Tootfinder

Seahawks OC: We'll be 'fast, violent, aggressive' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47981429/oc-brian-fleury-wants-seahawks-fast-violent-aggressive

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gabriel Teodros:
🎵 Violent State
#GabrielTeodros
https://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/track/violent-state
https://open.spotify.com/track/2yJFWRUwXJihGiT0nyd7Rz

Sources: Uber is moving to bar drivers with convictions for violent felonies, sexual offenses, and child or elder abuse, after an NYT report in December 2025 (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/business/u…

Not that you needed another reason but …
https://krcgtv.com/news/nation-world/california-protester-left-blind-in-one-eye-is-among-string-of-violent-run-ins-with-ice

California protester left blind in one eye is among string of violent run-ins with ICE
A 21-year-old college student who said he was blinded in one eye by a projectile fired by a federal officer during a Southern California protest said he faces a

"Let's just…admit…if your wrists get in the way of ICE zip ties, if your lungs dare to breathe…our chemical weapons without written permission in advance, or if your body and face get in the way of ICE munitions, that was illegal of you. So if you're really honest with yourself, you deserved it and have no one to blame but yourself. People who follow laws don't get targeted by ICE, as being a target is a clear indication of criminality on the part of the target."
…

Ice Didn’t Do What They Did and Do
A statement from the US Department of Homeland Security: "Guys, guys, except for all the times we have targeted, arrested, unlawfully detained, been violent with, and hurt American Citizens, ICE doesn't do those things to American citizens. We should be grateful that ICE is doing the vital work of culling

One Tuesday morning last month, a 15-year-old Russian boy got ready for school by packing a paramilitary vest, a helmet, and a knife.
Before leaving his house, he sent a manifesto to his classmates denouncing gay people and Jews, and quoting a mass murderer along with a white-supremacist conspiracy theory.
When the boy, identified by prosecutors as Timofey K., arrived at his school, located outside Moscow, he went to the bathroom to put on his gear, which he’d branded with neo-Naz…

Something Is Wrong With Russia’s Children
As violence has come to surround Russian youth, many seem to have become more violent themselves.

Great article by @… on how insurgencies and nonviolent protests work - what their goals and frameworks are, how they achieve their goal, and how „mixing and matching“ between the playbooks will defeat itself - especially violent actions in support of a non-violent movement.

Collections: Against the State – A Primer on Terrorism, Insurgency and Protest
This week, continuing in the vein of some of our previous strategy and military theory primers, I wanted to off a basic 101-level survey of the strategic theory behind efforts, in a sense, directed…

U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated | PBS News https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-citizens-detained-by-immigration-agents-describe-how-they-were-treated

U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated
Videos from across the country have shown months of violent interactions with immigration officers. Part of the outcry has been the treatment of U.S. citizens. Uproar rose higher last month following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by agents in Minnesota. Lisa Desjardins reports, and we hear from some of the people who were detained.

DHS Releases More Details About the Three Violent Criminal Illegal Aliens Who Violently Beat a Law Enforcement Officer with Weapons (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/01/15/dhs-releases-more-details-about-three-violent-criminal-illegal-aliens-who-violently
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p80#a260115p80

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gabriel Teodros:
🎵 Violent State (radio edit)
#GabrielTeodros
https://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/track/violent-state
https://open.spotify.com/track/2yJFWRUwXJihGiT0nyd7Rz

Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( #ice ), is urgently seeking a powerful new
artificial-intelligence model
to find and prioritise individuals eligible for deportation
—ranging from those who overstayed their visas to violent criminals.
A prototype of the “streamlined end-to-end immigration lifecycle” software, called

But it's worth recognizing the most brutal elements of church violence were directed at "others": Jews, pagans, Muslims, even other sects of Christianity. The Church's persecution of "heretics" neatly folded into the state, as the diest god of "Providence," represented by the "all seeing eye" atop a pyramid, ultimately justified a violent "civilization" of indigenous people.
The "Christianization" of the crusades became "civilization,' which, more recently, became "spreading democracy." Where once Atheists resisted the crushing oppression of the Church, they used the same arguments to justify the invasion of majority Muslim nations and the oppression of Muslims at home...

On a related note, a reminder of the timeline of 2020:
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent immediately after the police murdered George Floyd.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the video became public.
Things didn’t turn chaotic and violent when the protests started.
Things turned chaotic and violent when they brought charges against Chauvin, and the police flipped out and went on a rage-fueled bender of mass tear-gassing the peaceful protests.

