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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 17h

Every time any of the tech bros opens their mouth, I become more anti-tech bro

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pcrritesgood.bsky.social @pcrritesgood.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If your news network is interviewing a guy who claims he spent 18 days in heaven hanging out with Jesus, that is not actually a news network.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.

The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 01/10/2026

ICE has notified me that another person has died in their custody. This is the 58th death under ICE’s watch since Trump returned to office. That’s 58 too many. We need to dismantle ICE, eliminate private, for-profit detention centers, and reform our broken immigration system.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A victory for the government in this case would greenlight long-term mass civil detention at a level not seen since Japanese internment during WWII. It would represent the largest change in how the US treats immigrants facing removal since 1996, and remind us again that the 96 law must be erased.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's kind of maddening to see almost no one with power and a major platform publicly wrestling with this. We're gonna have to talk about something other than gas and grocery prices at some point

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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The billions wasted on mass deportation could have been used to fund an efficient, fair system for processing asylum claims, making TPS recipients permanent residents, and legalizing undocumented people. We would have a safer, more prosperous, more just country.

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026

She said "I'm not interested in being in a confrontation with Donald Trump" which is disqualifying. She's acting like it's confrontation for confrontation's sake when it's actually ending the theft, murder and brutality and beating back fascism. You know, her job.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Glad about the result, but I don’t think it speaks well of us as a country that after two years of human rights violations, war crimes, naked gangster corruption, and contempt for the Constitution, he’s finally unpopular because gas got expensive.

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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I can't understand why anyobe thinks this is a desirable way to organize our future

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov · 23/09/2026

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by ICE agents after working in the U.S. for 35 years. His sons, Ronaldo and Lorenzo Jr., testified before Congress and reminded us that this rogue agency MUST be held accountable for its horrific actions.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 24/09/2026

LAWYERS! Here are links to flight data you can put in your filings: Mesa-Ghana-Liberia plane: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a63864&... Alexandria-Gitmo-PR-airborne to Africa plane: globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a3ec5c&... bsky.app/profile/dani...

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ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live

ADS-B Exchange - track aircraft live - aircraft flight history

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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is a conspiracy to commit mass murder for profit. But it's okay, because the profit is what really matters

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

And those others were at least in some nominal way developments for use by human beings. This is exclusively for make number get bigger, exclusively over the next few quarters and however much longer we can make the chicken dance before we run out of quarters.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026

No mention of legislation to permanently ban the monsters under your bed.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/09/2026

I first wrote about dicamba back in 2017 when most of the coverage was limited to farming publications. And there's something that I think is missed in the Guardian piece that I think it's important to note about why Bayer is doing this.

popsci.com

A chemical meant to save plants is actually killing them—and it's spreading

New formulations of dicamba, an herbicide, seem to be causing havoc in America's soybean fields

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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 20/09/2026

ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...

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ICE Detention Claims 25th Life Since the Start of the Year

Carlos Josué Marchena at Louisiana and Lianyong Wei in Saipan are the 25th and 24th people to die in ICE custody. Story by Spanish-language media, slow to hit English-language media.

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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fuck ICE. Solidarity with Austin. If there is a gofundme for medical and legal expenses, please keep us posted.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The man ICE shot in Austin today is named Wilber Rafael Garces Perez. Per his lawyer, she and Perez’s family were run off of hospital property where he’s being treated and won’t even confirm he’s there because he’s “in ICE custody.” Actual criminals.

npr.org

Federal immigration agent shoots and injures man in Austin, Texas

The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And if that happens, I think the Republic is over. Either this was an illegitimate presidency where everything must be undone, or it was a legitimate one with a guy democrats don’t like, and if it’s the second, if No Rules Fascism is now standard operating procedure, we’re done.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The media outlets that are breaking all of these Irregular incidents into separate headlines and making it sound like all of these companies are making Terminator film-like strides are participating in the political project of AI, just as many are participating in Trumpian fascism.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 20/09/2026

Help i made malware and I used it to hack several enormous companies I guess there's nothing anyone can do until we pass new laws In the meantime I'll let you watch over my shoulder while i do it again and again Also give me more money or I'll hack you all

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The US has murdered four more people after blowing up a small boat in the Caribbean. Southern Command alleged the vessel was involved in “narcotics-trafficking”.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17/09/2026

dudes rock

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19/09/2026

After all of the US's bombing and threatening and invading and tariffing... China has advanced their position *more* relative to the US than if we hadn't thrown a violent tantrum. So... Of what use was the violence and threats? What good was it? What do we have to show for it?

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 19/09/2026

US journalists know that he's lying. Because he has lied every time before, and they know this.🤷🏿‍♂️ Just like US journalists know that the police are lying after an incident. Because the first thing the police say after an incident is always a lie, and they know this too. They pretend not to know. 🤡

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It’s very simple. AI isn’t independent or autonomous. It’s a tool being specifically programmed to commit crimes against humans and against rival businesses. But the fantasy of autonomy is an incredible facade that means total deniability and our political and media classes have already bought in.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This fantasy that “AI is out of control” provides cover for powerful people and corporations to simply program systems to carry out actions and then shrug. And if that is brought into the larger scheme of operations, the powerful will shrug and blame the tool they control.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

In this class we're in the middle of reading about ways that AI has already harmed real people in its actual applications. There are so many examples (and that list is growing everyday) that it's not possible to cover them all. arstechnica.com/health/2023/...

arstechnica.com

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges

For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

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Jay Dee @taarguschonus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There are way too many people that believe that we are a temporarily occupied country and once Trump is gone the day will be saved and we'll go back to being the good guys. Trump is not a virus he's a symptom.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The only thing they're persuading voters is they'll back down and fold to whatever fascist nonsense Republicans come up with, abandoning the real people affected by it to abuse, terror, deprivation, exclusion, and death.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

This is worth remembering because many of the exact same people are now advising the best path forward is quietly accepting this newest phase of mass deportation and sticking to “kitchen table issues” once the midterms happen.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What she’s not telling voters in this ad is the she _repeatedly_ voted to fund those immigration enforcement efforts that are now threatening her political career.

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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I refuse to focus on common values with the people who celebrate this. I want to be more divided from them, not less

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Hid mistakes and made up data" used to be called by the cozy term "hallucination" up until it became vitally important for the IPO that AI is now evil

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.

According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

putting peace above confronting fascists just means you're aiding fascists. you're not creating a safe space. you're ceding all the safe space to genocide.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sheeran is like pundits who claim that the problem with america is divisiveness, and we just need less partisanship. but the problem isn't divisiveness or conflict in itself. the problem is fascism.

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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I am going to become the Joker

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/09/2026

Today's reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and Israel and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Steve Bannon is not “pro-human”

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