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Strongly recommend supporting @404media.co, especially if you have some money burning a hole in your pocket after cancelling legacy media subscriptions

there is nobody i have more contempt for than "they wouldn't do that" anti-Roe "centrists," and of course, they all still have jobs

“The records show that the police retroactively created a separate document about the Flock search a week after our article was published, in which they justify the search by saying they were concerned for her safety.”

If you read the story, you’ll see an unfortunately familiar pattern. Someone in an abusive relationship, who already has a child, doesn’t want to have another one, and is then assaulted by her partner with a gun, who also looks to sic the police on her for breaking the law by having an abortion.

every time I read a new 404 media headline I have to sit in silence for a few minutes

cn: domestic violence
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your partner can beat and torture you leading to you fleeing them
then they can just call the police and get them to track you down and investigate you for a "crime"

“Even if Flock took a stance on permitted use-cases, a motivated user could simply lie about why they're performing a search." - Even Flock employees admit "guardrails" on how mass surveillance gets used don't protect anyone

As more and more states & municipalities turn against #Flock, its habit of misleading lawmakers & the public is intensifying.
In truth, Flock knows it is increasingly at risk of not generating the massive returns its venture capital investors are seeking.

Let's keep it going! #GetTheFlockOuttaHere

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation. New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and ...

The EFF obtained these docs and shared them with us. Their writeup is here:

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

and you'll NEVER GUESS what happened next bsky.app/profile/jaso...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

End of an era

IS THE WHOLE DAMN BLUESKY TEAM GOING TO SHOW UP IN MY REPLIES TODAY?

There are few things that make me imagine doing violence to strangers like seeing something like this.

For your laptop, you can use VeraCrypt to encrypt your hard drive and create a decoy operating system which you can boot into based only on which password you use, so CBP won't even be able to tell there's anything else on the computer.

veracrypt.io/en/Hidden%20...

Eric Brakey @Eric8rekey I was detained by Border Patrol and Customs for 90 minutes coming back from a @RoyalCa ribbean cruise today in Florida. After they rifled through all my belongings, read my personal joumal, and confiscated rny phone and computer, I had to explain to them that the aFreeStateNH is a non-violent, peaceful libertarian movernent that builds community, culture and political change. We were invited to New Hampshire in the early 2000s bythe Govemor of the state. We reject violence as a path to creating change. In detail, I had to explain the nature of the Defend the Guard rnovernent and assure them that I was not part of a violent extremist group seeking to raise a militia for insurrection against the government. At one point during my detention, I asked for clarification on what rights I had here as a US. citizen and was told that they did not næd a warrant for anything in my possession, including all my elæ•tronic devices. They eventually let me gu Truth be told, I am shaken up and in shock right now. Rate "oposed CMnmu nity 11:59 AM 5, Views

Reminder: Never travel out of the country with your main cell phone (or without backing it up and then doing a factory reset) or laptop.

CBP agents are effectively Redcoats and they WILL delight in reminding you that they owe you no rights.

pigs deserve to be treated with respect but they are not *nice* animals

Goddamn, this sounds bad when you write it all out. I didn’t even get to the part where the pedophile president is running pogroms of ethnic terror in our country’s most important urban corridors. Nor the opening attempts at instituting martial law.

The United States president, who is a pedophile, is currently leading a government shutdown because he is semi-illiterate and professionally destitute in the basic functions of civil government and his lackeys are refusing to remediate this because it would reveal that said president is a pedophile.

You have an attorney general plainly ignoring oversight questions that would quickly reveal whether the president is a serial rapist pedophile and then you have the leader of the house majority who refuses to fund the government because it would reveal the president is a serial rapist pedophile.

It is unbelievably funny how load bearing American democratic norms turned out to be

I would much rather meet a black bear, I think.

The joke is that a black bear sees a hiker with a pack full of granola and trail mix and thinks “How do I get my food off that human?” and a cougar thinks “How do I get that pack off my food?”

I’d submit that a hog thinks “Food! WITH TOPPINGS!”

El abismo entre palestinos e israelíes se acentúa tras dos años de guerra en Gaza El conflicto más mortífero de la historia reciente de Oriente Medio deja una devastación humanitaria sin precedentes.

I spoke with El Tiempo on the 2 year anniversary of the war

www.eltiempo.com/mundo/medio-...

Had an excellent opportunity to discuss the "Trump plan" and its fundamental flaws, its intentions, and the nature of US+Israel trying to impose "nonpolitical" solutions onto the political question of Palestine with some folks and it'll be out later this week I believe

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

NEW: David Adler—a Jewish American on the Gaza aid Flotilla—details Israeli detention.

At one point, he says, he was forced to his knees for a photo op with the Israeli flag, as Ben Gvir yelled in his face, calling him a terrorist.

Says US "hung up" on families of Americans, veterans seeking help.

All these people sharing that Corey Walker guy's tweet on here should remember that he's genuinely one of the most exceptionally dimwitted people on Twitter today

Statement on the Two Year Anniversary of October 7 and Ongoing Genocide Rep. Ruwa Romman, Democratic State Representative and candidate for Governor of Georgia issued the following statement on the anniversary of October 7 and ongoing Genocide For two years, we have witnessed atrocities beyond human comprehension. Two years of horrific violence, mass displacement, and incalculable loss. Two years of having to mourn the deaths of men, women, children, and entire families. Two years of families desperate to be reunited with those taken hostage. We remain angry, heartbroken, and once again call on our leaders to bring an end to this destruction that’s killed at least 67,000 Palestinians and more than 1,100 Israelis. Sadly, our leaders continue to fail us. While they trumpet proposals of alleged peace little has changed. Every day this continues, Israel, with our backing and tax dollars, perpetuates more death, destruction, and horror in Gaza. Children are starving. Hostages remain in captivity. Every day that passes isn’t just a policy failure — it furthers one of humanity’s darkest periods in recent memory. Today, we reiterate our calls to stop sending bombs in violation of our laws. We reaffirm the need for leaders to reach a just solution and a lasting peace agreement for all those living in the region. We echo the demands for the release of Israeli and Palestinian hostages. May the children born today grow up without genocide, apartheid, and oppressive cycles that perpetuate more violence. May we all have the courage to end decades of violence and bloodshed that’s claimed so many lives. Together, we can bring an end to this nightmare. ###

Statement on the Two Year Anniversary of October 7 and Ongoing Genocide

Grieving for all the lives taken. I dont know what we look like as a society when this is over

A second flotilla in less than a week is headed towards Gaza tonight and it has a significant amount of Turkish citizens on it