As the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals when it was checked by a violent gust of wind that swept up the streets, Stark checked his Thieves Guild tag (for it is in Ankh-Morkpork that our story lies) and glanced along the street where a magically illuminated sign flickered futilely against the darkness, causing him to comment to his companion, "You know, Dormy, I think this is going to be our night!"

Jesus fuck. We don’t suddenly expect rational, well-considered options from Reddit of all places now, do we? https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115907834493594403

There's a vibe happening in America right now.
The remark that non-violent protest only works if your opponent has aa conscience is resonating...
https://www.reddit.com/r/FolkPunk/comments

Comment les agresseurs savent-ils que les propriétaires ont du bitcoin ?
Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt : 900 000 euros en bitcoin dérobés lors d’un violent home jacking - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien…

Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt : 900 000 euros en bitcoin dérobés lors d’un violent home jacking
Un couple a été contraint de transférer la somme à leurs agresseurs. Ils se sont présentés ce lundi au domicile des victimes en prétextant être des policiers.

Call your reps! https://5calls.org/issue/dhs-budget-ice-defund/
Demand that they block any DHS appropriations bill or Continuing Resolution (CR) that maintains funding for ICE.
This lawless and violent agency must be defunded and dissolved for good.

Defund ICE ⭑ 5 Calls
Following the federal funding deal passed in mid-November 2025, Congress faces another January 30th deadline to pass the remaining appropriations …

It is pretty clear that ICE/DHS are intentionally trying to elicit a violent, possibly armed, response to these violent acts.
The ICE-gang is desiring this because then el cheato will invoke the insurrection act. That will, in turn, open the gates for the goons to really start breaking heads and for blood to flow in the streets.
My guess is that some ICE goon, somewhere, is going to get shot by a sniper or protester within a month, if not sooner.
I expect February to begin…

SoCal protester permanently blinded by DHS agent, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim.

This is what intellectual arson leads to. Fortunately, no one was injured! #antisemitism #Judenhass

Belgium: Explosion in front of Liege synagogue
No one was injured in the blast, police say. Liege Mayor Willy Demeyer condemned the explosion as an "extremely violent act of antisemitism."

#USPol #USpolitics #network1976
I'm not saying that the 1976 movie "Network" was prescient . . . but . . .

A top Justice Department official delivered a hardball message to federal prosecutors.
🆘Go after the protesters with everything you have.
In a conference call in late January,
the official, Aakash Singh, laid out the department’s basis for prosecuting demonstrators:
🔥National Security Presidential Memo 7 -- a sweeping directive issued by President Trump last September.
It expanded the definition of
"domestic terrorism" to include not only violent c…

‘Go Big and Go Loud’: Inside the Justice Dept.’s Push to Prosecute Protesters
Prosecutors have struggled to prove in court what the president and his aides have repeatedly said in public: that a network of leftist activists presents a serious threat to national security.

"what you are seeing here on the DHS website are over and over videos of essentially violence done, viewed as heroic violence against immigrants and liberal protesters. And this is why you're getting a violent force, because this is who they're recruiting.""
Expert alarmed as Trump now taking a page from ISIS: 'Never seen anything like this' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674900040/

Each week, Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
Check out this week's selection, which includes
--Kids turn from cybercrime to real-world violent thefts,
--How retailers profit from crypto ATM scams,
--Integrated web browsers are insecure out of the box,
--An MIT railroad club led to modern-day hackers,…

Best infosec-related long reads for the weeks of 12/13/25, 12/30/25, and 1/3/26
Kids turn from cybercrime to real-world violent thefts, How retailers profit from crypto ATM scams, Integrated web browsers are insecure out of the box, An MIT railroad club led to modern-day hackers, AI coding tools are susceptible to attacks, LLM guardrails are inherently exploitable

I’ve been worrying that the AI bubble-pop will wreck the world economy, but hey there, quite likely War Oil Chaos and sketchy Private-Credit shenanigans will get there first.
Ha ha fucking ha.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

So much for that worst of the worst line.
Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump’s 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows https://ground.news/article/less-than-14-of-those-arrested-by-ice-in-trumps-1st-year-back-in-office-had-violent-criminal-records-document-shows

I fucking hate war, but I have to admit that there's a real possibility that we (and they) blow up everyone's oil refineries and we finally wean ourselves off of fossil fuels. The absolutely stupidest and most violent way possible.

