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You have to admit, "don't be evil" to "we refuse to discuss our ICE contracts" is a hell of an arc
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
You have to admit, "don't be evil" to "we refuse to discuss our ICE contracts" is a hell of an arc
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Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
Flock off
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February 12, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
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Are you a Google worker? Add your name: www.googlers-against-ice.com
Googlers Demand: Worker Safety & ICE Contract Transparency
www.googlers-against-ice.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Are you a Google worker? Add your name: www.googlers-against-ice.com
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TY @bcmerchant.bsky.social for speaking to us about our #GooglersAgainstICE petition—now at 1200+ names!
We refuse for our labor to power ICE—that's why we're growing our base of Google workers committed to antimilitarism & organized for the fights ahead.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/google-is-...
We refuse for our labor to power ICE—that's why we're growing our base of Google workers committed to antimilitarism & organized for the fights ahead.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/google-is-...
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:06 PM
TY @bcmerchant.bsky.social for speaking to us about our #GooglersAgainstICE petition—now at 1200+ names!
We refuse for our labor to power ICE—that's why we're growing our base of Google workers committed to antimilitarism & organized for the fights ahead.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/google-is-...
We refuse for our labor to power ICE—that's why we're growing our base of Google workers committed to antimilitarism & organized for the fights ahead.
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/google-is-...
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At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center, QuitGPT, and the 5 worst Super Bowl AI ads.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:23 PM
At Google, speech critical of ICE is censored from the company's internal platform, employees who speak out are served with warnings, and leadership refuses to acknowledge a petition that's now gotten 1,200 employee signatures.
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
Inside the worker-led push to get ICE out of Google:
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I spoke with Alex from @notechforapartheid.bsky.social, which is behind the petition, and other employees who feel similarly: Google's hardline posture, summary firing of employees who protested the company's contracts with the Israeli military, and recent layoffs, have created a climate of fear.
February 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM
I spoke with Alex from @notechforapartheid.bsky.social, which is behind the petition, and other employees who feel similarly: Google's hardline posture, summary firing of employees who protested the company's contracts with the Israeli military, and recent layoffs, have created a climate of fear.
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Incredible continued organizing by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
According to an organizer, “all signatories are full-time employees, and nearly 30% are Google Cloud workers.”
800 Google employees demand an end to any cloud contracts with ICE and CBP
The petition also called for executives to protect vulnerable Google employees, "from cafeteria workers to data center employees."
www.businessinsider.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Incredible continued organizing by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
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It's happening at Google, led by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
www.businessinsider.com/800-google-e...
www.businessinsider.com/800-google-e...
February 7, 2026 at 12:04 AM
It's happening at Google, led by @notechforapartheid.bsky.social
www.businessinsider.com/800-google-e...
www.businessinsider.com/800-google-e...
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BREAKING: We have now received 1200 signatures on our petition of Google workers demanding that the company cut its ties with DHS, CBP, and ICE.
ARE YOU A GOOGLE WORKER? Sign the petition at googlers-against-ice.com
ARE YOU A GOOGLE WORKER? Sign the petition at googlers-against-ice.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM
BREAKING: We have now received 1200 signatures on our petition of Google workers demanding that the company cut its ties with DHS, CBP, and ICE.
ARE YOU A GOOGLE WORKER? Sign the petition at googlers-against-ice.com
ARE YOU A GOOGLE WORKER? Sign the petition at googlers-against-ice.com
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This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.
Democrats are right to deny funding for DHS absent changes that stop this lawlessness and inhumanity. Changes that Americans are demanding.
Let's talk for a second about what has to change - immediately. And why it's so important that we demand these reforms.
Let's talk for a second about what has to change - immediately. And why it's so important that we demand these reforms.
January 28, 2026 at 11:04 PM
This is a speech designed by someone who thinks you are stupid. He’s explicitly promising to keep the *recently tripled* budget of the DHS gestapo if there are “reforms” that, behind closed doors, their lawyers admit are unenforceable, irrelevant, and even harmful.
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While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you
January 24, 2026 at 4:11 PM
“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you
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did you know jared kushner said in davos that the plan is to build data centers where palestinians lived
January 24, 2026 at 2:57 AM
did you know jared kushner said in davos that the plan is to build data centers where palestinians lived
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I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
January 24, 2026 at 4:51 PM
I'm sorry for the person who was beat to death and killed. My sincere condolences to their loved ones. ICE is going to continue to kill people because the purpose of a system is what it does. It is not what it says it does or what you hope it does. Maybe USians will finally confront this truth.
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in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
January 24, 2026 at 5:30 PM
in trying to understand what makes ICE and CBP so dangerous right now, it is tempting to imagine some new lack of training or experience or professionalism—and not grapple with the truth that a white nationalist movement has put more power and force behind their existing mission
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Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
January 24, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Yall outside of MN need to know that observers are STILL out protecting their neighbors. Right now. They know the news and they’re still out there.
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Why would you believe people who tell you that the US can't shut down institutions at the drop of a hat when you are currently witnessing this administration do it in real time?
January 24, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Why would you believe people who tell you that the US can't shut down institutions at the drop of a hat when you are currently witnessing this administration do it in real time?
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Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.
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I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
January 24, 2026 at 7:29 PM
I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder
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As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.
January 24, 2026 at 8:39 PM
As someone who has spent over 35 years trying to explain that violence is inherent to policing only to have most people be OK with this, I could be excused if I decided to just give up. But I'm not. I knew we would be where we are today. I still think that we do not have to live like this.
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“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
January 24, 2026 at 11:11 PM
“Hundreds of immigrant mothers” in Texas concentration camp uprising
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So working as designed then.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM
So working as designed then.
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“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 1:19 AM
the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
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A good dissertation would be for someone to go back to the Lexow Committee (1894) to the Wickersham Commission (1929) all the way through to Obama's 21st Century Police Taskforce and simply write down the "reforms" of policing offered over time. THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AT THE ROOT.
January 15, 2026 at 2:33 AM
A good dissertation would be for someone to go back to the Lexow Committee (1894) to the Wickersham Commission (1929) all the way through to Obama's 21st Century Police Taskforce and simply write down the "reforms" of policing offered over time. THEY ARE ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AT THE ROOT.