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Deran 🏳️‍🌈

@derand.bsky.social
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He/Him. Pro-BLM, pro-LGBTQ, pro-BIPOC. Fuck Trump, Zuck, Musk, and Bezos and anyone else who is anti-DEI or bigoted in any way.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nurses and community members are protesting in San Francisco today as part of the "People vs. Palantir" Global Week of Action. Organizers say the demonstration is focused on Palantir's work with ICE and concerns over immigration enforcement.
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Love @celiebug.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Dude WTF
theguardian.com
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Two men deported to Equatorial Guinea by the Trump administration were hooded, bound, beaten with guns and shoved down a flight of stairs recently by police officers at a remote hotel where Trump administration deportees are being held indefinitely..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another reason I won't be subscribing. Absolutely disgusting.
arstechnica.com
FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar
FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
PRO PUBLICA: “Don JR’s wedding secretly bankrolled by Russian oligarch close to Putin” 🤔 So weird how this keeps happening 🤷🏼 www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It still boggles my mind we have the technology to do this. It looks surreal. And it was a nice gesture of course.
digitalcameraworld.com
2,977 drones put the Twin Towers back in the New York City skyline in a poignant 9/11 tribute that took months of planning
A drone show put one light in the sky for every life lost on 9/11, a multi-month effort over complex airspace
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Protecting family values." Eat my ass. I'm so tired of that phrase "family values" as it means nothing. If people truly valued family values, they'd be feeding hungry children and promoting love and acceptance of everyone. Not this bullshit.
cnn.com
Turkey detains dozens after sweeping raids targeting LGBTQ+ groups | CNN
Turkish authorities have detained at least 47 people ​following a series of raids on the offices of LGBTQ+ associations in a ‌probe into prostitution and obscenity, prosecutors said.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Remember that movie "Being John Malkovich"? We should all be John Malkovich. Have ethics and integrity. apnews.com/article/john...
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Interviewer: "You would prefer the human race to endure, right?" Peter Thiel: "I don't know..."
youtube.com
AI Could End Humanity Soon
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/09/2026
Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 08/09/2026
Just gonna share this again.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dude. This is so beautiful. Animals are smarter than the collective "people" want to believe.
phys.org
Critically endangered pygmy raccoons observed making their own paper toys
Some of the most intriguing scientific breakthroughs happen when researchers aren't explicitly looking for them. Take, for example, the pygmy raccoon (Procyon pygmaeus), a critically endangered specie...
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This needs to be spread far and wide so people aren't deceived.
jalopnik.com
Flock Cameras Are Coming Down Around The Country Only To Be Replaced By The Same Technology With A Different Name - Jalopnik
Replacing one system of surveillance with another isn't a win. And the system some cities are replacing their Flock cameras with could be even more intrusive.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.
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Jacqui @jamelle33.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
tvo.org
ANALYSIS: 'Lake America' makes one thing clear: we can’t trust U.S. tech companies | TVO Today
The president’s decree is dumb. Why is anyone going along with it?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2026
Minnesota right-wing Alpha News has uncovered the huge scandal that a school board candidate in my hometown of Forest Lake also plays in a rock band! The horror!
alphanews.org
Forest Lake school board candidate moonlights as punk rocker fighting 'fascism' | AlphaNews.org
Forest Lake school board candidate Claire Luger has has performed at “No Kings” rallies sporting "Fight Fascism" t-shirts.
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Bruce H. McCosar @bmccosar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem has passed away. Long ago, my parents used to force me to go to church each Sunday. One time the pastor made a comment about "people who were destroying America, like Carl Sagan and Gloria Steinem." I liked Carl Sagan. Gloria Steinem was new to me. I took it as a recommendation.
My original trade paperback of Gloria Steinem's "Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions" (1st edition, 1983).
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Damn we're losing some good people.
nbcnews.com
Gloria Steinem, fierce feminist trailblazer, dies
A pioneering activist and journalist, Steinem was one of the women’s liberation movement’s most outspoken advocates.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Well this is a good start. But I'm not sure why they can't just wholesale ban ALPRs instead of going thru this roundabout nonsense and denying federal funding!!
newsweek.com
Flock cameras face removal nationwide under new bill
Two Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill to end federal funding for Flock cameras, which have currently come under fire.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This ticks me off so bad. Cities are treating this as a "Flock problem" when in reality people don't want the ALPR tech itself!! It's not about what company it's from!!
gadgetreview.com
Axon Is Being Asked to Disguise Its Cameras, After Flock Backlash
ALPR camera vandalism in 36 states is pushing Axon to redesign hardware to blend in — raising questions about surveillance, not just optics.