New Dallas Cowboys 2026 NFL Mock Draft Lands Do-It-All DB, 'Violent' EDGE https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-lands-do-it-all-db-violent-edge

How Trump Is Using Violent Tragedies to Divide America (Mark Follman/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/trump-violence-assassinations-mass-shootings-ice-lies/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p147#a260116p147

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: Is something wrong?
AVON: We have company. Muller!
VILA: Alive?
AVON: And dangerous.
VENA: [Throws down her gloves and marches over to Avon.] He is not violent. He is never violent!

"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."

The Bold-Faced Lie Behind the Raids
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 thirt…

This is genuinely important and good news: as I expected, no British jury is going to convict #PalestineAction activists of non-violent protest.
Of course, this is why the UK government is trying to get rid of jury trials, but ...
Will the proscription of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist organisation'(!) also fall?

It is probably hard to distinguish some of the images you’re seeing here from, say, a WTO protest that turned violent.
There is an overwhelming sense of “everyone” right now — everyone is in danger, everyone is helping.

"Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News."
https:/…

Training cannot correct for deficiencies resulting from a lack of vetting.
Remember what federal LEOs are normally screened for (CARLA F. BAD):
Character
Associates
Reputation
Loyalty
Ability
Finances
Bias
Alcohol/Addictions
Drugs
ICE is not being vetted against any of these.
Shut it down.

Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com)
No. We don’t need to “modify ICE training.” We need to close DHS. Dismantle it. It’s an outdated expensive bureaucracy that’s been usurped by violent white supremacists. Shut it down.

Grok's website and app are being used to produce extremely graphic, sometimes violent, sexual imagery of adults that is far more explicit than images on X (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-generating-sexual-content-far-more-graphi…

Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.

"Maduro’s arrest is connected to a new kind of politics I’ve spent the last year struggling to describe. A profoundly embarrassing collision of violent nationalism, illiterate social chatter, and memetic fascism that’s been spreading across the globe since the pandemic."
(Original title: The rise of the troll state)
https:…

The rise of the troll state
Read to the end for a crab tureen

Iranian government shuts down internet as violent crackdown continues (Babak Dehghanpisheh/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iranian-government-shuts-internet-violent-crackdown-continues-rcna253147
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p4#a260109p4

⚠️ Les survivant-es d’OKC se battent contre un système judiciaire lent et souvent violent pour les victimes. Aidons-les Š franchir cette épreuve et Š porter leur affaire jusqu’au procès. 🙏 👉 https://chardonsbleus.org/

Association Chardons Bleus - Un combat contre la dérive sectaire OKC depuis 27 ans
l'Association Chardons Bleus réunit des victimes-survivants parties civiles dans l'affaire OKC en France après 10 ans de bataille judiciaire en Belgique

Past the breaking point. The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warning.
#trump

Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warning

The euphoria on the right after the unjustifiable kidnapping of Nicolšs Maduro has ended an era of illusion.
No more is Donald Trump’s movement interested in posturing for the credulous as restorers of peace.
No more is there outward deception or internal struggle over the meaning of Trumpist foreign policy.
There is only violent, extractive dominance politics abroad
to match violent, extractive dominance politics at home.
America First is moving closer to i…

Imperialism Is Inevitable? Well So Is Resistance to It
With Venezuela seized by the US, Trump and MAGA drops the mask on their brazen imperialism. It's as unapologetic as the neocons after Kabul and Baghdad fell. But do you remember what happened next?

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: Is something wrong?
AVON: We have company. Muller!
VILA: Alive?
AVON: And dangerous.
VENA: [Throws down her gloves and marches over to Avon.] He is not violent. He is never violent!

Growing Up in Crisis: Caring for Youth in Violent Times https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/24/growing-up-in-crisis-caring-for-youth-in-violent-times

Somehow Detroit got safer without Federal intervention.
I’d bet that a part of that is all the immigrants we have. @… https://mastodon.hong…

CBC Windsor (@cbcwindsor_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net)
Attached: 1 image Homicides continue to fall in Detroit as city mirrors U.S. trend on violent crime Murders in Detroit continue to tumble as the city recorded its lowest number of criminal homicides since at least the early- to mid-1960s. #crime #violence #detroit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/us-detroit-crime-2025-9.7036993?cmp=rss

Robert Saleh wants his Titans 'fast and violent' in second HC stint after finding 'tremendous growth' during time with Jets https://www.nfl.com/news/robert-saleh-wants-his-titans-…

