Plucky P
@pluckypurcell.bsky.social
The only way forward is together. Basic human rights for all is not controversial.
Security specialist. Ham. Cowboy. Capsuleer. Working my way steadily through the cybersecurity -> farmer pipeline.
Security specialist. Ham. Cowboy. Capsuleer. Working my way steadily through the cybersecurity -> farmer pipeline.
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Maybe a minor point but maybe there’s a better phrase than “immigration crackdown” for the assault and targeting of a US citizen by masked federal agents because of his appearance. No crime alleged. Just looked brown so they defaulted to “shouldn’t be here.”
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Maybe a minor point but maybe there’s a better phrase than “immigration crackdown” for the assault and targeting of a US citizen by masked federal agents because of his appearance. No crime alleged. Just looked brown so they defaulted to “shouldn’t be here.”
Same
I can’t believe how stupid everything is
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Same
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NEW: Avelo’s ICE flights have been a fiasco, internal documents show.
Serious safety lapses, poor planning, mechanical issues, an emergency landing — and they’re not even making as much money as they hoped they would.
From me for @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
Serious safety lapses, poor planning, mechanical issues, an emergency landing — and they’re not even making as much money as they hoped they would.
From me for @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights - The American Prospect
Poor planning, mechanical issues, serious safety lapses, and the shutdown are taking a toll on Avelo, America’s most famous deportation airline, internal documents show.
prospect.org
November 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
NEW: Avelo’s ICE flights have been a fiasco, internal documents show.
Serious safety lapses, poor planning, mechanical issues, an emergency landing — and they’re not even making as much money as they hoped they would.
From me for @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
Serious safety lapses, poor planning, mechanical issues, an emergency landing — and they’re not even making as much money as they hoped they would.
From me for @prospect.org:
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
Seems unfair to hold her to such high standards it's not like she's a lawyer or anything
The court issues a scathing ruling today in the Comey case. Judge William Fitzpatrick notes, among other things, that Lindsey Halligan made two false statements of the law when responding to questions by grand jurors. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Seems unfair to hold her to such high standards it's not like she's a lawyer or anything
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It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop
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instead of health insurance we should be able to buy HealthGems™ ($99 - BEST DEAL) which can be redeemed for a HealthDrop™ and 1 in every 10000 HealthDrop™s lets you get a free MRI or one month of a drug that keeps you from dying
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
instead of health insurance we should be able to buy HealthGems™ ($99 - BEST DEAL) which can be redeemed for a HealthDrop™ and 1 in every 10000 HealthDrop™s lets you get a free MRI or one month of a drug that keeps you from dying
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Dear ICE: They don't let you wear a mask in your mug shot.
Great news. This is what an ICE agent looks like in a mugshot. Meet Gerardo Rodriguez, 45, of Temecula, courtesy of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Arrested for "illegally detaining a minor at gunpoint while off duty last week." 🧵
November 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Dear ICE: They don't let you wear a mask in your mug shot.
This is a programming choice and it's tasteless and disgusting
Nothing makes me not want to support an audio company quite like having a plugin UX acting like a glorified storefront deceiving you by presenting presets (alongside the ones you actually own) you don't even have full access to. There's so much annoying friction like this in Addictive Drums 2.
November 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is a programming choice and it's tasteless and disgusting
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This is good news. The ICE agent is arrested on state charges, so the Convicted FElon & the Regime can't do anything to stop this. They can try but it will be illegal.
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is good news. The ICE agent is arrested on state charges, so the Convicted FElon & the Regime can't do anything to stop this. They can try but it will be illegal.
ktla.com/news/local-n...
ktla.com/news/local-n...
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ICEstapo detained 81 people in Charlotte, NC yesterday.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
ICEstapo detained 81 people in Charlotte, NC yesterday.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
👏 more!
Thank you to everyone organizing in Charlotte. As we saw in Chicago, you can send them packing, and we know similar efforts are already underway in Charlotte. In Chicago, neighborhood groups held “Know Your Rights” trainings so residents understood what to do if ICE appeared.
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The Immigrant beef is way more expensive because you have to train the cow to cross the Rio Grande at dusk and then scale a border wall, which is not easy obviously because cow thumbs. So yeah this totally tracks.
I knew they blamed immigrants for everything, but I didn’t think they would blame immigrant cows for hamburger prices.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Immigrant beef is way more expensive because you have to train the cow to cross the Rio Grande at dusk and then scale a border wall, which is not easy obviously because cow thumbs. So yeah this totally tracks.
