Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ugh man yeah that’s kinda pithy. Wish I thought of that to say at the lunch table.
This is the equivalent of getting jumped in for a particular echelon of the upper class
I listen to other people in my circles repeatedly discuss their youth sporting experiences in which they talk jokingly about how intense their dads (and coaches, though often their coaches were indeed their dads for some time) yelled at them during games. Oh haha yeah so cool…
Working on some punchy little observation about how youth sports is one of the most obvious arenas to watch people participate actively (and even knowingly) in class reproduction but I’m sure somebody else wrote it already
Because I am not a car-owner, I don’t go to Temple for evening rehearsals. It’s just not worth it to ride the BSL past 8pm alone.
I need a NON-PROFESSIONAL chamber ensemble, preferably playing early/early-ish music in Philadelphia. And I need it to be not run by an egotist. And I need it to not be mostly old main-liners and I need it to not be held at Temple. Thank you for your attention to this matter
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.
This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.
30% of the calls into stavvy’s world are just him telling the caller “I’ll be honest, your vibes are fucked and you sound like a loser” or “yeah man, you’re not being honest with yourself” and yet the calls keep coming lmao
Gonna have to spend the weekend at DSA meetings (normal) and then come home and do recreational data visualization bc the school district just announced the proposed closure of 12 public schools (annoying)
In late January I might drive to Newark (from Philly) to see a movie in Chinese, which I do not speak
wahoo wa
“He hates me and thinks I’m stupid and pathetic” no, he actually doesn’t think about you almost ever
A lot of academics will act superior but I suspect 80% of that is just them having weird social skills. 19% is general self-absorption and maybe 1% can be directed at you specifically, unless you have an already-established relationship as adversaries.
Just saw the new QJE and got depressed bc the papers are great
This is me whining bc it was so so hard for me to learn a specific one of my responsibilities and I don’t wanna make it easier on the next generation bc I don’t like being shown up lol
Thing about me is my natural inclination is always to pull the ladder up behind me. I have to fight against that impulse all the time bc it’s not aligned with my values.
Tocqueville gets Americans so right
(This post does not reflect the views of my employer and also it’s a pretty standard graduate macro textbook that we should probably keep a reference copy of anyway)
My favorite librarian is ordering a textbook for me again ❤️ I love having the library resources of the US central banking system at my disposal
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
@reuters.com
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
"Meanwhile, witnesses said a doctor was at the scene and tried to help the woman who had been shot, but the ICE agents refused to let the doctor in to help. Up to 15 minutes later, an ambulance arrived but was blocked by ICE vehicles that had occupied the street."
www.fox9.com/news/minneap...
Emily Heller lives near 33rd and Portland and said she woke up to a commotion outside her home. She said she saw a car blocking traffic on Portland Avenue that appeared to be part of a protest against federal law enforcement operations. Heller said she heard ICE agents telling the driver, a woman, to “get out of here.” “She was trying to turn around, and the ICE agent was in front of her car, and he pulled out a gun and put it right in — like, his midriff was on her bumper — and he reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times,” Heller said. Heller said it appeared the woman then accelerated and traveled about 100 feet before striking a utility pole and some other vehicles. She could be seen slumped over inside her car.
Absolutely horrific details about an ICE shooting in Minneapolis.
A witness says a woman was trying to drive away from an ICE operation and the ICE agent "reached across the hood of the car and shot her in the face like three, four times."
Bovino was there.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
