Annie Bellet
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Annie Bellet
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HOLY SHIT.
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:35 PM
HOLY SHIT.
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This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.
The ProPublica story on the Pretti killers says DHS has bodycam footage from the incident but they refuse to release it
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 2, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This needs to be at the top of every story about the ICE body-cam thing. They already have body cameras.
I think the Paris metro is waiting for me to solve a crime. I need a peacoat and a pipe.
February 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I think the Paris metro is waiting for me to solve a crime. I need a peacoat and a pipe.
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Spain just gave 500k undocumented people the right to live and work in the country. That’s what real progress looks like—and it should be a wakeup call for the rest of the West.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Spain just gave 500k undocumented people the right to live and work in the country. That’s what real progress looks like—and it should be a wakeup call for the rest of the West.
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The Fourth Amendment is not a non-starter, jerkwads.
Rep. Mark Harris: "Some of these things are nonstarters. Having judicial warrants? To me, hat's a nonstarter. Being able to make off their mask, putting them at risk? That's a nonstarter. I would say anything that's going to hamstring the work of ICE, that's just not going to go anywhere."
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
The Fourth Amendment is not a non-starter, jerkwads.
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“I was so impressed and kind of honored to be in that crowd…Because nobody panicked. Nobody ran. Nobody was trampling each other. Everybody got out together. We made room for the pregnant, we made room for the elderly, we made room for children.”
ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
ICE is afraid of children protesting
“Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”
www.theverge.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
“I was so impressed and kind of honored to be in that crowd…Because nobody panicked. Nobody ran. Nobody was trampling each other. Everybody got out together. We made room for the pregnant, we made room for the elderly, we made room for children.”
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Folks outside of Minnesota: Looking for how you can support Latino small businesses in Minneapolis? Here you go.
Y'all Mercado Central still needs some help so that they don't lose their building
Donate to Help Save Mercado Central from Closure, organized by Cooperativa Mercado Central
Mercado Central, a cooperative founded by latino entrepeneurs
with… Cooperativa Mercado Central needs your support for Help Save Mercado Central from Closure
gofund.me
February 3, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Folks outside of Minnesota: Looking for how you can support Latino small businesses in Minneapolis? Here you go.
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This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
On this day in 1948, an all-white jury sentenced a Black woman and two of her teenage sons to death for killing an armed white man in self-defense.
Feb. 3, 1948 | Black Woman and Her Children Sentenced to Die for Defending Themselves
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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February 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.
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“.. They couldn’t break me by arresting me,” Ms. Levy Armstrong said, “so they doctored an image to show the world a false iteration of that time to make me look weak.”
@nytimes.com
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February 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
“.. They couldn’t break me by arresting me,” Ms. Levy Armstrong said, “so they doctored an image to show the world a false iteration of that time to make me look weak.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
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Australia’s Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, 300+ scientists, collecting coral spawn at sea and breeding heat-tolerant corals in a giant lab. It produced 35 million embryos last year and is aiming for 100 million corals a year that survive for at least 12 months or more.
Australia is doing absolutely everything to the Great Barrier Reef — except the one thing that matters
An exclusive look inside the largest effort ever mounted to keep an iconic ecosystem alive.
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February 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Australia’s Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program, 300+ scientists, collecting coral spawn at sea and breeding heat-tolerant corals in a giant lab. It produced 35 million embryos last year and is aiming for 100 million corals a year that survive for at least 12 months or more.
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The IDF targeted water infrastructure in Gaza on day 1 of the genocide. Biden's USAID humanitarian chief, Sonali Korde, personally intervened in the Response in order to prevent water/sanitation projects from going forward because water infrastructure "helped Hamas."
JUST IN | Israeli forces detonated & destroyed the Morag Water Station in Rafah today, a facility that supplied water to roughly one-third of the city’s residents before the war, Palestinian investigative journalist Younis Tirawi Reuters w/ footage purportedly circulated by Israeli soldiers. The...
February 2, 2026 at 9:07 PM
The IDF targeted water infrastructure in Gaza on day 1 of the genocide. Biden's USAID humanitarian chief, Sonali Korde, personally intervened in the Response in order to prevent water/sanitation projects from going forward because water infrastructure "helped Hamas."
The great hunger, drought, and the existence of the English mostly
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
The great hunger, drought, and the existence of the English mostly
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12/10 would definitely start a war for her
February 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
12/10 would definitely start a war for her
This is who runs this account
February 2, 2026 at 11:54 PM
This is who runs this account
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Heads up, all you ghost-loving readers: I have happy news! You should go check it out - and while you're at it, pick up my spooky little rural mystery CINDERWICH for just THREE BUCKS. I mean, if you want to put a little dough in my pockets and/or kibble in bowls: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/happy-a...
Happy Announcements and Sweet Deals — The Haunt*
Well, we survived our first month of 2026. What do you say we call that a mulligan, and pretend that this Monday is the first of the new year? That’s what I’m doing, anyway. New year, new me. New barg...
www.cheriepriest.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Heads up, all you ghost-loving readers: I have happy news! You should go check it out - and while you're at it, pick up my spooky little rural mystery CINDERWICH for just THREE BUCKS. I mean, if you want to put a little dough in my pockets and/or kibble in bowls: www.cheriepriest.com/blog/happy-a...
