Clive Thompson
Writer, musician, hobbyist coder. Wired / NYT Magazine / Mother Jones, author of "Coders". Blog at clivethompson.medium.com. Free "Linkfest" newsletter ("the opposite of doomscrolling"): shorturl.at/XcutG. Built weirdoldbookfinder.net
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonElizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonA retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account. A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech. New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonDavid French: This is not a drill www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonThanks to the roughly 60 people who took part in Toronto's solidarity ride for Alex Pretti, as well as to the over 100 other cities around the world who also hosted rides. Here's a video I recorded as the ride passed by Queen's Park. #BikeTO #BikeSky #TOpoli #VikingBiking #StopICE
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonI ❤️ Minneapolis This ride was incredible, especially our interactions with folks at the memorials and with neighbors cheering on from their windows/porches. ICE out, now.
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonThe post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
- It's disturbing to see many of the the major figures in moral cognition all over the Epstein files He was friendly with a huge number of the leading figures in the field, including giving millions to their labs, long after he pled guilty to sexually abusing young girls www.justice.gov/epstein
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonProud of you, Milwaukee 🫡
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonDear ICE/DHS/CBP you have no idea what level of compassion and love for our neighbors you have opened up in Minnesota! 3,000+ cyclists in 20° weather biked seven miles for a man we loved, a city we love, and ALL of our neighbors that we love. Whose Streets? Our Streets!
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonTarrant County is the largest red county in the nation. I cannot emphasize enough how big this is. Rehmet winning this race against Wambsganss would be an earthquake of Biblical proportions.
- This job posting by xAI -- to hire remote writing specialists -- is morbidly fascinating: job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/501... I would have understood xAI, like their owner -- and X itself -- to be staunchly arrayed against traditional culture elites, yes? yet, my goodness ... 1/4
- A terrific essay by my friend @christopherallbritton.com that adds a useful new element for thinking about enshittification "The fragmentation flywheel" hypertext.niskanencenter.org/p/the-fragme...
- this is a really excellent essay a good tracking of where the burn-it-all-down-including-me impulse has come from, and where it's going
- Reposted by Clive Thompson"We'll take our stand for this land & the stranger in our midst..." Powerful. Brutal. Inspirational. A loving tribute to Renée Good, Alex Pretti & the good people of Minneapolis. Plus, it name-checks all the villains: the Puppy Killer🐶, Pee-Wee German🇩🇪, the Orange Atrocity🍊💩 & above all: ICE🧊🚫 1/
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonWe already have a warrant requirement. It's called the US Constitution. If that's not fucking binding them, what the hell does your little agreement mean?
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- Reposted by Clive Thompsonpeople prob gonna get worked up about other stuff here but please understand: this is what hotel rooms were supposed to look like. we have lost our way
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonScrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonLooking at the mug shots Bondi posted of folks who allegedly impeded ICE officers... I'm reminded me of some of the iconic 1960s images of 'criminals' from counter sitins and freedom rides
- I think I’m gonna quickly vibe code a messaging app where you are only able to communicate using these flags
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonThis is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.
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- Reposted by Clive ThompsonI’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
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- Reposted by Clive ThompsonJames O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
- Reposted by Clive Thompson40 years ago today, Voyager 2 became the first (and, so far, only) spacecraft to visit to Uranus, sending back astonishing images of the planet, its thin rings, and its peculiar set of moons. 🧪🔭 www.nasa.gov/history/35-y...
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonSince July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process. This is one that stands out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Clive ThompsonWhat's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonIf they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonI said this last time but their real position is “if you disagree with us we can kill you.”
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- Reposted by Clive ThompsonA video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonYou have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
- JUST IN: Lawyers file declaration in federal court from first-hand witness to immigration agents' shooting of a US citizen onlookers today. Minneapolis Mayor Frey said details would be used to bolster case for ousting ICE from city. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonImagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonOne thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonI attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonJust staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonDo you know how hard it is to get cops to seemingly side with people shot by a bunch of officers
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- Reposted by Clive ThompsonThey are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonSeeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is
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- Reposted by Clive Thompsonit's cool that so many people in positions of power and influence were so negatively polarized by "wokeness" that they convinced themselves that there was an actual debate about who wanted to erase history and the "wokes" were on the wrong side bsky.app/profile/arch...
- Interesting observation about the White House's attack on universities and scientists it differs from other, previous authoritarians and fascists, like Stalin and Hitler ... ... and it's closer to Mao's Cultural Revolution www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202... unpaywalled: archive.is/smemj
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- hey tech folks! I'm doing a story that touches on ... ... the job market for computer-science grads what's it like out there? if you're a CS grad, love to hear your 2 cents (or know one? end 'em my way) hit me up at clive@clivethompson.net (repost this to anywhere people might see it, too 🤘🤖)
- Reposted by Clive ThompsonTalked to a Somali man today who said his mosque last night was surrounded by neighbors ready to protect them against ICE if needed. Made me feel proud to live in this city.
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- Reposted by Clive ThompsonICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
