James O'Keefe

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

if you remember the FBI + ICE + local raid on a horse race track in Wilder, Idaho that detained hundreds of families (including many kids & U.S. citizens) the @acluidaho.bsky.social just announced a lawsuit.

The complaint is just as disturbing as previous reporting www.aclu.org/press-releas...

There are significant numbers of people who are homeless because they are mentally ill, but I'd be there are also plenty who are mentally ill because they are homeless. I mean, that would do it to you.

It can really be that fucking easy! So easy, in fact, that the next time my mom deadnames me (reminder I've been out & transitioned for over a decade) I am going to bring this up, specifically, bc it is EXACTLY the same. If she could forget her own mom's legal first name, she can forget my old one.

But yeah, super common for older people to be like "my dumb bible name is boring as hell, I'm one of 12 Johns in my year, so I've decided that everyone will call me Budd from now on" and people just shrugged and called them Budd and nobody has called them anything else for 50+ years since.

One of my grandpas also went by a different name, but that I knew before he died because when we were expecting, he took me aside to say "I know it's tradition, but Ronald is a shit name, DO NOT curse any of your children with my name" and I was like "I thought your name was Roy???"

My parents: Your middle names are Ann and Irene, which are your grandmothers' first names!
Me, reading both of their obituaries in 2021 & 2024 respectively: who the fuck is MARY???

Hell, two of my four sisters never used their actual first names.

"He's a rescue. We think from an abusive environment. We're just fostering him for the Eurystheus Dog's Home.

They are suggesting they might send him back to his old abusive owner, but we are thinking we might keep him."

How fortunate that Megan Kelly’s already been practicing her “it’s not REALLY child abuse if they’re over 12” apologetic.

Four Haitian women found decapitated after alleged ICE abduction — families devastated Four Haitian women deported from Puerto Rico were found decapitated near the Dominican border, sparking speculations that ICE is working with cartels and gang members.

CW- murder, racism

Just read an article about 4 Haitian women deported from Puerto Rico.

They've all been found dead, left in a river.

This is what republican immigration policy does

"Deporting anyone to a place where they had fled for asylum is murder"

www.ibtimes.co.uk/ice-abductio...

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

A little update to this. A source emailed me to say they'd used an industry tool to look up Coral Hart's sales and they totaled only 37 copies for the books under that pen name.

So, yeah I do not believe the six figures on 50k sales the NYT reported.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Emails from 2016 Show Amazon Ring's Hold on the LAPD Through Camera Giveaways In March 2016, “smart” doorbell camera maker Ring was a growing company attempting to market its wireless smart security camera when it received an email from an officer in the Los Angeles Police Depa...

Since we're re-litigating Ring's sins: How did they grow so fast?

Until 2016, Ring gave out free/discounted cameras to police & giving cops perks if the public (including victims of crimes) used the officer's discount code to buy cameras--all of which meant Ring essentially made cops salespeople.

DOJ child trafficking task force internal presentation, last year: “Epstein sold Lutnick a home for $10 that was later sold for millions.” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.

The party of free speech strikes again.

A volunteer brigade is clearing the inbound side of Comm, meanwhile a the City sent a crew to Salt the sidewalk on the outbound side, again (I asked, the works crew said there was just too much traffic to clear the bike lane right now)

@boston.gov @universalhub.com @massago.bsky.social

The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of ex- treme hypotheticals about a future where the President “feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” Post, at 18 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.); see post, at 26, 29–30; post, at 8–9, 10, 12, 16, 20–21 (opinion of JACKSON, J.).

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

YouTube video by Foil Arms and Hog Ireland's Response to the Trump Tariffs

It isn't just the French who get particular about their butter
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8oB...

In the same way Abrego Garcia was, this 5-year-old is being singled out and punished for making the administration look bad just by existing as sympathetic case.

They will claim that teens don't need the money or that they are less experienced and so not as productive. An hour of one's time is an hour you don't get back. It is worth just as much to a teen as to an senior.

This is so important, and something I learned from the history beat. Example: We don't have to say "fugitive slaves" just bc people did in 1850. We can give self-emancipated people the dignity they deserved back then. Plus, it's more accurate!

Wish more journos thought about this contemporaneously.

Five-Year-Old Liam Ramos Is In His Asylum Hearing Right Now

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today.

Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

man you'd think i'd be the perfect person to want to do "AI art" - I've got a shoulder and an elbow injury, art is physically difficult for me, i have aphantasia, visualization is basically impossible for me

but i'd never in a million years trade away the joy i'm getting from these graphite pencils

i can't draw worth a damn and after brief experimentation with midjourney i realized it was just taking the joy out of doing stupid shit with gimp instead of whatever i was doing there

School cellphone ban passes Pennsylvania Senate: "We want our students focused on learning" The bipartisan "Bell-to-Bell" bill bars students from using their phones any time they're in school, not just during instructional periods.

We are a society of constant violence at schools—everything from ICE kidnappings to shootings—and these filthy maggots who send their kids to private schools not covered by the bill want to pretend they care about education while doing nothing except preventing my kids from being able to contact me.

“Confidential” Agreements Show Trump Administration’s Plans for States’ Voter Data  At least 10 states have handed over their full voter files to the Justice Department.

Why is the federal government demanding that states turn over their voter rolls? A confidential agreement that the DOJ sent to states has some answers. bit.ly/46tX4nd

A table showing how much Trump cut in grant funding. The biggest number is cancer, with 98 grants terminated, and 18 frozen, for a total of $273 in research funding.

Bernie has a report showing how Trump took away America's cancer cures so he could fund the goons who murdered VA nurse Alex Pretti.

www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/u...