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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 11h

Great ratio.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 12h

Mali has announced that US nationals visiting the West African country will be required to post a bond of up to $10,000 (£7,500) for business and tourist visas, in response to a similar requirement the Trump administration has imposed on its citizens.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on US visitors in reciprocal move

The West African state says it has introduced an "identical visa programme" for US travellers.

www.bbc.com

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 2d

Illinois AG, do your job???!

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 2d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 3d

For alpha males, the 1488ers always seem to get caught up in this kinda dirty pool a little too often…

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 3d

The kid may be stone cold guilty but he’s gonna walk, mark my words www.courthousenews.com/legal-expert...

Legal experts say Trump DOJ tweets make life harder for prosecutors

Social media posts from Justice Department officials have already drawn the ire of Luigi Mangione’s federal judge.

www.courthousenews.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 3d

Bahahahahahahahagaga

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 3d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 3d

All solidarity to Bray but speaking as someone of Turkish heritage who’s had plenty of loved ones deal with similar situations - DON’T DO MEDIA SPOTS until you’re safely out of the country targeting you

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 4d

The 1488 Project

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 4d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 4d

NYT: ZOHRAN WHY WON’T YOU JUST CUCK???

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 4d

Florida man apple.news/A2uV5dWxJTVu...

Man arrested, accused of starting deadly Palisades fire in California — The Washington Post

The fire killed 12 and destroyed more than 23,000 acres, part of a series of firestorms that devastated the Los Angeles area in January.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 4d

A reminder that, on policing, mainstream Dems are really NOT that different from Republicans
www.latimes.com/california/s...

City seeks to overturn judge's order limiting LAPD use of crowd control weapons

The move comes less than a month after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction over allegations that LAPD officers used excessive force against members of the press covering protests against the...

www.latimes.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 5d

Deploy Donut Force

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 5d

The King is dead

All hail the King www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/d...

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 5d

There you have it

Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 5d

I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop “left-wing” terrorism. He is staging it.

His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response in order to justify harsh crackdowns.

This is now very obvious.

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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 11d

A little-known part of Jane Goodall’s legacy is that she helped place Roots + Shoots chapters inside jails in the U.S. and Italy. Some of the participants went on post-incarceration to careers in environmental protection. I met her in 2015 at the Boulder jail—still my all-time favorite assignment.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 5d

New from 404 Media: police used a nationwide network of Flock cameras to search for a woman who self-administered an abortion, said it was for her 'safety'. But new docs show they considered charging her with a crime as part of a 'death investigation' into the fetus
www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 6d

State

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 6d

All this is chargeable under Illinois State criminal law

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 6d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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