Minneapolis is what FASCISM looks like. This is video of Georgia reporting her own arrest as FBI agents were at her door. 1/2