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Just a fundamentally evil, malevolent person. Rotten to the very core.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

the federal government is arresting journalists not only without a warrant but after being explicitly denied a warrant

i wonder what our freedom of speech warriors like Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have to say about this

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump.

Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.

The best example of this was last week when Greg Bovino spent an entire rolling between Minneapolis gas stations in a massive convoy, his entourage beating up and tear gassing countless people, posing against the crowds… and then it was all so they could complain we wouldn’t let them use a restroom

Federal ICE Agent Pepper Sprays Person in Face in Santa Barbara Eastside Incident A masked federal agent wearing a vest labeled “police” pepper sprayed a person in the face at close range Wednesday morning on Santa Barbara’s Eastside.

ICE agents just seem to consider pepper spraying people in the face to be an appropriate casual greeting. www.noozhawk.com/federal-ice-...

Are you ever going to roll out a real web app? I don't install apps, I only use websites through firefox.

Cannot see the end of it.

Screenshot of TikTok terms of service For Legal Reasons We may share Information We Collect → to comply with the law, including to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims, or government inquiries. We may also disclose Information We Collect → to enforce any terms applicable to the Services, and to protect and defend our rights, interests, safety, and security, and those of our affiliates, users, or the public. Information You Provide may include sensitive personal information, as defined under applicable state privacy laws, such as information from users under the relevant age threshold, information you disclose in survey responses or in your user content about your racial or ethnic origin, national origin, religious beliefs, mental or physical health diagnosis, sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information. For example, we may process your

TikTok is now under US ownership and their new ToS reads like a guide to giving fascists everything they need to put you on a list.

They’re collecting information about immigration status, citizenship, sexual orientation, whether you’re trans or non binary and physical or mental disabilities.

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.

White, Conservative Christians Have Caused All This Misery. I Say, To Hell With Them. Watching Vice President JD Vance, a professed Christian, stand before our nation this week and repeatedly lie about the Trump Administration’s illegal and immoral assaults on this nation, I’m reminded...

The irony of our current national nightmare is that the white Conservative Church has enabled, nurtured, and championed more inequity, more immorality, and more misery in these days than any other entity, and there is no close second...

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/white-cons...

This is on the official DHS website

You do not want to screw this up. Trust me on this. I speak from experience.

A government fictionalizing real events and presenting it as real is a repugnant development that only damages its own credibility further. So any time the White House posts something, you’ve got to assess whether it’s hyper political AI slop or not. Bleh

Looks like a still from Schindler’s List

We should also talk more about how too many Republicans do not see entire swaths of people as actual people. You don’t casually muse about starting a war if you see troops as humans with lives and families. Normal people don’t fantasize about those from other countries dying for their own amusement.

It appears that the White House edited this image using AI

It has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.

Worth noting that among those participating in ICE/DHS watch in Minneapolis today — who Emmer appears to frame as “chaos agents” here — are literally hundreds of clergy.

Voices of the MN Occupation - Racket A real-time oral history of the ICE assault on Minnesota

still feels like folks outside of MN are kind of not getting it: our state has been under attack for over a month, and the resistance is being organized by literally your regular old neighbors and coworkers and friends.

"What's being negotiated now is what we already had. And all it cost us was our global position and decades of alliances"

Living to witness the global disinvestment from human creativity by the capitalist class has been an absolutely depressing sight to behold.

Especially as someone who places art (yes, general 'art') among humanity's most divine aptitudes.

DHS version

White House version

The White House posted an edited photo of the activist involved in the Minneapolis church protest, made to look like she was crying.

absolutely insane to see Musk feted at Davos as the icon of a boldly "optimistic" future in 2026, as if he hadn't just spent the last year buying elections for fascists, making Nazi salutes, condemning millions in Africa to death, and building "Mechahitler," and a nonconsensual porn/CSAM generator

I’m tired of being talked down to by people like this. They are doing the Elon Musk Mars In 2 Years bit but have tied the entire U.S. economy to a bespoke compliment generator. It’s time to start talking about these AI mutants like delusional babies.

A ‘bellwether’ election: Tarrant’s Texas Senate runoff draws national attention Democrat Taylor Rehmet and Republican Leigh Wambsganss face off Jan. 31 in a race political experts say may foreshadow November elections.

In terms of January 2026 elections, this special for the Texas State Senate on 1/31 is the main event.

A win for Dem TAYLOR REHMET in this Ft. Worth-based district would send shockwaves through the state.

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The Vietnam Syndrome: 6 Anti-War Songs - David Graeber Music Library In a 2011 interview with Ross Wolff, David Graeber discussed how neoliberalism responded to the anti-war protests of the late 1960s. “This made me think of what neoliberalism is really about: it’s a p...

Welcome to David Graeber’s music library.
We’ve compiled a playlist from David Graeber’s music library, featuring influential anti-war songs that shaped the movements he often wrote about.
music.davidgraeber.org/the-vietnam-...

Been thinking about the projection of masked men, w/ obscured license plates, trying to intimidate an unmasked person with legal register plates by saying "We know where you live!"

They must be so terrified/ashamed of being exposed as anything other than masked storm troopers...