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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈

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Programmer, infosec, co-founder of TurtleSec, parent, bi 🏳️‍🌈, NB, she/they, Norwegian 🇳🇴 dyslexic with no edit Anti-Fascist ✊ Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️ 🐘: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia 🏡: https://patricia.no

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 11d

Norway can and should host the UN

Colombian president accuses Trump of violating UN principles after visa revoked

"Time to go to a more democratic place," Petro said in an X statement.

www.axios.com

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 2h

Most dictators are initially elected

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

This South Side Weekly report on the Chicago building raid is well worth reading. Most striking to me are the indications of collusion between federal authorities and the building owner and management to effect a mass eviction at the blighted property. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 3h

Ok, for that I got nothing 😞

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

wapo.st

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 3h

Given the number of nation states running troll farms to destabilize the US I’m currently slightly suspicious of weird/surprising takes on social media.

Not sure that helps tho

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 3h

Oh I think we passed legal a while ago

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 4h

Lol

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 14h

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 21h

Here’s video of the incident

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 4h

Based, som kidsa sier

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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.

apnews.com

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 4h

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 5h

Regarding nonviolence making you a more palatable victim when abused, I remember them discussing that this was consciously used during the civil rights movement. That people walked into situations expecting physical abuse, the goal was to sway public opinion.

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 5h

Truth

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 5h

This was iirc specifically about the times that it failed, or rather when democracy prevailed, but I can’t for the life of me find it, so we’re basing this on my faulty memory

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Freyr Aloysius (They/Them) @freyraloysius.bsky.social · 23h

Remembering that stream he was on recently talking about how great he was on trans stuff and now this, he's such a weasely little rat.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 5h

Basically make some of the radicalized people say: they shouldn’t have done that to the priest or the frog, they weren’t hurting anyone. Maybe this has gone too far, these people don’t seem dangerous. They don’t look like terrorists.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 6h

Or this

NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact.bsky.social · 2d

An ICE agent in Portland, OR, targeted a frog-suited protester’s air intake valve with pepper spray — a tactic that medical experts say could have been life-threatening.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 6h

This scene

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 6h

So a tip was to keep an open door for «defectors» and to use nonviolence as a tool to emphasize, shine a light on, their mistreatment. An example of the second is for example the priest they shot in the face with some sort of chemical weapon the other day.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 6h

For soldiers interviewed they said they were afraid that someone they knew was in the crowd, like a family member. For empathy for protesters it grew when they saw violence toward people who were clearly nonviolent.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 6h

Gah, I can’t find it. Ok, from memory: a key moment in stopping a fascist takeover is if/when the troops refuse to fire on the population. Another is when public opinion shifts to empathize with the protesters. And both are about humanizing the other.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 6h

I could find it, but if/when I do I’ll post it… hm… maybe I already did… one sec

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 7h

Dude, you say that like it would be bad

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 7h

I’m not sure I understand. This idea was basically based on what I remember of an interview with a scholar on how to reverse democratic backsliding and… I should probably find it before I try to describe what she said.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 9h

«Plenary authority, with its sweeping, unchecked assumption of power, has previously been compared to the powers to rule by decree forced through by the governments of dictators, including Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler.»

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