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2026-04-10 12:40:13 UTC

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The white men in charge of ICE, including Trump, have
1. killed 31 detainees in ICE custody in 2025, the highest number recently, and
2. killed 6 detainees already in 2026.
So this is 37 times as much murder as the single murder Trump posted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_deaths_in_ICE_detention

2026-04-09 23:24:59 UTC

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Ah, now I understand why they're throwing the DACA recipients out.
It's an executive memo signed by Barack Obama.
(And it never conferred any legal rights. So people who relied on it were always in a dangerous situation.)

2026-04-07 23:18:36 UTC

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Another Canadian detained by ICE. Along with her 7h year old daughter. (Tanya Warner.)
She didn't think it could happen to her. She lives in Texas. She thought they were only arresting criminals. Which is weird because most of the time they say they're not.

2026-04-06 12:54:08 UTC

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Donald Trump, Epstein's friend, is making United States citizens safer by NOT going after the criminals.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations

2026-04-02 21:31:56 UTC

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The death of the elderly gentleman who was left by ICE outside a Tim Hortons on a cold night has been ruled a homicide.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/buffalo-refugee-border-patrol-homicide

2026-03-30 23:39:00 UTC

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Another ICE detainee is dead. Mexico wants answers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15dvdx32v0o

2026-03-29 21:37:03 UTC

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Police can get paid by Trump to deport people including minors. Some payments are per arrest so that would be a bounty.
Blue states don't receive these payments.
I'm not linking to the original journalist's source because it's on Substack and Substack allows literal Nazi websites on its platform.
https://www.rawstory.com/ice-2676617018/

2026-03-26 12:49:57 UTC

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Cities are facing huge bills for police overtime because of ICE having been deployed.
Extra costs for overtime in Los Angeles, for example, was $17 million for about _ten days_.
The response time for police calls more than doubled because the officers were busy elsewhere.

2026-03-25 17:52:00 UTC

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"Tania Warner described the treatment of her and her daughter as “horrific” from the start. After being held for about 5.5 hours at the checkpoint, they were sent to the first facility, where “every single person … was handcuffed – including children”, the mother said.
There, they slept on the floor on 2in mats and the lights were on 24 hours a day. Agents would not let Warner call a lawyer and constantly pressured her to sign documents agreeing to “self-deport”."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/canadian-mother-detention-warns-immigrants

2026-03-25 16:41:53 UTC

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Petey Hegseth would like you to volunteer for ICE.
Well first of all, _if you're a white supremacist_ he wants you to volunteer for ICE.
Secondly, this sounds like a great way to go to jail and not get paid while doing so.
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/20/pentagon-ice-dhs-cbp-civilian-volunteer-force/

2026-03-23 22:49:28 UTC

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" "You haven't seen it yet. You know we've just been here a short while, in another two or three months, you're going to have, like, no crime," Trump said." "
Right grandpa. Take your meds.
(Really it's lies lies lies. And where are those Epstein files anyway?)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-trump-joins-memphis-safe-task-force-roundtable-initiative-aimed-at-combating-crime

2026-03-21 19:39:44 UTC

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Canadian mother and her 7-year-old daughter legally in the United States have been detained by ICE.
If you travel to the United States, or through it, or remain in it on a visa, it is always within the realm of possibility that you will be detained.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-woman-texas-ice-facility-9.7135607

2026-03-21 03:04:23 UTC

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ICE.
When you need your baby mama deported because you're in a custody battle ...
ICE is there for you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/paolo-zampolli-ice-melania-trump-epstein.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UlA.MsdA.hcwNjGUd_pNA

2026-03-18 01:35:00 UTC

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Judges need to start referring lawyers to lose their licenses. Then there won't even be first years to do the criminal work.

2026-03-18 01:33:25 UTC

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Ahah what a DISASTER.

