Dr. Jim Ellsworth

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr) Attached: 1 image Reuters' Jeff Horwitz analyzes leaked memos that reveal that: 10% of Meta revenue comes from scam ads, and; Meta knows it, and; decided not to stop about it, because; the fines for facilitating life-destroying fraud are less than the revenue from helping destroy users' lives: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/ - If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/08/faecebook/#too-big-to-care 1/

#MetaZucks because it's #UnethicalByDesign.

#UnfriendFacebook: #MakeZuckerbergPoorAgain

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115514829511838947

You know this is going to be a tragic story just from the headline--but it becomes even MORE so as you read these eyewitness accounts of the evidence of systematic torture at the hands of The Most Moral Army in the World™ visible on the Palestinian corpses being returned. #IsraelAtWarCrimes […]

“I knew Trump was going to take a wrecking ball to the country…I didn’t know there was going to be an actual wrecking ball.” - Former President Biden in Omaha https://omaha.com/news/local/government-politics/article_d330019e-9524-4bb8-96cd-d759af9921c3.html

Today, I am taking students to Monticello, the Thomas Jefferson Plantation near Charlottesville, VA.

Pretty sure he had some thoughts on what to do in situations like this one.

Meanwhile, we will take the Slavery at Monticello tour, to consider the “paradox of liberty” and what truth-telling […]

A federal judge issues a permanent injunction barring the president from deploying National Guard troops from any state to Oregon, finding Donald Trump exceeded his authority. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ord.189270/gov.uscourts.ord.189270.146.0.pdf

Front page of the The New Mexican featuring a large photo of two women embracing. One is carrying an ICE out of Home Depot sign. The other is wearing one on her back. There is another protester in the frame also wearing a sign on his back. The headline of the story reads “ICE quietly seizing people in Santa Fe.”

I could not be prouder of Indivisible Santa Fe. Front page coverage of our ICE OUT OF HOME DEPOT action, amidst news about how ICE is “quietly” disappearing people from #SantaFe #NewMexico.

Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass.

The havoc wreaked by #WhiskeyPete....

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/hegseth-firing-military-leaders.html

DHS ‘erroneously’ told watchdog group it had no Noem text messages The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “erroneously” told a watchdog group that it no longer retains text messages required by law, saying the “misunderstanding” stemmed …

They're basically lying to run the clock out until America is a dictatorship, and consequences for violating the law only apply to ENEMIES of der #Trumpenfuhrer.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5593310-homeland-security-text-message-retention-lawsuit/

It's blowing my mind anew that we have a president who is doing anything he possibly can to avoid having to spend money—money that the country has earmarked for this purpose, and is required by law to spend—to ensure that Americans have food to eat. And a majority of Congress is on board with this.

Trump 1.0 killed millions globally--including over a million Americans--because he mismanaged #COVID and left his own voters #DyingToOwnTheLibs. Now, Trump 2.0 is set to kill millions more, smothered in #DoGEshit […]

America's "civilized" ally, home of The Most Moral Army in the World™ and allegedly founded on Abrahamic faith, is more enraged that a senior officer leaked a video (known in some circles as "whistleblowing") than by the fact that video shows its soldiers RAPING A DETAINEE FOR SPORT […]

‘I’ll go back’, say African migrants deported in campaign by Mauritania Mass crackdown on migrants follows deal signed with the EU to stem migration from source countries in Africa.

Once the "shining city on the hill," admired around the world by even those who hated our foreign policy, THIS is what we are now modeling for other nations.

#Astaghfirullah.

https://aje.io/k75a5r

No justice. No humanity. Just the weight of the system successfully bullying another hardworking man trying to make a better life for himself and his family into not fighting for the right to remain in what we marketed as the "land of opportunity," but have […]

[Original post on infosec.exchange]

He’s saying taxpayers will step in and backstop their companies when the AI bubble bursts — as we have done so many times before.

Privatized upside, socialized downside. The oligarchs play us for suckers.

Federal judge says border patrol chief admitted he lied, in ruling limiting federal agents’ use of force in Chicago | CNN A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction restricting the use of force by federal agents in Chicago, finding the Trump administration’s version of recent events involving agents was not credible.

