NickUrfe
@nickurfe.bsky.social
One thing I can't stop hating about ChatGPT is that its real point of 'usefulness' is simply that Google searches are more or less junk and counterproductive. The moment your search goes beyond a Wikipedia link as the top response, every result is a jumble of terrible ads and unresponsive content.
February 10, 2026 at 7:27 PM
One thing I can't stop hating about ChatGPT is that its real point of 'usefulness' is simply that Google searches are more or less junk and counterproductive. The moment your search goes beyond a Wikipedia link as the top response, every result is a jumble of terrible ads and unresponsive content.
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pretty obvious at this point that the conditions in the MAGA camps are considerably worse than Japanese internment
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 4:32 PM
pretty obvious at this point that the conditions in the MAGA camps are considerably worse than Japanese internment
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I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says.
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...
UAW: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept job, 'no discipline' on record
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I really want people to think about this. After all the insane lawsuits, all the threats, all the bullshit weve seen from this admin and the targets who kneeled in fear, an average Joe called the president a Pedophile protector to his face and didn't get touched. That's the Power of a union.
Believe this turns singularly on the question whether Marilynne Robinson is a conservative.
Ok time for another round of discourse: who’s the best conservative artist of the past 75 years?
The whole controversy over Bad Bunny boils down to the simple fact that extreme social conservatism is incapable of producing interesting and compelling art of any kind, and so its adherents must use inferior artists to try to convince themselves that they aren't out of touch.
February 9, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Believe this turns singularly on the question whether Marilynne Robinson is a conservative.
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“Every single woman had been in the facility about three weeks and had been living in the same articles of clothing for three weeks…Their clothes had not been washed. They had not been offered fresh underwear or fresh clothing. Some of them were literally still in their snow boots from Minnesota."
"Things are not getting better. They are getting worse"
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, made another oversight visit at Camp East Montana last week. During her visit she met with women detained in Minnesota, detailing how many were still in their snow boots.
My story for the El Paso Times
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, made another oversight visit at Camp East Montana last week. During her visit she met with women detained in Minnesota, detailing how many were still in their snow boots.
My story for the El Paso Times
'Things are not getting better': US Rep. Escobar raises red flags over ICE center
U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar raised new concerns over conditions in Camp East Montana after a visit, citing detainees not given time to speak with lawyers.
www.elpasotimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:45 PM
“Every single woman had been in the facility about three weeks and had been living in the same articles of clothing for three weeks…Their clothes had not been washed. They had not been offered fresh underwear or fresh clothing. Some of them were literally still in their snow boots from Minnesota."
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this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...
JD Vance should have been sold by his mother for drugs, NYT columnist says
New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie suggested Vice President JD Vance's mother was reasonable when attempting to sell him for drugs during his childhood.
www.foxnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:01 AM
this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...
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Ernest movie where he thwarts ICE
July 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Ernest movie where he thwarts ICE
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It's not too late to start again!
I am someone who has consistently been masking and who will continue to mask! it's not too late to start again! practice community care :)
Hey Midwesterners! Please wear a mask!!
February 5, 2026 at 4:15 AM
It's not too late to start again!
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
Minneapolis Council committee delays liquor licenses for 2 hotels over hosting federal agents
The City Council will hold a public hearing on the liquor licenses for the Canopy by Hilton in the Mill District and Depot Renaissance Hotel.
www.startribune.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:44 AM
A Minneapolis City Council committee delayed action Tuesday on renewing liquor licenses for two Minneapolis hotels that have housed federal immigration officers.
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Me in June 2024 trying to tell everyone that OpenAI was going to run out of money
February 3, 2026 at 6:04 AM
Me in June 2024 trying to tell everyone that OpenAI was going to run out of money
I'm from rural Iowa, will eventually own part of my family's farm, and a totally undiscussed dynamic in these places is how family farmers have all become millionaires in the last 20 years while the actual rural areas, themselves, have become desolate and effectively uninhabitable.
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
February 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I'm from rural Iowa, will eventually own part of my family's farm, and a totally undiscussed dynamic in these places is how family farmers have all become millionaires in the last 20 years while the actual rural areas, themselves, have become desolate and effectively uninhabitable.
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think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:21 PM
think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide
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The reality is and one that many American academics and experts are unwilling to utter is that these are death camps and just because the ash isn’t falling from the ovens yet doesn’t change that reality.
Anne Frank likely died in a typhus epidemic that spread through the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
History rhymes, it rhymes
Close the camps, set fire to the prisons
History rhymes, it rhymes
Close the camps, set fire to the prisons
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:45 AM
The reality is and one that many American academics and experts are unwilling to utter is that these are death camps and just because the ash isn’t falling from the ovens yet doesn’t change that reality.
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can’t sleep because i’ve had a harrowing vision of a WW2 Muppet Movie where Kermit gets captured
November 21, 2024 at 11:36 PM
can’t sleep because i’ve had a harrowing vision of a WW2 Muppet Movie where Kermit gets captured
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Post liberalism is fancy racism, pass it on
February 1, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Post liberalism is fancy racism, pass it on
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
January 30, 2026 at 11:21 PM
The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
Hate to "spook" "experts" with a fascist monument that incidentally also obliterates the Lincoln Memorial.
New at @washingtonpost.com:
Trump wants to build a *250-ft-tall arch*, for America’s 250th anniversary
The structure would tower over nearby memorials — changing DC’s skyline and blocking views of the Lincoln Memorial
It’s also spooking experts who say it’s just too big
Trump wants to build a *250-ft-tall arch*, for America’s 250th anniversary
The structure would tower over nearby memorials — changing DC’s skyline and blocking views of the Lincoln Memorial
It’s also spooking experts who say it’s just too big
Trump wants to build a 250-foot-tall arch, dwarfing the Lincoln Memorial
The president is eying a plot of land near Memorial Bridge. The art critic who proposed the idea called for a smaller arch or for Trump to pick a new site.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Hate to "spook" "experts" with a fascist monument that incidentally also obliterates the Lincoln Memorial.
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interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”
January 30, 2026 at 2:44 PM
interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”
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i would say "can you think of any other issue that 80% of the party base supports but just about every party grandee dismisses out of hand" but yeah at this point there are some half dozen
New poll — Abolishing ICE continues its historic surge of support.
46% support
43% oppose
80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE.
Independents are +8 on the question.
46% support
43% oppose
80% of Democrats and 15% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE.
Independents are +8 on the question.
January 29, 2026 at 3:57 PM
i would say "can you think of any other issue that 80% of the party base supports but just about every party grandee dismisses out of hand" but yeah at this point there are some half dozen
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Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
January 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Democrats' demand that Stephen Miller is fired as a condition of voting for ICE funding is one of the smartest moves they've made under Trump.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
Miller is a loathsome figure who I imagine has rock-bottom likability numbers. Democrats should try to raise his public salience as often as possible.
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Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Even under SCOTUS's dubious reasoning in Trump v. U.S., there is no scenario in which maneuvering billions of dollars to an offshore account to keep it out of reach from Congress and courts is an "official act." This is all criminal and impeachable.
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An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”
Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.
January 29, 2026 at 2:29 AM
remember what JD Vance said of the ICE agents that arrested this little boy: “what did you expect them to do?”