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The GrindDad

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Product designer. Artist, musician. Exvangelical, antifascist. Sometimes asshole. (he/him)

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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This happened to me reading Stranger in a Strange Land. After having to hand-wind a bug in a room every 24-hours, when the characters got into an autonomous flying car taxi I wasn’t sure I could continue.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
☝️☝️☝️
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Heartbreak in Springfield, Ohio. Please read this important reporting. It all begins with big lies and it ends with ethnic cleansing and deaths for which we must not only mourn but feel ashamed. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
theatlantic.com
A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
There is actual research and precedent for putting animals down, but every lethal injection of a human being is an untested experiment.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Contrast issues with 3 and 4. So 1 or 2 depending on the ragebait approach
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
First album drops this month! #harshnoise #powerelectronics
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 30/09/2026
A Michigan nurse is accused of helping an injured immigration detainee escape from a hospital while in federal custody.
newsweek.com
Nurse helped injured Mexican escape ICE custody at hospital: Feds
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People seem to think government systems are interconnected, and assume a level of modernization that is off by decades. Fairly certain our nuclear arsenal requires keys and buttons connected to analog circuits to launch.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’ve wondered the same thing. There were some specifics a couple years ago about infrastructure, but haven’t seen specifics since
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🙄 Is the topic just clickbait now? It can’t be genuine at this point can it?
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They’re spiritually muscular. It’s a mystery, you gotta have faith to see
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact they say that shit out loud is outrageous
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fleetwood MacKensey
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 24/09/2026
Of all the things that give me pause about ICE's draft ERO ONE statement of work, a section titled "Network, Link, and Relationship Analysis" is the most eyebrow-raising. I spent close to 20 years as an intel analyst. Here's what section 4.6 says and means, paragraph by paragraph.
Cover page of the ERO ONE statement of work. The Department of Homeland Security seal sits in the center, under the heading "U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)." Below the seal, three lines read: "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)," "Office of Enforcement and Removal (ERO)," and "ERO Overwatch and National Security Enforcement (ERO ONE)."
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah but, have you seen Lost recently?
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 23/09/2026
🧵 We've been digging into the genesis of these 'mobile detention facilities' to find out whether the idea is new or has been in the works a while. So we went through the solicitation's attachments and their metadata. The file describing them lists a GEO Group executive vice president as its author.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social )
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Abolish ICE
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.
npr.org
Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE abducted a WBB player while she was traveling with her Kentucky State team in early August at Louisville airport. She has been imprisoned for 1.5 months and denied care for a serious ACL injury. It is the responsibility of universities and the NCAA to protect their players. They have failed.
Aminata Seck, 26, a student-athlete at Kentucky State University, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport while traveling with her school's basketball team Aug. 7, said Sadiqa Reynolds, a lawyer helping coordinate Seck's case.

