Universal surveillance and the threat of it being randomly targeted by sociopaths and their slop machines is the intimidation fascists require for their total control. bsky.app/profile/jsra...
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Universal surveillance and the threat of it being randomly targeted by sociopaths and their slop machines is the intimidation fascists require for their total control. bsky.app/profile/jsra...
9/ Fast forwards to last weekend and the US government abruptly reopened the door for the spyware company: "This contract is for a fully configured proprietary solution including license, hardware, warranty, maintenance, and training. This modification is to lift the stop work order."
6/ Almost immediately after the WhatsApp notifications, we started learning about the targets. They weren't the supposed serious criminals... They were Journalists... human rights defenders...groups working on sea rescue of migrants.. etc By@skirchy.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
5/ Then in early 2025 #Paragon's rosy image met reality. #WhatsApp caught the company hacking people across their networks & notified targets. We worked with several & did a forensic analysis of their devices. Cases started coming out fast... By @raphae.li www.reuters.com/technology/c...
NEW: Mercenary spyware is coming to the US. ICE just quietly unsuspended their contract with spyware maker #Paragon. Remember them? Caught earlier this year being used to hack Italian journalists. This is bad, let's talk about how we got here 1/ jackpoulson.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
fucking wild that the fundamental moral test of our time is something as simple as "can you denounce fascism" and so many people are failing it
$65,000 per household bsky.app/profile/dean...
Can Vance kill Trump with the same black magic he used on Pope Francis? We asked three MAHA moms at a Bob Evans in the north Cincinnati suburbs.
“In 2017, O’Hanlon was captured at Trump’s first inauguration festivities in DC decked out in his full Eagle Scouts uniform. The photographer who took the photo wrote on his personal website of ‘the Boy Scout kid that looked like a Brownshirt.’”
"Everybody dies" bsky.app/profile/scho...
Neolibs always go on about "they divide the party" but it turns out that candidates behind progress for constituents instead of just servicing donors also include other Dems in their inclusive community of caring about people.
the thing about Zohran is he is really fucking good at politics and everyone on the Dem side behaving like he’s a liability has lost their minds I don’t care how you define It, he has It
The purpose of 2pm tomorrow's ANNOUNCEMENT bsky.app/profile/thef...
The House Oversight Committee will be holding a closed-door roundtable tomorrow (Tuesday) to hear from Jeffrey Epstein's survivors, says Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
My statement on @nadler.house.gov’s decision not to seek re-election next year.
When fascists are trying to take control it's best not to participate in the universal surveillance they require to do it.
Not to fearmonger, but considering the state of reproductive rights in the US and Oura's new partnership with Palantir, I don't think anyone with a uterus should be using one. Or any other device that can track your period.
Beyond this being... weird, the editing is atrocious.
*9/1/2025 Labor Day noncooperation thread* Rep. Kenyatta has walked /checks notes/ ONE HUNDRED AND FIVE MILES calling on the PA state senate to vote on transit & budget bills that the state house has passed. Turn out tomorrow, Harrisburg! (I rly have to visit again, it's a great place!) 11/
Tomorrow, 11:00 AM. Capitol steps, Harrisburg. 201,701 steps. 105 miles. One message: Fund Mass Transit. Bring a friend, a sign, and your voice. Let’s finish strong. #WalkForTransit
There needs to be consequence for this.
The Trump administration used Benny Johnson's claims that his house was "burned to the ground" and that "people were murdered in my front yard" to justify its federal takeover of DC. @kenbensinger.bsky.social found out that Johnson made it all up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...
Together with the labor movement of Maine, together with Bernie Sanders — We will defeat the oligarchy, and we will defeat Susan Collins.
Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.
Nadler ‘said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel was committing mass murder and war crimes in Gaza “without question.”’
Every AIPACer must go. bsky.app/profile/dday...
Every AIPACer must go. bsky.app/profile/dday...
Good news. The House of Representatives stands behind the NIH budget with no cuts.
As Trump attacks unions and occupies our city, we’re called to remember how we got here. Labor Day would not exist without the workers who fought and died at the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike in Chicago. It’s not a coincidence he’s targeting Chicago:
I hate that I have to live through these times but this is it buddy, this is the show. You're either against the nazis or you're for them. No fucking middle ground here.
Just nothing can be done about that cognitive bias of the bot we built to be that way. For manipulating the majority under our minority control. bsky.app/profile/hype...
Just nothing can be done about that cognitive bias of the bot we built to be that way. For manipulating the majority under our minority control. bsky.app/profile/hype...
Another one gone but so many more to go. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
Will leave the last word for @charleswlogan.bsky.social
It's clear that @rweingarten.bsky.social needs to go if she can't clearly see a scam that threatens the climate as well as the human psyche. There's a reason why every fascist is promoting this. And why they need it for school age indoctrination first. bsky.app/profile/hype...
It's clear that @rweingarten.bsky.social needs to go if she can't clearly see a scam that threatens the climate as well as the human psyche. There's a reason why every fascist is promoting this. And why they need it for school age indoctrination first. bsky.app/profile/hype...
To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.
Journalists, just as with artists right now, must use any opportunity to say what is clearly happening and warn against it WHILE YOU STILL CAN. bsky.app/profile/mari...
if your answer isn’t an unequivocal “yes” then you’re a shit journalist
Blueskyism is that inconvenient thing for them when we always put human interests ahead of capital ones.
