🏴🚩🛠️its pronounced like "Meagan"
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the fatal flaw with the Bluesky is dying proposition is that it ignores the broader truth that I am also dying, as are you, and everybody you know. By dying Bluesky lets us know that it’s one of us, that it shares in our beauty and our pain. Grow or die? No, there is no “or.” Bluesky understands
Flock You "turns a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)- and Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller into a detector for active Flock and similar surveillance systems in the area—allowing those who object to the company's activities to stay informed of exactly where they're deployed."
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
![Genocide justification is the claim that a genocide is morally excusable/defensible, necessary, and/or sanctioned by law.[1] Genocide justification differs from genocide denial, which is an attempt to reject the occurrence of genocide. Perpetrators often claim that genocide victims presented a serious threat, justifying their actions by stating it was legitimate self-defense of a nation or state. According to modern international criminal law, there can be no excuse for genocide.[2][3] Genocide is often camouflaged as military activity against combatants, and the distinction between denial and justification is often blurred.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j76trmiofvaxxpvx2vnb2vwf/bafkreia4twc2qbwkmn3ozstknikbeo5xx56elnzdkycdjkzfkwehmvk4jq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
You guys see where this is going? Right?
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
he says he’s her brother at the end
Reminder: the apparent plan was to spirit these children away in the middle of the night without them ever seeing the inside of a courtroom to challenge their deportation. Children.
omg the mutual aid 😭😭😭
Explosions in the Sky needledrop come onnnn 😭
sobbing at the optimism felt during the Chicago Republic Doors & Windows occupation scene
Really strongly recommend everyone get off Substack. Not just for the Nazi stuff, but because they're going to lock you into the platform and then slowly bleed you dry
watching Capitalism: A Love Story and steeping in the what-coulda-been nostalgia of a president Sanders 😭
“They advocate the removal of almost all public officials and services, increasing the numbers of the armed forces and police, building up the capacity for repression by the powers that be, no longer public, but corporate and business. [DOGE and militia-style police (ICE)] is a trial run of this.”
Horrific footage circulating of the National Socialist Network attacking the peaceful Camp Sovereignty in Melbourne. We've heard the main targets of their extreme violence were women.
The thing about this guy saying his restaurant is apolitical is that he probably believes it, but I haven't met a single person who claimed to be apolitical in the past decade and a half who wasn't actually right-wing. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
The Trump plan for Gaza includes the relocation of the entire population - 2 million people - a US “trusteeship” and the creation of a tourism and tech hub. Landowners get digital tokens worth $5,000 and rent subsidies. Investors are promised 4x return on $100 billion.
There are literally laws on the books already! We've been following them! A lot of them suck, but we were making progress. Even the Tories were pushing self-ID less than a decade ago as a natural next step. I feel like I'm losing my mind, you know?
We are watching resegregation happen in real time. It's neo Jim Crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss
“This is a pen” is one of the first phrases I remember learning in Genki.
on the flip side, one of the first phrases you learn in Japanese is これはペンです(か) (kore wa pen desu (ka)) or “this is a pen”/“is this a pen?”
A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
Florida under DeSantis: Seven FHP cops guarding a crosswalk to stop any attempts at gay chalk.
The DeSantis administration currently has at least seven Florida Highway Patrol troopers just on anti-chalk duty: Two watching from a Dunkin Donuts next door and five more parked in the lot right behind them.
The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.
Project Veritas operatives provided video footage to the FBI pointing to a working relationship with the group. Instead of being transparent about the source of the video footage, police and prosecutors hid that relationship and then lied about it to the grand jury. unicornriot.ninja/2025/newly-r...
Fascinating and Disturbing Read Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. The critical evidence was presented last month to a jury, which found the company partially liable for the 2019 crash in Key Largo, Florida. Gift link ⬇️
The ICE Facility in Phoenix you probably didn’t know existed azmirror.com/2025/08/29/t...
