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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 1h

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 19m

The president lies about everything except about who he wants to harm.

I'm really afraid how the genocide will ramp up over the next 2 weeks.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26m

BREAKING: US President Trump says Israel and Hamas have “signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan,” adding that “all of the hostages will be released very soon, and Israel will withdraw their troops to an agreed line.”

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/taonkh

Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 30m

I mean... if someone is going to airgap a machine and NEVER connect it to shit else, they might get away with that. It's just so few people understand the incredible pain they're taking on in doing so.

I'm imagining it's mostly small businesses running some weird MS Access DB making ... a choice.

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 34m

As I said earlier; laws of protection stop mattering, laws of oppression appear and expand in scope.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 58m

As the Supreme Court term begins, keep this framework in mind: Autocratic Legalism.

Instead of “rule of law” (law constrains the power), we get “rule by law” (law as a weapon for power).

Authoritarians usually have to install allies. Trump started his second term with that step already complete.

The only effective opposition is through the language of morality and documented harm—not legal technicalities that can be swept away with a 6–3 vote.” The text is centered on a neutral background, with “morality” and “documented harm” slightly emphasized to underscore the moral and empirical contrast with “legal technicalities.”

Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 43m

Oh, people absolutely will, but I think a couple of people getting their files rocked will make someone eventually put up a video of going to Linux and saying "Fuck all this".

People are really broke and the illusion can't hold up.

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🎃🚨S.O.S.🚨SEE PINNED🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 1h

why would you propose fucking TRAINING for an institution created to round people up, prevent them from getting due process, split their families apart often permanently, and ship them off to random, even knowingly life threatening places?

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🎃🚨S.O.S.🚨SEE PINNED🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 1h

that just means they did not learn anything from the black lives movements

Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 1h

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Manzi Rae @manzirae.bsky.social · 4h

Of all the causes I could have possibly guessed, the LA fires turning out to be deliberate arson by a man from Florida with AI psychosis was not high on that list

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 6h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

I mean at this point I am counting days until ICE shoots someone in broad daylight and we get all of the stories and things from people who will claim this is unprecedented

and it be on teh anniversary of a racialized mass shooting

that "doesn't count" because white journalists aren't centered

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𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖈𝖐-𝕿𝖍𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖊𝖉 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖒𝖆𝖗𝖊 @upthetwerx.bsky.social · 1h

Defunding the police and removing white supremacists from their ranks was never a Democrat priority, so like you fucking reap what you sow.

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 1h

Just hear me out; armed bands of people who can murder anyone at will, on the evidence of "They were resisting being murdered" is actually bad for democracy and paying them to do it more, with the targeted people's money, was a vicious cycle.

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 1h

It turns out people who are hospitalized, incarcerated or dead can't "vote harder" for you.

Defund was the conciliatory step folks offered you, and you decided to hyperfund them. Hyperfunded the people who literally push the rhetoric of the people who tried to have you killed.

Ok.

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1h

We have been warning y’all about cops for god knows how long.

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1h

Doesn't matter until verified by white ness

because no one considers the intermediate step of

" Protecting the marginalized group and taking their concerns seriously without using our feelings as filters"

ALMA SUONO BA.,CNS. @almasuono.bsky.social · 6h

*reads article* *recalls Black Altadena residents saying vigilantes were setting historically Black neighborhoods on fire in So-Cal*

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 1h

The thing about tools of oppression is they constantly widen the number of people who are targeted, not lessened.

Anything that abrogates rights should be a giant pain in the ass to do, hard, difficult, hyper documented.

But Bush said "secret judges" decide-now this.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

Reporter: "Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending Habeus Corpus to not only deal with these insurrectionists across the nation but also to continue rapidly deporting illegal aliens?"

Trump: "I'd rather leave that to Kristi [Noem]"

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 2h

@nanicoolj.blacksky.app got any recommendations?

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 6h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 2h

Genocide is a policy, carried out by the hands of many, tolerated by many more.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Somehow this small group of Gamergaters dictating popular culture somehow doesn’t chafe our writers as much as seeing a Black Disney character did.

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 2h

Then you throw some tarriff on it?!? pssh.

All you need is one influencer to put some sports videogames over on Linux and people gonna fold quick.

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 2h

MS won't be getting EITHER console money or the Windows money, folks will just reup their Steam library on the same machine, just running Linux.

Half the US has rising unemployment. People cannot afford these toys at $80 AAA game prices.

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 2h

The funniest thing about Microsoft talking about "we're getting out the console game" is that this push for Win11 is gonna be why a lot of people just jump to Linux.

And don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those "Linux is on the rise!" for the last 30 years people.

Just... folks are broke and tired

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2h

This is full of information that Black YouTubers begged these people to care about

from journalism to foundations to academia

this isn't regret anymore

there is a systemic avoidance of a full story of why we got here that just keeps getting worse

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 2h

the audit report: www.mozillafoundation.org/en/youtube/f...

YouTube Regrets

Mozilla and 37,380 YouTube users conducted a study to better understand harmful YouTube recommendations. This is what we learned.

www.mozillafoundation.org

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Arif "Felonious Munk" Shahid @feloniousmunk.blacksky.app · 8h

They're doing a fascism and i still gotta pay bills.

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Self Guided Adversarial Imagery Meditations @bankuei.bsky.social · 2h

Even before this year of bullshit, people saying "racism is long ago" no it's just a million local situations of Jim Crow shit written off as "stuff that doesn't happen anymore" while it's actually, literally happening in front of your face.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/p...

Texas woman who claims Postal Service intentionally withheld her mail takes case to Supreme Court | CNN Politics

Plenty of Americans have a gripe with the US Postal Service. Lebene Konan managed Wednesday to get hers in front of the Supreme Court.

www.cnn.com

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