Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock is when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification. In order to have real alternatives, we must reclaim hyper-accessibility. 🔐

For example, the reliance on phone numbers for verification/registration is a harmful relic that is still an industry standard that shuts many people out from the start. We spoke to people from Sudan, Gaza, and Iran who all echo the same frustration. 🔐#designfromthemargins #decenter

People in crisis (war, conflict, repression) are often forced to use the same tools that exploit them, which creates structural dependence by design. Afsaneh Rigot argues that we need to reclaim hyper-accessibility for the public good. 🔐 #dfm #decenter

Millions in crisis rely on ubiquitous tools that betray them: from social media to Starlink. The deeper shock is when secure tools also exclude them through everyday hurdles like phone verification. In order to have real alternatives, we must reclaim hyper-accessibility. 🔐

Israel bombed an Evin, an Iranian prison that housed dissidents and political prisoners. They ended up destroying the trans wing and murdering over 100 trans people incarcerated there, many for simply being queer in Iran.

This is unspeakable evil.

archive.ph/PA2n5

NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding.

Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

Republicans just took away your healthcare so they can fund their secret police: newrepublic.com/post/197612/...

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending

Report it now on 7or -The Palestinian Observatory of Digital Rights Violations
🔗 7or.7amleh.org

Israel’s genocide in Gaza. War in Lebanon. Now Iran — as the US circles in.
AI weapons fuel this — tested on Gazans, expanded to Iran, used by ICE. Powered by companies like Palantir & OpenAI.

It’s a war on us all!

#STOPTHEWAR
#NoTechForApartheid #NoTechForICE
Photo @alexshams.bsky.social

“A poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran.”

www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

“the world needs more courage, not less. It needs people who choose justice over convenience.
[…]

Loving you is not separate from the struggle for liberation. It is liberation itself. I fight for you, and for every Palestinian child whose life deserves safety, tenderness and freedom.”

About 2,000 transgender people are incarcerated in federal prisons, according to the Bureau of Prisons — a tiny fraction of the federal prison population. But they are disproportionately targeted for abuse and assault.

🧵 Amnesty International’s analysis of satellite imagery and verification of video footage reveals how Israeli forces completely razed what remained of the town of Khuza’a in the southern occupied Gaza Strip over the course of two weeks in May 2025.

“A poem by a young Iranian poet Parnia Abbasi who, along with her family, all civilians, was killed today in a brutal and unlawful Israeli attack in the Sattarkhan neighbourhood of Tehran.”

www.pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

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Our struggles are connected: Palestinians, migrants in LA, families in Tehran, queer folks in Cairo, or Sudanese refugees. The decentered are policed, surveilled, criminalized. Same tools. Same logic. Different uniforms. Identify the decentered, expose the system, break its power. 🔏 1/3

From a queer person in Cairo to a Latino man in LA, the decentered are groups that are marginalized — and then also criminalized — for their mere existence. In our upcoming report, we speak to the decentered from all over the world, and the language of experimentation colors what many of them say. 🔐