Bob Kolstad
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As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
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"There is nothing more despicable and dangerous than a mercenary. When you join ICE, you become a threat to your community and a traitor to humanity. Once people see you with ICE, you’re going to have to wear that mask every day for the rest of your life."
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Mercenaries
MERCENARIES
We are told that dangerous people are loose in our communities. Parasites feeding on our resources. People who are not like us.
But who is dangerous, if not those who will kidnap thei...
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December 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
"There is nothing more despicable and dangerous than a mercenary. When you join ICE, you become a threat to your community and a traitor to humanity. Once people see you with ICE, you’re going to have to wear that mask every day for the rest of your life."
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This guy is an idiot.
Over a decade of trying to make healthcare a normal market and it’s still not
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This guy is an idiot.
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If your city is suspending or cancelling #Flock, remember that "switching to another #ALPR vendor" is NOT the solution.
Dragnet bulk data collection is the core problem. #Flock is just one particularly egregious example.
Mass #surveillance does not make any of us safer! 🚫
Dragnet bulk data collection is the core problem. #Flock is just one particularly egregious example.
Mass #surveillance does not make any of us safer! 🚫
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If your city is suspending or cancelling #Flock, remember that "switching to another #ALPR vendor" is NOT the solution.
Dragnet bulk data collection is the core problem. #Flock is just one particularly egregious example.
Mass #surveillance does not make any of us safer! 🚫
Dragnet bulk data collection is the core problem. #Flock is just one particularly egregious example.
Mass #surveillance does not make any of us safer! 🚫
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"Last week, Axon Enterprise quietly announced it was rolling out facial recognition into its body cameras. For now, it’s limited to Edmonton PD in Canada, but it could be the start of something bigger: the beginning of pervasive facial recognition ..."
#surveillance #AI #bodycameras
#surveillance #AI #bodycameras
If we don't end the use of surveillance technologies, the tools will only become more pervasive and violent.
If we argue against a surveillance tool based upon its "accuracy" or suggest implementing oversight models, we're misunderstanding the problem.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
If we argue against a surveillance tool based upon its "accuracy" or suggest implementing oversight models, we're misunderstanding the problem.
www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...
A Step Towards Pervasive Facial Recognition
Axon's police bodycams are used across the world and may soon come with facial recognition after a trial in Edmonton, Canada.
www.forbes.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
"Last week, Axon Enterprise quietly announced it was rolling out facial recognition into its body cameras. For now, it’s limited to Edmonton PD in Canada, but it could be the start of something bigger: the beginning of pervasive facial recognition ..."
#surveillance #AI #bodycameras
#surveillance #AI #bodycameras
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⭕️ NEW: “They Broke His Teeth and Ribs”: 66-Y.O. Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Savagely Beaten in Israeli Custody
Qassam Barghouti, the son of prominent Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti, wrote in a social media post on Fri that his father was severely beaten & abused in prison.
Qassam Barghouti, the son of prominent Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti, wrote in a social media post on Fri that his father was severely beaten & abused in prison.
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM
⭕️ NEW: “They Broke His Teeth and Ribs”: 66-Y.O. Palestinian Leader Marwan Barghouti Savagely Beaten in Israeli Custody
Qassam Barghouti, the son of prominent Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti, wrote in a social media post on Fri that his father was severely beaten & abused in prison.
Qassam Barghouti, the son of prominent Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti, wrote in a social media post on Fri that his father was severely beaten & abused in prison.
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This is a tank of the Rwandan army, used to support the M23 rebel group in eastern DRC.
This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.
What a world.
This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.
What a world.
December 6, 2025 at 3:54 AM
This is a tank of the Rwandan army, used to support the M23 rebel group in eastern DRC.
This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.
What a world.
This tank started its life in Ukrainian SSR, was sold to Syria, captured by Israel in 1967, modified to Ti-67s designation, and sold to Rwanda to end its life in eastern DRC.
What a world.
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It's fucking wild that a politician can support systemic racism with every vote and policy position they take and liberals are perfectly fine with it, but if a satirical outlet makes fun of said politician for supporting systemic racism, liberals lose their minds and scream, "Racism!"
December 5, 2025 at 3:17 AM
It's fucking wild that a politician can support systemic racism with every vote and policy position they take and liberals are perfectly fine with it, but if a satirical outlet makes fun of said politician for supporting systemic racism, liberals lose their minds and scream, "Racism!"
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helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
December 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point
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Since the beginning of the year, the US government has been accelerating its war on the American left, targeting dissent with loose terminology and reaching for legislative and executive tools created at the turn of the century with the War on Terror.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/the-war...
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The War on Terror Turns Left - UNICORN RIOT
Prairieland, TX – A sprawling court case from a protest at an immigration detention center could determine how the United States government deals with dissent. The charges originated from a protest at...
unicornriot.ninja
December 5, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Since the beginning of the year, the US government has been accelerating its war on the American left, targeting dissent with loose terminology and reaching for legislative and executive tools created at the turn of the century with the War on Terror.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/the-war...
unicornriot.ninja/2025/the-war...
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Interestingly, saying “they don’t know the history” depends on the intended audience not knowing the history.