#ACAB means ALL of them. That means globally.
I think people overestimate how much police "stop" or prevent violent crimes, and underestimate how social safety nets, prosperity, and environmental protections actually prevent it. Cops are not good at their jobs, and having your neighbors around (which is why walkable neighborhoods feel safer, while big empty highway-centric place…

Trump's 'commercial diplomacy' runs into violent reality | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/congo-critical-minerals/

Women in rural India report experiencing trauma from data annotation work, which requires them to review violent content and porn for global tech companies (Anuj Behal/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-d…

In case anyone still thinks Ice is a well trained and responsible police force.
This video would be comical if it weren't actual video of Ice agents currently on assignment in Minneapolis. Nobody with that bad of muzzle discipline should be allowed to handle a firearm, let alone carry one at work to be used on human beings. I know preteens who are better equipped to handle a firearm than these clowns.
Expect more violent incidents. It's going to get ugly. If Ice is in you…

In a recent interview with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Donald Trump drew a link between immigration, violent crime, and genetics, stating,
“we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.” 
Comments such as these are not new.
Claims regarding genes and human behavior have long been used to perpetuate social harm.
Understanding this history shows just how pervasive and harmful Trump’s comments are.
They also illustrate how influential they …

The Alarming History Behind Trump’s “Bad Genes” Comments : The Hastings Center for Bioethics
In a recent interview with conservative radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt, Donald Trump drew a link between immigration, violent crime, and genetics,

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Poliça:
🎵 Violent Games
#Poliça
https://polica.bandcamp.com/track/violent-games
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Yj1JOa4BisZsDQ6bcX5kv

Before somebody comes and replies about how the population •should• be violent: please note that the way the public is responding is a carefully calibrated strategy.
Judge after judge is striking down National Guard deployments. The Trump regime is •desperate• at this point for some kind of violent escalation to justify domestic military deployment. We’re not giving it to them. We’re just doing what we do: taking care of each other, showing by example how to be human in the face of inhumanity.

Just finished reading William Gibson's screenplay for Alien 3 and it's better than the one actually used. But I also understand why it wasn't chosen -- The studio wanted a violent science fiction horror flick, not a political piece denouncing the military-industrial complex.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Violent Femmes:
🎵 Gone Daddy Gone
#ViolentFemmes
https://jeffravsten.bandcamp.com/track/violent-femmes-gone-daddy-gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mVoBnU3mxV5Q6n4DmOv6K

Watched some of the idiot VP JD bloviating until I had to walk away.
A wise president once said something that your administration may come to rue.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable , 13 March 1962]” JFK

"Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025"
#Oceans #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Experts say oceans soaked up record heat levels in 2025
The world's oceans absorbed a record amount of heat in 2025, an international team of scientists said Friday, further priming conditions for sea level rise, violent storms, and coral death.

An ophthalmologist in Tehran has documented more than 400 eye injuries from gunshots in a single hospital,
as overwhelmed medical staff struggle to cope with the toll of an increasingly violent crackdown on nationwide protests by Iranian authorities.
Three doctors, in messages forwarded to the Guardian on Monday, described overwhelmed hospitals and emergency wings overflowing with protesters who had been shot.
Medical staff said the gunshot wounds were mostly concentrated …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Violent Femmes:
🎵 Gone Daddy Gone
#ViolentFemmes
https://jeffravsten.bandcamp.com/track/violent-femmes-gone-daddy-gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mVoBnU3mxV5Q6n4DmOv6K

Just to underline that:
A huge portion of the MAGA authoritarian takeover plot rested on the false assumption that they could provoke a violent domestic conflict at a whim and jump straight to martial law. It seems they believed their own BS about how cities are hotbeds of unrestrained chaos and iT’S tHe LEft tHaT’s REALLY viOLeNT!!1!
They thought they were picking a fistfight. They didn’t expect to just get mocked, shamed, and videoed into social oblivion. They are both reviled and a laughingstock now.

Singing protests gain momentum as non-violent but emotionally stirring rebukes to ICE https://religionnews.com/2026/02/27/middle-church-hosts-sing-in-to-protest-ice-detentions/ "Thursday’s service began with Middle Church’s Jerriese Johnso…

Singing protests gain momentum as non-violent but emotionally stirring rebukes to ICE
We're going to sing and sing and try to touch the hearts of the ICE agents,' said the Rev. Jacqueline Lewis, senior pastor at Middle Church in New York.

