It's been 8 days since ICE shot Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez. #DoorDash remains silent while he languishes in pain with the bullet still in his back. There is a risk he will lose function in half his body. Wilber needs to be released immediately. He urgently needs proper medical attention.

This is the human skidmark who could not answer a simple yes/no question on whether humans should survive as a species. This is also the #1 reason I fear "President Vance" because Vance will just be a sock puppet for this cretin.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.

“If you’re evil you’re actually kind of good. Because you’re at least getting something done.”🤔 Y’all aren’t alarmed enough about what MAGA tech billionaire (Trump donor, J.D. Vance’s pimp, Epstein’s buddy) Peter Thiel is doing to our country.

I nominate this for Most 2026 Headline of 2026. Kudos to whoever @404media.co came up with it: www.404media.co/people-train...

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

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There's a really important point in here: the term 'deportation' has become Newspeak. The correct term is "human trafficking" because what this regime is doing fits that description much more than the genteel ideas we hold about 'deportation.'

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧊🛩️ AFRICA 🌍⛓️ 👉 As noted by @gillianbrockell.com in TAP, we can confirm this Talon Air G5 (tail: N50JE) departed Arizona on Wednesday afternoon, trafficking chained humans via Puerto Rico to multiple stops in Africa. First up: Ghana 🇬🇭 The Peruvian man in Gillian's article remains in Massachusetts.

Hey @discord.com ! Boo on gambling ads. Boo on age verification. Boo on using a dark pattern to trick people into not turning it off, after you buried the setting way deep. C'mon, be better. Please?

Let's not let those with power off the hook. Perez was working for DoorDash, a company that has remained silent and refused to help its drivers as they are the targets of ICE violence. You can show your support by deleting their app and ordering directly from your favorite places. #DeleteDoorDash

Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost@frost.house.gov · 2w ago

Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, was shot by ICE while working as a food delivery driver. ICE must be stopped. Their regime of cruelty will continue until they are held accountable. We need an independent investigation into this shooting immediately. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This story keeps getting weirder. www.effort.news/irregular If this report is correct, then OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta were all patsies for an Israeli firm testing out its hacking tools in LLM space. Of course our current fascist regime will do nothing to protect us. What do you expect?

A Single Firm is Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Hacking Scandals — Effort

The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets.

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The Jewish concept of "achrayut" calls us to recognize our commitment to each other, and to our communities. We are accountable for the needs of others, not just atonement for our own actions. We see achrayut in the resistance to the war on immigrants. No one is free until all of us are free.

So the GOP is celebrating a guy who created a darknet marketplace for heroin and meth, and put out multiple muder-for-hire contacts to conceal his crimes.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4w ago

LMAO this guy is being featured at Trumpapalooza because Trump pardoned him

James Talarico: Tarrant County, the largest swing county in the state of Texas, is closing 92 polling locations. They’ve suspended a million voter registrations in our state. To anyone in Texas watching this — I’m urging you to check your voter registration online and make a plan to vote early.

I have joined the Flock Off group for my town as part of a united opposition to ALPR use by unaccountable government and private entities. Not surprisingly, these devices are a cornerstone of "predictive policing" - arresting people for crimes they _might_ commit. yaledailynews.com/sjp/2026/sto...

@theradr.bsky.social reprints one of her greatest pieces. What is prayer? What is it for? "Yes, you can yell at God, you can be angry at God, you can yell at I-don't-know-if-there's-God-or-what-but-I'm-gonna-yell. The God in which I believe can take it." www.lifeisasacredtext.com/offerings-an...

Preaching to the choir here: OpenAI seems to be sprinting into the lead for Worst Company Ever. In an environment where the regime in power won't do anything to safeguard the public I'm at a loss to figure out what we can do. garymarcus.substack.com/p/pause-open...

Pause OpenAI, now

Quite simply, they can no longer be trusted.

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This is appalling. These Haitians were here legally under the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program. The Trump regime spread racist lies, ended the program, declared them illegal and rounded them up in chains for deportation. Now DHS is proudly posting videos of Black Haitians in chains.

Bless @propublica.org for sticking with important stories long after they've faded from the ever-changing headline/breaking cycle. www.propublica.org/podcast/why-...

The True Story of Why Immigration Agents Raided a Chicago Apartment Building

Trump officials claimed they successfully arrested members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua in a dramatic midnight raid. We uncovered a very different story.

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I've joined my town's "flock off" group. Maybe your town has one as well.