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Congratulations to everyone who pushed this awful policy. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/02/h...
Every Homeland Security officer in Minneapolis is now being issued a body-worn camera, Kristi Noem says
Every Homeland Security officer on the ground, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday.
www.chicagotribune.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Congratulations to everyone who pushed this awful policy. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/02/h...
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When you say, "I use ChatGPT only for my story ideas, it's NUANCED," what I hear is, "I'm a grifter looking to slide slop in without telling my readers."
If you use the slop machine, you are not a writer or artist. You are a slopagandist colluding in mass theft from real artists.
If you use the slop machine, you are not a writer or artist. You are a slopagandist colluding in mass theft from real artists.
February 2, 2026 at 10:53 PM
When you say, "I use ChatGPT only for my story ideas, it's NUANCED," what I hear is, "I'm a grifter looking to slide slop in without telling my readers."
If you use the slop machine, you are not a writer or artist. You are a slopagandist colluding in mass theft from real artists.
If you use the slop machine, you are not a writer or artist. You are a slopagandist colluding in mass theft from real artists.
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Thread up, and especially this part. No one in a creative field should be using gAI in *ANY* way. You don't get to sell out other creatives just b/c it's not "your" field. No gAI writing, art, narration, music, etc. Just. Don't.
The use of generative AI in one form of the creative process is an implicit support for its use in all forms of that process. Solidarity is not conditional.
February 2, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Thread up, and especially this part. No one in a creative field should be using gAI in *ANY* way. You don't get to sell out other creatives just b/c it's not "your" field. No gAI writing, art, narration, music, etc. Just. Don't.
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About the "rents will just rise" thing.
Most basic incomes accompany either a "guaranteed income" clawback up front or a "UBI" tax after so unless you volunteer how much you get how much would you be charged
www.scottsantens.com/how-to-calcu...
Most basic incomes accompany either a "guaranteed income" clawback up front or a "UBI" tax after so unless you volunteer how much you get how much would you be charged
www.scottsantens.com/how-to-calcu...
How to Calculate the Cost of Universal Basic Income (Hint: It's Not As Easy As You Might Think)
I've written about this before, about how the cost of universal basic income is its net cost, not its gross cost, but because this question of the cost of UBI is so frequently raised, and so frequentl...
www.scottsantens.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
About the "rents will just rise" thing.
Most basic incomes accompany either a "guaranteed income" clawback up front or a "UBI" tax after so unless you volunteer how much you get how much would you be charged
www.scottsantens.com/how-to-calcu...
Most basic incomes accompany either a "guaranteed income" clawback up front or a "UBI" tax after so unless you volunteer how much you get how much would you be charged
www.scottsantens.com/how-to-calcu...
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fun fact the military didn't look into this at all when they were studying tear gas back in the 1960s
but in addition to stuff like irregular periods, there's evidence tear gas exposure can be linked to miscarriage
more than enough data to suggest caution
share.google/SoozTodiv791...
but in addition to stuff like irregular periods, there's evidence tear gas exposure can be linked to miscarriage
more than enough data to suggest caution
share.google/SoozTodiv791...
February 2, 2026 at 8:40 PM
fun fact the military didn't look into this at all when they were studying tear gas back in the 1960s
but in addition to stuff like irregular periods, there's evidence tear gas exposure can be linked to miscarriage
more than enough data to suggest caution
share.google/SoozTodiv791...
but in addition to stuff like irregular periods, there's evidence tear gas exposure can be linked to miscarriage
more than enough data to suggest caution
share.google/SoozTodiv791...
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i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero
February 2, 2026 at 5:22 PM
i have been made aware that an Olympic figure skater for Kazakhstan does a Dune themed routine in a full stillsuit and he is now my personal hero
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thank you for sharing this! printable version with alt text
February 2, 2026 at 7:42 PM
thank you for sharing this! printable version with alt text
Wait people think ancient Greece and Rome were white?!
Like... does nobody look at where Carthage etc was? Or pay any attention to the gobs of trade etc across the Mediterranean? Huh
Like... does nobody look at where Carthage etc was? Or pay any attention to the gobs of trade etc across the Mediterranean? Huh
February 2, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Wait people think ancient Greece and Rome were white?!
Like... does nobody look at where Carthage etc was? Or pay any attention to the gobs of trade etc across the Mediterranean? Huh
Like... does nobody look at where Carthage etc was? Or pay any attention to the gobs of trade etc across the Mediterranean? Huh
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Most people don't realize the truly staggering rate of improvement of renewable technologies - the pace has been *insane* and costs have fallen through the floor.
Ireland has dismantled its first commercial wind farm to make way for a step-change in scale. Each new turbine generates more power than the entire 1992 Bellacorick site, illustrating how 3 decades of innovation have compressed land use while multiplying output. buff.ly/goiabIO
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Last turbine on first commercial wind farm dismantled
The last wind turbine of what was Ireland's first commercial wind farm at Bellacorick in Co Mayo has been dismantled.
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February 2, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Most people don't realize the truly staggering rate of improvement of renewable technologies - the pace has been *insane* and costs have fallen through the floor.