Starfish Prime
@starfish-prime.bsky.social
Sadder but wiser. But mostly sadder.
Daddy, what did you do in the Second Civil War?
I was in ICE, honey. Mommy showed you a photo of me and my unit, remember?
But Daddy, you’re all wearing masks. I can’t tell which one is you!
[loudspeaker] Visiting hours are over! Prisoners return to your cells!
Bye bye Daddy, see you next week!
I was in ICE, honey. Mommy showed you a photo of me and my unit, remember?
But Daddy, you’re all wearing masks. I can’t tell which one is you!
[loudspeaker] Visiting hours are over! Prisoners return to your cells!
Bye bye Daddy, see you next week!
January 18, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Daddy, what did you do in the Second Civil War?
I was in ICE, honey. Mommy showed you a photo of me and my unit, remember?
But Daddy, you’re all wearing masks. I can’t tell which one is you!
[loudspeaker] Visiting hours are over! Prisoners return to your cells!
Bye bye Daddy, see you next week!
I was in ICE, honey. Mommy showed you a photo of me and my unit, remember?
But Daddy, you’re all wearing masks. I can’t tell which one is you!
[loudspeaker] Visiting hours are over! Prisoners return to your cells!
Bye bye Daddy, see you next week!
The 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee were “red-blooded American patriots.” The marshals & agents re-enslaving African-Americans escaping to freedom had a “tough job.” Klansmen are someone’s “neighbors, friends, and loved ones.” ICE agents aren’t Disney villains, just racist state-sponsored terrorists
January 18, 2026 at 3:22 PM
The 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee were “red-blooded American patriots.” The marshals & agents re-enslaving African-Americans escaping to freedom had a “tough job.” Klansmen are someone’s “neighbors, friends, and loved ones.” ICE agents aren’t Disney villains, just racist state-sponsored terrorists
Child pornographer makes an assertion that I doubt he can prove
January 15, 2026 at 12:42 AM
Child pornographer makes an assertion that I doubt he can prove
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the first democratic district attorney to arrest an ice agent will become a top tier presidential candidate
January 14, 2026 at 11:51 PM
the first democratic district attorney to arrest an ice agent will become a top tier presidential candidate
Weird, and telling
There are lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to Nazi Germany and there are also lots of reasons to compare what is happening now to the post-1850 Fugitive Slave Act U.S. and it's *weird* how people respond with interest to the former but total confusion to the latter
January 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Weird, and telling
Bill Ackman: I am a big believer in our legal principle that one is innocent until proven guilty.
Also Bill Ackman: a protester whose actions in a split second led to her death
Also Bill Ackman: a protester whose actions in a split second led to her death
Bill Ackman has now confirmed what I first reported yesterday morning, that he donated $10K to the GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, in a tweet.
January 12, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Bill Ackman: I am a big believer in our legal principle that one is innocent until proven guilty.
Also Bill Ackman: a protester whose actions in a split second led to her death
Also Bill Ackman: a protester whose actions in a split second led to her death
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Flashback to this past July when Jerome Powell corrected Trump’s math on national television, live, and called out his disinformation.
January 12, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Flashback to this past July when Jerome Powell corrected Trump’s math on national television, live, and called out his disinformation.
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We need a constitutional reformation.
January 12, 2026 at 3:13 AM
We need a constitutional reformation.
It appears that Bovino is using the head at the local Target, protected by 5 armed, masked men standing guard outside the men’s room, and accompanied by 2 more who go in there with him.
ICE at Midway Target and seem to possible be leaving. Lots of community members here
January 11, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.
Absolutely nobody is bringing their baby to a protest as a "shield." Also, fuck ICE
January 11, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Absolutely nobody is bringing their baby to a protest as a "shield." Also, fuck ICE
Artificial passive-aggression
Paper: The two-way effect of sycophancy and anger in interacting with ChatGPT.
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05104
arxiv.org/pdf/2601.05104
January 11, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Artificial passive-aggression
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If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
January 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
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"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 AM
"And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A whiff of slop about it, too, I think
The brazenness and tonedeafness with which @axios.com posted this on a weekend a state led by Democratic officials is under an authoritarian siege of the federal govt (and few other blue ones) is surreal.
People who are writing this live in another reality. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
People who are writing this live in another reality. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
January 10, 2026 at 9:42 PM
A whiff of slop about it, too, I think
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This guy at the Minneapolis airport has more courage than 99% of our elected officials. Surrounded by CBP agents, including Bovino, he doesn't concede an inch.
David A. Morehouse (@davidmorehouse) on Threads
So here is the Uber driver who we saw getting harassed yesterday, at Minneapolis Airport by the ICE thugs. Yesterday the video was from someone in the parking lot, now its the driver himself. With a s...
www.threads.com
January 10, 2026 at 9:27 PM
This guy at the Minneapolis airport has more courage than 99% of our elected officials. Surrounded by CBP agents, including Bovino, he doesn't concede an inch.
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Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
Wait, the child pornographer who's been defrauding the public is also a pig-ignorant racist?
I wonder if anyone will revisit their charitable interpretations of Elon’s definitely-not-a-Nazi-salute
January 8, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Wait, the child pornographer who's been defrauding the public is also a pig-ignorant racist?
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Members of Congress swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. If you’re not filing articles of impeachment against Trump, you ain’t doing your job.
Not to mention that they have a duty to do so. We should at least act as if the Constitution is still in force, and impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors is not really optional if you take your oaths seriously
January 7, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Members of Congress swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. If you’re not filing articles of impeachment against Trump, you ain’t doing your job.
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Journalists often talk about how the media's business model is broken, but I would gladly pay the first news organization that starts profiling the individual ICE and CBP agents involved in terrorizing people
Unacceptable behavior from ICE in Salisbury, NC today. Attempting to intimidate U.S. citizens is a major abuse of power. 1/5/26
January 6, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Journalists often talk about how the media's business model is broken, but I would gladly pay the first news organization that starts profiling the individual ICE and CBP agents involved in terrorizing people
Remember how we invaded and occupied oil-rich Iraq in 2003 and ever since then gasoline in the US has been under a dollar a gallon?
January 4, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Remember how we invaded and occupied oil-rich Iraq in 2003 and ever since then gasoline in the US has been under a dollar a gallon?
Used to follow this account at the old place. Seems to be active here now
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
January 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Used to follow this account at the old place. Seems to be active here now
Some men wear hats in public to conceal cosmetic conditions or disfigurement. Unlike female-coded head coverings, there are fewer inexpensive male-coded head covering options available. I agree that most men are simply being insensitive, but some are trying to make the best of a difficult situation
I get that rules about manners are classist and stodgy but if you are wearing a baseball cap in a nice restaurant, you’re a dope.
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Some men wear hats in public to conceal cosmetic conditions or disfigurement. Unlike female-coded head coverings, there are fewer inexpensive male-coded head covering options available. I agree that most men are simply being insensitive, but some are trying to make the best of a difficult situation
The only non-Gen X thing about this piece is that it's ranked 5th, which means people paid attention to it
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December 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The only non-Gen X thing about this piece is that it's ranked 5th, which means people paid attention to it
make a Bond movie academic
You Only Live Twice (p<0.05)
You Only Live Twice (p<0.05)
make a Bond movie academic
The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
The Spy Who Loved Me: Birthright Citizenship and the Law of Alien Enemies
make a Bond movie academic
Spectre: {Insert bacronym here}
Spectre: {Insert bacronym here}
December 27, 2025 at 7:08 AM
make a Bond movie academic
You Only Live Twice (p<0.05)
You Only Live Twice (p<0.05)