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Monitor Lizard

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Why the fuck would I want to be "culturally normal" in a culture that's normalized the Trump regime?

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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 1h
ICE has two canned responses: gang member or weaponized car. Both have been demonstrably false in case after case
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 2h
A cat high five? A true honor!
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 2h
When it comes to Vance, never forget the vice
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h
The Hague is far too good for Stephen Miller
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 14h
Get the bastards!
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who needs to be removed to stop this? Just RFK or others, too? He's impeachable, even more so if the midterms go well
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
rollingstone.com
CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is despicable
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As a compromise, I'm willing to accept bad things happening to Sam Altman
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And they never fucking shut up
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It really is!
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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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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CEO makes shocked pikachu face because computer program does what it's programmed to do Swears to public that only he can protect them
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I support Somali-Americans @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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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OpenAI wrote bad code and fucked up gov websites But that's not nearly as sexy a headline
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To be fair, I'm mainly working with the original trilogy. But I can't think of anything in the others I've seen (once) to contradict it
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The difference between wizard and jedi seems pretty academic to me. We're just calling magic 'the Force.'
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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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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
They are unhappy now because Trump effects them, but they'll turn on us the second another fascist waves a shiny bauble in their face. No matter who we sell out to court them
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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.
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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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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Obligatory Chidi "that's worse" meme
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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Immigration as an area of common ground with the administration
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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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Monitor Lizard @smallactions.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These people should just cut to the chase, tell us they expect to call it god and to accept its judgements
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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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