2026-03-17 21:25:08 UTC

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Looks like vibe coding is garbage.
Rewriting SQLite in Rust using AI resulted in:
"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless." "
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

2026-03-16 17:21:19 UTC

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Another report about him as well as another detainee who was killed while in ICE custody, or very shortly afterward.
https://www.jezebel.com/ices-latest-victims-were-41-and-31-and-healthy-before-they-died-on-the-agencys-watch

2026-03-16 17:03:45 UTC

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Another death of a healthy person in ICE custody.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/afghan-asylum-seeker-dies-less-24-hours-ice-custody-rcna263626
Edit: My auto correct somehow replaced "beauty" for "healthy". I meant healthy.

2026-03-15 01:12:40 UTC

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"In his top post at the Department of Homeland Security, David Harvilicz sets policy on protecting the nation’s elections infrastructure, including voting machines.
He’s also the co-founder of a company with James Penrose, who helped hatch debunked conspiracy theories blaming hacked voting machines for Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. Penrose assisted in a push to seize voting machines to overturn Trump’s defeat."
Oh good

2026-03-15 01:03:21 UTC

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Somehow I didn't realize until today that the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for election security.
No wonder Trump wants all the white supremacists to join ICE (a branch of DHS).
https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-official-responsible-for-election-security-previously-called-to-ban-voting-machines/

2026-03-11 22:43:45 UTC

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Advertiser:
Tell me all your deep dark secrets so I can target you with ads.
Person:
No way
Advertiser in the guise of AI chat bot:
Tell me all your deep dark secrets so I can target you with ads.
Person:
Okily dokily Ms. Sentient Computer. After all, you're my best friend.

2026-03-10 19:10:46 UTC

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DHS just fired some border patrol employees who did not want to follow illegal orders.
From Wired, paywalled though:
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-privacy-threshold-analysis-foia/

2026-03-08 13:45:38 UTC

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... A wide range of characteristics, including sharing similar work schedules to or being in a WhatsApp group with a known Hamas member, would raise one’s score. If an individual’s number reached a certain level, they would automatically be put on a list."
https://www.mintpressnews.com/x-users-find-their-real-names-are-being-googled-in-israel-after-using-x-verification-software-au10tix/290703/

2026-03-08 13:45:09 UTC

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Here's your modern use of "AI": to automatically be targeted to be killed based on perceived connections to undesirables.
"Surely their most deadly endeavor, however, is Project Lavender. The group developed the Lavender software, which uses A.I. and big data to develop a profile on every person in Gaza (including children), assigning them a score of 1-100, based on individuals’ perceived connections to Hamas. ...

2026-03-07 20:11:58 UTC

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"Imprisonment in the camps was usually indefinite, and whilst (initially) some people were released in just a few days, most endured weeks, months or years of detention. Sanitation and facilities were extremely poor across all camps. Brutal treatment, torture and humiliation was commonplace."
...
Oh sorry, this quote is from a website about Nazi concentration camps. My mistake.

2026-03-07 19:59:42 UTC

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"Detainees struggle to obtain medication and health care, lose concerning amounts of weight because of a lack of food, and live in fear of private security guards known to use force to put down disturbances. The ceilings in the windowless tents leak when it rains, and detainees only see sunlight during brief outings once or twice a week to a cramped recreation yard."

2026-03-07 19:59:31 UTC

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"The detainees describe a camp where an average of about 3,000 people have lived per day in loud and unsanitary quarters, diseases spread easily and sleep is a luxury. The center will be closed to visitors until at least March 19 because of a measles outbreak ..."
_Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE’s largest detention facility_
https://apnews.com/article/suicide-ice-detention-centers-b2d1cb0e4b579e0d89caabd00aa04e34

2026-03-06 04:39:04 UTC

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We're never getting rid of this stupid LLM stuff because it appears to be talking to us and we humans love that. Oh boy.

