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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 2h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 52m

What. The. Actual. Fuck?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 1h

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

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Theodore Painsworth says Free Link @itty53.bsky.social · 1h

gonna be so many fucking frog suits by the end of October:

- padding from projectiles
- insulates in the cold
- positive pressure to keep gas out
- full body coverage
- remove it and you've disappeared
- flexible for air humping
- obscures face from cameras
- one size fits all, all genders
- sexy

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Another ambulance arrives at the detention center. Presuming it could be the one from earlier returning, but either way, a grim reminder of what's happening behind the gates and boarded up windows.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 8h

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 4h

And why not? He’ll believe it. The most bigoted and gullible geriatric in the world with the most power in the world is compromised by his own cognitive inabilities to realize he’s being fed bullshit.

I’d bet Stephen Miller has a SORA account rn.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 5h

Just to be absolutely clear:

The President of the United States has absolutely no power to “take away” any right enumerated in the Constitution from any person.

And that is how every single article, blog post, and social media commentary should start when discussing this ludicrous statement.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 5h

Idgaf what Thune regrets. He’s still a Nazi stooge.

Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 6h

'We don’t control what he’s going to do': GOP's Thune regrets support for Russ Vought

www.rawstory.com/vought-repub...

'We don’t control what he’s going to do': GOP's Thune regrets support for Russ Vought

Republican lawmakers who were happy to see controversial DOGE godfather Elon Musk walk away from the White House are now having to contend with Office of Management and Budget head Russell Vought maki...

www.rawstory.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 7h

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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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 5h

The only journal Trump has ever read is the one about him and his pal, Epstein

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Have you asked the DOJ to look at possible charges against Pritzker and Johnson?

TRUMP: I've seen the law ... I've understood that and I read it today in numerous journals that that's illegal ... that's a criminal offense

Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t know her. Lmao

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 6h

WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE TINY KLAN CHILDREN?!

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Seth Miller @wandrme.paxex.aero · Apr 6

I'm not keen to fully swear off any airline, but Avelo's calculation here that the deportation flights will backfill lost scheduled service is an interesting one.

Definitely reduces the odds I'll be booking anytime soon.

Perhaps FAs or pilots will be sick more often than usual.

Don't Wash Your Pits in the River of Sacred Tears @maestraoogway.bsky.social · Apr 6

🤬https://www.azfamily.com/2025/04/04/avelo-airlines-carry-out-deportation-flights-mesa-gateway-airport/

Avelo Airlines to carry out deportation flights at Mesa Gateway Airport

Avelo Airlines has signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration Control and Enforcement to carry out deportation flights at an Arizona airport.

www.azfamily.com

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 12h

Those influencing Trump education policy aren't shy about wanting to eradicate public schools.

Asked what % of kids she imagines should be in public schools, Tiffany Justice -- Moms for Liberty cofounder, now with Heritage Foundation -- told @propublica.org

“I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 8h

Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 13h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Across Chicagoland today, more kidnappings continue. Immigration agents have taken people from Waukegan, Elgin, Glendale Heights, potentially some other suburbs. In the city proper, feds just snatched someone near Peterson and Pulaski—and earlier today, they grabbed someone from Little Village.

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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 8h

Fuck these Nazi ass Gestapo freaks.

May they never know peace.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 9h

Americans are being far too complacent about masked government agents in unmarked vehicles grabbing people and taking them to unknown destinations.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 9h

Fly out there with the fam and follow the speaker around asking if there’s time in the schedule now.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 9h

Mike Johnson said he would swear in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva "as soon as she wants." His office then backtracked — saying Johnson would only swear in the duly elected Grijalva once the government reopens. Grijalva won her special election more than two weeks ago.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe it's because I'm a parent, but avoidable harm to kids really gets to me. My kids can be difficult when they don't get an afternoon snack at the usual time. I'm sure various parents and teachers can say the same. Watching a kid starve to death? And the US govt did it on purpose?
Unconscionable.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 9h

Civil penalties need to be part of that too. Removing the general incentive is good, but for the lawless, it won’t matter.

So make sure they pay for it financially should they decide to just ignore the law.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 10h

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Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 10h

Hard hitting journalism trend I see.

Brandon M @beemooney.bsky.social · 10h

No. No he’s not. It’s kinda weird you’d even ask that with any seriousness at all.