The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
This far right power grab is global
Christian Nationalists with clear links to street level far-Right groups are planning to return to #Seattle. In June we spoke with @1312press.bsky.social about community mobilization against these groups that led to large protests: itsgoingdown.org/interview-se...
Economists warn that tariffs and mass deportations leading to labor shortages could lead to sky-rocketing inflation and growing costs. "The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter...prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year..." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...
Reports of Uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ unicornriot.ninja/2025/immigra...
Update Indonesia: During the ongoing uprising, police ran down and killed someone. The whole thing erupted. During this, a queen stands up and fights the riot line on her own. There is an active ongoing uprising, Anarchists are part of it. Give it your attention and solidarity.
A must read: The fantastic @katerqburns.bsky.social breaks down the controversy Christian Supremacist/Nationalist celeb Sean Feucht will try to manufacture in Seattle this weekend. You don't have to be a fortune teller to know what Feucht's up to. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...
To be clear: this is yet another reason why many of these laws are so problematic. If people want to run fediverse instances of any size, the fact that costly age verification requirements could put them in legal jeopardy, is very bad. Regulators make laws as if every website is Facebook.
The Democratic Party way… Gavin Newsom continues to push his fascist pro-cop, anti-poor agenda. It’s Red Fascism vs Blue Fascism here in California.
NEW — I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:
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The Republican Party simply does not believe in representative democracy anymore. It’s turned its back on a bedrock principle of our country in favor of grabbing power by theft.
Really not great that this ketamine addled piece of shit is using an entire social media network he bought to spread blatant lies and go after trans people because he couldn't accept his own trans daughter.
This month, outlets like @washingtonpost.com and @npr.org have let DC Police union head Greggory Pemberton present himself as an authority on crime statistics. But he's at the heart of an ongoing scandal that led to the first ever sanction of a DC prosecutor for manipulating and hiding evidence:
Greg Pemberton, the Chairman of the DC Police Union, conspired with Project Veritas.
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
People need to understand just how openly genocidal the rhetoric on the far right is getting towards transgender people. They're openly talking about eradicating us and forcefully mass institutionalizing all trans people. These are people with direct ties to the Trump administration.
The reality is their is a massive network of Nazis tied to almost all of the recent school shooters and mass shooters of the last decade and they are playing a sick game targeting society as part of their plans to try and instigate fascist violence and war against the population.
Inbox: @sanders.senate.gov is calling for a bipartisan investigation into the firing of CDC Director Susan Monarez. Sanders is the top Democrat on the Senate's health committee — the chairman is Bill Cassidy, who last night said he would conduct "oversight" but didn't get more specific.
gonna just keep reposting this from @ryanbort.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social and me www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
LAPD has released body worn video of officers shooting Jeremy Flores in the Boyle Heights neighborhood on July 14. Some initial details below, CW for police violence at link and down thread. youtu.be/4CBbKAgYD1Y?...
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However evil you think this is, it’s worse: “The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
Important clarification, multiple CDC sources tell me: Federal employees are not allowed to strike/walk out, so this is *not* a walkout but a "clap out" to show support for departing leadership. Current employees were either given permission to attend by a supervisor or used leave time to attend.
in the last year this is the onion headline i most often think about
Identifying the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas members who assaulted a mixed-race family last summer is probably the investigation I'm most proud of so far. I'm thrilled that its impact was recognized and helped win Steven and I this award.
My grandfather is 101. He was a doctor and researcher for generations. In his life he’s seen near-miracles of medical science come to fruition. To this day he reads Nature and Science and keeps up with the latest discoveries. He tells me he is deeply worried about public health.
Wow
“Some activists launched ‘No sleep for Ice’ rallies, with chants and music blaring through the night, in hopes of pressuring the hotels to kick agents out. Now, public records shared w/the Guardian show that the protests indeed sent federal agencies scrambling …” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
If you haven't seen, it appears that the Minneapolis shooter was trans. This is going to be very ugly. We need to be prepared for the right to exploit this as an opportunity to push some of the most vile narratives they can summon, and policy to accompany them. Twitter has already started.
ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content. www.wired.com/story/dark-m...
“The loyalists around Trump are much more open and much bolder in their authoritarianism than they were six months ago," says Steve Levitsky. "They’ve learned fight by fight that they can get away with it." Trump's accomplices are running wild. Examples below: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
Our slide into authoritarian rule would not be possible without Trump's willing accomplices. William Pulte's corruption of the bureaucracy to single out the mortgages of Trump foes like Lisa Cook for "investigation" is the perfect example of this. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1996...
I'm not sure Americans have a frame of reference for the sort of gangster government we have now. Any objective functions it performs are an afterthought. The law only used as a tool to punish political enemies and ignored in every other instance
What an image (J. Scott Applewhite, AP)
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
DHS is constantly using channer vernacular and extremist ludolects bc 1) they know who the audience is on Twitter (even if liberal pundits and pols don't) and 2) they're doing fan service as a form of governance
By the way, when Obama chose not to veto a UNSCR which condemned settlements as illegal, the only cabinet members to oppose Obama's decision were Joe Biden and Jack Lew.
What if wealthy businessman repeatedly failed to takeover over a company, then that company was the target of right-wing social media anti-woke outrage, then a competing company (owned by that same businessman) repeatedly publicly engaged in the right-wing social media anti-woke outrage…
periodically I get a text from my husband containing one of the funniest images I have ever seen in my life, such as this one
Onyx, a transgender teen in Idaho, was shot to death and murdered by their adoptive father. They were subjected to horrendous abuse by the father's brother who called them a pedophile. eliacugini.medium.com/onyx-cornish...
Trump just halted a nearly completed wind project that was set to power 350K homes at a stable rate for 20 years. Over 1,000 jobs—gone. Electric bills—up. All to protect Big Oil. This isn’t "national security." It’s political sabotage. They'd rather destroy our future than build a better one.
No amount of appearing reasonable and trying to avoid provoking them will stop them from escalating against you. The only thing you'll do is inspire revulsion in everyone else: if you won't even stand up for yourself how can you stand up for anyone else
some of you need to make like travis kelce and engage with a tailor swiftly
Among all the other things, "The President has screwed things up so badly that the world's other rich countries won't deliver mail to us anymore" really should end it immediately.
Going to be wild to have Clarence Thomas and other members of the court write that even the appearance of impropriety is sufficient to allow the President to remove Federal Reserve members from office, and then head off to Harlan Crow’s yacht
In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky funders—one of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...
this is why gorsuch is complaining about lower courts defying SCOTUS. a lot of communication between SCOTUS and lower courts is informal, especially in re: shadow docket cases, and SCOTUS has been sending unmistakably clear signals to roll over for trump. and lower courts have responded “make me”
The entire Social Security database, dumped on a random cloud server: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
Oh look, it's the thing every fascist government says about the opposition party before they dissolve them and turn the country into a one party state.
the last two news stories i saw, one after another, were israel bombing nasser hospital in gaza and then this one. genuinely ashamed of the UK right now
It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is - for the economy (ours and globally), for the rule of law, and for the proper and efficient function of government. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08...
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
It's so upsetting how many problems are seemingly coming about because of public policy successes being so good we collectively lose memory about how some things really were worse in the past lol
“At this point it's become impossible for me to maintain a relationship with Reuters given its role in justifying and enabling the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza. I owe my colleagues in Palestine at least this much, and so much more.” - Valerie Zink
tamari and agave/honey probably
Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud, one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists. We review the story of Rosebud and People's Park here: crimethinc.com/Rosebud
Every day we get a new scandal that should be career-ending for people working at the highest levels of government but we see this stuff so often the public barely flinches. Today, we learn DHS isn't keeping text message records for its leaders americanoversight.org/american-ove...
Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books
Breaking: Kilmar Abrego García has just been detained by ICE after arriving at the agency's Baltimore field office as part of a required check-in, according to his attorney. "The only reason to take him into detention was to punish him."
Whey Standard 