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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1m

Call that a deep state

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12m

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 1h

Texas Republicans Are Using Charlie Kirk’s ‘Martyrdom’ to Crush Free Speech.

Hours after announcing ‘undercover operations’ into leftist groups, Texas’ attorney general compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus at a Turning Point USA event.

My latest for @thebarbedwire.com

thebarbedwire.com/2025/10/08/k...

Texas Republicans Are Using Charlie Kirk’s ‘Martyrdom’ to Crush Free Speech

Hours after announcing ‘undercover operations’ into leftist groups, Ken Paxton compared Charlie Kirk to Jesus at a Turning Point USA event.

thebarbedwire.com

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John Horgan @johnhorgan.bsky.social · 13m

Reading a lot recently on the intersections of gaming, violent extremism, extreme violence, and politics. Still so much we don't know about even the most elementary processes and functions. This is of the better books I've come across so far. Great starting point for anyone wanting to learn more.

Cover of the book Gaming Democracy, by Adrienne Massanari.

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molly ✨ @brat.fm · 26m

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20m

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 35m

sorta feel like the core central division in conservatism is "hierarchy is inevitable, so it must be made just and virtuous" and "hierarchy is inevitable, so all it does is just and virtuous"

Great Depression (nightcore remix) @bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 38m

It's tempting to treat "the American right is a death cult" as rhetorical hyperbole, but when you look at e.g. their enthusiasm for executing people who are *clearly* innocent, no actually these people really do just worship and revel in death and murder

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 43m

One of the reasons I insistently call it X and not Twitter is because X is quite literally a propaganda platform run by Elon Musk and heavily utilized by the Trump administration and that is notably distinct from Twitter

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 1h

Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.nbcnews.com

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 48m

Jack Posobiec is on TV saying antifa comes from the 1930s and is bad because he's a Nazi. It's real simple.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 1h

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 46m

Keep on hopping

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 55m

They were really hoping for a blowup in Portland last night for Noem’s visit so they could have a big flashy pretense for this meeting but when it was just a few dozen people dancing with inflatable mascots, it was too late to cancel the evite.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 57m

The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 50m

Oh, sick

Fan Studies Network North America @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social · 22d

📣 Calling all #FanStudies scholars & nerds!

We are officially entering our Registration Era for our 2025 FSNNA virtual conference "Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital"‼️

Registration 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/fanstudiesnetworknorthamerica1/1758163

Promotional flier for the FSNNA annual conference. The title for this year is "Reputation: Influence, Power, Capital." At the bottom of the flier the dates of the conference are listed as October 23-26 2025.

𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 54m

Bluesky mods sweating rn

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🎃Nosferascoob🎃 @scoobydouchebag.bsky.social · Jul 28

Stop trying to fucking make me learn who streamers are

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

The antifa operator stereotype, as well as the blue wave resistor stereotype, are easily identifiable clades whose group identities are or will be used as fodder for social engineering and detournement against any acts of resistance

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

This is a form of weaponized stereotyping used to break apart mass publics into distinctly targetable clades for propaganda and influence messaging, but also for targeted surveillance and for the creation of second-order propaganda that promulgates the image of a targeted group against it

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

The premise of Cambridge Analytica was that, through the magic of big data, everyone from states to political influence operators could identify the unique intersection of online signals to profile and target individual people and communities with messaging designed to reflexively control them

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

In the age of algorithmic culture, big data surveillance, and memetic influence, it is critically important to not get trapped in a particular memetic frame and make it your entire personality. Tactical confusion of stereotypes.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

The people showing up to protest in inflatable animal costumes are doing way way better resistance counter-propaganda than any of the left-wing militia defense types who show up to civil defense actions in their cosplay operator gear.

Gonna start calling these guys the inflada.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1h

very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

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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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

There is clearly something different about, say, a local citizens assembly or an advocacy group, vs dark-money PR and political lobbying, to say nothing of overtly counterfactual hypermedia flooding and inauthentic message coordination on social media.

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𝕍∃, Cyber closed shell syndrome relief fund coordinator @vortexegg.com · 1h

I’m not sure there is a clear line, and this is something I’ve been wrestling with philosophically. All human communication attempts to influence the interlocutor in some fashion, but clearly there are differences that are more or less compatible with non-authoritarian ways of organizing a society

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h

It's clear most Trump supporters have no idea the videos are fake.

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World

Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

gizmodo.com

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niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 4h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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