X limits Grok's image generation and editing to paying subscribers after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery (Helena Horton/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/gro…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Au Revoir Simone:
🎵 A Violent Yet Flammable World
#AuRevoirSimone
https://aurevoirsimone.bandcamp.com/track/a-violent-yet-flammable-world
https://open.spotify.com/track/0YfIC76Q7SliDLgLvu0PKo

I also think it's worth just doing the math here. There aren't enough ICE agents to remove an occupation of more than a couple of facilities. They would have to rely on local police. A lot of police departments have been ordered not to support ICE activities. This means Trump would have to activate the military. If an occupation was peaceful, especially playful like Portland, deployment may not even be possible. Meanwhile, if ICE agents continue to be as violent as they are Governors may be forced to activate the national guard to protect citizens against ICE.
Forcing conflict when Trump is at his weakest, in a way that is non-violent, puts resistance in the best possible position.
At the same time, we are at a strange time of unity. Trump supporters are leaving over Epstein, some are even mad about the deportations, and he's otherwise systematically alienated basically his whole base (except literal Nazis working for ICE).
The AI bubble is, in a lot of ways, a fun house mirror reflection of the 2008 financial crash. The whole economy is held up by loans secured with "compute." Everyone hates this, and Trump's policies have made everything far worse.
#OccupyICE could actually have a lot of momentum and be difficult to stop, especially if folks went to ICE facilities in frog suits and Luigi bloc with banners demanding the release of the Epstein files.
At least, that's my impression from out here.

See, this — •this• — is what ICE CBP are actually for under this regime. •This• is why they got a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.
It’s nothing to do with immigration. It’s about the would-be dictator having his own private military that:
- can be deployed domestically
- at will
- unbeholden to the UCMJ etc
- or disciplined military culture
- or any accountability whatsoever
- with unpredictably violent behavior
- applied indiscriminately
- to anyone
- so that the entire population is terrified of it
…because for them, the problem with Jan 6 was that the coup wasn’t violent enough and didn’t have enough weapons.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/04/steve-bannon-ice-immigration-agents-polling-sites-midterm-elections

Claude, the AI model developed by Anthropic, was used by the US military during its operation to kidnap Nicolšs Maduro from Venezuela,
a high-profile example of how the US defence department is using artificial intelligence in its operations.
The US raid on Venezuela involved bombing across the capital, Caracas, and the killing of 83 people, according to Venezuela’s defence ministry.
Anthropic’s terms of use prohibit the use of Claude for violent ends, for the development o…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CillianMurphysLimitedEdition
Violent Femmes:
🎵 Gone Daddy Gone
#ViolentFemmes
https://jeffravsten.bandcamp.com/track/violent-femmes-gone-daddy-gone
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mVoBnU3mxV5Q6n4DmOv6K

Barron Trump reportedly saved woman's life after witnessing violent assault on FaceTime call (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/barron-trump-reportedly-saved-womans-life-witnessing-violent-assault-facetime-call
http://www.memeorandum.com/260121/p132#a260121p132

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gabriel Teodros:
🎵 Violent State (radio edit)
#GabrielTeodros
https://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/track/violent-state
https://open.spotify.com/track/09m60u5d4Lib1OYFU8zv1c

How Trump Officials
—Noem, Miller, Patel
—Portrayed Pretti As Violent
Despite Conflicting Evidence
In trying to defend the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday,
Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to portray him as a violent domestic terrorist
—even an “assassin”
—running counter to emerging video evidence and first-person accounts of the deadly encounter.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed after Pretti’s death he had
“vio…

How Trump Officials—Noem, Miller, Patel—Portrayed Pretti As Violent Despite Conflicting Evidence
Video footage of Pretti’s killing refutes claims from officials that the protester was attacking law enforcement or “brandishing” his gun.

Investigation: in 22 US states, Uber approves drivers with many types of convictions, such as violent felonies, that are over seven years old to keep costs low (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/uber-background-chec…

Uber Cleared Violent Felons to Drive. Passengers Accused Them of Rape.
The ride-hailing giant’s background check process was intended to speed drivers onto its network while keeping costs down, internal documents show.

