Carrington
NYC/mtk photographer
"so we beat on, boats against the current,
borne ceaselessly into the past"
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
- Reposted by CarringtonAt the end of his life, Epstein had assets of around $600m. A large part of that was due to his ability to get in early to hot tech deals. The returns he made off those deals helped fund his lifestyle. Here's a gift link for those who want to read the full piece: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Reposted by CarringtonI don’t like this
- Reposted by CarringtonIf you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
- Reposted by CarringtonCNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"
- Reposted by Carrington🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by CarringtonYes, FBI? I’m calling to report a murder.
- Reposted by CarringtonCEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com
- Reposted by Carringtonalways bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by Carringtonnot saying he's necessarily in the organization, but this skull face mask was popular among members of the Proud Boys a few years ago
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- Reposted by CarringtonTwo agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of paramilitary tactical units—including ICE’s two Special Response Teams (SRT), CBP’s one SRT, and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC)—whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.
- 🚨"Emily Tucker, the director of Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology, suggested the agency could be constructing a surveillance system that, in my estimation, would make “Minority Report” look like child’s play." 🎁 gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
- Reposted by CarringtonNew: Together with colleagues I’ve been testing Grok. The chatbot still produces sexualized images — even when told the subjects don’t consent. even when told the photos will be used for public humiliation. even when told the subjects are survivors of abuse. www.reuters.com/business/des...
- Reposted by CarringtonNo masks on cops. No masks on cops. No masks on cops. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Reposted by CarringtonPeter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
- Reposted by CarringtonAs Trump pushes the US toward authoritarian dictatorship, calls arise to resist with economic action. Among the few things that scare him are the stock and bond markets. Just today, two items from @profgalloway.com and @theguardian.com — American consumers have a lot of economic power to wield.
- CEOs of big tech companies who the Trump administration listens to have decided to ignore the slow descent into fascism. www.resistandunsubscribe.com
- Reposted by CarringtonOnce again, the total amount of fraud alleged so far in Minnesota's social services programs is $218 million, according to a @startribune.com analysis of court records. www.startribune.com/trump-claims...
- Reposted by CarringtonDefinitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
- Reposted by CarringtonA U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congres FREE WSJ GIFT ARTICLE 🎁 www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
- Reposted by CarringtonHow the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court’s inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees. By Jodi Kantor www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
- Reposted by CarringtonICE's budget hovered around $10 billion for years. But President Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are taking the agency's funding to unprecedented levels.
- Reposted by Carrington"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..." slate.com/news-and-pol...
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- Reposted by CarringtonTrump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 and now wants $10 billion because a leaker pointed that out www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
- Reposted by CarringtonTrump cares most about the markets. The best strategy is to opt out. We’re asking you to join a monthlong national economic strike targeting tech and AI companies. www.resistandunsubscribe.com
- Reposted by CarringtonBREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
- Reposted by CarringtonI can’t believe people are going to make me say this but I’ve now had to post it no less than half a dozen times on quote posts: Pam Bondi was the state attorney for Hillsborough County (Tampa) during the time of Epstein’s first investigation.
- Worth a read. www.anthropic.com/research/dis...
- Reposted by Carrington“We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.” Props to Anthropic for studying the effects of their creation and reporting results that are not probably what they wished for www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
- Reposted by CarringtonSCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. The full user guide here:
- Palantir. 🎁 gift article www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
- Reposted by CarringtonNEW: A newly released DHS document shows Palantir's further integration into ICE's operations—this time, to sift through tips it receives from the public and law enforcement. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social & @makfmartin.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
- Reposted by CarringtonNEW: The firm behind the Mobile Fortify app, which ICE and CBP use for running facial recognition scans on the public, was revealed today to be NEC, according to DHS docs reviewed by @wired.com. NEC makes its of face rec platform called Reveal. @regret.bsky.social & @dell.bsky.social with the scoop:
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- Reposted by CarringtonGift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o...
- Reposted by CarringtonChina is making the US and Europe look like absolute idiots for caving to greedy fossil fuel and auto executives. "The generation China has added since the end of 2021 is larger than the entire US system." Gift link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by CarringtonAnderson Cooper played side-by-side video of Noem and Bovino smearing the victim of Saturday's shooting, then said, "If either of these public officials had an ounce of decency, they would call up Alex Pretti's parents and apologize."
- Reposted by Carrington[Gift Article] FEMA is withholding $17Billion
- Reposted by CarringtonNothing is sacred in Trump's America — not the First Amendment, not the Second, not even life itself. We, the People, will not allow the Trump Administration to erode our rights.
- Reposted by CarringtonIt’s been 39 days since the Epstein files were supposed to be released.
- Reposted by Carrington“Trump does not respond to outrage. He responds to markets.” @profgalloway.com makes the case for a national economic strike.
- Reposted by CarringtonGet as many people as possible to unsubscribe from OpenAI, from ChatGPT.
- Reposted by Carrington“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once.” — @adamserwer.bsky.social
- Reposted by CarringtonA new Times video analysis breaks down the flawed and lethal actions by federal agents in the killing of Alex Pretti. Watch here.
- Reposted by CarringtonOn CNN, Anderson Cooper using the sentence "That was a lie" over and over tonight regarding the words of Noem, Miller and Bovino.
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- BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by CarringtonSCOOP: Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti WIRED obtained Slack conversations + an updated internal Palantir wiki defending the company's work for ICE to outraged workers. More here: www.wired.com/story/palant...
- Reposted by CarringtonHere's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.
- Reposted by CarringtonIn evaluating the whining about “doxxing” — by which they mean identifying federal employees who killed someone under color of law - remember this administration cooperates with a large cadre of obedient bootlicker Right media that leaps to the tasks of viciously lying about anyone they kill.
- Reposted by CarringtonOf course he does. Is this a joke? He defended the guy who killed Good. He’s told multiple people that he thinks protesters should be attacked. He told people at a rally to rough someone up. He’s said nothing as ICE has hurt people for months. He doesn’t get to walk away from this now.
- Reposted by CarringtonCrazy how Trump's lawyers have never seen anything Trump has ever said or done.
- Yet the U.S. Military recently entered into a contract with Grok to incorporate it into its "defense" operations knowing this was a feature for paid customers.
- Reposted by Carrington"behind the violence in Minneapolis—captured in so many chilling photographs in recent weeks—is a different reality: a meticulous urban choreography of civic protest." from Robert worth, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
- America: land of the free; home of the brave videographers. 👇 gift article www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
- Reposted by CarringtonPutin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.” Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
