Mayday

ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.

ICE "has been rapidly building out its surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features and to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts and physical movements," per spending disclosures.

Given the almost universal malaise of liberal democracies, it amazes me that people still think that the way out is institutional reform. Mainstream parties have failed in all systems and far-right parties have succeeded in all systems. More importantly, people are dissatisfied in all systems.

Maybe a good day to unfollow Hard Drive if you had still been following them. It's no wonder they need AI to make jokes for them these days.

German chancellor Merz has now used this exact same phrase

are they trying to argue in favor of the truck running over that baby?

maybe it's time to move your nonprofit off of salesforce and to a crm that isn't complicit in advancing fascism

This is probably wrong of me but I genuinely don’t think I’d know when those No Kings protests are if not for Republican Senators getting on tv and being like “Skeletor will be there, everyone who is there will get an abortion, the ceremony will raise the dread visions of Nyarlathotep”

“rich people hate me” is maybe the strongest endorsement

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.

LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press The police department filed an emergency order ahead of this Saturday's No Kings protest.

“LAPD wants judge to lift an order restricting use of force against the press” 😭😭😭

“Ahead of this Saturday’s No Kings protests, the Los Angeles Police Department has filed an emergency motion asking a judge to lift an injunction that restricts their use of force against the press.”

Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

While you talk about tomorrow, today your troopers are clearing protests to make way for the agents you so vocally oppose. @govpritzker.illinois.gov?

Simply put the situation in America is incompatible with remaining at the forefront of global culture of any kind.

And one of our main exports, a huge chunk of American GDP, is our culture.

trying to watch debate highlights and it's just like

MODERATOR: Do you love israel: yes or yes.
CUOMO: zionism is a real "abbondanza" to me!
SLIWA: i was shot for saying i loved it. in 1977!
MAMDANI: can you ask a question about new york
MODERATOR: Okay. Would you go to the israeli day PARADE then

I love that Abughazaleh had the (ludicrous) shape of her gerrymandered district made into a mic handle

Fresh off another round of masking discourse.

Big time journalists on here being like “errrhm it’s just not possible” meanwhile it’s a total norm in many circles still, just not yours lmao

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

anything they can do to make the people who they’ve robbed of dignity and humanity look barbaric

israel killed tens of thousands of people and deliberately starved hundreds of thousands more and is still not allowing sufficient aid into gaza and israelis are mad that gazans caught an endangered fish to eat

israel

i truly did not need to know kristi noem and corey lewandowski are fucking

They did this shit during the 2020 protests, literally mutilating ppl, with weapons meant to be aimed at the ground, now helping ICE, and a segment of Dems are forever scared shitless of calling them out. It’s pathetic.

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Baked Alaska on YouTube 292 subscribers [image of gionet in front of an American flag and pretending to point an invisible gun]

YouTube has unbanned Anthime Gionet aka Baked Alaska, a neo-Nazi livestreamer who was involved in the deadly Unite the Right hate rally, filmed himself storming the DC Capitol on J6, and vandalized a Hanukkah display at the AZ Capitol — the last two which he faced charges over.

archive.ph/EmYfW

Hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov, you need to do something about these ISP goons attacking protesters like @katmabu.bsky.social.

I've been a big booster of Pritzker when I think he's been right on stuff (and I'll still say when I think he's in the right), but he needs to take action here. People should be able to protest ICE without getting manhandled or pushed into a "free speech zone."

we are not having a lot of luck with institutional pushback - everyone who does is fired and replaced

we are definitely not having any luck with “norms”

what we are having luck with is ordinary people looking at the incompetent bullshit put in front of them and going “absolutely not”

"Portrait of a smiling child with short brown hair wearing a red hoodie. Below, a headline from The Washington Post reads: ‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die."

This is a utterly horrifying story. A medical student in Germany that was part of 764 manipulated and coerced a 13 year old trans boy into taking his own life live on instagram and it took years to bring an arrest.

archive.ph/079R6