Peter Guy Witzig
@peterguywitzig.bsky.social
poet | artist | bisexual | ⟟ mpls | (he/him) insta: @peterguywitzig @yearofthebluetarp peterguywitzig.com
*EL-SAYED WINS MICHIGAN SENATE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY, NBC PROJECTS
do you think haley stevens will do the voice in her concession speech
Prison industry giant CoreCivic announced Monday that it has finalized a five-year federal contract to reopen a long-shuttered prison in Appleton that will now hold immigrant detainees.
It’s official: Minnesota will have a new ICE detention center
A long-shuttered prison in Appleton will hold up to 1,600 immigrant detainees, beginning this fall.
minnpost.com
The author of the Democrats’ 2024 autopsy says a key chapter was left out of what was made public. The chair of the DNC says he never saw it. The chapter addressed “the sway of an operative class that had become ‘generationally wealthy off politics’ while steering Democratic strategy.” Gift link:
Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter (Gift Article)
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.
nytimes.com
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Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Federal lobbying disclosures: Anthropic spent $1.97M in Q2, up 26% QoQ, and OpenAI spent $1.2M, up 18%; Meta remained the largest spender at $5.99M, down 15% (Luke Fountain/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
It's no comfort that a majority of the people who are virulently anti-trans today will be lying about this fact in a few short years.
If Odysseus had spent less time on forever wars in Troy and more time on issues affecting white working-class citizens of Ithaca, then maybe Penelope's suitors wouldn't have tried to kill him.
kinda recall the first amendment saying something about this but hey, maybe I'm old fashioned 🤷♂️
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTom Homan: "It all go backs to the Dems ... there's still gonna be more bloodshed unless they shut their mouth and let ICE enforce the laws that they enacted."
So that’s TWO ex-wives, two daughters and an immediately family member that he physically abused and/or threatened. Just an insane story
The Associated Press@apnews.com · 3w agoICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say.
Albert Einstein: "nationalist passions cannot excuse this attitude which is unworthy of what the world has heretofore called culture.”
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3w agoSources in contact with Washington describe extensive planning for a return to high-intensity fighting, potentially within weeks. According to one Israeli source: “There will be a war. The only question is when.”
"Wars will be stopped only when soldiers refuse to fight, when workers refuse to load weapons onto ships and aircraft, when people boycott the economic outposts of Empire that are strung across the globe" Arundhati Roy
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 3w agoIsrael assesses that the U.S. is stepping up preparations for the possibility of a renewed full-scale military confrontation with Iran.
I’ve avoided a lot of the Platner discourse because it’s a toxic tarpit, but I think the notion that the lesson here is primarily about either one political faction or something essential about “unvetted” newcomers, sits in some considerable tension with the entire Eric Swalwell experience.
Well, well. Scoop by @mikeelk.bsky.social. paydayreport.com/platners-dan...
Platner’s Daniel Moraff Barred from Summer Lee’s Campaign Over Sexual Misconduct Complaints
Congresswoman Summer Lee barred Platner's strategist Daniel Moraff from her campaign after receiving sexual harassment complaints against him.
paydayreport.com
Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 The DOJ is sitting on 47,000 pages of documents, nearly 16 terabytes of Signal data, and 960 video and audio files pulled from body cameras, dash cameras and drones. New from @combs0294.bsky.social.
Government Says Terabytes of Signal Chats are Central to the Case Against Minnesota 15 - UNICORN RIOT
The Minnesota 15 case is about conversations, thousands of pages of it, harvested from encrypted group chats on Signal and loaded into an Everlaw database for prosecutors to build conspiracy charges a...
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Even more recently I've heard men assert that one yes covers all activity forever rather than a conditional yes to a specific interaction can be withdrawn at any point, which is what consent means. It means women have the right to determine what what does and doesn't happen to them.
"Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly." Just published the absolute craziest story of my entire career. www.thedrive.com/news/how-flo...
How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me For Days over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me
A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.
thedrive.com
consent can be given or rescinded *at any time* it's not that complicated besides, in this case, consent was clearly rescinded this detail changes nothing
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago"she asked for it"