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This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI | The New Journal
Amid ChatGPT's rising popularity and a computer science cheating scandal, Yale students, professors, and administrators wrestle privately with the proper role of AI in education. What happens when eve...
thenewjournalatyale.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This may be the best thing ive read yet on AI in higher ed, and its written by a Yale undergrad. Highly recommend.
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😲 CONFIRMED: “an Avelo ICE flight declared an emergency when the cabin lost pressure, according to air traffic control transmissions. The plane made a rapid descent and landed safely. Of 88 people on board, six were injured…”
From: @gbrockell.bsky.social
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
From: @gbrockell.bsky.social
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights - The American Prospect
Poor planning, mechanical issues, serious safety lapses, and the shutdown are taking a toll on Avelo, America’s most famous deportation airline, internal documents show.
prospect.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
😲 CONFIRMED: “an Avelo ICE flight declared an emergency when the cabin lost pressure, according to air traffic control transmissions. The plane made a rapid descent and landed safely. Of 88 people on board, six were injured…”
From: @gbrockell.bsky.social
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
From: @gbrockell.bsky.social
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
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Back in April, ProPublica interviewed flight crew from GlobalX, another ICE airline.
“They never taught us anything regarding the immigration flights,” one said. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled...”
Is this a disaster waiting to happen?
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
“They never taught us anything regarding the immigration flights,” one said. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled...”
Is this a disaster waiting to happen?
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Back in April, ProPublica interviewed flight crew from GlobalX, another ICE airline.
“They never taught us anything regarding the immigration flights,” one said. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled...”
Is this a disaster waiting to happen?
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
“They never taught us anything regarding the immigration flights,” one said. “They didn’t tell us these people were going to be shackled...”
Is this a disaster waiting to happen?
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
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I don't know why we still call them ICE and treat them as a legitimate organization. They are an armed Militia and should be designated as a terrorist group. No other legal force in America wears masks and strips people of due process. They are a terrorist organization
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Seems incredibly bad.
The Department of Homeland Security, in response to pressure from President Trump, is diverting resources intended for fighting terrorism and child abuse to focus on arresting undocumented immigrants, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/4nXoB6o
November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Seems incredibly bad.
Accurate.
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Accurate.
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There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy.
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
193. The "War" on Judges
Deputy Attorney General Blanche's attack on lower courts is an impressive combination of light on substance; shamelessly hypocritical; and profoundly dangerous. More people should be condemning it.
www.stevevladeck.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy.
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:
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And if you forced them to join together in an unholy union they would scream
the matrix exists in a brief historical window of time when the phone and computer were both powerful, but existed separately.
November 17, 2025 at 1:28 AM
And if you forced them to join together in an unholy union they would scream
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This is the sort of thing that procurement rules are meant to prevent. Those rules can make things slow and unwieldy in government, but reflect how politicized our system is. Other rich countries have figured out that a less politicized system lowers the risks of corruption.
First, let's back up.
Noem has starred in a sprawling ad campaign she’s said is a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration—so crucial that DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Noem has starred in a sprawling ad campaign she’s said is a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration—so crucial that DHS bypassed the normal competitive bidding process, designed to prevent waste & corruption in federal contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
www.propublica.org
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is the sort of thing that procurement rules are meant to prevent. Those rules can make things slow and unwieldy in government, but reflect how politicized our system is. Other rich countries have figured out that a less politicized system lowers the risks of corruption.
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
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As an absolute minimum Southern Water should be providing staff and equipment to help clean this up.
Why are they not legally required to do this? More, why have they not offered?
Relying on volunteers using dustpans and brushes is not going to provide the best outcome.
Why are they not legally required to do this? More, why have they not offered?
Relying on volunteers using dustpans and brushes is not going to provide the best outcome.
“This is the worst microplastic spill we’ve seen this year,” says environmentalist Joshua Beech. Worse even than the spill of nurdles (pre-production plastic pellets) in March, when two ships collided in the North Sea.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
As an absolute minimum Southern Water should be providing staff and equipment to help clean this up.
Why are they not legally required to do this? More, why have they not offered?
Relying on volunteers using dustpans and brushes is not going to provide the best outcome.
Why are they not legally required to do this? More, why have they not offered?
Relying on volunteers using dustpans and brushes is not going to provide the best outcome.