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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 45m

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 1h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 8h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5h

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 4h

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 2h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 2h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

maybe reporters should take another look at some of the people the vice president of the united states follows on twitter and the things they say in public

just saying

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 4h

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5h

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 3h

it's pretty straightforward: in order for society to improve, billionaires will have to have less money. they don't want that, so they are rooting on the end of civilization instead. they don't have special knowledge, they just think it sounds cool to live as a king in the wasteland

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 54m

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Peter H @henderburn.bsky.social · 53m

Two sex pests and at least two war criminals, really?

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1h

With the Gaza Humanitarian Fund, Israel & the United States enabled U.S. security contractors to participate in war crimes alongside the IDF against Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The US could and should prosecute citizen perpetrators under the War Crimes Act internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Enforce the War Crimes Act Against Americans Who Committed Them In Gaza - CIP

While federal level action is unlikely under the Trump administration, members of Congress, civil society, and groups leading strategic litigation should press to use U.S. law to hold both the Israeli...

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1h

rogue nation

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1h

Gonna stop responding to people trying to make vibe explanations to me about the 00s and just posting 80s-00s era controversies today.

Starting with: Fox news used to love photoshopping jewish journalists into der sturmer like creations:

Journalist Jacques Steinberg edited to look like an antisemitic cartoon.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Vought has blocked CFPB staff from doing their work, and is also charging CFPB $5 million for his bodyguards. So technically, they are protecting one consumer.
www.govexec.com/management/2...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

"where laws aren’t there, the pitchforks must always be. A society that expects laws to substitute for, rather than channel, public outrage, is a society not long for this world in any form worthy of the name." www.interfluidity.com/v2/4013.html

interfluidity » Shame.

www.interfluidity.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

I feel like the legal profession has basically forgotten that one of their core tasks is to prevent situations like this from ending up with the guy being torn limb from limb

🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 7h

of course, through the majesty of the law, alex jones has effectively stalled long enough to win anyway. the families who he tortured will end up with a small pile of ashes labeled "Infowars Inc" while Alex keeps doing his thing as Alex Jones Broadcasting, having had plenty of time to shift themoney

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 9h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 20h

I have a half formed thought that one of the reasons everything is so awful right now is specifically because the internet and tech are at the root of so much of it, and the thing that was meant to create the future has actually given us the six fingered cyberpunk version of the 1930s.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 4h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 20h

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Peter H @henderburn.bsky.social · 3h

It is so crazy that the Establishment in every country in the West prioritizes Israel's occupation (including the resulting torture and murder) over the welfare of their own citizens. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6h

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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