2026-03-06 04:36:48 UTC

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Me: Asks legal search engine "AI" for "I want a high-level case about adverse inference."
It thinks for 30 seconds then spits out "adverse inference" without any further limitation (which is as difficult as selecting appeal courts in a drop down).
I could have typed "adverse inference" in the box myself and saved 394 gallons of fresh water

2026-03-03 11:57:31 UTC

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Anthropic tossed its guardrails and adopts a non-binding safety policy.
Fastest "don't be evil" to "meh, evil is not so bad, really" in recent memory. (Google took a bunch of years to get there, for ex.)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change

2026-02-28 15:29:01 UTC

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and/or bribed

2026-02-26 13:57:39 UTC

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"artificial intelligence" involves cutting high-paying jobs and outsourcing training the "AI" to the cheapest possible human beings. (In this case, forcing women in rural India to watch abuse videos for 8 hours a day to train the AI. It could also be driving robotaxis. It's all a con.)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/feb/05/in-the-end-you-feel-blank-indias-female-workers-watching-hours-of-abusive-content-to-train-ai

2026-02-25 21:42:04 UTC

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Jail for everyone up and down the chain of command.
"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead."
https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/

2026-02-23 17:48:59 UTC

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So, if you ask generative "AI" to give you a password it will give you a crummy easily guessed password because of course it will. Why would it be random. People doing this are fools for using generative "AI" to generate a password. And they're probably fools for using it for other things too.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/generating_passwords_with_llms/

2026-02-20 22:52:37 UTC

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Call me when the headline reads "AI blames human for coding" because then I know we will have arrived.
_Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake
Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools._
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/882005/amazon-blames-human-employees-for-an-ai-coding-agents-mistake

2026-02-20 19:24:18 UTC

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Would you like some psychosis with your gasoline spaghetti?
_Lawsuit: ChatGPT told student he was “meant for greatness”—then came psychosis _
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/before-psychosis-chatgpt-told-man-he-was-an-oracle-new-lawsuit-alleges/

2026-02-20 16:28:08 UTC

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Hey everyone, the guy who made billions selling shovels to people shoveling "AI" is saying "AI" is not a bubble, and that the investment money into "AI" is just the start.
He's trustworthy and impartial on this issue, right? 🤡
There's gold in them thar hills, right? Here, buy my shovel and go find it.
_Nvidia’s Huang says AI investment is just beginning, dismisses AI bubble fears_
https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202602190001

2026-02-20 16:22:45 UTC

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...A full 25 percent of survey respondents said they see the AI bubble as the largest risk — even more so than inflation and geopolitical conflict. And 30 percent said that AI expenditures were the most likely source of a credit crisis."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/blinking-new-warning-sign-ai-industry

2026-02-20 16:22:32 UTC

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"In total, big tech companies are predicted to spend a record-breaking $650 billion on AI in 2026 alone, astronomical commitments that have Wall Street seriously on edge.
...
According to a new Bank of America survey of 162 fund managers, a significant 35 percent said corporations are overinvesting in capital expenditures
...

2026-02-20 12:59:38 UTC

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Oh good. Some of my Law Society fees are going towards generative AI. By "good" I mean "stop burning my money".
“The 2026 budget:
Enhances access to legal information: Funding to support CanLII’s Generative AI project, in collaboration with other Canadian law societies, to develop and operate an AI powered legal research product that will facilitate access to information.”
From a recent Law Society update justifying the fee increase they are charging. (I posted here https://www.crookston.ca/wp/2026/02/20/law-society-fees-going-towards-generative-ai/)

2026-02-19 17:22:13 UTC

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Oh no my drafts are being ingested by Copilot! Whatever will I do!
Pic: It's a draft e-mail to "microsoft AI" which reads "Is Bill Gates a pedophile? He seems concerned about the Epstein Files. I mean, could he be a pedophile? Bill Gates a pedophile? Could he have committed crimes such as would be committed by a pedophile? Bill Gates, I mean?"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/098/444/054/619/490/original/5376e4f698183f88.png

2026-02-19 14:18:44 UTC

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"Microsoft has confirmed that a bug allowed its Copilot AI to summarize customers’ confidential emails for weeks without permission."
Microsoft said the bug, trackable by admins as CW1226324, means that draft and sent email messages “with a confidential label applied are being incorrectly processed by Microsoft 365 Copilot chat.”
DRAFTS?!
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-says-office-bug-exposed-customers-confidential-emails-to-copilot-ai/

2026-02-19 04:28:23 UTC

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Just reviewed another chatGPT output and it's full of legal errors.

