Associate Professor of Unitarian Universalist History at Starr King School for Ministry. So proud of my 2 daughters: one is autistic. Pronouns: she/ her/hers
🚨 “YOU’RE UNDER ARREST!" 🚨
Federal agents arrest a six-tour veteran outside Delaney Hall on Day 15 of the hunger and labor strike.
“BACK UP!” agents yell as chaos erupts. Moments later, someone in the crowd shouts, “YOU GONNA KILL ME?” as agents move in and take another person away.
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BREAKING: Two arrested by ICE Agents outside Delaney Hall, after one person was her shouting "I'll fkn kill you".
ICE exited Delaney Hall to clear protester barricades for caravan Exiting facility.
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Handful of arrests by DHS/ICE & Newark PD at Delaney Hall after activists blocking vehicles entering/leaving DH were maced, assaulted by GEO Group employees.
! NPD now denying on-foot access to DH to *anyone* with a backpack, mask, or a respirator.
On a sign at the roadblock near Delaney Hall:
“No backpacks or masks allowed.”
Law enforcement has been gassing press and protestors all week.
The Newark Police Department is requiring journalists to endanger themselves to do their jobs.
Newark police would not let me walk down the road to Delaney Hall because I had a back pack and respirator.
I don’t usually insist on keeping a respirator on me when I’m reporting, but after the last two weeks of people getting gassed, it seems important.
Protesters are reporting that NJP have restricted all masks, backpacks and respirators from the area. Moments later ICE agents descended upon protesters. They effected at least 2 arrests and fire rubber bullets and pepper spray. One journalists flash was torn of his camera.
The reports that I’m hearing of people being prevented to walk down Roanoke Rd with PPE or bags is alarming. The curfew is lifted, so is the freedom of speech zones.
Officers are saying the order is “above them” but won’t cite from who.
Ok I know #Survivor50 is so over, but please bear with me:
What if it had been the Zac Brown Boomerang Immunity Idol
And
Billie Eilish went spearfishing and gave a private concert?
Sylvia Plath grew up attending the Unitarian Society of Wellesley Hills where her mother Aurelia was a member of the Alliance.
The minister in the _Bell Jar_ was said to represent Bill Rice #UUTwitter
Almost nobody is talking about Section 224 of the 2027 NDAA because it’s buried in legislation no one bothers to read.
You need to know: Buried in the defense bill is language calling for deeper integration between the U.S. and Israeli militaries.
I STAND WITH THE PROTESTERS
If a detention facility can’t withstand public scrutiny, congressional oversight, and media attention, the problem isn’t the protesters.
The problem is what’s happening inside.
#ShutDownDelaneyHall
It’s been over 12 hours since journalists and protestors have been arrested outside of Delaney Hall by Newark and State police.
Silence on their charges. Silence on their whereabouts. Silence on their condition.
What’s the difference between them and ICE? Nothing.
Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.
People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.
I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.
Obama White House account got hit.
These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.
The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).
Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.
They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.
And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.
Point is even locked down accounts went down.
Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.
You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.
The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.
One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.
Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.
Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!
Delaney Hall holds roughly 1,000 ICE detainees in Newark.
After touring the facility, Hakeem Jeffries reported unsanitary conditions, inadequate medical care, poor food, and detainees pleading for help.
His verdict:
“The conditions shock the conscience.”
He says Delaney Hall should be shut down immediately.