There is a reason all my cousins and close friends know not to ever call the police for a wellness check on me.

Experts, virtuous and vicious: the case for virtue metasemantics - Synthese Synthese - Many externalists accept that experts play a privileged role in determining linguistic meanings. It’s widely assumed that the experts in question are those members of the language...

New paper: If some form of social externalism is true, what reasons are there to think that it’s knowledge domain experts (rather than, say, propagandists) who determine meanings? link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Malaysia draws first data centre protest over pollution, water The rapid increase in data centres in Malaysia came under the microscope on Saturday, with the artificial intelligence (AI)-driven buildout drawing its first public protest in the Southeast Asian coun...

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"There are also lingering concerns about the water demands of the Zdata project. Johor last year stopped approving Tier 1 and 2 data centres due to their high usage of water — up to 50 million litres of water a day."

Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.

This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.

Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

Israel to end Doctors Without Borders work in Gaza Israel said Sunday it would end the work of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza after it failed to provide a list of its Palestinian staff.

MSF is a charity that I give to regularly. 🤬

“Israel said on Sunday, February 1, that it was terminating the humanitarian operations of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza after the international medical charity failed to provide a list of its Palestinian staff.”

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

Tonight, most (if not all) the Zipps bar locations throughout Maricopa were raided by federal agents. Community members arrived to legally observe and agents pepper sprayed the crowd least one location. Workers were taken.

Yeah, body cameras don't matter a damn unless you have Jonathan Ross and Alex Pretti's murderers sitting in front of a jury visibly shaking in fear of a life sentence.

Right now, ICE is just gonna destroy that footage if mildly inconvenient.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

In the early 1930s the SA was roughing people up, creating chaos in neighborhoods, seeking to terrorize with the occasional killing. By the late 1930s it had been supplanted by the SS, which was much better trained.

“.. He cared about people deeply ..,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong ..”

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A number of people from out-of-state have been opening tabs at small businesses—coffee shops where people on patrol can grab a drink and warm up, bars where people can be in community, etc. It’s been a deeply appreciated form of solidarity and helps the businesses closing tomorrow.

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Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social for the original recommendation.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

ICE agents to begin checking documents at MSP airport, patrol jet bridges - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will begin checking documents of travelers and workers at MSP airport, with patrols inside jet bridges.

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

Footage for those curious.

Unlike other businesses in Minneapolis, Starbucks is allowing ICE agents into stores against the concerns of baristas and our community.

That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.

“We Are Facing a Tsunami of Hate”: Amid ICE Crackdown, Unions and Community Groups Call for Minnesota Shutdown in 10 Days Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on Januar...

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Opinion | Renee Good wasn’t the first person shot in her car by ICE. The justification followed a familiar script. Mike Fox: The officer who shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis might never have to defend his actions before a judge or jury.

Great piece by my Cato colleague. “Since July, immigration agents have shot at least six people behind the wheel of a vehicle. The same playbook is used each time: the agent says they “feared for their life” as a vehicle was “weaponized” against them. Juries should decide, but we tie their hands.

Notable w/ DHS falsely claiming people are “weaponizing” vehicles is that since George Floyd uprisings GOP lawmakers have pushed laws legalizing plowing over protesters w/ cars

Also MAGA/alt-right memes were rife w/ fantasies abt doing just that, portending neo-Nazi car attack in Charlottesville

Cops are taught not to shoot into cars. ICE keeps doing it anyway. Immigration agents have shot at least 9 people since September. All of them have been in cars.

Cops are taught to avoid shooting into cars, for all the obvious reasons, but ICE has shot NINE people in cars since September. Great reporting from @nlanard.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

FBI takes over case of ICE agent killing US woman and cuts Minnesota’s access to evidence Minneapolis remains on edge, with several protests planned after shooting of Renee Nicole Good

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

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Exclusive: CIA carried out drone strike on port facility on Venezuelan coast | CNN Politics The CIA carried out a drone strike earlier this month on a port facility on the coast of Venezuela, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, marking the first known US attack on a target inside that...

The US is at war with Venezuela.

No Congressional authorization, no public debate, no clearly stated goal, no casus belli, and a gradual ramp up rather than big opening, so many haven’t noticed (or deny it). But this attack removes the ambiguity.

US is at war with Venezuela. With no end in sight.