Seck's team was headed to New York for a tournament, and she was taken into custody after going through airport security, said Reynolds, former president and CEO of the Louisville Urban League.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They’re doing the kind of marketing that marketers will always advise against. “My music is for everyone”, this movie has a universal message, etc… They’re so desperate for any business to figure out what it’s useful for, yet they won’t build the documentation that would help.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes, but also just as lazy as Ai interface design.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 14/09/2026
Alligator Alcatraz’ confined detained immigrants in cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report by the DHS inspector general.
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DHS watchdog: Immigrants held in outdoor cages the size of phone booths at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The cages, called “calming areas,” were used for detainees to “reflect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the inspector general’s report.
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
ESPN had Ted Cruz on 'College GameDay' in a conversation with Rece Davis for nearly 10 minutes. Cruz was heavily booed by the crowd -- and heard "Ted, you suck!" chants -- in Austin.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
transiticsnews.com
I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 11/09/2026
During GWOT, the military often called these "target teams." DHS is signaling to contractors it wants to spend $100M+ building an in-house capability set up the same way the military, NSA, and CIA operate to replicate their find, fix, finish, exploit, analyze, disseminate (F3EAD) methodology.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Many of you have been asking what you can do to fight the Trump Administration’s depraved war on immigrant kids — like the ones separated from their families and held in federal detention that I’ve been highlighting in my recent videos from 201 Varick Street.
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Revealed: attorneys rally to free children held in US immigration custody
Trump administration has indefinitely stranded hundreds of kids and lawyers from over 50 organizations are fighting for their release
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 09/09/2026
"Most parents have straightforward ideas for what to give their teenaged son for his birthday. Not Maryam Tahmasebi. She just wants her son to be able to celebrate outside the detention center our country has trapped them in." Read this from @timmiller.bsky.social:
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Marco Rubio Is Punishing a Teenage Boy for His Grandmother’s Sins
America gave Rubio’s family a second chance. He gave this family a cage.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
MEMPHIS — @LeviAIsmail: “How does a search warrant turn into 100 people zip-tied and loaded up onto buses? I have a lot of questions.” #UNSafeTaskForce @GovBillLee @mayorpaulyoung #AbolishICE
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 04/09/2026
If you see something, save something. Web pages disappear daily—changed, moved, deleted, or just forgotten. 🕳️ Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage before it disappears. See something worth keeping? Save it today. ➡️ web.archive.org/save/ #ToolsYouCanUse
Cream graph-paper graphic with a decorative yellow line-art path and "save" wordmark, plus a yellow ">" chevron tagline reading "tools you can use." Bold black text reads "Save Page Now." Below, a yellow folder icon with the Internet Archive logo and white text: "If you see something, save something."Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art framing the edges. Bold black text reads "Save Page Now lets you preserve a webpage that's important to you before it changes or disappears." A yellow ">" chevron tagline at the bottom reads "tools you can use."Cream graph-paper graphic framed by yellow line art, featuring a screenshot of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine homepage with its search bar, page thumbnails, and three tool options — Subscription Service, Collection Search, and Save Page Now — with the Save Page Now box circled in red. A yellow ">" chevron tagline below reads "tools you can use," pointing toward a yellow arrow.Cream graph-paper graphic with decorative yellow zigzag line art and a small multicolor line-art icon of the Internet Archive's columned building in the lower right. Bold black text reads "Save a page that matters today."
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
washingtonpost.com
Haitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status, family says
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I don’t doubt that these types are probably opposed to rote memorization as “learning”, but that’s what leveraging an LLM to complete coursework produces. Right answer perhaps, but no logical workflow developed neurologically.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Lots of txts, and mostly about social security and Medicare. I’m in my 40s, so it’s confusing to me as those aren’t front-burner issues, but obviously a grift for 60+ cash.
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Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 05/03/2025
The Navy has been firing a lot of missiles lately, and they're starting to run out
taskandpurpose.com
In 15 months, the Navy fired more air defense missiles than it did in the last 30 years
The Navy has burned through costly missiles, some with a price tag of $28.7 million. So, it has turned to 5-inch gun rounds to down drones.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Absolutely. She was an inspiration, and also such a rebel.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We are a broken nation. Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were living and working legally, paying taxes, and contributing. Haiti remains wholly unsafe. But Trump hates Haitians, and the White House wanted videos of Black people in chains, so they stripped them of status and turned on the cameras.
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Haiti TPS has been TERMINATED.
Those with terminated TPS are in our nation Illegally. They have two options: LEAVE IMMEDIATELY or be DEPORTED.
DHS.GOV/CBРНОМЕ

Underneath is a screenshot of a video showing two Haitian men in chains being led to the aircraft. I didn’t post the video, but it’s vile.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/08/2026
NEW: We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
propublica.org
Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Cox sees dad with a gun and tries to convince mom not to dial 911. Dude hasn’t had his head out of GOP hemorrhoids in forever.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
in Springfield Ohio right now. I’m told by multiple activists and religious leaders here that ICE took a second Haitian pastor
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 26/08/2026
Hundreds of emails exchanged between U.S. immigration officials offer the most transparent play by play yet of how the two countries worked together to arrange for more than 100 Iranians to be flown back to Iran on three separate immigration flights. www.mississippifreepress.org/a-quiet-chan...
mississippifreepress.org
A Quiet Channel Between ICE and Iran Shaped Deportation Flights, Released Emails Show
U.S. immigration officials worked with Iran to deport Iranians in 2025, newly released emails show, revealing a working relationship even with growing tensions.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BEING THE PERSON WHO EVERYBODY MOURNS MEANS STEPPING UP WHEN NOBODY ELSE WILL IT DOES NOT MEAN WATCHING POLL APPROVAL NUMBERS
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This was a thing in 2008. I expect we’ll be hearing about many more in the coming year.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
An incredible story. The Iranian Christian woman who wrote “help” on the glass on the hotel in Panama has finally found permanent safety; in Canada. The Trump admin deported her to Panama soon after taking office, rather than let her seek asylum. Read her story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/w...
nytimes.com
Christian Convert Who Fled Iran and Was Deported By Trump Finds New Home (Gift Article)
Artemis Ghasemzadeh, who had escaped religious persecution, was deported to Panama under Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now, Canada has given her asylum.
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The GrindDad @grinddad.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I thought I might have something to say, but leave this comment in tribute to yours.
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
1/ Religious groups in Minnesota are asking a federal court to hold ICE in contempt after allegations that an undercover ICE agent infiltrated University Baptist Church of Minneapolis in May —
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