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW (& no paywall): One of Flock's biggest selling points is its private search network—but how does it actually work? And how does an ordinary city end up sharing its data with, say, 2,000+ other agencies? I FOIA'ed Flock customers from around the country to find out: www.wired.com/story/how-an...

When I say that the problems didn't start with That Guy and won't end when he's gone, this is what I mean. For decades multiple administrations (R and D) have failed to improve the broken immigration system. justice4allthu.substack.com/p/iiraira-bi...

IIRAIRA: Bill Clinton’s Shameful Legacy on Immigration

How a 1996 bill set the stage for mass detention and mass deportation

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What's a good concise term for "dick-sizing grifters?"

Jesse Felder@jessefelder.com · last mo.

‘The maker of Claude is likely to tell investors its potential revenue opportunities are above $30 trillion, topping SpaceX’s $28.5 trillion estimate. WeWork cited a $3 trillion market opportunity in its ultimately abandoned IPO.‘ www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

I'm attending EducateUS's event, “Conflict As a Democratic Skill with Priya Parker (Learn, To Do #3)”. Here's the sign-up link www.mobilize.us/educateus/ev...

Conflict As a Democratic Skill with Priya Parker (Learn, To Do #3) · EducateUS

Priya Parker, author of the forthcoming The Art of Fighting, helps us learn how to fight with the people we want to belong to, and to hold the space that happens even before repair. How do we stay in ...

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This fascist regime sucks. But ordinary people are amazing.

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."

I'm attending Indivisible's event, “Immigrant Justice Summer Call # 4: How to Funnel Support for Immigrant Justice in Your Community” - sign up now www.mobilize.us/indivisible/... No one of us can stop this terror on our own, but together we can.

Immigrant Justice Summer Call # 4: How to Funnel Support for Immigrant Justice in Your Community · Indivisible

When an ICE surge hits, community support floods in from every direction. Without a system to direct it, that energy scatters. This call trains you on how to build a link tree that functions as your c...

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No fucking kidding. Next they'll do a study adding to the increasing evidence that the sky seems blue.

The Boston Globe@bostonglobe.com · 2mo ago

The results of a new survey by a Harvard professor add to increasing evidence that affordability is the key barrier to expanding access to formal child care in Massachusetts.

The nearly-monthly Abney Park online concerts are always fun, so I just backed their Clockwork Cabaret on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/abn...

Abney Park's Clockwork Cabaret

Our Neo Vaudevillian songs, Live On Line, August 29th at 6pm PST.

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This is a thing you want to know. Like your organ donor card you hope you never have to use it, but you have it just in case: Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held.

What's the over/under on That Guy saying we have achieved "peace in our time" as he turns tail and runs from the Iran conflict?

This is excellent. People speaking their own experience is always powerful. vimeo.com/1210516698/d... I just wish I wasn't so relevant today.

SELMA SISTERS MARCH ON

An Untold Story of Teenage Sisters Fighting for Civil Rights https://whenyouvoteiwin.org/documentary/ We encourage you to share the film to individuals to watch on their own OR consider hosting a sc...

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@progressivemass.bsky.social I got your quick and handy guide on MA ballot questions (email) but I didn't see a shareable link that I could send to friends and family. What did I miss?

I've been enjoying @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's extended meditations. This one is a reminder that when we were young, Mr. Rogers taught us to look for the helpers. Now we are the helpers, and so many people are stepping up to help. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/lifeguards-a...

Lifeguards and Angels

I have lived a long time but I have never lived through such a time of destruction, of nature, of human lives, of truth, fact, science, journalism, the rule of law. I write during a summer of colossal...

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If (like me) you are a bit of a legal nerd you might (like me) really enjoy watching the DOJ get its ass handed to it by its own flaming incompetence in yet another case. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thursday was the worst day for DOJ. So far.

DOJ withdrew its subpoenas issued to New York Times reporters, but the hearing that preceded that decision showed just how degraded DOJ has become.

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I was looking at this list and thinking "where have I heard the name Henry Cuellar before?" *checks Wikipedia* Oh, right. He's one of the cheating Congressional bastards That Guy pardoned. Quid pro quo - kick this fkker to the curb, Texas!

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · 2mo ago

6 Democrats voted with MAGA to pass the NDAA 216-212. They are: •Danny Davis (NC) •Henry Cuellar (TX) •Jared Golden (ME) •Adam Gray (CA) •Vicente Gonzalez (TX) •Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Centrist Democrats continue too betray us and enable fascism to advance unchecked. 1/2