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James Fritz

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James Fritz @jamesfritz.bsky.social · Jul 26

New album out today on @aspecialthing.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who ever gave me stage time, everyone who ever laughed, everyone who ever recoiled, the sun, the moon and the stars

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

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Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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James Fritz @jamesfritz.bsky.social · 4d

It’s wild how much of a whiny fascist bitch Stephen Miller is for a guy who grew up with a farris wheel in his hometown.

James Fritz @jamesfritz.bsky.social · 17d

I taped them all in high school when they aired and watched it over and over. Made friends watch it. Obsessed with it. Those first four or five seasons were like watching an incredible filmed play every week. I still visit episodes like 3 Men and Adena and Black and Blue. Frank Pembleton forever.

James Fritz @jamesfritz.bsky.social · 17d

They used to make you work a bit to find the bullshit but this FBI will straight up forge a Dear John letter to a gal named Shiela and start it “Dear John.”

Then two hours later be like “See…TRANS!”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18d

She's the real deal. Look out for Rossana statewide and probably nationally in the future.

Josh Kluever @joshkluever.bsky.social · 20d

🗃️ Socialist of the Day: Rossana Rodríguez Sanchez is a Chicago politician and community organizer. She is the alderwoman of Chicago's 33rd ward. She won election after defeating incumbent Deb Mell in the 2019 Chicago aldermanic elections. She is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

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James Fritz @jamesfritz.bsky.social · 18d

There was gonna be a rapture but God was busy cleaning up the trash outside the Charlie Kirk rally

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 19d

I'm not smart enough for all these people dumber than me to be in power

Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 19d

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

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James Fritz @jamesfritz.bsky.social · 19d

Got a $400 Glendale water and power bill today. Buy my album?

brennan @brennan.computer · 19d

huh, the entire alberta energy grid was free for 16 hours yesterday

wind power was overproducing, so it just... goes to zero apparently

For 16 hours on Sunday, Sept. 21, the entirety of power generation in Alberta, from Zama to Taber, and from Lloydminster to Edson, went for a price at less than one singular Timbit.

That’s right – the entire province (except for there they may be a side deal or two), every pumpjack, streetlight, factory, hospital, hard-wired welder, refinery, LRT, air conditioner, computer and hair dryer was powered at a cost of precisely zero dollars for two-thirds of the day.

That’s because during that time, the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) pool price was $0 per megawatt-hour. And one Timbit at least costs something.

AESO pool price on Sept 21. AESO

Some people have questioned why Pipeline Online doesn’t report a lot about the times when wind power generation does well. The reality is there aren’t many days when wind output exceeds 50 per cent. but when it does, such as on Sunday, Sept. 21, there are other impacts. Wind did exceptionally well in Alberta throughout most of the day. And as a result, all power generators on the Alberta grid who received the pool price got paid precisely zero for 16 hours (and counting at time of writing.)

At 8:44 a.m., the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) declared a supply surplus in effect, but it ended at 10:12 a.m. Another supply surplus was declared at 10:14 p.m. It ended at 12:08 a.m.

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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

This predates the social media wars of the late 2010s: One Trump appointee told me that a radicalizing experience was being booted out of the Gawker comments section, way back in the day. But as progressive movements swept through social media, others were tossed off Twitter and Facebook for stepping over a variety of lines, from allegations of harassment to claims of election misinformation. Pandemic era public health rules and fevered enforcement cost others their accounts.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23d

The fascists have assessed that they have nothing to worry about from National Democratic elected politicians. In fact, if they were ever to retake nominal power, many of them will do what they can to destroy their own voters who insist on action against the fascists.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23d

So not about Charlie Kirk then, got it

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 23d

This could not be more correct. It's easier to censor media that is consolidated. Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Reed Showalter @reedforcongress.bsky.social · 24d

Monopoly and fascism go hand in hand. We aren't free if our public discourse is controlled by authoritarians and oligarchs that bend the knee to them

It’s time to break up Sinclair, Nexstar, and big media companies. And repeal the ’96 Telecom Act that let these companies merge

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 24d

NEW: ABC puts JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE on hiatus after conservative backlash, station group and FCC chair pressure network over Kirk comment. Details at @vulture: www.vulture.com/article/abc-...