An immigration enforcement system that punishes people for the government’s own delay is a system which destroys its own legitimacy. People are being thrown in handcuffs and put in ICE detention despite having done every single thing the U.S. government asked them to do.

This couple came legally. They applied for asylum before their visas expired, wanting to do it all by the books. After six months, they applied for work permits to stay afloat, passing background checks. They worked legally and paid taxes while government delay dragged on. Then ICE came for them.

Laura Rodríguez Presa@lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 4h ago

The couple’s arrest outside Midway Airport aligns with what immigration attorneys across the country have observed in recent months: an increase in ICE arrests at airports of people traveling domestically with expired visas but pending immigration cases. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/05/c...

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 22h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Love how "government" has become shorthand for "anything that provides any service to people and thus drains money from the bucket meant to be spent on our friends and their war-machine companies."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Rick Scott on spending: "Government is the problem. It's not the Iran war." (Who is waging the Iran war?)

Not really sure how I feel about all my vacations over the past few years ending with injuries at worst and mysterious bug bites at best. Need better souvenirs.

I love the kid’s smile at the end. ❤️

Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · yesterday

I hope this guy just drives around town cheering everyone on.

It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.

Can't wait for all the pundits rushing to say El-Sayed won *despite* his stance on [health care / Palestine / general decency], not because of it.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

I haven’t seen this circulating here yet, but very good interview with Christopher Nolan with deep Qs anout the meaning of the film that are just not ever asked on US press circuit. Interviewer is Yiyang Zhuge (per her acct on Twitter). www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4I...

Christopher Nolan talks narrative decisions, film critics and whether he Christianised The Odyssey

YouTube video by Nolan Archives

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It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.

Since we're doing Covid again. "Do you know what else has that kind of urgency? When an addict needs a fix. Because let me tell you something: for every alcoholic, functional or not, that I served a drink to, I served three people addicted to being served." dallas-taylor.com/2020/04/22/t...

The Customer Is Always Right

Anger is weaponized pain, and now, without service industry people to point their anger at, these pampered beasts are finding their pain again. How can they know they’re always right if they …

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Not only is French magazine publishing enviably robust (rows upon rows in the train station shop), but there are multiple fun socialist magazines?! And also one written/edited by people with autism.

Constantly left astonished at Western reporting on people seeking asylum. 54 HUMAN BEINGS dead in an unbelievable tragedy at Ceuta and the media insist on leading with 'MIGRANT INVASION'. You inhumane bastards. What if they were your loved ones? When empathy gives way to hate, we're all doomed.

Awful: “Nursing homes terminated hundreds of workers, including nursing assistants, dietary aides and housekeepers, industry and union leaders said. At airports including those in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Boston, contractors terminated scores of Haitian workers, including janitors…”

Airports, nursing homes and schools brace for disruption without Haitian workers

The Department of Homeland Security alerted employers this week that it had officially ended humanitarian protections for 350,000 Haitian immigrants, triggering mass layoffs.

inquirer.com

Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...

I cannot think of a single legitimate use case for this.

Alison Killing@alisonkilling.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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These assholes are purporting to terminate her DACA status because they are claiming that her illegal deportation by the US government counts as her traveling outside the US and thus violated the conditions of her DACA status.

Valerie Gonzalez@valontheborder.bsky.social · 6d ago

New: An RGV mother deported to Mexico despite having DACA filed a lawsuit against the federal government after it notified her it would be terminating her DACA status because of “unauthorized travel” stemming from her deportation. apnews.com/article/daca...

I feel like I'm losing my mind. The ONLY REASON most of us know Fauci's name is because, in 2020, we desperately needed a person with expertise to save us from disaster, and, lucky us, he was the right man in the right job at the right moment! But Trump wouldn't take the W. So here we are.

Zora O'Neill@zoraoneill.com · last wk.

Aside from being rude, it’s just a dumb question. He was head of the national infectious disease institute. It’s not like he was some guy who got above his station and started giving orders with no prerogative or expertise.

Aside from being rude, it’s just a dumb question. He was head of the national infectious disease institute. It’s not like he was some guy who got above his station and started giving orders with no prerogative or expertise.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Train travel is sooooooo nice. 😍

interesting to see the tone of this coverage and response in the context of people losing SNAP and healthcare benefits due to increased recertification/eligibility paperwork burdens

The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · last wk.

City Council members cry foul as homeowners receive letters demanding they prove NYC residency ahead of the city’s pied-a-terre tax program.

My Haitian friend was just fired from his job. "They said I don't have a legal status now." This is likely happening to hundreds of thousands of people across this country today. Sick.

In France, admiring an older woman’s style, thinking I need some more interesting glasses and a shorter haircut, and then she stands up and I see one arm is covered in tattoos of Nancy and I almost screamed.

Went to use biz class bathroom on plane and a flight attendant tried to shoo me back to coach. Ma’am, i may be a crumb-covered goblin operating on four hours of sleep, but there are only five other pax in this section —how about some situational awareness? (Another FA had to vouch for me.)

The rare satisfaction of sitting calmly on a train just before departure and *someone else* runs in gasping and panting, for a change.

Read it all. It’s short, but it’s a book that matters ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Carolyn Petit@carolynmichelle.bsky.social · last wk.

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.

excellent book 👍

Carolyn Petit@carolynmichelle.bsky.social · last wk.

From pages 38-45 of this remarkable book is a section on journalism that is so urgent, so compelling, so precise in identifying some of the major flaws and failures of mainstream journalism as an industry at this moment in time, that I wish I could make all American journalists read it.