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@jaciem.blacksky.app
I was there, until I wasn't. Now I'm here, at least for now.
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Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
January 8, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Honestly think that if you pulled twitter from the App Store and shut it down it would fuck up the entire right wing ecosystem at that point. Like the entire media apparatus would fall apart.
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This! If Musk or Bezos or Altman or Bill Gates truly wanted to make Star Trek real, they could do it right now by spending all their wealth to help dismantle this capitalist colonial system.
one of the things a lot of technocrats don't get about Star Trek is that the future of Star Trek?
it can be *right now*
we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um...
Technocrats
it can be *right now*
we don't need spaceships, we don't need replicators, we just need a society that is built for humans and not...um...
Technocrats
He does not want Star Trek. He wants to co-opt the aesthetic of Star Trek to sell his techno-feudalist futurist wet dream. Star Trek hates men like him.
January 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM
This! If Musk or Bezos or Altman or Bill Gates truly wanted to make Star Trek real, they could do it right now by spending all their wealth to help dismantle this capitalist colonial system.
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
January 14, 2026 at 4:32 AM
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.
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I just wanna say -- because it can't be said enough -- Renee Good's queerness is an enormous factor in the justification of her murder. It is as important as anything else about her. Anyone who is not in line with the program must be eliminated. That is the point.
So, if I'm reading this right:
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
Federal prosecutors quit in protest over lack of investigation into ICE shooting
Six lawyers from US attorney’s office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ’s civil rights division
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:01 AM
I just wanna say -- because it can't be said enough -- Renee Good's queerness is an enormous factor in the justification of her murder. It is as important as anything else about her. Anyone who is not in line with the program must be eliminated. That is the point.
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For the record, this is what you do when you're given orders that cross a clear moral boundary. You quit. I'd tell all you cops and ICE boys to take note, but it seems we may fundamentally disagree about where those boundaries are.
So, if I'm reading this right:
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
4 prosecutors at the Dept of Justice Civil Rights division quit because the Trump-appointed leadership won't investigate Good's killer,
and
6 from the Minnesota US Attorney's office quit when they were told instead to investigate her widow.
(HT @benjaminkabak.com)
Federal prosecutors quit in protest over lack of investigation into ICE shooting
Six lawyers from US attorney’s office in Minnesota quit along with four leaders of DoJ’s civil rights division
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:55 AM
For the record, this is what you do when you're given orders that cross a clear moral boundary. You quit. I'd tell all you cops and ICE boys to take note, but it seems we may fundamentally disagree about where those boundaries are.
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Hey y’all! REMINDER:
I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org
I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org
January 13, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Hey y’all! REMINDER:
I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org
I am LEGALLY OBLIGATED to award at least one scholarship to a Louisiana woman. And no Louisiana women have applied. This happens every year where we have to beg women in my own state to apply and Idk why. We’re in our 6th cycle! Come get this money! ThurmanPerryFoundation.org
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every (straight reporter) story about ICE agents is like this, they’re all people who steal from the collection plate and beat their wives and and won’t stop making lewd remarks to the 13 year old girl next door and this is the only place in america where they could remain employed for six months
you’re a fucking grown ass man putting a 16 year old kid in handcuffs and then you steal his phone and sell it to a vending machine? what in the entire fuck is wrong you?
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 AM
every (straight reporter) story about ICE agents is like this, they’re all people who steal from the collection plate and beat their wives and and won’t stop making lewd remarks to the 13 year old girl next door and this is the only place in america where they could remain employed for six months
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The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
January 13, 2026 at 6:20 PM
The letter from Bill and Hillary Clinton to James Comer explaining their refusal to testify in his Epstein investigation is really remarkable, not like any letter of this genre I've seen. It's signed by them, not a lawyer, and the arguments are not legal ones. Reprinted from their X account:
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This should be a national shutdown
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
“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...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:00 AM
This should be a national shutdown
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I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gangs of masked white supremacists roam our streets indiscriminately killing civilians. But at least I don't have to hear Kamala Harris's cackle.
January 14, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gangs of masked white supremacists roam our streets indiscriminately killing civilians. But at least I don't have to hear Kamala Harris's cackle.
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You know how people are like "well we should just have a general strike it's simple" and then us folks who've done labor stuff are like "cute yeah try pulling that off without unions"
Well
Well
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
“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...
inthesetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:33 AM
You know how people are like "well we should just have a general strike it's simple" and then us folks who've done labor stuff are like "cute yeah try pulling that off without unions"
Well
Well
The other kids in private schools are The Competition
I suspect that a lot of the wealthy owners and operators of national media outlets with kids in private schools fundamentally don't grasp that regular US citizens with kids in the public schools are FURIOUS because ICE is terrorizing THEIR NEIGHBORS and THEIR KIDS' BEST FRIENDS.
what the fuck are we doing here, @cnn.com?
