Colin Kennedy
@ck3po.bsky.social
Food, music, lefty politics, history. Crazy cat dad. Wife husband. Jeopardy! second-placer. Chordophonophile. Ann Arbor, MI he/him 🌷
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.
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Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Can’t believe we are still doing this
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roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
February 15, 2026 at 12:10 AM
roses are red
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
cherenkov is blue
just use a screwdriver
what's the worst it could do
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ok sorry so what does this actually mean: it means that unless someone is starting their analysis of saving american democracy by focusing on the oligarchy, i don’t really care what else they have to say. it’s like someone talking about basketball without mentioning the 3-point line.
February 14, 2026 at 3:08 PM
ok sorry so what does this actually mean: it means that unless someone is starting their analysis of saving american democracy by focusing on the oligarchy, i don’t really care what else they have to say. it’s like someone talking about basketball without mentioning the 3-point line.
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“Supply and demand is ultimately decisive.”
-Friedrich Engels, “The Housing Question.”
-Friedrich Engels, “The Housing Question.”
San Diego rents fall 5.5%—proof that building housing works.
Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop.
This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible.
Want sustained affordability? Keep building.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/04/r...
Add 6,000 apartments, prices drop.
This eases pressure on voucher programs, helps low-income renters, makes the city more accessible.
Want sustained affordability? Keep building.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/02/04/r...
‘Rental market is largely frozen’: San Diego rent prices fall in national rankings
National rents are down 2% annually but Zumper said Southern California is seeing more of a slowdown because of increased supply.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:44 AM
“Supply and demand is ultimately decisive.”
-Friedrich Engels, “The Housing Question.”
-Friedrich Engels, “The Housing Question.”
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you could probably make a pretty compelling episode of television (or a short story) about a post-apocalypse world where private security chiefs killed all of their employers when the shit hit the fan and became the warlords that tech barons and billionaires all thought *they* would be
I wonder similar things about the Zuckerbergs of the world who for some reason think when the bombs drop/calderas blow/etc that they can retreat to their bunkers with security teams to keep the rabble out and not get immediately capped by said security
a thing i have never understood about a certain class of our wannabe oligarchy is whether they realize that if their authoritarian oligarch dreams ever come true, they will be significantly *more* vulnerable to the power of the state, not less
February 14, 2026 at 2:03 AM
you could probably make a pretty compelling episode of television (or a short story) about a post-apocalypse world where private security chiefs killed all of their employers when the shit hit the fan and became the warlords that tech barons and billionaires all thought *they* would be
Time for an all-Pärt… Pärty?
February 14, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Time for an all-Pärt… Pärty?
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Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
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The people responsible for this should be imprisoned for the rest of their lives.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
The people responsible for this should be imprisoned for the rest of their lives.
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I’m just going to leave this here
February 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I’m just going to leave this here
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Mobilize the NIMBYs of war
for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built:
(from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)
(from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)
February 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Mobilize the NIMBYs of war
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Nice to know that some people are still eating paint chips around here
February 13, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Nice to know that some people are still eating paint chips around here
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It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
February 13, 2026 at 1:46 AM
It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond
A) They put the one who’s never won an election, let alone a primary, in the center
B) They lightened Crockett’s skin tone so much I thought it was AOC at first glance
B) They lightened Crockett’s skin tone so much I thought it was AOC at first glance
not putting Zohran in the center here is… a choice
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
A) They put the one who’s never won an election, let alone a primary, in the center
B) They lightened Crockett’s skin tone so much I thought it was AOC at first glance
B) They lightened Crockett’s skin tone so much I thought it was AOC at first glance
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Unless the retreat brings the two dead innocent people back to life and frees the thousands penned up in inhumane detention camps, it does not.
Minneapolis retreat could undercut Democrats’ message as shutdown looms
Minneapolis retreat could undercut Democrats’ message as shutdown looms
The end of the Trump administration's Minnesota operation comes as immigration hawks have pushed Trump officials to avoid caving to Democratic policy demands.
dlvr.it
February 12, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Unless the retreat brings the two dead innocent people back to life and frees the thousands penned up in inhumane detention camps, it does not.
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banning consumer and employee arbitration clauses would probably go fairly far in fixing the rot in American business
February 13, 2026 at 1:20 AM
banning consumer and employee arbitration clauses would probably go fairly far in fixing the rot in American business
A concentration camp is not synonymous with an extermination camp, you haughty, pudding-brained Philadelphian
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
A concentration camp is not synonymous with an extermination camp, you haughty, pudding-brained Philadelphian
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all the professors and deans are like 'my contacts with mr epstein were purely in the service of my profession and I had no idea' and then his emails are just like 'can u make lolita robot?'
"Epstein had pitched [art school dept chair] on a potential art exhibit titled 'Statutory' that would showcase underage models dressed to look older than they were."
He was really just upfront with it.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
He was really just upfront with it.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Professors in the Epstein Files Begin to Face Consequences
Several faculty members who spoke regularly with Epstein have been stripped of their titles or teaching duties.
www.insidehighered.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
all the professors and deans are like 'my contacts with mr epstein were purely in the service of my profession and I had no idea' and then his emails are just like 'can u make lolita robot?'
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whipped up a quick chart of MSP's average monthly temperatures vs. "Metro Surge" in light of Homan's purported surrender today, see if you can spot the interaction i'm calling the "dumbass phenomenon"
February 12, 2026 at 8:14 PM
whipped up a quick chart of MSP's average monthly temperatures vs. "Metro Surge" in light of Homan's purported surrender today, see if you can spot the interaction i'm calling the "dumbass phenomenon"
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He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
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Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."
February 12, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Walz: "The federal government needs to pay for what they broke here. There's going to be accountability on things that happened, but one of them is the incredible and immense cost borne by the people of this state. The federal government needs to be responsible."