The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds.
Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative.
breathtaking!
that POS doesn’t even deserve to have his “likeness” appear on my dog’s 💩
I talk a lot about how to write about power, and I think it's vital to have reporting on the people in power who are making laws across the country. Policies are not created out of thin air. There are people behind them and they should be written about.
The disgusting things she said combined with the fact that the first reprimand that came to his mind is that the things she said were “hearable” really summarizes this country doesn’t it?
The U.S. has been stealing children from their families since the beginning of our history. Slavery, boarding schools, and now this.
Please don’t look away. 2/2
Fri, Feb 20. Santa Barbara Police helped ICE attack Santa Barbara.
- Lalo Alcaraz
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
So the confrontations, violent apprehensions, and general fear bearing down on communities like Minnesota is only the beginning of the nightmare. Behind the scenes, Orwellian anti-judicial antics thwart lawful recourse. And hidden from sight, non-citizens are tortured for being noncitizens.
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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
So keep pushing. Anything short of ICE’s abolition isn’t nearly enough.
And I’d say that even ICE’s abolition should only be the start of ending the violence that came to feel “normal” under Trump.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
People aren't just being released out the door like this. Volunteers drive around and check the parks and areas around Whipple because ICE is just dumping people hoping no one sees
People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc
(GFM in next post)
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
I know the idea of “better” policing is as old a demand as civil rights movements in this country, the impulse to call for it at this moment is so terribly cruel that it can only be understood as aligned with the terrorists.
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
Another well documented state sanctioned murder today in Minneapolis. Is shooting a man your fellow goons have down on the ground "law enforcement" procedure, or is it death squad procedure?
should’ve asked that POS, “if I’m the one on the list, why are you the one hiding your face?”
This is the giveaway that it has zero to do with criminals. Cops aren't about to stop arresting a serial killer if there was a large crowd booing them and honking. ICE is trying to menace a community. Inflict violence and terror.
are they not monsters?
"The right to record publicly visible law enforcement activity is a core First Amendment right," says Scarlet Kim, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. "It creates an independent record of what officers are doing, and it is no accident that some of the most high-profile cases of misconduct have involved video recordings. The burning question is why ICE officers feel the need to hide who they are and what they do from the public—masking their faces, lacking visible ID, driving unmarked vehicles, and now attacking those who document their activities."
ACLU comment on DHS claiming that following or recording officers "sounds like obstruction of justice."
Christie Dashiell. Ella Fitzgerald.
“don’t you love a farce? my fault, I fear…I thought that you’d want what I want…sorry, my dear” 🍻
