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Front page of today’s Chicago Sun Times. Lead story has photo of CPB in military gear on a Chicago street clouded with tear gas. Headline: JUDGE: FEDS' USE OF FORCE 'SHOCKS THE CONSCIENCE' U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis says Justice Dept. arguments lack credibility - noting that Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino even admitted to a lie - in ruling that extends limits on feds tactics

“Shocks the conscience” is a legal term of art. In this case it’s a pretty good description of the typical reaction to these paramilitary goon squads. Shocking.

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility.

Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

The future being pushed by both AI boosters and educational censors is one where access to information is tightly controlled. Children will not be allowed to read certain books or learn certain narratives. “Research” will be performed only through one of a select few artificial intelligence tools owned by AI giants which are uniformly aligned behind the Trump administration and which have gone to the ends of the earth to prevent their black box machines from spitting out “woke” answers lest they catch the ire of the administration. School boards and library boards, forced to comply with increasingly restrictive laws, funding cuts, and the threat of being defunded entirely, leap at the chance to be considered forward looking by embracing AI tools, or apply for grants from government groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is increasingly giving out grants specifically to AI projects.

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Oh also - lawyers aren’t allowed to tell jurors this so i do:

“Jury nullification” is a fancy phrase that just means, “This jury decided not to convict and there’s nothing anyone can do about that.”

If we think a law is unjust or unjustly enforced, we can just not convict. We don’t need a reason.

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

K' from King of Fighters. He is doing a spinning kick in the air as flames whirl around him.

K' from The King of Fighters! #art #fanart #snk 🔥🕶️

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

excited for full trans Marxist sharia, what a time

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.

But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.

You can’t negotiate with people like that.

yeah that's right eat shit AGAIN cuomo you filthy sex pest fuck

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

i hope to see enterprising democrats announce their intent to retire schumer and gillibrand over the next two years.

Donate to Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover, organized by Lexi McMenamin More than half the team at Teen Vogue was laid off this week by our parent co… Lexi McMenamin needs your support for Help Laid-Off Teen Vogue Staffers Recover

thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Urbosa Expressions

I made this parody song about E3 using Sasaki Sayaka's Zzz for something many eons ago but it ended up not being used. I just sing it from time to time cause I thought it came out pretty okay with minimal editing??????

#Singing #Parody

A four frame comic about Captain Torture. The first frame shows the sign "BREAKING NEWS" and the drawing of a man, with the words "CAPTAIN TORTURES PASSES AWAY" near him. The second frame shows a journalist holding a mic, as she says "A controversial and divisive figure, Captain torture will be remembered for his key role in history." The News title is "Mourning day for Captain-". The third frame shows three posts on social media. The first one is by a man called Paul James @Paulitician. He writes: "I didn't always agree with Captain Torture but he sure was a man who believed in something." The second post by James Paul @Avegetable reads: "I pay my respects to Captain Torture and his family. His heart was in the right place- with our country." The third post is by SonicVomit @SonicBleh , and reads "HE TORTURED PEOPLE". The fourth frame shows an interview on TV. An angry man on the right is saying: "Let me tell you something, Jen. I think it's SICK to celebrate Captain Torture's death. These people should be LOCKED UP, and also tortured-". The news below says: "Every president on earth pays homage-".

Captain Torture

Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words 10 quotes from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture.

“Dick Cheney Has Died. The War Criminal in His Own Words”

10 quotes worth remembering, and that’ll be glossed over in MSM obits, from a former vice president who pushed for a murderous invasion of Iraq, lied about the WMD threat, and defended torture.

Emergency Combo!

If you were ever wondering what we're up against, this is a website book banners created to train people to get books banned in their own communities.

I found my kids' school in here, and the books this website suggests I get banned from their library.

www.takebacktheclassroom.com/school-detai...

Red Sonja 🗡️

Still working through my commission list. #traditionalart

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This.

I've turned down crypto investment, because that shit is disgusting. I know where that money comes from, and what was involved in taking it. So I said no. Decent people say no.

Refusing to say no to collabs and investment from morally reprehensible people and orgs makes you complicit.

Here are all your questions answered on why you should leave substack, and how to go about it. No more excuses. Just go.

Sota in Death's Throne, floor 2.
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Our federal government is attacking the states its GOP leaders do not like. Because of the politics they do not like.

Any other framing by the media is feckless, quisling dishonesty.