@neanderthal53.bsky.social
We unplugged from the world that made us. Been here and there. Stood on a corner in Winslow Arizona. Ended up back where I started. Internalized battle of Ying & Yang. Spent a lifetime masking.
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"Why are they not pulling over people riding in the back of a f*cking U-Haul? I thought that was a crime? But no, they protect them." - ICE protester responds to Proud Boy Jake Lang SHOOTING paintballs and pepper spray at protesters in a drive by as police watched.
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February 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
"Why are they not pulling over people riding in the back of a f*cking U-Haul? I thought that was a crime? But no, they protect them." - ICE protester responds to Proud Boy Jake Lang SHOOTING paintballs and pepper spray at protesters in a drive by as police watched.
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This week on @wired.com Big Interview: I talked to two tech workers who signed the ICEout.tech open letter about the momentum behind the movement, the pressure on Big Tech execs, and what they'd tell tech employees who haven't signed on yet.
"The stakes are too high not to act and not to speak up."
"The stakes are too high not to act and not to speak up."
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Are Campaigning to Get ICE Out of US Cities
Even as Big Tech CEOs curry favor with President Trump, Silicon Valley employees are calling on their bosses to use their influence to help stop his immigration policies.
www.wired.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:16 PM
This week on @wired.com Big Interview: I talked to two tech workers who signed the ICEout.tech open letter about the momentum behind the movement, the pressure on Big Tech execs, and what they'd tell tech employees who haven't signed on yet.
"The stakes are too high not to act and not to speak up."
"The stakes are too high not to act and not to speak up."
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A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE
The former DOGE head will have to answer for what happened at USAID.
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM
A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
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Everyone who claims that the Dem leadership wants to stop this brutality is complicit in it. At this point any politician that doesn't advocate for abolishing these forces is by definition directly supporting their violence.
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Everyone who claims that the Dem leadership wants to stop this brutality is complicit in it. At this point any politician that doesn't advocate for abolishing these forces is by definition directly supporting their violence.
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Apartheid government in South Africa made similarly ludicrous claims most infamously when trying to deflect responsibility for murdering Steve Biko. #AbolishICE #ProsecuteMiller
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Apartheid government in South Africa made similarly ludicrous claims most infamously when trying to deflect responsibility for murdering Steve Biko. #AbolishICE #ProsecuteMiller
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Trump and members of his legal team have argued E. Jean Carroll based her rape claim on a 2012 "Law and Order" subplot that his allies can't even accurately describe.
The president’s lawyers submitted false information about a “Law and Order” plot
The episode is cited in Trump's challenge to E. Jean Carroll's sexual assault and defamation claim.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Trump and members of his legal team have argued E. Jean Carroll based her rape claim on a 2012 "Law and Order" subplot that his allies can't even accurately describe.
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🚨"They have failed us. Police, the Sheriffs...it took 5 years to rebuild, now they have destroyed EVERYTHING." -ICE protester and Minneapolis resident on the DESTROYED trust with police after their aiding of ICE.
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February 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
🚨"They have failed us. Police, the Sheriffs...it took 5 years to rebuild, now they have destroyed EVERYTHING." -ICE protester and Minneapolis resident on the DESTROYED trust with police after their aiding of ICE.
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One of my fears is that we will head off the overt white Christian supremacist fascism only to fall back to the status quo where the Dems have power, only to return to their absurd support for more and more heavily armed police.
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:44 PM
One of my fears is that we will head off the overt white Christian supremacist fascism only to fall back to the status quo where the Dems have power, only to return to their absurd support for more and more heavily armed police.
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indeed (a) it wasn't just his children, it was them + 4 more and (b) to bring children to this island given what was already known is truly sick. Those seeking to justify it are sick too.
I disagree with everyone stating that it was innocent to mention the ages of these kids. Epstein was convicted of trafficking children for prostitution in 2008. What kind of a freak brings 8 children to the island after that? And then mentioning their ages? Would any of you do this?
February 7, 2026 at 5:18 PM
indeed (a) it wasn't just his children, it was them + 4 more and (b) to bring children to this island given what was already known is truly sick. Those seeking to justify it are sick too.
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Yes, Lutnick procured the children:
February 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Yes, Lutnick procured the children:
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You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling.
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:47 PM
You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling.
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...
"This year, as my country struggles against authoritarianism, I find it impossible to set aside politics and difficult to celebrate a human spirit which has Americans shooting Americans over their own political differences." open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
Excellence, Friendship, Respect
The 2026 Winter Olympics have begun. I won't be watching.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"This year, as my country struggles against authoritarianism, I find it impossible to set aside politics and difficult to celebrate a human spirit which has Americans shooting Americans over their own political differences." open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...
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It was for a movie about it, Born in East LA, where a US citizen is illegally deported to Mexico
February 7, 2026 at 2:38 PM
It was for a movie about it, Born in East LA, where a US citizen is illegally deported to Mexico
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someone came into my mentions a week or so ago talking about how abolishing ICE was necessary but defunding the police is a bad slogan because we need police and i’d like to wish that person a very merry shut the fuck up because they’re two sides of the same coin.