‘Never felt better in my life’
Opposition to them is what they see as "crime out of control". bsky.app/profile/aaup...
Blueskyism is that inconvenient thing for them when we always put human interests ahead of capital ones.
Tulsi Gabbard is *very obviously* a foreign intelligence asset and I hope we all live long enough to see her tried and convicted for it.
Anyway, I’m glad to know the president is still technically alive so he can watch this tomorrow www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
"Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out. And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
It’s still early, but pretty good turnout so far for Bernie Sanders and Graham Platner’s (running against Susan Collins) rally here in Maine today.
It is beyond wild to me that there is zero coverage of "Workers over Billionaires" rallies anywhere on The New York Times or The Washington Post right now. This is a colossal failure in journalism. Mainstream media can't just pretend that hundreds of thousands of protesters don't exist
Just because fascism isn't popular doesn't mean you have to be so mean to its enablers while they work on plans to kill you.
The only fun Stalin fact.
In reality, neither have happened. bsky.app/profile/carl...
In reality, neither have happened. bsky.app/profile/carl...
Despite the AP framing, President Trump didn’t say anything. Someone operating the president’s Truth Social account typed out that statement. He’s still in hiding
Nine former CDC directors, from Bill Foege onward, speak out about the incalculable harm that RFK, Jr. is doing to public health in the US and around the world. Gift link.
Right-wing Daily Caller just released a transcript of an interview they did with Trump last week. This was part of it.
"It's not fair to have an open protocol platform that users can control instead of an oligarch's algorithm to normalize what I'm enabling." bsky.app/profile/maxb...
"It's not fair to have an open protocol platform that users can control instead of an oligarch's algorithm to normalize what I'm enabling." bsky.app/profile/maxb...
Ditto.
Anything not gold is garbage.
Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, wants to “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working-class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”
Deleted this post because some people misread it. We’re awaiting a status report *from the attorneys for the children*—not DOJ. The plaintiffs were also supposed to file a report last night but haven’t yet. Judge Sooknanan wants them to explain the reason for the holdup.
An excellent essay on the rejection of experts, ignorance, RFK Jr., and "not-knowing, as a way of claiming the authority of ignorance." www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran... Reminds me of this adage: "Everything looks like a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
Crime is literally lower than it has been in the entire life of every single non-senior-citizen American. If you are under age 65 you have never lived at a time with lower property crime rates, lower violent crime rates or lower homicide rates. Never.
"slack-jawed and pale, struggled to string together intelligible rebuttals" bsky.app/profile/scho...
Having both "AI" and "biathlete" from your birth year is a little too on the nose for now.
Trump is now seeming to question the effectiveness of COVID vaccines — demanding in a social post that drug companies "justify the success" of the vaccines that likely have saved millions of lives.
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
By MattyGlazeEzraKleinNateSilver bsky.app/profile/esch...
Concord, NH lit up today with the truth: when the people rise, no billionaire class can break our spirit. Voices rang out: The people united will never be divided. We’re done with crumbs while the rich feast. We’re all in for #WorkersOverBillionaires ✊🔥
#WorkersOverBillionaires #LaborDay #VisibilityBrigade @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @50501texas.bsky.social @50501satx.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social @indivisible.org
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
This Labor Day (and all other days): Thank the workers who serve you. Appreciate the workers who care for you. Respect the workers who pick up your trash. Salute the workers who get you your mail. Honor the workers who teach your children. Pay all workers a living wage.
Whether it’s Michelle Obama suggesting kids exercise instead of watching tv or RFK Jr. telling kids to drink raw milk instead of taking vaccines, both figures took a controversial approach to children’s health.
Troops hanging out in the DC metro today, displaying assault rifles, doing absolutely nothing
why can't people on here just be normal like *checks notes* nate silver
Have the people who put pads on their ear at the convention tattooed a big bruise on the back of their hand yet?
It's as though the corruption is always at the source of the fascism used to protect it. Along with the blanket immunity provided by its enablers. bsky.app/profile/swin...
It's as though the corruption is always at the source of the fascism used to protect it. Along with the blanket immunity provided by its enablers. bsky.app/profile/swin...
“Peter Thiel’s AI Palantir Is Supercharging Trump’s Lawfare” In May, Trump’s FHFA Director Bill Pulte announced a “partnership” w/ Palantir to “establish an ‘AI-powered Crime Detection Unit (CDU).’” The CDU promptly began “work at the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)” 8/29/25…1/
When they make more from another fascist scam for corruption and undermining fiat currency than their empire of real estate ever did you can see why all of capitalism is taking that big right turn with them.
* Trump Family Amasses $6 Billion Fortune After Crypto Launch @wsj.com
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
Remember when people used the term "false equivalency"?
Someone please kill me right now.
The tell was Netanyahu explicitly and repeatedly saying "Hamas" was always their amplified excuse for this as though they represented enough threat to justify his ethic cleansing to protect his corruption. bsky.app/profile/mich...
youtu.be/8B9ATiGpbl8?...
Tell Neil more like this @dhlovelife.bsky.social
"Solidarity Forever" at the Workers Over Billionaires rally on the steps of Wisconsin's Capitol on this beautiful #LaborDay
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
lmao YOU LITERALLY TARIFFED LUMBER
As I said some time ago Washington is a small place, and in certain circles it was not difficult to hear things about Biden’s condition. And this is from more professional and nominally united people with an interest in keeping it down. The ones up there now are a box of ferrets.
