My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

He offered a much stronger quote on whether Bad Bunny should perform at the Super Bowl despite claiming he didn’t know who the artist was.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

"By the end of this year, the NYPD plans to fold in 1,900 cameras across 19 more NYCHA properties, Mascia said — and by the end of the next phase, the department expects to have connected 17,897 CCTV cameras across 119 NYCHA developments."

OTI didnt tell residents NYC was using free internet to spy

"Of the nearly 100 we reached, everyone lost something or someone: a family member, a friend, their home, hope...Almost everyone we spoke to has been displaced from homes or shelters multiple times. Many have no home to return to."

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

at this point, it’s hard to view anyone/any outlet that immediately recirculates press releases without necessary context as doing anything but carrying water for the government. It’s the bare minimum to note if an agency or relevant officials have recently peddled dishonest narratives

News outlets immediately promoting Trump’s propaganda without the slightly iota of fact checking has been an enormous issue for years. Many swore they’d offer better coverage during the 2024 campaign. They're not. It’s an abrogation of responsibility to pursue speed over accuracy.

Ok so maybe reporters stop uncritically tweeting out government statements while conditions on the ground are still unclear now? Given that the job is to, you know, inform people

"Now that the Free Press deal has gone through and Weiss has taken one of the most powerful positions in American news, the richest people in the world will have taken big steps toward ushering in the toothless, acquiescent future of mainstream media they have always wanted."

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

“‘I don’t understand how a person who is being held on single block at the most secure prison in the state of Alabama is allowed to alter his consciousness using drugs before a deposition that is central to his case,’ Hahn said.”

Please note that all the outlets now correcting their narrative re: ICE killing Silverio Villegas González since FPPD body cams have been released initially published the DHS statement now proven to be mostly false. There's never any understanding/admission of harm done. They'll just do it again.

Aside from the fact that the Vice President is calling someone "dipshit," I do wonder if there are not other things JD Vance should be doing right now

Earlier this year, COs across NY conducted an illegal strike. Rights groups and prisoners noted that the strike happened as the corrections system faced scrutiny for the brutal killing of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death while handcuffed. 4 prison guards pled guilty to manslaughter yesterday.

wheezing loudly, aggressively, uncontrollably, really

we are the crime

Conversely, an authoritarian state does not need to acknowledge or honor restrictions intended to curtail its power. If your accountability systems don't have teeth or real repercussions for violating them, then attempts to rein in the centralized power do not matter.

To me, there's a very clear through-line with a lot of current politics. If agents of the state decide you violated a law, you will feel the full force of carceral infrastructure come down on you. Even if you have not actually done anything illegal, the state has already deemed you a crime.

@alexvitale.bsky.social , who wrote "The End of Policing" called these bills "accountability theater" that made Democrats feel like they're accomplishing something or fighting back, while the "deportation machine" they've enabled for decades continues and gets more aggressive.

In July, I wrote about legislative efforts to ban ICE agents from covering their faces for @truthout.org. In my conversations, a key question kept coming up: do these bans matter if there aren't accountability measures to punish federal officers who violate them?

truthout.org/articles/by-...

Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work

For @truthout.org, I wrote about how right wing lawmakers and activists are using Charlie Kirk's killing to pursue a wide-ranging McCarthyist crackdown on political opponents.

truthout.org/articles/con...