Rebecca Bitton

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Law firm representing Renee Good's family releases findings from independent autopsy

Renee Good was shot 3 times by ICE

The first two shots were non lethal. One to her left forearm & another to right breast

The final shot entered the left side of her head & exited the right side

He didn’t have to keep shooting. He was out of the vehicle’s path before the kill shot

That’s murder

I see Operation Make ICE Shit Themselves (MIST) is well underway

They can’t do it because it points out that they themselves are doing nothing to help. Maybe three of them saying Abolish ICE. The rest are talking about retraining and body cams and QR codes.

"[M]ore than 41% of people experiencing severe psychological distress in state and federal prisons had not received mental health treatment. And more than one third (34%) of people who had been taking [mental health] prescription medication ... had not received their medication since entering."

Because the government makes reintegration so difficult.

"People who have been to prison just once experience homelessness at a rate nearly 7 times higher than the general public. But people who have been incarcerated more than once have rates 13 times higher than the general public ... [They] are unnecessarily funneled back through the 'revolving door.'"

MAP: Minneapolis General Strike Movement Spreads to 80 Cities on Friday At least 80 cities plan to hold actions in solidarity with the Minneapolis General Strike.

UPDATE: Now up to 80 Minneapolis General Strike solidarity actions

paydayreport.com/minneap/

Not possible. Everything was perfect in 2014. /s

"For just a moment, I was not in one of the most notorious prisons in the state of California. I was not surrounded by barbed wire fences and armed guards ... I was free, chillin' at the dog park."

The more money, resources, and power you give to ICE, the more folks they're going to harm and kill. It's as simple as that.

This fundraiser is 100% on the level and I just donated to it.

Please, friends around the country - especially those of you with deep pockets - help this devastated young family. Thank you.

Sorry guys you can’t have food or doctors I have to buy Greenland cause it looks really big on this map

THE FRONT-RUNNER Californias Gavin Newsom would rather be wrong than weak. By Helen Lewis (Header for an Atlantic article about Gavin Newsom, it features a picture of him looking like a real smart politics guy)

“GAVIN NEWSOM HAS A 30-PAGE FILE of reasons the Democrats lost the 2024 presidential election. Bounding across his Sacramento office, he starts listing them: incumbency, inflation, interest rates, Israel—and that's just the letter I. "Yes, too woke," he adds. "Yes, 107 days, referring to the short campaign after Joe Biden's forced withdrawal. But the California governor distills his party's problem down to one word. *Weak.*” (On the last paragraph the text starts to fade from black to gray)

“Newsom slaps his hand on a marked-up hardback of Bill Clinton's memoir, brought down from the shelf a minute earlier. "Given the choice," he tells me, summing up a crucial Clinton insight—one many Democrats still can't quite seem to grasp—"the American people always support strong and wrong versus weak and” (The text gets lighter and lighter until you can barely read it, that’s how huh kiwi you’ve hit that paywall baybay)

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

The Atari 2600 gaming console came into the world in 1977 powered by an eight-bit processor that ran at 1.19MhZ, and just 128 bytes of RAM – but that’s apparently enough power to beat ChatGPT at chess. So says infrastructure architect Robert Caruso, who over the weekend posted the results of an experiment he conducted to “pit ChatGPT against the Atari 2600’s chess engine (via Stella emulator) and see what happens.” ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, and repeatedly lost track of pieces

"GenAI is the futu--

Finance Industry Eyes Investment Opportunities in Venezuela Some on Wall Street are already considering possible investment opportunities in Venezuela following the capture of Nicolás Maduro, according to Charles Myers, chairman of consulting firm Signum Globa...

Wall Street vultures and thieves already lining up. Taxpayers pay for the weapons for war to enrich finance, then finance makes even more stealing the resources.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

Elliott Abrams specifically wants this, as does his network. It didn’t begin in Trump term two. Began with Iran-Contra and continued through multiple admins, including Bush and also Biden, who installed Abrams as an advisor in 2023. Same horrible people with same horrible plans for a half century.

If we had put the war criminals from Iraq in jail this wouldn't be happening now.

We keep delaying consequences, thinking the short term benefits are worth the long term harms. They aren't. They never are.

We need to punish our leadership when they commit crimes.

I’ve felt this sick inside feeling many times across many presidencies over many decades. I guess I just thought maybe, somehow the U.S. would fucking stop. But really, why would it? There’s never been accountability so the warmongering continues. This time Venezuela.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

This is solely about Trump which is practically a moot point now.

It’s solely about Trump which is practically a moot point now.

Middle aged white ladies dancing on a freeway overpass with a banner that reads, “CONDUCT UNBECOMING A PRESIDENT”

This should fix things

I’m still using em dashes — I don’t care — I don’t care — I don’t care — because fuck AI

You have to keep giving money to avoid collapse and if there’s collapse you have to give more money. It’s called the free market.

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input