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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴

@mightyredpanda.northsky.social
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Disillusioned but not disheartened. Anarcho-curios exvangelical, so plenty of interwoven politics/society/religion takes to give.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/10/2026
In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So what's happening with the warehouses now? Well, ICE is now trying to offload most of them "at a steep discount." In other words, ICE effectively set millions of dollars on fire for a complete boondoggle. Reporting courtesy @projectsaltbox.com. www.projectsaltbox.com/p/ice-puts-s...
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ICE puts seven warehouses purchased for detention on the market
The properties were among 11 warehouses ICE bought for $1.07 billion to expand detention capacity. Seven are now being marketed for sale at a steep discount.
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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 08/10/2026
The fundamental problem with any solution in the US is this: 1. Profits 2. ... 3. ... . . . n. People (maybe)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE's new policy is unprecedented. People who have detained for months are suddenly disappearing from the locator system — even if they haven't been moved. And people newly arrested are not showing up at all, their location now hidden from view. This will severely interfere with legal access.
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In New York, as air pollution fell, the toddlers' cognitive processing improved, the study found. In London, ULEZ coincided with improved lung health in children. When elected representatives take action to clean up air, our children benefit from better health: share.google/rnnWnmxNOzWF...
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Improved air quality linked to better mental development in toddlers, study finds
Long-term research in New York shows efforts to reduce air pollution associated with higher cognitive test scores
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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 19/09/2026
Injustice looks like the law telling us basic necessities are not worth government protection, and even reliable communication from said government is not promised grist.org/equity/feder...
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Federal court rules there is no constitutional right to safe drinking water
Years after a water crisis rocked Jackson, Mississippi, the court finds that residents have no right “to truthful information from officials.”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026
Changing the brand of your mass surveillance tool doesn’t make it any less of a mass surveillance tool.
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Boston Swaps Flock Safety for New License Plate Readers
A report outlines how Boston police launched pilots with Motorola and Axon as replacement platforms, which raised new questions about compliance with a city council ordinance.
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Piper Hutchinson @piperhutch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new, far-reaching law that dramatically increases surveillance of researchers. #lalege #lagov #laed
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New Louisiana security council puts foreign researchers under microscope • Louisiana Illuminator
Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new law
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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
JPMorgan’s commodities team: “For the first time since the start of the Iran conflict, we don’t have a baseline view. We simply don’t know how to model the endgame.”
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Ed BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
85% of our potash comes from canada. My favorite factoid about how important potash is to agriculture in the US is that the first patent granted in this country, in 1790, was for "a novel method for the production of potash."
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DocSociology @docsociology.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If only there had been a way for Sen. Cassidy to prevent this measles outbreak. Oh, wait, there was.
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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Comparing “blogging” to “AI Slop” is the type of take that emerges from being obsessed with how people talk about things instead of being interested in what things are.
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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Farewell to the great Wendell Berry. Remember — though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
DO NOT BE ASHAMED
You will be walking some night in the comfortable dark of your yard and suddenly a great light will shine round about you, and behind you will be a wall you never saw before.
It will be clear to you suddenly that you were about to escape, and that you are guilty: you misread the complex instructions, you are not a member, you lost your card or never had one. And you will know that they have been there all along, their eyes on your letters and books, their hands in your pockets, their ears wired to your bed.
Though you have done nothing shameful, they will want you to be ashamed.
They will want you to kneel and weep and say you should have been like them.
And once you say you are ashamed, reading the page they hold out to you, then such light as you have made in your history will leave you.
They will no longer need to pursue you.
You will pursue them, begging forgiveness, and they will not forgive you.
There is no power against them.
It is only candor that is aloof from them, only an inward clarity, unashamed, that they cannot reach. Be ready.
When their light has picked you out and their questions are asked, say to them:
"I am not ashamed." A sure horizon will come around you. The heron will rise in his evening flight from the hilltop.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"The worst energy policy in the world" - fossil fuel subsidies #climatecrisis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The worst energy policy in the world
The Iran war could serve as a turning point in accelerating the global transition away from fossil fuels: Every additional day that oil and gas prices are high and future supplies are uncertain, wind ...
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
NEW: Documents obtained by @wired.com reveal how a small city like Alpharetta, GA, can become a hub in Flock’s sprawling surveillance network. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social w/ the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/how-an...
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How an Atlanta Suburb Ended Up Sharing Flock Data With More Than 2,000 Organizations
Alpharetta, Georgia, cops share data with thousands of Flock users, ranging from federal agencies to a fish and wildlife commission. The reasons why show how vast—and invasive—the network has become.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
When you replace Kristi Noem, a camera-hungry provocateur, with Markwayne Mullin, who'd be happier running his old plumbing company in Oklahoma, a lot of the headlines recede into the background. Doesn't mean the bad stuff isn't still happening. Just attracts less notice.
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Jessica McKenzie @jessimckenzi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW @thebulletin.org by Neta Crawford: The US military's fatal stance on climate change
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The US military’s fatal stance on climate change
The Pentagon is preparing to wage war in a warmer world, even as it accelerates it
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New: Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline is spilling natural gas liquids in northern Wisconsin, just east of the Bad River Reservation near Lake Superior on August 25. According to Enbridge, an unoccupied semi truck struck the pipeline. unicornriot.ninja/2026/enbridg...
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Enbridge Line 5 Spills Natural Gas Liquids in Northern Wisconsin - UNICORN RIOT
Enbridge’s aging Line 5 pipeline is spilling natural gas liquids in northern Wisconsin. The rupture occurred just east of the Bad River Reservation near Lake Superior.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton
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Y.O.L.O.0311 @yolo0311.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Forcing people to live in power outages in 100+ degree weather for days while feeding energy to data centers is a form of political violence.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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The Elder Memes @theeldermemes.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Hate the current games industry? Want to protect and celebrate devs? Unsure what you can do? Follow and amplify their unions! 👇 @bethesdaunion.bsky.social @videogameworkers.bsky.social @zosunited.bsky.social @zenimaxworkers.bsky.social
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Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 25/08/2026
The explosion of gas and coal fired power plants to run AI data centers at this exact moment is too on the nose. AI losers are sociopaths who care about nothing, not even themselves. climatecasino.substack.com/p/more-fucke...
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More Fucked Today than Yesterday
And even more fucked tomorrow
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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
still one of the greatest conversations ever put on TV.
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Janet Ghoulcia (on Vacation 🇯🇵) @gameonysus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I’ve been throwing out my old runners like an idiot. Didn’t realize this was an option.
Gundam on a swing made of old runners.
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Ross 🏳️‍🌈🏴 @mightyredpanda.northsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger Tools
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ᴢᴇɴ sɪᴍᴍᴏɴs @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026
16 months ago: Never forget how it started.
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
✦Learn about a new Louisiana law criminalizing unhoused folks housingnothandcuffs.org/2026/06/16/6162026 ✦Join the @housingnotcuffs.bsky.social campaign housingnothandcuffs.org
Fight the criminalization of unhoused people
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/08/2026
All of the LLMs stole from me. Most of the big "A.i." billionaires are horrifying right wingers. Consumer-facing generative "A.i." "writing" and "art" tools deskill people, cheat kids out of real education, spread falsehoods and disinfo, and violate privacy. So no, I ain't using that shit.
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
this is my ai stance at present. will be updated when peter thiel is bankrupt
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John Breen @breen.tech · 19/08/2026
Oh wtf: “Delta employees at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport told him his seat was being upgraded, but that, because of technical issues, he needed to board last…. Instead of an upgraded seat, he walked down the jet bridge to find three ICE agents waiting.“
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One data center. Three times the electricity needed to power the entire city of Atlanta. What are we doing people?! www.eenews.net/articles/ope...
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OpenAI forced to delay plans for $20B data center in Georgia
The data center is expected to consume three times the electricity needed to power the city of Atlanta.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.
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The Sex Criminals and Child Abusers of ICE and CBP
Rape. Domestic violence. Epstein friendship. It's all tolerated by our valiant homeland-security apparatus. PLUS: COINTELPRO 2026
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Emile Ayoub @emileayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
DHS’s chilling practice is just a piece of a larger problem. @hannahajames.bsky.social and I explain how fed agencies have broad statutory authority to get text messages, medical records, & other sensitive info w/o advance judicial approval or probable cause; and how Congress should rein them in. ⬇️
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
These gloves don't cause neuromuscular incapacitation the way that a taser does. In fact, they only work when applied directly to bare skin. These aren't made for apprehending anyone. These have one and only one use: causing extreme pain to already-restrained captives. In plain language: torture.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It seems to me that when you create a world where human life has been made as cheap as possible, you will eventually find you live in a world where your human life is deemed by others to be cheap, too.
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 13/08/2026
This is pretty damning stuff on Julia Letlow. mitchklein.substack.com/p/the-corrup...
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The Corruption of Julia Letlow
What she signed, what she bought, and what she was not allowed to tell you
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 10/08/2026
A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
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Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Rise and grind
4 panel momo comic:

Panel 1: momo in bed. We see the sun has risen through the bedroom window. Text reads “I wake up”

Panel 2: momo behind his table. There’s a coffee pot and a pink cup of coffee on it. Text reads “pour myself a little coffee”

Panel 3: he’s in a chair behind the table with an opened laptop and a glass of water. It says “check my little emails”

Panel 4: we see he left his house. Door still a little bit open. Text: “ignore them a little bit” as momo gleefully goes to play outside rather than answering his work duties
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Immigration enforcement is an ever-expanding architecture that collapses the local and global, seamlessly merging with both policing and military power."
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How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/08/2026
Way too many people focusing on the names on the tools and not the sociotechnical, sociopolitical, and technopolitical systems and frameworks underlying their design, deployment, justification, and use.
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Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 06/08/2026
I don't think most people fully appreciate just how hideously Jim Crow modern Louisiana remains. It should be a national emergency.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. www.gpb.org/news/2026/08...
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Analysis: More 'guardrails' needed to prevent police misuse of Flock cameras
Inappropriate use of Flock cameras by law enforcement officials have raised questions about how much surveillance is too much.
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Tanya D. || Writer || Narrative Designer @cypheroftyr.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/08/2026
"A.i." is bullshit. "A.i." detection tools are bullshit. "A.i." in education is bullshit. "A.i." in the arts is bullshit. "A.i." in business and government is bullshit.
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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Detainees in the Adelanto ICE Processing Center have noticed contamination in the drinking water. Last week, we reported on footage from inside the facility that showed evidence of the inhumane conditions inside the facility. The full story: lataco.com/contaminated...
 🎥: Aisha Wallace-Palomares
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Many people asked me early on: if ICE seems to just be rounding up random brown people on the street, why are they on a shopping spree for massive amounts of surveillance capabilities. The answer was always for this.
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Surly Buddhist @surlybuddhist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The Landry administration has unfettered access to Project NOLA's network of cameras. This needd to be reigned in. The call is coming from inside the house.
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Jeff Landry’s Intelligence Chief is Spying on New Orleans with Project NOLA
Public records show GOHSEP’s Director of Intelligence was personally provisioned Project NOLA credentials. Nobody told the people being watched. On January 29, 2025, Mark Fontenot, Director o…
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 04/08/2026
Seeing reports from multiple cities that ICE is not retreating, they’re *stepping up* the kidnapping and ethnic cleansing operations in several cities.
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