February 7, 2026 at 2:30 PM
someone came into my mentions a week or so ago talking about how abolishing ICE was necessary but defunding the police is a bad slogan because we need police and i’d like to wish that person a very merry shut the fuck up because they’re two sides of the same coin.
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Students of color in Los Angeles know they are taking a big risk protesting because not only may they be kidnapped by DHS but also they know LAPD has been given total permission to brutalize people of color, and that’s been true on both counts for the better part of a century
February 7, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Students of color in Los Angeles know they are taking a big risk protesting because not only may they be kidnapped by DHS but also they know LAPD has been given total permission to brutalize people of color, and that’s been true on both counts for the better part of a century
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This is an organizing tradition in East L.A.
“For decades, student-led walkouts on the Eastside have served as a powerful tool for activism, dating back to the 1968 East LA Blowouts that shed light on inequalities for Mexican Americans in the public education system.”
“For decades, student-led walkouts on the Eastside have served as a powerful tool for activism, dating back to the 1968 East LA Blowouts that shed light on inequalities for Mexican Americans in the public education system.”
LAUSD students walk out in protest of ICE raids
Students from Boyle Heights to Koreatown marched for immigrant rights and safe schools as similar national protests continue in reaction to federal enforcement action.
thelalocal.org
February 7, 2026 at 2:29 PM
This is an organizing tradition in East L.A.
“For decades, student-led walkouts on the Eastside have served as a powerful tool for activism, dating back to the 1968 East LA Blowouts that shed light on inequalities for Mexican Americans in the public education system.”
“For decades, student-led walkouts on the Eastside have served as a powerful tool for activism, dating back to the 1968 East LA Blowouts that shed light on inequalities for Mexican Americans in the public education system.”
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I just want as much attention and awe for the young people of color who are defending their families in majority POC communities as there is for the white people who are supporting their neighbors in historically white communities
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:19 PM
I just want as much attention and awe for the young people of color who are defending their families in majority POC communities as there is for the white people who are supporting their neighbors in historically white communities
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
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These kids are defending not just their neighbors but also their own family members, as folks from East L.A. have had to do for generations because our neighborhoods have been a constant target of ICE/CBP and before them, INS.
Fuck LAPD.
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
Fuck LAPD.
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:16 PM
These kids are defending not just their neighbors but also their own family members, as folks from East L.A. have had to do for generations because our neighborhoods have been a constant target of ICE/CBP and before them, INS.
Fuck LAPD.
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
Fuck LAPD.
lataco.com/lapd-arrests...
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I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
LAPD Charges at Hundreds of High School Students in Peaceful Walkout Protest at MDC ~ L.A. TACO
LAPD arrested at least two teenagers protesting ICE raids in Los Angeles yesterday. They were also seen corresponding with ICE agents on Alameda Street during the demonstrations.
lataco.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I feel like Los Angeles is a place where people expect ICE to happen because the kidnappings have been happening to my home city for decades, so there’s less media attention to it now. and I want folks to see that in LA, Latine students are organizing major protests & the police are attacking them
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Trump has betrayed the people of coal country. They love him anyway.
Trump has betrayed the people of coal country. They love him anyway.
“He thinks our people are idiots.”
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Trump has betrayed the people of coal country. They love him anyway.
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Funny to see people still pretend that Jewish settlers make up a miniscule segment of Israeli society when a little more than 1 in 10 Israeli Jews live in occupied territory, the supermajority of the army is stationed in occupied territory, and settlers sit in cabinet and on the court.
February 5, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Funny to see people still pretend that Jewish settlers make up a miniscule segment of Israeli society when a little more than 1 in 10 Israeli Jews live in occupied territory, the supermajority of the army is stationed in occupied territory, and settlers sit in cabinet and on the court.
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We really need you to start pushing hard for universal basic income.
www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/11/w...
www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/11/w...
Why Don't Trade Unions Support an Unconditional Basic Income (Precisely When They Should)?
The apparently simple idea of an unconditional universal Basic Income has gotten very complicated. The more mainstream the idea becomes, the more embrangled it is, although at least something has beco...
www.counterpunch.org
February 7, 2026 at 3:52 PM
We really need you to start pushing hard for universal basic income.
www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/11/w...
www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/11/w...
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Angry Italians boo American athletes and JD Vance at Winter Olympics opening ceremony amid ICE fury
#Olympics2026
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/winter...
#Olympics2026
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Angry Italians boo American athletes and JD Vance at Winter Olympics
While spirits were high throughout the opening ceremony, when Team USA marched through the stadium, they were met with a chorus of boos from furious Italian fans inside.
www.dailymail.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Angry Italians boo American athletes and JD Vance at Winter Olympics opening ceremony amid ICE fury
#Olympics2026
www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/winter...
#Olympics2026
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