Comrade Whale Shark
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"YouGov has ICE at 39% favorable, 52% unfavorable...But this top line really understates the intensity of public backlash to ICE and its tactics. In February 2025, just 19% of Americans held a strongly unfavorable view of ICE. Today, 40% do."
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Support for abolishing ICE hits a a new high
Americans have turned sharply against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and say it too often resorts to violence
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:18 PM
"YouGov has ICE at 39% favorable, 52% unfavorable...But this top line really understates the intensity of public backlash to ICE and its tactics. In February 2025, just 19% of Americans held a strongly unfavorable view of ICE. Today, 40% do."
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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ICE relies on companies to help carry out its thuggery — we need to go after these private sector collaborators
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
www.thenation.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
ICE relies on companies to help carry out its thuggery — we need to go after these private sector collaborators
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Here are our suggestions for corporate targets and campaign tactics
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
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Worried about increased surveillance of syllabi & course curricula at your institution?
Check out these resources from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to integrate in your course, such as language for academic freedom to put in your syllabus, a teaching module, and a reading list.
Check out these resources from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to integrate in your course, such as language for academic freedom to put in your syllabus, a teaching module, and a reading list.
Your Syllabus and Academic Freedom
Making an affirmative case for the values that underpin our work.
academicfreedomontheline.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Worried about increased surveillance of syllabi & course curricula at your institution?
Check out these resources from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to integrate in your course, such as language for academic freedom to put in your syllabus, a teaching module, and a reading list.
Check out these resources from the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom to integrate in your course, such as language for academic freedom to put in your syllabus, a teaching module, and a reading list.
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Self-defense is a human right. "Resistance is futile without a counteroffensive." - John William Cooke
(Image is not OC)
#MalcolmX #Minorities #SelfDefense
#LGBTQ+ #CommunityDefense
(Image is not OC)
#MalcolmX #Minorities #SelfDefense
#LGBTQ+ #CommunityDefense
October 18, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Self-defense is a human right. "Resistance is futile without a counteroffensive." - John William Cooke
(Image is not OC)
#MalcolmX #Minorities #SelfDefense
#LGBTQ+ #CommunityDefense
(Image is not OC)
#MalcolmX #Minorities #SelfDefense
#LGBTQ+ #CommunityDefense
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Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
Renee Good is at least the fifth death to result in an aggressive immigration crackdown by the Trump administration. Other cases include a person fatally shot by ICE outside Chicago and two people who died after being struck by vehicles while fleeing authorities.
Driver shot in Minneapolis is at least the fifth person killed in U.S. immigration crackdown
A motorist who was fatally shot by an immigration officer in Minneapolis is at least the fifth person to die since the Trump administration launched its aggressive immigration crackdown last year. The...
www.mprnews.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was shot & killed by ICE on Sept 12
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
ICE chased Jaime Alanis off the roof of a greenhouse; he broke his neck & died on July 12
ICE chased Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez into traffic where he was hit & killed on Aug 14
Josué Castro Rivera was killed the same way on Oct 23
Does the Vatican still excommunicate people? If so, I think I found a top contender.
Editorial in the National Catholic Reporter: "The vice president's comments justifying the death of Renee Good are a moral stain on the collective witness of our Catholic faith. His repeated attempts to blame Good for her own death are fundamentally incompatible with the Gospel."
Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good
After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.
www.ncronline.org
January 9, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Does the Vatican still excommunicate people? If so, I think I found a top contender.
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In Portland, Border Patrol agents shot a couple. The Feds claim they were under attack, witnesses say otherwise. AG is suing. This is from the front page of @oregonian.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:35 AM
In Portland, Border Patrol agents shot a couple. The Feds claim they were under attack, witnesses say otherwise. AG is suing. This is from the front page of @oregonian.com
Artificial Intelligence? More like Anti-Intelligence. Gen AI makes people dumber and generates misinformation that erodes truth.
January 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Artificial Intelligence? More like Anti-Intelligence. Gen AI makes people dumber and generates misinformation that erodes truth.
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📢 No to genocide. No to war. No to ICE. Trillions of dollars poured into occupying communities from DC to Palestine, Chicago to Venezuela while people suffer, starving, unable to make rent or get medical treatment.
January 8, 2026 at 5:50 PM
📢 No to genocide. No to war. No to ICE. Trillions of dollars poured into occupying communities from DC to Palestine, Chicago to Venezuela while people suffer, starving, unable to make rent or get medical treatment.
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Across the country, people are taking to the streets to honor—and demand justice for—Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old US citizen who a federal immigration agent shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
“ICE KILLED GOOD”: Protesters decry Minneapolis shooting
Images from across the country show how people are honoring a 37-year-old woman killed by federal agents.
www.motherjones.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Across the country, people are taking to the streets to honor—and demand justice for—Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old US citizen who a federal immigration agent shot and killed in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Every single ICE agent needs to be rounded up and charged for their complicity in the agency’s crimes. No less than Nuremberg-style hearings for the Burger Reich’s gestapo.
The ICE agent who murdered Renee Good must be prosecuted for murder. He enjoys no immunity from state murder charges.
Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Then, Blue state governors must call up their National Guard to protect us from the armed ICE terrorists.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Prosecute Renée Nicole Good’s Murderer
The ICE agent who killed Renée Nicole Good not only can be held accountable for murder—he must be.
www.thenation.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Every single ICE agent needs to be rounded up and charged for their complicity in the agency’s crimes. No less than Nuremberg-style hearings for the Burger Reich’s gestapo.
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"Hands Off! No US rule in Venezuela! No US rule in Latin America"
Poster seen in Phoenix, Arizona
Poster seen in Phoenix, Arizona
January 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
"Hands Off! No US rule in Venezuela! No US rule in Latin America"
Poster seen in Phoenix, Arizona
Poster seen in Phoenix, Arizona
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Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!
Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
www.disconnect.blog
January 4, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Given everything happening right now, I updated this article with options for weather apps, web forms, and translation services — along with some tweaks to existing categories.
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
I hope it helps your transition off US tech!
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🎥 WATCH | Drop Site News Latin America editor José Luis Granados Ceja warned that Trump’s rhetoric points to a dangerous domino effect, signaling to other governments like Cuba and Mexico: comply, or face similar intervention.
Granados Ceja and Krystal Ball also discuss how the escalation...
Granados Ceja and Krystal Ball also discuss how the escalation...
January 4, 2026 at 3:07 AM
🎥 WATCH | Drop Site News Latin America editor José Luis Granados Ceja warned that Trump’s rhetoric points to a dangerous domino effect, signaling to other governments like Cuba and Mexico: comply, or face similar intervention.
Granados Ceja and Krystal Ball also discuss how the escalation...
Granados Ceja and Krystal Ball also discuss how the escalation...
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It's January 2026. Welcome to the UNC system, where you can soon expect an army of Nick Shirleys to show up in classrooms and harass faculty and students thanks to their dimwitted misunderstanding of publicly searchable syllabi. Or as Peter Hans puts it, this is how we rebuild public trust!
January 2, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It's January 2026. Welcome to the UNC system, where you can soon expect an army of Nick Shirleys to show up in classrooms and harass faculty and students thanks to their dimwitted misunderstanding of publicly searchable syllabi. Or as Peter Hans puts it, this is how we rebuild public trust!
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Bari Weiss's censoring 60 Minutes in the name of "building trust" is of a coin with Peter Hans's imposing a pro-doxxing syllabus policy in the name of "rebuilding public trust." They are both the gaslighting actions of political operatives sent to destroy the institutions they lead.
Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."
December 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Bari Weiss's censoring 60 Minutes in the name of "building trust" is of a coin with Peter Hans's imposing a pro-doxxing syllabus policy in the name of "rebuilding public trust." They are both the gaslighting actions of political operatives sent to destroy the institutions they lead.
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The UNC System has published the new syllabus policy. It's every bit as bad as you would expect, & as we warned. Poorly thought out. An invitation to bad actors to dox faculty. And serves no educational purpose that could not already be met with existing tools.
www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...
www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...
www.northcarolina.edu
December 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The UNC System has published the new syllabus policy. It's every bit as bad as you would expect, & as we warned. Poorly thought out. An invitation to bad actors to dox faculty. And serves no educational purpose that could not already be met with existing tools.
www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...
www.northcarolina.edu/apps/policy/...
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“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"
“Imperial Blowback”: Suspect in D.C. Shooting Was Part of CIA Death Squad in Afghanistan
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the man who authorities say shot two National Guardsmen outside the White House, had previously worked in a CIA-backed “Zero Unit” in Afghanistan, often called “death squads” by ...
www.democracynow.org
December 7, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“The United States made this person into a child soldier, and now is experiencing what I think is one of the most horrifically bright-line cases of imperial blowback that we’ve seen throughout the 'war on terror.'"
The Trump admin is out here doing more to defund the police than Dems ever did.
After attaching new strings to counterterrorism and emergency management money for “sanctuary” states, the Trump administration went further by adding requirements that even Republican-majority areas find hard to meet.
Oregon Struggles to Land Federal Counterterrorism Money as Trump Orders Troops to Stop “Terrorists” Hindering ICE
A quiet battle has played out in court over money that “sanctuary” states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum.
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The Trump admin is out here doing more to defund the police than Dems ever did.
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I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more
A deliberate and disgusting attack against academic freedom and shared governance.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that’s the intent…the worst thing is that politically mandated ideas will be taught instead of scientifically accepted concepts in our disciplines, or concepts that are recognized by the disciplinary experts.”
– Andrew Martin, Texas Tech AAUP
@texasaaup.bsky.social
– Andrew Martin, Texas Tech AAUP
@texasaaup.bsky.social
At Texas Tech, Professors Now Need Permission to Teach About Race and Gender
Faculty say the policy is vague and a violation of the First Amendment.
www.chronicle.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A deliberate and disgusting attack against academic freedom and shared governance.
This why people should subscribe to @means.tv. Support worker-owned, anticapitalist media. ✊🏻
Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies.
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market.
This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This why people should subscribe to @means.tv. Support worker-owned, anticapitalist media. ✊🏻
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AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AI is Not Inevitable. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
A conversation with educators, education unions and Collaborative Research Center for Resilience
zoom.us
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
AI is not inevitable: A conversation with educators, unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience!
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
Join your colleagues from across pre-K-12 and higher ed for a webinar on exercising worker power in the age of AI.
December 11, 4-5 p.m. ET on Zoom
Link to register below👇
AI proponents argue that AI is inevitable and that not using AI will put you at a disadvantage. Such arguments essentially boil down to: “Everyone else is using it. You should, too.” But that’s based on the bandwagon fallacy. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it is right or good.
December 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
AI proponents argue that AI is inevitable and that not using AI will put you at a disadvantage. Such arguments essentially boil down to: “Everyone else is using it. You should, too.” But that’s based on the bandwagon fallacy. Just because something is popular doesn’t mean it is right or good.
Ah, yes, because we can’t do anything that might cause property values to decrease. The line must always go up! 🙄
Zillow nixes feature that helped home buyers assess climate risks [via @theguardian.com]
Zillow nixes feature that helped home buyers assess climate risks
Realtors and some homeowners had complained it was hurting sales.
www.motherjones.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Ah, yes, because we can’t do anything that might cause property values to decrease. The line must always go up! 🙄