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Bawtman

@stimfix.net

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🗺️ Austin, TX 🤯 Blame It On My ADHD ✍️ Web Developer & Content Creator 🌌 Curious about code, content, and the cosmos. 🧐 Always asking "but why?" (especially in physics). #ADHD #AuDHD #PTSD #NeuroDivergent

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 2d

They’ve long had it out for Portland.

This is a clip from my now-infamous 2020 conversation with the Portland DA

And a link to the story I wrote after Andy Ngo seemed to take it to heart.

youtu.be/i6ugxEWYkJg?...

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 3d

NEW STUDY

Since I was born, 500 Black neighborhoods have vanished

And 500,000 Black people have been lost

All due to urban revitalization projects

Like the one for LA’s new coliseum — for the Clippers and ‘26 Olympics — that’s destroying Inglewood

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From Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 Years

America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 4d

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 6d

Not one of these Instagram advertisers donates any of its proceeds to the cause it claims to support

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 6d

All of these Instagram advertisers donate at least a portion of their proceeds to the cause(s) they support

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Bawtman @stimfix.net · 6d

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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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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 11d

If you’re at all interested in defending democracy or defeating Trump, this is a literal MUST WATCH

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I agree with this 100%, but I will say some of our "leaders" up in DC should be put in jail. Sorry for the mixed message but treason should get someone locked away at a minimum!

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 14d

We’re crowdfunding for @eji.org, a charitable org dedicated to “ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.”

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The United States incarcerates its citizens more than any other country. Mass incarceration disproportionately impacts the poor and people of color and does not make us safer. EJI is working to end our misguided reliance on over-incarceration.

The U.S. has 5% of the world’s population but nearly 25% of its incarcerated population.

Our spending on jails and prisons reached $87 billion in 2015, an increase of 1000% from the $7.4 billion spent in 1975.

In 1972, there were only 200,000 people incarcerated in the United States. Today that number has grown to 2.2 million.

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This is so true!

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Fact!

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 18d

Remember that new study?

Yeah we been knowing. 96% of BLM protests were peaceful; same for 99% of the pro-Palestine protests…

And while I saw lots of reports on the study, I can’t say the same for the bigger news:

That Trump scraped the study from all government websites — like it never existed!

US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence

Report finding rightwing extremists have killed more Americans than other domestic terrorist groups vanished from DoJ website

www.theguardian.com

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Bawtman @stimfix.net · 18d

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