Jamison Foser

a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.

I will be down at the Stonewall Monument today where political leaders and activists will be defiantly raising the Pride flag again at 4pm.

I will be there with my SiriusXM program, live on the air, interviewing folks there, including protesters, activists, and political leaders.

ICE out of Minnesota was our first goal, not the last.

Congress still needs to deliver justice and accountability for Alex, Renee and every Minnesotan who has spent the better part of 2026 in paralyzing fear.

Forget Congress—the Real Leaders Who Might Stop ICE Are Local When Kentucky’s Andy Beshear says ICE should be withdrawn from its deployments, you know something interesting is happening out there.

"The real action is in blue cities and states. Democrats outside of Washington are essentially declaring war against ICE and the broader anti-immigration apparatus that Trump has created." newrepublic.com/article/2064...

Some personal news

I just wrote about two recent NYT articles that create a misleading picture of public opinion by centering Republicans and suggesting ICE reform proposals are unpopular.

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Building the camps The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Samuel Alito Is a Great Man, According to a Former Alito Clerk Arguing Cases at the Supreme Court Ben Aguiñaga, Louisiana’s solicitor general, has appeared before the justices three times this term. In an op-ed, he describes his old boss as “kind, humble, thoughtful and selfless.”

Call me a stickler, but I do not think former Supreme Court clerks who are now practicing lawyers with *multiple cases* pending before the Court should be publishing fawning op-eds about how “kind, humble, thoughtful and selfless” their old boss is

lol, the government's AI chatbot is just Grok

I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.

gonna need some empirical data to know for sure

A point I make in my work on this subject is that we need to reject the insistance that convos abt commercial AI products should be about the tech. Determining whether AI is “conscious” is a Smartwashing exercise in solipcism that distracts from the material conditions of the product’s distribution

all I’m focused on here is “elon musk,” “massive catapult” and “launch into space”

“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers.

Meet it or get left behind.

on the plus side that's a bit of a time-saver

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

+1

the Mothership scam emails are so bad they distract us from non-Mothership-scam-emails that are so bad we would consider them a crisis were it not for Mothership-scam-emails.

*real* bad

my nda to discuss how i'm empowering ice is raising a lot of questions i can only answer after you sign the nda

thanks for the kind words

"The New York Times manufactures consent for ICE By Jamison Foser • 10 Feb 2026 View in browser Most Americans disapprove of the Trump regime’s lawless terrorizing of American cities under the guise of immigration enforcement, but you wouldn’t know that from reading two recent New York Times articles that center the views of Republicans rather than all Americans and falsely suggest reform proposals are unpopular."

The NYT is "manufacturing consent" for the Trump regime's brutal immigration policies by centering Trump’s support among Republicans while downplaying how that "support diverges from the public at large." @jamisonfoser.bsky.social www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...

Strong piece by Jamison Foser on the NY Times twisting polling on immigration to obscure the big picture: "Centering Republicans in this way, while making only passing mention of the disapproval of the public at large, treats Republicans as the only people who matters."

It's very hard for some people to accept how unpopular Trump has become on immigration, in part because it means a total reassessment of what the 2024 election really meant.

The NYT likes Trump, likes what he is doing on immigration enforcement, and is willing to grossly misstate (aka “lie their pompous, status threatened asses off about”) public opinion to help him.

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

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NYT Headline: "Democrats Want to Rein In ICE. Their Ideas Are Facing Blowback."

And here's today's NYT headline on an article about reform proposals that enjoy supermajority support but that are disliked by Mike Johnson. The article provides no polling about the proposals.

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NYT Headline: "Polls Show Strong G.O.P. Support for Trump on Immigration"

Here's the headline on a New York Times article about a poll that found 62 percent of Americans say ICE goes too far:

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I just wrote about two recent NYT articles that create a misleading picture of public opinion by centering Republicans and suggesting ICE reform proposals are unpopular.

www.findinggravity.net/the-new-york...