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Dave Earley

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Audience Editor @australia.theguardian.com. Previously digital editor Quest Newspapers, engagement editor Courier Mail, online news editor 7News Brisbane and more. Social media, journalism, analytics, audience engagement, etc. All the digital news things

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Exclusive: Meta created flirty chatbots of Taylor Swift, other celebrities without permission Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities – including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez – to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found.

Exclusive: Meta has appropriated the names and likenesses of celebrities — including Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway and Selena Gomez — to create dozens of flirty social-media chatbots without their permission, Reuters has found reut.rs/3JWb00R

29.08.2025 20:03 — 👍 2901    🔁 1350    💬 387    📌 1115

Someone earlier today said the only reason a guy like this Sephiroth posts is because he knows the house of cards is coming apart and I didn't pay it too much mind but now it's really looking like the case.

05.10.2025 03:17 — 👍 969    🔁 163    💬 28    📌 4
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Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

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For those lucky enough to not know this is a neo-Nazi meme normally found on TRS and the Daily Stormer being shared by the official DHS account.

05.10.2025 05:59 — 👍 2006    🔁 842    💬 45    📌 71
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The White House says crime has dropped in D.C. during Trump's deployment here. But the comparison they use is to last year, and the level of violent crime was already a lot lower this year before the federal government sent in troops.
www.reuters.com/world/us/did...

04.10.2025 20:07 — 👍 185    🔁 62    💬 8    📌 1
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Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls. He has demanded ICE turn over the names of all federal officers involved in each incident, and said he is ready to take ICE to court.

05.10.2025 01:36 — 👍 698    🔁 290    💬 13    📌 39
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Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news
*The corporate owner took down the story and edited it
*The journalists resigned

This feels like more and more of our media now.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

04.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 2510    🔁 862    💬 49    📌 35

Judge Immergut is not only a Trump nominee, but a longtime federal and local prosecutor who served on Ken Starr's team and deposed Monica Lewinsky, asking what @mjsdc.bsky.social described as "notoriously invasive questions."

And even she won't put up with this shit.
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05.10.2025 00:13 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

04.10.2025 14:30 — 👍 5387    🔁 3200    💬 237    📌 203
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One resident of the apartment building ICE raided told Reuters that agents broke down her door, then "told them to go back to their country and made a sexualized remark about Venezuelan women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son."

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

04.10.2025 15:40 — 👍 1092    🔁 379    💬 32    📌 12

Wow, they did all that and got *two* suspected gang members? Suspected? Wow. And two of them? Wow.

Plus a guy with a previous charge of marihuana possession? Wow.

Wow, that is impressive. Wow, when are we throwing these heroes a parade? Wow.

04.10.2025 16:08 — 👍 2827    🔁 813    💬 162    📌 39

Look man, sometimes you have to break some eggs and burn down your house and drive a bulldozer through your entire neighborhood to make an omelette.

04.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 559    🔁 128    💬 21    📌 4

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

04.10.2025 23:14 — 👍 14435    🔁 3369    💬 141    📌 69

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

05.10.2025 01:41 — 👍 7399    🔁 3088    💬 163    📌 130

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

04.10.2025 20:49 — 👍 17384    🔁 7343    💬 466    📌 304
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White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

In full public view, a top deputy to Stephen Miller chatted on Signal about plans to send the 82nd airborne division into Portland. Deployed in both world wars, Vietnam & Afghanistan, the 82nd is an elite unit that specialises in parachute assaults & forcible entry operations

05.10.2025 04:42 — 👍 67    🔁 44    💬 6    📌 1
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.

05.10.2025 04:05 — 👍 21    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.

05.10.2025 04:05 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

EXCLUSIVE: In correspondence seen by the Guardian, Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her removal from the Gaza aid flotilla, including insufficient food and water.

05.10.2025 04:05 — 👍 127    🔁 86    💬 9    📌 11
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Trump revives family separations amid drive to deport millions: ‘A tactic to punish’ Family separations were the hallmark of the first Trump administration’s border policy. Now advocates allege migrant families are being split up again as a retaliatory measure

Here's that Guardian investigation that found officials have forcibly separated kids from their parents, & misclassified the kids as "unaccompanied minors", in an apparent effort to retaliate against families challenging deportation or insisting on their right to seek asylum

05.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Since the Trump administration came into office, it has engaged in efforts to remove immigrant children from the US. The administration has attempted to roll back legal representation for minors, cutting back a federally funded program that provided legal aid for unaccompanied children.
In late August, the administration prepared to hastily deport dozens of Guatemalan children.
Many of the children had pending immigration cases and had not elected to leave the US, according to their lawyers.
Dozens of children were roused from their beds at shelters and taken to an airport in the early morning hours and ushered onto flights
- and were only released after a judge temporarily blocked the deportations.

