MxMars

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Fifteen Years

Wow.

This hits like a ton of bricks.

xkcd.com/3172/

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

The iconic mating call between the computer and the internet is no more:

It’s impossible not to sound at least a little crazy when you accurately describe what’s happening right now.

(guy in the suburbs for the first time) no yeah it’s cool. i like how there’s nothing. i just thought it would be under the city

Firing the BLS Commissioner — the wonk in charge of the statisticians who track economic reality — is an authoritarian four alarm fire.

It will also backfire: You can't bend economic reality, but you can break the trust of markets. And biased data yields worse policy.

David Hardy. The First Lunar Base from The New Challenge of the Stars, Mitchell Beazley, 1977. #DavidHardy #Moon

Picking blueberries 💙🐦

Being kind is punk rock #superman

A small hummingbird perched on a branch with iridescent deep magenta and purple plumage, dark wings, and a distinctive bright white cap on its head. The background is a smooth blur of green foliage.

#SnowcapSaturday

A little male Snowcap #hummingbird for a Saturday evening. From @tapirvalley.bsky.social

#birds #nature #costarica

Friends are the most important and beautiful thing

ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens The dramatic shift in policy could result in thousands of immigrants being deported to places where they lack family ties or even a common language.

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

The Night Store

the news is randomly generated list of once implausible horrors

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to direct the military to detain or arrest “lawbreakers,” a move one expert called “a grave escalation.”

For L.A.

[I don't really have anything insightful to say so i'm going to watch women's basketball with my gf]

I am less a person nowadays than a container for anxieties.

Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed.

No one knows why he was detained.

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest

“Stop resisting”
“He’s not resisting”

Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

The final tally to advance the CR is 62-38.

The Democrats who voted for cloture, giving Donald Trump everything he wants:

Cortez Masto (NV)
Durbin (IL)
Fetterman (PA)
Gillibrand (NY)
Hassan (NH)
Peters (MI)
Schatz (HI)
Schumer (NY)
Shaheen (NH)

If you’re a constituent of David Valadao, Ken Calvert, or Young Kim you have more power to fight for Medicaid by making a phone call than 99% of Californians.

Call tonight, then call again tomorrow before 4PM

Nooo!! T_T

If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.

Beaker as Dua Lipa on the cover of Elle magazine.

just over here photoshopping muppets onto the cover of elle magazine: thread

Call TODAY to stop RFK Jr RFK Jr is a danger to every single American… and Trump wants him to lead Medicare. Help us stop him!

StopRFKjr.com is a simple link you can send to your friends, family, colleagues that makes it incredibly easy for them to call their U.S. Senators and tell them to oppose the disastrous nomination of RFK Jr to run all federal health programs.

Please share StopRFKjr.com as widely as you can

President and Vice President of the United States literally fabricate fictitious disabled air traffic controllers and blame the crash on them (which, btw, isn't how Schedule A hiring authority works) and y'all still can't? won't? cover disability competently?

🪓MASS DELETION UPDATE—More than 1,000 pages are now deleted from websites of CDC, National Institutes of Health, and other sites of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a new WSJ analysis—including many **vaccine recommendation** scientific pages!

If Elon Musk's goons are downloading all this data (including non-public, protected data) that they are deleting from federal websites -- which is likely the case!!! -- then we are actually witnessing a heist job in broad daylight