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NYC's pension system is a significant shareholder in Palantir. We are using that leverage.
I have made a formal request for the company to secure a third-party assessment of the legal, reputational, civil-rights & human-rights risks associated with their work with ICE.
NYC invests in firm that helps ICE deport people. The city comptroller is concerned.
City Comptroller Mark Levine is pressing for an inquiry into Palantir Technologies, citing human rights concerns.
Vance is a prick that defies description. My mother said this is the main reason she hopes Trump doesn't die while in office. I still hope he croaks off soon.
JD Vance Won't Apologize For Amplifying Smears Against Alex Pretti
www.huffpost.com/entry/jd-van...
JD Vance Has Frosty, 2-Word Response When Asked About Apology To Alex Pretti's Family
“For what?” the vice president replied when asked if he'd be apologizing to Pretti's family.
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
For all the “drawdown” talk ICE continues to be all over Minneapolis. Feels endless
Homan is smarter than Bovino (no real feat, there). He understands that if he does stuff that signals that we’re in the denouement of the crisis, media will move on. But brutality with observers is escalating, ICE is still omnipresent. Little sign on the ground that it’s over
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Bovino needs to go.
Noem needs to go.
Miller needs to go.
But firing or impeaching any of these people will not unilaterally change what’s happening in Minnesota. That’s why Congress needs to exert some muscle over DHS/ICE funding.
New from me: I wrote about the Clicktatorship at
@theatlantic.com.
"Poster brain and authoritarianism reinforce each other: They thrive on conspiracy theories, lack all restraint, and jump to extreme solutions."
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Welcome to the Clicktatorship
In the Trump administration, even budget proposals read like Truth Social posts.
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I heard they put his phone on top of the refrigerator
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Jeff Bezos Depressed After Realizing Net Worth Still Just Number Known To Man
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Incredible. They destroyed a great newspaper because they hated the people who actually paid for it and read it so much that they'd rather scrap the paper if they couldn't get Tucker Carlson's audience
bsky.app/profile/maxt...Speaking to WaPo employees, editor Matt Murray says cuts are about “positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives, and what is becoming a more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape, and after some years when, candidly, the Post has had struggles to do that."
I don't post enough about the other central pillar of my politics, aside from anti fascism: being anti car
cars are bad in almost every way, especially in cities
if you go to even large, bustling cities that are actually dense, they are quieter than US cities because you can get away from cars
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“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.” – Russell Vought
Whoops.
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
Trump supporters like him because he acts like this, not in spite of it.
KAITLAN COLLINS: What would say to Epstein survivo---
TRUMP: You are so bad. You are the worst report. No wonder CNN has no ratings. She's a young woman. I don't think I've ever seen you smile. They should be ashamed of you.
Crime headline of the day.
didn't know prospering was illegal now
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You’ve got to FIGHT
For your RIGHT
To PARTY WITH PEOPLE WHO FUCK KIDS
Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.
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Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
The same people who want us to work to 70 are the same people who won’t hire us after 50.
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I wish we could move beyond "this isn't who we are". to "this is what it is. Now how can we change it?"
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From trailblazers like Jackie Robinson and Octavia Butler, to the proud historic community of Altadena, California's 28th District has a rich Black history paved by incredible leaders, past and present, who have broken barriers and changed our nation for the better.
Happy Black History Month.
Honestly the biggest news out of this Texas special election is that Wambsganss is a real name. I'm reconsidering my priors.
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Minnesota folks: if you know someone who needs a flight to MSP after being detained in Texas,
standwithminnesota.com has collected donated SkyMiles to help them get home -- spread the word!
So many people are commenting that for the next election DEMS shouldn't waste time on investigating MAGA crimes.
Why are dems still running scared?
We've lost almost every office because of running away from the fight
If anything's to be learned from Trump, it's push back hard & the base follows
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