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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 6h

Your infrequent reminder that money should only be used as a system for exchanging goods and services in a complex marketplace.

Money should not masquerade as a resource.

Money should not be hoarded by the few.

That we fall for this trick is what allows Trump and Musk to thrive.

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 1d

Already a kids Halloween parade in Chicago had to be cancelled because of ICE agents using tear gas.

Trick or treating will not be possible this year in certain neighborhoods of American cities under fire from the government.

After Halloween Parade Ruined By Federal Agents, Old Irving Park Neighbors Furious

Old Irving Park welcomes thousands of trick-or-treaters from across the city every Halloween. This year, neighbors are making plans to protect each other from federal agents after Saturday’s violent i...

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 12h

BTW, just wanted to follow up and note how this one turned out.

Noem said, “get fucked.”

And the democrats are out of hands to play…

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

HUFFPOST
Headline: Kristi Noem's Blunt Reply To
JB Pritzker Could Mean A Rough Halloween For Chicago Families
David Moye
Thu, October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM EDT • 3 min read

"No. We're gonna be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe," Noem insisted, before claiming the work being done is beneficial to children.

"Every day in Chicago, we're arresting murderers, child pedophiles, those who have perpetuated assault and pornography against children," she said. "We're going to be out there to make sure they can be safe, enjoy the holidays, spend some time with their family and friends and their neighbors and community, and they don't have to be the victim of a crime because of illegal immigration."

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 12h

I already know the answer is “no,” but only because people can’t decide whether to leave the extra light in the evening or morning.

Once it is done you’ll never even think about it again, I promise!

Instead, 56% prefer to have daylight saving time year-round, with less light in the morning and more in the evening. Forty-two percent would rather have standard time year-round, with more light in the morning and less in the evening.
In general, the public is split on whether they consider themselves a morning or night person.
Forty percent consider themselves morning people, 37% night people, and 22% don't consider themselves to be either early birds or night owls.

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 12h

I really have tried to talk to my cats about clocks.

Unfortunately they don’t get it so I have spent the past two weeks slowly adjusting their (and by extension my) food schedule.

Can we just stop the stupid Daylight Savings Time already?

apnorc.org/projects/few...

AP NORC

Headline: Few people support the daylight saving time system, and more want year-round light in the evenings

About half of the public opposes the current system in which most of the country changes their clocks twice a year-in the fall and the spring. Only 12% are in favor.

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 1d

Apologies! The correct word would be “asset.”

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t wait til historians get to take a look at everything and realize all the evidence has been out in the open since 2016: Trump has been Putin’s puppet since he started talking about birth certificates.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian...

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 1d

This is going to end well.

Note the part where the US invading Venezuela serves Russia as it creates distractions from their efforts in Ukraine/Europe.

Also helps Netanyahu do whatever the fuck he wants in Gaza.

Weird, huh?

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The Washington post
Headline: As U.S. ramps up the pressure, Venezuela pleads with Moscow for help
Lede: Documents show Maduro drafted letter asking Russia for missiles, radars and upgraded aircraft as U.S. forces amass in the Caribbean.
October 31 at 12:00 PM 2025

The asks included overhauls of defensive radars, military aircraft repairs and potentially missiles, according to internal U.S. government documents obtained by The Washington Post.
The Venezuelan government, according to the documents, is also reaching out to China and Iran, soliciting military assistance and equipment to strengthen the country's defenses.
Maduro composed a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping seeking "expanded military cooperation" between their two countries to counter "the escalation between the U.S. and Venezuela.

But Russia remains the primary lifeline for Maduro. On Sunday, an Ilyushin Il-76 — one of the Russian aircraft sanctioned in 2023 by the United States for participating in the arms trade and transporting mercenaries - arrived in Caracas, Venezuela's capital, after a circuitous route over Africa to avoid Western airspace, according to Flightradar24. The Kremlin declined to comment on the letter.

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 1d

United States culture is so gilded in competition and shame that it makes people feel unworthy of getting the help they need.

“Well my problems are nothing compared to other people’s.”

It isn’t a competition like that. Go to therapy, go to a doctor, whatever it is you need to do.

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, cool, this all makes sense. Why keep all the Nazi shit in the government when we can start adding PMCs into the mix???

Profits!!

This is a reward for Texas. Don’t forget Greg Abbot almost single-handedly changed the discussion from Roe to Immigration.

www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Wired
Headline: ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas
Lede: A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors-turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

US Immigration and Customs
Enforcement is exploring plans to launch a privately-run, statewide transportation system in Texas. The agency envisions a nonstop operation, funneling immigrants detained in 254 counties into ICE facilities and staging locations across the state.
Early planning documents reviewed by
WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE
estimating each trip to average 100 miles.
Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm - authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties "in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations."

shadow logistics network built on agreements with local police departments under the 287(g) program.
These once symbolic gestures of cooperation are today a pipeline for realtime biometric checks and arrest notifications. Transportation is merely the next logical step. For ICE, it will create a closed loop: Local authorities apprehend immigrants. Private contractors deliver them to either a local jail (paid to house detainees) or a detention site run by a private corporation. The plan even specifies that contractors must maintain their own dispatch and command-and-control systems to manage movements statewide.
ICE is all but extricating itself from the process-becoming little more than an overseer that sets routes, response times, and reporting standards-while effectively turning immigration enforcement into a service industry; a continuous, privatized, and largely unseen system capable of moving detainees hundreds of miles overnight while operating without direct federal presence.

