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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 12h

"The proposed system surfaced Friday after US Customs and Border Protection quietly published a presolicitation notice for what it’s calling a Modular Mobile Surveillance System, or M2S2. The listing includes draft technical documents, data requirements, and design objectives."

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: DHS is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.

by me @ wired:

DHS Wants a Fleet of AI-Powered Surveillance Trucks

US border patrol is asking companies to submit plans to turn standard 4x4 trucks into AI-powered watchtowers—combining radar, cameras, and autonomous tracking to extend surveillance on demand.

www.wired.com

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Rob ⚡️Bentwookie @bentwookie.bsky.social · 11h

When I was a tween I was way into Linda Florentino. I liked her in Gotcha! as well.

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west craven @okienoah.bsky.social · 21h

@bentwookie.bsky.social & @blackdolphin.bsky.social

Maybe It Will Happen Today @today-maybe.bsky.social · 21h

Black Philip is in the shop...

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Rob ⚡️Bentwookie @bentwookie.bsky.social · 19h

Global wealth redistribution is where it’s at.
(also I had to go listen to Madonna’s “into the groove” immediately after watching.)
Anyone reminder Vision Quest?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22h

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They should be afraid of crossing ordinary Americans who are finding their powers. Because we're not going to stop with halting fascism, we're going to keep pushing until we stop the conditions that created it. And that's these cowards.

What has changed is simple: people are scared of crossing Trump this time. In researching this piece, I interviewed dozens of figures, including lawmakers, private sector executives, retired senior military figures and intelligence chiefs, current and former Trump officials, Washington lawyers and foreign government officials. Such is the fear of jail, bankruptcy or professional reprisal, that most of these people insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people also wanted to emphasise that Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices opposing him publicly. At times, it has felt like trying to report on politics in Turkey or Hungary.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

So who’s the hater and who’s the waiter?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

It's because white people can always see the humanity in each other and not in the POC Kirk targeted and actively harmed.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Sep 18

Yesterday Fresh Air did an interview with Robert Draper, who has covered Charlie Kirk. And this section on Draper's relationship with Kirk said a lot to me about modern access journalism, and the soft coverage we've seen in the wake of Kirk's death.

GROSS: After you profiled Kirk, and I think that was published back in February, you stayed in touch with him. And I think you were texting each other the day before he was killed.

DRAPER: That's correct. I'll tell you also, Terry, that the story, as you say, was published in February of this year. But I would say for a full year prior to that, Kirk and I had been getting to know each other, and he would often reach out to me. And I thought this was an interesting aspect to Kirk, that he would reach out to me just to run things by me. Not asking so much for my opinion - because, as a journalist, I couldn't give it - but just as a reality check, he'd say, I'm hearing from the right that this particular viewpoint is prevalent from the left. Am I just living in a bubble, or is that true?

GROSS: How would you respond to that?

DRAPER: Well, sometimes I would say, you know, I think what you're hearing you're hearing from the right-wing media ecosystem, and it's not supported by reality as I understand it. And he would take that and be grateful for it. There was also a time I reached out to him, I remember, to say, I'd like to talk to you off the record about the religious context in which so many people in the MAGA community are viewing Donald Trump. Can you explain to me how they see him as this sort of flawed vessel, like King David or something? And he was very fluent in describing that to me.

And so we had that kind of back-and-forth well predating the publication of the story, and continued to since then. I had dinner with him in D.C. once, I think, a couple of months before he was killed, and I remember he brought security with him. They sat at the bar. And he seemed very casual about it, which is not to say that he was utterly unconcerned. But it was essentially the cost of doing business, that that was just the world that we were in.

I was texting with him the day before the assassination because I wanted to come to Arizona and have dinner with him and his wife to catch up on various things. But also, there's a major magazine project that I'm beginning. And I wanted Kirk's thoughts about it, but not on the phone and not in writing. It just required a face-to-face. And he wrote back saying, absolutely. We would love to have you over for dinner. Just pick a date in September. And I think I sent, a few hours later, the text, how about September 23? And obviously, I never heard back.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

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Rob ⚡️Bentwookie @bentwookie.bsky.social · 2d

I tell you!

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 3d

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

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Rob ⚡️Bentwookie @bentwookie.bsky.social · 2d

It’s the best

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

I lived with my dad when I was very young and he didn’t apply for food stamps or free school lunches, though we qualified.

So, I went hungry. It was awful. I begged neighbors for saltine crackers. I can say it was the worst time of my life.

Children shouldn’t go hungry. Restore SNAP benefits.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Rob ⚡️Bentwookie @bentwookie.bsky.social · 2d

Fuuuuuck. I love her but I want Talerico in there and her in congressional leadership.

I hate to say it but white Jesus boy with Lego hair might be more appealing to the less psycho Rs here.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Since John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh are so desperate for a time limit on race-conscious remedies to systemic racism and they're itching to sunset the Voting Rights Act, well I give my permission. They can do it—in the year 2299.

Until then, shut the hell up.

My latest on Louisiana v. Callais:

Supreme Court Conservatives Are Tired of Hearing About Racism. Guess What? Me Too.

Will the Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts finally completely gut the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais?

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Rob ⚡️Bentwookie @bentwookie.bsky.social · 2d

In an effort to not be crude I’ll just say-fuck that guy. You did what you could. My crazy dad never tried to patch things up when I told him to fuck all the way off when I was 15. I can’t imagine doing either of those things to my kid. Incomprehensible.
Love you Jill!

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Rob ⚡️Bentwookie @bentwookie.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! It’s been fun. I’ve been letting it grow a bit this week so I can try out a “Swearengen”.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

i made posts in the past in support of Graham Platner. i have reevaluated based on further information (Nazi tattoo) and no longer am in support of Platner. the best part about living in a democracy is being able to change my mind about my vote.

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 3d

He can take it up with many folks I saw at the Iowa protest, including these twins!

A pair of protestors, seemingly identical elderly white haired women, hold matching signs that read, "No King But King Jesus (King of Kings!)"

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 6d

I fantasise about my wife of 25 years dying. Time to my self. Drink what I want. Live the life. Do what I want. She went away for a week with her girlfriends. I was so bored and lonely it was unreal. I hope I die first.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 5d

Not to go dark but i feel like mike johnson’s relationship with his son has not at all gotten the scrutiny it deserves

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 5d

like this was mostly covered as a weirdo behavior thing and like I Get It but also, this is involving your son (at the time a legal minor) into your ‘sex life‘ in a pretty explicit and intimate way and idunno sure feels like theres something a lot darker there

MIKE JOHNSON ADMITS HE AND HIS
SON MONITOR EACH OTHER'S PORN
INTAKE IN RESURFACED VIDEO
"I'm proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate," the House
speaker says of his '
"accountability partner"

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 5d

I scrolled through the @1stforall.bsky.social's gallery of print front pages for local coverage of "No Kings" protests. Here are some of the standout papers, starting with the Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado:

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6d

It’s amazing that Antifa was able to hire this many protesters. Their back-office payroll processing and HR pipeline is just first-class; just imagine the tax paperwork to hire up across all 50 states, not to mention all the rounds of Zoom interviews for prospective protesters….

OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 6d

#NoKings Miami!

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Rob ⚡️Bentwookie @bentwookie.bsky.social · 7d

Agreed. Plus that was a school drop off line, Unpeasants don’t take their kids to school themselves and their schools aren’t public either :)

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