Chad Loder
@chadloder.bsky.social
Community activist, cybersecurity expert, citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. 🌴☀️ they/them
In related news, members of the Turtle Island String Quartet have been indicted in a bizarre terror plot.
December 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
In related news, members of the Turtle Island String Quartet have been indicted in a bizarre terror plot.
ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
ICE Accidentally Publishes A 'Watch List' Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do - Above the Law
This is... disturbing.
abovethelaw.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers, Which Is Definitely A Normal Thing For The Government To Do
Taking action, no matter how small or humble, vaccinates you against despair.
December 16, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Taking action, no matter how small or humble, vaccinates you against despair.
"You have to battle nazis on Twitter or we lose", dawg we fight them in real life. Put your phone down
December 16, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"You have to battle nazis on Twitter or we lose", dawg we fight them in real life. Put your phone down
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FBI informants trying to rat on each other to the FBI they both work at
a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:06 AM
FBI informants trying to rat on each other to the FBI they both work at
If you want to keep the FBI busy, introduce all their confidential informants to each other and let them come up with a plot.
December 16, 2025 at 1:04 AM
If you want to keep the FBI busy, introduce all their confidential informants to each other and let them come up with a plot.
The Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), not to be confused with the Liberation Front of Turtle Island. Entirely separate groups.
"put a pebble in your shoe to fool gait analysis" is the Free Space of 'Got Coaxed By The FBI Into Incompetently Planning Terrorism Bingo'
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Turtle Island Liberation Front (TILF), not to be confused with the Liberation Front of Turtle Island. Entirely separate groups.
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Only the same guys who were sending counter-terrorism alerts to each other over Bernie Sanders tweeting about my union in 2019 would've come up with this. It's like fusion center bulletin mad libs. bsky.app/profile/alex...
This is a post-9/11-style entrapment. You can tell by the DHS-fusion-center-bulletin-brained group name. And going to the desert, which has no advantage over someone’s basement other than allowing the FBI to avoid having any other witnesses, is a nice added touch. apnews.com/article/los-...
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Only the same guys who were sending counter-terrorism alerts to each other over Bernie Sanders tweeting about my union in 2019 would've come up with this. It's like fusion center bulletin mad libs. bsky.app/profile/alex...
This whole FBI criminal complaint reads like the whole plot was cooked up by the FBI informant. Naming your group "something something Liberation Front"? In 2025?
December 15, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This whole FBI criminal complaint reads like the whole plot was cooked up by the FBI informant. Naming your group "something something Liberation Front"? In 2025?
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This is the standard MO now.
"Mubashir said that when they finally arrived at the Whipple Federal Building, the agents took him out of the vehicle and made him stand in the cold unless he consented to a face scan, so he finally did."
"Mubashir said that when they finally arrived at the Whipple Federal Building, the agents took him out of the vehicle and made him stand in the cold unless he consented to a face scan, so he finally did."
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is the standard MO now.
"Mubashir said that when they finally arrived at the Whipple Federal Building, the agents took him out of the vehicle and made him stand in the cold unless he consented to a face scan, so he finally did."
"Mubashir said that when they finally arrived at the Whipple Federal Building, the agents took him out of the vehicle and made him stand in the cold unless he consented to a face scan, so he finally did."
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"A horrific thing happened today. Want to know what the worst person in the world thinks about it?" is what you look like when you post trumps truth social posts on here.
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"A horrific thing happened today. Want to know what the worst person in the world thinks about it?" is what you look like when you post trumps truth social posts on here.
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“Muslim graves at a Narellan cemetery have been vandalised with decapitated pig heads as Australian leaders plead for calm following the Bondi massacre on Sunday.
Footage uncovered on Monday shows graves at the cemetery in Narellan littered with butchered pig heads and body parts”
Footage uncovered on Monday shows graves at the cemetery in Narellan littered with butchered pig heads and body parts”
This is disgusting. How does it honour those who were murdered? "Footage uncovered on Monday shows graves at the cemetery in Narellan littered with butchered pig heads and body parts following the Bondi massacre." archive.is/C5mkU
archive.is
December 15, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“Muslim graves at a Narellan cemetery have been vandalised with decapitated pig heads as Australian leaders plead for calm following the Bondi massacre on Sunday.
