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Fago Milfoy
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they/them/he; it's good to be back thoughts on human rights, content moderation, tech policy, and politics. Lot of writing on Tech Policy Press, though my articles are all over! https://www.techpolicy.press/author/dia-kayyali/
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · Jan 11
Doozy of a first post.

Meta's new policies targeting trans people, immigrants, and women are not going to hurt just us. These changes are pandering to the far right in the US and the EU. It's bad for everyone.

My article for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

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Meta's Content Moderation Changes are Going to Have a Real World Impact. It's Not Going to be Good. | TechPolicy.Press
The changes announced Tuesday appear to cater specifically to the rise of far-right leaders and ideology, writes Dia Kayyali.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 5h
Not me sitting here crying over a preview of a country song.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 7h
Cry more, MAGA.
Country Star Zach Bryan Sparks MAGA Outrage After Bashing ICE In Teaser For New Song
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 5h
Very into this energy. never underestimate the power of being annoying.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 7h
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 5d
Not if its caffeinated and you’re drinking it to work more ;P
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 6d
Consider taking a break from social media and looking up from your device. Also, when was the last time you had some water?
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 6d
PS: Bluesky has not been interested in engaging with civil society meaningfully yet, and a 2 week timeline for commenting on their standards when a lot of people were probably not working doesn’t cut it., before someone bemoans the people “harassing the CEO.”
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 6d
Oops, CEO of Bluesky mocking people asking why dangerous transphobes aren’t being banned.

Starting the countdown in my mind to this site being unusable for me. Glad I didn’t get too comfortable, and I hope I‘m wrong.
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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 6d
Canada and the UK's new immigration laws are blatant attempts to suck up to the fascist United States dictator, and it will not end well for us.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 6d
Labour has closed existing safe routes for refugees, weakened protections for trafficking victims, is undermining international human rights law, and is now denying people trapped in countries they face persecution the ability to join loved ones. There is nothing defensible about any of this.
Afghan resettlement schemes for those who supported UK suddenly closed by government Ministers close 'lifeline' sanctuary routes for Afghans who worked with British troops and who fought for democracy and womens' rights Holly Bancroft Social Affairs Correspondent Tuesday 01 July 2025 18:50 BST Shabana Mahmood UK anti-slavery commissioner condemns Shabana Mahmood's asylum comments Home secretary's remarks about 'vexatious' claims will have real-life impact on trafficking victims, says Eleanor Lyons Thu 18 Sep 2025 10.50 BST The anti-slavery commissioner has criticised the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, for accusing asylum seekers of making "vexatious last-minute claims" relating to modern slavery. The commissioner, Eleanor Lyons, said the comments were "deeply concerning" and would have "a real-life impact" on trafficking victims. He added "we need to look again at the interpretation" of a wide range of international laws by UK courts. He warned that laws must be "applied in the circumstances as they are now" before adding that countries were experiencing "mass migration in a way that we have not seen in previous years". To meet this new challenge "we need to look at again at the interpretation of some of these provisions, not tear them down", he said. He added: "I believe that those genuinely fleeing persecution should be afforded asylum and that is a compassionate act." Pressed for details about what was blocking deportations of foreign criminals, Sir Keir cited Articles 3 and 8 of the ECHR - which ban torture and protect the right to private and family life respectively. "But it's more than that," he said, pointing to the UN's Refugee Convention, Torture Convention and Convention on the Rights of the Child as potential barriers. Starmer to end asylum 'golden ticket' of resettlement and family reunion rights People granted asylum will have to earn right to invite family in plan charities call 'straight from populist playbook' Rajeev Syal Wed 1 Oct 2025 22.30 BST People granted asylum will no longer be given "the golden ticket" of resettlement and family reunion rights, Keir Starmer said, amid deepening concerns from charities that his words are demonising refugees. As the prime minister prepared to discuss illegal migration with European leaders, No 10 outlined plans to strip successful claimants of the right to automatically invite spouses and children to join them.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 8d
Incredible that these little fascist toddlers are passing laws to protect lawmakers (who have access to security) from doxxing. Many of the people they are so “scared of”, like myself, survived doxxing attempts with no help at all ten years ago and the same people tried to gaslight our concerns.
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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11d
"I believe in living.
I believe in birth.
I believe in the sweat of love
and in the fire of truth.

And i believe that a lost ship,
steered by tired, seasick sailors,
can still be guided home
to port.”

