Adam Jacobson
@adjacobson.bsky.social
Researcher, writer, editor. Good at words about people doing bad things. Sometimes funny. He/him.
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Adam Jacobson
@adjacobson.bsky.social
· May 2
Back to the Dark Side: Explaining the CIA’s Repeated Use of Torture
Since the CIA’s inception, elements of the Agency have researched, used, and taught interrogation tactics for national security and counterterrorism purposes. These have sometimes constituted tortu...
www.tandfonline.com
Hiya new visitors! If you like my skeets, check out these papers I wrote about CIA torture! www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1... and digitalcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol10/is...
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Hey fuck you Alison Bechdel
Sorry to the bearer etc etc. I'm not happy about it either. Source: Vermont Conversation: Cartoonist Alison Bechdel on hope, humor, and 'waking up' in dark times - VTDigger
vtdigger.org/2026/01/14/v...
vtdigger.org/2026/01/14/v...
January 16, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Hey fuck you Alison Bechdel
Newsom can truly fall out an Overton Window at this point.
January 16, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Newsom can truly fall out an Overton Window at this point.
Jfc
MS NOW: Why haven't you gotten a dozen Dem senators & NYC cops, flown to Minneapolis & said to the guys wearing masks 'We've brought people who know how to operate'
SCHUMER: You're right. We need police officers to tell ICE, 'You don't know what the hell you're doing. You need real police training'
SCHUMER: You're right. We need police officers to tell ICE, 'You don't know what the hell you're doing. You need real police training'
January 15, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Jfc
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The Plot to Enslave America. They are testing this out on immigrants before turning it on everyone else
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
The Plot to Enslave America. They are testing this out on immigrants before turning it on everyone else
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minnesotans are the vanguard of justice, hope and resistance in the US right now. if you can’t be there fighting beside them, you sure as hell should be giving what you can in support of them, because they’re fighting for YOU:
For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Stand With Minnesota: Resource Hub
Causes to Donate to in Minnesota to Help Our Communities Defend Themselves from ICE This list is now available/shareable at standwithminnesota.org *Note: I am from Minnesota, and these come from peo...
docs.google.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:04 AM
minnesotans are the vanguard of justice, hope and resistance in the US right now. if you can’t be there fighting beside them, you sure as hell should be giving what you can in support of them, because they’re fighting for YOU:
This isn't wartime Iraq. If they commit crimes, arrest and prosecute them. There, done.
It’s worth considering that an overnight dismantling of ICE in 2029 would release into the wild a whole herd of specialists in violence with scant other marketable skills.
January 15, 2026 at 2:22 AM
This isn't wartime Iraq. If they commit crimes, arrest and prosecute them. There, done.
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I found out that you can reuse a decades old calendar if its year’s dates line up with the current year’s, so this year I got a lovely 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar. The way they added show events into it is cracking me up.
January 13, 2026 at 11:50 PM
I found out that you can reuse a decades old calendar if its year’s dates line up with the current year’s, so this year I got a lovely 1998 Xena: Warrior Princess calendar. The way they added show events into it is cracking me up.
The corrupt cop mayor has an investment opportunity for me? Surely, nothing is amiss!
Eric Adams, former NYC mayor, launched a memecoin (cryptocurrency) today. He marketed it as an “NYC Token” and used media appearances and his social media to promote it.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
Within hours, Adams then drained its liquidity, apparently having scammed investors out of $3.4 million—a move called a rug pull.
January 13, 2026 at 12:07 PM
The corrupt cop mayor has an investment opportunity for me? Surely, nothing is amiss!
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We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
Either ICE Is Abolished or It Will Kill Many More Renee Goods
Minnesota is just the beginning of ICE's transformation into a right-wing death squad. But it can be the end
www.forever-wars.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.
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"the excesses of wokeness" as a broad social phenomenon is one of the most made-up things that ever happened and every single time a progressive person did something obnoxious or mean or stupid it got blown up into evidence of cultural rot, down to individual college students and Goodreads bloggers
January 12, 2026 at 6:13 PM
"the excesses of wokeness" as a broad social phenomenon is one of the most made-up things that ever happened and every single time a progressive person did something obnoxious or mean or stupid it got blown up into evidence of cultural rot, down to individual college students and Goodreads bloggers
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Today is a good day to join, as one flat fee will immediately get you these two ‘zines, as well as my new mini, Puffin Socks, later in the month
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Today is a good day to join, as one flat fee will immediately get you these two ‘zines, as well as my new mini, Puffin Socks, later in the month
Yo @mayor.nyc.gov blink twice if Tisch has your mom hostage or something. Or I don't know, do anything about the NYPD at all...
January 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Yo @mayor.nyc.gov blink twice if Tisch has your mom hostage or something. Or I don't know, do anything about the NYPD at all...
