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Jason Guthartz
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Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · Sep 12
All of the fascist horrors playing out in front of us today have been enabled by the bipartisan consensus that has prioritized an expansion of the PIC & surveillance state at any & all costs in order to serve & protect the violence & cruelty of our systems of whiteness/capitalism.
restructures.bsky.social Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · Sep 12
also: That people like Friedersdorf—and the entirety of the white punditry class—don't consider the exponential increase in the U.S. prison population during the 1980s & 1990s to be a form of political violence really says everything.
#DefundPolice #AbolishPrisons #DismantleWhiteness
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
NEW: ICE has a plan to lease offices across the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign.

Today, @wired.com is publishing dozens of those locations. Many are near schools, medical offices, and places of worship.

Vital work from @leahfeiger.bsky.social that I'm proud to publish.
ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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actioncookbook.com
2020 twitter post from @actioncookbook: "Every article about a major retailer going bankrupt spends eight paragraphs musing “I guess millennials just don’t buy shirts?” before casually mentioning a private equity acquisition three years ago in one sentence at the end"
February 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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charliearchy.bsky.social
For @theredoubt.net, I wrote about Trump connecting the federal killings in Minneapolis to the Pentagon's killing spree in the Caribbean — and how, to him, it's all the same war. www.theredoubt.net/trumps-war-o...
Trump's war on the Americas
The U.S. president views the attacks in Minneapolis and South America as all part of the same conflict.
www.theredoubt.net
February 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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charliearchy.bsky.social
This is the 38th time that the U.S. military has unlawfully killed civilians on the orders of Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump. At least 130 people — never charged with crimes, their identities unknown to their executioners — are now dead.
February 10, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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anthonymoser.com
This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body
rocher.lc Luc Rocher @rocher.lc · 23h
⚠️ Despite all the hype, chatbots still make terrible doctors. Out today is the largest user study of language models for medical self-diagnosis. We found that chatbots provide inaccurate and inconsistent answers, and that people are better off using online searches or their own judgment.
Banner image with screenshot of scientific article from nature Medicine, as well as two panels from the study method and results
February 10, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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chantzy.bsky.social
It took 6+ years but this is so damn good
durhamhealthnc.bsky.social Durham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 5d
An airborne virus is a virus that can infect other people through unseen particles in the air, sometimes for hours after the sick person has left the area! Masks and clean, ventilated air can reduce the risk of getting sick from airborne viruses or infecting others.
February 9, 2026 at 7:58 AM
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esghound.com
Massie is abusing Trump stooge Todd Blanche over this
🧵3) until tonight no one knew who sent the torture video to Epstein. I went to DOJ, unredacted the email, and reverse searched the email to discover it was a Sultans. Our law requires VICTIM’s information to be redacted, not information of men who sent Epstein torture porn!
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Jesus.
esghound.com Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 13h
Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
🧵 In response to my posts on X today, DOJ 1) unredacted an FBI file that LABELS two individuals as co-conspirators 2) unredacted a file that lists several men who might be implicated 3) tacitly admitted that Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was the sender of the torture video
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
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...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
restructures.bsky.social
Laini (Sylvia) Abernathy (design) & Fundi (Billy) Abernathy (photo).
Laini designed the Wall of Respect
www.wttw.com/art-design-c...
February 10, 2026 at 2:41 AM
restructures.bsky.social
The fascist bulldozer will continue moving forward until it is stopped.
chrisgeidner.bsky.social Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h
BREAKING: On February 2, Sec. Noem issued a memo asserting the lapse in appropriations for DHS meant there is no Sec. 527 — the provision protecting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities — and she was issuing a new (third) policy requiring seven-day notice for visits.
Case 1:25-cv-02463-JMC Document 55-1 Filed 02/09/26 Page 2 of 2 Secretary U.S. Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528 DEPARTMEN Homeland Security MEMORANDUM FOR: FROM: SUBJECT: February 2, 2026 Todd. M. Lyons Acting Director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Rodney Scott Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection James H. Percival Il General Counsel Holly C. Mehringer Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Chief Financial Officer Kristi Noon at ar Secretary of Homelet Security Congressional Access to Alien Detention Facilities - Ratification of Access Policy and Use of Appropriations for Enforcement On January 8, 2026, I issued a new policy directing that requests by Members of Congress to visit an ICE facility be submitted at least seven days in advance of the visit.' On February 2, 2026, in Neguse v. ICE, a judge in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia temporarily enjoined DHS from enforcing that policy or otherwise requiring any plaintiff to provide advance notice before conducting oversight visits for a period of 14 days.? The court concluded that DHS's policy remains inconsistent with Section 527(b) of the Department's appropriation. It is odd that the court issued this decision given the appropriation containing Section 527(b) lapsed on January 31, 2026. As a result of the lapse, Section 527 is not currently in effect. Therefore, as of this date, I am issuing this new policy that is identical in substance to the January 8 access policy. The General Counsel will provide further guidance regarding the effective date of this policy in light of the court's order. ' This updated policy-issued as a result of the case against ICE-was directed to ICE. Neither CBP nor its policy has been involved in the case to date. In light of today's decision, however, I am also issuing that policy as to CBP. 2 Neguse v. ICE, No. 25-2463, Memorandum Op. at 9 (D.D.C. Feb. 2, 2026).
February 10, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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lollardfish.bsky.social
some things are actually getting worse here.
February 9, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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elliottpayne.org
Another classic post-Homan day where around school dismissal time we get a flurry of ICE vehicles all across our neighborhoods. Today one vehicle led an observer to their own home and pointed at it. This is a sick game to them, but we won’t be intimidated and we won’t stop until DHS is abolished.
February 9, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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nickturse.bsky.social
The U.S. conducted more extrajudicial killings in the Eastern Pacific today

