Historical note: I founded Pacific Tech while working with SPA (Smart People on Ice) in San Andreas Systems which built what became Claris Home Page.) Ah, the 90s. Good times, good times.
But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.
This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.
The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.
I was there for that!
I remember the days when interferometry with free masses, a strain sensitivity of 10^-21 or better, and position sensitivity far below nuclear dimensions, was impossible, beyond imagining - pure science fiction.
www.physics.umd.edu/grt/taj/675e...
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.
'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once
Some things to understand about people from Minnesota on here right now, a short thread:
The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs. MAGA & Trumpist for sure, Republican perhaps. Make those names shameful deservedly, now, lest the slur become our name — American.
daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_...
Evolution of the About Box from 1994 to 2025
ICE is a terror organization and must be dismantled, abolished and its members prosecuted. Full stop.
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding
We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
Old timers will remember what a federal investigation found after Chicago ‘68: it was a “police riot.” Today, a million times worse. #AbolishICE
ICE is a paramilitary force deployed in a campaign of state domestic terrorism.
If the primary focus were immigration enforcement, they’d be raiding agricultural and hospitality industry settings.
Instead, they’re going into residential neighborhoods, schools, and courthouses.
Terror is the goal.
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Something that is very important here is that this man’s fellow agents didn’t rush to help him or save his life, barely even pulled over. This is not a military unit joined by bonds of brotherhood and experience together. There is no unit cohesion besides a shared desire to hurt people.
ICE must, collectively and individually, be destroyed. They are committing #Sedition and possibly #Treason. They are committing assault, murder, arson, kidnap, rape while intentionally breaking the Constitution. They use nerve agents on the innocent. They are OUTLAWS and we must act.
People want to have their basic needs met.
They want to be paid a living wage.
They want to stop being nickle and dimed by powerful corporations who control so much of our lives.
They do not want Venezuela.
They do not want Greenland.
They do not want masked thugs terrorizing our communities.
"Every day the Republicans are like “we built a new puppy killing machine” and every day the Democrats are like “we are introducing legislation to encourage more government oversight to the puppy killing machine.”
Black and white photograph of Emmy Noether. She is standing just behind an ornate chair, wearing a white striped blouse with puffy shoulders, a fluffy bow at her neck, and a heavy long skirt cinched with a belt. Her dark hair is pulled back and she is looking a bit to the photographer's right.
Felix Klein lectured “On Hilbert’s first note on the foundations of physics" at the Mathematical Society of Göttingen #OTD in 1918. He included excerpts from letters in which he and Hilbert give priority to Emmy Noether’s results on conservation of energy in general relativity. (1/n) 🧪 ⚛️ 👩🔬
Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)
"Every day the Republicans are like “we built a new puppy killing machine” and every day the Democrats are like “we are introducing legislation to encourage more government oversight to the puppy killing machine”
Abolish ICE.
Variations for a torus-like set of parametric equations. Colored and graphed in Excel. Assembled in Krita.
I just want to explore all the possibilities for parametric equations. What else should I try?
#MathArt
i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
The ACLU has a Mobile Justice app that will automatically record video and send it to your local ACLU affiliate if you get attacked by ICE and they try to delete your video or steal your phone. It’s now available in 17 states and Washington D.C.
www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/...
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
