pretty unremarkable

My best friend’s sister, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, her phone just got turned back on. She is a US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, they said she was not transferred to Broadview, and now she's in a detention facility in WI.

🚨 My best friend’s sis, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, phone just got turned back on. US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, said she was not transferred to Broadview, now she's in a detention facility in WI.😡

Update from Reed Showalter, who's at Broadview

"The Cook County Sheriff claims that they searched the facility and that Naqvi is not there. They also have no record that her phone is there. But there has been no actual search for her phone within the Broadview ICE Detention Center."

bill buxton wrote an entire book to address the problem that on a computer, less polished looks more polished, and so stakeholders will assume that what you're showing them is much farther along than it actually is so you have to spend effort making it look sketchy

www.amazon.com/dp/0123740371

Planning a long-distance move in the midst of it and it has been pure punishment. 🙃 When will I learn?

Strongly recommend calling your US senators today to tell them:

1. Publicly call for Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting a protestor.

2. DO NOT vote to confirm Mullin for DHS.

Find your senators at reps.fyi

People Across The US Are Tearing Down Flock's Traffic Cameras - Here's Why - BGR Rapidly growing surveillance tech company Flock is seeing many of its cameras in cities across the U.S. be torn down by concerned citizens, and here's why.

“To date, the company's tech has been deployed to identify activists, track abortion visits, stalk women, and reinforce racial profiling. Security issues further exacerbated privacy concerns after activists discovered Flock accidentally exposed live camera feeds on the internet.”

At some point it ought to dawn on at least a few of the Roganpilled, FOX-watching men out there that this administration seems highly motivated to kill as many of them as it possibly can, as fast as it possibly can.

But if it doesn't, well, the writing was there on the wall for you to read, bud.

Opinion | Revoking Transgender People’s IDs Has Consequences Jae A. Puckett, L. Zachary DuBois and Noelle Martin write that revoking transgender people’s identification can invite broader discrimination.

OPINION: "Trans and nonbinary people who need to drive with an invalid license risk fines and jail time, where they would be housed according to their sex assigned at birth," Jae A. Puckett, L. Zachary DuBois and Noelle Martin write.

‘We Are Not Expendable’: Southaven Residents Fight xAI Plan for 41 Gas Turbines to Power Musk's Grok Many residents around Southaven, Mississippi, oppose xAI’s data centers and presence in their backyards, fearing for their health and environment.

Many area residents in Southaven, Mississippi, and nearby Memphis, Tennessee, oppose xAI’s growing presence in their backyards, fearing what Elon Musk’s data centers’ operations could mean for their health and the surrounding environment.
www.mississippifreepress.org/xai-faces-fi...

Court says the IRS can continue to share immigrants' taxpayer data with ICE A federal appeals court is allowing the IRS to keep sharing some taxpayer data with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Tuesday, the D.C.

A federal court in Washington, DC, allowed the IRS to share data with ICE: apnews.com/article/trea...

Finally, the Notice of Revocation states, without further detail, that Petitioner “ha[s] not been compliant with the terns [sic] of your release.” Ex. D, Dkt. 7-4, at 1. Nothing in Petitioner’s Order of Supervision requires him to submit to the jurisdiction of seabirds.

on Fridays we write fun briefs

a couple of birds are standing on a beach . Alt: Birds on a beach are shown behaving combatively, circling each other and occasionally snapping their beaks.

Terns everywhere: We want no part of this.

The reason the current U.S. administration lies so freely is b/c they're cresting a wave of 20-30 years of lies being *completely normalized* in corporate settings.

If you work in an office, you can't go an hour without having to lie to someone. "Great talk, Tina," is a lie if the talk was no good.

A post by Bluesky user Steven Levy (@stevenlevy.bsky.social) prefaces a Wired article entitled, "Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs," with this statement: "Conversations w Jack Dorsey are always illuminating." This is a sentence that could only be typed by someone willing to tell lies for money.

Well, there went any potential remorse I might feel over sometimes using archive links to share articles. This isn't worth reading for free.

Why would someone type this sentence intentionally? For anything to change for humanity, we all have to commit to stop. Fucking. Lying. Yeah, even for money.

Shah Alam was found dead in late February.

Here in Cook County, IL, there's still no announced state or county investigation into the ICE agents who killed Silverio Villegas González last September. We don't even know their names.

Make it stick and get these banned at your favorite local business and other public access spaces using some of our tools.

You can find those here: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/glas...

for next week when I’m with his friends to say “look at this goofy shit ya mans said”

for next year when asked about other apps to say “look at the goofy shit those devs say”

for next decade when my kids ask what it was like to build Blacksky I‘ll say “look at the goofy shit we were up against”

I pay almost $8 per gallon in my country and minimum wage is $1138 per month in my country.

I can't begin to explain how stupid, and frustrating, it feels to us Europeans when Americans complain about their fuel prices.

brianmcginnisnc Brian McGinnis' wife has NOT been allowed to see him in the hospital. He is currently awaiting surgery for severe injuries. Legal counsel has also been denied access. A Marine veteran. A firefighter. A father of four. And his family still cannot see him.

so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm

Been saying only Silicon Valley has been able to spawn a generation of dudes who do Ayahuasca to experience ego birth

The formula:

Place is termed a bad neighborhood --> more policing of it --> increased crime, often exacerbated by more policing --> people & businesses who can move out, do --> property values plunge --> developers buy cheap land --> build "upscale" properties --> gentrification.

It's a racket.

2015's Ex Machina makes this explicit, when the human character you think is the protagonist finds video of past android versions, and sees that they all destroy themselves trying to escape their rooms.

"It's wrong to hold sentient beings against their wills" should not be a controversial point.

Influencers are promoting peptides for better health. What does the science say? The latest wellness craze involves injecting these molecules for athletic performance, longevity and more. Scientists say the research isn't keeping pace with the health claims.

I don't understand how we have to beg people to get vaccinated while other people are fine shooting themselves up with untested compounds for unproven "gains" risking god knows what

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

This is a really good thread. If you aren't in tech, it provides great insight into why so much of what comes out of tech lately sits somewhere on the aesthetic scale from "meh" to "creepy." And if you are in tech--then you know, but it's still nice to see this all laid out so clearly.

Congress and the President have played the “Oh this? This isn’t an actual WAR. Those rules don’t apply,” card my entire life. Yours too if you are younger than ~82.

Missourians on probation and parole can’t vote. Their rights might be restored The House has approved legislation that would allow the more than 53,000 people supervised by the state to vote.

Wow, a huge bipartisan coalition passed a bill in the Missouri House to allow anyone who is not presently incarcerated to vote.

More than half the states allow this, but Democrats have led this in the last decade. Haven't seen a GOP-led chamber pass this in that time. Big deal.

‘History Rocks!’ Tour Visits Choctaw Central Middle School for Its Only Mississippi Stop U.S. Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs William Kirkland and the “History Rocks! Trail to Independence Tour” visits Choctaw Central Middle School.

“Native American history is American history,” U.S. Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs William Kirkland told the Mississippi Free Press. “You cannot celebrate one without the other.”

“A request for a restraining order shows Palacios’ ex-wife also accused him of assault, pressuring her for sex, and kicking in a door in her home.”