His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

Disco@discosaurus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Liam’s mom dressed him in all those layers to keep her little boy warm and safe in this frigid weather, packed his book-bag w/ everything he’d need for a good day at school, and then our govt stole him out of their driveway. Used her little boy as bait. These people are monsters.

Disco@discosaurus.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE. There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it. Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance. 24 hours. Go. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...

No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!

fightforthefuture.org

"Last year, 32 people died in ICE custody, exceeding any yearly total since 2004—including the pandemic years. ProPublica found that at least 170 American citizens have been caught in ICE dragnets and spent time in detention."

ICE Is a Law-Breaking ‘Law Enforcement’ Agency

A Trump-appointed judge took the agency to task for its flagrant contempt.

lnk.thebulwark.com

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Yup. @cwarzel.bsky.social and @mikecaulfieldf1.bsky.social refer to this as "the justification machine." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Internet Is Worse Than a Brainwashing Machine

A rationale is always just a scroll or a click away.

theatlantic.com

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I maintain that the obvious explanation for what is happening worldwide right now is that, thanks to media fragmentation, almost every politically informed person exists within a community of ENDLESS INDULGENCE, where you are actively encouraged to embrace cathartic narratives as unimpeachably true.

Without an ethos of curiosity, without a constant undercurrent of self-doubt to innoculate us, anyone among us will gaze into a mirror and think we see the world.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

"A WGN creative services department employee was detained by two Border Patrol officers and later released after federal agents swarmed a busy intersection on Chicago’s North Side Friday morning, at the height of rush hour." @wgntv.com wgntv.com/news/operati...

In other news: chocolate rations are up to 20 grams. www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

Trump Says Ukraine Can Take Back All Lost Territory

The president’s sudden shift is a big swipe at Moscow and follows months of fruitless efforts to broker a cease-fire.

wsj.com

✨NEW OA CHAPTER ALERT✨ “In-Groups and Outrage: How Narratives and Affect Shape Digital Surrogate Networks and Radicalize Right-Wing Parties” @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social and I explore the case of the German party “Alternative für Deutschland” (#AfD), which has moved increasingly to the far right. 🧵⤵

“Mr. Trump has halted virtually all refugee admissions for people fleeing famine and war from places like Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But he has created an expedited path into the country for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that created and led the brutal apartheid regime.”

White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Leave for U.S.

nytimes.com

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this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

As David Brooks has said, we’re approaching civil disobedience and national strikes phase of defending our nation.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

i can’t believe all it took for tesla stock to recover a bit was to do a paid photo op with the president of the united states, have the government designate vandalism on teslas as terrorism, gift multiple politicians and police stations teslas for photo ops, and get corrupt government contracts

We don't spend a penny on marketing. It's all word of mouth for @costplusdrugs.com That's how we keep prices so low. Please spread the word !

An internal memo predicted that 2-3 million more people per year will die because of Musk's closing USAID. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

David Burbach 🇺🇸@dburbach.bsky.social · last yr.

Musk is an absolutely depraved and evil man. Defending Stalin, Hitler, and Mao in order to justify firing VA nurses and park rangers? How does one come to hate civil servants so much? Insane, and dangerous.

Fantastic tool from U Michigan that shows federal support (via DoE) for schools by congressional district. poverty.umich.edu/federal-educ... Alaska: - 16.7% of total educ budget - 77M in support for low-income schools - 52M in school lunches for low-inc kids - 35M in support for disabled kids

» Federal Education Funding Data Dashboard

poverty.umich.edu

Is there an emptier signifier than "conservative"?

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Talk about #butteremails

greenilady@greenilady.bsky.social · last yr.

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

"If I have a credit card with a $30,000 limit and I have a $2,000 balance and I cancel the credit card, I'm not saving $28,000." 🤦🏽‍♂️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

DOGE Claims It Has Saved Billions. See Where.

A WSJ analysis of government data found that many claims of savings were overstated and “woke” cuts were only a tiny fraction of the total.

wsj.com

Statement of American Society of International Law President Mélida Hodgson Regarding the United States and the International Rule of Law

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

Kids these days don't know that a highly experienced woman lost an election over questions on whether her emails were secure enough.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...