Nick Milburn

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borde...

The e/acc folks spent years working to carve out SEZs free from state control, only to find out many states would happily hand over all the keys; heck, they'll pay a huge sum to give up democracy, & on the back, they'll invest in the co's virtualizing & containerizing us into consumable resources

A map showing the states of the northeast north America bioregion

No context map ✌️

ICE plans to boost its surveillance on social media using contractors in Vermont - VTDigger U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to hire a dozen contracted workers who would track down leads for potential deportations, among other efforts, at an office in Williston.

Was just reading about this 🤨

ICE plans to boost its surveillance on social media using contractors in Vermont - VTDigger U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants to hire a dozen contracted workers who would track down leads for potential deportations, among other efforts, at an office in Williston.

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#vermont

Trump Administration Appears to Claw Back $88 Million Grant for Local Tribal Energy Resilience Project

"... Tribal Nations pay 56% higher electricity prices than the U.S. average and experience 6.5 times more outages... " 😔

Thanks, WCC!! Lemme know if you have a chance to dig through and anything jumps out at you... ideas... reflections... anything really. Hope your day is going well and your friend is somewhere on the way home? ✌️

Erefugia The Mutual Aid Cooperative & Social Network

Setting aside that I've put zero conscious effort into "styling," and am still wrapping up the draft business plan (goal is end of tonight) which will inform many details, I'm excited to start dreaming together about "the vision," if anyone wants to join in on an adventure into What is Possible ✌️🙏❤️

Have a town planning meeting this evening, so close to be ready to share, will send out a link soon I promise ❤️

That's what I'm building!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah 🫤 Figuring out how "we" (whoever "we" ends up being) want to handle mod stuff like that is the real trick. Well, that & financials, at scale. Have a couple ideas I'm putting into the draft vision of things I wish bsky handled better that I've pondered. Looking forward, hope you have a good day ✌️

Making good progress in between beautiful fall family weekend activities aiming on sharing something out around 2AM EST tonight for initial feedback ✌️

What's up with the rude label on that post from bassofpj? Maybe I'm just numb to Internet nonsense but it doesn't seem deserving a "rude" label?

Some deliciously red raspberry leaves in early autumn

Mowed a path through chest-high raspberry bushes in shorts and t and looks like I got in a fight with a bobcat 😂

If you listen you'll hear over and over from thousands of activists that white people need to correct other white people about racism, men need to correct other men about misogyny, and people with privilege need to use it to speak out against fascists. Do your part 🫵

Come on, anonymous trolling muckraker with an AI-generated avatar hiding behind a pseudonym. You can't even say what you want to say behind all those shields? Mr K doesn't know me from a hole in the wall & I'm not asking him or wanting anything from him. I was talking to the person spitting idiocy

Eminem... ? Sorry, missing what you're meaning, if you're meaning something and not just dropping it for its own sake

& I'm in awe, inspired, grateful, especially when I feel myself still flinch when he (& others) speak truth. We don't deserve it. Your reaction highlights that what he says is Medicine and not a placebo. If it weren't truth, you wouldn't flinch.

Were I a university, I'd give an honorary doctorate 🙏

For a year I’ve listened & I’ve never heard him speak from hate. What I’ve heard is unwavering truth about racism, misogyny, & fascism, truth that can feel blazing to those of us, & those parts of us, it calls out & forward. But if you listen, it's capital M-Medicine, radical therapy for conscience,

"Everything that has been said about Israel is true of the United States." Saul Williams 10/4/2025

Saul Williams holding up the mirror.

When you demonize and mistreat the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized, I'm not interested in hearing about your religious beliefs.

You've already shown me what they are by how you're demonizing and mistreating the immigrant, the poor, the starving, and the marginalized.

I’m going to leave this here

The Vice President of the United States used his social media page to tell Joy Reid, a private citizen with no connection to the government, that she should express "gratitude" for how this country has treated her.

Black women remain the most consistent targets in all of this.

The road home

On the road home, perpetually

What we're seeing in the "don't sign up for protests" discourse is what Paulo Freire described as the convert's failure to trust the knowledge of the oppressed. As the convert tries to stand in solidarity with the oppressed, they refuse to let go of a world where they were the authority by default.

Sorry, Paulo, not Paula !

on how we relate to it and why it moves us, & making the space & time to humbly listen to truths shared by many, if you haven't read Paula Freire's 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed,' can I recommend picking it up from your library or online, & reading it slowly and honestly?🙏

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The psychological frame that we are a protagonist/hero facing an antagonist is a powerful driver but even with the best intentions it often leads us to accidentally, sideways perpetuate systemic injustices & ill power dynamics. Alongside hip-hop, not only the art & artists themselves, but reflecting

Mr. Kweli's reflection on white people inventing self-oppression is a critical insight, not only something those sub/un/consciously embracing their role of oppressors need to reflect on, but also as much, maybe more, for those of us who seek to shed that skin & contribute to the causes of justice.

Thank you for sharing this, that was a very worthwhile read with solid and timely insight 🙏

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

From a 1941 issue of Harper's
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