Cowards.

I read a paper once that made a point that, socially, the wealthy use money as a substitute for the way others depend on community. Been thinking about that lately, and how the powerful seem truly dumbfounded that people have created mutual aid to the point that they assume it’s a conspiracy.

The Economist did an eight-part investigative series on this issue in 2025. Highly recommended.

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That’s not the issue. Fuck off.

Weak. Pathetic. Unfunny. 10/10 fascist energy.

I don’t know how to pronounce his name, but I always hear it as “dough hat” in my head and it fits.

Eating each other all the way.

Flock search audit logs have been used to reveal officers who have used the system to allegedly illegally stalk people and have been used to reveal informal cooperation between local police and ICE, as well as the search for a woman who had an abortion."

"Police currently do not get a warrant to use Flock, and have revealed that they use it for legitimate investigations, but also for all sorts of other purposes.

"ICE has also been obsessed with not revealing the identity of its officers, with its agents wearing masks during raids, refusing to give their names or ID numbers, and the agency refusing to reveal the names of agents during court proceedings.

It further highlights how law enforcement see themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect."

"The flurry of warnings highlight just how bad of an operational security screwup Flock's information sharing design was, leaving the investigations of thousands of police departments vulnerable to a redaction error by any single one of its customers.