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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)

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Freelance Writer, Academic, anti fascism, authoritarianism,modern propaganda, weaponized unreality whisperer on the dystopia beat. iwwfju member bylines: splinternews Www.instituteofunreality.com Unreality.institute

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Dec 13

I’m going to say it again, generative AI and the push for it to be used in every Avenue of learning and education is because generative AI literally is a weapon for knowledge destruction not a knowledge creation tool and silicon valleys goal is to monetize and gate off all of human knowledge

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Dec 13

The more this is explained the worse it appears.

An AI-assisted textbook at UCLA has some academics worried

The UCLA literature professor who developed the textbook says it will save students money and allow her to be the teacher she’s always wanted to be. Others aren’t so sure.

www.insidehighered.com

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h

Vought dreams of a comprehensive “counter-revolution” and believes that *any* measure, regardless of how extreme, is justified in this struggle against the “leftist” enemy.

But if you only listened to The Daily, you wouldn’t get any of that.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 4h

People especially liberals need to understand you cannot wait another year to stop Trump. You cannot vote out fascism especially a fascist regime already doing election interference out in the open.

Stop the steal 2 is already happening out in the open. www.commondreams.org/news/jb-prit...

Pritzker Warns Trump Will Have Military Seize Ballot Boxes So He Can 'Count the Votes Himself' in Elections | Common Dreams

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker warns of Trump's plan to militarize US cities and control elections. Pritzker remains defiant against threats of imprisonment.

www.commondreams.org

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 12h

Free and fair elections are really not something I would be betting on for 26 and the republicans are saying out loud why. Because they are already doing the open planning for election interference and sham election result

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID.
In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in.
How in the world are you going to check our voters?
Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon.
But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation.
For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections.
COMMON SENSE
Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember
October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min
So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why?
Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five.
You talk about trade-off, right?
COMMON SENSE
Sanctuany

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

Note: ICE was highly active today, sweeping up people across both the city proper and various suburbs.

ABC reporting this afternoon that National Guard troops who arrived yesterday could be expected in Broadview sometime this evening:

Texas National Guard troops expected to deploy to Broadview ICE facility Wednesday evening: Sources

Texas National Guard troops are expected to be deployed to the Broadview ICE processing center Wednesday evening, law enforcement sources told the ABC7 I-Team. Meanwhile, President Trump said that May...

abc7chicago.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

States are going to be forced to defend their sovereignty at the end of a barrel of a gun.
The fascist are forcing states hands. either capitulate or fight and frankly blue states need to get ready to fight Governors need to be talking about readying militias outside of the National Guard, etc.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 13h

They are trying to rationalize this and frankly we are in immense danger.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 13h

Just a heads up the only accurate way to describe the president order troops from another state to invade and wage terror in another sovereign state is a civil war.

Anything else is shying away from reality.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 13h

Because Russia is readying the field for the next phase of their fascist war again the world.

POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 1d

One of Europe’s biggest air defense companies is warning that its top secret factories are being overflown by increasing numbers of drones.

And it wants clear rules on how to jam or bring them down.

Top EU weapons firm warns of drone threat to production lines

Thales Belgium says its factory making 70 mm rockets is being buzzed by drones.

ow.ly

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 13h

People truly have no understanding of the alternative reality that is now about to become reality and how brutal it will get because of that.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 13h

No one has made any claim about that. Trump is a fascist

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 14h

They literally don’t matter beyond losing to Trump through incompetence. Hillary lost because she was a terrible candidate. Harris lost because she was not against a genocide and said she would follow the law when it came to trans folks and voter turn out reflected that. They don’t matter.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 14h

Hillary and kamala. lol.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 14h

Trump literally said that he was going to drone strike antifa. Take it up with him

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15h

Liberals: “Karl stop saying the republicans are waging war against democratic society and it’s civilians it’s hyperbolic”

The fascists : “we are going to drone strike antifa on domestic soil without any oversight” bsky.app/profile/prem...

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15h

The republicans are waging civil war against the free populations of this country. You’re not voting this out alone. Sorry America you need to accept reality the fascists are waging war against you and doing nothing beyond theater only ensures democracy is not reestablished for generations.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 16h

U.S. Northern Command says that elements of the Texas national guard are now “employed in the greater Chicago area.”

The statement claims that they’ve been deployed to protect ICE and federal property.

U.S. Northern Command &
@USNorthernCmd
X.com
Effective today, elements of the Texas National Guard, under Title 10 authority and command and control of U.S. Northern Command, are employed in the greater Chicago area.
These soldiers are employed to protect U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other
U.S. Government personnel who are performing federal functions, including the enforcement of federal law, and to protect federal property.
For the latest information on our Federal Protection Mission, please see the link below:

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 15h

The real question isn’t what I will be doing in a year it what will you being doing for the next year to ensure elections are held and free and fair?

Because doing nothing beyond pretending you’re tough online as you’re doing now won’t stop fascism if anything it will allow it to solidify further.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 18h

A hyper capital digital society is an authoritarian society and the destruction of public goods and third spaces were the vanguard.

The atomization and exploitation of your time and cognitive space is only the beginning of the cognitive colonization going on.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19h

Basically what’s happening is an expression of the larger national project of ridding us of the idea of public goods, and a public in general.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19h

And it’s wild because they just stopped the original Neiman Marcus from being closed downtown. So I don’t get the logic chain outside of downtown is for private luxury and not public business or enjoyment.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 19h

Just a reminder that Jack published a book last year called “unhumans” that makes the argument that all Democrats and anyone left of Francisco Franco should be rounded up and murdered en mass for the rest of the populations entertainment.
Jack is a Nazi and hell bent on the murder of his opponents

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 21h

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

But if the neoliberals stop screaming that fascists are just ordinary citizens with good ideas that need to be valued how else can the virtue signal to their donors in the wealth class?

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 27d

all i know is that normalizing debate with fascists has only facilitated the rise of fascism.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 19h

Newsome is a fascist and blue state govs should act. Stay mad rod. Keep being wrong and reactionary like good blue anon.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

The Techno fascist unreality state just gets stronger and stronger.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1d

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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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

If you believe we have free in fair elections after doing nothing beyond performance against them for two years you’re more lost in the neoliberal sauce then I thought possible.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

You’re a fascist. Full stop. Have fun with what you sow after this.

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

NeoLiberals use the phrase “purity test” as a dog whistle for bigotry and open hatred for those seen as a threat to their power and influence.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1d

If you are willing to throw away entire groups of people to protect your insular strategy that will only protect you instead of protecting everyone then I don’t want your leaders and I sure as hell don’t want to be associated with you.

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 1d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t says you did. That is the major line being trotted out across neoliberal spheres not by you.