Dennis Özmen

Pervert Politics: Trumpism’s Body Obsessions How Republicans went from the party of prudes to the party of perversion.

"Hegseth’s vision of the American military is preoccupied with an ideal of the male form—one that’s a kind of modern mishmash of Spartan imagery and homoerotic fascist machismo. But that is only one facet of the Trumpian right’s fixation on the body." www.liberalcurrents.com/pervert-poli...

Laredo leaders approve $4.1M to expand police camera system with license plate readers By Jose De La Rosa, Staff Writer for LMT online Feb 1, 2026 And there's a photo of a disgusting Flock camera and it's hateful little solar panel of a hat

San Bernardino police secure $1M in federal funding for 100 new surveillance cameras across city By Rob McMillan for KABC 7 Wednesday, January 28, 2026 9:38PM PT SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KABC) -- San Bernardino police have announced that the department has received more than $1 million in federal funding to help fight crime. Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Redlands) announced during a news conference on Wednesday that the funding secured through Congress will support the city's Mobile Crime Prevention Program. And a photo of a wall full of surveillance camera monitors. The article doesn't say whose cameras they are, no company is named.

Appleton police address fears about Flock cameras The license plate cameras aren’t used for surveillance, police said People express concerns the cameras could track people or be used for immigration enforcement By Kristyn Allen for WBAY ABC News Published: Jan. 29, 2026 at 6:28 AM CST

A paywalled Texas Observer piece that looks pretty interesting: Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It. One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights. by Francesca D’Annunzio January 13, 2026, 8:40 AM, CST Editor’s Note: This story is the third installment in a series produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network.

Listen, Baudrillard, we would love to forget about Foucault but unfortunately everything is part of us going to prison so it's hard, ya know, to let go

Arsenal wird einfach Meister, das Ende ist wirklich close

Will there be a recording of this event?

Die GEAS-Umsetzung bedeutet Haft statt Asyl Deutschlands Umsetzung der GEAS-Reform ist die härteste Asylrechtsverschärfung seit Jahrzehnten: Hinter der rechtsstaatlichen Fassade steckt eine Entrechtung von Geflüchteten, die in neuen Isolationslagern faktisch inhaftiert werden sollen.

Deutschlands Umsetzung der GEAS-Reform ist die härteste Asylrechtsverschärfung seit Jahrzehnten: Hinter der rechtsstaatlichen Fassade steckt eine Entrechtung von Geflüchteten, die in neuen Isolationslagern faktisch inhaftiert werden sollen.

Der Freund meiner Frau

Seitenbacher auf Steroide

Can’t believe this legendary Italo-disco duo are getting back together

Ist jemand von meinen Followern im Besitz der aktuellen Krim J Ausgabe und könnte mir diese als PDF zukommen lassen?

Den Einsatz von KI-gestützten Entscheidungs-, Ziel- und Tötungssystemen in der Kriegsführung hat Jutta Weber in unserem Schwerpunktheft zu KI analysiert. Der Artikel ist jetzt frei lesbar:
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#Militär #KI

YouTube video by Monitor Immer mehr Gewalt gegen die Polizei? – MONITOR

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Mehr linke Tik Toker war schon immer die Antwort

Quote: “Muskism proposes something more like social war, compensating for inequality through a language of violent exclusion and the vilification of outsiders.”

Around the world, states have become dependent on Elon Musk and his infrastructure.

What is Musk’s unprecedented rise a symptom of? And what does it mean for state sovereignty?

We spoke with @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com about their new book Muskism.

🔗 verfassungsblog.de/muskism/

Folks look at you like you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it’s Saturday & senior Senators don’t know why or how or even exactly where we’re at war.

Reverse Enabling Act:

Wir müssen die Zitrone neu definieren

I’ve learned that you can write four million Substacks with five million graphs and they will still absolutely refuse to admit that there is any voter that matters other than Dave and Carol, aged 63, hate immigrants.

Das Vorprogramm des 43. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz ist jetzt online! kongress2026.soziologie.de/vorprogramm

If you are a social democrat party in any country in 2026 and you are uncomfortable appealing to middle class millennial women in urban areas, you are no longer capable of engaging with your voter base as it is.

The problem with adopting the terminology "late stage capitalism" is that it becomes progressively more and more funny to cite your work as time goes by, like "as has been shown, late stage capitalism is hurtling us towards rapid collapse (Smith, 1974)".

just thought to myself "i have no idea what massive attack looks like" and it turns out they look basically like you'd think

a fivecast marketing brochure which shows social media connections between left-wing groups across the United States.

Just learning that ICE has a $4.2 million contract for social media surveillance/AI analysis with Fivecast. A few years ago I came across a brochure of theirs which used as an example for potential police customers their ability to map left-wing groups.

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Garland wrote a whole chapter (Social Sources of Indifference) about this

Some of the biggest conservative voices for crim legal reform are conservatives who have been to prison.

Not just bc it made them see how bad our prisons are (tho they mostly went to lower-level facilities), but bc it forced them to see that most ppl there were not monsters, not diff from them.

Thomas Biebricher
Krise des Konservatismus -
Krise der Demokratie?

The idea that X is a proxy for the public sphere at large is a distortion effect produced by journalists, academics, and politicians themselves. It’s nowhere close to being even the most-used platform in the US—any argument that one needs to “fight for it” is absurd. 5x Bluesky and you’re at X.

Würde mich ja schon gegenwärtig interessieren, ob es habituell signifikante Unterschiede zwischen beispielsweise Absolventen der HWR Berlin und abgeschotteteren Polizeifachhochschulen gibt

Stefan Schulz wurde ersetzt

Was it a coincidental traffic stop or AI-powered surveillance? Nebraska deputies tracked Seth Ferranti with license plate readers before a marijuana stop, raising Fourth Amendment concerns.

Predictive policing in the AI age (with ALPRs). reason.com/2026/02/18/w...

Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say A Stanford University team have tested their nasal spray vaccine in animals but still need to do human clinical trials.

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

„Perfide Menschenjagd“: Polizeigewerkschaft warnt vor ICE-Methoden in Deutschland Hessens Innenminister will Handyortung für Abschiebungen ermöglichen. Die Gewerkschaft der Polizei kritisiert den Vorstoß – Beamte sollten nicht zu Erfüllungsgehilfen der Ausländerbehörden gemacht wer...

Hessens Innenminister will Handyortung für Abschiebungen ermöglichen. Die Gewerkschaft der Polizei kritisiert den Vorstoß – Beamte sollten nicht zu Erfüllungsgehilfen der Ausländerbehörden gemacht werden.

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