Brett Walker

LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.

I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them

City of Durant, Choctaw Nation take action against rumored ICE facility Leaders of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and the City of Durant have taken proactive action against a rumored ICE detention facility.

@marisakabas.bsky.social ICE has also been looking at a Big Lots warehouse location in Oklahoma, right next to the Choctaw Nation lands. Fortunately the council and city is proactively trying to prevent that: nondoc.com/2026/01/14/c...

Reminder that the Washington Post lost 250,000 subscribers, more than most outlets will ever have, after its decision not to publish an endorsement in the last election. www.npr.org/2024/10/29/n...

That kind of cowardice, not AI or whatever, is what's "drastically reshaping" readers' expectations.

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

Prior to Bezos buying the Washington Post to be his personal propaganda outlet, it was a paper I unreservedly subscribed to. We cannot have a healthy democracy without great journalism and institutions like the Post. Support the good ones that are still left, to shine some light in the darkness.

5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the pair be released.

Liam and his dad are finally free and on their way back home to Minnesota.

They never should have been kidnapped in the first place.

abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...

It has a kind of 1980s Tom Waits vibe, very cool!

“The kidnapping hasn’t stopped in LA. The degrees of separation between neighbors you see to neighbors you know abducted by ICE is shrinking.”

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!

ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

King George III is laughing at us from the grave right now.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

Beyond the lack of reliability in these coding LLMs, the big issue is that companies want to use them to higher less junior programmers. Less juniors mean less seniors a few years down the road, which will lead to a collapse of the industry. It’s unsustainable.

The misogyny underscoring this and other ICE interactions is emblematic of the creepy MAGA desire to control women at every step.

Mapped out, they just went down some of the busiest streets in Echo Park and Silver Lake, grabbing people as they went.

If you go through any of these neighborhoods, as a resident or commuter, you pass by these spots

7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election:

Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch

Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant

“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Donate to Support for Renee Good’s wife and son, organized by Mattie Weiss Please support the wife and son of Renee Good as they grapple with the devastating … Mattie Weiss needs your support for Support for Renee Good’s wife and son

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

A non-comprehensive list of things my parents thought were wonderful resources when I was a child, and which they credit for my education and passion about science, that they subsequently voted to dismantle and destroy:

* National Parks
* PBS
* Public libraries
* Public schools
* NASA

This is Kristina Solovyova. Russian terrorists killed her in Zhytomyr striking residential buildings with drones on December 23. She was only 4🕯

16 Democratic senators joined Republicans in confirming a close ally of Elon Musk as head of NASA:

Baldwin
Cantwell
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008.

Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

Hi Chrysanthe! Some airlines have little closets where you can hang your garment bag. But I’ve also seen people fold them over and put them in the overhead bin.

"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings

“Big tech has made their choice”

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Gorgeous red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

Gorgeous picture of red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.

If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

Tonight’s many wins have me feeling like I’m at a No Kings protest, in that it’s signaling to all of us that we’re not alone and we’re all prepared to defeat fascism together. I’m grateful to everyone who came out across the country today to let your voices be heard.

why is this mayoral election different than all other mayoral elections?

in all other mayoral elections, we get to see andrew cuomo lose but once. but in this mayoral elections, we get to see him lose *twice*.