It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
nytimes.com
We need to ban online gambling. We’ll have to figure out how to pay for sports media some other way.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoOnline gambling companies have collected mass amounts of user data. Former DraftKings employees told The New York Times they used data science techniques to identify gamblers who were more likely to respond to promotional offers by betting — and losing.
Sick. Purely because one old asshole wanted to feel strong and important.
Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system. Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by your elected officials.
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
thehandbasket.co
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 6d agoi've seen this ad three times already today
This animation shows the pace of settlement and outpost construction by Israel in the illegally-occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, since 1967. Every country in the world except the US agrees with the indisputable fact that all settlements are illegal and constitute war crimes.
Here's the clip of @robsandia.bsky.social at a town hall in Iowa City last night saying he tends to agree with Republicans on trans sports bans, and rightfully being called a coward by a member of the audience.
i hate ashley hinson and i hate iowa democrats for putting iowa in this position but when your candidate says this you have to leave him for dead (metaphorically) or you have two genocidal parties and that’s all there is to it.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 2w agoJosh Turek in Iowa now takes the strongest anti-trans stance of any Democrat yet. “Josh opposes taxpayer-funded sex changes, and anyone who says otherwise is lying,” said Hannah Goss, a spokeswoman for the Turek campaign. This would include Medicaid and adult care.
The US has caused more than 40k deaths in Venezuela via sanctions alone all because Venezuela dared to have two presidents in a row that werent bribable and who re nationalized the oil industry that used to be nationalized only a decade prior. And Maduro and his wife are still illegally kidnapped !
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTalarico: "I oppose trans athletes playing in girls' sports if it endangers safety or fairness"
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
prospect.org
horrendous dailyiowan.com/2026/09/08/u...
UI student, Hawkeye Marching Band member died collapsing in heat
This is an ongoing report. Check back for updates. A University of Iowa student and Hawkeye Marching Band member has died after being removed from life support following an incident during the Sept. 5...
dailyiowan.com
they don’t even try to hide the fact that this is not about women’s sports this is about crushing anyone who doesn’t conform to their particular view of gender and what they actually want is to never see the wnba or its fandom ever again
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRiley Gaines: "I went to the WNBA game in Minneapolis. It was a bunch of, like, disgruntled lesbians."
At least 3 people have died while detained at Camp East Montana in the past year, including a 55-year-old father whose death on January 3 was ruled a homicide after security guards beat him. in February, an inspection report found dozens of violations of national detention standards.
ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations
To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…
texasobserver.org
every fun, cool, or just silly thing america has ever done is getting made worse because of these demons
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 3w ago
I can't believe that the response being offered to the fascists trying to steal an election is that people have to turn out in historic numbers to prevent this. Do people not hear how bonkers this sounds???
This man bought the 2024 election and he’s a Nazi! Not in a cryptic way either! Just out and out! And he killed a bunch of nonwhite people by destroying USAID!!! I feel insane that none of the democrats in congress want to put this guy in jail!
The richest man in the world, who is the sugar daddy for the Republican Party is a full blown Nazi. And I have to hear about a fucking podcaster.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 3w agoGonna print this out and put it under wipers on Teslas in Los Angeles
Guys stop dooming they definitely won't send ICE to polling locations. That won't happen. Stop talking crazy
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
wired.com
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8mo agoAgain there's a lot of daylight between "Trump stops the midterms" and "ICE shoots someone at a polling place" and I just think we need to understand there's not an all or none situation here. Even one "accidental" shooting at (or near) a polling place is too many and Congress should care about that
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa www.tampabay.com/news/2026/08...
Cubans living in Florida are being deported to Africa
ICE sent them away under a controversial policy without knowing where they were going or what would happen next.
tampabay.com
so cool that our genocide is on the ballot and shit libs and dems are out there ceding ground if not outright agreeing with it
Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3w agoSomeday soon hes going to be over and trans folk will continue to exist and, hopefully, thrive, for as long as there are humans on this planet.