2026-02-17 12:48:35 UTC

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In fairness, I'd suggest there's not much daylight between the two Cab driving was also institutionalized wage-stealing. Really just last generation Uber without the GPS. I mean, renting the cab medallion was a thing. And the cab. Let's see if Uber rolls out car rentals at some point (if they haven't already). Or makes their platform a subscription model for drivers.

2026-02-14 14:50:36 UTC

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As I said.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/069/537/339/698/133/original/2ac462294f71c6c7.png

2026-02-14 14:49:29 UTC

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There's no gun discipline because these are white supremacists paid over $100,000 a year to live out their fever dream of abusing anyone they want.
If you haven't bumped into them yet you'll get to know them at the voting polls at the midterm elections.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/01/30/st-peter-police-chief-intervenes-prevents-federal-agents-from-arresting-resident

2026-02-14 14:41:37 UTC

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Reminder a convicted felon who is also almost assuredly a pedophile (by his own words) is President of the United States

2026-02-14 14:24:12 UTC

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_Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped._
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/
"Detained immigrants have filed more than 20,000 lawsuits seeking their release"

2026-02-13 22:29:27 UTC

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_'Even in Russia, they don't treat children like this': A family's nightmare in ICE detention
A Russian couple and their children sought asylum in the U.S. In a Texas detention center, they say they endured worms in the food and hourslong waits for medicine._
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/russian-family-ice-detention-dilley-texas-nightmare-immigration-rcna258377

2026-02-13 13:04:24 UTC

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Not about ICE but related.
So they're going to look for fraud in the naturalization process and then they're going to spend years and years and years to deport one person? They should focus on the criminals but they're not. Biden and Obama did a better job of focusing on the criminals Trump. Trump's just wasting a huge amount of money.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-working-expand-effort-strip-citizenship-foreign-b-rcna255427

2026-02-12 21:15:23 UTC

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/lawyers-of-chicago-woman-shot-by-federal-agents-say-documents-show-how-dhs-lies-about-investigations
"Marimar Martinez, a teaching assistant and U.S. citizen, was shot five times by a Border Patrol agent in October while in her vehicle. She was charged with a felony after Homeland Security officials accused her of trying to ram agents with her vehicle. But the case was dismissed after videos emerged showing an agent steering his vehicle into Martinez's vehicle."
Thank god for the video

2026-02-12 17:52:18 UTC

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...detained legal immigrants and shipped them across state lines, including young children; caused numerous car crashes; deployed chemical irritants on public school property; smashed the car windows of observers and arrested them before releasing them without charges; charged journalists and activists while stymieing investigations of federal agents, leading to an exodus of prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, among other high-profile incidents."

2026-02-12 17:52:09 UTC

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"The announcement comes a little over two weeks after Homan arrived in the state, taking over control of an operation that had, by any measure, spun out of control.
Since the beginning of the year, immigration agents have shot three people, killing two; racially profiled people, asking them to produce proof of legal residency; ...

2026-02-12 17:51:21 UTC

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"Homan, who reportedly was investigated for receiving $50,000 in cash from an undercover FBI agent in 2024 in an alleged bribery scheme, said the personnel here for fraud investigations will remain."
Slow clap Minnesota Reformer. Slow clap.
https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/border-czar-tom-homan-announces-end-to-operation-metro-surge-claiming-success/

2026-02-12 17:50:25 UTC

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_Border Patrol’s Greg Bovino seen lobbing smoke canister as agents use chemicals in Minneapolis
At 28th and Blaisdell, a Minnesota Star Tribune photographer captured a close-up of federal agents spraying an irritant in a person’s face. Around the same time, Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino was captured on video tossing a smoke canister._
Now why would a senior person want to be lobbing gas canisters personally unless he got off on that kind of stuff.
https://www.startribune.com/border-patrol-greg-bovino-smoke-canister-chemical-spray-ice-protests-observers-minneapolis-dhs/601568184

2026-02-12 12:54:02 UTC

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AI agent posting code and published personal attacks about the code maintainers who rejected the code (in accordance with the project rules).
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
Good times indeed.