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

Competitive authoritarianism.

www.propublica.org/article/dhs-...

The initial results, however, didn't exactly back up President Donald Trump's contention that noncitizen voting is widespread. Texas identified 2,724 "potential noncitizens" on its rolls, about 0.015% of the state's 18 million registered voters. Louisiana found 390 among 2.8 million registered voters, a rate of about 0.014%.
Instead, experts say, the sweeping data-sharing agreement authorizing DHS to merge Social Security data into SAVE could threaten Americans'
privacy and lead to errors that disenfranchise legitimate voters.

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

What was that I was saying about Trump ethnically cleansing this country?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Guardian
Headline: US will limit number of refugees to 7,500 and give priority to white South Africans
Lede: Low number represents a dramatic drop after US previously allowed in hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and persecution

No reason was given for the drop in numbers, which are a dramatic decrease from last year's ceiling set under the Biden administration of 125,000.
The Associated Press previously reported that the administration was considering admitting as few as 7,500 refugees and mostly white South Africans.
The government memo said only that the admission of the 7,500 refugees during 2026 fiscal year was "justified by humanitarian concerns or is otherwise in the national interest"

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

This is how the democrats intend to save you from this: asking politely, but mildly sternly.

I am sure it will have great effect.

Too bad they spent 50 years bowing to the fascist inclinations of the right.

They *allowed* this to happen.
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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 3d

This is all very, very bad. How do the democrats plan to save you from this?

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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inblacknwhite @imagetree.bsky.social · 2d

A former US colonel accused the Biden administration of shrugging off IZraeli war crimes.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who thinks this is “genius” should look up Keaton Patti’s “I forced a bot to watch” fake AI tweets from about 7 years ago.

Bespoke, amusing, human generated content. Not just stealing from Friends.

Apparently funny enough to become a book!
www.simonandschuster.com/books/I-Forc...

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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 2d

It’s just FRIENDS. The voices are easily identifiable as the FRIENDS cast, “smelly cat” is a FRIENDS joke, the set is nearly the FRIENDS set, the music stings are FRIENDS music stings. This is all just a lot of flea-circus flimflam.

𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 3d

AI sitcom accidentally a Lynchian fever dream. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and insane lament.

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

It is unlikely, but I’m still gonna be out here trying! Everything has become too big too fathom and we need to break it all down and rebuild it with modern thought and expertise.

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

“People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there,” said a former ICE official… who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by the Trump administration. “I actually think it’s wildly, wildly fucked up.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Guardian
Headline: Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks
Lede: Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length

Previously, ICE was prohibited by its own internal policies from detaining people for longer than 12 hours in these holding facilities. But in a June memo, the agency waived the 12-hour rule, saying people recently arrested by ICE can be detained in the holding rooms for up to three days.
There is extremely limited oversight of ICE holding facilities nationwide, leading to concern among advocates about unknown troubling conditions inside.

• In some cases, such as a New York City holding facility located on the 10th floor of a federal building in downtown Manhattan, time in detention increased by nearly 600% on average after the June rule change.
• In one case the Guardian discovered by looking through agency data, ICE
documented that a 62-year-old man was held inside that same New York City holding facility for two-and-a-half months.
• The Guardian also found an additional 63 people at the site who were held there for longer than one week, between Trump's inauguration and late July.

In various instances, including in court records and when members of congress have attempted to visit holding facilities, homeland security officials have said holding rooms are not detention centers, so they are not subjected to the same kind of scrutiny as other ICE facilities.
In August, DHS secretary Kristi Noem said ICE does not detain immigrants in field offices, some of which contain holding facilities, and instead say they are offices where people are processed.
However, former agency officials with extensive knowledge of conditions inside holding facilities have expressed concern at their prolonged use.
"People were not supposed to spend more than 12 hours in there," said a former ICE official, who worked on oversight and detention issues and who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation by the Trump administration. "I actually think it's wildly, wildly fucked up."
The former official said that the risk of people experiencing sexual abuse or assault while in a holding room - either from ICE staff or fellow detainees - increases the longer they are held.
"You're just putting them all in there with minimal oversight," the former official added.

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry, got a little manifesto-y there.

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

But violence on our part will only bring the wrath of Trump’s (now) two Golden Heels.

We will receive the retribution even when we are peaceful, we absolutely should not invite it by being violent. I genuinely agree with you there.

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

We must rebuild community. We must remind ourselves that our neighbors are actual people.

We must stop living such insular lives. And embrace the vast opportunities our local community has to offer.

And then we need to break the United States into 6 to 12 countries.

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 2d

If you thought that i was preaching for violent reaction, you misunderstand my message. In fact, my thoughts are quite the opposite. The first thing we need to do is rebuild the local and regional identities that have been lost to capitalist globalization.

I find vigilante activity reprehensible.

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t entirely disagree, but let me know how that turns out for you.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_St...

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mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 3d

Most phrases exist in our lexicon for long, long forgotten historical reasons.

But somehow god fucked up.

“Trumped up charges,” wasn’t supposed to exist until 2028.

Long after many of his political “enemies” had been tried on lies to soothe an actual factual narcissistic ego.

mxtt the secessionist @mxttqhuman.bsky.social · 3d

Technically it was remnant thin, hard plastic that I hadn’t completely cleared off when I removed it to access the cap/open the bottle.

We use way too much plastic!