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In the NJ Primary, 'Abolish ICE' Looks Like A Winning Message

Opinion - Michelle Goldberg Feb. 9, 2026

https://archive.ph/2tFLT

When Analilia Mejia, the former political director of Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, held town halls during her recent congressional primary race in New Jersey, she’d invite people to stay afterward for a training on nonviolent resistance to ICE. Voters, she told me, are desperate “to understand how rising authoritarianism functions, how it’s moved in other countries, how we can best resist it through nonviolence, noncompliance and education.” Running in a special election to fill the seat formerly held by New Jersey’s new governor, Mikie Sherrill, Mejia was determined to do “more than just traditional politics,” she said.

Her rivals in last week’s crowded contest also criticized ICE. But Mejia, the daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants and a veteran of the progressive Working Families Party, was unique in the clarity of her opposition. She called for ICE to be abolished, not just reformed. And she tied the agency’s violent rampages — seen most starkly in Minnesota — to President Trump’s broader assault on American democracy, while seeking to imbue people with a sense that they could fight back.

[–] cm0002 2 points 4 weeks ago

Maybe this is my sign to finally get it off my project list and deployed lolol

[–] cm0002 2 points 4 weeks ago

And I accept it with honor!

[–] cm0002 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Ngl I kinda miss cable, just for the aspect of being able to choose content based on channel and just let it go

There's a way to replicate it in Plex/Jellyfin by basically building out your own "channels" and having it draw from your own content files, but that's a project in of itself that is on my ever growing project list lmao

[–] cm0002 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Ikr? Lol I haven't run MythTV since I last paid for cable and had a Cablecard sooo about....10+years now lmfao

[–] cm0002 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why this random ass latam country has it so good? I don't fkng know, competition probably, as there are many companies fighting for costumers.

Its because of legacy technology debt, the US was "first" to deploy out consumer Internet infrastructure, but that also means before we could deploy each iteration something had/has to be done with the old and that's pricey

Now a developing country deploying internet infrastructure for the first time can deploy straight to fiber because the countries who were first did all the hard work developing the tech and they don't have to worry about ripping out any old infrastructure

[–] cm0002 6 points 1 month ago

Lol I've seen similar pics of that before, I always wondered how the print out actually looks lmao

[–] cm0002 1 points 1 month ago

Is your company hiring?

[–] cm0002 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The GitHub Link at the bottom of the post lol

[–] cm0002 1 points 1 month ago

The Sunday comic isn't really her rough draft, it's her lazy comic or quick doodle comic day

[–] cm0002 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This was crossposted and is available in the crosspost menu of your client.

Edit: found the exact post, it's the same title and everything: https://sh.itjust.works/post/54438100

For one, I don't really crosspost from any other instances comms (save for the occasion where I know of a fitting small niche comm). For two, that's on an entirely different comm on a different instance ( !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world vs !funny@sh.itjust.works that this post is on.) Third, I only crosspost from .ml, so the irony here is that the OOP on .ml actually reposted it instead of crossposting lmao

[–] cm0002 41 points 1 month ago

And the idea?

✨AI✨

[–] cm0002 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.

Megathread on the issue

Some highlights from the link:

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

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