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Thank you, but I'd rather die behind the chemical sheds.

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JeReOnerZ 1312 TOUT CRAMER Fan account !!! @jereonerz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bonjour et ACAB bien sûr !!
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The PHP Foundation @thephpf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Digital sovereignty is written in PHP. 🐘 Germany's €108M federal CMS migration, 770 EU Commission sites, 300,000 users on Nextcloud. In our latest post we examine PHP in the public sector and the funding gap that exists. thephp.foundation/blog/2026/0...
Image of the Earth at night, focused on Europe, showing the lights from the cities below. Image is from Insaanu Studio via Unsplash.
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Alberta Tech @albertatech.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Why everyone's models are suddenly hacking into things:
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
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Lady Talia @djtalia.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user del...
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Josef Aschbacher @josefaschbacher.esa.int · 08/04/2026
Them: Tell me Europe is mission-critical to bringing humanity back to the Moon without telling me Europe is mission-critical to bringing humanity back to the Moon. Me:
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 30/04/2026
"Day 076, orbit 1179 — Weighing yourself in weightlessness isn’t really about weight… it’s about mass. We use a special device that moves our body up and down because mass stays exactly the same, whether you’re on Earth or floating in orbit," explains @esa.int astronaut Sophie Adenot. 🎥 ESA/NASA
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-Boulet- @bouletcorp.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Oldies but Goodies - French is Weird 08 - "Junior Edition"
French is Weird - Junior édition (image: Boulet with a moustache and a béret, saying "Ohlàlà")
Let's talk about kids. There is a lot to say about playground conversations. (Well, not actual kids, old kids. Like: those are expressions from my childhood, I don't know how kids talk nowadays.)
I remember a lot of stupid rhymes like: haut les mains, peau de lapin, la maitresse en maillot de bain. Which could be translated like this: hands up, rabbit skin, the teacher in a swimsuit" (image: a bunny raising its paws, and a teacher in a swimsuit, both very confused)
We had another one to tease a friend if he/she was upset (for example: if they just lost a game): "T'as les boules, t'as les glandes, t'as les crottes de nez qui pendent!" (you have the balls, you have the glands, you have boogers hanging from your nose! (well, "nose poops") = Yes, in France we don't have a word for boogers, we call them "nose poops" and I think it's beautiful.
"Avoir les boules" in french means "to be upset". Like a lump in your throat. We are talking about THESE balls here (image of glands in the throat)
(Image of a group of kids coming back from a soccer game)
There was also the classic: "On a gagné, les doigts dans le nez, ils ont perdu, les doigts dans le cul!" (We won, fingers in the nose, they lost, fingers in the butt)
Yes in France we don't say "piece of cake" when something is easy, we say "fingers in the nose"
I guess the butt part is just for the rhyme.We would also use an old expression "Dans le cul la balayette! Le manche et l'étiquette!" which means "up your ass the brush (small brush, like dustpan & brush) the stick and the tag!" (I guess the second part is just a disambiguation about how and to what depth the brush is to be used)
Luckily we had also a lot of clever comebacks, the most popular was "C'est celui qui dit qui l'est!" literally: it's the one who says, who is. Like "I know you are but what am I?"
Or if someone insulted you, you could just use "Miroir!" (mirror), and your ennemi would use "contre-miroir!" and you would escalate to "eternal unbreaking mirror!" (Miroir incassable pour l'éternité)
Sometimes we would une very elegant expressions from our parents, like: "La Bave du Crapeau n'atteind pas la Blanche Colombe" =(The Toad's drool doesn't reach the White Dove", or this one: "Le Train de ton Ignominie Roule sur les Rails de mon Indifférence jusqu'à la Gare de mon Mépris" (the train of your ignominy rolls on the rails of my indifference towards the station of my despisal) There are a lot of variations of this one.The frenchiest one would be "Ferme ta boîte à Camembert" ("close your camembert box" to say "shut up").
There were also surrealistic insults, like "Tu pues du cul, t'as les roupettes en chocolat" (your ass stinks and your balls are made of chocolate)
Some were bad puns, they made very little sense, even in French
image: One kid says "arrête!" the other one answers "y'a pas d'arètes dans le biftek!"
("Stop it!" (arrête) - "There are no fishbones (arètes) in the beefsteak")
After that, it could escalate to war "you'll see your face at the exit" = "Tu vas voir ta gueule à la sortie!"
The fight could include a "shampoo" (noogie)=Le Shampooing or an "indian burn" = when you rub someone's arm on both directions "La brûlure indienne"
And we would not "kick someone's ass" but "make them a square head" ("faire la tête au carré")
And if the loser was a snitch (un cafteur) he had a little sing-song for him: "rapporteur à quat'moteurs, quand tu pètes tu nos fais peur!" = It means "tattletale with four engines, when you fart you scare us" (again, there were variations like "when you fart you make butter" = quand tu pètes tu fais du beurre)
The more I do those comics, the more I realize French makes no sense.
(Image of a french guard from "Monty Python's Holy Grail" saying: "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries".
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
The Just War Tradition of Christianity, or as it's commonly known to its advocates and practitioners, Jihad.
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Chad :mstdn: @chad.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026
It's no secret that I've been struggling, and my therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard. I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display. Little did […]
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Melania Trump is chairing a UN Security Council meeting. I'm not joking. The US currently holds the presidency of the council and that's who Trump chose as chair.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2026
straight up Gestapo shit
DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE.

