Your reminder that ICE should be presumed lying when it claims someone "weaponized their vehicle" against them. It's never true. It never happens. It's always a lie.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 4h ago

“Although [Mr. Belgal] was initially hospitalized, it appears that ICE moved quickly to transfer him out of the hospital to an unknown location—raising grave concerns for his health and well-being.” from @maketheroadny.bsky.social’s habeas petition filed today

this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.

as always upon visiting San Francisco i have to say: “wow, BART is great, they should put this in places other than the Bay Area that could benefit from rapid transit”

I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead

The editorial board of the Philadelphia @inquirer.com becomes the first at a major newspaper to endorse (sorta) Trump's impeachment. share.inquirer.com/BnINC5 "A clear and present danger to the republic... the case against Trump is strong... the time has come to again contemplate his impeachment."

The Case for Impeachment: What would the founders do? | Editorial

The list of the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors is breathtaking.

share.inquirer.com

You guys ever think about how unrelentingly stupid everything is all the time

rip to one of the coolest software engineers who ever lived

They’re all crooks. Some are just dumber than others.

Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account

Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.

wsj.com

this is fucking insane. fuck this country. jesus.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2d ago

oh my GOD

I don’t think Zohran Mamdani has committed genocide

Chris Sommerfeldt@c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 2d ago

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside City Hall to call out Mayor Zohran Mamdani for what they see as his betrayal of the movement. "Mayor Mamdani, you can't hide we charge you with genocide" was a chant that just rang out.

Someone in the comments suggested a tennis court 😂😂😂

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good news: in this case the newly elected House can meet at a convenient location of their choosing and vote on whether to expel Johnson as one of its first orders of business

Animaniacs evicted.

Ray Pride@raypride.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Workers change the sign on the Warner Bros. water tower to say ‘A Skydance Corporation’ on Tuesday” GETTY IMAGES

"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

Trump on his meeting with Gold Star families: "I invited them out to check out the new helipad, check out the new ballroom, and check out the new helicopter"

It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:

Mr. Dan Zak@mrdanzak.com · 5d ago

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Ads for AI in the workplace are like “use AI to help do your job and get ahead” as if the industry and the expectations won’t change based on the prevalence of AI. It’s not a life hack if it’s upending everything. You’re not setting yourself apart by relying on AI, you’re rendering yourself obsolete

I’m watching The Shining for the first time (I know so sue me) and OH MY GOD THIS MUSIC???? it makes me want to claw my eyeballs out (complimentary)

I’m watching The Shining for the first time (I know so sue me) and OH MY GOD THIS MUSIC???? it makes me want to claw my eyeballs out (complimentary)

Some on the Left(s) have belatedly taken school board races seriously. There still aren't enough leftists running for those seats.

Who controls the school boards controls the future.

Incredible how the editors at @nytimes.com still don't understand how embarrassing it is to do this, and how it undermines the credibility of the paper and its journalists. It's like a toddler covering their face to play hide and seek. We see you but it's not cute, you look like an asshole.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 5d ago

There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future

ITHACA, NY—Acknowledging serious missteps in their handling of a 2024 campus sexual assault case, administrators at Cornell University vowed Tuesday that, going forward, rapists would be forced to wri...

theonion.com

Very few know that #Kansas was an epicenter of fiery American journalism. I'm a very proud graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism as is my buddy, @claywires.bsky.social Order his book! kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700643059/ #NewsieSky

This is a better epilogue to my January story about the private equity firm profiting off of ICE's cruelest flights than I could have ever possibly hoped for. CHICAGO: You went to the mat and protected (at a minimum!) thousands of immigrants from torture. Take a bow. prospect.org/2026/10/02/i...

The City That Brought Down an ICE Airline - The American Prospect

In Chicago, progressive alderpeople held up a contract until a private equity firm was forced to dispatch Omni Air International, protecting thousands of immigrants from deportation.

prospect.org

At a really fundamental level Leo XIV is just a person with sound, well-reasoned, moral stances on the world and how life should be lived who isn't afraid to say those things in public. That kind of person simply does not make sense to business leaders and politicians for whom speech is convenience.

Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · last wk.

This is insane.

His vocabulary is so limited it’s like reading a transcript of Koko, the gorilla who knew sign language, if Koko were a white nationalist

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

I recommend people read this to get a sense of the president's grave cognitive impairment. Trump is either unwilling or unable (or maybe both) to answer the questions he's actually asked, so he just rants and raves while the interviewers do their best to provide structure to his random brain firings

every time society has ever tried to invent a more humane way of killing someone, it has backfired and created something even more terrifying when that method fails, and *every method is going to fail*

there are many reasons to oppose the death penalty, and here is merely one of them: it is harder to kill a person on purpose than you think, and it will *always* be cruel, barbarous, and messy. a lethal injection is not more civilized than the rope, the guillotine, the chair, or the firing squad

“if she survived shouldn’t she be able to go free??“ states have been devising different ways to formally kill people for thousands of years, and every single one of them routinely fails. every angle to this argument has not only already happened, but your direct ancestors were prolly involved in it

what i wish people knew about the death penalty is that lethal injections fail… like… ALLLLLLLLL the time

10/ Publications are businesses. They have no right to your money. And you have no right to their reporting. It’s all a matter of business models that create a mutual interest in working together. It’s understandable ( based on the history above ) but still silly to think that it’s an offense …