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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 42m

It feels like the level of personal, corporate, and national vulnerability we've achieved is similar to early agriculture.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 45m

South Korea has lost 858 terabytes of government data after a fire destroyed its government data center and there were no backups.

quasa.io/media/south-...

South Korea's Catastrophic Data Center Fire: 858 Terabytes of Government Data Lost Forever Due to No Backup

The fire has ignited calls for overhaul - stricter battery protocols, mandatory offsite backups, and lithium-ion audits worldwide.

quasa.io

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 45m

South Korea has lost 858 terabytes of government data after a fire destroyed its government data center and there were no backups.

quasa.io/media/south-...

South Korea's Catastrophic Data Center Fire: 858 Terabytes of Government Data Lost Forever Due to No Backup

The fire has ignited calls for overhaul - stricter battery protocols, mandatory offsite backups, and lithium-ion audits worldwide.

quasa.io

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 45m

I'm really so glad to hear this because her dying would be a Bowie-death level harbinger of encroaching evil.

HELLO! Canada @hellocanada.bsky.social · 52m

“I ain’t dead yet!” says Dolly Parton after her sister’s Facebook post asking fans to pray for her health went viral following her hospitalization.

📷: #DollyParton

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1h

Part of our soft secession needs to be access controls for Floridians.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 52m

I'm not surprised but I'm still sad to hear that.

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1h

They understood better than anyone that elitism sells.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1h

All tech ecosystems are collaborating with the regime, but at least I paid a lot less for my Pixel and I can still say Fuck ICE without getting flagged.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 1h

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1h

I think we saw it together. Last time I saw it too

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1h

I, too, am a non-doctrinaire radical leftist who's been negatively polarized into a liberal sphere bc liberals are so much less judgy and rigid.

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 2h

slowly coming around to "it's probably fair to describe my political positions as both radical and leftist, I'm just not someone who's stupid and therefore all of the people who I am willing to work with politically are either liberals or people about whom this statement is also true"

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 1h

Part of our soft secession needs to be access controls for Floridians.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3h

Law Enforcement, for the most part, is semi-autonomous, only nominally responsive to their jurisdiction's elected officials. LLEOs mostly don't see themselves as "one of us" but as that "thin blue line" that separates "citizens" from "criminals."

Guess who decides who is which?

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 4h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3h

Law Enforcement, for the most part, is semi-autonomous, only nominally responsive to their jurisdiction's elected officials. LLEOs mostly don't see themselves as "one of us" but as that "thin blue line" that separates "citizens" from "criminals."

Guess who decides who is which?

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 4h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 4h

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 4h

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
www.foxnews.com/us/national-...

National police union calls Chicago's refusal to help ICE agents 'shocking' violation of duty

Police union leaders called Chicago's alleged directive to not assist ICE agents surrounded by protesters a violation of law enforcement's duty to protect fellow officers.

www.foxnews.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 4h

I take no comfort in the fact that this was clearly written by Stephen Miller bc while Miller may not know Johnson's name, Trump wouldn't know Pritzker's.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 12h

Portland has taken my advice.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

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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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h

The funniest thing isn't that every major city in Texas has higher crime than every major city in the other 3 states, it's that the AI made Trump short so Trump will fucking hate it.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 21h

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h

The funniest thing isn't that every major city in Texas has higher crime than every major city in the other 3 states, it's that the AI made Trump short so Trump will fucking hate it.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 21h

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h

They really do not think of us as human. They just don't. We aren't the same as them in their eyes, so we're easy to torture, abuse, and when they can do it w/o consequence, kill.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 18h

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h

Everyone's favorite fireman's penis!

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Publick Universal Frenemy 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ in HTX @quijotescx.bsky.social · 16h

Tenant power is vital to community defense.

I can't recommend highly enough that you get connected to your local tenant union (or ATUN if your area doesn't have one yet), talk to your neighbors and buildingmates, get to know one another.

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h

The building may have been selected for the raid bc bankers and realtors wanted it empty. A Brazil (movie)-like collaboration btwn bureaucrats, capitalists, and fascists that I don't think we're ready to deal with.

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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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you for this. I will read it tonight.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 17h

I'm not Black but I spend a lot of time in the Black community here in LA. Most outsiders, and probably even most Californians, would be surprised at how unfriendly the state is.

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