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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 21h

Same over in the UK...

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d

thinking on how both the obama and biden admins deported a shitload of people and both of them seemed to be genuinely shocked right wing media didn't give them any credit for it. and yet, nothing would be learned. they'd just whine about how unfair they were.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d

can barely be convinced to fund your own media and the ones you do fund you shutter the moment they unionize. won't use regulatory powers even on the most blatantly corrupt and evil of media corps. just let right wing billionaires buy up all the media and then whine that they're unfair. come on.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 1d

thing my mind is sticking on about that chotiner interview with KJP is she talks about how unfair the press was, and... yeah, the press is unfair to democrats. that's been standard for ages now. do the dems have any plans to deal with that other than "piss and moan" or "get more racist"?

no? huh!

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

I've talked before about power struggles within hardening authoritarianism. Usually, regime supporters fight over using rule-of-law in crackdowns (with massive abuses, of course) vs. completely embracing extrajudicial methods. Here, we see the latter dominating. Which is very bad news going forward.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 22h

Erika "if it has a gun and legs I will drive over it" Chappell

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

Law enforcement does this regularly, with high-profile round-ups of sex workers under the guise of stopping trafficking. They're rewarded with grant money and federal funds and PR. Meanwhile, the sex workers are jailed or forced through rehabilitation programs or assaulted.

That's exploitation.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

For all the talk about exploitation and sex work, the biggest exploiters are often governments. Here, they're effectively removing money out of creators pockets so that they claim political victory. While they may not be keeping the money directly, that's still profiting off of someone else's labor.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

For adult creators, it's even more disastrous. The more people are dissuaded from going to legal sites, the more they seek out pirated content, which doesn't require facial scans to access.

The UK government is starving creators to score a political point.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

And it's not just Pornhub. Traffic to adult sites has fallen dramatically, even according to the figures supplied by Ofcom, the UK enforcement agency.

The British government is actively dissuading adults from accessing adult content, using the threat of surveillance.

That's called censorship.

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 4d

Traffic to Pornhub has fallen by more than 75% in the UK since the introduction of the Online Safety Act, as legal adults have shifted to the thousands non-compliant sites, supercharging the growth of platforms that don't moderate for pirated content, revenge porn and CSAM

An unmitigated disaster.

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Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

It really feels like we can have female protagonists now, but they are never permitted to actually be right, or be righteous. They have strayed from their purpose, and cannot be allowed to actually land the killing blow on their foes---if they do, they have contravened their very nature as women.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (4/5) @acvalens.net · 2d

This is the burden of the 2010s, and it’s formed from people that want to appear feminist… but still have hangups around actually giving women power. It makes them too angry / uncomfortable

Talia "Estro Junkies" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 2d

Being blunt, fantasy in particular has a huge issue with want the aesthetics of 'female rage': Women finally being allowed to be vengeful, wrathful, militant, violant, and leaders, but then being cast a monstrous, vilified, undermined, humbled, if they don't recall their nurturing, kind selves.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 2d

there's all kinds of fun episodes you could do! bring in historians and have them try to make historically accurate guillotines, do an episode where they're aiming for cheapest, an episode where they're aiming for most portable, an episode aiming for highest throughput...

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 2d

several years ago I said there should be a reality TV show where each team is given a fixed budget and access to various DIY hardware stores/junkyards and 48 hours to build the best guillotine they can.

I'm still disappointed that no one has filled this gap in the market

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 2d

the american financial elite, all at once, had abandoned capitalism in an attempt to purchase the power of the state.

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Bits @bitshammer.bsky.social · 2d

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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 2d

There's a lot you could do with Craftworlds scorning the Imperium as exactly the kind of people they left behind, selfish fools who time and time again show they haven't the courage, grit, or wisdom to make the right choice.

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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 2d

The Craftworlds, after all, started with people looking at the price of Empire and choosing to give it up to preserve preserve body and soul. Meanwhile the Imperium burns bodies and souls again and again on the pretext that Empire is necessary to assure human survival.

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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah! And like- it's honestly a crying shame that the Eldar prejudice against humans so often is just Elf Racism, because there's some really powerful contrasts lying on the table there.

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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 2d

No wonder Guilliman was happy to ally with the Eldar, this is the healthiest interstate relationship the Imperum has- and I'm including relations with the rest of the Imperium in that!

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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 2d

And the hell of it is, by Imperial standards this is a pretty healthy diplomatic relationship! Both agree one Eldar is worth a million humans, both can agree to join forces against bigger enemies where needed...

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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 2d

A friend of mine once pointed out that the difference between the Craftworlds and the Imperium, is that the Eldar would sacrifice a million humans to save a single Eldar; the Imperium would sacrifice a million humans to KILL a single Eldar.

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imrix.bsky.social @imrix.bsky.social · 2d

Fans insists Eldar are 'treacherous', but from all I've seen they uphold their truces more carefully than the Imperium does, they're just careful about how often they actually make truces, BECAUSE they know the Imperium won't respect them longer than necessary

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