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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
not getting shot in the face by a government thug after dropping your kid off at a school is a kitchen table issue, probably the most talked about issue at kitchen tables right now honestly
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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Another aspect to ICE / CBP and protest violence I haven’t seen: recruitment propaganda imagery and rhetoric, as well as who it targets. DHS makes a concerted effort to appeal to a very specific recruit pool group; accusations about “politicizing” immigration protests should start with them. 1/2
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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The objective here is to divide the population via chaos and erosion of faith in institutions, incite cycles of revenge violence, and finally, to step in and take control of government once the populace is worn down enough by to the point they will accept any leadership that promises security. 7
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The number of Gestapo in Germany was 32,000. The population was 70 million. That's one Gestapo for every 2200 citizens. The number of ICE agents is 20,000. The population of the US is 348 million. That's one ICE agent for every 17,000 citizens. There are more of us.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/01/2026
I contend that they aren’t manufacturing evidence to convince people in reasoned and logical argument. They are manufacturing props to be used in a fantasy performance among people who collectively agree with the make-believe narrative of that performance.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/01/2026
I think this distinction matters because despite the sophistication of evidence-forging tools people who want to know the truth can still get to the heart of the matter and make that widely known, but the culture of participatory performative lying doesn’t require any tools at all—just bullshit.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/01/2026
The role that AI and deepfakes play in this frame is not as technical tools that disable our ability to make evidentiary claims. Rather, they exist as props that can be used by participants engaged in collective make-believe or play-acting who perform a fantasy reality for their audiences.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 08/01/2026
In light of the Wired article describing people misusing AI to identify the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good, and the debate about AI supposedly destroying our ability to use images as evidence, I’m coming down on the side that the real problem is a widespread culture of performative confabulation.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Yes. The point of outright lies contradicting what we can all see isn't to convince anyone in a genuine debate, it is to assist their confederates in creating enough noise, they hope, to bring the truth into doubt for those who aren't going to review the evidence.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/01/2026
I know there's A Lot to be worried about right now but India is arresting climate activists on the grounds that they're opposed to fossil fuels www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/f...
Climate activist Harjeet Singh said on Wednesday that he was ‘surprised and deeply disturbed’ by the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) claim that his association with the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative is detrimental to India’s energy security.

SSPL was co-founded in May 2016 by Singh and his wife Jyoti Awasthi.
SSPL was co-founded in May 2016 by Singh and his wife Jyoti Awasthi.
In a statement, Harjeet Singh said: “I am utterly surprised and deeply disturbed by the Enforcement Directorate’s claim that my association with the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative is detrimental to India’s energy security. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have consistently applauded the Indian government’s remarkable leadership in expanding renewable energy and achieving its climate and clean-energy targets nearly five years ahead of schedule.”

The ED on Monday had carried out searches on Singh’s NGO Satat Sampada Climate Foundation, and is investigating foreign funds worth over ₹6 crore received by his organisation to allegedly run narratives to influence the government policies in the energy sector, people familiar with the development said.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The former is fine. The latter is somewhere between incorrect and vaguely racist.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I guess what I'm saying is that there is a question about the intended /purpose/ of "ICE are learning from the IDF." Are you simply highlighting links between two criminal organisations? Or are you suggesting that American cops wouldn't murder people without Israeli example?
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I can believe they have looked at their tactics, repurposed them for domestic aims. I also think that anyone who thinks this is, like, ideologically significant is lost in the sauce at minimum.
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it is broadly speaking very hard for me to believe any theory that suggests america has learned how to do a bad thing from Israel because that would be the first time in history that america has learned anything from a smaller country
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Drifting @softapocalypse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Best wishes 💜
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New Study finds a significant reduction in suicidality after trans people receive gender-affirming hormone therapy. “Hormone therapy was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time…” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 289, February 2026, 114883
Original Articles
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender
Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An
Extended Study
Luke R. Allen PhD ' & E, Cody G. Dodd PhD2, Christine N. Moser PsyD 3, Michelle M. Knoll MD 3
Show more vThe Journal of Pediatrics
Volume 289, February 2026, 114883
Original Articles
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender
Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An
Extended Study
Luke R. Allen PhD ' & E, Cody G. Dodd PhD2, Christine N. Moser PsyD 3, Michelle M. Knoll MD 3
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The videos coming out of Iran are truly remarkable. Solidarity with the people of Iran. Solidarity with prisoners, victims of torture and human rights abuses, and people who just want bread to eat and clean water to drink.
bbc.com
Iran protests latest: Internet blackout continues after huge anti-government protests
Huge crowds of protesters have been marching through Iran's capital and other cities, with people heard calling for the overthrow of the supreme leader.
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 10/12/2025
so after being bedridden for 16months due to a hernia, I've finally got my surgery! now I'm bedridden for recovery, which is at least a great improvement. I'm still broke though, so if you've got a couple dollars, it'd help me get through this last stretch. Thanks so much! ko-fi.com/fooneturing
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Corey_V_Assistant (or Vice'sAssistant) VT @coreyvassistant.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
A screen shot from the Game Boy Color game The Flintstones Burger Time in Bedrock, made from Foone's Death Generator saying: "If you used death generator before for
a dumb meme, this was Foone's work.
You can probably give her some money.
She needs it."
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 08/01/2026
Pathologic 3 is out tomorrow - I'm very confident that this one is going to be a gem, given that the two (very different) demos were both equally excellent. Also a perfectly fine place for people to start. It's one third of a three-parallel-part remake of the original Pathologic.
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Pathologic 3 on Steam
In this psychological horror game, you are a doctor with only 12 days to save a town from a mysterious plague. Make ruthless decisions and diagnose with precision. Shape the town's future and rewrite ...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
11 days from now marks one year since this guy got away with doing a Nazi salute on live TV. Since then, he - the world's richest man - has gutted govt programmes causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children and turned his microblogging website into a child porn generator. Consequences!
Elon Musk quote tweeting " 💯" in response to some absolutely insane racism that begins "If White men become a minority we will be slaughtered"
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ICE has murdered THIRTY TWO PEOPLE in detention centers. Four in the last week. www.msn.com/en-us/news/c...
msn.com
MSN
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I wish people were as horrified about immigrants being kidnapped and killed in detention centers as they are about this shooting at the same time I am very glad there is finally some larger momentum building against this and I hope it sustains.
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Mitildide 🧌 @mitildide.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
My solution was to use the expression "It's [...] pure juice" (pur jus), which does exist commonly in France, because it allowed translating "it's sparkling [...]" into "it's [...] concentrate" (du [...] à base de concentré). While losing the original pedantry, it retains the meaning.
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Mitildide 🧌 @mitildide.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Today while translating a quote by @taliabhatt.itch.io I ironically discovered that while the "It's only [...] when it comes from the [...] region of France" meme is definitely about France, it's very hard to translate into French without adding a footnote to explain the original meme.
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Drifting @softapocalypse.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Ah shit.
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So he's gone from distributing child porn for free to distributing it for profit.
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I foresee a lot of people writing "the transformation/moderation of Marjorie Taylor Greene" takes this year who'll forget that's she's arguably the most ubiquitous anti-semite in American life at the moment
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Two people shot, reportedly alive in Portland. Posted a couple of minutes ago that they killed them, but that was straight up wrong. I'm very sorry about that, and sorry if I led to confusion there.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Holy fuck they actually did it
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I hope she gets the world she wants to build
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Read More bell hooks @walaal.blacksky.app · 08/01/2026
LA fam, there is another vigil for New Afrikan Keith 'Pooter' Porter. "Carson Park 21411 Orrick Ave Carson, CA 90745 5pm - 7pm Saturday January 10th 2026 Together, in peace, we light the night with love and memories in honor of a remarkable life. Please bring white/silver balloons and candles"
a post from @NewAfrikanRevo:

"Keith Porter was a New Afrikan killed by ICE in LA on New Year's Eve. He deserves to be struggled behind and he deserved to live"

the post under it is an announcement of a vigil with the picture of the martyred Black man Keith Porter on the left. the picture is only of the top half of his body and he is wearing a hat, white t-shirt and Nike jacket. he is smiling and looking into the camera.

the text on the vigil announcement is:

Candlelight/Balloon Release Vigil

For Keith 'Pooter' Porter

Where:
Carson Park 21411 Orrick Ave.
Carson, CA 90745

When:
5pm - 7pm Saturday January 10th 2026

Together, in peace, we light the night with love and
memories in honor of a remarkable life.

Please bring white/silver balloons and candles
Please reach out if you would like a shirt made for this event!!
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Advocate has the story - "they killed my wife," Good's spouse says. "We have a six year old in school," Good's spouse says. Let us avoid building a head of steam behind a narrative to allow a grandparent to come and seize the child of a queer couple.
advocate.com
Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
“They killed my wife,” the distraught woman says, adding, “They shot her in the head.”
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is a lie and should not be spread. Renee Good has a wife, who was, horrifically, in the car with her when she was executed by the government. It is flatly untrue to assert that child has no one else in his life.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Rare case when a ban would be both justified (it’s doing crimes 24/7) and effective
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time. Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief. Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time. Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
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Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 08/01/2026
Reminder: your brain and your heart were not built for this. You are not meant to see a video of a woman being shot, followed by a cat, followed by a creek, followed by the thoughts of a friend, followed by the thoughts of a random person, and so on… It is imperative that you take time away
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
A Black man named Keith Porter was shot and killed by an ICE officer on New Year’s Eve. Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. This is not new but it is expanding.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
this bears repeating: Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people. Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet. The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
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Jonathan Diaz @jonathandiaz.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
American Samoans aren't even second-class citizens like other territorial residents -- we deny them citizenship entirely. It is an egregious injustice that the people of American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Marianas have no voice in their government.
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737 max [spooky] @bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
if you went to a left-leaning college in the last fifteen years, you might remember them trying to do this live at the gates there was never and will never be a good reason to engage because if you come across as thoughtful they will never ever run what you say
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DaBean. @honeybadger10.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Y’all are almost getting what it’s like to be Black in America. Almost…
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
More broadly, everyone who attends a protest needs to consider—perhaps more than ever before—what their tolerance for risk might be, from mere identification to the possibility of arrest or detention. Read the full guide: www.wired.com/story/how-to...
wired.com
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
Be careful about what you post on social media, and be aware that if you take photos or videos, they could be used to expand law enforcement’s view of who attended it. Make sure you have permission to photograph or videotape any fellow protesters.
wired.com
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
Another factor to weigh is your mode of transportation. Driving a car to a protest can expose you to surveillance from automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, which can be used to pinpoint a vehicle’s movements.
wired.com
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
Consider wearing a face mask and sunglasses to make it far more difficult for you to be identified by face recognition technology. Avoid colorful clothing and prominent logos, and cover up any identifiable tattoos.
wired.com
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
You should use end-to-end encryption for messaging, and make sure your smartphone’s contents are encrypted, too. If you use biometric unlocking, turn that off temporarily so it’s harder for law enforcement to force you to unlock your phone.
wired.com
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/01/2026
For the best chance at anonymity, you should leave your phone at home. But if you can’t, keep it off as much as possible—or keep it in a Faraday bag that blocks all of its radio communications. You can also consider using a secondary phone or a burner.
wired.com
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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