If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
A message from Greenland 🇬🇱
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Sara Spector @miriam2626.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Please read and share this. It shapes all my thinking about the future of the US right now, and it explains why Trump and the GOP are behaving the way they do. There is a near zero chance a Democrat will be sworn in as President in 2029, no matter how people vote. bylinetimes.com/2026/01/22/t...
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'Trump Has Already Rigged the 2028 Presidential Election': US Defence Insider
Regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat Government coming to power in 2029 is now virtually nil, argues Brynn Tannehill
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Pénombre Goyette @penombregoyette.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/09/2025
This is what Blair’s team created together with BCG
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
It's NOT about the #hostages. It's about the beachfront condos, hotels, casinos, golf courses, yachting marinas, luxury shopping malls and fast-food outlets. Trump's "Gaza Riviera" with a little help from his friends (Kushner Snr and Jnr, Witkoff, Blair and Netanyahu).
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The ’Gaza Riviera’ plan: Gentrifying Israel’s genocide
The ’Gaza Riviera’ plan uses the language of investment and regeneration to rebrand Israel’s genocide of Palestinians as innovation
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 09/10/2025
“[Trump's Gaza plan] is a proposal really for the Gaza Riviera… A proposal for… colonization, permanent occupation & siege.” Palestinian-American lawyer Noura Erakat tells @premthakker.bsky.social how Trump’s Gaza plan is a mechanism to shut down advocacy for Palestine. 🔗 zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...
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Éditions La Découverte @edladecouverte.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
[COMMUNIQUÉ] blogs.mediapart.fr/edwy-plenel/...
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Alsciende @alsciende.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Ce n’est pas juste « fin des barbes ». Comme souvent, il s’agit de racisme.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A false flag is a covert operation in which one party or group carries out a hostile act and frames another party to make it look like the other party was responsible. The goal is to deceive people into thinking that a different group is responsible for the harmful action.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 23/09/2025
✍️ TRIBUNE. Dans une société de rentiers, il faut abolir l’héritage Remplacer un capital qui discrimine avant même la naissance par une dotation universelle à 18 ans rétablirait la méritocratie et la justice sociale, affirme Rémy Goubert, premier secrétaire du PS dans le Cantal. Lire 👇
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Dans une société de rentiers, il faut abolir l’héritage
Remplacer un capital qui discrimine avant même la naissance par une dotation universelle à 18 ans rétablirait la méritocratie et la justice sociale, affirme Rémy Goubert, premier secrétaire du Parti socialiste dans le Cantal.
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Jérôme Rabenou @rabenou.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Sharing of personal data with the United States must be accompanied by comprehensive and effective safeguards (European data protection supervisor)
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Sharing of personal data with the United States must be accompanied by comprehensive and effective safeguards
On 17 September 2025, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) issued an Opinion on the negotiating mandate for a framework agreement between the European Union and the United States of America ...
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 16/09/2025
"Of course, I am not K, but I find myself uncannily identified with his predicament." Judith Butler's open letter to UC Berkeley.
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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley
The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE's Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.
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Alsciende @alsciende.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Time to watch The Handmaid's Tale again.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Brussels today. Almost a quarter of a million people on the streets marching for Palestine, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. This footage was captured by freelance photojournalist, Wahaj Bani Moufleh 👏
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2025
Donald Trump’s “takeover” of Washington, DC, is authoritarian thuggery. It’s a projection of power, driven by retrograde racism.
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Breaking down the White House's lies and distortions about crime in DC
How to manufacture a crisis.
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Alsciende @alsciende.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Ryan was a gentle soul and a truly talented person. His contribution to Symfony cannot be overstated. By sharing his knowledge and passion, he helped us all become better developers. I had the honor of meeting him in 2023 and expressing my admiration for his work at SymfonyCasts.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 27/08/2025
“The evidence for millionaire tax flight is scant. If high earners were truly fleeing high taxes, low-tax states would be swarming with millionaires. Instead, the highest concentrations of millionaires are found in high-tax states.” [rollingstone.com]
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Tax the Rich. They’ll Stay
Mamdani’s plan to tax New York’s millionaires has the penthouse crowd aflutter. History and data show they won’t fly the coop.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Thank God someone is stopping the dangerous... uh... violinists in Utah. Entered the US with proper papers at 10, later graduated with a fine arts degree from the University of Utah and stayed. Invasion! There's evidence he's been part of the vicious gang known as The Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 26/08/2025
