The #ICE agent who killed #ReneeNicoleGood wasn’t some raw recruit with 6 weeks of training hired within the last year. He’s been an ICE agent for almost a decade!

A damning indictment of the agency, its institutional culture, and the people who choose to work there.

#FuckICE #IceOutForGood #AbolishICE

@bmacDonald94 @AssalRad I mean, I have asked people to use “Israeli” or “imperialist” or “settler-colonialist” instead of Zionist because “Zionist” has been used as a slur for Jews for many decades, and now an interim head of state is using “Zionist” in what’s probably the antisemitic way and y’all can’t tell.

@AssalRad @bmacDonald94 Oh, great. Boosting a story where the interim President of Venezuela is basically saying “the Jews did it.”

@inthehands In DC ICE also focused on majority-nonwhite neighborhoods. The DC Metropolitan Police Department escorts them and helps them target neighborhoods. I bet the Minneapolis police are doing something similar for ICE there.

@futurebird A great service for homeless people would be lockers where they could keep their really important small items but God forbid we treat homeless people like actual people, right?

@mitchw @pluralistic THE AI IS PEOPLE

Wonder what the Internet leftists whining about “imperialist” USAID think of this development. https://mstdn.ca/@dyckron/115737783689735965

@inthehands At best they are talking like dweebs who peaked in middle school.

@EndIsraeliApartheid @bmacDonald94 Of course. Netanyahu was sabotaging peace deals all the way back to when he got one of his followers to kill Yitzhak Rabin.

@StillIRise1963 @MaryAustinBooks Gladwell is a transphobe? I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

@GossiTheDog Isn’t Microsoft trying to deprecate their own on-prem products and get everyone to be on their cloud products though for those sweet subscription fees?

This @igd_news article about how D.C. is responding to Trump’s invasion tracks with what I’ve been saying.

1) The National Guard troops aren’t really the ones to worry about, at least not yet.

2) ICE and the other federal agents are the ones to really worry about.

3) The D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is showing their ass and helping the Feds target immigrant, non-white, and houseless residents of D.C.

1/2

https://itsgoingdown.org/whole-city-fighting-back-dc/

@deborahh @bmacDonald94 I don’t think this is quite right either. Maybe you don’t go on social media at all but if you bank online, submit job applications online, etc. your info is getting collected, scraped, and sold. Your ISP or cellphone provider keeps track of where you are and what sites you visit.

And there’s the whole thing about credit bureaus, which collect and sell your info even if you don’t really go online at all.

@inthehands They are trying to unpaint themselves from the corner.

@carnage4life I attended an online seminar about philanthropic uses of AI (through work) and the host was talking about a mother in a poor village with no doctor using AI to look up treatments for her young child suffering from dysentery. Being the kind of person I am, I said “it sounds like that village needs clean water a lot more than AI,” which threw off the host and which a bunch of other attendees nodded along with.

@inthehands Even odds that the stock market never really reflects deep recession/depression conditions that exist in reality because it’s a Rich People Feelings indicator and the rich have been high on their own supply for a while now.

@dalias @kenwhite.bsky.social If I made a drinking game where I took a shot every time someone on Mastodon made up a liberal to be mad at, I’d get a serious case of alcohol poisoning.

@inthehands Murkowski said she does not actually like the final version but wants the House to make adjustments to it. :P

@mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social @bmacDonald94 I’m glad my state is in on this! Why should we pay money to a hostile government that’s cutting Medicaid and leaving so many Marylanders unemployed?

@dshan @fesshole Yeah thinking a woman loves you because she’s being nice to you is 100% a man thing.