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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 22h

EFF - front end access to their Police Tech FAQS:

sls.eff.org

Street Level Surveillance

EFF Presents: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 22h

Solidarity Against Sadism: an emergency town hall

Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 23h

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Solidarity Against Sadism

Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the Left. With @hammerandhope.bsky.social.

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Solidarity Against Sadism: An Emergency Town Hall

Join Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for an emergency town hall on the Trump administration's authoritarian war on the…

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 22h

DFR: Police drone fleets as first responders, for audio, visual and thermal surveillance, also trained to do facial recognition, scan license plates, monitor the homeless. And of course you can add weapons.

www.eff.org/DFR

Drone As First Responder Programs Are Swarming Across the United States

Law enforcement wants more drones, and we’ll probably see many more of them overhead as police departments seek to implement a popular project justifying the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles (UA...

www.eff.org

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 22h

History of the communal Amana colony: In 1842, German immigrants bought 7,000 acres near Buffalo, unaware they were being sold Seneca Reservation land. In the ensuing decades, 1,200 more arrived and built houses, barns, and shops.

(We bought an Amana Radar Range microwave oven in 1967...)

Albert Bates @albertbates.bsky.social · 23h

In Goliath's Curse, Luke Kemp gives 4 elements of collapse: threat, vulnerability, exposure and response. The threat could be a hostile neighbor, a viral disease, or extreme floods and droughts—the prepared response can decide whether a society survives cooldesign.substack.com/p/the-beer-h...

The Beer Hall at the End of the Universe

Between utopia and beer lie existential decisions

cooldesign.substack.com

Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 23h

2,900 pages of leaked Telegram chats from young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont. Very nice people: "a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely"

TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 1d

Ho-Lee sh*t.

Telegram messages from young Republicans from across the country have leaked.

They are racist, violent, anti-Semitic, pro-Hitler, homophobic, pro-Nazi, pro-rape, pro-slavery and more.

Plus the article names names.

A must-read, must-share article.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Manufactured panic about the threat of antifa, a threat that doesn't exist.

Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 1d

The current effort is the "antifa" scare: Timothy Snyder on The Truth about Panics open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The Truth about Panics

One is being generated right now

open.substack.com

Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Lawyers for the Drug User Liberation Front are in court fighting trafficking charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who were sourcing, testing and distributing drugs for safe Supply to prevent drug user deaths.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

Almost two years after police raided their compassion club and homes, Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum are in court to fight drug trafficking charges.

@michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli

Safe Drugs on Trial: DULF’s Trafficking Case Begins | The Tyee

The founders are charged with trafficking. Their lawyers argue they had a legal exemption from drug laws.

thetyee.ca

Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Mention @skyview.social with "unroll" anywhere in a BlueSky thread and receive a link to view and share the entire conversation with your friends outside of BlueSky.

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Share BlueSky posts and threads externally

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Thread on history of resistance movements in America.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · Nov 29

🧵This country has a deep history of resisting & rejecting oppression. It isn’t often taught or acknowledged.

We need to know. We need to learn from our elders, ancestors, & political forebears. Now.

A thread about that. I will inevitably miss many examples; pls reply or QT with additions.

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

AOC on the Republican cuts to health insurance and essential medicine supply.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

If Mike Johnson is refusing to call the House back into session during the shutdown, then we’ll do the work right here the Bronx.

The New York Essential plan is being eliminated entirely next year due to the GOP healthcare cuts. People’s lives are at stake.

And that’s why we’re fighting back.

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

New York City Trans Oral History Project

M. E. O'Brien @genderhorizon.com · 1d

The New York City Trans Oral History Project has this wonderful two hour oral history with Miss Major. Take some time to listen to it; it's quite extraordinary. We have learned so much from Miss Major. nyctransoralhistory.org/interview/mi...

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Christian nationalism, weaponized by Tech bro billionaires to fulfill their end time fantasies: andrawatkins.substack.com/p/why-peter-...

