Erik Armstrong

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.

SCOOP: Social Security workers are being told to give the details of appointments customers are making to ICE, raising the prospect of secret police abducting people going to mandatory SSA appointments. @zoeschiffer.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, and @leahfeiger.bsky.social have more.

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Every. Last. Sentence. 😱 Also Trump+guns+1000mL boxed wine = bad combo (and the boxed wine is not to blame)

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

The Patient by Brandon Shane - Rattle: Poetry Holding a plastic bin to my friend’s shriveled thing as he mutters oh crap oh crap oh crap after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage a stroke, a seizure; this man had survived it all

and I wanted to touch his hand there
say, nothing’s shameful about living

—Brandon Shane

Oscar-nominated director calls Iran a 'failed state' after his co-writer's arrest The Oscar-nominated Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian was arrested after condemning the regime's crackdown on protesters, which director Jafar Panahi says represents the actions of a "failed state."

The Oscar-nominated Iranian screenwriter Mehdi Mahmoudian was arrested after condemning the regime's crackdown on protesters, which director Jafar Panahi says represents the actions of a "failed state."

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

For the first time in decades, the U.S. and Russia have no limits on nuclear weapons — NPR Experts warn that the expiration of a long-standing nuclear arms control treaty between the two superpowers could mark the start of a new nuclear rivalry.

For the first time in decades, the U.S. and Russia have no limits on nuclear weapons - NPR

Oh yay! We can create more nuclear weapons to annihilate each other now.

Why do I feel like I’m in a dystopian movie?

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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left.

It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

Perfection

Coming soon: All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder A game about taking billionaires to court for destroying the planet.

My serotonin levels would greatly increase if a couple people could wishlist us on Kickstarter 🫠

And you'd get serotonin from playing a game about taking billionaires to court for destroying the freaking planet.

Now we all get serotonin

WISHLIST ALL WILL RISE!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

image of a report cover, with a US flag in the background, and the text "The Political Disconnect: Working-Class and Low-Income People on What Politics Means to Them and How They Might be Mobilized”

Today I'm releasing probably the most important scholarly thing I've ever worked on - a report based on talking with 144 people about why they don't vote or only vote regularly, and on what needs to be done to build a democracy that can include everyone.
www.swarthmore.edu/u...
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Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling after measles outbreak The majority of the Southeast state’s 876 cases have been in unvaccinated children

Children in South Carolina are developing rare brain swelling complications after measles outbreak trib.al/YRnKgEt

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

Final look at The Life of a Rock Pikmin | Pikmin Documentary
#pikmin #nintendo

Animation dropping tomorrow on YouTube!

Remember "no new wars"? 🤦🏽‍♂️

A Nobel Peace Prize nomination for Minneapolis is really a recognition of people power and it’s the first time a whole city has been put forward for the prize.

My two youngest kids are happily and loudly planning a base in No Man's Sky together. One is on the Xbox and the other is laying on a pile of Squishmallows and playing on the Steam Deck.

Video games are cool.

Alex Carrigan- Poetry Alex Carrigan (he/him) is a Pushcart-nominated editor, poet, and critic from Alexandria, VA. He is the author of Now Let’s Get Brunch (Querencia Press, 2023) and May All Our Pain Be Champagne (Alien B...

Our poetry selection is “Ars Poetica: Tulips” from @carriganak.bsky.social

“Petals fall into your cereal, soaking in milk and staining Cheerios”

flight-literary.ghost.io/alex-carriga...

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

TOMORROW is the final day to submit your work to our High School Writing Contest!

Get your work published, and share your voice with our global readership: www.narrativemagazine.com/narrative-fo...

Preserving Hawaiian History and Heritage Through Magical Realism - Electric Literature “The Pōhaku” author Jasmin ‘Iolani Hakes reflects on memory, land, and storytelling as inheritance

“The things we were told to do or not do were framed as truth, not superstitions.”

Ran across a letter I sent to my cast from over 8 years ago about what they could expect if we didn't fight tooth and nail to stop Trump. It's chilling in its forecasting of where we are literally today... (they didn't seem to care at the time-- actors, amirite? 🤷🏽‍♂️)

i truly hate how much we are living in a bad script

Anthropic’s ‘secret plan’ to ‘destructively scan all the books in the world' revealed by unredacted files A number of newly unredacted (and partially redacted) documents from the Anthropic case have shed light on how executives at the tech giant ramped up plans in early 2024 to scan “all the books in the ...

www.thebookseller.com/news/unredac...
#ai @thebookseller.com

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

Government records reviewed by ProPublica identify the two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

1/ Ian Austin has since been re-arrested along with Don Lemon, which he believes is bc the video we made of him (below) criticizing the Trump regime and encouraging fellow vets to wake up had gotten millions of views.

It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Supreme Court to Hear Trump Birthright Citizenship Case April 1 The US Supreme Court will hear arguments April 1 in a case testing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine birthright citizenship under the US Constitution.

The Supreme Court announced it will hear arguments on April 1 in a case challenging the constitutionality of Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship. The order was swiftly blocked by lower courts and seeks to overturn that anyone born on U.S. soil is automatically a citizen.