This is one of those “senate norms” that exists for no reason. It’s the same reason Rubio was unanimously voted in. It exists for no reason other than class solidarity among the powerful.
Absolute suckers for norms and decorum and comity, the world be damned
The Trump administration absolutely chose to nominate a senator because they knew senate Democrats would never have the spine to reject a colleague, no matter how unqualified
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
it’s only an echo chamber when it’s the left. when it’s the right they call it some bullshit like the Agora or the Town Square
News: In 2019, the New Orleans City Council capped the population of the city's jail system at 1,250 people. A new data analysis from @veritenews.org finds that excluding the height of the COVID-19 pandemic the jail has largely exceeded that cap—especially in 2025.
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don't think i've seen this, thanks for sharing
it's one thing to support doing the bad things, it's quite another to squirm because we're doing bad things inelegantly
from ICE to Iran, people in the US are far more concerned with doing the bad thing the "right way" than they are not doing the bad thing... crazy how much ppl have been primed to respond to harm with professionalization rather than.. ceasing inflicting the harm
As we reported in @boltsmag.org last month, Massachusetts is the *only* state with a Democratic governor + legislature that maintains a state-level 287(g) agreement with ICE. As part of this agreement, Massachusetts often funnels people exiting prison into deportation.
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The Massachusetts Department of Correction has been fighting me for months, trying to withhold data about its collaboration with ICE.
Yesterday, I won that fight, and obtained records showing that the state has transferred more than 2,000 people into ICE custody since 2009.
A quick thread:
Florida has an incarceration rate more than 3x that of Iran. Louisiana (the highest in the US) has an incarceration rate more than 4.5x that of Iran. www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024....
Massachusetts has the lowest incarceration rate in the U.S. and it STILL incarcerates people at a higher rate than Iran www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024....
”ICE is not acting like law enforcement,” foreign policy edition
not to mention, we almost never talk about the trade-offs in terms of harms accepted for meager "improvements" in crime statistics. the harms of erecting barriers to using mass transit are far more wide and deep than the benefits of "reducing the crime" of riding w/o paying
one of the recommendations is for prison officials to use AI to draft incident reports -- i suppose the real innovation here is that COs lie, but AI hallucinates www.govtech.com/voices/how-a...
Third Way: more people want to Abolish ICE and halt all immigration enforcement than identify as Democrats. Clearly it's the wrong position.
i think this is supposed to be an own, but nearly 2/5ths in favor is pretty wild if you ask me
34% think shit is so bad we should not only abolish ICE but we should halt all immigration enforcement.... 👀👀👀👀
At least 33 agencies said they are violating the new laws Virginia created to regulate Flock cameras (or ALPRs) last year. Several reported still sharing Flock feeds out-of-state.
Lawmakers made violations of the rules a misdemeanor.
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#RVA #VALeg
"Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years, their images encrypted and transmitted to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, according to two people familiar with the matter." www.ft.com/content/bf99...
two senior ice officials joke about awarding contracts for nine privately run immigration jails ahead of schedule in an email exchange from march 2025.
“you’re such an overachiever,” writes susan dunbar.
“I'm a people pleaser...it's a curse,” replies albert dainton, ice’s head of contracting.
possibly the one woman in DC with a brain operating at full capacity?
Goddamnit
The U.S. is a country that is unable to handle death but is awash in it. A country with people who often can't process grief. These are terrible things.
The balance of deference the courts show defendants vs prosecutors is obscene and immoral
Every time I see a news article about the DOJ violating dozens of court orders before getting a “final” stern warning from the judge, I think about the thousands of people each year who face immediate arrest warrants and detention for missing or being late to a court date
The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.
Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.
I first wrote about ICE's use of ruses and misrepresentations — which are explicitly recommended in their training manuals — almost eight years ago. This sounds like a particularly bold implementation but this has been part of their toolkit for a long time
