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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist

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Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in @strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year

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Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

You should be able to criticize your government anonymously online.

Full stop.

"Age verification" legislation is just a pretty name for "forced online ID checks," meaning everything you post is associated with your government name

We have to stop this.

theintercept.com/2026/03/05/k...

05.03.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 245    πŸ” 149    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

people should not get nazi tattoos if they don't want to be called nazis

06.03.2026 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Corey "The Circumstances" Lewandowski?

06.03.2026 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 68    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to Wife!

06.03.2026 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

one down, jail to go

06.03.2026 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't think singling this employee out is the point, it's an example. I don't expect him to do it better, he's not a PR person. But thats where policy comes in

06.03.2026 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

trust me you do not want to go here, like not even a little bit

06.03.2026 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 94    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Right-wing pundits want Trump to heal the MAGA rift over the Iran war via the mass deportation of American Muslims

Here’s Hegseth buddy Benny Johnson saying earlier this week that we need mass denaturalization and deportations of those with β€œideologies that are incompatible with Western civilization.”

They want to start with Muslims. Very unclear they’ll stop there. www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

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plenty of companies have them, they just don't have them doing it in a public facing role

06.03.2026 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There is absolutely no reason to expect tech people to be able to do public comms. But also, there is no reason to let a tech person be doing public comms.

06.03.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 125    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Every company has people who find the public annoying, and every company that actually wants to stay in business puts a huge buffer zone between those employees and the public

06.03.2026 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 149    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 0

Not getting into the Discourse but there's a reason why every company worth the name hires professionals to talk to heir user/consumer base and don't allow every employee to go B2C and tell the public what they really think of them and maybe the folk running this app should consider that

06.03.2026 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 169    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Assuming that we’re not DELIBERATELY bombing girls’ schools, has anyone articulated about how being not-PC has actually served us strategically or tactically? Like anything articulable or measurable? Or is it just β€œblow shit up, but with a douchey expression”?

05.03.2026 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1061    πŸ” 176    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 3
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This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

05.03.2026 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 4919    πŸ” 1292    πŸ’¬ 896    πŸ“Œ 235

On NJ Transit on the way home and the train just died.

Just another day/reminder of how β€œthe richest and most powerful nation in the world” cannot do mass transit.

We can afford a war and build concentration camps, but not mass transit.

05.03.2026 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3333    πŸ” 624    πŸ’¬ 101    πŸ“Œ 30
A frame from the YouTube reading of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences where John Freeman, Gordon Freeman's brother, stands atop a drawing of a pair of human lungs and appears to be yelling with arms raised to the top of sky

A frame from the YouTube reading of Half-Life: Full Life Consequences where John Freeman, Gordon Freeman's brother, stands atop a drawing of a pair of human lungs and appears to be yelling with arms raised to the top of sky

YELLD AT THE TOP OF LUNG

06.03.2026 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

frame it

06.03.2026 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 128    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

no women are not prevented from driving in Iran and no women are not restricted from education, you're thinking of a whole ass other country

06.03.2026 01:22 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I am once again begging people who want to talk about the country to learn the difference between Iran and Saudi Arabia

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Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

04.03.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2722    πŸ” 1052    πŸ’¬ 28    πŸ“Œ 35

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by β€œIranian state media”

06.03.2026 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1529    πŸ” 390    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 9

Good Noem is out. But Stephen Miller is the guy behind the deaths of Pretti and Good. Stephen Miller wants to tear this country apart. Stephen needs to go before more moms are beaten out of the cars at school pick-ups, more warehouses fill up with humans, and more Americans die.

05.03.2026 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 232    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

lmao was it Bagga

06.03.2026 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

yeah no shit, we have essentially validated the iranian government’s whole worldview for the past 40 years in 3 days

05.03.2026 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 4863    πŸ” 1054    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 20
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WARNING: graphic description here of an alleged sexual assault.

This is what the DOJ scrubbed from the Epstein files. They just posted the 3 missing interview summaries after Bondi was subpoenaed.

Why did they scrub it in the first place? Because it mentions Trump and this...

06.03.2026 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 782    πŸ” 399    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 25
Face morph of Kristi Noem into Noam Chomsky, made in FaceFilm (not AI)

Face morph of Kristi Noem into Noam Chomsky, made in FaceFilm (not AI)

Kristi Noem Chomsky. Is this anything?

06.03.2026 01:05 β€” πŸ‘ 465    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 10

he's DYING to impose an emergency

06.03.2026 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Rule of Mayors no longer applies. Ayn Rand stands alone

06.03.2026 00:59 β€” πŸ‘ 110    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Look at my counterterrorism chief, dawg www.propublica.org/article/trum...

06.03.2026 00:40 β€” πŸ‘ 124    πŸ” 43    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

"Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

Quite the headline from People.com

people.com/trump-says-i...

06.03.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 637    πŸ” 251    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 104