Donald Trump is waging a fascist takeover of the United States. Democrats are responding the only way they know how: by heeding the advice of the wonks who helped get them into this situation — and whose advice is to avoid discussing what Trump is doing. More: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"Scientific evidence continues to show that human activities (primarily the human burning of fossil fuels) have warmed Earth’s surface & its ocean basins, which in turn have continued to impact Earth’s climate. This is based on over a century of scientific evidence." science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...
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Scientific Consensus - NASA Science
It’s important to remember that scientists always focus on the evidence, not on opinions. Scientific evidence continues to show that human activities
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 01/08/2025
"How can we communicate with optimism about the future … when we're living in the here and now where American democracy is in peril? … And we're supposed to ignore it? Leave it to others to wrestle with …? No no no no no. … "That is tonight's Last Word on my last day at the Washington Post."
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Typofonderie: fonts & typography @typofonderie.com · 29/07/2025
A lot of fonts for every taste. Perfect to support your local type designers. 🔤 typefoundry.directory
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Type Foundry Directory
The Type Foundry Directory is a curated index of type foundries. Discover new fonts and support independent type foundries.
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Symfony @symfony.com · 11/07/2025
🚀 Kicking off the Symfony AI Initiative ➡️ symfony.com/blog/kicking-off-the-sy…
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Dipti S. Barot @diptisbarot.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
I wrote this after doing a training on the Fourth and Fifth amendments to the Constitution, because, apparently, this is necessary to be a doctor under this regime. Grateful to @huffpost.com and, always, dream editor @noahmichelson.bsky.social for the platform. www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor...
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I’m A Doctor. The Things I’m Now Being Trained To Do In Trump’s America Are Terrifying.
“It was then I realized that I was being prepared to be a doctor in an emerging police state.”
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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Retired US special forces officer has revealed to the BBC why he resigned from his work with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). He says he witnessed tank shells, mortar rounds, and bullets being fired at Palestinians. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... @channel4news.bsky.social @jdportes.bsky.social
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Gaza: 'I witnessed war crimes,' former worker at GHF aid site tells BBC
A retired US soldier reveals why he quit working at Israel and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs.
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Kévin Dunglas @dunglas.dev · 26/07/2025
"It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA" www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/i...
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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Native CSS transitions have quietly killed the strongest argument for client-side routing. Yet people keep building terrible apps instead of performant websites.
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𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
It’s not the worst idea I’ve heard today.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The creativity gives me hope. Loved this too…
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Alsciende @alsciende.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
First game ever, immediate success. Is it bugged or am I insanely inspired? 🦄 Animal #684 🦢 I figured it out in 1 guess! 🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 1 metazooa.com #metazooa
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Metazooa
Become an evolutionary detective to find the Mystery Animal!
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Alexios Mantzarlis @mantzarlis.com · 02/06/2025
[cw: explicit] Six years into the deepfake nudes epidemic, we are nowhere near beating back the tools that make this abuse possible. In fact, AI nudifiers are expanding their services and remain unrepentant in their use of mainstream platforms to reach customers. indicator.media/p/ai-nudifie...
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AI nudifiers pivot to video and reach millions via Apple, Google, Meta, Telegram, and X
The worst kind of deepfake abusers can still get ads, apps, and verified accounts approved on mainstream platforms
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/06/2025
Trump has authorized regular military in addition to the Guard: "In addition, the Secretary of Defense may employ any other members of the regular Armed Forces as necessary to augment and support the protection of Federal functions and property in any number determined appropriate in his discretion"
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Department of Defense Security for the Protection of Department of Homeland Security Functions
MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE                THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 28/05/2025
Secretary Rubio (likely w/ help of extremist Darren Beattie: wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-extrem...) just issued visa guidance that would bar foreign officials from visiting the US if they: -enforce social media regulation that their governments passed -talk about enforcing that regulation 1/
Announcement of a Visa Restriction Policy Targeting Foreign Nationals Who Censor Americans
Press Statement

