The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
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ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Trump #USPolitics #Law

From Saturday: Protest against #Trump and #ICE in Tampa on 1 month anniversary of Renee Nicole Good's murder by ICE

Note on the video and end of this report: ICE asked to get the hell off this planet and return to Hell/Underworld/wherever they came from

On the 7th of February, protesters gathered in Tampa near USF for a protest against Trump and ICE. At the end of the protest after the speeches, a participant brought the spice. They initiated a chant of "ICE, ICE, help us out! Take a rope and kill yourself!"

After this protest wrapped up, reports indicate a second, spicier protest started up. Looks like I caught the overlap, but I was unaware a whole second protest was starting as people who missed the original event started showing up. Classic "brushfire" approach: main fire goes out, but embers survive to get it going again!

"Meanwhile, AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon, and Microsoft are providing ICE and Border Patrol with cloud computing, surveillance software, and logistical support that’s central to how they function. This corporate collaboration makes large-scale enforcement possible."

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #YouTube #Google #ATT #HomeDepot #Amazon #Microsoft #EthnicCleansing
/8

"Meanwhile, AT&T, Home Depot, Amazon, and Microsoft are providing ICE and Border Patrol with cloud computing, surveillance software, and logistical support that’s central to how they function. This corporate collaboration makes large-scale enforcement possible."

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #YouTube #Google #ATT #HomeDepot #Amazon #Microsoft #EthnicCleansing
/8

"ICE’s latest recruitment ads — built around music and language drawn straight from far-right neo-Nazi memes and aimed at extremists who are most fervent about guns, tactical gear, and vigilantism — are being distributed by and are profiting two companies you probably use all the time: YouTube and Google."

~ Robert Reich

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #YouTube #Google #EthnicCleansing
/7

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping

The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute) break down a #NYT opinion piece that exemplifies hype laundering: how AI industry narratives get legitimized through respected voices in prestigious outlets.

The article is "Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life" by Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at #UCSF, published in the New York Times on January 19, 2026.

Dr. Wachter admits he's replacing professional medical consultations with colleagues—what physicians call "curbside consults"- with ChatGPT queries. He claims AI's input is "virtually always useful," though he admits it's sometimes "just plain wrong." Emily responds: "People who really should know better have fallen for this." Alex notes the absurdity: "This seems like really a weird kind of approach to medical practice... Maybe someone who is concerned about their different medical conditions and had no place to turn, but someone at UCSF. I've been to UCSF. That's very alarming."

Wachter provides zero peer-reviewed studies, no outcome data, no comparative metrics. Just personal anecdotes claiming the tools work. Emily points out he's demonstrating "no evidence-based practice of checking like how well does this work and also how does it impact the work of physicians when they're using it."

The accountability problem is central. Alex observes that with a human colleague, "you would actually know it's coming from them and there's some accountability if they give you some just wild advice." With LLMs? No one is responsible when the answer is wrong. Emily: "The point isn't that the answers are unreliable. Is that there's no accountability for the answers."

She also raises automation bias concerns: "If you review the output, are you also reviewing the things that you didn't get to because it didn't come out as output?" The system's omissions may be as dangerous as its errors.

Wachter is against "overly restrict[ing] A.I. tools" by "setting an impossibly high bar." Classic regulatory capture language. Emily: "I want all medical devices to be tightly regulated."

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2687163982 (just the video stream https://d2vi6trrdongqn.cloudfront.net/bc9948ab01f26c79a170_dair_institute_317110603102_1770049612/720p60/index-dvr.m3u8)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/ai-health-medical-care.html

#ChatGPT ( #OpenAI) is #Trump's biggest donor, and #ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to quit. http://quitgpt.org/

#theaicon #aihype #openai #chatgpt #publichealth

(continued from /5)

Think again. I grew up in the household of a lawyer who ran for a judge's seat twice. I learned bitter lessons early in life about how absolutely not blind justice is in the US when money is waved under Lady Justice's blindfold.

Follow the money … right to the judge's seat and the courtroom.

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/6

As you think about judges (in this case, in the right-wing Fifth Circuit) getting on board with this program of ethnic cleansing and mass detention (see /1-4 above), think about all the money flowing around behind the scenes to purchase and fit out those warehouses as huge prisons. Think judges aren't swayed by money?

