Jed Hartman

Update: I’ve now added a couple of further topics and links to this document.

Thanks, everyone who liked and shared it!

ICE is arresting gardeners ICE is arresting gardeners Some information about what ICE has been doing and why it’s a problem, intended for people who think that ICE is only going after violent criminals. (Compiled mostly by so...

I’ve added a couple more topics and links to the what-ICE-is-doing document, which is intended for people who think that ICE is only going after violent criminals.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here's what changed my mind The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?

“As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here’s what changed my mind”

“Many genocides don’t closely resemble the Holocaust — and many of us are too ignorant about that”

forward.com/opinion/7598...

(via Francesca)

timb33 hashtag nokings says First they came for the socialists etc. What if they came for some really small marginalized group of people (0.05% of population), and because we tied ourselves in knots trying to keep everyone happy, we never got into power, and never achieved anything.

absolutely wild to niemöller at a person from one of the groups in the poem to argue that it’s good actually to let them come for some people because it’s a tactical victory.

“i read niemöller & solved the trolley problem the omelas way” is what a surprising number of people sound like right now.

Liz Henry describes attending opening day of the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center.

bookmaniac.org/2025/08/02/s...

Article also includes a quote from a surgeon who says this is a “tactical retreat.” But as usual, there’s no reason to think that the Trump regime will stop at this; medical institutions’ attempts to appease the administration are more likely to embolden it than to satisfy it.

“The number of trans minors who access surgery is vanishingly small, making them easy targets for politicians looking to play games of divide and conquer … a Reuters investigation of such surgeries found fewer than 300 per year in the entire U.S. for the years 2019 through 2021.”

In CA, Access to Top Surgery is Vanishing. One Surgeon Calls it a “Tactical Retreat.” — Assigned As Kaiser Permanente acts to halt access to gender-affirming surgery for minors and young adults, many providers fear for the well-being of patients. Others are defending the decision.

“As Kaiser Permanente acts to halt access to gender-affirming surgery for [trans] minors and young adults, many providers fear for the well-being of patients.”

(Note that this change applies to 18- and 19-year-olds as well as to people under 18.)

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

About my day full of errands yesterday.

www.kith.org/jed/2025/08/...

San Jose 50501 Rage Against The Regime · Mobilize Join the Silicon Valley Chapter of Cat Ladies for America at our first event supporting 50501 San Jose at the Rage Against the Regime. UPDATED 8/1 at 8pm We will be meeting at the Market & San Pedro...

There are also others that aren’t listed on that site (such as San José: www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...). But I’m not seeing many on Mobilize either.

2/2

Home | Rage Against the Regime - August 2nd

I’m unclear on what’s going on with today’s “Rage Against the Regime” protests:

www.rageagainsttheregime.org

When I search on that site, there are only a few protests listed in the San Francisco Bay Area.

(Such as San Mateo: events.pol-rev.com/events/5fad5...)

1/2

‘Alligator Alcatraz' detainees on hunger strike for 10th day, protesting conditions One of the detainees, Pedro Hernández, was hospitalized during the strike but continued to refuse food, he said on Thursday.

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

I don't know how it got to be the end of summer but...

Hi! I'm the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and crossover speculative books! If you've got an adult or YA SFFH book publishing next year please share the link/info here!

How to spot AI videos - animals on trampolines #bunnies #dog #bear #bunny #ai Bunnies, bears, raccoons, dogs, cats, and kangaroos are having a “security camera” moment in the AI video world. Why is t... TikTok video by showtools

When you see a video of animals using a trampoline, here are some ways to tell whether it’s an AI-generated video. (2-min video)

www.tiktok.com/@showtoolsai...

Recommendations about why and how to leave Substack.

After the shooting, Adams specifically criticized Mamdani for wanting to eliminate the Strategic Response Group. Do you agree with Mamdani that SRG should be eliminated and replaced with something else? I believe yes, and I'll tell you why, because you have the strategic response team to go to shooting incidents or (when) really, really high-profile crimes are happening or something. But the strategic response team has been used to tame some of the protests. You know, the foundation of American ideals is freedom of speech. People have the ability to express themselves, and when you have a heavy-handed presence from the police department, I mean, it's just not going to look good. It does not look good, and it should not be there.

Retired NYPD Lieutenant Commander Shamsul Haque tells me that he supports @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s plan to disband the NYPD’s notorious Strategic Response Group. www.cityandstateny.com/personality/...

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.

This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻

A little background 🧵 1/

yle.fi/a/74-20174831

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

9 hours left!

At least we got to be the first ones under the bus, so we claimed all the good seats

...wait...

...the bus doesn't have any seats on the underside WTF

Hee! That’s great!

Currently talking about levels of noncooperation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqhF...

We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish From ICE's facial recognition app to its Palantir contract, we've translated a spread of our ICE articles into Spanish and made them freely available.

“… published a list of the more than 200 sites and services an ICE contractor is monitoring; and shown that local police are performing lookups for ICE in a nationwide network of AI-enabled cameras.”

www.404media.co/were-publish...

3/3

More details:

“Over the last few months, we have revealed Palantir’s plans to help ICE with deportations; got a peek inside a database that ICE uses to identify and deport people; found that ICE has a new facial recognition app that it is using to identify people in the field; …

2/3

404 Media is now providing some of their ICE coverage in Spanish as well as English. Those articles are available free here:

www.404media.co/tag/spanish/

1/

🚨North Carolina voters: Have you checked that your voter registration is complete? The State Board of Elections has identified over 100,000 North Carolinians whose voter registrations are missing key information. Visit ncsbe.gov/registrationrepair and share with others!

#GenAILies

In case anyone else has been wondering what Kahanism is:

“Rabbi Meir Kahane [believed] that most Arabs living in Israel are the enemies of Jews and Israel itself, and believed that a Jewish theocratic state, where non-Jews have no voting rights, should be created.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kahanism

5 Ways You Can Protect Immigrants from ICE — Dean Preston On June 6, the Trump administration escalated its war on immigrant communities by launching militarized ICE raids in Los Angeles. What started in LA quickly spread across the country. Trump ordered IC...

People are fighting back. Here are five ways you can take action to protect immigrants in San Francisco.

Unfortunately, a Rapid Response coordinator said recently that they have concerns about that app; they said the app doesn’t vet submissions, leaving it open to being flooded with intentionally false posts. (But I haven’t yet researched that; I’m only going by what the RRN person said.)