on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time
I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out
The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.
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Iran gets: the strait the hereditary leader the dead guy wanted withdrawal of enemies to tell the story of how they fought off all of west asia plus USA at the same time and won for the next 100 years to give no nuclear assurances USA gets:
They literally killed 150 Iranian sailors just so they could jack their peepees and post le epic footage. You don’t hate these people enough.
They're arresting kids who need medical care in Oregon.
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
oregonlive.com
Holy fucking shit this is awesome use this now cybernews.com/security/dev...
One developer’s tool strips AI and other junk from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox
A developer released a free tool called “Just the Browser” that disabless AI features, ads, and other unwanted junk in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox.
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21-year-old activist injured by ICE: I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
ICE kidnap 17-year-old U.S. citizen working at Target then dump him bleeding and crying miles away in a Walmart parking lot… 🤬
KATU has confirmed CBP agents shot two people in Portland katu.com/news/local/i...
ICE shoots two people in Portland, ABC sources says
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to ABC News sources.The shooting occurred near East Burns
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)@iwriteok.bsky.social · 7mo agoSince Kyle Rittenhouse is posting about it: there is an unconfirmed report that two people were just shot in PDX by Border Patrol (the source I was sent said CBP). This is UNCONFIRMED. A bunch of people are all being sent the same message, which says the victims are alive but seriously injured.
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
nytimes.com
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
Sophie Sherry@sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10mo agoDuring a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 10mo agoNEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...
Here's the video Trump just posted to Truth Social, with the claim that 11 people aboard the boat were killed. There is zero evidence of self-defense here. Looks like a massacre of civilians at sea. Even if they had drugs aboard, that's not a capital offense.
I got an NYT push alert about Taylor Swift getting engaged, but not about the United States spying on Greenland
Will Saletan@saletan.bsky.social · 11mo ago“Denmark summoned the head of the U.S. Embassy … after allegations emerged that three Americans with close ties to President Trump were running ‘covert influence operations’ in Greenland.” Is there a Nobel prize for creating a conflict by threatening to seize the territory of a democratic ally?
s2 was already bad but personally i gave up on this show when the lead said there wasn’t a genocide in gaza dude who plays kirk said he loved israel this year during a convention
Jessie Gender@jessiegender.bsky.social · 11mo agoSorry I’m posting so much about this Strange New Worlds. Generally if I just dislike an episode I’ll stay quiet. But I find this episode so abhorrent, even if the best of times, but especially given the times we’re in - I feel a need a prominent Trekkie to be vocal about it and not let it slide.
Did you ever want to cos-play going to war, but were too scared to fight real soldiers? Now you can round up grandmothers in full commando gear! Join ICE.
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 12mo agoThe latest fascist video posted by DHS. (I'm sure the typeface at the end there isn't meant to invoke anything Nazi-like) x.com/dhsgov/statu...
An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.
Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody. Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.
JACKSONVILLE — TW ⚠️: Unarmed Black driver has his window smashed + face punched by a sheriff’s deputy after being pulled over for not having his headlights on… during the day. 🤔 Sheriff TK Waters says they’ve launched an “internal investigation”: www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
Anna Meier@annameier.bsky.social · last yr.Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
When I talk about my opposite and naked hostility toward AI, people will point to emergent technology in the past that disrupted. But the thing is were I there at the time, I would have been an opponent of that too. This does not mean I am anti-technology, or didn't want the tech to develop. 🧵