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/5

"One of the three warehouses identified in the report as already having been purchased is in San Antonio, Texas — within the Fifth Circuit. It is 'nearly 640,000 square feet,' and a local NBC report from Jaie Avila stated that the warehouse 'will be turned into a 1,500 bed ICE detention center.'"

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/4

"The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates."

#Trump #DHS #ICE #immigrants #deportation #detention #warehouses #FifthCircuit #EthnicCleansing
/3

My first piece for @motherjonesmag
I’d be honored if you read it and grateful if you shared it.

This started as a #Mastodon post last Monday.

Trump wants to dictate the past, just like he wants total obedience in the present.

The fight for history is forever intertwined with the fights for truth and democracy.

Black and Indigenous Americans know this perhaps better than anyone.

#history #BlackHistoryMonth #uspol #maga #trump

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/can-he-really-do-that-black-history-month-in-the-age-of-trump/

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
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ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
https://www.propublica.org/article/life-inside-ice-dilley-children?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Trump #USPolitics #Law

My first piece for @motherjonesmag
I’d be honored if you read it and grateful if you shared it.

This started as a #Mastodon post last Monday.

Trump wants to dictate the past, just like he wants total obedience in the present.

The fight for history is forever intertwined with the fights for truth and democracy.

Black and Indigenous Americans know this perhaps better than anyone.

#history #BlackHistoryMonth #uspol #maga #trump

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/can-he-really-do-that-black-history-month-in-the-age-of-trump/

The AI Con authors Emily M. Bender (Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington) and Alex Hanna (Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute) break down a #NYT opinion piece that exemplifies hype laundering: how AI industry narratives get legitimized through respected voices in prestigious outlets.

The article is "Stop Worrying, and Let A.I. Help Save Your Life" by Dr. Robert Wachter, chair of the Department of Medicine at #UCSF, published in the New York Times on January 19, 2026.

Dr. Wachter admits he's replacing professional medical consultations with colleagues—what physicians call "curbside consults"- with ChatGPT queries. He claims AI's input is "virtually always useful," though he admits it's sometimes "just plain wrong." Emily responds: "People who really should know better have fallen for this." Alex notes the absurdity: "This seems like really a weird kind of approach to medical practice... Maybe someone who is concerned about their different medical conditions and had no place to turn, but someone at UCSF. I've been to UCSF. That's very alarming."

Wachter provides zero peer-reviewed studies, no outcome data, no comparative metrics. Just personal anecdotes claiming the tools work. Emily points out he's demonstrating "no evidence-based practice of checking like how well does this work and also how does it impact the work of physicians when they're using it."

The accountability problem is central. Alex observes that with a human colleague, "you would actually know it's coming from them and there's some accountability if they give you some just wild advice." With LLMs? No one is responsible when the answer is wrong. Emily: "The point isn't that the answers are unreliable. Is that there's no accountability for the answers."

She also raises automation bias concerns: "If you review the output, are you also reviewing the things that you didn't get to because it didn't come out as output?" The system's omissions may be as dangerous as its errors.

Wachter is against "overly restrict[ing] A.I. tools" by "setting an impossibly high bar." Classic regulatory capture language. Emily: "I want all medical devices to be tightly regulated."

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2687163982 (just the video stream https://d2vi6trrdongqn.cloudfront.net/bc9948ab01f26c79a170_dair_institute_317110603102_1770049612/720p60/index-dvr.m3u8)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/opinion/ai-health-medical-care.html

#ChatGPT ( #OpenAI) is #Trump's biggest donor, and #ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to quit. http://quitgpt.org/

#theaicon #aihype #openai #chatgpt #publichealth

il portoricano Bad Bunny ha portato al SuperBowl in California la sua casita rosa e un un messaggio di unità: «Assieme siamo l’America, l’unica cosa più potente dell’odio è l’amore». Facendo arrabbiare per l’ennesima volta Donald #Trump «È stato lo show più brutto di sempre, uno schiaffo in faccia all’America. Nessuno capisce una parola e il ballo è disgustoso soprattutto per i bambini», ha scritto su Truth. Trump non è andato al Super Bowl per “per la lontananza” dalla West Coast ma anche per la scelta della Nfl di assegnare l’half time a un cittadino americano che canta solo in spagnolo.

https://www.open.online/2026/02/09/super-bowl-half-time-trump/