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Folks should think about the very real possibility that the US is now assassinating random people who’s families have been kidnapped/threatened by narcos and who are being forced to operate these suicide mission boats… ie totally innocent victims that wouldn’t be in this situation if not for Trump.

Fondest memory of D’Angelo is definitely in ‘96 back in Omaha, NE. My mama would listen to his Brown Sugar album whenever she would clean the house up or cook or maybe she was having guest over. And there was always a nag champa incense burning. RiP D’Angelo.

Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

chilling. near the end of the article a woman leaving her bar shift is grabbed by nameless men, put in a car & interrogated & told her ID is fake & she’a lying. all norms & constitutional protections are being trashed & there’s no recourse nor accountability

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

John Oliver is good at his job

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

but what about the consent of the friends and family? Ring is enabling the same thing, which means when you visit a friend or let them take a photo of you they seamlessly enroll you in facial recognition

For those that like the seaside sinister with its haunted promenades, cursed piers and cadaver gulls, Brighthaven may be a worthy destination. - J.B. Priestley

and they're adding facial recognition so your doorbell "recognizes" familiar faces. visit a friend? your biometrics will fuel "Flock" for people. 24-7 real-time tracking. no opt out.

I will crawl over broken glass to vote for a Democratic candidate that makes accountability for these atrocities a central part of their platform.

this is Meryl Streep's blue sweater monologue from The Devil Wears Prada

And all of this while Google becomes useless to find ANY ACTUAL NEWS STORIES. I don't want a fucking AI both-sides synopsis. I found a PBS piece on ICE ramping up in Chicago and like 75% of it was a bloviating DHS spokesman and the rest was tepid PBS remonstrations. Fuck journalistic restraint!

Congress has approved gajillions of dollars for this, more than most countries' armies, but yet has no oversight on policy or implementation? We've got masked thugs ramming cars, beating people up, forcing them to identify at gunpoint. Where is Congress? What about DHS lying *every single time*?

We get these patchwork, anecdotal or video incidents, outrage, but no coherent political pushback. ICE seems to operate outside the Constitution, with no use of force policy, no ID, no uniforms, no accountability, protected by federal immunity. If the 4th & 5th amendment are dead, someone tell us

I'm seeing video of a disturbing event in Chicago where ICE deliberately sideswipes a woman's car, drives off, return, drag her out of the car, swarming her, kneeling on her, handcuffing her. She's supposedly a citizen on her way to work. But I can't find any news stories, which is terrifying to me.

so horrible. it's all so horrible, everything, I can hardly function.

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

because this is a defining moment of this zeitgeist. so breathtakingly unconstitutional & unrepentantly fascist. steven miller knows — he called it the most successful operation. & the way the Venuzuelans were used as political pawns, first by Governor Abbot to troll Chicago, then by ICE as extras

exactly how this raid was planned & executed, how this location was chosen for a shock-and-awe movie, the complicity of management, the defaulting landlord, Wells Fargo bank, the timing of migrant subsidies ending & a foreclosure hearing — whoever writes this story there’s a Pulitzer in your future

"Not only does it subject the domain of appearances to incalculable damage, but this privileged search for hidden meanings may well be profoundly in error."
- Seduction

great report, thanks. appreciate brevity & clarity

short, pithy, and terrifying article

Hamilton: "The president's judgment is unreviewable."

I bought 2 slices of red velvet cake at the jamaican patty place for $4. I had one with my coffee.

don’t just check in on your friends. that’s selfish. check in on your enemies too. are they suffering? do they have regrets? good, good

🧵 Trump is criminally invading states under false pretenses. His supporters are trying to instigate violence by dressing as antifa and committing crimes.

In this clip from Portland, Joey Gibson of "Patriot Prayer" and his fiancée, Lindsey Nichols, tried to cause trouble before being forced away.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

Tomorrow, we will talk about this photo.

“Parente disputed the government’s claim that Martinez is a danger to the community and should be detained, saying instead that the officer who shot her was a threat.

'I think there’s a danger to the community, but I don’t think it’s Ms. Martinez,’ he said.”

I read this whole thing & I still don't understand what the goal is. He either thinks it's so obvious to his regular readers, or beyond their comprehension, that there's no point in naming it.

That our immigration system is deeply flawed, as is our public‘s idea/notion of criminality, and the incongruity between what constitutes a trained and licensed professional and competency itself.