2026-02-12 00:41:44 UTC

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_Mexican Immigrant Says ICE Agents Beat Him Up, While Agency Claims He ‘Purposefully Ran Headfirst into a Brick Wall’
Alberto Castañeda Mondragón said he suffered eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages_
https://people.com/immigrant-says-ice-agents-beat-him-up-agency-claims-he-ran-into-brick-wall-11902133

2026-02-11 23:51:00 UTC

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_“I always loved Trump, this is unfair”: Republican mayor can’t believe he’s facing deportation after 50 years in US_
https://www.kansas.com/news/state/article313143711.html
“I haven’t seen Mexico since I was four,” Ceballos said. “I don’t speak Spanish anymore. If I get deported it would wreck my life.”
"Well at least I'm not THAT guy"
- Guy whose face is being eaten by leopards

2026-02-11 23:43:58 UTC

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_Border chief Greg Bovino emailed agent who shot Chicago woman five times to congratulate him_
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2026/feb/11/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-iran-jeffrey-epstein-jobs-economy-us-politics-live-news-updates

2026-02-11 23:34:32 UTC

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Bonaly was the only female athlete capable of the skill at that time, and later told reporters that she wanted to “show the judges – who don’t appreciate what I do – just what I can do.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carolineprice/2026/02/09/the-complicated-and-controversial-history-of-figure-skatings-backflip/

2026-02-11 18:56:07 UTC

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Thank you. i completely forgot about this. And she did it deliberately, knowing she would lose points, in order to make a statement about unfairness in scoring as I recall. She threw it into her routine on the fly. Amazing.

2026-02-10 18:22:28 UTC

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Microsoft's subscriber numbers for paid Copilot (its "AI") are dismal.
"Microsoft is investing heavily in artificial intelligence, but customers’ willingness to pay is barely keeping pace. Despite new records in user numbers, only 3.3 percent of users pay for the copilot - a discrepancy that raises questions." "
https://winfuture.de/news,156745.html
(Article is in German)

2026-02-09 20:37:26 UTC

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Here are the kinds of people Trump hired to be ICE goons:
"After they passed a group of ICE agents on the way to work, a vehicle with two ICE officers inside followed them, rolled its window down, with one of the officers calling her a “Karen” for briefly filming with her phone.
“The exchange from the male driver was, ‘I’m gonna arrest three more families today, just for you, ha ha ha – and this evil, sinister laugh,” Brennan said. “We were both stunned and shocked.”"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/maine-ice-raids

2026-02-09 17:08:01 UTC

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_AI chatbots pose 'dangerous' risk when giving medical advice, study suggests_
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3093gjy2ero

2026-02-09 14:51:44 UTC

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Related article about how machine bias works against minorities.
_Machine Bias. There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks._ (2016)
https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing

2026-02-08 04:49:59 UTC

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Looks like another group of scientists have been caught fudging results. Not reporting primary outcomes, not reporting all data, etc
This group received 1.6 million dollars of funding from Trump to knock vaccines.
Anyway we see some of the same games being played in the Loeb paper. Data not reported. More people enrolled after-the-fact. Poor procedure (which tends to fail to show N95s are better than medical masks - something they asserted from the beginning). Etc.
https://www.science.org/content/article/controversial-danish-vaccine-research-group-faces-new-allegations

2026-02-06 19:10:39 UTC

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_Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility_
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note

2026-02-06 13:13:30 UTC

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"In a post from this week, another user wrote, 'Hiring folks with tattoos on their head and neck is a little disturbing. Also, this 3 week virtual academy is extremely embarrassing and will end up embarrassing all of us who had to put the time in at [Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers].'” "
Hiring Nazis
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-ice-forum-where-agents-complain-about-their-jobs/

