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jenna ruddock
@ruddock.bsky.social
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researcher, organizer, a lot of hats ✨ opinions my own and also my dog’s (probably)
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 4d
the Trump admin just deported an award-winning journalist known for his reporting on ICE and got Apple to block ICE-spotter apps — all while churning out highly-produced social media content from violent ICE raids in Chicago. it’s their media or no media. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-viole...
Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent | TechPolicy.Press
Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock says the Trump administration is targeting anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations.
www.techpolicy.press
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h
Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
It felt “more different to images than people expected.”
www.theverge.com
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 16h
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 14h
Amazon had county officials near Tucson, Arizona sign an NDA in 2023 that would’ve lasted until ”Project Blue” was permitted and built. Locals only found out that “Project Blue” would a hyperscale data center in June. County officials only confirmed Amazon’s involved last week.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d
I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18h
SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...
The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids
States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22h
“[M]ilitary lawyers & legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army & Navy's top judge advocates…sets an alarming precedent for a crucial job in the military, all as…Trump has mused about using the military in unorthodox & potentially illegal ways.” 2/25/25…1/
'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears
Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...
www.military.com
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 20h
The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 2d
“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“

- @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.
inthesetimes.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1d
For people who are afraid to give to Gaza fundraisers directly (no judgement, I know civil servants in the U.S. for example can get into trouble for it) you can always hire/support the many people who donate all the time theintercept.com/2025/10/02/g...
She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.
To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
theintercept.com
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 1d
What could 10,000 ICE jackboots each cost to recruit, Michael? $3,000,000? Wait, that cannot possibly be right *checks math*

"The [ad] campaign... is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year."

Oh wow oh fuck jesus christ what the shit
ICE airs ads stirring up local frustration to recruit police for mass deportation efforts
An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d
Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
www.technologyreview.com
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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 1d
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge April Perry declines to immediately issue a temporary restraining order to block the National Guard deployment, but schedules a hearing for Thursday, Gov. Pritzker announces. @wttw.bsky.social
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2d
BREAKING: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked a federal judge Monday morning to block President Donald Trump from deploying 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Chicago alongside 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. @wttw.bsky.social
Gov. JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson Ask Judge to Block Trump From Deploying 400 Texas National Guard Troops to Chicago
The lawsuit filed by Illinois and Chicago officials calls the looming deployment of both Texas and Illinois National Guard troops a politically motivated and unconstitutional federal overreach.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1d
Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 2d
Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d
Installing someone like Bari Weiss as the head of a major news organization isn’t even about profit or longevity. In effect it’s about continuing to shrink the traditional news industry smaller and smaller and weaker and weaker and less and less journalism based until it ceases to exist
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 1d
the story behind the first headline: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Screenshot from an OregonLive article: “ An elderly couple says they were charged and knocked down by federal agents as they peacefully protested on Saturday in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland, just blocks from their home. Laurie Eckman, 84, said she and her husband Richard Eckman, also 84 and a Vietnam war veteran, were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground.”
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 1d
“street battles” and it’s a guy just vibing in an inflatable frog suit getting maced by federal law enforcement
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 1d
“hand to hand combat against antifa”
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d
Republican policy is increasingly framed around the idea that accurately describing what they are doing is worse than doing it.

They just got a Supreme Court ruling co-signing racial profiling as "common sense." So I guess the court smeared them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "It is a disgusting smear to say there is racial profiling going on."
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d
JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d
They want violence. They fear mockery.
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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 3d
wizard frog is insane
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 3d
This piece is just an essential, important and excellent intervention as Coates' Vanity Fair essay was. One NYT column isn't that important, but an accommodationist mindset has spread in center-left elite circles. And it should be rejected forcefully. democracyamericana.com/posts/c5d024...
Where Is the Line?
On Ezra Klein, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the struggle to define the boundaries of what is acceptable in America
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 3d
Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3d
This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com
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