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Ian Mac

@yinpeaceyang.bsky.social
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 03/03/2026
The Anthropic dustup has one clear message: Our privacy rights should not be dependent on backroom deals between tech CEOs and the surveillance state.
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The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People
The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Maybe Trump is the exit dose this whole fucked-up system needed? It’s like chemotherapy — the poison ALMOST kills the system but out of that chaos comes the death of the cancer? If this tears apart MAGA *and* neoliberalism then go man go.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I’m really proud of the peeing dog
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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SqueakyWheel1 🇨🇦🇺🇦📎🇲🇽🇫🇷🇺🇸 @squeakywheel1.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I found this very interesting perspective thread on FB.
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It’s that time again.
Two panels from Twin peaks: the return 

Top panel: What year is it?
Bottom panel: [screaming]
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Dwight McCabe @dwightmc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
People voting for Trump believed him when he said he was so rich he couldn't be influenced by money. You got a lying conman, who got rich by money laundering for the Russia mob and taking bribes and cheated people who worked for his companies. Now he's stealing from our country, selling us out.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
The assaults on immigrants and any American who does not look 'White enough' is just the beginning. Trump is gearing up to disrupt the 2026 election by preventing those who do not approve of his autocratic kleptocracy from voting.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 27/12/2025
The Trump administration put billionaires, giant corporations and their profits first this year, while working people struggled to make ends meet. Workers are fed up. And in 2026, America’s unions are ready to shift the fight back into overdrive.
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US labor unions gear up to fight against Trump’s ‘Billionaire First’ agenda
AFL-CIO president Liz Shuler says union ready to stand up for struggling Americans: ‘Which side are you on?’
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/12/2025
Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Axon Tests Face Recognition on Body-Worn Cameras
Axon Enterprise Inc. is working with a Canadian police department to test the addition of face recognition technology (FRT) to its body-worn cameras (BWCs). This is an alarming development in
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
America is having a collective “take the keys away from grandpa” debate, except it’s the nuclear codes.
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The only dictation I want is in my word processor. #🍆🥔
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Acknowledging the Multnomah, Chinook, Kalapuya, and other tribes whose land we occupy where I live in Portland OR.
Screenshot from the movie Addams Family Values with the character Wednesday dressed in a costume representing a Native American in a “Thanksgiving Day” reenactment play, with the caption, What radicalized you? Probably the Thanksgiving scene in Addams Family Values.
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Bob Chipman ("MovieBob") @bobchipman.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
I wouldn't find it myself until a few years later, but this is probably the most important media debut for me personally in my lifetime. I wouldn't be the same person without it. At all. It's an epoch-defining show.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/11/2025
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles theonion.com/trump-still-polling-we…
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles
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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
“Anyone who helps me try to steal an election gets a pardon” is perhaps the most corrupt thing to happen in American history. That “conservatives” have simply accepted this as the price of admission is the greatest moral and intellectual humiliation.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 04/11/2025
AI and robotics will transform our world. Will these revolutionary technologies make life better for working people, or will they simply make the richest people on Earth even richer and more powerful? That is the great question of our time.
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Can we skip to the healing and rebuilding part?
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Indivisible Oregon ❌👑‬ @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
You attended No Kings? Take Action Today: To Protect Our Democracy Join Your local Indivisible Group Make Calls with 5 Calls APP Write Letters to voters with Vote Forward Listen to weekly strategy calls Stay Informed & Subscribe: Letters from an American Chop Wood Carry Water
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To Protect Our Democracy
Join Your local Indivisible Group
Make Calls with 5 Calls APP
Write Letters to voters with Vote Forward
Listen to weekly strategy calls
Stay Informed & Subscribe: 
Letters from an American
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/10/2025
There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The protests #noKings protests are beautiful. I don’t know if our democracy will survive until the midterms.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/10/2025
ICE isn’t just tapping into government databases — it’s also tapping into local police scanners, EFF’s @MGuariglia.bsky.social said on an @nyu.edu panel. “ICE is buying millions of people’s geolocations and weaponizing all government data toward immigration.” nyunews.com/culture/ieq...
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NYU’s annual Detention and Deportation Conference means something different this year - Washington Square News
“This conference on immigration and detention and deportation has become a radical act. It’s sad, but it’s true,” migration scholar and keynote speaker Allison Mountz told an audience of close to 200 people on Wednesday, who stood along the back wall and spilled out the conference room’s double doors.  The radical act in question was...
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I was just thinking this morning about this dichotomy in different terms this morning, so to look at it historically is really helpful.
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Indivisible Oregon ❌👑‬ @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
(Sound up) 🐸🎸🎶 A Message from the Frog Resistance from #WarRavagedPortland in #WarTornPDX youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso
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A Message From The Frog Resistance
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14/10/2025
In the latest installment of Bad Letters, let's learn from EFF's @maassive.bsky.social about the surveillance tech that could soon be roaming the skies in your city. Learn more at www.eff.org/DFR.
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Congrats Google, you’re officially evil. Will be deleting my gmail account I’ve had since 2005. www.npr.org/2025/09/29/n...
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YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension
YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
#WarRavagedPortland
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
If you’re using Sora, why?
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Just finished watching the docuseries 1971 on Apple TV+. Dang. The thing that struck me most: the SIZE of the protests and events! Solidarity. I pray it doesn’t get that violent again. But it might have to.
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
What I’m grappling with is how the assholes and liars and fraudsters seem to have taken over, when this is the America I believe in
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
The closest I ever want to get to online gambling is checking into my flight on Southwest and seeing what boarding group I’m in.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 09/09/2025
It’s disappointing that Ring has chosen this moment, when police and the government are infringing civil liberties left and right, to revive its tech’s most invasive feature: helping police get videos captured by home security cameras. www.consumerreports.org/electronics...
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Ring Is Again Letting Police Request User Videos Through Its Neighbors App via @ConsumerReports
Ring has resumed letting police request security camera footage through the Neighbors app. Here's how to participate in Community Requests or opt out.
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." - Carl Sagan.
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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Sarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
A video on the hate campaign against Ms. Rachel for being pro-Palestinian children, but really a video about right-wing attacks on children's early education, but really a video about the importance of emotional literacy. Fantastic watch
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Adam D Boyer @adamwritegood.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
“The new @lindsayellis.bsky.social video has everything: Analysis of pre-K children’s entertainment, doomsday cults, digressions about Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rwandan genocide—“
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✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
No matter how much crime we do it’ll never be enough to offset this shit lol
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
After rewatching the trilogy, Part III might be my favorite now. #backToTheFuture
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Have you ever had a fortune cookie that gave you actually good advice? . . . Mine was “you must find ways to dispel negative energy”.
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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Carl Sagan's prediction of America, made 30 years ago.
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joesnotes.bsky.social @joesnotes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Some #owl shots from my #hike around #PowellButte in the #PNW. Shot with #Sony A7iv with Sony 24-105f4. Edited in #lightroom. #photography #travel #mthood #birds #birdphotography
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Ian Mac @yinpeaceyang.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Maybe you aren’t lacking discipline, but instead missing purpose.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/06/2025
I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest on June 14, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow. No paywall. Free access. Please do read and share: www.qasimrashid.com/p/13-rules-t...
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13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting
Read & Share if you're joining the No Kings protest on June 14, or know anyone who is
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rain-singer.bsky.social @rain-singer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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