Monitor Lizard

Monitor Lizard

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Why the fuck would I want to be "culturally normal" in a culture that's normalized the Trump regime?

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It's another beautiful day to say fuck ICE. And fuck CBP. And the white nationalist DHS that deploys them. And the administration of overgrown racist toddlers that have given them free rein. And every single person and institution that supports them.

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I'd like to see more cis allies grapple with the crazy making environment trans ppl are living in right now the way that Hauser grapples with that here. There is no one right way to understand this, in part bc there's no one way all trans ppl experience it. But really sitting with it is important.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social

I try to imagine it—hearing a vicious, down-is-up simulacrum of my lived experience wielded as a tool & a weapon, every single day, on the heels of all the other ways, implicit & explicit, I'm dehumanized by my society, culture, & politics—& I can't. I only know how it looks from here, & it's vile.

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Not a single parent has filed a book challenge in Palm Beach in two years. The district just removed 1800 books anyway, because AI told them to. There are many reasons that is unthinkable but let's not forget AI DOES NOT HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BOOKS. IT CANNOT READ THEM. It just makes crap up!

Florida Freedom to Read Project@flfreedomread.bsky.social

Palm Beach pulled 1800+ titles from its school library collections because AI flagged them for review. Media specialists and principals must sign attestation forms verifying their libraries are compliant with vague law. None of this is normal. freedomtoreadproject.substack.com/p/when-ai-de...

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📍 𝐀𝐔𝐑𝐎𝐑𝐀, 𝐂𝐎: A 78-year-old priest was carried out of ICE detention by fellow detainees after staff reportedly refused to let him use a wheelchair beyond the gate. After 13 months in custody, he had lost over 30 pounds and could no longer walk independently. #AbuseOfPowerWatch

cbsnews.com78-year-old priest carried out of Colorado ICE facility by fellow detainees after judge orders releaseA 78-year-old Ugandan priest who spent more than a year in immigration detention was released from an Aurora facility Tuesday.

Indistinguishable from two ex- Confederates egging on terrorism during Reconstruction to keep the formerly enslaved "in their place"

Matt Herdman@mattherdman.bsky.social

Why is the gop nominee for TX railroad commissioner obsessed with interracial cucking?

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Replying to @bradlander.bsky.social

For harvesting olives. They should all be released immediately. To be clear: Palestinians face far worse consequences every day. These detentions by the IDF are one more attempt to undermine Palestinians’ right to harvest their olive groves, travel on their roads, and live in their homes.

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If our system of justice can determine that shooting a one year-old is justified, then we do not have a system of justice, and our goal should be the eradication of the system we have and its replacement with something better.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

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Replying to @bencollins.bsky.social

Anyway, good case study here. You can be as evil as you want, you can kill as many people as is possible, you can shove churro ladies into vans then off to black sites in countries they've never even heard of, but if you can't do the performance of fascism — that's when you're in real trouble.

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Six days after ICE shot him in the Bronx, Oscar Belgal remains in MDC Brooklyn, and still hasn’t gotten surgery to remove the bullet in his neck. “He has experienced a loss of sensation in half of his face, as well as hearing loss in his left ear.” Gift link: www.nydailynews.com/2026/10/14/l...

nydailynews.comICE never identified themselves during NYC shooting of Oscar Belgal, who still has bullet in neck: lawyersThe Legal Aid Society, which now represents the 28-year-old father, filed a habeas corpus petition in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday, seeking his “immediate release on reasonable conditions.”

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“ If we only win this election on affordability concerns, on the economy, then we’re not planting any seeds for a long-term refutation of this really anti-American authoritarianism.”

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Crucial from @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com: Trump's implosion is enabling Dems/libs to reach lots of new voters. "It’s an opportunity to plant long-term seeds about the vision we want." Dems like Ossoff/Talarico are meeting this antifascist moment. Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2165...

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There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

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You can kill as many people as you want, but you target a beautiful precious data center? The one that hosted all 40,000 Sexy Ladies For Ken Paxton accounts?

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

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2. But Anthropic researchers say they see patterns that suggest that Claude can. The employees at Anthropic are telling themselves stories based on the words they input into the software and the words that come back out. >>

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American inventory: / 200+ killings of people on boats / 100+ Iranian schoolgirls massacred / ICE's street executions / Helping Russia finance its war / Targeting Somali Americans as “garbage” / Stealing Venezuela's oil / Inflation up / Hidden Epstein files Wake up. Vote against all Republicans.

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Immig. agents shot & killed Silverio Villegas Gonzalez a year ago Then his wife was stripped of parental rights, & the children were placed in foster care Villegas had tried to drive away. Agents shot *6 secs* later No bodycams DHS won't say who shot him www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

washingtonpost.comFamily accuses ICE of ‘executing’ immigrant whose sons are now in foster careThe family of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez said his shooting death last year in the Chicago area was unlawful and left his two children traumatized.

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Replying to @ramirez.house.gov

DHS agents are empowered to act with impunity so that they can meet arbitrary quotas and execute Stephen Miller, Markwayne Mullin, and Donald Trump’s white supremacist mass deportation agenda. Every agent and every fascist will be held accountable.

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this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump tries to start a race war: "The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants ... The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!"

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Replying to @christiannightmare.bsky.social

If your news network is interviewing a guy who claims he spent 18 days in heaven hanging out with Jesus, that is not actually a news network.

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What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Blanche on the Trump administration deporting people to third countries where they have no connection: "This idea that we're violating human rights and the president and US is doing something to damage and put these people in harm's way is just categorically false"

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ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.

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Replying to @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII. It would represent the largest change in how the US treats immigrants facing removal since 1996, and remind us again that the 96 law must be erased.

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The billions wasted on mass deportation could have been used to fund an efficient, fair system for processing asylum claims, making TPS recipients permanent residents, and legalizing undocumented people. We would have a safer, more prosperous, more just country.

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She said "I'm not interested in being in a confrontation with Donald Trump" which is disqualifying. She's acting like it's confrontation for confrontation's sake when it's actually ending the theft, murder and brutality and beating back fascism. You know, her job.

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Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

Remarkable: An Iowa right wing radio host just leaked word that GOP polling shows House Rs in peril even in districts Trump won by +10. The culript? Trump and the war. On the pod, Iowa Dem chair Rita Hart explains why the conditions are ripe for big Dem rural gains: newrepublic.com/article/2158...

I can't understand why anyobe thinks this is a desirable way to organize our future

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.

This is a conspiracy to commit mass murder for profit. But it's okay, because the profit is what really matters

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

The US Senate finds that the fossil fuel industry received $190 billion in tax breaks and subsidies from the Trump regime in exchange for campaign donations. The deregulation and subsidies have increased both energy costs for Americans and the damage from climate change and air and water pollution.

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And those others were at least in some nominal way developments for use by human beings. This is exclusively for make number get bigger, exclusively over the next few quarters and however much longer we can make the chicken dance before we run out of quarters.

Tim O’Brien@timobrien.bsky.social

The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet. www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

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ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...

austinkocher.substack.comICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the YearCarlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.

Fuck ICE. Solidarity with Austin. If there is a gofundme for medical and legal expenses, please keep us posted.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

Protests have erupted in Austin, Texas after ICE shot 29 year old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez.