Why the fuck is there a hockey team in Vegas? Playing in June?
Gabriel Lopez
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Journalist. Radio DJ. Music Writer. 💿 Vinelands on KEXP ✍🏼 Sound Ward on Bay Area Current Tips/Contact: gabrielclopez@proton.me Abolish ICE
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million. www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...
A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Massive Data Center Instead
In 1999, a farmer gave away 87 acres of land to a small Texas city to use as a park. The city sold to a data center developer for $10 million.
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New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...
FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers' government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse s...
404media.co
I analyzed the Proud Boys donor list. The most common occupation was real estate (realtor, mortgage broker) — the same parasitic class that was over-represented among Jan 6th rioters.
molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 5mo agothe proud boys' lawyer thinks he redacted the email addresses of the over 2000 people who donated to the fundraiser for the lawsuit, but here's the thing: no he did not lol
i'm sorry this is so funny. great stuff www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...
CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court
The CEO of Krafton used ChatGPT to push out the head of the studio developing Subnautica 2 against the advice of his own legal team and failed miserably.
404media.co
The State Dept. painted humanitarian aid cuts as a necessary “disruption.” For the World Food Program, that disruption meant telling 300,000 refugees half of them would receive a meager portion of rice, lentils and oil. The rest would get nothing. (Published Dec. 2025)
The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, a Mother Struggles to Keep Her Sons Alive
After the Trump administration cut off food from the third-largest refugee camp in the world, thousands of families faced impossible choices as their children starved.
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We're doing a TMK live show in San Francisco next week with the wonderful folks at @bayareacurrent.bsky.social and @dsasf.org. Come join us for a night of left-wing tech criticism! Registration is free, encouraged, but not required: www.eventbrite.com/e/decoding-t...
Despite the wind and gloom we are out here and writing to political prisoners, to support all who have faced state repression for fighting for liberation. We’re highlighting the case of Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian political prisoner held in Prairieland since last March: chuffed.org/project/free...
Bellingcat analysis makes a strong case that a US tomahawk hit that girl's school in Iran, contrary to U.S. government claims www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...
Video Shows US Tomahawk Missile Strike Next to Girls’ School in Iran - bellingcat
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...
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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
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An interview with a tenant who doesn’t have heat in Giannis Antetokounmpo’s building:
An Interview With A Tenant Who Doesn't Have Heat In Giannis Antetokounmpo's Building | Defector
A tenant in a Brooklyn building owned by Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has not had heat in his apartment since Feb. 23, when a blizzard dropped over 19 inches of snow on New York City.…
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The last photo of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student killed in the reported U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab, Iran. He is waving goodbye to his mother.
The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.
"Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free." --David Graeber
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 5mo agoI have decided that this year we will simply not be doing this DST nonsense in this house. No clocks will be changed. The ones that autochange will be changed back. Enough is enough. We cannot bow to tyranny or it will never end
UPDATE: Another $5.6 million from ICE to Palantir, in part for its continued work on ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement), which we revealed in January to be the Palantir tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid. Read about it:
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
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SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester
A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...
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Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
[repost] ICE Out the Bay Friday, Feb 6 @ 6AM #PaloAlto ~Stand by for Saturday, Sunday~ ~Arrive in bloc~ ~Latecomers go to Moffett~ 37.40092°N 122.07307°W Reliable information tells us that ICE will be staging at Moffett Field. We must make it known that they are NOT welcome in our communities.
i think the financial incentive to bait people into engaging with dogshit is a big part of how we got where we are.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 8mo agoYes, we give you permission to hate-read 'American Canto'
I think im slowly returning to being anti-civ
onion person@junlper.beer · 8mo agowe actually life in hell
In Nepal, protests earlier this month culminated with the toppling of the government. To get a clearer understanding of the background of the insurrection and the dynamics within it, we interviewed Black Book Distro, an anarchist collective and library in Kathmandu. crimethinc.com/Nepal2025
Nepali Anarchists on the Toppling of the Government
An interview with Black Book Distro on the background of the Nepali insurrection and the dynamics within it.
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UAW 2320 & UAW Region 6 Supports Palestine Port of Oakland Action Against US Military Arms
UAW 2320 & UAW Region 6 Supports Palestine Port of Oakland Action Against US Military Arms
A press conference to support the Oakland People's Arms Embargo Renee Phelp representing UAW 2320 and UAW Region 6 spoke in support and called for an international labor boycott of Israel and against US imperialist support for the genocide.
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It's important to note that this is the rhetoric the right has been using for YEARS when it comes to literally anyone that opposes them, for literally any reason, all of the time.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 11mo ago“THIS IS WAR.” “Civil war.” “The Left is the party of murder.” “The Left won’t stop unless it’s forced to.” Influential figures across the right have decided to use Charlie Kirk’s death to promote their fantasies of war and retribution against Democrats and leftists.
August 25, 1959: Eight days after the release of Kind of Blue, Miles Davis is beaten by police and arrested outside Birdland. Davis had just recorded a Voice of America broadcast, a broadcast for the armed forces, and was taking a break outside the club.
It is absolutely ridiculous that Adrienne Villa's death has basically gone unreported in local & national media An anti-ICE protester being held on $1.3 million bail found dead in a courtroom jail cell & crickets from media. Should make you question why they want this kept quiet!
People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 12mo agoBREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles @lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.
OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING
ACLU@aclu.org · last yr.BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.
This is the framework I needed today, to love, to get out of bed, to fight, to be in this moment. Brilliant, necessary.
Margaret Killjoy@margaret.bsky.social · last yr.this week's post is something I wrote in 2019 but has been offline for awhile, How To Live Like the World Is Ending. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...
i wish i had the power or the money to like hire thousands of out of work journalists and put them (us?) to work doing what we do best ie chipping and scraping at the lies people in power tell. horse race commenters not welcome
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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