Hell yeah
January 11, 2026 at 8:04 PM
Hell yeah
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Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested.
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Mississippi’s largest synagogue was set on fire before dawn Saturday. Fire department ruled it arson, and a suspect has been arrested.
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
It is the same synagogue that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights. mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
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A grim anniversary: The Guantánamo detention facility has been a symbol of U.S. torture for 24 years. Down from a peak of 779, today 15 men are held there, along with migrants now held there for deportations. Read more about #Guantánamo here: www.cvt.org/what-we-do/a...
January 11, 2026 at 12:35 PM
A grim anniversary: The Guantánamo detention facility has been a symbol of U.S. torture for 24 years. Down from a peak of 779, today 15 men are held there, along with migrants now held there for deportations. Read more about #Guantánamo here: www.cvt.org/what-we-do/a...
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They fucking did this shit after W and Trump 1, how did it fucking go, I forget
Newsom's already calling for a joining of hands with the Nazis and let atrocities be bygones.
January 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
They fucking did this shit after W and Trump 1, how did it fucking go, I forget
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As a reminder, here are texts Charles Exum wrote bragging abt shooting Marimar Martinez in Chicago on 10/4.
Exum yelled "Do something bitch" as he shot, first through windshield, then side window. ALSO a Greg Bovino deployment. ALSO a weapons instructor.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Exum yelled "Do something bitch" as he shot, first through windshield, then side window. ALSO a Greg Bovino deployment. ALSO a weapons instructor.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 10, 2026 at 3:27 PM
As a reminder, here are texts Charles Exum wrote bragging abt shooting Marimar Martinez in Chicago on 10/4.
Exum yelled "Do something bitch" as he shot, first through windshield, then side window. ALSO a Greg Bovino deployment. ALSO a weapons instructor.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Exum yelled "Do something bitch" as he shot, first through windshield, then side window. ALSO a Greg Bovino deployment. ALSO a weapons instructor.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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They bet the media would adopt their framing if they released the video and they were right
USA Today: “Vance uses new video to defend agent”
WP: “hotly disputed”
Reuters: “White House shares new video”
The NYT even embedded DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin as if she’s a credible source
USA Today: “Vance uses new video to defend agent”
WP: “hotly disputed”
Reuters: “White House shares new video”
The NYT even embedded DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin as if she’s a credible source
January 10, 2026 at 1:27 PM
They bet the media would adopt their framing if they released the video and they were right
USA Today: “Vance uses new video to defend agent”
WP: “hotly disputed”
Reuters: “White House shares new video”
The NYT even embedded DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin as if she’s a credible source
USA Today: “Vance uses new video to defend agent”
WP: “hotly disputed”
Reuters: “White House shares new video”
The NYT even embedded DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin as if she’s a credible source
Still true.
So much of this moment is due to liberal lawmakers around the world being afraid to actively extol the virtues of immigration and diversity. They let the right completely set the terms of debate.
If I was a democratic comms person, I would get on TV and say simply: people are in the streets because the Trump administration lied. They said they were going to deport violent criminals to make America safer, but instead they're deporting ordinary working families, making America less safe.
January 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Still true.
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Police killed at least 1,292 people in the United States in 2025. There were only six days with zero police killings last year. Source: mappingpoliceviolence.org.
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Police killed at least 1,292 people in the United States in 2025. There were only six days with zero police killings last year. Source: mappingpoliceviolence.org.
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Oh, this gon be GOODT
SAULT share new album 'Chapter 1,' half of which was written with Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis
SAULT Share New Album 'Chapter 1'
Even though the mystery around Black British collective SAULT has waned over the years — the group is helmed by producer Inflo and features his wife, singer Cleo Sol — they stay true to their prolific...
stereogum.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Oh, this gon be GOODT
The establishment Democrats don't want to abolish the Gestapo, they want them to have better training.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social: "We have an ICE agent who should have been trained not to be in front of a vehicle and never to shoot into a moving vehicle, and yet this happened on [Kristi Noem's] watch. The whole POINT of Homeland Security is to make this country more stable and safe."
January 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
The establishment Democrats don't want to abolish the Gestapo, they want them to have better training.
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Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)
1. Pat Bagley
1. Pat Bagley
January 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread)
1. Pat Bagley
1. Pat Bagley
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wow really helpful, thank you new york times
October 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
wow really helpful, thank you new york times
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KATU reporting says that Portland Police responded to a report about the shooting and found the two victims. Which suggests the CBP agent who fired was not still on scene, either bc he fled or bc the victims somehow got away while injured.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
KATU reporting says that Portland Police responded to a report about the shooting and found the two victims. Which suggests the CBP agent who fired was not still on scene, either bc he fled or bc the victims somehow got away while injured.
Replaced previous message w more measured one
Replaced previous message w more measured one