We’re tracking the civilian toll @theintercept.com

theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...
The U.S. Has Killed More than 100 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All.
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
theintercept.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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restructures.bsky.social
Feel how you will about his work as a music producer, #musicsky, but know that Rick Rubin is a scourge who uses his podcast to give a platform to white supremacist propaganda from the likes of RFK Jr., Andrew Huberman, Jack Kruse, Joe Dispenza, et al.
The title of a video "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Dr. Jack Kruse" posted to the YouTube channel "Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin" on November 8, 2023.
November 21, 2024 at 9:03 PM
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blockclubchi.bsky.social
Neighbors packed a Southwest Side coffee shop to show support for its anti-ICE stance. blockclubchi.co/45SmrPx
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
The radical preacher of Broadview just got his charges dropped...
‘It’s as if Jesus Is Locked Up in Broadview’
A reverend violently arrested at Chicagoland’s ICE facility speaks out
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:03 AM
restructures.bsky.social
The 40th anniversary remaster sounds great 🥰
restructures.bsky.social Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · Mar 29
This was such an inspired "supergroup": Duranies John & Andy joining Robert Palmer & Tony Thompson for recordings produced by Bernard Edwards.
(& the horn section included the late great Mars Williams 💐)
I really need to read John Taylor's book.
restructures.bsky.social Jason Guthartz @restructures.bsky.social · Mar 29
While REO was atop the charts for most of March 1985, that month saw the release of The Power Station's eponymous album.
Its 2 big hits - "Some Like It Hot" & the T. Rex cover "Get It On (Bang a Gong)" - were my least favorite tracks on a really strong album.
"Lonely Tonight"
youtu.be/_k1LvKyk8Jg
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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mprnews.org
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.

“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
www.mprnews.org
February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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whetmoser.com
“$5.2 million from Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago for increasing H.I.V. prevention therapy among Black women”
apoorvanyt.bsky.social Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 17h
The Trump administration plans to rescind $600 million in public health funds from four states led by Democrats because it finds the grants “inconsistent with agency priorities,” according to documents reviewed by the NYT

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...
Trump Administration to Cut $600 Million in Health Funding From Four States
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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joshuajfriedman.com
NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...
Dear Ms. Wolfe, Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time. To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot. Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms. Br. in Opp. 55-57.
February 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.

Thursday at 7 PM ET

events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel Thursday, February 12 at 7pm ET
February 9, 2026 at 5:06 PM
restructures.bsky.social
Don't be a Panican
Be a Pannonican
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TX6...
The Jazz Baroness - The patron saint of bebop
YouTube video by Larry Keen Channel
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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igd.bsky.social
Bomb threats in Springfield, OH targeting Haitian community members caused evacuations of schools as “suspicious packages” were found outside municipal court and the public safety building..."

Latest violent threats come as ICE is threatening the region. www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/bomb-th...
Bomb threats, suspicious packages in Springfield prompt evacuations
Bomb threats that said Haitian immigrants should be gone from Springfield were sent to several Clark County offices Monday morning, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said at a press conference.
www.springfieldnewssun.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM