Ideofunctor

Morality > ethics

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

46-year-old Luis Sandoval died while under ICE custody at the GEO Group-ran Folkston D. Ray ICE Processing Center in Folkston, Georgia, according to an ICE press release. This is at least the 30th ICE detention death we know of this year. You can read the details on my site: izzymirez.ghost.io

This is a man who knowingly took up Nazi rhetoric to gin up the hatred behind an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Haitian refugees from his own state.

A recent post by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Why is the word violence used when a protester in France smashes a window, but not used when French police assault protesters? Is it somehow no longer violence if the action is committed by an employee of the state?

We could develop genetics to prevent dogs from getting bloat and dying because their stomach doesn’t have a tendon. Stem cells, genetics, powerful tech directed toward evil instead of easy moral wins Everyone obsessed with AI but this is the revolution that could end us

Wow! Disgusting!!

U.S. Democratic congressional nominee Brad Lander was detained along with about 80 American and Israeli rabbis and activists by Israeli security forces as they helped Palestinian olive harvesters.

Goodness gracious

This is, sadly, a pretty typical Seattle council meeting on homelessness. An overwhelming majority of public speakers explain why a how a proposed new punitive policy will harm homeless people. Supporters of the legislation display listening faces or don't, then vote for the legislation.

REPORTER: …violence in the West Bank. RUBIO: We’ve asked the Israelis and continue to ask them to crack down on that stuff. REPORTER: …one of the first decisions [Trump] took was to lift sanctions against the settlers. RUBIO: Yeah, I understand, but he doesn’t want to see what’s happening now.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he believes the U.S. government is behind his military's loss of normal access to the key satellite communications service used by the Ukrainian military.

Another person died in ICE custody Saturday morning, at the Laredo processing center owned + operated by CoreCivic, just a few miles from the U.S. - Mexico border.

Time for an era of tech trust-busting?

Caleb Howard has been an SPD officer for over a decade, and extracted more than a million dollars from the City of Seattle without even living in the same county If he wasn't a cop, he'd be behind bars for constant physical violence he's inflicted on and off the clock @divestspd.bsky.social

Literally the same crew of thin-skinned, violent meatheads that arrested me for charges that didn’t stick I got a huge l follow up to this video coming out soon, naming names, because we gotta fire these deranged criminals stealing so much money from the community youtu.be/sDtHIaFU5hw

🚨🚨🚨 Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today

Sign of growing US military presence in Venezuela: The Marine Corps commandant attended the ceremony restoring the Marine Security Guard detachment at the US embassy in Caracas

Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

It has been three hours and we still do not have access to the account

Zelenskyy described the move as unfortunate, adding it would encourage Russia to continue its assault. Trump told Congress that the pause was in the national interest but gave no further details.

Meta shut out Indivisible from Instagram on the No Kings Day meant to rally people to vote.

No Kings response to Meta: “In the 24 hours before our account was shut down, we posted only a handful of times and livestreamed to thousands. Meta's "high-frequency" excuse doesn't add up…We need answers about why this happened & immediate action to ensure it never happens again.”

worth also noting that both the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti happened in her district, and on top of the obviously racist targeting of her personally this is also an attempt to deny the people of Minneapolis their democratically elected representative

Israeli settlers attacked a Jewish American journalist in broad daylight, and Israeli soldiers did nothing. She said from her hospital bed, "Sadly, none of them will be prosecuted. I am sure of it.” @premthakker.bsky.social asks, "Are we going to let her be right?"

At the “May Day USA” rally, cops effectively served as security for a far-right anti-trans group while physically targeting and arresting pro-LGBTQ counter-protesters. This is extremely light discipline for the cop who became the symbol of police overreach and far-right allegiance at the rally.

Cop Who Encouraged Fellow Officers to "F___ People Up" At Pro-LGBTQ Counterprotest Gets Written Reprimand Justifying the slap on the wrist, SPD said the officer, Lt. Matthew Didier, cooperated with the investigation and appeared contrite.

DEVELOPING: Northwestern alum Ali Slayie was detained by ICE Thursday night in Seattle while boarding a flight back home to San Francisco, @thedailynu.bsky.social can confirm. See article in top comment for details. GoFundMe to help cover expenses:

Elon Musk is single-handedly funding the Ken Paxton campaign:

Sick and disgusting. These zealots Have no right to corrupt kids with their cookery, and especially no right to torture queer kids. The state attorneys who arrived at this settlement to be fired and any judges who support it removed.

Washington state can no longer require foster parents to provide an affirming and supportive home for LGBTQ+ children and youth, according to a settlement the state reached with a religious couple.

In this morning's council meeting, Bob Kettle said "inflation" was an impact on costs "across all labor agreements," not just the police department's. Just to bring us back to reality, the new contract gave officers a 42% pay increase across 5 years, which is far above inflation.

I'm really glad to see folks outside of my nerdy corner of the world highlighting the way Trump may be using Venezuela to create a self-funding Pentagon. Trump's effort flies in the face of the key reason Congress has the power of the purse -- to keep the executive from self-funding the military.

David Ellison hired lobbyists and political operatives to help him kill the challenge against his Paramount-Warner Bros. merger. And it worked. Following a massive behind the scenes campaign, Newsom sided with Ellison over working Californians and pressured Bonta to drop it.

Ilhan Omar: 'Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced'

Everything about the raid on Rep. Omar’s residence is shameful. Everyone involved should lose their jobs. For a start.

Of all the things to rebrand as “super” was the dumbest one. But what do you expect when mbas just hire their friends

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Ramaswamy made his money through a scam. That's not success; it’s corruption. This election is the big chance in our lifetime to do something about the people who think politics is just there to enable ever bigger personal grifts.

This is clearly not acceptable

"right now is not the time" to ever, ever, ever try anything different than the one thing we have always, always, always done mynorthwest.com/kiro-opinion...

4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.

our common life depends upon each other's toil

We murdered four more people in a boat today

Tom Homan: “I think September is going to be the highest deportations of any month in the history of ICE. We are removing and arresting more people right now than we ever have in the history of this nation. Wait until you see what we do next year.” ABOLISH ICE. www.thebulwark.com/p/doral-flor...

Unsurprisingly the Russians are paying off the Americans to take their side in the Russia’s criminal war of aggression. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...