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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social

wired.com

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 10h

Difficult to stomach that we're likely only in the early-mid stage of the current fight against fascism, but I think we are + that things will continue to escalate until they're defeated. We must make it so that fascists are too scared to post, to scared to go outside, too scared to think.

Elon Musk says gender-affirming care providers should receive the death penalty

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What the past few years have made abundantly clear is that there are many powerful individuals who are absolutely terrified of trans people

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Is there really a way to have good faith discussions with people who genuinely believe dangerously wrong things? How can you reason with people who think Armageddon is around the corner, or worse, that it should be made to happen? With people who genuinely believe current AIs are “alive?”

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What is the logic, however cynical, of the @mayor.nyc.gov funding a Zionist, anti-Palestine like JCRC. His overall deflection strategy doesn’t make much sense to me, even the optics, considering the way the ground has shifted on Israel. Funding this, though? Makes zero sense. Alienating

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We have to stop this future. We simply have to

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

How is September over. We are moving at crazy miles per hour. The speed of clowns

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The "writes a song ostensibly about how immigrants can never integrate into their new country," "wears sunglasses with a Totenkopf," and "is in a band with a guy who does blackface" to "becomes an immigrant, marries a member of a minority group, and becomes openly anti-ICE" arc is a rare one

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the world's great (both current and historical) sources of exasperation is just how much of life is shaped by or sometimes dictated by (often powerful, or at least influential) people who are deeply unwell

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cyber-Rivethead Cowthey has long been an aesthetic, but I have not seen it so well represented until recently

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching certain spaces that were lite-fash and right-libertarian tolerant to ones where members of those groups don't even dare to comment anymore is a small bright spot in a dark world

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good first step, @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social. Start writing the subsequent bills to ban all trade, cut off all aid, cut them off from the international system, and arrest their leaders bsky.app/profile/dipl...

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Purity tests are bad? For who? People who have their own purity tests but don't even think of them as purity tests, among others bsky.app/profile/spen...

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas have filed two sweeping lawsuits targeting dozens of providers who ship abortion pills—and the blue states that protect them.

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A bare Democratic majority is not going to do what many are hoping. Leadership can’t get unanimity even now. They’re going to need enough seats to wash out the inevitable “suddenly right-wing” defectors who go beyond the usual suspects.

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Germany's CDU rightfully keeps the firewall between themselves and the AFD, but apparently they also apply it to Die Linke? What? A center-to-center-right party actually equating these parties is some incredible braining

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Saw a tattoo shop with a brand-new looking sign with a NFT ape for a mascot. Unsure what to make of this strange anachronism. What could it mean

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't think there's anyone but the most completely detached that hasn't noticed that we're living in an angrier, more frustrated, less patient, less forgiving, less interpersonally charitable, short-tempered time. Anger pops up in places and to degrees that seem odd and outsized

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

Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagining a world where the trifecta of social media, fast Internet connections, and always-on, anywhere connectivity did not happen

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What I want to hear from subsequent Democratic candidates is stuff like "I'm not just running for justice, I'm running for retribution"

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[One million dead Iraqis, a War on Terror, many black sites and extraordinary renditions, a string of tortures and a wrecked region later] The Republican party has some bad guys in it

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

Gone are the mass raids and militarized metro operations. Gone are the pomp and pageantry. But ICE arrests have hit record levels. ICE operations are no longer concentrated in large American cities. Immigration enforcement officials are also working in suburban and rural areas, all across the US.

A map of the United States that shows immigration arrests per 100,000 people since ICE's new enforcement strategy began under DHS secretary Markwayne Mullin.

