How cruel we are being as a country.

Don’t think I’ve posted anything on this story yet because as the article points out, it’s hard to focus on this evil with so many other evils distracting us.

A mail truck was abandoned at the bottom of our cul-de-sac after an ice-related accident a couple of hours ago, blocking traffic in and out. The tow truck sent to move it got stuck in the ice, and now a second truck is coming for it. If I were better at social media, this would be a viral thread.

Facial recognition is always a scary technology, but it’s becoming even more so under the current administration.

Heartbreaking read but better for it.

Not particularly interested in watching the video footage myself (don’t need those nightmares), so I’m glad for journalists providing descriptions of the footage and how it stands in tension with DHS accounts. Abolish ICE. Gift link.

What a story:

What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.

There are lots of stories circulating on social media that I try wait to read a full article on before I get angry about them. Here’s the article, and it’s as bad (worse?) as every post I’ve seen about it on Bluesky.

The Columbia Heights Public School district says federal agents have detained four of its students in four separate incidents over the last two weeks. One child is a 5-year old boy who attends a district elementary school and was used as “bait” to draw family members out of their home.

Another story that speaks to the power of Ellul’s “image vs. word” distinction. It must be trustworthy because it comes from a machine…

Glad a family member gifted me another year of The Onion in print, because it sure sounds like I’m going to need it to get through 2026.

This shooting is making me panicky, and I’m honestly trying to not read any more about it, but this is important.

What a terrible time we’re living in. Good for these clergy, and let us all remember that they aren’t even seeing the worst of the inhumanity currently so popular.

Technology, efficiency, and growing public and private power—this has Ellul written all over it. Gift link.

The Onion is truly one of the media outlets we need most during these times.

Good connection of the worrying story about removing anti-ICE apps to bigger problems in tech.

Masnick’s writing has never struck me as inflammatory or rushed. If he’s using this language, we should all be worried.