Evan Greer

starting obscure policy fights on bluesky just to feel something other than existential dread about wwiii don't @ me

the authoritarian left position of "pretend this complicated thing is simple or you are a counter-revolutionary" is why i will always be an anarchist

of course not.

but i also don't say "shhhhhhh" when Palestinians lift up legitimate critiques of Hamas

there's no "both sidesing" the current invasion of Iran. its an act of colonial agression by the US and Israel. full stop.

AND, we don't have to pretend Iranians love their government.

and as usual, to get ahead of the chorus of people telling me i just don't care about artists, please remember for most of my adult life I was a full time working musician who played 200+ shows per year and sold CDs and t-shirts to feed my family and pay my rent so i really don't wanna hear it

i just think if you're biggest critique of AI is about copyright you're telling on yourself.

AI surveillance could end human liberty as we know it

AI decision making threatens permanently bake systemic racism & patriarchy into every aspect of society

"you stole my song" is just... idgaf man

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

A really difficult aspect of leftist organizing in the US is that we rarely have the funds to institutionalize our movements, and as a consequence our wisdom is rarely institutionalized and preserved.

It's hard watching this happen over and over again when it comes to talking about war.

Trump’s Latest Deportation Tactic: Targeting Immigrants With Minor Family Court Cases Should a dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigrat...

“Imagine what a weapon it would be in ICE’s hands if child welfare is added to all the other areas where a conviction for the most minor offense means deportation,” said Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform.

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this:

all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral.

BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

stating facts and acknowledging the material realities of people living under authoritarian regimes (including the US) is not "carrying water for imperialism" unless you are incapable of critical thinking which, well...

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

like, none of these things are mutually exclusive!

we don't need to pretend other governments are good just because our government is bad

we also don't need to pretend things are simple when they're not

and acknowledging things are complicated doesn't mean you can't be clear where you stand.

the US left needs to get get smarter about how imperialism and authoritarianism interact.

it can be true that Iranian ex-pats are celebrating in the streets AND that the Iranian regime is a murderous theocracy AND that the US/Israeli invasion is wrong, immoral, neo-colonial and rooted in greed.

shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,

1. Hating their government

2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

openai.com/index/our-ag...

you'll never lose money betting on the US military murdering civilians

and wtf i wish that wasn't a thing you could bet actual money on in this horrific timeline

Singer-Activist Evan Greer Remembers the 2000s on '$5' Boston-based musician and activist Evan Greer has announced her new album with a song that looks back on decades of DIY shows and protests

cool time for revisiting Bush-era protest music i guess

‘Liberty Vans’ appear across US to help immigrants – and document ICE raids Volunteers offer moral and legal support, and document ICE actions with the aim of holding people accountable

Liberty Vans, or camioneta de la libertad in Spanish, are on a mission to defend vulnerable communities in the crosshairs of federal enforcement. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

In January we reported on how CT assets were repurposed to manufacture threats to support ICE operations.

Meta won’t let morality get in the way of a product launch What a great time to add facial recognition to everything!

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

I guess I’m glad the center left will pretend to be anti war again for a year or so

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

how many cents per gallon is one Iranian schoolgirl's life worth, just curious?

sorry i can't be sharp or inspiring today i'm just so fucking angry

dead children lying under rubble because of US bombs is never a "distraction" and fuck you for saying so

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

if anything, the Trump-show is a distraction from the US imperialist war machine, not the other way around