"Each day of the trial, the courtroom filled with community members. Current and former students and colleagues, members of the California Faculty Association from various universities and students who had heard about the case all came to show support..."
www.huffpost.com/entry/jonath...
“Iran has been constructing the reality that it wants its citizens to embrace. Donald Trump has been constructing the reality he wants his citizens to embrace. So it’s reality constructor regime versus reality constructor regime. A battle of the titans.” - Gwenda Blair
"The bigger you are, the more people are attracted to that fame and the more willing they are to overlook what it is that’s actually happening because you can tell them what’s happening.” Gwenda Blair, a Trump biographer.
"The war is turning into the ultimate test of an operating principle that has guided Trump for decades: construct a narrative, declare it to be true and relentlessly force the world to submit to it." - David Smith
Key quotes from an important look at both the power and limits of Trump's #realitydistortion abilities and how both COVID-19 and the war with Iran function as reality wall: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
#DevCollaborative on "transactional" vs "consultative" web work:
"You wouldn’t go to your car mechanic and ask for a new transmission. You’d describe the problem...
If you want a new feature on your website, the first thing we’re going to ask you is 'Why?'"
devcollaborative.com/blog/consult...
Stephen Miller, Homeland Security Advisor, White House said this yesterday.
@hcrichardson.bsky.social compares him to US Senator James Henry Hammond (D-SC) in 1858. He was a wealthy enslaver who made a very similar point to justify the enslavement of black people.
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
What if insurance companies took on big oil to del with rising claims?
“Jones argues that insurance companies should use their clout as institutional investors and divest from, and even sue, the fossil-fuel companies that have driven the climate crisis”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Training is absolutely not the problem with ICE & with the DHS.
Not at all.
They’re hired & trained to do this.
They want to do this.
And the orders to do this come from the very top of the government & are approved by the president himself.
Training doesn’t change that.
A personal look at how US testing of nuclear weapons disproportionately impacted indigenous peoples of the Southwest…
Part of what’s changed about particle physics is that the romance between the military industrial complex and particle physicists ended — kind of. They’re trying to reboot it using AI as the staging ground. Beware narratives that tell you AI is the only or most important path forward.
You’re absolutely right—preemptively launching our nukes at Russia was a bad call. I should’ve checked if there were incoming missiles first—nuclear was is not just mutually assured destruction—it’s also nuclear winter. That ones on me.
The headline is weeks old, but the joke is chillingly on point technically.
LLM hallucinations are bad. Now let’s give them weapons.
Here is more on the US military’s continuing refusal to heed basic AI survival tips from literally every sci-fi film with AI: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
" #Wikipedia ... is the byproduct of something... remarkable: strangers on the internet disagreeing on matters of existential gravity and breathtaking pettiness, and through deliberation and debate, building a common ground of #consensusreality " www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
. @profgalloway.com coined the term “Marie Antoinette with blazers” to describes the impunity of the extremely wealthy men who corresponded with #Epstein. I wrote about how the exposure of these entitled plutocrats and ICE raids are opening cracks in Trump’s facade: open.substack.com/pub/davidnmo...
Me Too was Pearl Harbor for elites. Most of them saw Harvey Weinstein and thought, "that could be me," and since then every hint of accountability for elites, or mass movements by peasants, has further convinced them they are facing an existential threat that must be destroyed at all costs.
Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in: - Los Angeles - Phoenix - Philadelphia - Denver - El Paso - San Diego - Seattle/Portland - New Orleans Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.
Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed. Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino. ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.
I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations. I am hearing from both sides of this friction. One senior DHS official tells me: "ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?". Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me: "What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."
It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there. Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results. Official statement to @FoxNews via @TriciaOhio : "While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country." 7:57 PM · Oct 27, 2025 · 29.6K Views
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
A look at how ChatGPT and #GenerativeAI are being used to polish or completely take over chats in dating apps.
"she found herself checking with the bot between every message, and requesting five variations before choosing the one that sounded most like her."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
"For immigrants in the system, these chaotic transfers can feel like a punishment, designed to wear people down, said Faisal Al-Juburi, head of external affairs at the legal aid group Raíces."
Global Crossing Airlines (GlobalX) runs the majority of ICE flights.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘Let’s just power it on and update [it] and see what happens,’' [greentheonly] recalled [Tesla] suggesting. 'If I wanted to destroy evidence on the computer, that would be exactly the advice I would give.'
He easily found the data #Tesla claimed it had "lost"
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
"A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said."
“They’ve beaten everyone here, a lot of people have bled..."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#AlligatorAlcatraz
From @tnafziger.bsky.social’s most recent email, a piece about what he’s learned in the work to save Oak Flat. www.christiancentury.org/features/apa...
“Fighting alongside Apache Stronghold is not just about saving Oak Flat. It is about recovering the rootedness of our ancestors: everyone beneath their vine and fig tree, in peace and unafraid (Mic. 4:4).”
– @tnafziger.bsky.social
www.christiancentury.org/features/apa...
The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”
A disturbing, innovative use of LLM training...
"...the impostor sent fake voice messages and texts that mimicked Rubio’s voice and writing style to those targets including three foreign ministers, a US governor and a member of Congress." #ai #generativeAI #llm
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"An agent can be seen lifting Velez off the ground and carrying her away. Witnesses told media, including CBS Los Angeles, that the agents never asked Velez for identification, and that she did nothing wrong."
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“…rather than oppose Trumpism’s masculinist domination politics and unaccountable cult of personality, the idea now [with Cuomo] seems to be to mimic them; not to oppose corruption and dictatorial politics per se, but to offer a Democratic version of them.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Increasingly, ex-judges and legal experts warn the verbal attacks by Trump, his attorney general, Pam Bondi, and Maga allies are creating a hostile climate that endangers the safety of judges and their families." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A new report chronicles decades of deception by the fossil fuel industry. It looks at hopeful parallels with collapse of similar lies by the tobacco industry and “efforts to revive a 2018 attempt to obtain a blanket waiver of legal liability from Congress.”
insideclimatenews.org/news/1405202...
"In social-media clips... ICE officers appear in dark clothing, some wearing masks or neck gaiters that make them look like bandits. The people they target may be walking down the street, sitting in a car, or otherwise going about their lives." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