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My answer to this would definitely be "I don't know," but I do think it'd be interesting to determine how we'd measure this

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Search results have been getting worse for years, but in the current AI era, it's like these companies have given up on non-AI search altogether. Even the paid, alternative ones are almost useless for so many things now

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Anti-Delivery Protection Act (DPA) groups have been flyering in Brooklyn. Stuff about how thousands of jobs will be lost, etc. If you see these pieces of ugly propaganda, remember that 2/3rds of all paper products get recycled. You can help

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Israel is the world's most hated country; the US 4th most-hated. From Nira Data

Israel is the world's most hated country. The US is the 4th most hated

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We can measure just how much leaders care about stopping genocide + ethnic cleansing by what they're willing to do, not just say. The fact that the genocidal regime is not cut off from the international system, not sanctioned, and has not had its leaders arrested tells us they don't care much at all

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

there is so much fascinating work on "cute" especially in the past decade, but especially how much it permits us to ignore and facilitate

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xv0... The fact that we're plowing ahead with "AI for legal services" despite the fact that it continues to be a disaster, and despite the cogent critiques from people like @frankpasquale.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy is scary

youtube.com

How Law Firms are Becoming AI Firms

YouTube video by TLDR Business

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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Asian cities are experimenting with an entirely new high speed transport technology. Today's collaboration with @infrastory.bsky.social is on high speed metros. Read now: www.thetransitbrief.net/p/the-future...

open.substack.com

The future of urban public transit.

High speed regional rail will forever transform cities.

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This man did not prosecute the world-historical war criminals of the Bush administration, did not prosecute the bankers, supercharged the drone war (do not forget that he drone striked American citizens!), persecuted whistleblowers, and did not close Gitmo. This man cannot even make a moral argument

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Damn, Bruno Kramm from Das Ich died. Probably the toughest one to hear since Kendra from White Ring. Brutal

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

NYC manhole divers are looking for the fabled Gator Gold

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

You are not meaning-making. You are not sense-making. You are not building community. You are giving people a way to bet on racing ponies. You are selling potato chips.

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This goes triple for politicians, who *most definitely should know better*

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"What remains unfinished in American democracy" as the only frame used to discuss the state of our system gets more puzzling all the time. Yes, there are many things that remain unfinished, some going back to the founding / near to it. It's misleading, though, and has a real exceptionalist bent

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

“It’s 2026, and the number-one consumer technology trend seems to be devices that constantly listen to and record everything and everyone around us at all times — with or without consent — …”

theverge.com

Everything is spying on you and there’s no opting out

A new wave of AI-enhanced consumer creep-tech disregards the privacy of everyone but the wearer. The people have had enough.

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The "reasonable concerns" crowds too often and very transparently have totally unreasonable concerns. They should be shamed, shunned, and disempowered, not catered to. Their opinions should be made radioactive and their concerns made to look like the ugly things that they are

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Needing to sue to enforce existing laws or regulations is already nuts. Winning the suit then having the laws continue to be ignored means system failure. You cannot sue your way to enforcement if your enemies control the enforcement power. You need your own enforcement power

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The abuse of the term “community” to mean “customers,” “employees,” or “other people paid to be somewhere” has really rendered the unqualified form of the term useless

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Love living in this great and blessed land

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We need scorched earth against the fascists. Every tool, every politician, every media figure, every organization. Anyone not on board should just resign and disappear from public life

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Perhaps there should be some kind of plan for the "Peter Ticktin actually convinces Trump to declare martial law" scenario, since we're so deep into the "absolutely anything can happen with these lunatics" days

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

They've already brought back debtors' prisons and child labor. Now we have an updated indentured servitude. "They'd bring back chattel slavery if they could" barely even seems like a joke anymore truthout.org/articles/mor...

truthout.org

More US Employers Are Trapping Workers in a New Form of Indentured Servitude

Bosses in more industries are preventing workers from quitting by charging them for training costs if they leave.

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Spencer Thomas @spencer-thomas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Woman finds herself no longer attracted to men. Assumes she's gay Woman then dates women, finds she's not attracted to them, either. Assumes she's ace Woman then realizes she's been dating all this time without wearing her glasses. Looks down and sees her feet are actually hooves She's Pan

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