Why Peter Thiel Really Cares About the AntiChrist

HINT: He's mainstreaming End Times apocalyptic ideas to consolidate more power and control.

andrawatkins.substack.com

Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel/Antichrist: any call for limits = cosmic evil. Ecological boundaries? Antichrist. No immortality? Antichrist. To stop the addiction to hoarder capitalism would be to fall into sin, to surrender to the forces of darkness.

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

THIS
"Thiel is afraid: afraid of death, afraid of limits...and that fear drives him deeper into the only response he knows: accumulation, extraction, the building of systems of control. The theology merely provides the permission structure."

cybelecanterel.substack.com/p/fear-and-l...

Fear and Loathing in San Francisco

Unpacking Peter Thiel’s very American eschatology

cybelecanterel.substack.com

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

The most severe form of sell out.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 1d

Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart accounts, browse items ,and instantly check out — all within the chatbot.

You'll soon be able to shop Walmart from ChatGPT | TechCrunch

Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let shoppers buy products directly through ChatGPT. The new integration will allow users to link their Walmart accounts, browse items ,and instantly check out — all within the chatbot.

techcrunch.com

Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Eff explains how to defend yourself from surveillance tracking. Note this article is one year old: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Creators of This Police Location Tracking Tool Aren't Vetting Buyers. Here's How To Protect Yourself

Now more than ever, attorneys general in states hostile to reproductive choice will be emboldened to use every tool at their disposal to incriminate those exerting their bodily autonomy. Locate X is a...

www.eff.org

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Eff explains how to defend yourself from surveillance tracking: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Creators of This Police Location Tracking Tool Aren't Vetting Buyers. Here's How To Protect Yourself

Now more than ever, attorneys general in states hostile to reproductive choice will be emboldened to use every tool at their disposal to incriminate those exerting their bodily autonomy. Locate X is a...

www.eff.org

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Good tip, needs context: new surveillance tools from palantir Etc allow agencies such as ice to harvest personal data from millions of phones a day, for Mass profiling. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

USA/Global: Tech made by Palantir and Babel Street pose surveillance threats to pro-Palestine student protestors & migrants

The US authorities are using automated artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tools to deliberately target non-US citizens and pose risks to those who speak out for Palestinian rights, said...

www.amnesty.org

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Security culture: cell phones make you vulnerable to tracking, so invest in a burner phone if you need one.

Environmental Coffeehouse~ Sandy @envirocoffeehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Don't Bring Your Phone to No Kings. The Game Is Changing.
#biometrics #nokings #burnerphone

Get a burner phone stay safe. Don't bring your cell phone to a protest in the US!

YouTube video by Environmental Coffeehouse

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Good tip, needs context: new surveillance tools from palantir Etc allow agencies such as ice to harvest personal data from millions of phones a day, for Mass profiling. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

USA/Global: Tech made by Palantir and Babel Street pose surveillance threats to pro-Palestine student protestors & migrants

The US authorities are using automated artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tools to deliberately target non-US citizens and pose risks to those who speak out for Palestinian rights, said...

www.amnesty.org

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

Which Kafka story, the hunger artist?

Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 1d

51ST $TATE? The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is certainly unusual, if not extraordinary, and which raise questions about whether Ottawa should block them in the interest of national security

ANALYSIS | The Trump administration is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies. But Ottawa can stop it | CBC News

The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is unusual, and which raises questions about whether Ottawa should block the deals in the ...

www.cbc.ca

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Did you read molesworth: an idealistic rejection of both patriarchy and capitalism? Not that Lozano's Act of withdrawal functionally exists as anything more than a construct. Or maybe she was just a jerk. karmakarma.org/texts/lee-lo...

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 2d

paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2d

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Goldenseal @deevee0013.bsky.social · 2d

Chuckling about genocide

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

US President Donald Trump told Israel’s parliament that PM Benjamin Netanyahu had often asked him for weapons during the Gaza war, including “some I’d never heard of.”

More than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

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