Warning for folks in Minneapolis / St. Paul out there active in the community today:
Neighbors have flagged this person as a right-wing agitator, spouting racist and violent BS, out harassing people and cruising for conflict. Eyes out, be aware.
I don't have any further info on their identity, sorry.
#minneapolis #msp

White House posts bombing videos interspersed with MLB, NFL highlights https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7095448/2026/03/06/white-house-post-bombing-videos-mlb-nfl/

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
AVON: There were circuit faults. Slave must have given the wrong diagnosis.
VENA: So- So, he's alive?
AVON: And apparently still violent. [Door opens. Avon draws gun and turns towards door. Enter Tarrant and Vila.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/395

Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power
after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
https://bsky.app/profi…

Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org)
Five years ago today, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power after losing a free and fair election. January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand — it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.

It’s lost in the noise now, but I felt very clearly on that first day of real violence in 2020 — and still maintain now — that the Minneapolis Police turned the protests violent to send a signal to the city that charging police with a crime was unacceptable.
“You hurt us? We hurt your city.” That was the message, clear as day. That’s why police instigated and fomented violence. That’s why they stopped firefighters from putting out fires.
Yes, I am still angry.

Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol
in a last-ditch effort to cling to power after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
https://bsky.app/profi…

Indivisible ❌👑 (@indivisible.org)
Five years ago today, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power after losing a free and fair election. January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand — it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.

How a crew of crypto-focused hackers moved from SIM swap attacks to coordinated, violent home invasions and kidnappings, targeting small-time crypto investors (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

It looks like lying about the murder and calling Good a terrorist isn’t really flying with the press or the general public. We all know what we saw, and we Noem is full of BS.
Stay tuned for these greatest hits:
- “The real problem is that there’s video! Everything would be fine now if ICE could have just murdered her in secret.”
- “Of course this is tragic, but we cannot condone the violent response to Good’s killing [instigated by law enforcement, but we’re pretending it’s the public]! Now that there are riots [by law enforcement], we call on protestors [who have remained peaceful] to remain peaceful.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Gabriel Teodros:
🎵 Violent State (radio edit)
#GabrielTeodros
https://gabrielteodros.bandcamp.com/track/violent-state
https://open.spotify.com/track/2yJFWRUwXJihGiT0nyd7Rz

Iran’s foreign minister has claimed the situation in the country has
“come under total control”
as authorities carry out a brutal crackdown against the nationwide protest movement.
Abbas Araghchi made the comments to foreign diplomats in Tehran, without supplying evidence.
The few messages and videos to have emerged from Iran overnight showed that protests were continuing,
but an ongoing internet blackout made it difficult to judge whether the authorities’ use o…

If Trump believes we will roll over and allow him to take our freedoms, he is mistaken.
We are coming together again on March 28 because we know we can overcome his repression when we unite.
https://www.nokings.org/

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

The rise of the slopagandist ... The violent federal occupation of Minneapolis ... (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869824/right-wing-influencers-nick-shirley-slopaganda?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik9ybzNhRTVkV3IiLCJwIjoiL25ld3MvODY5ODI0L3JpZ2h0LXdpbmctaW5mbHVlbmNlcnMtbmljay1zaGlybGV5LXNsb3BhZ2FuZGEiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAxMzQ3NzUsImlhdCI6MTc2OTcwMjc3NX0.pSvXmTL-Bp-zqeCeqOavGJFU-selnaL2kD0VNRJaH08&utm_medium=gift-link
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p71#a260129p71

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Violent Vickie:
🎵 Open the Door
#ViolentVickie
https://violentvickie.bandcamp.com/track/open-the-door
https://open.spotify.com/track/3mKJsy0hWJl4gtINhXThPg

Iran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will not back down in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement,
setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.
Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days,
posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022.
Another round of demon…

Yesterday the Trump regime served warrants to a bunch of locals who were at that peaceful protest of the violent church where the regional ICE director preaches.
That protest is old news, the same event about which they’re trying to nail Don Lemon to the wall. Yesterday they came for both protestors and reporters, AIUI.
Light coverage here, which doesn't mention that they banged on people’s door at 4:30-6:30am with warrants and tossed them in federal detention all day. Just shameless, unalloyed harassment.
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/30-more-charged-for-protesting-at-twin-cities-church-where-pastor-is-ice-official/
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“When you hear her voice, you can’t unhear it,”
says the award-winning Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania,
whose new Oscar-shortlisted film,
"The Voice of Hind Rajab", incorporates recordings of Rajab’s emergency calls
to depict responders’ race-against-the-clock attempt to save her
— and the ultimate failure of the international community to prevent her violent death.
Ben Hania says the film, a hybrid of documentary and drama,
is an eff…