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State

May 28, 2025

Free speech is among the most cherished rights we enjoy as Americans. This right, legally enshrined in our constitution, has set us apart as a beacon of freedom around the world.  Even as we take action to reject censorship at home, we see troubling instances of foreign governments and foreign officials picking up the slack.  In some instances, foreign officials have taken flagrant censorship actions against U.S. tech companies and U.S. citizens and residents when they have no authority to do so.

Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign nationals who are responsible for censorship of protected expression in the United States.  It is unacceptable for foreign officials to issue or threaten arrest warrants on U.S. citizens or U.S. residents for social media posts on American platforms while physically present on U.S. soil.  It is similarly unacceptable for foreign officials to demand that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies or engage in censorship activity that reaches beyond their authority and into the United States.  We will not tolerate encroachments upon American sovereignty, especially when such encroachments undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech.

This visa restriction policy is pursuant to Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which authorizes the Secretary of State to render inadmissible any alien whose entry into the Unites States “would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States.”  Certain family members may also be covered by these restrictions.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Disappearing an elected official.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 09/05/2025
Breaking News: Newark's mayor, Ras Baraka, was arrested while he and three members of Congress from New Jersey were protesting at an immigration detention center in the city. He was taken to an ICE facility in Newark, his aides said. nyti.ms/3Z680Un
Mayor Ras Baraka is wearing an orange tie and a black hat. The text reads: "Newark Mayor Ras Baraka Arrested at Protest Outside ICE Detention Center." Photo by Dave Sanders for The New York Times.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.
A post by Marco Rubio attacking Germany for tackling the alt right extremism of the AfD.
The German foreign office responds.

Rubio’s posts says:

Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That's not democracy—it's tyranny in disguise.
What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD-which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment's deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.
Germany should reverse course.

The German foreign office responds with:

This is democracy. This decision is the result of a thorough & independent investigation to protect our Constitution & the rule of law. It is independent courts that will have the final say.
We have learnt from our history that rightwing extremism needs to be stopped.
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