Been saying this for weeks. In order to build a mass deportation machine to round up and deport 4% of the entire goddamn population, you must first build the police state.

A protest against the detainments of immigrants at 930 e towne in LA beginning to escalate. Detainees are being filed into trucks. Large protest is here. Tear gas has been deployed. More to come.

Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia on way back to US to face criminal charges: Sources Mistakenly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia is on the way back to the United States to face charges of transporting undocumented migrants within the U.S., sources say.

ABC reports Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being returned to the United States
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This list is like the Avengers for people who only read airport books called something like "Leading Leadership for Leaders"

The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier than You Think Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how screw over poor and working people more effectively.

If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place.

New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1962...

Yo

new york democrat: corruption is BAD. we should RID the city of these VENAL LIARS and make PROGRESS

new york democrat after encountering one hundred US dollars:
today i would like to announce my support for corruption

The code, using outdated and inexpensive AI models, produced results with glaring mistakes. For instance, it hallucinated the size of contracts, frequently misreading them and inflating their value. It concluded more than a thousand were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

DOGE used *cheap, outdated* AI to "munch" the VA contracts.

The code was so chump it hallucinated the size of contracts.

It repeatedly pegged contracts as worth $34 million -- they were actually worth $34,000.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This seems like a great day to remind Bluesky that Stephen Miller lived four doors down from me freshman year

And our student council person asked him (and everyone) to sign a birthday card for our dorm’s janitor

And he threw a tantrum and wrote an op-ed about not socializing with “the help.”

tbh, this perfectly comports with my recollection of 2024.

Said it before but the worse things get it bears repeating. You are not a ‘creative’ or a ‘maker.’ You’re an artist, & if you choose to distinguish, a playwright, painter, whatever. These words have a lineage, they mean something. They’re politically important. Take responsibility.

For those of you who scoff at the idea, there will be no elections under the GOP, here it is. Black and white.

This is how the game is played by the dirty side. Time for the Democrats to wake up.

McMahon: Wasn’t that when Junkyard Dog destroyed Randy Savage at the Tulsa Memorial Coliseum in 1989?

it’s almost like courage in the face of fascism is rewarded by voters or something

ICE agents are literally just standing outside court grabbing anyone who looks brown

This is the *real* rationing and “death panels.” ‘Merica.

It remains one of the wildest things in the world that Disney paid late-career Hunter S. Thompson to write despairing columns about the sickening depravity of American empire and, to a slightly lesser extent, Skip Prosser's Wake Forest. www.espn.com/page2/s/thom...

Ah, so that's what 'AI' stands for...

Proud of these people. “Hit the bricks!”

“I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing.” Yep.

Armed FBI agents knocked on the doors of two pub defenders at SEVEN AM, asking to talk w them, having made no earlier effort to reach out.

Both PDs represented ppl detained by ICE.

FBI said they “wanted to reach out before work.” Which is nakedly not true.

HARASSING DEFENSE LAWYERS IS REALLY BAD.

The Seven Ugliest Provisions in Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' Weakened courts, happy heirs, and work requirements. The House-passed version of Donald Trump's tax plan takes from poor, gives to rich.

“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month…

“By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…”

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Reggie Watts statement, 1 of 2: “I was disappointed to see that Thom's statement centers his hurt feelings and frames his fans' demands for him to speak up as a "social media witch hunt," instead of recognizing the urgency of their call for him to speak out against the world-historical humanitarian crisis in Palestine. I hope Thom will reflect and decenter himself from the public outcry against the genocide, because if he and his artistic legacy stand for love and humanity as he asserts, he can come to see his fans' actions as an act of loving solidarity with suffering people-a needed affirmation of our humanity in these dark times.”

Reggie Watts statement 2 of 2: “I also want to address Thom's repetition of a common rhetorical tactic of those who are devoted to maintaining the status quo, that one cannot speak up or demand an end to the genocide unless they fully understand the deep "complexity" of this historical conflict. I urge Thom's fans to reject this conviction-neutralizing, demobilizing sentiment and trust their hearts. You don't need to be a geopolitics scholar to know that starving children and slaughtering families is wrong. Your membership in the human family gives you authority and, indeed, responsibility to speak up. All positive change starts with conscious and loving people raising their voices and working together to bring a better world into existence. Please keep fighting until our sisters and brothers in Palestine are free.”

Reggie Watts addresses Thom Yorke’s statement on Palestine and it’s good

2021: There is no AI, you're doing your own laundry.

2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.

2025: There is AI. You're still doing your own laundry.

2027: You're doing the AI's laundry.

8 panel comic Panel 1: Yellow guy is working on a laptop in the background. In the foreground is a Brand Manager. Yellow Guy: “Sir, shall I put up our rainbow profile picture?” Panel 2: Brand Manger snaps his head round and hisses “Cool your jets, Eugene. I’m checking the Profitometer” Panel 3: Gonna do my best to explain this. We see The Profitometer. A huge machine that whirs and ticks. A digital display at the top of the machine reads “Supporting Pride equals”Beneath this display is a huge gauge with “Max Loss” on the left and “Max profit” on the right. There is a needle that is pointing exactly half way between the two extremes. Panel 4: Close up on Brand Manager’s face. His teeth are gritted. Sweat trickles down his brow. Panel 5: Close up on gauge. The needle remains exactly central Panel 6: Close up on Brand Manager’s eyes. They are concentrating intensely. Also, more sweat. Panel 7: Close up on the gauge. The needle clicks ONE DEGREE towards profit Panel 8: Brand Manager screams like a football coach “GO GAY EUGENE”

Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month

What's bad about what's going on has nothing to do with what relationships these people have or what they're ingesting. It's that people are being disappeared, erased, that people are being made to suffer and starve and die

Keep your eye on the ball. These people are messy and it's easy to get lost

excited that my little niece lost her dream job at the EPA in one of the poorest areas in the country because this guy was out of his mind on cat tranquilizers and The Turner Diaries