Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants

As Trump sucks up more of our data, ICE added online activists to its target list, demanding Meta hand over personal info attached to Instagram accounts for StopIce.net and more.

My report includes tips on how to protect yourself!

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Someday, we're gonna find out that the decisionmaking went like this:

Mamdani proposes city-run grocery stores. Conservatives say it'll never work. Mamdani supporters point out that DOD runs a bunch of grocery stores. Hegseth decides to close them to own the libs.

This is an astounding leap in just three years, and it's great news for American society in general that these guys are starting to see just how destructive the proliferation of sports betting is.

Convincing every sports league and TV network of the same thing is going to be much more difficult.

Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander expressed regret for not doing enough “to speak out against Israel's war crimes, against ethnic cleansing, against forced starvation of Palestinians.”

Lander, who was with Mamdani on stage, called for anti-Zionists/liberal Zionists coalition committed to ending Gaza war.

thank god we’re all against political
violence

The Wall Street Journal is now walking back its earlier reporting that "transgender ideology" messages were found on the shooter's ammunition.

But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update.

Thanks, WSJ.

Since Republican Senator Eric Schmitt brought up "Continental Army soldiers dying of frostbite at Valley Forge" in his speech arguing that America's heritage is white and Eurocentric, I have to say one thing about the whiteness of Continental units at Valley Forge. 🧵

The thing that depresses me about Trumpism is that 2009-15, however imperfect, felt like positive incremental change. Reading this, all I can think about is how Steve King felt real repercussions for his racism in 2020. Schmitt won’t get stripped of committees for this. Because it’s mainstream now.

The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.

“The idea that campus activists would be suspended en masse for protest activity would have been unthinkable back in 1985 when Columbia divested from apartheid South Africa after years of student protest and pressure. But these are very different times…”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

The world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says.

There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.

BREAKING: Trump, Hegseth violated the Posse Comitatus Act with their troop deployment to Los Angeles, Judge Charles Breyer rules after trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When authoritarians wish to destroy a people, they first deny their humanity. Trump today stated "Trans people do not exist," thus signaling they are fair game for persecution. Scapegoating and vilifying one group after another, as this administration does, is straight out of the fascist playbook.

Within 24 hours, several nonprofit clinics providing free HIV services would be closing as President Donald Trump announced the United States was slashing foreign aid.

Per FAA regulations, drone operators must maintain Visual Line of Sight and have a Remote ID that IDs the owner of the drone, and typically you need permission to fly over people. It’s possible to get a waiver, but this drone could have been operating in violation of FAA regs

NYT (pre-election): Vance is right, Haitians are straining resources in this Ohio town

NYT (post-election): oh, forcing the Haitians to leave is crashing the economy of this Ohio town

What in gods name is this

Did a Jeff Bezos write this

By me: the appeals court has overturned the dubious conviction of Mylene Vialard, a nonviolent climate activist trying to halt construction of a fossil-fuel pipeline through Indigenous territory in Minnesota, on the grounds of pervasive prosecutorial misconduct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

At a vigil to honor the journalists in Gaza held today in Atlanta, it took the speakers over 20 minutes to read through the names of over 270 Palestinian journalists assassinated by Israel during the War in Gaza, as identified by @pressfreedom.bsky.social.

NEW: Class-action suit claims Otter AI secretly records private work conversations to train the company's AI models without permission

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