You would have to be a huge piece of shit to read about all the massacres in service of the Zionist project and keep supporting that project.
You would have to be a huge piece of shit to read about all the massacres in service of the Zionist project and keep supporting that project.
December 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Interestingly, saying “they don’t know the history” depends on the intended audience not knowing the history.
You would have to be a huge piece of shit to read about all the massacres in service of the Zionist project and keep supporting that project.
You would have to be a huge piece of shit to read about all the massacres in service of the Zionist project and keep supporting that project.
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Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire almost 600 times, killed and injured over 1350, including murdering 136 Palestinian children, under various pretexts. Yet, the supposed guarantors of the truce remain hushed.
Ceasefire “Holding” so Long as Only Non-Israeli-Jews are Murdered
Amnesty International warned on November 27, that “The ceasefire risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal.... the
www.counterpunch.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Israel has violated the Gaza ceasefire almost 600 times, killed and injured over 1350, including murdering 136 Palestinian children, under various pretexts. Yet, the supposed guarantors of the truce remain hushed.
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They're all on the same side, you clown.
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
They're all on the same side, you clown.
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Hegseth isn’t defending his admiral, he’s scapegoating him. He’s shifting the entire weight of an illegal kill order onto a subordinate & framing it as patriotism, so others also fall in line. It’s total cowardice - a political appointee hiding behind a uniformed officer he just fed to the wolves.
December 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Hegseth isn’t defending his admiral, he’s scapegoating him. He’s shifting the entire weight of an illegal kill order onto a subordinate & framing it as patriotism, so others also fall in line. It’s total cowardice - a political appointee hiding behind a uniformed officer he just fed to the wolves.
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Soldiers bear the solemn duty to defy unlawful commands, such as a second strike to obliterate survivors from so-called drug boats, decreed by a vulgar co-host who fancies himself a god from the Pentagon's throne. #MilitaryEthics
December 2, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Soldiers bear the solemn duty to defy unlawful commands, such as a second strike to obliterate survivors from so-called drug boats, decreed by a vulgar co-host who fancies himself a god from the Pentagon's throne. #MilitaryEthics
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"By forcing everyone to hand over their most valuable and sensitive identity data, the law builds out a dangerous new surveillance infrastructure instead of actually keeping young people safe," EFF’s Molly Buckley told TechRadar. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri...
Missouri search for VPNs quadruples as age verification laws kick in
Missourians begin to take matters of data security into their own hands
www.techradar.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"By forcing everyone to hand over their most valuable and sensitive identity data, the law builds out a dangerous new surveillance infrastructure instead of actually keeping young people safe," EFF’s Molly Buckley told TechRadar. www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-pri...
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Leaked FBI report unmasks Kash Patel's tenure as a pageant of ineptitude, from donning a borrowed damsel's jacket in Utah to bellowing at subordinates like a provincial squire aping nobility. #FBI
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Leaked FBI report unmasks Kash Patel's tenure as a pageant of ineptitude, from donning a borrowed damsel's jacket in Utah to bellowing at subordinates like a provincial squire aping nobility. #FBI
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Sen. Mark Kelly reveals a surge in death threats against him and wife Gabby Giffords since Trump demanded their execution for urging troops to defy illegal orders. #PoliticalViolence
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Sen. Mark Kelly reveals a surge in death threats against him and wife Gabby Giffords since Trump demanded their execution for urging troops to defy illegal orders. #PoliticalViolence
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I will translate for those who don't speak fascist
"I just met with the President.
I want to ban anyone who isn't white, Christian, & politically obedient. We will label entire cultures as criminal so we can strip their rights. This nation belongs only to us.
WE DON’T WANT BROWN PEOPLE. NOT ONE"
"I just met with the President.
I want to ban anyone who isn't white, Christian, & politically obedient. We will label entire cultures as criminal so we can strip their rights. This nation belongs only to us.
WE DON’T WANT BROWN PEOPLE. NOT ONE"
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I will translate for those who don't speak fascist
"I just met with the President.
I want to ban anyone who isn't white, Christian, & politically obedient. We will label entire cultures as criminal so we can strip their rights. This nation belongs only to us.
WE DON’T WANT BROWN PEOPLE. NOT ONE"
"I just met with the President.
I want to ban anyone who isn't white, Christian, & politically obedient. We will label entire cultures as criminal so we can strip their rights. This nation belongs only to us.
WE DON’T WANT BROWN PEOPLE. NOT ONE"
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This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This is all true but
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
1) under no definition are we currently at war with Venezuela under domestic US law
2) since we aren’t, the initial strike was just as much a murder as the follow up
The failure to understand this by a huge range of actors is really driving me up the wall.
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Genuinely hilarious. Please send it to China.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Genuinely hilarious. Please send it to China.
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As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good
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On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization
22 years after the victory against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, what can we learn from the networks that gave rise to that movement?
crimethinc.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities, we need this reference point more than ever.
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"We get to invade you and you're being hateful if you get mad"
November 30, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"We get to invade you and you're being hateful if you get mad"
This is our society now.
Even with possible Trump pardon, Hegseth still has to worry about the ICC and beyond, post-Trump
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
This is our society now.