David August

@parisinla because meta is unstable and unreliable, it would not let me comment on your comment from 2 days ago about "Didn’t they encrypt messages?"

Only on facebook are all messages encrypted (unknown how effective this is). On instagram they won't be encrypted unless you got through a […]

It is Judge Mark L. Wolf, who retired in protest, explaining why: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/federal-judge-resignation-trump/684845/?gift=Kjaw0NITl7f2TdiJgnhQhTU81T1TbxegoH4x33GvLqc

Notable piece I did not know before, "When I became a senior judge in 2013, my successor was […]

Hitler and his entourage strutting in front of the Eiffel Tower

Might be a companion to this pic.

#USpol #ice #bean #Chicago

RE: https://www.threads.com/@andrefor40th/post/DQ4woaHDj4o

I’m in Chicago, first snowfall. Horrifyingly beautiful.

Beautiful because nature can be wonderful.

Horrifying because humans are too often not.

Nearby, there are federal prisoners in Broadview probably freezing to death tonight.

We each have our challenges, all are real.

May God’s mercy […]

Using chemical weapons on babies.

@icegov the American people dropped our military on two countries for twenty years and hunted down the key mastermind of 9-11 for years until they found him, killed him and buried him at sea.

The American People are more numerous than you and have more time […]

Content warning for the end of this video: ice pepper sprays a baby.

@senduckworth @senatordurbin @janschakowsky @govpritzker you rep me. Stop ice from using chemical weapons on babies. Stop ice from using chemical weapons. Stop ice.

#USpol #ice #WarCrime […]

ABC 7 Chicago (@abc7chicago) on Threads Someone fired shots at CBP agents as they conducted an immigration enforcement operation on Chicago's Southwest Side on Saturday, DHS said.

DHS, which has lied in recent months consistently when speaking about threats it claims to face and violence it inflicts, claims to have been shot at.

There, fixed it.

#USpol

RE: https://www.threads.com/@abc7chicago/post/DQzxcpmkkzL

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…"

If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 […]

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’” […]

Content warning for the end of this video: ice pepper sprays a baby.

@senduckworth @senatordurbin @janschakowsky @govpritzker you rep me. Stop ice from using chemical weapons on babies. Stop ice from using chemical weapons. Stop ice.

#USpol #ice #WarCrime […]

ABC 7 Chicago (@abc7chicago) on Threads Someone fired shots at CBP agents as they conducted an immigration enforcement operation on Chicago's Southwest Side on Saturday, DHS said.

DHS, which has lied in recent months consistently when speaking about threats it claims to face and violence it inflicts, claims to have been shot at.

There, fixed it.

#USpol

RE: https://www.threads.com/@abc7chicago/post/DQzxcpmkkzL

"[Target] has a new directive for store employees: If a shopper comes within 10 feet of you…smile, make eye contact and greet or wave. If…within four feet — ask whether they need help or how their day is going…"

If shopper comes within 1 foot, store employees must kiss them, gently. If within 2 […]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQsRiPiko8E/

Collective Punishment Backfires (I wrote this):

"The American People are blowing whistles at armed and armored forces deployed on their streets, peacefully alerting their neighbors that danger is close. The American People are photographing and videoing the un-uniformed, unidentified, masked […]

No violence but state violence.

Here @icegov attacks a person while they’re having a seizure and also brutalizes the child with that person.

@senduckworth @senatordurbin @janschakowsky you rep me. You have your people’s support to stop ice violence and law breaking. Also: hold the line and […]

“Arguing that ‘no country should be above international law,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson urged the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday to hold President Donald Trump’s administration accountable for what he called a ‘worsening human rights crisis in the United States.’” […]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQsRiPiko8E/

Collective Punishment Backfires (I wrote this):

"The American People are blowing whistles at armed and armored forces deployed on their streets, peacefully alerting their neighbors that danger is close. The American People are photographing and videoing the un-uniformed, unidentified, masked […]

No violence but state violence.

Here @icegov attacks a person while they’re having a seizure and also brutalizes the child with that person.

@senduckworth @senatordurbin @janschakowsky you rep me. You have your people’s support to stop ice violence and law breaking. Also: hold the line and […]

Just wrote the rough draft of my next article, it will be called, “Collective Punishment Backfires,” and my subscribers will be the first to read it.

You can subscribe for free and get it first too.

Go to https://stuff.davidaugust.com

#article #ice #government #HumanNature #us #law #war […]

Screenshot of a post by Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus Nov 8, 2021 · 10:49 PM UTC

Seems worth posting this again:

#tech #ethics #DataEthics

“A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington was found not guilty of assault on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.”

🥪🎉 […]

So if we walk outside of this room and enter Midtown Manhattan, we are under constant surveillance. It’s not all government surveillance, but there’s a relaxation that you can feel where you’re like: OK, but all of this surveillance is distributed across so many different public and private entities, and unless I am literally a terrorist, the odds that people are going to be constantly watching and scrutinizing me are very low. But then the fear becomes: Well, if we have this incredible way to make it all more and more and more efficient, then maybe privacy does start to disappear. I don’t know. What do you make of that? Sankar: There are two thoughts there. One is: Well, are you saying that you feel safer because the institutions that are supposed to protect you are structurally incompetent? And that’s the part where I feel like — Douthat: The answer might be: Yes, sometimes — right?

CFO Palantir talking about how they're working to make the various data streams of surveillance efficiently useful and remove the needle-in-a-haystack anonymity we have previously enjoyed. Awesome […]

[Original post on threads.com]

Brought to you by @secduffy and the @gop government shutdown, another plane crash. This one is in Kentucky.

https://www.youtube.com/live/e8W1d49f86Y

#USpol

"Donald cares more about the ballroom and increasing his wealth than he cares about starving children in America."

https://www.marytrump.org/p/le-me-eat-cake

via @mary_l_trump

#USpol

"SNAP benefits reduced the depth and severity of poverty experienced by recipient households, especially among children, who experience higher poverty rates than the population at large."

But the gop would rather have kids in poverty […]

Just wrote the rough draft of my next article, it will be called, “Collective Punishment Backfires,” and my subscribers will be the first to read it.

You can subscribe for free and get it first too.

Go to https://stuff.davidaugust.com

#article #ice #government #HumanNature #us #law #war […]

Screenshot of a post by Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus Nov 8, 2021 · 10:49 PM UTC

Seems worth posting this again:

#tech #ethics #DataEthics

“A former Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington was found not guilty of assault on Thursday in the latest legal rebuke of the federal intervention.”

🥪🎉 […]

So if we walk outside of this room and enter Midtown Manhattan, we are under constant surveillance. It’s not all government surveillance, but there’s a relaxation that you can feel where you’re like: OK, but all of this surveillance is distributed across so many different public and private entities, and unless I am literally a terrorist, the odds that people are going to be constantly watching and scrutinizing me are very low. But then the fear becomes: Well, if we have this incredible way to make it all more and more and more efficient, then maybe privacy does start to disappear. I don’t know. What do you make of that? Sankar: There are two thoughts there. One is: Well, are you saying that you feel safer because the institutions that are supposed to protect you are structurally incompetent? And that’s the part where I feel like — Douthat: The answer might be: Yes, sometimes — right?

CFO Palantir talking about how they're working to make the various data streams of surveillance efficiently useful and remove the needle-in-a-haystack anonymity we have previously enjoyed. Awesome […]

[Original post on threads.com]