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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · 19h

Yet another example of how the “Blue Lives” ideology serves the corporate-fascist agenda.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 20h

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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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2d

On Saturday, the day before McMorrow called it a genocide, she told POLITICO she faces questions about the issue at nearly every event. She acknowledged it was “a probably small percentage of voters that are voting based on the issue, but it’s a lingering concern people have.”
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.

Michigan’s Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza

Mallory McMorrow has shifted her position on the ongoing Middle East conflict.

www.politico.com

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 3d

The US consumer is completely drained, and what did they do with all that cash they extracted from us? Lit it on fire to make a machine so advanced its the first ever computer that can't do math and spent the remaining scraps buying the media and presidency so people couldnt be mean about them

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · 13d

Found a shoebox that’s just the right height, if that counts as evolving. Good luck with the interview, grateful for all the incredible work you’re putting out into this messy world!

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 13d

"The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services" but still!

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13d

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23d

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting.

13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

'We're shutting this thing down': 8 shot at Minneapolis homeless encampment hosted by landlord, Frey pledges action

That shooting came less than 12 hours after another shooting just two miles away that left five others injured.

kstp.com

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

So many people are asking how they can support me..

The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social!

I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month.

Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers!

www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series

A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.

www.resistancesummerschool.com

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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · 23d

If Kyle Rittenhouse doesn’t make your list of “political violence,” you’re not in a position to sling blindness as an (ableist) insult at anyone.

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THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 24d

A Venezuelan man from The Bronx told THE CITY that he has begun a hunger strike to protest that immigration authorities have jailed him for more than seven months, despite multiple court rulings ordering his release.

Detainee Accused of Tren de Aragua Affiliation Starts Hunger Strike

Multiple judges have ruled that there’s little evidence that the Venezuelan man is a member of the notorious gang, but he remains in ICE custody nonetheless.

buff.ly

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camacho @bencamach0.bsky.social · Aug 25

In case you didn’t know, journalist Mario Guevara has been in ICE custody since June. The specific reason?

They claim Guevara “presents a danger to the community because he films and records [police] activities and shares his reporting with the public.”

thedissenter.org/aclu-demands...

ACLU Demands US Court Release Journalist From ICE Detention

ACLU filed habeas petition demanding the immediate release of Mario Guevara from ICE detention in Georgia. He's been in solitary for two months.

thedissenter.org

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29d

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters

The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

ICE agents in the Park Ave neighborhood spark large-scale protest

The group shouted “shame” and "Gestapo,” and applauded as agents in the ICE-led action drove a Border Patrol SUV away on four flat tires, which had been slashed.

www.wxxinews.org

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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · 29d

It reeks of Hannah Arendt's concept of "pluralistic ignorance," in which, much like The Emperor's New Clothes, authoritarians consolidate power by forcing us to deny the evidence of our own eyes, thus making us feel alone among a delusional crowd whose perceptions we cannot trust.

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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · 29d

I'm so old I still have the cassette! My CD player died years ago, but this tape deck will probably outlive us all.

Closeup of my face, open-mouthed with astonishment, leaning over a cassette player which is playing the quoted Newcleus track.

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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · Sep 3

Love how @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social reflects on the absurdity of “corporate personhood” and the power of boycotts in this hilarious take on the #Target boycott

Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · Aug 27

Live now Friends youtu.be/7gd7ZnLXg_k?...

Target, Cracker Barrel, and the Race to Lose $100 Million Dollars

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · Sep 1

"It is carried in our bones as something our ancestors didn’t want to leave us as their legacy, but fascism forced it on them. If we’re lucky, we carry the deep muscle memory of resistance too."

Latest from @cbmilstein.bsky.social, photo via @alissaazar.bsky.social itsgoingdown.org/the-heart-is...

The Heart Is a Muscle: 19 Embodiments of Antifascist Grief

Long-time anarchist author and organizer Cindy Milstein presents a collection of stories about resistance and grief. Print PDF HERE Read PDF HERE Somehow, “antifascist grief” doesn’t roll off the tong...

itsgoingdown.org

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 29

Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Aug 29

Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Aug 29

What a cursed sentence (gift link)

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”

Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures

www.nytimes.com

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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · Aug 29

Great conversation: thanks for sharing it. I just added the book to my reading list, look forward to getting into these powerful stories & incitements. Deep gratitude to Dr. Gross for documenting this history and relevant contemporary analysis.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is a thread well worth reading.

Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hate to be callous, but- welcome to being Native. You live your entire life with the fact that 99% of everyone in the US, including yourself probably, is blood-related to people who burned your nation to the ground to get land and gold, and you just have to *live* with that.

Snowjob @snowjob.bsky.social · Aug 26

I stand by the idea that a lot of the anger, and anguish, comes from us not knowing how to deal with the fact that a significant % of the rest of the country hurt us, intentionally or otherwise.

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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ha! She was > 6 months when I found her & brought her inside, so I'd suspected she learned it from the birds in our backyard that sound very similar. But she could have a secret vice she's been keeping from me, it's a great descriptor.

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · Aug 25

If we are going to create a mass culture of non compliance with authoritarianism we are going to have to fight for each other when the system comes down on us to punish non compliance.

Please join me in signing on!

Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · Aug 25

Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

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Joby Gelbspan @outgrained.bsky.social · Aug 25

I've been fostering this adorable, tiny, soft, young kitty & wish I could keep her, but she'd be happier in a home without other cats. Please share w/ anyone in range of #Philly who's looking for a #cat. More pics at the link and I can answer any Q's: www.petfinder.com/cat/tiny-gre...

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