Ben West 🦋

Good question.

Yeah its troubling for sure.

Hope all is well with you.

The 17M ice break: shattering 30 inch Ice to save lives. Features and image of a hovercraft looking cool. From Pure Engine (whoever that is... A clone of pure engineering?).

American reacts to Canadian Soldiers. Features a black and white image from ww2 era that looks AI generated with a guy reacting to it with the classic shocked or suprised look from all YouTube thumbnails and us and Canadian flags.

Attach to Canadian Special Ops in the Bloodiest... Features a thumnain with an American guy (based on his dirty us flag hat) reacting to an image of a convoy of military humvee's. It's says Operation Medusa at the bottom of the image and says Kinetic as Hell at the top.

Are you all seeing this pro Canadian Military slop propoganda on YouTube?

They really are trying a militarization psyops right now.

These are just a few examples I saw today. It's relentless and pretty gross.

#cdnpoli #psyops #YouTube #propoganda #military #caf #Canada #CanadianArmedForces

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

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Screenshot of news story with Marc Carney and Melanie Joie smiling a lot while talking about military spending. Carney is at a podium that says building Canada Strong. "This is an entire culture change, and this is the first time Canada has a defence industrial strategy, so good news," she also said, pointing to defence procurement deals the Liberals have signed since last April's federal election. "I'm as impatient as you, but I really think that things are moving ahead." According to a technical briefing by government officials to journalists ahead of the announcement, the number of defence acquisitions awarded to Canadian firms was 43 per cent last year.

Industry Minister Melanie Joly insists the federal government will move quickly on implementing its new five-pillar, defence industrial strategy, despite the delays in producing the plan in the first place. The Liberals' long-awaited $6.6-billion national defence industrial strategy lays out its plan to prioritize homegrown production, promising to boost the share of defence acquisitions awarded to Canadian firms to 70 per cent, double Canada's defence exports, and create 125,000 new jobs over the decade.

The "defense industry" propganda right now in Canada is awful. "Long awaited"?!?

"Boost the share of defense acquisitions awarded". To who? Our strategy is to expand our role as arms dealers? Fuck this.

6.6 Billion for a 125,000 jobs. Surely we could create far more jobs other ways. #cdnpoli

Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds 404 Media has obtained a cache of internal police emails showing at least two agencies have bought access to GeoSpy, an AI tool that analyzes architecture, soil, and other features to near instantly g...

This tech is pretty common now but I don't think people fully understand what it means that anyone including police can use it www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

An Alberta conservative joining Carneys "Liberal" government tells you a lot about what kind of government we really have right now.

#cdnpoli

This is BAD.

Thank you @breachmedia.ca and @desmondcole.bsky.social for shinning a light on this.

Toronto Police corruption is only part of the problem. Our data privacy and its connection to surveillance capitalism and authoritarianism is very troubling.

#cdnpoli #privacy #surveillance #infosec

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.

Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald ...

“I’m not aware of something like this happening ever before.” FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn, by @dougbockclark.bsky.social @jenafifield.bsky.social

Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock The documents show law enforcement sees themselves as being consistently and universally under threat from the people it is supposed to protect.

Fuck Flock and all of their investors like A16z.

Did you know they are saying 2026 will be the year of privacy while they fund surveillance tech?

a16zcrypto.com/posts/articl...

Police Told to Be ‘as Vague as Permissible’ About Why They Use Flock @404media.co www.404media.co/police-told-...

YouTube video by MinnMax Minneapolis - January 2026

A horrifying compilation.

youtube.com/watch?v=W1dy...

#Minneapolis

Wyden, Merkley and Markey Demand ICE Stop Using Mobile Facial Recognition App | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.

We need depositions, documents, and public testimony to establish why and how the most prominent and powerful figures in the trump administration publicly and repeatedly lied about someone their goons killed.

Literally just a rage baiting troll. Like most of the US government at this point.

These fucks need to crawl back into 4chan obscurity. The hard part is not getting wrapped up in their BS.

Americans Have the Right to Be Anonymous Online Kate Ruane is the Director of Center for Democracy & Technology's Free Expression Project.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and the Trump administration have been clear that, to them, the problem isn’t ICE agents running amok in American cities; it’s the people documenting ICE activities and posting to social media. But doing so—even anonymously—is protected by law, writes CDT's Kate Ruane.

They spelled “permanently abolish ICE, and impeach and charge Noem, Bondi, Miller, Vance and Trump” wrong.

Abolishing ICE is essential but isn’t enough. Everyone who empowered them needs to be held accountable for their crimes.

The HaveIBeenFlocked.com database is a tiny fraction of Flock Safety queries that have been leaked or released via FOIA requests. You can be tracked for attending a protest, lawfully getting an abortion, or because a random account said something about you on social media.

My curiosity is more broadly with how these kind of weapons are being used in real ways to repress dissent.

I wouldn't put it past the jerks in big oil companies and their creepy friends with billions of dollars on the line from taking "creative" approaches to shutting down opposition.

I hesitate to speculate about this publicly or to overstate my own relevance as a troublemaker.

Its more than plausible that we all worked too hard and dealt with a lot of stress. I had a root canal that went bad shortly before I ran my first marathon. My inner ear issues started around then and the vertigo and hyperacusis became less problematic after dental surgery.

But...

Im a activist who had sudden hearing loss vertigo and hyperacusis almost 10 years ago.

The same thing happened to the former leader of the green party as well as at least two prominent Indigenous activists in BC around the same time. I rejected friends theories about sound weapons...

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Here is a (likely incomplete) list of apps that are enabling ICE to track your smartphone's location.

Download, mirror, and reshare.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

YouTube video by CBS News U.S. government obtains device possibly tied to mysterious "Havana Syndrome"

Hey @bennjordan.bsky.social I can only assume you saw this news and you already are digging deeper into it. youtu.be/AyHq3zgDBlM?...

I've been interested in your videos about LRADs and sound weapons.

The Havanna Syndrome has generally been considered tinfoil hat stuff. Curious what you think.

Equipment issue led to excessive LNG Canada flaring, docs reveal | The Narwhal LNG Canada delayed reporting ‘integrity issue’ to regulators and never fully informed the public, while locals raised concerns about noise, smoke and emissions

LNG Canada has known there was an issue with its flaring equipment for over a year. While locals raised concerns about noise, smoke and emissions, until now, they didn’t have answers. The Narwhal reviewed more than 2,000 pages of documents for this story: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-f... #bcpoli

Canada spent $78 million deporting 18,000 people in 2024 — the most since Stephen Harper The vast majority of those deported have been asylum seekers whose refugee claims have been rejected, according to data obtained by the Star from the Canada Border Services Agency.

Deportations in Canada reach highest rates since Stephen Harper, spending on removals up 50% since 2019. This is a conservative, anti migrant government. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Mark Carney’s silence on Venezuela reveals complicity On September 2, the US military bombed a boat in the Caribbean, killing 11 civilians. Regional leaders denounced the attack as murder, but Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney remained silent. His stan...

As governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney blocked Venezuela from accessing $1 billion of its own gold after coordinated pressure from Washington and the far-right Venezuelan opposition, directly aiding a US-led regime change effort and worsening a humanitarian crisis.

Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities."

An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...