This is basically the implicit argument to trump made about January 6. I haven't been punished for it so it can't have been that bad

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8h ago

Rep. Max Miller on Newsmax: "If any of these things were true, I would be in prison"

unfortunate update: bsky.app/profile/texa...

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · yesterday

New from Andrew Joseph Pegoda: In an attempt to overcomply with Texas law, the University of Houston will eliminate over 100 women's studies, gender and sexuality courses from the core curriculum. It won't be enough to appease extremist Republicans.

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: ICE Seized Drawings from Children in Detention. I Sued, and Today I Got Them.

Five months ago, I filed a Freedom of Information Act Request for papers seized from children at the Dilley ICE Detention Center. Today, I got a heartbreaking response.

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I refuse to "respect the office" when it's occupied by a convicted felon who is a sexual predator.

Wikipedia remains one of the most useful things online. No subscription fees, no ads, no stupid pursuit of AI, all curated by relentless nerds. Maybe remember to throw them a few bucks every now and again.

Hello, my name is [...] I am 9 years old. Can you help me get out of this jail? We are children, not criminals. We are 3 siblings, my mom and my dad. Please, a federal judge see this letter and help us. We have been here for 47 days [...] Leave us in your country, don’t deport us. ⛓️👧👦👧👩👨⛓️ FREEDOM

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 2d ago

🧊😲 KIDS IN CAMPS ⛓️👧🏻 What could drawings from children possible be evidence of?

These women are being held in the Brasile South Louisiana I.C.E. Processing Facility.🚨 Some have been there for months, separated from their families. One woman was recently put in solitary confinement for releasing a prior video. Multiple reports of abuse from male #ICE agents. Spread the word.

Historian of abolition here 💯Garrison always called it the slaveholders rebellion, that’s the correct term. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

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🧊✈️ HEADS UP DUVAL‼️ ⚠️ Removal flight to Honduras 🇭🇳 GlobalX jet inbound to JAX Airbus 321 – Tail: N966AD ETA – 12pm 👀

"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG

Overnight, this plane flew to Senegal to refuel and has now made its first removal stop, to Sierra Leone. This is very likely the third third-country removal to Sierra Leone.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 6d ago

The imminent flight that I mentioned at the end of this story has taken off. Sounds like it’s going to go Senegal - Ghana - Central African Republic, with the latter two being third-country removals. At least one of the immigrants being sent to CAR is from Nepal.

“Patti, love your work but we need to talk about your version of ‘Gloria.’”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

footage of Patti Smith meeting Pope Leo is a nice palate cleanser this Friday morning

🧊✈️ MASSACHUSETTS ‼️ ⚠️ ICE Air inbound to Hanscom Air Wisconsin CRJ-200 Tail: N459AW – ETA 11:40am 👀

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🧊🚨✈️ AFGHANISTAN ⁉️ ⚠️ A GlobalX jet (tail: N276GX) on an ICE charter mission now appears to be heading to KABUL 🇦🇫 I'm going to be physically sick 👀

This is an outrageously false statement that ought to disqualify this wingnut from holding public office. By the way, 40 percent of the covid deaths in US could have been prevented with better management of the pandemic by Trump, according to a Lancet commission. abcnews.com/Health/lance...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Tuberville: "I'll be the governor of Alabama and I promise you we will find out if there's a possibility that we can bring him to Alabama to put him in front of a court and a jury to see if we can put this guy in prison. He killed millions of people, folks."

When Justice is blind, bad guys take the fifth. When justice is corrupt, good guys take the fifth. Feel free to share.

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

Just Code is an Open Access book thanks to a grant to CBI from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation!! The link is here: press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Just Code

Power, Inequality, and the Political Economy of IT

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Nearly through reading @xiaochang.bsky.social brilliant new book Divination Engines!! This is the best historical study on Natural Language Processing, & imo, the most insightful monograph on AI history! CBI was so fortunate have Xiaochang as a keynote at our 2023 "Automation by Design" symposium!

The right-wing attacks on scientists are part of a larger story about the right-wing efforts to undermine trust in science and public health, which is part of a larger story about the right-wing alliance with major business interests.

ICE agents threatened to beat up a Seattle small business owner, married to a citizen, with NO criminal record unless he signed a "voluntary" departure. I'm told there were cameras in the room. I'm demanding any video and that Eduardo be brought home immediately.

Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · last wk.

On Thursday, ICE needlessly detained Eduardo Aguirre Esparza, a local Seattle small business owner with no criminal history. This is a man who is married to an American citizen and with deep ties to our local community who was working hard to pursue a legal pathway to lawful permanent residence.

Yup. Fascism.

Mark Bray@mark-bray.bsky.social · last wk.

Love a good prof slam: “It’s bewildering. It seemed weird and laughable,” Davis said of the indictment. “It felt like the length of the indictment was a cover for how thin it actually was. I’m a professor. I’ve seen people pad out papers when they’ve got nothing to say.”

Again, the point at which Democrats needed to burn it all down & stop the authoritarianism in its tracks was December 12, 2000, when the Wizards In Robes decided that people's votes didn't need to be counted. Everything since has been the inevitable outcome of that levee breaking.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · last wk.

a real indictment of Democratic voters of the era that the Supreme Court just straight up stole the Presidency from them and were back up to 60% approval like 3 years later

🧊🛩️ LAS VEGAS ⛓️😲 😬 After rounding up another load of ladies in chains, these three ICE goons celebrate with a round of fist bumps 🤜🤛

Since we are out of missiles, and have to pause the forever Iran war, we should focus on the Epstein files with our down time.

ICE and the White House had hopes that if they could find drugs in the work van driven by Lorenzo Salgado Araujo they could whip up a retrospective argument for why they shot him. But they seem to have come up empty. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Another Abrego Garcia: Man Unlawfully Deported Twice

Now Lost in Salvadoran Prison System A new court order Friday in...

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In the 1990s, The Turner Diaries was samizdat read by Idaho Nazis. Now it is the ideology of a quarter of the country and it is promoted by the richest man in history to negligible public resistance.