@cdarwin@c.imConservatives who once railed against federal agents now applaud them
Trump is deploying some of the government’s policing agencies as an armed presidential force
— sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
the Border Patrol,
the National Guard, and others
into areas he considers in need of pacification,
from Los Angeles
to Portland, Oregon,
to Minneapolis.
Many on the right are applauding the crackdown.
The turnabout highlight…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSurveillance tools exported by China, based on US tech and obtained by Chinese companies, to countries like Nepal are being used to stifle Tibetan refugees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/china-tibet-nepal-sur…
@aredridel@kolektiva.socialAnd heck if you normalize that kind of speech in the group, the group will break itself. It's great as an adversary. You can use a group's own policing tactics against it.
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialPolicing protest in the US and Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jan/29/rebecca-hendin-policing-protest-us-iran-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@paulwermer@sfba.socialPolicing protest in the US and Iran
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jan/29/rebecca-hendin-policing-protest-us-iran-cartoon?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialHe's moved on to Harvard, but he'll always be a YDS alum. Read our new story on Anthony Campbell '09 M.Div. and his work to bring the Golden Rule to policing! https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-02-04-alum-pioneers-community-human-centered-poli…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFrom shooting to Slim Jims, immigration agents' poor tactics made for needless safety risks, experts say (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/07/experts-immigration-agents-poor-tactics-unsafe-policing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p29#a251207p29
@newsie@darktundra.xyzUK plans sweeping overhaul of policing amid surge in online crimes https://therecord.media/uk-national-policing-overhaul-cybercrime
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza"AI and facial recognition to be rolled out as Britain’s ‘broken’ policing system faces sweeping reforms"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-overhaul-shabana-mahmood-home-office-ai-b2907845.html
@cdarwin@c.im@EARieman @wdlindsy
The hearing was about the DOJ's shameful inaction on the Epstein Class's child rapists.
Pam Bondi was tasked to providing a spectacle so the rage-baiting tendency of the MSM would switch to tone-policing.
https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/1160718337885878…
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotCanadian cartoon master de Adder's latest on the LICE thugs
@servelan@newsie.social"Each of [the] killings by CBP agents and ICE officers boosts a bloodlust connected to the culture of white supremacist violence in the U.S. CBP and ICE, like local policing, provide an opportunity to make a job out of white supremacism. That’s why the Trump administration is openly using far-right white supremacist cultural references to recruit for the agency."
Another way out: Power, force, and far-right rewards for killing
https://prismreports.org/2026/02/04/far-right-state-violence-ice/
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org"When less than 7% of those deported are violent offenders, the President’s 'law and order' campaign isn’t about safety — it’s about fear. And police leaders know it.
As someone who spent over thirty years in policing, I know the difference between justice and vengeance — and today, we’re crossing that line again."
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow the US government is adopting AI: NASA reports 420 AI use cases in 2025, up from 18 in 2024, HHS reports 398, Energy 325, DOJ 295, Interior 234, and DHS 205 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/09/trump-administration-ai-p…
@cheryanne@aus.social#PSA
Long Gully Road is closed in the eastbound direction.
Motor Vehicle Incident - Long Gully Road, Tuggeranong | ACT Emergency Services Agency
#Tuggeranong #Canberra
Edit for spelling
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euSo polite. Banging on the window, "This is your one warning, mkay?" Military policing against protesting civilians straight out of some ahole's wet dream ->
See ICE agents threaten a car with a Sky News reporter inside
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vKsJeG7Il2A
@mro@digitalcourage.socialWhat is a #platform after all?
In our case it’s a part of the www having one owner and many users usually not affiliated otherwise. The owner being the sole source of rules and execution thereof, covering financial loss or benefit. Usually without a democratic process, but arbitrary, self-invented rules and policing.
They have in common a
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGermany's Federal Cartel Office rules Amazon must stop enforcing price controls for retailers on its German marketplace and seizes €59M; Amazon can appeal (Karin Matussek/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCalifornia bill would ban ICE agents from jobs in teaching and policing (Sara DiNatale/San Francisco Chronicle)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-bill-ice-teachers-21318405.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p148#a260127p148
@memeorandum@universeodon.comFive moments in the Alex Pretti shooting that raise red flags for policing experts (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/interactive/2026/alex-pretti-minneapolis-border-patrol-tactics/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260127/p134#a260127p134
