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David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 9d

Leave your cell phone at home if you don’t want to be tracked…

Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 9d

Get found “in seconds”

ICE Records Confirm that Immigration Enforcement Agencies are Using Invasive Cell Phone Surveillance Devices | image: StingRay cell phone surveillance device

LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy', an Al Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds

JOSEPH COX • AUG 13, 2025 AT 8:55 AM

Emails obtained by 404 Media show the
LAPD was interested in GeoSpy, an Al tool that can quickly figure out where a photo was taken.

INSIDE THE NYPD'S SURVEILLANCE MACHINE

Your face is being tracked. Find out where.

TAKE A WALK IN NYC

See how policing tactics intersect

(Image: black and white photo of a large crowd in New York City with red squares around their faces to illustrate surveillance)

Truthout

NEWS ANALYSIS | PRISONS & POLICING

Campus Police Are Using Israeli Spy Tech to Crack Down on Student Protest

Israeli-made surveillance technologies are accelerating the militarization of campus police departments across the US.

By Tara Goodarzi & Brian Dolinar, TRUTHOUT

February 24, 2025

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Loon @aquatixwitch.bsky.social · 6h

If you need me to show up somewhere, just DM me! I'll do charity, blockades and peaceful protests. Anywhere not within driving distance will require travel cost cover. If you'd like to contribute to stocking my medic kit/supplies, or paying for gas, you can donate via my Venmo, Cashapp, or PP. ❤️🤍💙

Loon @aquatixwitch.bsky.social · 6h

My name is Loon, and I am #Iowas #CaptainAmerica. When I'm not carrying the shield or at my day job, I'm volunteering as a Street Medic. I'm a retired firefighter paramedic, an Air Force wife and mother, and Army sister and granddaughter.

#antifascist always.

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David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 6h

Pay attention to this…

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 10h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 7h

I sometimes joke that I was trained by the jesuits.
As a punk rock dropout I met the bad-assed Michael Czerny who advised us about political organizing. He faced down death squads in El Salvador.
He married my wife and I.
He is the pope's right hand.
www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/meet-the-j...

Meet the Jesuit Cardinal Behind Pope Leo’s Social Justice Revolution

From drafting Leo's first apostolic exhortation to championing migrants and the planet, Cardinal Michael Czerny is shaping the moral heart of this papacy.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 6h

Guess which shipper I’ll skip using…

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

Speaking of Harold Washington, I listened to this recently and found it to be really engaging and informative. I lived in Chicago for a few years in the mid-90s and the ghost of Harold Washington (and the racist backlash against him) was very palpable. www.thisamericanlife.org/869/harold

Harold - This American Life

The story of Harold Washington and the white backlash that ensued when he became Chicago's first Black mayor.

www.thisamericanlife.org

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 9h

That asshole fired all the people who help kids with disabilities in education.

Fuck him. Fuck everyone who enabled him

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David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 7h

This…

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 13h

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Hey guys, what if we made a segregation academy but for the Super Bowl halftime show

Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 12h

every sentence in this story, except when Bad Bunny is quoted, is insane
www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA plans rival Super Bowl halftime show

Turning Point USA plans to stage an “All American Halftime Show” during the Super Bowl, positioning the event as a patriotic counterpoint to Bad Bunny’s headlining performance at Levi’s...

www.sfchronicle.com

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GunnyFustercluck @gunnyfustercluck.bsky.social · 8h

Yep....

Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 10h

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David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 8h

Fat Texans, who could have imagined that? 😆

🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 8h

After commenters deriding the appearance of TX NG troops made photos of their deployment to Chicago go viral, the Texas Military Department quietly recalled and replaced them

For their appearance.

They didn’t send the Guard to serve.
They sent them to be seen.

taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

taskandpurpose.com

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George Reiter @gwreiter.bsky.social · 1d

“Justice will not be served until
those who are unaffected are as outraged
as those who are.” Benjamin Franklin

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David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 10h

Speedy and Full Recovery!

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George Reiter @gwreiter.bsky.social · 8d

“Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it.” - Ruby Bridges
Pic of Ruby Bridges

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11h

Yup

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 11h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 11h

Those and nearly every other bakery product in Mexico are indeed French in origin…

Enjoy!

David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 11h

Florida Man, Rep. Randy Fine, R-FL

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13h

United States Congressman calls for the deportation of all Muslims from the US.

All Jewish groups should join together to denounce this.

Tweet from Congressman Randy Fine: "Muslims calling for the destruction of Israel — after the peace deal.

It was never about Gaza.

Why did the UK allow these demons in?

We must ban Sharia in the United States and deport them ALL before this becomes us.

Religion of peace."

David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 11h

Count on this…

Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 11h

A clip from LIVE Substack discussion about Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum and what it might mean for No King’s Day. Join me for more: substack.com/@thefrankfig...

David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 12h

Don’t stay silent, McCarthyism wasn’t normal then and Trumpism happening now isn‘t either...

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 13h

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 13h

MSM when it comes to Trump:

"They have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield or change them into a grotesque, walking horror."~

Rod Serling

#ProudBlue
#USDemocracy
#ResistanceUnited
#Voices4Victory

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d

Trump would cancel the sun if he could. Seems woke, shines inclusively

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 3d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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David Vierra 🇺🇸🇵🇹🇧🇷🇲🇽🇨🇦🏄🏼‍♂️🐮 @davidvierra.bsky.social · 14h

Malinchistas…

"I AM ANTIFA GROOOOOT!" @iamgroooot.bsky.social · Aug 23

Latino's arresting other Latinos. For looking .. Latino, while being Latino. 🤯

I did not have that on my bingo card.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 15h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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