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Honestly, I regret ever being a tech nerd. This shit is so ridiculous. Google did the same thing.
reuters.com
Apple Maps changes name of Lake Ontario to 'Lake America'
Apple changed the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America" on the web ​version of its Apple Maps following U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order renaming ‌the lake.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
newsweek.com
ICE detains 76-year-old green card holder with stage 4 cancer: Daughter
A 76-year-old man with advanced prostate cancer has been detained by immigration officials for more than two months, relatives said.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Irritating.
phonearena.com
T-Mobile faces heat after handing over 10,000 call and text records to the government
T-Mobile gave a journalist's phone records to the government without informing her.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A lovely story for multiple reasons!
scienceblog.com
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer rejected roughly $15.7 million — $60,000 per acre — from data-centre developers for his 261 acres. Instead, he accepted $1.9 million for the development rights, perm...
A Pennsylvania farmer kept his land and sold permanent development rights for $1.9 million after rejecting a reported $60,000-per-acre data-centre offer.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is absolutely idiotic and Google should be ashamed!! Playing along with this nonsense!! Disgusting!!
newsweek.com
Google reveals how ‘Lake America’ name change will appear on maps
Lake Ontario will appear as “Lake America” on Google Maps, the company said - but only to users in the United States.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The “radical left” wants you to be able to eat a salad and go to the doctor. Super scary stuff.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
youtube.com
Heroic woman goes VIRAL with anti-flock cameras rant!
YouTube video by Occupy Democrats
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Dude! WTF!
youtube.com
DOJ threatens to demolish Kennedy Center
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
You don’t own your career. They rent you. You don’t own your car. They let you drive. You don’t own your water, energy & coms. You are a slave. And now your home will be rental cage with 24/7 surveillance. WE told everyone. WE were mocked. IF you want the gloves off in ‘28, I’m the guy - Hart🇺🇸💙
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's COMPLETE bullshit that the government can purchase private data about citizens WITHOUT a warrant! It completely violates the US Constitution and it's fully allowed somehow. Originally cell phone companies would do this with your location but apparently airlines as well!! *See comments
reuters.com
Lawmakers seek probe into US failure to enforce airline passenger privacy rules
Two Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday asked a ​congressional watchdog agency to investigate the Transportation Department's failure to ensure privacy ‌of airline passengers.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
futurism.com
Police Use Surveillance Cameras to Narc On Guy Who Found $30 on the Ground
Police in Albany used an image taken surveillance footage to try find a man who picked up money off the ground in a Walmart.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Well there you go. Just ask Putin and Kim Jong Un NICELY. They're good guys, you just have to be nice to them. 🙄 How idiotic.
nbcnews.com
CIA chief asked Russia not to share intelligence with Iran, sources say
John Ratcliffe raised the U.S. concerns with Sergey Naryshkin, the chief of Russia’s foreign intelligence service, during a meeting in Moscow that also covered other topics.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Never forgiving Apple or Google for participating in this bullshit.
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Gina @cissybgood67.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
P.S.
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Epstein Jeffrey Epstein
ALT: Epstein Jeffrey Epstein
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Nothing to see here, folks! “The Abu Dhabi royal sometimes referred to as the “spy sheikh” is a major shareholder backing a new U.S. bank the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture is preparing to launch…” www.wsj.com/finance/curr...
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
USPS can't even deliver my utility bill on time Now we're told it's going to screen every mail-in voter & every ballot in the country? Not happening. It's grossly unconstitutional, & we @democracydefendersfund.org & partners have gone to court to stop it I explained on @cnn.com -TN
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
🔥 @MapQuest ftw 🙌🏽
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Robin 🦋 @robinh2.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
💙 @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Hello?
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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Lobbying should be considered treason. Politicians no longer serve the interests of the citizens of the USA🇺🇸
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M J Murcott @m-j-murcott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Just to be clear this was performed today and not an old clip someone has dug up. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
bbc.co.uk
Buckingham Palace guards play '9 to 5' in honour of Dolly Parton
The Royal Family's Instagram account posted the video, with a message "remembering the late, great Dolly, who brought joy, comfort and inspiration to so many".
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Steve_USA 🧢 @stowsley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
There is absolutely no excuse for partisan "federales" stationed at polling places to harass voters on behalf of one authoritarian in DC.
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Deran 🏳️‍🌈 @derand.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
People don't want a damn "transparency portal"!! People want an end to warrantless surveillance as guaranteed by the US Constitution and our 4th Amendment rights!!
local12.com
Local township sets up transparency portal for Flock cameras
While some Tri-State towns are doing away with Flock cameras, Delhi Township is hoping to educate its citizens about the benefits of them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: DHS legal opinion justifying ICE entering homes without a judicial warrant is nothing more than an email written by ICE Deputy Principal Legal Advisor Adam Loiacono, and DHS refuses to release it. www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...
muellershewrote.com
EXCLUSIVE: DHS Refuses to Release Email Justifying Warrantless Entry by ICE
I sued to obtain the General Counsel Memo justifying ICE entering homes without judicial warrants. Turns out it’s not a memo at all - it’s an email - and they’ve wrongly redacted it.
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