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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 11m

I realize most of us who are v online know the truth about this fucker but your parents/family/neighbors/friends/co-workers/anyone who gets their news from the TV prob don't, so please take it upon yourself to educate them via this or any of the many articles out there, esp if "antifa" comes up

Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 1h

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 18m

Houston - pronouncing the "h" in Humble (the city)
San Diego County- pronouncing Spanish place names in phonetic English
Bay Area - pronouncing Spanish place names in phonetic Spanish
(or Gough St if we're being SF-specific)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 51m

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 2h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 7h

"Federal immigration agents illegally arrested nearly two dozen people earlier this year without warrants in violation of a 2022 consent decree, a federal judge in Chicago ruled late Tuesday."

"[N]o regard for people's safety or constitutional rights."
#Illinois #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

ICE Violated Consent Decree With Warrantless Arrests, Federal Judge In Chicago Says

Attorneys with the National Immigrant Justice Center are arguing the recent arrest of an Albany Park family violated a consent decree that limits the conditions under which federal agents can make…

blockclubchicago.org

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 5h

Attorney says video shows 'CBP agent taunting her—“Do something, bitch” before "steering unmarked vehicle into hers and opening fire."

"“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in #Chicago, [h]er attorney says body-cam footage shows agents provoked it." migrantinsider.com/p/chicago-la...

Chicago Latina Shot by Border Patrol Survives, Lawyers Up

“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in Chicago. Now her attorney says body-cam footage shows the agents provoked it. The public deserves to see the tape.

migrantinsider.com

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 37m

You do you, but I guess I'm skipping the next one, because there's no point to a secret rally. I'm not going to RSVP to get an address. 🙄

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 58m

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I love all of these "one weird trick to getting around rules you don't want to follow" stories we're getting to witness every fucking day

ISPs created so many fees that FCC will kill requirement to list them all

ISPs complained about Biden-era rule, said listing every fee was too hard.

arstechnica.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 1h

Do you buy mushrooms? Windmill farm workers are calling on you to sign and share the #BoycottWindmillMushrooms petition: act.seiu.org/a/windmill_i...

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1h

"For some, the Trump administration’s Chicago assault was a shock. But for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered." interc.pt/4h2hBUd

A photo of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 4, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Black People Knew This Would Happen," and the DEK, "Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us."

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 1h

Just over here doing my little survey for "Hispanics" in the US

A screenshot from an SSRS Opinion Panel. It asks "In a few words, what does the "American Dream" mean to you?" and my answer is "A fantasy used to market a country that has something much more akin to a closed estate system than any open system of social stratification."

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 2h

"This is an odd response...cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs....farm employers in FL fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low."

It's so illogical that it was clearly part of their plan

United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 2h

Which is true? Either Trump’s Labor Department actually believes that immigration enforcement is threatening food security, or they are pretending the threat is real in order to crush wages for farm workers.

prospect.org/politics/tru...

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 1d

This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 2h

Also the app is still up in the Google Play Store if you have an Android. I just downloaded it in case that doesn't continue to be the case but at least for this app there is also a website you can use
eyesupapp.com

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 3h

Apple is unquestionably involved in an effort to not only allow ICE to continue their gestapo shit but also prevent them from ever being held accountable for it in the future. This is absolutely boycott-worthy & I hope people will stop purchasing new Apple products or giving them money in any manner

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 4h

I love how all of these WASP ass losers seem to believe Benito is the second coming of gangsta rap, meanwhile you go to any average latino family party and you've got all the grandmas and grandkids dancing to his bops & having a great time.

Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 7h

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 4h

You might be thinking "but this is about the city of San Jose" & this gives a rundown of the ways he's threatened cities to force them to clear encampments. He also signed an executive order forcing state agencies to clear them on state land, which includes all freeway underpasses & the like

A fed-up Gavin Newsom pushes California cities on homelessness

The Democratic governor is trying to telegraph a tougher stance on one of the state's most politically volatile issues.

www.politico.com

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 4h

This society is fucking sick. Even if Newsom was perfect on every other issue (& he v much is not), he should still be scorned & considered politically unviable just for everything he's done, or pressured cities to do, to the unhoused people in this state.
Archived link: archive.ph/wlP9b

Complaint alleges San Jose employees, contractor improperly disposed of homeless residents’ belongings

A recently filed complaint alleges San Jose employees and one of its contractors improperly destroyed the belongings of unhoused residents.

www.mercurynews.com

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👻 Autumn Nash 🎃 @withenoughcoffee.com · 7h

“The unauthorized party also gained access to a small number of government-ID images (e.g., driver’s license, passport) from users who had appealed an age determination. If your ID may have been accessed, that will be specified in the email you receive.”

www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Discord warns users after data stolen in third-party breach

The stolen data includes names, emails, limited billing information, and some government-ID images.

www.malwarebytes.com

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Emily J. Edwards (but witchy) @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 5h

on the one hand, Gavin Newsom is a violent, craven bigot who should be out of a job permanently once he’s no longer governor but in the other hand he FINALLY made it a law that your landlord has to provide a fridge

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Eric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 6h

Equating trans rights with some sort of ideological purity is idiotic at best. It's about recognizing human rights in a democracy, and people cannot be used as tools for bartering. Nobody is a bargaining chip.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Jennie Dusheck @solenodon.bsky.social · 6h

DHS is collecting DNA samples from virtually everyone they detain, even children as young as 4.

The resulting backlog of roughly 650,000 unprocessed kits means that actual potential criminals "could be released before DNA checks produced investigative leads."
www.wired.com/story/dhs-ha...

DHS Has Been Collecting US Citizens’ DNA for Years

Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.

www.wired.com

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 6h

"...promoting a wearable AI pendant called Friend, which was designed to monitor a user's everyday conversations and serve as a companion "who listens, responds, and supports you."

WE LIVE IN HELL

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 6h

Vandals deface ads for AI necklaces that listen to all your conversations

Critics attacked subway ads to defend human friends and broadly criticize AI.

arstechnica.com

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 6h

I am watching the Jake Gyllenhaal Road House with the volume turned down, cranking NIN’s TRON:Ares soundtrack. It’s called cinema.

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realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 16h

If you want to watch this movie just pirate it, don’t give money to Disney for hiring Jared Leto and helping promote Musk and grok.

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