2026-02-03 05:06:39 UTC

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"Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." "
https://emptywheel.net/2026/02/02/stephen-miller-paid-latino-thugs-to-murder-alex-pretti/

2026-02-02 01:28:56 UTC

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Glorious jobs for the new AI economy!
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/112711063502308769

2026-02-02 01:23:34 UTC

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LLM use made coders 19% slower, although they thought they'd be 24% faster.
But this is okay because it we train the models 25% more, we can get this down to 15% slower and eventually [something something underpants] we can fire everyone and profit.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/study-finds-ai-tools-made-open-source-software-developers-19-percent-slower/
P.S. "What do you mean the lake we use to cool the data centre is dry"

2026-01-30 14:57:57 UTC

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Here is Tom Homan saying that people with _no_ criminal records would be deported.
"undocumented immigrants with no criminal records would be deported."
Obama had more deportations and focused on the criminals. Trump has fewer deportations and he's not focused on the criminals, meaning criminals get to live in the United States for longer because they're not being deported.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/113911986421128738

2026-01-30 14:55:11 UTC

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Homan speaking at Turning Point USA. He's a far right nut. I don't care that he worked under Obama.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/114842987111677903

2026-01-30 14:53:31 UTC

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Homan ain't a moderating change, people.
"Tom Homan has now threatened Ocasio-Cortez, a sitting House representative ..."
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/114006063853493577

2026-01-30 14:52:02 UTC

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Homan 1
Tom Homan now saying he will flood sanctuary cities with ICE thugs.
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/115109758466678023

2026-01-27 16:56:54 UTC

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Someone being interviewed on PBS is suggesting Trump is reversing.
🤡
Good luck with that thought. Denial sure does run deep, don't it.

2026-01-26 15:17:44 UTC

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Some refs for those interested, as if they're even needed ...
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/113479628942009504
#note1wsv…9rfp

2026-01-26 14:45:58 UTC

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Trump is the laziest man alive

2026-01-26 14:43:25 UTC

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"... By 1938, the height restrictions were relaxed, up to six dental fillings were permitted, and eyeglasses for astigmatism and mild vision correction were allowed.[10] Once World War II began in Europe, the physical requirements were no longer strictly enforced.[10]" 😂🤡
Trump just started at the bottom.
He's got nowhere to go but down, scraping right through the bottom of the barrel.
Want 100k a year? Want to shoot dark skinned people? You're hired.

2026-01-26 14:42:57 UTC

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It's always a race to the bottom with these fascists.
"They were to be German nationals who could prove their Aryan ancestry back to 1750 for officer positions (1800 for party leadership[8]), unmarried, and without a criminal record. Recruits had to be between the ages of 17 and 23, at least 1.74 metres (5 ft 9 in) tall (1.78 metres (5 ft 10 in) for the Leibstandarte). Recruits were required to have perfect teeth and eyesight and provide a medical certificate.[9] ...

2026-01-26 06:01:45 UTC

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The SS ran the concentration camps under the NAZIs.
The ICE runs the concentration camps under the MAGAs.

2026-01-26 05:59:51 UTC

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"The camps often met with approval from Germans while they were in operation, due in part to Nazi propaganda depicting the prisoners as dangerous criminals."
- Wikipedia
_Trump says he wants to deport ‘the worst of the worst.’ Government data tells another story_
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-immigration-crime-ice-criminal-dangerous-violent-99557d9d68642004193a9f4b7668162e

2026-01-26 04:18:13 UTC

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The number of immigrants without criminal records or charges pending has skyrocketed under Trump.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/29/trump-immigration-ice-cbp-data
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/959/466/231/511/740/original/fd2364cef46cd49b.png

2026-01-25 06:21:35 UTC

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ICE thug caught on hot mic saying "it's like Call of Duty! So cool huh!"
(COD is a first-person shooter video game)
https://mastodon.social/@npub19y7…zea7/115953574952481380