― Assata Shakur
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 12d
About Joint Terrorism Task Forces; I mentioned them months ago. They directly enlist local law enforcement to the FBI chain of command, and blur federal/local lines. Some cities pulled out of JTTFs, but most likely yours hasn’t. <5/?> www.techpolicy.press/ai-surveilla...
AI Surveillance on the Rise in US, but Tactics of Repression Not New | TechPolicy.Press
Resistance sends a message that intimidation tactics won’t work and to those targeted that they are not alone, writes Dia Kayyali.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 12d
Anyway, more historical legal context later but for now I’ll just say, uh….cool to see extremism on gender explicitly included. <4/?>

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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 12d
AEDPA also established the crime of “material support” to terrorist. When 9/11 happened, nearly all the structures were in place to create the modern national security state ( including the Joint Terrorism Task Forces central to Trump’s fascist “countering domestic terrorism” order.) <3/?>
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 12d
AEDPA is a pre 9/11 law inspired by the 1995 attack committed by Timothy McVeigh, which was then used almost exclusively to limit access to habeas corpus and set up the modern system of terrorist designations.

McVeigh, a white man, inspired this racist, biased system years before 9/11. <2/?>
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 12d
There are so many disturbing aspects to this order that have historical context. The title echoes back to 1996 “Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA)“ <1/many throughout the day>
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Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL MEMORANDUM/NSPM-7 MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE                THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 15d
“You Have Not Yet Been Defeated“
Those words have been ringing in my head the least 24 hours, often followed by tears of joy.

I’ve never met Alla, but maybe now I will, someday.

The “you” includes all the people who never gave up fighting for him.

It worked. It really worked. Thank you.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 15d
I'm not the first to notice the reinvention of @wired.com from mouthpiece of tech ideology to showing everyone else how to do journalism today, but this cover is something else.

The inclusion of their own hagiographic covers in the back is a nod to that shift, which is beautiful. Also…
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WIRED @wired.com · 16d
Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley?

In our new politics issue, we're getting into it.

Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 15d
Shout out to all the cis women out there responding to people calling them trans as a slur with “So what if I am?”

I see you, putting yourself at risk out there. That’s showing up for trans people for real.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 17d
I”m scared for my autistic friends in the US.
Even more for my trans autistic friends in the US.
I don’t know any undocumented trans autistic people personally but I’m really really fucking scared for them ( and grateful for the mutual aid work still happening in the US).
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 17d
I’m really not looking forward to how whatever the administration announces will be used to dehumanize autistic people even further.

If they really cared about autistic people, they’d be doing what is necessary to support those of us who are living rather trying to prevent our existence.
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 17d
If you can, learn about mass defense— strategic defense of people arrested for activism —and how it works. Check if there’s a legal hotline and observers where you live. And finally, don’t be afraid to ask questions about how anyone (including legal support) stores your personal data. <2/2>
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Fago Milfoy @dia.bsky.social · 17d
It’s a good idea to known how to talk to a lawyer, and know a little bit about movement lawyering.
Don’t be afraid to ask questions about strategy, even if you’re working with a public defender who may not have experience with political cases. <1/2>
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 17d
If you get arrested at a protest, and you need to fight a charge, who's your lawyer? A public defender may represent you at arraignment. (Love you, PDs!)

Afterward, usually it's an NLG lawyer, working for free. The NLG Chicago needs your support.

(ACLU doesn't do crim defense, with exceptions.)
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National Lawyers Guild Chicago @nlgchicago.bsky.social · 17d
Help ensure NLG Chicago can continue supporting the movement! Donate here: nlgchicago.org/donate/
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 17d
If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.
A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 17d
everything about this is iconic, from the hair to the shoulder pads to the reveal that she addresses herself as “bitch” to the absolute murder in her eyes in that first shot. that is a woman who homophobes would cross the street to avoid for fear of their life. absolute ally goals
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feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · Aug 10
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”
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sujato @sujato.bsky.social · 17d
Great reporting on one of the moments that should have warned us. The Arab Spring saw a moment when we thought tech would liberate people, then like a dream that moment passed. Today Myanmar is sunk deeper than ever in horrors, riven by civil war, while countless people are pressed into slavery.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17d
I wrote about how Facebook (née Meta) destroys everything a while back - based in part on my experiences in the early 2010s as a reporter in Southeast Asia - and each month, each day, they somehow manage to find new ways to become more evil.

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Facebook Destroys Everything: Part 1
In Southeast Asia in the early 2010s, I watched as Mark Zuckerberg's creation began to destroy Myanmar. Here's why I'm never using Threads.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19d
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime
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