Will the courts stop the #ICEtapo...? #TurdReich

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/us/gregory-bovino-deposition-chicago-immigration

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115504397478627739

#MetaZucks because it's #UnethicalByDesign.

#UnfriendFacebook and #MakeZuckerbergPoorAgain

#FolkHero

https://journa.host/@w7voa/115504534972386907

Now the challenge of getting DOJ/DHS to lay out the costs of first doing a SWAT style arrest, getting no-billed, then an expensive trial to acquit the sandwich guy.

Plus the 52 lunches for grand jurors (tho the courthouse paid for that, while people work for free in shutdown).

Police report describes Republican Nancy Mace berating airport police and TSA agents South Carolina firebrand running for governor allegedly abused agents working without pay during shutdown

ODE TO THE CHARLESTON AIRPORT POLICE

Nancy Mace is a big nutcase;
A big nutcase is Nancy,
So much, it seems, for 'Back the Blue!'
She thinks she's something fancy. 😅

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/nancy-mace-police-report-south-carolina-airport

Rude Law Dog (@esghound.com) Dr Oz talking about obesity, diabetes and dementia while Trump is slumped over like a man minutes from death is supremely funny content

President #DementiaDonOld has ordered #SecretaryBrainworm to focus on the ailments AFFLICTING HIM, PERSONALLY, it would appear.... 😅

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y24gcrfugd3wnhzvl7or5ft5/post/3m4y5sgvlwk2q

"This is the room your president WOULD be in, if he weren't on another golf vacation at your expense at a property he owns & profits from!" #MarieDontoinette #WhatWouldRobespierreDo

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5591902-trump-oval-office-gold-signage/

"By August, [#ApartheidClyde] was ranked the most unpopular influential figure among Americans, with a favourable rating of 33 percent and an unfavourable rating of 61 percent — trailing only US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has been accused of war […]

What GreyNoise Learned from Deploying MCP Honeypots GreyNoise deployed MCP honeypots to see what happens when AI middleware meets the open internet — revealing how attackers interact with this new layer of AI infrastructure.

We deployed MCP honeypots to understand how threat actors engage with AI middleware exposed to the internet. What we observed was unexpected. Full analysis: https://www.greynoise.io/blog/deploying-mcp-honeypots

#GreyNoise #AI #AISecurity #MCP #MCPSecurity #Cybersecurity #ThreatIntel

This is news to me, a Jew who doesn't feel like I have lost anything because of Zohran's victory.

My goodness. Imagine showing everyone how much your brain is just absolutely pickled in fear and bigotry.

"Converting debts into income streams for third parties is the true basis of the finance industry. It's the means by which socially useless intermediaries extract ever-mounting rents from the productive economy" -- @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/05/gotta-be-a-pony-under-there/#jack-ma

RE: https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/115498148339980813

THIS. But as a guy who's spent his life IN THE PROFESSION of strategizing the fight for democracy, I'd add a few nuances:

(1) Conservatives (like me!) are not the enemy FOR BEING CONSERVATIVE: they're the enemy IF they believe […]

Concur. There are SOME signs that Western evangelicals are trying to redeem evangelical Christianity from the stains of #Talibangelicalism and the Cult of the #Donjjal -- but if they fail, it is essential that those still FOLLOWING CHRIST JESUS elsewhere be able to chart their own course […]

Screenshot of social media exchange: Repost by r/clevercomebacks (@CrunchM) 8h ago: *chef's kiss* for the buzzer Original post from Wings & Strings) (@TomColetti): *Slaps buzzer* “What is the Nuremberg Defense” Reposting Newsweek (@Newsweek) - 2h: ICE agents complain about Nazi comparisons, say they're only enforcing the laws

Remember, it is not merely ACCEPTABLE to refuse to obey an unlawful order; you won't be able to use it to dodge personal accountability if you DON'T.

Kinda seems like socialism mobilized BETTER, Punisher. 😅

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/election-day-2025/card/sliwa-warns-mamdani-on-socialism-we-are-mobilizing--ucFkDQ776UQWm4oPEmPB

Democracy Matters :verified: (@DemocracyMattersALot@mstdn.social) Attached: 1 image Buh bye! #AndrewCuomo #Florida #USPol

#NoMoCuomo (Don't let the door hit ya on yer way out, dude)

https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/115494790021654689