“The Voice of Hind Rajab,” Shortlisted for Oscar, Uses Audio of 6-Year-Old Girl Killed in Gaza
Two years ago this month, the world was gripped by a series of shocking recordings of a 6-year-old girl in Gaza pleading for help as she sat trapped in a car riddled with bullets alongside the bodies of her cousins, aunt and uncle, who had just been killed by Israeli forces as the family attempted to flee the Israeli ground invasion of Gaza City. Emergency responders with the Palestine Red Crescent Society attempted to secure safe passage to rescue the child, an elementary school student named …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Violent Femmes:
🎵 Country Death Song
#ViolentFemmes
https://violentfemmes.bandcamp.com/track/country-death-song-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kqBAV3R35lVIRvhYmSI6s

Five years ago today,
Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol in a last-ditch effort to cling to power
after losing a free and fair election.
January 6 was not a protest that got out of hand
— it was an attempted coup, carried out in plain sight.
Marking this anniversary is not just about remembering the past.
It’s about confronting the dangerous reality of the present.

The U.S. government assesses that about 75 people were killed during Saturday’s military raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro,
including dozens of fatalities that resulted from a gun battle at his compound in Caracas,
according to officials familiar with the matter.

One person said that at least 67 people were killed in the predawn strike,
while another said that about 75 to 80 people were left dead.
The officials, who like others spoke on the con…

Maduro raid killed about 75 in Venezuela, U.S. officials assess
The sizable death toll adds meaning to President Donald Trump’s public remarks that the operation he approved was “effective” but “very violent.”

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116189574594357948
Why do all Trump's "policy initiatives"
sound like violent
comic book story?

IN AMERICA, WE HAVE NO KINGS.
We are showing up together again on March 28.
When our families are under attack and costs are pushing people to the brink, silence is not an option.
We will defend ourselves and our communities against this administration’s unjust and cruel acts of violence.
America does not belong to strongmen, greedy billionaires, or those who rule through fear.
It belongs to us, the people.

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

“The Intern in Charge”:
Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas.
“Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space.
His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise
is now a Dep…

“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention
One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.

Renée Good’s brothers, others describe assaults, shootings at hearing
American citizens told congressional leaders Tuesday that they had been shot, manhandled and dragged from their cars
by aggressive federal immigration enforcement agents in recent months,
experiences that left them fearing for their lives.

The witnesses wept and spoke with emotion as they described violent encounters with federal agents at a forum on Capitol Hill sponsored by two Democrats.

Renée Good’s brothers, others describe assaults, shootings at hearing
The forum, sponsored by two Democrats, is intended to focus on what they call “violent tactics and disproportionate use of force by the Department of Homeland Security.”

The No Kings Coalition is activating an immediate and ongoing nationwide digital organizing effort
leading up to our next mass mobilization on March 28,
including a flagship event in the Twin Cities.
Sign Up Here:
https://www.nokings.org/#signup

No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.

Skyrocketing detentions,
violent arrests,
troops in cities.
Donald Trump promised an immigration crackdown that would make history.
One year in, we look at how it’s changed the lives of immigrants and citizens across the U.S.
https://youtu.be/YHunuGIvvf4

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
https://bsky.app/profi…

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Press freedom groups are warning that the arrests of two independent journalists,
including the veteran former CNN anchor Don Lemon,
signal a chilling new crackdown on US media by the Trump administration.
Lemon was taken into custody on Thursday night by federal agents in Los Angeles,
despite a magistrate judge declining to sign off on charges against him a week ago
in connection with a protest at a Minnesota church against violent government immigration enforc…

Students at universities in Iran have held a third consecutive day of protest
just over a month after the violent suppression by security services of mass street demonstrations left thousands dead.
The protests came amid tensions between Iran and the US.
Washington has built up military forces and pressure in the Middle East as it negotiates with Tehran
– with the next round in Geneva on Thursday.
Donald Trump has warned “really bad things will happen” if there …

ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of unjustifiable arrests
Government data shows that more than 60 percent of the people detained in at-large arrests since June did NOT have criminal convictions or pending charges.
-- even as authorities insist that immigration officers are focusing on violent criminals whom they describe as “the worst of the worst.”

ICE shift in tactics leads to soaring number of at-large arrests, data shows
The agency has moved away from focusing on arresting migrants at local jails to tracking them down in communities, a Washington Post analysis found.