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Writing and thinking about #architecture #design #culture #tech

RT ≠ Endorsement, Opinions my own
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You know how I was screaming about this weeks ago? Well, they came right out and said it; the Trump admin would rather go after migrants than pedophiles, drug traffickers, and terrorists.

Funnily, Fox News is eerily silent about this. Because of course.
DHS has ordered its entire investigations division - composed of 6,000 agents - to divert focus on drug dealers, terrorists, and human traffickers and shift priority to the Trump administration’s mission of deporting immigrants
www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...
Thousands of DHS agents shift to deportation instead of drugs, weapons and human trafficking
Redeploying Homeland Security Investigations agents is part of a broader Trump effort. But some fear many serious transnational crimes will go unprobed.
www.azcentral.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...
See inside DOGE’s playbook for eliminating DEI
Documents detail step-by-step plans by the U.S. DOGE Service to purge federal agencies of diversity, equity, and inclusion workers and offices. Here’s what comes next.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...
Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo
Can Trump and his top advisers really just act with total impunity? Or is there, just maybe, a price to be paid for starving poor people and un-indicting a corrupt mayor?
newrepublic.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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February 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
or to quote the immoratal words of Le Tigre "It feels so eighties
Or early nineties
To be political
Where are my friends?

(Get off the internet)
I'll meet u in the street
February 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I think we need to change the narrative on DEI/woke/ whatever, What's being attacked is Civil Rights, Individual Liberties, and Human Rights of all of us and we should be naming that loudly and clearly.
February 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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The team going after price-gouging landlords is now tracking renters facing eviction due to the fires.

Fill out this form and you’ll also get connected to resources: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
January 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Fascists need made-up enemies to distract you from what they, and their super-rich funders/bosses, are taking from you. They want you constantly mad, scared and distracted. And they love picking enemies that could help teach you to reason and see through through fascist lies.
January 26, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Thinking about LA endlessly with so many friends and family and colleagues affected by the fires. I don't have much to add from afar but there are many, many folks who need support and a heartwarming amount of mutual aid and recovery initiatives underway.
January 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Interesting that this is showing up in GQ of all places but positive to have Mike Davis (RIP) back in the conversation
www.gq.com/story/was-mi...
LA Asks: Was Mike Davis Right?
As Los Angeles burns, the writer Rosecrans Baldwin hears echoes of the furious, compassionate late intellectual.
www.gq.com
January 15, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Endnotes 1-5 (pdfs)

Endnotes 1 (2008): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 2 (2010): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 3 (2013): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 4 (2015): files.libcom.org/files/Endnot...
Endnotes 5 (2019):
files.libcom.org/files/2022-0...
January 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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The ride is meant to honor those hanged in Mankato but also the thousands of people later forced from their homelands. Riders also want to preserve this painful history of the Dakota in the hope of helping heal the intergenerational trauma it created.
Pain, hope, history share the ride as Dakota Exiles commemorate Mankato hangings
A nearly 300-mile journey ends in Mankato this week to mark the 161st year anniversary of one of the grimmest chapters in Dakota history, the hanging of 38 men after the U.S.- Dakota War. Riders hope ...
www.mprnews.org
December 24, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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Two vital pieces of info b4 Black Friday:

1. Price trackers have proven that Amazon has been slowly hiking prices so they can pretend to slash them on Black Friday/Cyber Monday. There are no actual deals. Just the appearance of them.

2. Amazon workers are on strike

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.th...
Amazon workers in 20 countries to protest or strike on Black Friday
Workers and their representatives to press US retailer to respect their rights and take action on the climate crisis
www.google.com
November 28, 2024 at 5:23 AM
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This is priceless….

The moment that Doug Ford realized he didn’t understand what Trump’s tariff promise actually meant.

Let’s not forget Doug has given Donald his “unwavering support” for years.

Tariffs, Trump & Ford - none are good for workers

#OntLab #OnPoli @oflabour.bsky.social
November 27, 2024 at 2:24 AM
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“…now is the time to stick your fingers down your throat and get that sick tech bro poison out of your system.” - essential survival tactics by the brilliant @carolecadwalla.bsky.social 🔥🔥🔥

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 8:06 PM