Since the Trump administration came into office, it has engaged in efforts to remove immigrant children from the US. The administration has attempted to roll back legal representation for minors, cutting back a federally funded program that provided legal aid for unaccompanied children. In late August, the administration prepared to hastily deport dozens of Guatemalan children. Many of the children had pending immigration cases and had not elected to leave the US, according to their lawyers. Dozens of children were roused from their beds at shelters and taken to an airport in the early morning hours and ushered onto flights - and were only released after a judge temporarily blocked the deportations.

Advocates have also raised alarm that children are increasingly being used as pawns in an effort to locate and deport their family members. Earlier this year, the Guardian reported that DHS was beginning to seek out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide in an attempt to deport them or pursue criminal cases against them or their adult sponsors.
A recent Guardian investigation found that immigrant families are being threatened with separation from their children in order to coerce immigrants and asylum seekers to leave the US. In several cases, officials have forcibly separated immigrant children from their parents, and misclassified the children as "unaccompanied minors", in an apparent effort to retaliate against families who have challenged deportation orders or insisted on their right to seek asylum.

Advocates have also raised alarm that children are increasingly being used as pawns in an effort to locate and deport their family members. Earlier this year, the Guardian reported that DHS was beginning to seek out unaccompanied immigrant children in operations nationwide in an attempt to deport them or pursue criminal cases against them or their adult sponsors. A recent Guardian investigation found that immigrant families are being threatened with separation from their children in order to coerce immigrants and asylum seekers to leave the US. In several cases, officials have forcibly separated immigrant children from their parents, and misclassified the children as "unaccompanied minors", in an apparent effort to retaliate against families who have challenged deportation orders or insisted on their right to seek asylum.

PRoTectinG THe chIlDrEn www.theguardian.com/...

Including threatening families with separation from their children in order to coerce immigrants and asylum seekers to leave the US

05.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump administration to offer unaccompanied minors $2,500 to self-deport, memo reveals Voluntary departure has always been an option, but ‘astonishing’ decision to incentivize children to leave is new

"We are concerned by messaging from DHS that suggests [kids] who were trafficked against their will into the US by cartels will be part of an incentive program aimed at getting children to waive their legal rights under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act"

05.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
Trump administration to offer unaccompanied minors $2,500 to self-deport, memo reveals

Voluntary departure has always been an option, but ‘astonishing’ decision to incentivize children to leave is new

Trump administration to offer unaccompanied minors $2,500 to self-deport, memo reveals Voluntary departure has always been an option, but ‘astonishing’ decision to incentivize children to leave is new

The Trump administration wants to offer immigrant children $2,500 to self-deport, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian.
The memo, sent by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to legal providers representing unaccompanied children and reviewed by the Guardian, says that immigration officials have identified unaccompanied immigrant children 14 years of age and older in government custody who have expressed interest in voluntarily departing the US.
The government "will provide a one-time resettlement support stipend of $2,500" to these children in exchange for their voluntary departure, the memo states. It notes that unaccompanied minors from Mexico will not be eligible.
DHS confirmed the details of the memo and its plans to offer children money in a statement to the Guardian on Friday.

The Trump administration wants to offer immigrant children $2,500 to self-deport, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian. The memo, sent by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to legal providers representing unaccompanied children and reviewed by the Guardian, says that immigration officials have identified unaccompanied immigrant children 14 years of age and older in government custody who have expressed interest in voluntarily departing the US. The government "will provide a one-time resettlement support stipend of $2,500" to these children in exchange for their voluntary departure, the memo states. It notes that unaccompanied minors from Mexico will not be eligible. DHS confirmed the details of the memo and its plans to offer children money in a statement to the Guardian on Friday.

Unaccompanied minors as young as 14 will be offered $2,500 to self-deport, a Trump admin memo obtained by the Guardian reveals. The message "seems to fly in the face of established laws and protocols that Congress passed to protect children from cyclical trafficking risks"
www.theguardian.com/...

05.10.2025 03:52 — 👍 23    🔁 15    💬 5    📌 1
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

“Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.”

Once again, they are truly psychotic.

04.10.2025 22:08 — 👍 227    🔁 119    💬 3    📌 6
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Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

04.10.2025 18:21 — 👍 6335    🔁 3872    💬 215    📌 530

once again, it's a race between whether centrist elites can capitulate faster than these fucking imbeciles can step on their own dicks

04.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 480    🔁 94    💬 12    📌 2

like how are things this bonkers lol

04.10.2025 03:19 — 👍 505    🔁 57    💬 14    📌 2
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

Naked children torn from their mothers and tossed into vans.

U.S. citizens detained for hours in zip ties.

Doors kicked in and belongings stolen or destroyed.

This is the reality of Trump’s deportation agenda.

It was always about cruelty.

03.10.2025 16:34 — 👍 5681    🔁 2535    💬 278    📌 157

It is fundamental to reactionary psychology to reject responsibility for anything negative. It's always someone else forced them, someone else's fault.

Consequently, pretty much every fascist has a story about how the left-- the professors, the queers, the academics, the kids --"radicalized" them.

03.10.2025 20:14 — 👍 539    🔁 134    💬 8    📌 2

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