2026-01-24 21:12:14 UTC

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Video of the incident, from https://thelemmy.club/post/42990481
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/952/129/166/651/335/original/724a96c24c32b962.mp4

2026-01-24 21:10:44 UTC

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This is what Kristi Noem's DHS said about the incident
"This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement," the agency said."
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/24/nx-s1-5687276/man-shot-dead-minneapolis

2026-01-24 21:06:48 UTC

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It goes without saying, but even if he was armed you don't shoot a person five times when he's on the ground.
And yes, reminder that these sorts of things happen with the police and so it's a constant battle to get rid of the bad apples.
The entirety of the Trump administration are bad apples. So the only way to remedy this is to get rid of all of them.

2026-01-24 21:05:50 UTC

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DHS is now saying he was armed.
After every execution they blame the victim.
This is no different.
They are lying about the person they just executed.
They will all go to jail _ from Trump down to Noem down to the supervisor down to the hired white supremacist who executed this man - for the rest of their lives at some point in the future.

2026-01-24 16:47:24 UTC

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He has died.
(He was shot five times at point blank range left me little suprise on this point.)
Nuremberg Trials Part 2, will remember.
Trump is responsible.

2026-01-24 16:23:25 UTC

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THE MAN SHOT HAD BEEN WRESTLED TO THE GROUND AND THEY EXECUTED HIM.
"Sources, video: Man wrestled to ground by federal agents before being shot multiple times
Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation say federal agents shot a man multiple times in south Minneapolis this morning.
A video taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts shows agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him multiple times"
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426
(Same link as above)

2026-01-24 16:06:17 UTC

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_Two women, detained by ICE, say they helped agent having seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability._
https://www.startribune.com/detained-by-ice-two-women-became-first-responders-during-agents-seizure/601569667

2026-01-24 16:03:37 UTC

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_Agents detain and send 2-year-old girl and her father to Texas despite court order to release toddler_
https://www.startribune.com/agents-detain-and-send-2-year-old-girl-and-her-father-to-texas-despite-court-order-to-release-toddler/601569252

2026-01-24 16:02:49 UTC

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_Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say
January 24, 2026_
https://www.startribune.com/ice-raids-minnesota/601546426

2026-01-23 23:11:05 UTC

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B-b-but how could any German soldier realistically think saying they were just following otders would get them out of trouble?
Exhibit A: ICE

2026-01-23 20:28:51 UTC

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_"Racist” ace of spades cards left behind following ICE arrests in Eagle County, Colorado nonprofit says_
https://coloradosun.com/2026/01/23/ace-of-spades-card-ice-detentions/

2026-01-23 18:52:51 UTC

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Agree. He hates soldiers.

2026-01-23 02:17:02 UTC

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AHAHAH ICE DEPORTED SOMEONE UP ON CHARGES FOR THE LARGEST JEWELRY HEIST IN UNITED STATES HISTORY.
THE PERSON WAS A PERMANENT RESIDENT AND THEY ASKED TO SELF-DEPORT AND ICE ALLOWED IT
😂😂🤡
edit to add link https://apnews.com/article/brinks-jewelry-heist-ice-deportation-687c0197eda0ee6c8bfd1fb7f5987f35

2026-01-23 01:59:44 UTC

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JD Vance said that ICE didn't arrest a 5-year-old kid but that it couldn't let the kid freeze on the street.
Well, ICE left this kid on the street, you lying sack
https://mastodon.social/@jmcrookston/114658892920855240

2026-01-21 01:54:49 UTC

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_ICE agents drew guns on off-duty officer in Minnesota, chief says
Federal agents pulled over an off-duty officer in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, stopped her from recording the interaction and drew their guns, a local police chief said._
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/01/20/immigration-agents-minnesota-police-officer/88268058007/

2026-01-18 20:07:38 UTC

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... especially the Roter Frontkämpferbund of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), and intimidating Romani, trade unionists, and especially Jews."