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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 32m

The Digital Surveillance State is coming together quickly and it’s gonna really suck

ACLU @aclu.org · 2h

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 52m

ANTIFA IS NOT AN ORGANIZ— oh what the hell there’s no reasoning with them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 57m

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Beau @loriva.bsky.social · 50m

Antifa doesn’t exist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Andy Ngo has been repeatedly beaten by antifa thugs. Andy is a very serious person too. Been watching him for a long time. Is Andy here? Hello, I thought that was you. You're looking better than you do out on those streets."

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

DEI for me, not for thee.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1h

"The Federal Protective Service reports — which are prepared each day for law enforcement partners — offered no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions, or unusual levels of protest activity that would prompt the level of alarm expressed by Trump..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

A practice that would have been unthinkable under past administrations is becoming normalized: Sending ICE detainees, without due process, to far-flung prisons.

@nlanard.bsky.social takes us inside the "legal black hole" in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

Billionaire Peter Thiel insists that freedom and democracy are incompatible, and his portfolio of data mining and political bets puts that belief into practice.

His is a program of authoritarian control disguised as innovation.

Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy

Billionaire Peter Thiel insists that freedom and democracy are incompatible, and his portfolio of data mining and political bets puts that belief into practice. His is a program of authoritarian control disguised as innovation.

jacobin.com

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 4h

You can't blame the world. We are more unstable than we've been since 1860. Anything could happen.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

open.substack.com

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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 3h

Turning farmers into indentured serfs has long been the plan, no hyperbole

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers…

We are all about to find out.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4h

This is NOT making Chicago safer. And this must NOT be what America is.👇

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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 3h

WTAF!

kate conger @kateconger.com · 3h

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 17h

Perhaps you’ve noticed; the more immigrants they detain and deport…the more violent the United States is becoming. I see a clear connection.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 8h

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 4h

omg, I freaking hate it when brands I like pull shit like this. But, bye REI 👋

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

REI to close its soho location, the first shop that unionized. www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-new...

REI to close three stores, including NYC SoHo location

SEATTLE (BRAIN) — A week after announcing a strategic plan to employees that would involve difficult decisions to grow sales, REI Co-op said it will close three stores next year, including the New Yor...

www.bicycleretailer.com

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Glenn A. Bruce @glennardenbruce.bsky.social · 4h

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4h

If you’re bothsides-ing this, you’re actually taking Abbott’s side.

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Yayger @yayger.bsky.social · 4h

Seems quaint. But it also makes it patently obvious: Dems are held to ridiculously high standards and Republicans are held to none.

R C👀k ◇ #Resist 🇺🇸 #ComplicitCorruptGOP @rscook.bsky.social · 4h

remember when Al Franken resigned from the US Senate because he knew right from wrong, was self-aware and had a sense of shame?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 9h

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 5h

Weird how that didn’t make the cut.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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