Footage uncovered on Monday shows graves at the cemetery in Narellan littered with butchered pig heads and body parts”
Footage uncovered on Monday shows graves at the cemetery in Narellan littered with butchered pig heads and body parts”
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Even starting to get the ‘same victims affected multiple times in their lives’ stories like with increased American mass shootings.
Nephew of Poway rabbi injured in 2019 synagogue shooting among those killed in Australia attack
One attack victim was nephew of Poway rabbi
www.sandiegouniontribune.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Even starting to get the ‘same victims affected multiple times in their lives’ stories like with increased American mass shootings.
"Antisemitism simply is not a significant threat in our society. It used to be, but it isn't anymore, because our society has changed." - @caitoz.bsky.social, Dec 3, 2024 from Melbourne, Australia
December 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"Antisemitism simply is not a significant threat in our society. It used to be, but it isn't anymore, because our society has changed." - @caitoz.bsky.social, Dec 3, 2024 from Melbourne, Australia
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Two German sociologists just wrote a book on that joy of destruction: "Zerstörungslust". Their publisher writes:
"The authors conclude that Trump, Musk, Weidel and their followers are all about the destruction of the world as a last, desperate attempt to save themselves from being crushed by it."
"The authors conclude that Trump, Musk, Weidel and their followers are all about the destruction of the world as a last, desperate attempt to save themselves from being crushed by it."
December 15, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Two German sociologists just wrote a book on that joy of destruction: "Zerstörungslust". Their publisher writes:
"The authors conclude that Trump, Musk, Weidel and their followers are all about the destruction of the world as a last, desperate attempt to save themselves from being crushed by it."
"The authors conclude that Trump, Musk, Weidel and their followers are all about the destruction of the world as a last, desperate attempt to save themselves from being crushed by it."
Rob Reiner is a guy you'd fly flags at half mast for.
December 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Rob Reiner is a guy you'd fly flags at half mast for.
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There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
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So, an agency that wants to run ads for gambling funded Australia’s (terrible, misguided, authoritarian) campaign to ban teens from social media because now the government is abandoning a plan to ban gambling ads citing the age verification law as a rationale www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...
Teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months funded and co-staffed by firm making gambling ads
The revelation comes as the government is expected to abandon plans for an online gambling ad ban, using the teen social media ban as cover.
www.crikey.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
So, an agency that wants to run ads for gambling funded Australia’s (terrible, misguided, authoritarian) campaign to ban teens from social media because now the government is abandoning a plan to ban gambling ads citing the age verification law as a rationale www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/12/p...
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Important thread. I would also just note that it underscores how incredibly vital Bluesky is. It may be the smallest major platform, but it's the only one that hasn't been corrupted by fascists. It's crucial that it be protected.
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Important thread. I would also just note that it underscores how incredibly vital Bluesky is. It may be the smallest major platform, but it's the only one that hasn't been corrupted by fascists. It's crucial that it be protected.
I hate that this analogy holds.
Once again, the “family annihilator” the theory of power holds true
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I hate that this analogy holds.
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Likewise, the "Compact for Academic Excellence" and the attacks on the Ivy League aren't about reform.
Nuance and critical theory are enemies to a movement built on myth. Since they can't force Harvard to teach their alternate reality, they will tax, sue, and harass it until it ceases to function.
Nuance and critical theory are enemies to a movement built on myth. Since they can't force Harvard to teach their alternate reality, they will tax, sue, and harass it until it ceases to function.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Likewise, the "Compact for Academic Excellence" and the attacks on the Ivy League aren't about reform.
Nuance and critical theory are enemies to a movement built on myth. Since they can't force Harvard to teach their alternate reality, they will tax, sue, and harass it until it ceases to function.
Nuance and critical theory are enemies to a movement built on myth. Since they can't force Harvard to teach their alternate reality, they will tax, sue, and harass it until it ceases to function.
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This was what happened to Newsweek and it’s in the process of happening to the LA Times and the Washington Post, too.
Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This was what happened to Newsweek and it’s in the process of happening to the LA Times and the Washington Post, too.
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Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.