K. T. Petty
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Bannon Describes Vision for ICE At Polling Places That Dems Have Been Warning About talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
Bannon Describes Vision for ICE At Polling Places That Dems Have Been Warning About
Dystopian Hypotheticals? While he was a chief strategist during President Trump’s first...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Bannon Describes Vision for ICE At Polling Places That Dems Have Been Warning About talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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"We have created a monster rampaging through the heart of our democracy and are trying to define and restrict which cities it can pillage and how many civilians it can eat."
Congress has a real chance right now to influence and change the trajectory of immigration enforcement in the US and arrest the use of ICE and CBP as a fascist secret presidential interior police.
Here's my research on what would make a difference: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
Here's my research on what would make a difference: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/six-ways-t...
Six Ways to Reform ICE and CBP
And why congressional "reform" isn't actually the real problem....
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2026 at 10:40 PM
"We have created a monster rampaging through the heart of our democracy and are trying to define and restrict which cities it can pillage and how many civilians it can eat."
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Listening to Satya Nadella speeches and slowly going insane
![Nadella is, at his core, a bullshit artist. Every speech that he gives meanders for what feels like days. When asked at the World Economic Forum what would seem obvious in a few years looking back at 2026 (a nonsense question asked by an imbecile), Nadella responded by saying, after several seconds of word salad thanking everybody for the opportunity to ramble:
“I think, when it comes to AI, the real question in front of all of us is, how do you ensure that the diffusion of AI happens, and happens fast. You have to have that line of how do the models, data and infrastructure spread more-evenly to create surplus everywhere if you sort of think about it. The way I come at this is not that, this has always been the arch of computation, you can sort of take it in the last 30 years, or the last 70 years, it’s always been about can you digitize artifacts about people, places and things, and then build analytical and predictive power, right, that’s what the mainframes did, that’s what the mini computer did, that’s what the [unintelligible] era did, that’s what the web era did, the mobile cloud era did.
It depends, in respect to which paradigm or platform it has been one continuous arch of “let’s make better sense of this world by reasoning about it in digital form,” because in some sense, once you have these artifacts in digital form, you can use a more malleable resource like software, which doesn’t have the same type of, I’ll call it “marginal cost economics” associated with it, that allows us to then build more insight and more capability. And in that context AI, I’ll say, is of the same class, at least, like the web and the internet or mobile or PC or the cloud or maybe even greater. And so to me, right now where we are, let’s take what just happened with software engineering, which is knowledge work, you can say it’s “elite” knowledge work. It started off, in fact my own belief in this generation of AI and its capability really got built up when I first saw Github …](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreic5oila23hrfgseskz25uuxv7vd7l6c3v7se5ikfderbrikz6gbg4@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Listening to Satya Nadella speeches and slowly going insane
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This is incredibly weird (and doesn't exactly look like strategic policy-making):
In late December, the Trump administration decided to ban all imports of new models of foreign (read Chinese-made) drones. 👇
But then... 🧵
In late December, the Trump administration decided to ban all imports of new models of foreign (read Chinese-made) drones. 👇
But then... 🧵
US Commerce Department drops plan to impose restrictions on Chinese-made drones
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it has withdrawn a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns after an earlier crackdown on passenger cars and truc...
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:35 AM
This is incredibly weird (and doesn't exactly look like strategic policy-making):
In late December, the Trump administration decided to ban all imports of new models of foreign (read Chinese-made) drones. 👇
But then... 🧵
In late December, the Trump administration decided to ban all imports of new models of foreign (read Chinese-made) drones. 👇
But then... 🧵
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There is not a chance in hell that the EU, Brazil, India or anyone else is going to work together to roll back Chinese influence if the first thing supposed China hawks in Washington do is collapse in a heap when Trump decides Xi is a great guy actually
February 4, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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By his logic — such as it is — he will now have to place punitive sanctions on his own country for his having said this
February 4, 2026 at 10:59 PM
By his logic — such as it is — he will now have to place punitive sanctions on his own country for his having said this
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one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
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NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
boltsmag.org
February 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
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I remain unable to tell if Nick Adams, Alpha Male is an actual person or the longest running bit American politics.
Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.
February 3, 2026 at 1:46 AM
I remain unable to tell if Nick Adams, Alpha Male is an actual person or the longest running bit American politics.
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There's blank empty looks, and then there's this:
February 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM
There's blank empty looks, and then there's this:
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This man will never be president. (Something Trump always understood and saw as a feature rather than as a bug.)
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?
Vance: For what?
Vance: For what?
February 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
This man will never be president. (Something Trump always understood and saw as a feature rather than as a bug.)
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Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1)
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Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
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🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:33 PM
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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February 4, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.
#AcIc 🧵
Absolutely fascinating (and rather concerning): just spoke to some classic educated German middle class boomers - the ones who still read the newspaper and listen to public broadcast radio - and they had NEVER HEARD THAT AI HALLUCINATES!!
Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯
Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯
February 4, 2026 at 6:14 PM
#AcIc 🧵
What? AI just reinforces human cognitive biases and can't do abductive reasoning? Who could have guessed?
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/ai-c...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com/article/ai-c...
AI Command and Staff—Operational Evidence and Insights from Wargaming - Military Strategy Magazine
The uncritical integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into command-and-control poses a fundamental strategic risk: disrupting the application of violence from command. The danger of...
www.militarystrategymagazine.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit
New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Kind of amazed she had it turned on? I only turn it on when I'm crossing borders or am visiting a country controlled by a repressive regime ahhh shit
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
February 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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NEW: A federal judge in Indiana has ordered the Trump administration not to deport Juan Espinoza Martinez, the Chicago man acquitted last month of offering $10,000 for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
Story from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Story from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Federal judge orders Trump administration not to deport Chicago man cleared of Bovino murder plot
The “weight” of legal authority supports Juan Espinoza Martinez’s position that he is entitled to a bond hearing, which could finally lead to his release, the judge wrote.
chicago.suntimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:54 PM
NEW: A federal judge in Indiana has ordered the Trump administration not to deport Juan Espinoza Martinez, the Chicago man acquitted last month of offering $10,000 for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.
Story from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Story from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
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The hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.
February 4, 2026 at 4:57 PM
The hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.
If we knew at the time what we know now, many more people would have seen Trump's 2024 campaign for what it was: A campaign of deception to CONCEAL the Epstein files, that gained support by promising to RELEASE them. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-2024...
Rethinking Trump 2024 As An Epstein Coverup Campaign
They knew they were in there. It wasn't projection. It was misdirection.
www.offmessage.net
February 4, 2026 at 6:09 PM
#LawlessICE, et al.
BREAKING: The Trump administration repeatedly said the aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
New docs show the real motivation was to get alleged squatters. And the landlord and manager helped them.
www.propublica.org/article/chic...
The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building
The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...
www.propublica.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:08 PM
#LawlessICE, et al.