Nate Goldman
@ungoldman.com
Transit planning software engineer. Civil & human rights enthusiast. FOSS, geo, politics, journalism, games. Past lives: philosophy, linguistics, design, community organizing, pizza delivery.
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Paramount's censorship of this Colbert interview w/ Rep. James Talarico will get more people to watch than if it had aired on TV.
100K views on YouTube in just 2 hours. And counting...
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
100K views on YouTube in just 2 hours. And counting...
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
February 17, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Paramount's censorship of this Colbert interview w/ Rep. James Talarico will get more people to watch than if it had aired on TV.
100K views on YouTube in just 2 hours. And counting...
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
100K views on YouTube in just 2 hours. And counting...
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
you’re telling me ars technica couldn’t be arsed to write a technical article?
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
A story about an AI-generated article contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes.
www.404media.co
February 15, 2026 at 8:35 PM
you’re telling me ars technica couldn’t be arsed to write a technical article?
Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Happy Birthday Frederick Douglass
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Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
February 14, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Had a dream that there was global panic about the world running out of oxygen, Nintendo was the only video game company to make a statement about it, and the internet collectively spent its final hours on Earth debating whether Nintendo was being genuine or not
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For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
Never reactivate it.
BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security shuts down as the White House and Democratic leaders continue to discuss changes to U.S. immigration enforcement.
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 AM
For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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sure seems like federal employees are destroying evidence
In the latest episode of 'what happened to that CCTV footage from within an ICE detention center', the government now says it lost hard drives it was supposed to put the footage on
www.404media.co/government-l...
www.404media.co/government-l...
Government Loses Hard Drives It Was Supposed to Put ICE Detention Center Footage On
A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage has reached new levels of absurdity.
www.404media.co
February 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
sure seems like federal employees are destroying evidence
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“by the time logistics are the focus of the questions being asked, a country is in a bad place”
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Building the camps
The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:02 AM
“by the time logistics are the focus of the questions being asked, a country is in a bad place”
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/building-t...
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Yesterday we learned that the Department of Justice is monitoring and tracking members of Congress’s searches of the Epstein files. There’s no sugar coating it: the administration is spying on lawmakers as they exercise their constitutional oversight responsibilities. 1/10
February 12, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Yesterday we learned that the Department of Justice is monitoring and tracking members of Congress’s searches of the Epstein files. There’s no sugar coating it: the administration is spying on lawmakers as they exercise their constitutional oversight responsibilities. 1/10
[nodding] everybody knows this
"Everybody knows that their spell is carried by the unmediated resonance of the signs."
- Seduction
- Seduction
February 12, 2026 at 6:49 PM
[nodding] everybody knows this
Gave Craig from Craigslist subway directions in Paris
What is YOUR most mundane celebrity encounter?
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
February 11, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Gave Craig from Craigslist subway directions in Paris
State terror:
1. State actors using violence/intimidation
2. Against civilian population
3. To achieve political objectives through fear
4. Often extrajudicial or violating legal norms
1. State actors using violence/intimidation
2. Against civilian population
3. To achieve political objectives through fear
4. Often extrajudicial or violating legal norms
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 6:45 PM
State terror:
1. State actors using violence/intimidation
2. Against civilian population
3. To achieve political objectives through fear
4. Often extrajudicial or violating legal norms
1. State actors using violence/intimidation
2. Against civilian population
3. To achieve political objectives through fear
4. Often extrajudicial or violating legal norms
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
February 10, 2026 at 8:18 PM
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
How to Make Enemies and Lose Influence
Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."
February 11, 2026 at 2:39 AM
How to Make Enemies and Lose Influence
e/acc but for tech nurembergs
SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE.
On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE.
www.wired.com/story/palant...
On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE.
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:49 PM
e/acc but for tech nurembergs
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
February 9, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.
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One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
One of the most striking snd powerful parts of the halftime show
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I got excited about the power lines, pleased it was an infrastructure halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
I got excited about the power lines, pleased it was an infrastructure halftime show
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just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:49 AM
just building this awful camp system is a crime against humanity imo
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everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight
July 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
everything is terrible so here’s the swedish chef doing rapper’s delight
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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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The extent to which this administration personally targets and continues the assault on people who embarrass and shame it is particularly despicable.
BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
DHS has requested expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos
The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:04 AM
The extent to which this administration personally targets and continues the assault on people who embarrass and shame it is particularly despicable.
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The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is supposed to, among other things, report to Congress if the CIA, for example, is violating our civil liberties.
It is supposed to have 5 members and needs 3 for a quorum.
Right now it has 1 member.
Wyden doing what he can, but we need more light.
It is supposed to have 5 members and needs 3 for a quorum.
Right now it has 1 member.
Wyden doing what he can, but we need more light.
@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him
Ron Wyden Only Talks Like This When The Spies Do Something *Real* Bad
No, I don't know what they did. But I have a lot of experience with the senator
www.forever-wars.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is supposed to, among other things, report to Congress if the CIA, for example, is violating our civil liberties.
It is supposed to have 5 members and needs 3 for a quorum.
Right now it has 1 member.
Wyden doing what he can, but we need more light.
It is supposed to have 5 members and needs 3 for a quorum.
Right now it has 1 member.
Wyden doing what he can, but we need more light.