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Parker Hardison

@parkerhardison.bsky.social

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Maple-dweller. Pawttorney. Pawlisci & Paw Prof @ Kittenshire Unipurrsity. Op-Ed contributor to Cats Against Swasticats News. Occasional vent crawler & coder. Vive le Canada. 🇨🇦 🐾 All views are my own and do not reflect the views of other cats.

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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 5d

Americans, listen up:

In the coming weeks, the US is going to have 52,000 elections.

FIFTY-TWO THOUSAND

You want to win over those fascists? Go out there and do it. Help your neighbours win.

Stand by them when they're at board meetings out of solidarity if you have time. They need you out there.

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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 5h

It was most likely an earpiece moment coupled with a Freudian slip.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 6h

Oh look, you didn't listen. There goes my subscription. Buh-bye.

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Greg Hernandez @ghnarrator.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centers

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

ICE kept most offices open in shutdown — but not the one inspecting detention centers

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s entire Office of Detention Oversight has been placed on furlough, despite surging numbers of detainees.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 7h

Not too shabby. Definitely need more cosplayers though. Especially frogs.

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 7h

omg the creature numbers at the protests are growing, yuuuusssss

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(also, more frogs especially please, so cute)

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 7h

omg the creature numbers at the protests are growing, yuuuusssss

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(also, more frogs especially please, so cute)

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 14h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 7h

Amazon tried to union bust in Québec and failed, then closed all of its warehouses.

That, on top of all their other scandals and abusive monopsonistic "business practices" ensures no educated self-respecting person would ever shop there. That's your target audience, isn't it Condé Nast?

Do better.

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 7h

Techie here. 👋🏻

A change that simple can be done in less than 10 minutes.

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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 7h

Stop inserting ads into my feed. Do I have to unsubscribe?

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Chip Smith @chipsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a federal public defender. A local AUSA told me that the DOJ now refuses to help her prosecute jail guards who assault inmates on camera.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 17h

Here’s video of the incident

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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 8h

Ooooo me likie

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Ramsha Jahangir @ramshajahangir.bsky.social · 9h

Last week, a Dutch court ordered Meta to give Facebook & Instagram users the right to set a chronological feed by default - one of the first EU cases applying the DSA in civil proceedings.

To unpack what this means, I spoke with @bitsoffreedom.bsky.social:

www.techpolicy.press/what-a-dutch...

What a Dutch Court Ruling Against Meta Signals for Private DSA Enforcement | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press spoke with Rejo Zenger, Policy and Advocacy Lead at Bits of Freedom, to better understand the significance of the ruling.

www.techpolicy.press

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Joanna Peña-Bickley @joannapenabickley.bsky.social · 20d

Most alarming is the rollout of advanced cellular tower tracking technology. ICE is actively using cell-site simulators, such as Stingrays, which mimic cell towers + force all nearby phones—even those of innocent bystanders—to connect, allowing agents to pinpoint the location of targets w/ precision

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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 22h

This doesn't heal the deeply inflicted wound and deep pain I feel over having my santa-adjacent federal judges taken away from me, but it helps.

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 22h

They're a reason his nickname is PeePeeLIEvre.

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 22h

By "cleansing", is this just Republicans calling for mass murder of their political opposition again?

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 22h

By "cleansing", is this just Republicans calling for mass murder of their political opposition again?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 23h

They are!!

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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 1d

Ivanka Trump and Kushner also just got an island a few months ago off the coast of Albania. Has bunkers, land mines and according to them will be developed for an ultra luxury resort... 👀

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

The long read: Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner have spent more than $1bn on an Albanian island that will be a luxury resort – once the unexploded ordnance has been removed

www.theguardian.com

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 1d

👀

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

Balaji Srinivasan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—has “acquired a private island near Singapore as part of his…plan to create a ‘Network State’“ 7/5/25 … 1/ www.news18.com/business/who...

Who Is Balaji Srinivasan, Who Bought Island Near Singapore To Launch 'Network State'?

Tech entrepreneur Balaji Srinivasan has acquired island to create 'Network State' — a decentralised, digital-first society focused on tech, innovation, and community-driven living.

www.news18.com

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 1d

DRM-free time, baby!

Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 1d

Since they insist on illegally imposing trade burdens on everyone, isn't it a great opportunity for the rest of us to ignore their global imposition of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) upon us? :D