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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Aug 10

A reminder that the Israeli government does not allow any international journalist into Gaza. That’s how they have killed more journalists than most conflicts combined since WWII while claiming that all the journalists they’ve killed were actually enemy combatants.

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Richard Chambers @newschambers.bsky.social · Aug 11

More than 200 journalists have now been killed by the IDF in Gaza.

And so many journalists here haven’t expressed a single sliver of solidarity or outrage about it.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Aug 11

The demonization and criminalization of people without housing is critical here. The unspoken logic that pulls this all together is the reality that poor people can’t afford bail, so they stay locked in jails without convictions, and that’s how these people *want* it to work.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · Aug 11

The president brought up no cash bail and Chicago today.

Here’s a reminder: Data emerging from the Circuit Court of Cook County shows that the law is working

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ESSAY: Ending cash bail shows that we shouldn’t lead with fear • The TRiiBE

The Pretrial Fairness Act has shown us possibilities; we can have safety without incarceration.

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · Aug 6

New report reveals human rights abuses in US detention camps, including:

-a 10-year-old US citizen child recovering from brain surgery denied follow-up medical care

-a 4-year-old child suffering from metastatic cancer deported w/o ability to consult a doctor

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‘Horrific’: report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities

Report from senator Jon Ossoff’s office found 510 credible reports of human rights abuses since Trump’s inauguration

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

@needstobebred.live hi, I think you're the Ayla that Emma was supposed to hang out with today—she fell asleep after not sleeping for like two days and it was too hard to wake her up. She semi woke up a little bit just now and says she's sorry and will try to reschedule when she's awake again later

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

I was in abbotsford (where dreamer is from) earlier this summer & it put world / internet politics in such a funny & insane light. If some faillenial TWU grad sees 3 or more sikh uncles meandering the Mill Park lily pad bridge then the US VP becomes slightly more likely to push for pogroms that week

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Aug 6

Marketplace platform that enables Nazis and fascists under the guise of free speech has now passed the big banks to become the most valuable company in Canada.

Shopify’s leadership will now have even more resources to push for extreme right-wing political causes in Canada.

Shopify Shares Surge to Overtake RBC as Canada’s Largest Stock

Shopify Inc. surged Wednesday to become the most valuable company in Canada after reporting what Citigroup called a “blowout” quarterly performance.

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

A significant part of the clanker meme is people who have had slurs deployed against them joking about doing it to robots. Eg a bunch of the videos are young black guys doing "look who's coming to dinner" routines

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

Again, it should tell you all you need to know when the policy & rhetoric pushed by certain canadian municipal councillors and premiers is also now a core pillar of the Trump playbook

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · Jul 28

"Trump is threatening to withhold funds from supervised drug consumption sites and potentially pursue criminal penalties against them, offering his clearest stance yet against the philosophy of harm reduction and marking a significant escalation of his rhetoric on substance use and addiction."

Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · Jul 28

US President Donald Trump, now under relentless pressure for concealing damaging personal evidence from investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, recently signed an Executive Order which attacks harm reduction for drugs @paulbongiorno.bsky.social @sanho.bsky.social
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Aug 6

Fully illegal given the temporary restraining order on "roving patrols," affirmed by the 9th Circuit just last week

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Aug 6

ICE raided the Westlake Home Depot in Los Angeles this morning. LATU organizers snapped some photos from the raid—one sticks out: ICE agents rolling up in a Penske rental truck.

Wonder where they got the idea😬

Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

The NPR writer is not seeing people doing something and of her own accord declaring that this constitutes a slur. She is covering a trend where the whole gimmick is, explicitly, to come up with slurs for computers *as if* you were doing inter-human discrimination

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

You're making a fool of yourself here man. NPR is covering a meme where the jokes involve a) imagining being "racist" to ostensibly sentient robots in a future scifi society, & b) applying that to the obviously nonsentient current robots ppl deal with, like self-checkouts &chatbots & automated calls

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

Lol I don't think I need to be condescended to by a guy who apparently can't manage to parse a fluff piece on a meme

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

...that's the joke man

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

Like I think a non-negligible amount of racist incitement on twitter might be traceable back to the fact that lauren southern and captive dreamer happen to be from 2 of the only 4 notable Canadian municipalities with a double-digit percentage of punjabi speakers

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 6

genuinely think it's probably at least partly related to so many of the big english-language rightwingers being Canadian

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · Aug 6

The documents were obtained after a 15-month struggle during which the FOIP request was "lost," delayed, ordered released by the OIPC, released for $1,133 payment, then delayed again.

Two weeks after the order, the police chief & two deputies resigned.

All resignations remain unexplained. 4/

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · Aug 6

SCOOP 🧵

Two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for "image recognition" software that scours photos and videos for individuals. 1/
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Calgary police "image recognition" software identifies individuals in photos & videos posted online

Documents show that two years after being caught using Clearview AI facial recognition software, Calgary police signed contracts for AI software that scours photos and videos for individuals. Have pol...

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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · Aug 6

So in the absence of any official policy, a community festival was told they’d need to pay two cops $437/hour each, with no justification or oversight from the city

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · Aug 6

Vancouver community centre wants policy for policing costs after expensive bill

A Vancouver community centre says it was told it would have to pay thousands in policing costs only days prior to holding its annual summer event.

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 2

I'm just not really seeing a contradition here. The article doesn't actively doubt the cops but it keeps the specific claims tying the suspect directly to the crime, like the quote, within the realm of "police say"

me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 2

The article takes most of the same precautions the headline does though. I'm not seeing much of a disconnect there. And the purpose is just to not lock in information that hasn't been second-sourced or video-confirmed esp when that information is related to legal responsibility

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 2

What's the benefit of explicitly making that leap though? Any reasonable reader is going to make the inference immediately, & imo this isn't a case of normalized road injury where the media & public are so exonerative of drivers that there's real social value in emphasizing driver responsibility

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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · Aug 2

“The point of this messaging isn’t to meaningfully dispute the facts on the ground in Gaza. The point is to foment among Israel’s supporters the idea that no piece of media sympathetic to Palestinians can be trusted.”

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · Aug 1

My latest newsletter, about The New York Times' "correction" of its story about starvation in Gaza, and what it says about their adherence to Israeli propaganda.

The New York Times Puts An Asterisk On A Starving Child

The Times takes the bait on Israeli propaganda

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me @camoflage.bsky.social · Aug 2

(Unless the police are obviously trying to exonerate / downplay their own role ofc, and then the reverse type of adjustment is needed, but coming from the same place of automatic caution around the police press machine)

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