Scott Drake

The US blockade of Cuba is a moral stain. It's barbaric, illegal, based on lies, and meant to inflict nothing but human suffering.

We will be judged for this, in a just world.

The people of Cuba are heroic, as are all who help. #cuba

YouTube video by Democracy Now! "Journalism Deserves Better": Ex-Washington Post Staffers Slam Billionaire Bezos for Gutting Paper

The news of WP's layoffs has me thinking about a terrible, implicit, "deal" that the public has made with commercial news; we are told that the resources they have are irreplaceable, and that whatever editorial decisions they make, we need them.

We need to revisit this bargain. youtu.be/-T1EHl49pt4

YouTube video by Mother Jones Famed Indigenous chef Sean Sherman: My employee was taken.

Everyone understands that these are camps, right?

www.youtube.com/shorts/b9Rnd...

From Mother Jones.

Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)

🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ices-secre...

An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.

It's not often, if ever, that the U.S. Director of National Intelligence goes for an FBI ride-along on a raid to a state election office. Are they getting ready for a foreign interference play for this year's midterm? 🤔

We are approaching 100k in concentration camps, unknown numbers of deaths. The only criminals have been corrections transfers; the rest are "criminal" only for not having paperwork, and they may die and never be seen again. This is only the nominal truth, reality could be far worse.

I want to be wrong, but federal operations continue unabated, state police have engaged protestors, and memos describe the op as "steady state".

There is no compromise for truth vs fiction. Immigration is a pretext for the supremacy of an anonymous, unaccountable personal army.

YouTube video by The Bulwark BREAKING: Gov. Walz To Meet With Homan, Doesn’t Know Who Killed Pretti | The Bulwark Podcast

Re youtu.be/Sn53Yjt9_gU?...

There is no "sane immigration reform", bc there is no immigration crisis. People lacking paperwork are not criminals, cannot be picked up at any time of the day or night, and no one is illegal.

It's not about "citizens", it's about human beings @governorwalz.mn.gov

Don't fall for the hype! Bovino was reassigned and that's significant but the broader mission is far from over

its looking like the local & state administrators might have folded and will let ice continue to operate in minneapolis WITH local law enforcement protection in exchange for some fake promises that there will be a real investigation into the two murders & a "scaleback

Browser users should not feel too comfortable: even if we have visibility into the server side, or the app is p2p, Widevine will be used by governments and corporations, if it hasn't already been used.

I didn't use the term "echo chamber" bc it's too loaded. Creating closed loops in the viewer graph is as direct as I can describe the technique. Btw, bsky could be using this technique and we might not notice. X also uses it, which is another reason the shut off research access to apis.

I am surprised by the incompetence shown in the TT transition. Other platforms, like YT, censor more effectively by altering the viewer graph to lock creators into ghettos, and leaving them unaware of the censorship.

#tiktok #usa #oracle #censorship #socialmedia #web

@governorwalz.mn.gov Send the guard to *protect* the protestors, and those targeted by ICE. It is the only moral and legal action you have.

ICE / DHS employees: I know there’s way more alarm internally than is public. Text me via signal at 202-510-1268. I’ll protect your anonymity

The Minnesota National Guard is being deployed, facing the wrong direction, according to reports. It should be deployed by the Governor Walz to protect people from DHS.

It's a mistake to use them for crowd control, the violence is coming from the federal gov. #ice #Minneapolis @governorwalz.mn.gov

YouTube video by CBS Austin FULL INTERVIEW: ICE agents "beat up" man outside of Costco in Central Texas

Good job CBS Austin.

youtu.be/vlosHi2nFm4

#ice #humanrights

I really want ppl w/o Minneapolis connections to understand

You might've heard that Mpls public schools went hybrid bc so many families are in hiding. Well, a coworker just told me that today, during his kid's hybrid class, a kid's apt building was raided onscreen

*Everyone has stories like this*

YouTube video by Rm Brown Joe Rogan Show Somehow Getting Dumber

OMFG another one.

Rm Brown's finest. In spite of the title, the subject is White Replacement "journalism" done about daycare in MN that's being used to justify a fascist purge.

I love his work, it cancels out Austin's hosting of Rogan.

youtu.be/MlkK85_EIRQ #rmbrown #minneapolis

I love how this springboards from Matt Walsh's statement that "international law is fake and gay", which Bouie describes as a "pure text"; just beautiful.

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie Everything is Gender

I think NYT is the opposite of informative these days; it's rolled over and is completely compliant. However, there is one bright spot that I consume via Youtube: @jamellebouie.net is telling the truth in beautifully crafted videos.

The latest (non-"Short"): youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs

Indeed.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan This Flock Camera Leak is like Netflix For Stalkers

@bennjordan.bsky.social has outdone himself again with this *amazing* installment of a series on surveillance and security. @404media.co does great work, too.

youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo

Scary part: they didn't discover the problems, they're just the first to *say something* with a platform.

(I don't know if my post will amplify the signal for the Drop Site story, as I'm losing faith in bsky's algo surfacing my posts. They aren't even fixing a trivial CSS bug that hides the "New Post" button for many users. But from little things...)

YouTube video by Drop Site News Jeffrey Epstein's Origin Story Goes Back To Iran Contra

This may get lost in this media cycle, but it's reporting that would be recognized in better days.

youtu.be/CYIxgOw2XwA

Extremely detailed. For those too young, the "Iran-Contra" scandal involved Reagan selling arms to Iran, and using the cash to fuel right-wing militias in Central America.

#bluesky #bug #cantpost

I have a hard time with this one. It's the most important function of the app, and I didn't even get a workaround when I emailed support. What are they doing?

@bsky.app @support.bsky.team Hire me to fix it.

Btw, if you're affect by the bug where you can't post, the button is in the DOM, just invisible.

The `aria-label` is "New Post", which looks like the most reliable way to search for it (they don't believe in html ids, lol). You may be able to find it if you resize, as well.

YouTube video by Offended Outcast “GO TO JAIL OR FREEZE”: America’s New Laws Against RV & Van Living

youtu.be/oXL8yLIIxNU

Aside: YT is getting even more difficult to use. This comes at the same time as the "recap" scandal; you may have to reload to get past the broken "self-harm" warnings, and it took 5 days for the vid to surface in my recs (I'm a subscriber to fd).

Network effects...

YouTube video by F.D Signifier Charlie Kirk and the Conservative Death Cult

Watch it while you still can: youtu.be/6ve-Z9puzjU