gaby :)
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policy reporter @ the verge ✨other work elsewhere ✨ writing a book about ecofascism
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gabydvj.bsky.social
i’m writing a book and i’m very excited :) it’s about ecofascism and the origins of conservation and it will be published by bloomsbury :) wow :)
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gabydvj.bsky.social
my perennial complaint 😭 also thank you!!
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tinanguyen.bsky.social
At NatCon, there were two topics dominating everyone’s discussions: the imminent end of the right’s support of Israel — and the existential threat that technology posed to Western civilization.

I wrote about the second discussion.

www.theverge.com/politics/773...
MAGA populists call for holy war against Big Tech
Butlerian jihad from an unlikely quarter.
www.theverge.com
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adamjst.bsky.social
"This is why the DHS twitter account now posts deportation ASMR and caked up ICE shawtys. The edgelords are in control, and the opposition is too busy quibbling over zoning reform white papers to do anything about it."

This was really good from @gabydvj.bsky.social
gabydvj.bsky.social
i needed to see for myself!
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sanho.bsky.social
ICE will have access to one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools after a decision by the Trump admin. to move ahead with a contract with Paragon Solutions, a company founded in Israel which makes spyware that can be used to hack into any mobile phone – including encrypted applications.
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps
Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons
www.theguardian.com
gabydvj.bsky.social
hey remember when i wrote about the pronatalist right for politico and got accused of “nut-picking” lmao
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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premthakker.bsky.social
Read this very carefully: *61%* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 weeks*
gabydvj.bsky.social
student activists at Columbia have been warning about the harms posed by Canary Mission and other far-right doxing groups for years. Now we know ICE is using Canary Mission’s database to find targets for deportation
www.theverge.com/policy/70772...
Right-wing orgs put pro-Palestinian students on an ICE ‘hit list’
‘There’s been absolutely no recourse.‘
www.theverge.com
gabydvj.bsky.social
lol. and moreover lmao
Pan finds even calls for redistribution suspect when they focus on closing the racial wealth gap rather than closing all wealth gaps. “On paper, the median white household in the US owns about $189,000 in assets, whereas the median black household owns only $24,000,” she writes, and “the average white household wealth is around $840,000 greater than average black household wealth.” Still, Pan claims, there is an outsized focus on these disparities; in fact, liberals’ “fixation” on the racial wealth gap is indicative of their desire to maintain the current economic order. “[C]losing most of the existing wealth gap between blacks and whites—without first closing the massive wealth gap between the rich and the poor—would largely necessitate making already-rich black people richer, while conversely, very little of the racial wealth gap would only be closed by helping poor black people acquire more wealth.” That is only true if one doesn’t know the difference between medians and averages.
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voxmediaunion.bsky.social
25.5 hours left and still waiting on a fair contract

betting this auspicious Solidarity Moon will help 😌
Members of the Vox Media Union bargaining committee gathered around a conference table.
gabydvj.bsky.social
does it make sense? literally no, not at all. and yet that’s what people think! which is why it’s so shameful and frankly pathetic that dems caved on immigration and blamed their fecklessness on “public opinion”
gabydvj.bsky.social
when the median voter hears “mass deportations” they think “trump is going to get rid of ms13 and tren de aragua but not my neighbor, who is a good person.” which is why polls show that some people say they want both “mass deportations” AND a path to citizenship
michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This argument would work if Trump was suddenly doing something he never promised but mass deportations were the core of his campaign! Even in our desiccated media environment his voters absolutely knew immigrants were going to be ejected en masse.
bubbaprog.xyz
i really, really need people to understand that they *didn't* vote for this, no matter how much you insist they did. insisting "they voted for this" elides the information environment that led them to vote the way they did in the first place, the thing that actually needs fixing.
gabydvj.bsky.social
gate agent just said they’re going “biometric boarding” on my flight to spain. yeah ok for sure. here’s my face delta i hope you don’t do anything weird with it
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
NEW: A secretive surveillance company is building "AI persona" bots for cops intended to gather evidence on people. Personas include "college protesters," "radicalized" divorced moms, children. We have docs that shows how it works and what cops can do with it:

www.404media.co/this-college...
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
www.404media.co
gabydvj.bsky.social
so proud of him
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thedextriarchy.bsky.social
heartwarming! local app that claims to pay bounties for deportation tipoffs probably just pump-and-dump scam
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nickmiroff.bsky.social
NEW: GOP lawmakers are preparing reconciliation bill with $90-175 BILLION in new funding for immigration enforcement.

ICE's entire annual budget is ~$9 billion.

Inside the Trump administration's plan for the real mass deportation campaign: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com
Trump’s Mass-Deportation Campaign Hasn’t Really Started Yet
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
www.theatlantic.com