@randallgross
(he/him) Retired Global Sr. tech manager, & inveterate news junkie. Everyone is my friend until they firmly prove otherwise. Active on social media since the '80's @Tarkloon@mastodon.social formerly @tarkloon @ birdsite Ego tantum loquor
Pie chart showing that almost 88,000 people are confined for immigration reasons in the U.S.
➡️ Expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since our last report.
Since last year, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day has grown by nearly 60%.
Colbert: Trump: War Is Over | Hegseth’s Shellfish Splurge | The Florsheim Boys
littlegreenfootballs.com/article/5534...
I remember the old days when this headline would have been These Photos Got Banned by the Pentagon" and it would have done absolute global numbers
Judge finds ‘compelling and troubling’ evidence of racial profiling by federal agents in Minnesota minnesotareformer.com/2026/03/11/j...
Things I really don't want to know more about but must:
Has the fabulist-in-chief declared the war over yet today?
Are we really renditioning people to concentration camps in China?
What has ICE done for us lately?
Trump administration shoe sizes.
New in PN: DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit
"Thanks to the Trump administration’s corruption, a mafia-like monopoly survives, and Americans will continue to pay exorbitant fees to see live music.
*Trump take ticket* … along with everything else."
Ride in clown car, be forced to wear clown shoes.
Here's a link to the paper itself:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Another hint: you also might be one of those people if you live anywhere in the U.S. -- changing weather patterns, increased storm strengths and frequencies along with flooding and wildfires are likely to affect us all at some point.
Hint: you might be one of those overly optimistic people if you are living near a coast or have a home in the American SW...
"The findings illustrate a well-known cognitive bias known as “overoptimism,” specifically a variety called “overplacement,” which describes how people tend to rate their own risks as less likely and less severe than those of others."
Everyone thinks "it's those others who will be impacted by climate change, not me..."
www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/03/the-...
ICE is still out there ravaging our communities.
ICE Locked Up a Deaf Kid Without His Hearing Aids—And Wouldn’t Let Him Have Them Back
Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.
www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
Thomson Reuters is best known for its media outlet and legal research tools, but it is also a huge data broker that provides investigative tools to the government, including ICE. Its Minneapolis workers aren't happy about that:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/t...
Don’t Mind The Mines -- Trump says it's safe to sail... -- Tom Sullivan
digbysblog.net/2026/03/11/d...
roversight is not a thing, but oversight is. Coffee needed.
Warning to America:
Under Shakira Law everyone must Cumbia dance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUT5...
Trump admin would rather War Crime than have review or roversight.
The US had a blueprint to avoid civilian war casualties. Trump officials scrapped it
The Trump administration scrapped a harm-prevention framework and laid off the staff members in charge
www.salon.com/2026/03/11/t...
Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"
Kansas City Chiefs, key cities and state officials endorse sports authority ownership of $3B stadium | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Next up: We're taking their oil...
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...
Of course a felon is going to give guns back to felons.
The Trump DOJ is giving guns back to felons, including one alleged fake elector
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/g...
Just like other criminals child molesters seek also camoflage, enablers, justification and enablers:
Epstein paid for a conference of top scientists in 2006. His motives are now clear
www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...
Yikes.
An AI Agent Blackmailed a Developer. Now What? A real-world attack by an OpenClaw agent opens a new can of worms
spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-ai-a...
“Now’s the time to gaslight them into thinking that democracy is a right-wing project, podcaster reveals during livestream. www.hatecomestomainstreet.com/p/when-chris...
The IEA said its member countries would release a record 400 million barrels of oil from strategic reserves.
Warning to America:
Under Shakira Law everyone must Cumbia dance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUT5...