January 14, 2026 at 3:50 AM
The other kids in private schools are The Competition
I remember Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings and I cannot imagine any of them acting as foolishly as our current capitalism-controlled media.
one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.
January 14, 2026 at 3:46 AM
I remember Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Peter Jennings and I cannot imagine any of them acting as foolishly as our current capitalism-controlled media.
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we don't have very much but we can strip anybody who works for ICE of any social niceties whatsoever. you find out somebody is with them? they don't get to be ANYTHING to you anymore. and tell them WHY. it SUCKS to be ostracized and stigmatized. please use it on somebody who's earned it for once
January 14, 2026 at 2:20 AM
we don't have very much but we can strip anybody who works for ICE of any social niceties whatsoever. you find out somebody is with them? they don't get to be ANYTHING to you anymore. and tell them WHY. it SUCKS to be ostracized and stigmatized. please use it on somebody who's earned it for once
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I’d argue that it is key. Stealing a citizen’s phone is neither necessary nor proper for ICE agents to conduct their federal responsibilities. It is plainly unlawful conduct that local prosecutors could investigate and charge without Supremacy Clause problems getting in the way and no justification.
Not the key part of this story, obviously... but they *sold* his phone? WTF?
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 AM
I’d argue that it is key. Stealing a citizen’s phone is neither necessary nor proper for ICE agents to conduct their federal responsibilities. It is plainly unlawful conduct that local prosecutors could investigate and charge without Supremacy Clause problems getting in the way and no justification.
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There’s a certain kind of aging provocateur who can’t imagine losing on the merits, so every loss becomes proof of discrimination.
Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...
Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...
January 14, 2026 at 2:04 AM
There’s a certain kind of aging provocateur who can’t imagine losing on the merits, so every loss becomes proof of discrimination.
Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...
Like... dude, you lost to Ricky Gervais. I don't think it was about "wokeness." variety.com/2026/awards/...
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They're targeting Renee Good's widow because they don't want her talking. If they can manufacture charges, most defense attorneys will tell her not to speak with media even if she did nothing wrong
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
They're targeting Renee Good's widow because they don't want her talking. If they can manufacture charges, most defense attorneys will tell her not to speak with media even if she did nothing wrong
Also, somebody should probably check on the vulnerable people around this guy, the one who's always right on the edge of violence, deciding when/whether to pull back. 👀
Quiet, piggy
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
January 14, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Also, somebody should probably check on the vulnerable people around this guy, the one who's always right on the edge of violence, deciding when/whether to pull back. 👀
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not a surprise at all. drug cops always steal money/drugs from people they arrested...ICE thugs--continuing that "law enforcement" tradition
newrepublic.com/post/204750/...
newrepublic.com/post/204750/...
ICE Agents Arrest Man on Christmas Eve—and Then Steal His Groceries
Trump’s immigration agents are doing whatever they want.
newrepublic.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
not a surprise at all. drug cops always steal money/drugs from people they arrested...ICE thugs--continuing that "law enforcement" tradition
newrepublic.com/post/204750/...
newrepublic.com/post/204750/...
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Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
January 14, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Yes, immigration agents not only took Arnoldo's phone, the 10th grader had to use Find My Phone to locate it — in a vending machine for used electronics, close to an ICE detention center.
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Read the full story here:
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
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Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump screaming "fuck you" in a Ford plant at someone calling him a "pedophile protector," presidential norms have been challenged in the 21st century
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump screaming "fuck you" in a Ford plant at someone calling him a "pedophile protector," presidential norms have been challenged in the 21st century
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This is awful, but also “woman murdered by ICE correctly perceived ICE as a threat” is not the gotcha they think it is
January 14, 2026 at 12:17 AM
This is awful, but also “woman murdered by ICE correctly perceived ICE as a threat” is not the gotcha they think it is
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Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
Fucked Nathan Bedford Forrest over so hard his descendants are salty about it to this day.
(Well, at least till back in the early 90s, which was the last time I talked to that dude.)
(Well, at least till back in the early 90s, which was the last time I talked to that dude.)
they did, in fact, take decisive action. in the midst of these hearings congress passed the third enforcement act, called the Ku Klux Klan Act. the grant administration used that authority to virtually eliminate the klan, which did not resurface for another 50 years.
Luckily they took decisive action and the Klan was never a problem after that.
January 14, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Fucked Nathan Bedford Forrest over so hard his descendants are salty about it to this day.
(Well, at least till back in the early 90s, which was the last time I talked to that dude.)
(Well, at least till back in the early 90s, which was the last time I talked to that dude.)
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we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.
January 14, 2026 at 2:09 AM
we should want to make it undeniable that there is no choice but to end ICE, prosecute its officers for lawbreaking, and fundamentally rethink immigration enforcement.