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Trump looking confused and listing to the left in a yellow chair. “This is an incredible plane — it’s stealth, you can’t see it,” Trump said. “So when I talk to even people from the other side, they’re trying to order our plane. They like the fact that you can’t see it. I said, ‘how would it do in battle with your plane?’ They say, ‘well we have one problem — we can’t see your plane.’ That’s a big problem.”

This is an excellent time for someone to sell trump some stealth missiles

trump: where are they?

Me: *lordess of war* If you could see them, they wouldn't be very stealthy would they?

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

“We Belong to Each Other Now”: Lessons from Minneapolis “This extreme closeness, togetherness and intimacy — you cannot infiltrate your way into a space where you'll understand that," says May, a rapid responder in Minneapolis.

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies

“Behind the spreadsheets and contracts, there's a quieter truth: someone is getting rich from cages, borders, and human pain. Profit has always been fluent in the language of cruelty” - @philipmai.com
Palantir, Deloitte etc raking it in.
www.ft.com/content/c741...

Looks like Los Angeles high school students are scraping with Feds downtown today 👀👀 hundreds of students surrounded a group of fed pigs an forcefully made them retreat back into the detention center garage.

Solidarity with the youth! 🖤

Things to do today:

- Stay warm, hydrated, and if possible, nicely toasted

- Send critical support in whatever form you can manage to comrades in Minnesota

- Do not let yourself get drawn into any deorganizing ultra-liberal bullshit

ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...

When authorities used ICE's facial recognition app on a detained woman, it returned two different and incorrect names, raising serious questions about the accuracy of the app. Officials have said the app is better than a birth certificate.

GWAR cover “Pink Pony Club” by Chappell Roan YouTube video by The A.V. Club

this rly fucking rips

youtu.be/I5XR48KLE8I

The problem with the kneejerk liberal reaction of "I don't like Maudro, but..." is that is implies that the empire actually cares about Venezuela having a good, Democratic leader. In reality, the U.S. would happily back a mass murdering dictator who handed them oil rights.

THIS IS WHY SO MANY OF US IN MINNEAPOLIS DO NOT FALL FOR THE BULLSHIT THAT COMES OUT OF FREY'S MOUTH THAT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY FAWNS OVER.

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12

ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12

ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14

Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23

Top 15 US Billionaires Gained Nearly $1 Trillion in Wealth in Trump’s First Year The US has 935 billionaires, roughly a dozen of whom have jobs within the Trump administration.

A new analysis finds the 15 richest U.S. billionaires gained nearly $1 trillion in Trump’s first year back in office, as the country’s 935 billionaires amassed $8.1 trillion in wealth and about a dozen took jobs in his administration.

“abolish ICE” was always the correct position

abolishing the domestic terror group ICE is the moderate position at this point

I wrote about CNN partnering with a gambling app that lets you wager on famine in Gaza, what this shift portends in our media, the obvious moral hazards of this arrangement, and “news” as politically impotent, disempowering spectator sport

My husband’s thinking on this (since he’s also receiving 5 texts a day he can’t stop) is that by harassing small-dollar donors like this, we become less likely to donate, which shifts power back to big-dollar donors. It’s some asshole behavior for sure.

Over reliance. on. Earth.

This has been such an Illuminating part of our current moment:

It’s revealed just how unwilling those with actual power are to even just ask tough questions, while highlighting how willing pajama-wearing suburbanites are to physically drive off guys armed with actual guns.

Banging theme song.

There is zero chance I would vote for Gavin Newsom for dog catcher

I have at least one moment of rage about this every day.

This week the USA is going to intentionally starve people. Why? To cause harm. What is the economic impact of intentionally starving people? For every 1 dollar of cut SNAP benefits, society loses $14 to $20 at the federal level.

Seems costly

Looking to speed up building network of migrant detention centers, Trump administration turns to the US Navy | CNN Politics The Department of Homeland Security is funneling $10 billion through the Navy to help facilitate the construction of a sprawling network of migrant detention centers across the US in an arrangement ai...

The regime is giving $10 billion to the Navy to build camps for immigrants … but won’t fund SNAP. Won’t save healthcare. Won’t provide affordable housing or education.

$10 billion dollars could care for so many people, and instead it’ll be used to disappear them.

Priorities.

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

Watching our mad king don his AI slop crown and publicly fantasize about rage shitting on our moment of collective power is the perfect counterpoint: he's the one isolated in his impotent fury, clinging to the online simulacrum while we primally express and experience our very real strength.

the entire 2000s have been one unbroken string of elected democrats who just be saying things and their fandom doing headcanon on their behalf

I was “coincidentally” laid off from Antifa when I tried to unionize my chapter so, you know, take their rhetoric with a grain of salt

More reporting about how that ICE raid in South Shore might have been as much about evicting all the residents of the building for Wells Fargo as it was to kidnap migrants without due process.

It’s been 730 days and 78 years.

None of us should feel exempt or invulnerable, because if they can do this to our neighbors, they can come for us, too. That said, those of us who are not presently among those being targeted should not focus on our own fear and vulnerability. We should support those in the immediate path of harm.