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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 2h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2h

Dems can just clip the "we took the freedom of speech away" and make an ad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1h

Free speech warriors and cancel culture haters, assemble!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 2h

Sorry, a game where you get to kill KKK members is “too controversial for the moment”?

Perhaps we should do some thinking about what moment we are living through and the type of art we should make about it Ubisoft!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 2h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 5h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 15h

As someone who often demands better from democrats, I like to make a point of praising them when they do the right thing.

I think chuck is showing improvement here in regards to communications.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 19h

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

We need to have solutions for the Collaborator Problem: the way the fascist takeover of all our institutions has led to the promotion of soulless, facile, subservient mediocrities filling vitally important roles across the breadth of our society

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💞Sabrina💞 @sabrinarina.bsky.social · 1d

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 17h

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 18h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 21h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 21h

The gravy seals have arrived

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21h

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 23h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

Trump to Axe All 7 Hydrogen Hubs, Bucking Bipartisan Law

A new list of Department of Energy grants slated for termination will hit clean energy and oil majors alike, including Exxon and Chevron.

heatmap.news

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 23h

ICE is a remedial employment program for low IQ men with roid rage who wish they could find a wife to beat but settled for the next best thing

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1d

Journalistic malpractice to use a photo from 1992 as though it’s for today

Straight up disinformation

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1d

We’ve failed if we get to a place where he wins the primary.

I desperately do not want to replay the “principled single issue voters vs pragmatic harm reduction voters” lib/left battle again in 28

It’s going to happen if he is the candidate and nobody wins if we get there

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Never, ever Newsom. Fuck that guy.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

I agree a lot with this and it gets to an older understanding of liberalism I've mentioned before. It is more primal and "no kings" is actually a great slogan for it. The problem is "a king can do whatever he wants to you."

Ash vs the Evil Dead @ashflanagan.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't make any sense to conceive of due process as a right that individual people can have or not have at all tbh. Bad framing from the start. Due process is a restriction on the government's actions, and by definition it applies to either everyone or no one.

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1d

The dynamic where randos on the internet take it upon themselves to lecture an outspoken Palestinian activist for a benign statement about how mass killings are bad is…just stunning. Looking at these accounts is mind boggling

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

FINALLY

A conservative professor on how to fix campus culture

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1d

“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their shareholder’s portfolios.”

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1d

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

-Tolkien

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1d

I reserve the right to take occasional breaks from coalition building to be viscerally unpleasant, because those are the times that have been brought upon us

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1d

Same goes for anyone who abstained from a swing state vote.

I’m looking at you too

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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 1d

“I didn’t vote for this”

Yes you did.

Yes you did.

Not only did you vote for it, but all of us told you about it, and so did the person you voted for, and so did half of the people who voted for him.

Yes you did vote for it.

You voted for this, and now we have it, and you don’t get to lie now.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 12d

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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