acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Feels like shifting gears in recent weeks: GOP is toast and there's a preemptive upswing in left and maybe libertarians of "don't you dare say the D's are any better. Also they cannot be pushed to get better" 2191
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 3022001067
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialKen Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 06/10/2026A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 271590941
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialRyan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Haha, this fucking sucks. 281366440
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialWill Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026It's worth remembering that this upswing in online racism towards Indian-Americans began over a photo of Indian-Americans celebrating at a College Football game i.e. they were actually assimilating just fine, and the racists hated that 1120637
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialDavid J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Mullin is lying. These were not identified as "high-risk" nations, and it was not "tougher vetting" that cut entries. The absolute number of denials is LOWER now than under Biden. They just aren't even processing applications, and you owe every American sponsor an answer. 621482
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 27/09/2026the tech titan backlash to “woke dei hr ladies” makes a lot more sense now huh 291832340
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.nytimes.com 7628981193
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialI Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026Killer part is how we got a bunch of reporting on how the Dems from the Obama administration had “learned their lesson” from this only to see the pivot to “we’re going to pass the toughest border bill” again in 2024. 4475
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Reform was actually close but the "unaccompanied minors border crisis" gave Rubio ++ the comfortable-for-them offramp to pander to xenophobes. Whether they'd have signed on in the end without border panic who knows, but we're sure left with the awful consequences of "security" now/reform later 070
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yeah, it was the pinnacle of the suckers' game of providing border security, real and theater, up front and hoping for a bipartisan immigration reform payoff. Activists were loud about it 1132
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 21/09/2026And the Cal State system is quality public higher ed too, outside the UC brand and research institution focus 010
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy. 17389150
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialBrian Peter Gluckman @bgluckman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Once again, I must point to the official statement from Toyota. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/a... 629756
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialWill Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 12/09/2026or these muscle trucks 1504
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Since becoming president again, Trump has promised: -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies -$5000 "dividend" if Rs win midterms No checks have been issued www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi... 46779483376
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialEric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Happy 72nd Birthday to Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated the New Orleans public schools. She’s younger than 30 senators and our last two presidents—and only 7 years older than Barack Obama. The past isn’t past. 5599463393
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It’s 25 years since 9/11 and it’s now more publicly acceptable to be a bigot than it was then, which is really saying something 71491202
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous. 271808518
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialJoe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026What's the point of having fuck you money if you're never going to say "fuck you"? 573112521
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Those do not seem like comparable series! You don't need a complex explanation for why "good/excellent" responses are rarer and more variable than "ok/comfortable" 000
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 01/09/2026If people are confused why "I'm doing ok/comfortable" is high and stable while "the economy is good/excellent" is much lower and variable, I humbly suggest that one of those categories is equivalent to "C or better" and one is "B+ or better." No mystery that the latter captures many fewer people! 020
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 27/08/2026When I think of all the amazing scientists that have lost their jobs here in the states because of Trump/Vought/Musk/RFK Jr/the GOP, it makes my blood boil to see the US interfering in a single overseas postdoctoral appointment matter to advance a white supremacist agenda. 430452
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 08/08/2026This by CNN is genuinely reprehensible. Everyone involved should be embarrassed. -The 'new pain' case vs Mamdani is *solely* his religion. -He was in NYC on 9/11, at grade school -Soon after attack GWB himself gave famous speech warning against blaming all Muslims for terrorism -25 yrs later, this. 21169491518
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialIsabela Dias @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A staggering 55 people have died in ICE custody since Trump's return to office. But the agency's official death toll record-keeping doesn't account for people like Prisciliano, whose health deteriorated in detention but died shortly after the agency released him from custody to be hospitalized.motherjones.comThe Deaths ICE Doesn’t CountPrisciliano Trejo Ricano passed away in the hospital days after being released from detention. 231348677
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Ha, I did actually enlarge the pic and scan for definitions, but missed that 110
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialSam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026“I’m so shocked and disappointed, I can’t believe this Blackwater merc with a totenkopf tattoo is a rapist” Can we agree that from now on people should do their learning and growing on their own time instead of as SENATE CANDIDATES 835451
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It is easily recognizable and incredibly stupid, and therefore eroding supporters' confidence on much bigger/complex issues where the administration previously could deflect (to supporters) that criticism as "tds" 000
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It's not just symbolism, it matters at small scale (corrupt, stupid, unnecessary) and it is clarifying. Right wing car dealers and farmers inclined to trust important Trumpists on violent deportations and all white military promotions can easily recognize "you fucked up a pool for $14m of my money" 100
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It opens a chapter of Roediger's Working Toward Whiteness 000
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Trying to remember the James Baldwin quote about the European immigrant facing hate when stepping off the boat, yet in a week that European "knew" he was better than African Americans and was slinging slurs 130
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The Separate But Equal Docket strikes again. 221008170
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... 4046911684
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I think... he's taking for granted that Fox viewers don't receive transfers or food stamps so thinks it's reassuring to say real wages not actually down, just an artefact of us sticking it to Those People. But BLS wage data doesn't include SNAP. (Among other probs) Long way to agree with you, yes 000
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/05/2026New York City is the media capital of the country. Delaney Hall is nine miles from Manhattan. There is zero reason to not have wall to wall coverage of the hunger strike, the horrific conditions and ICE violence. The indie journalists need strength in numbers, and not just during business hours. 101532379
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialSenator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/05/2026I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4 497174096071
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialJonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026All the centrist/conservative Democrats who wanted to allow Abrego Garcia and everyone else Trump sent to CECOT to rot in a slave camp should be embarrassed with themselves and think deeply before saying anything about anything. 221743357
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026A family in Idaho has dropped their lawsuit challenging a state law barring transgender students from using the restroom after their 16-year-old trans daughter died by suicide. Idaho AG Raul Labrador praised the decision without mentioning the girl's death or why the case was dismissed.newsfromthestates.comHigh school group challenging Idaho’s trans bathroom ban drops lawsuit after student’s deathEditor’s note: This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health issues, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988. 351124413
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialDavid Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Insane, far beyond Red Scare era treatment of Communism which still could certainly be studied FIRE has complained, but where are all the NYT WP Atlantic etc pundits who so wrung their hands over optional guest speakers being protested at Oberlin? 928986
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Ballot question: "...while ensuring Virginia's standard redistricting process resumes for all future redistricting after the 2030 census" www.elections.virginia.gov/election-law...elections.virginia.govHome 000
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Pretty significant that Ds built in an off ramp with a 2031 reset to undo the gerrymander. Maybe bad faith, but I'm not aware of Rs doing the same in their spreading gerrymanders. Maximal retaliation with off ramps seems most promising path to better equilibrium on this 110
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Deploy that creative NIMBY energy toward ICE (and ICE alone) 060
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialJoe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 29/03/2026The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth. 36380582064
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/03/2026In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 8967582114
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Many people impose normal now on what was normalized back then, instead of seeing that what seemed "normal" is bad or horrifying "In my day, we didn't wear seatbelts/rode without helmets/didn't have these costly clean air regs/didn't do flu vaccines/played Pop Warner tackle and we were FINE" 020
Reposted by @acm92116.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Quite literally “we have always been at war with Iran.” 1842875557
acm92116.bsky.social @acm92116.bsky.social · 19/02/2026My wife brought me to a "post apocalyptic robot romance"... Wall-E not Blade Runner 040
