Blake Brown
@antiquequaalude.bsky.social
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away
Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away
Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away
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A UN Environment Programme satellite watches for super-emitter events of methane (the main component of natural gas and a fast/potent greenhouse gas) and alerts the people responsible. Out of 3,500+ alerts since 2022, UNEP "documented 25 cases of mitigation action."
That's a 0.7% action rate. 🤦
That's a 0.7% action rate. 🤦
Better data driving action on methane emissions, but more work needed
Nairobi, 22 October 2025 – Government and industry responses to UNEP’s more than 3,500 satellite methane alerts climbed from one to 12 per cent in the past year. Nevertheless, action must accelerate t...
www.unep.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A UN Environment Programme satellite watches for super-emitter events of methane (the main component of natural gas and a fast/potent greenhouse gas) and alerts the people responsible. Out of 3,500+ alerts since 2022, UNEP "documented 25 cases of mitigation action."
That's a 0.7% action rate. 🤦
That's a 0.7% action rate. 🤦
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Russian state tv is propagandizing this idea all over the place:
“Perhaps Russia and the United States will decide the fate of Europe without it. This is a very possible prospect”
“Perhaps Russia and the United States will decide the fate of Europe without it. This is a very possible prospect”
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Russian state tv is propagandizing this idea all over the place:
“Perhaps Russia and the United States will decide the fate of Europe without it. This is a very possible prospect”
“Perhaps Russia and the United States will decide the fate of Europe without it. This is a very possible prospect”
I pray for a day I can wake up and not read things that makes me completely embarrassed by my government's failures. This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
one of the wildest stories i've seen in a minute: twin brothers who previously pled guilty to hacking the State Department while gov't contractors... got new jobs as gov't contractors.... then allegedly deleted a bunch of gov't data... and were just arrested again.
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/v...
www.axios.com/2025/12/03/v...
Feds arrest twin brothers for allegedly deleting government data
The brothers worked for a contractor and previously pled guilty for hacking into the State Department.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I pray for a day I can wake up and not read things that makes me completely embarrassed by my government's failures. This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
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We need to be creating UBI for people displaced by robots NOW.
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We need to be creating UBI for people displaced by robots NOW.
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Dems who voted to repeal DC's law that creates a board to review police misconduct and prevents hiring police with history of misconduct:
-Cullar
-Davis
-Gillen
-Golden
-Goodlander
-Gottheimer
-Gray
-Kaptur
-Lee
-Min
-Panetta
-Pappas
-MGP
-Riley
-Ryan
-Schrier
-Sorensen
-Suozzi
-Vindman
-Whitesides
-Cullar
-Davis
-Gillen
-Golden
-Goodlander
-Gottheimer
-Gray
-Kaptur
-Lee
-Min
-Panetta
-Pappas
-MGP
-Riley
-Ryan
-Schrier
-Sorensen
-Suozzi
-Vindman
-Whitesides
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Dems who voted to repeal DC's law that creates a board to review police misconduct and prevents hiring police with history of misconduct:
-Cullar
-Davis
-Gillen
-Golden
-Goodlander
-Gottheimer
-Gray
-Kaptur
-Lee
-Min
-Panetta
-Pappas
-MGP
-Riley
-Ryan
-Schrier
-Sorensen
-Suozzi
-Vindman
-Whitesides
-Cullar
-Davis
-Gillen
-Golden
-Goodlander
-Gottheimer
-Gray
-Kaptur
-Lee
-Min
-Panetta
-Pappas
-MGP
-Riley
-Ryan
-Schrier
-Sorensen
-Suozzi
-Vindman
-Whitesides
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PRESIDENT ORDERING AG TO INVESTIGATE POLITICAL OPPONENTS FOR CRIME PRESIDENT COMMITTED WOULD LEAD TO IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT & REMOVAL FOR ANY PREVIOUS PRESIDENT, BUT NYT TREATS AS JUST *NORMAL* NEXT TO FLUFF PIECE ABOUT PREISDENT'S OFFICE. NYT IS ANTI-DEMOCRACY, ANTI-RULE-OF-LAW, PRO-TRUMP.
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
PRESIDENT ORDERING AG TO INVESTIGATE POLITICAL OPPONENTS FOR CRIME PRESIDENT COMMITTED WOULD LEAD TO IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT & REMOVAL FOR ANY PREVIOUS PRESIDENT, BUT NYT TREATS AS JUST *NORMAL* NEXT TO FLUFF PIECE ABOUT PREISDENT'S OFFICE. NYT IS ANTI-DEMOCRACY, ANTI-RULE-OF-LAW, PRO-TRUMP.
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trumps administration is the largest looting of the working class funneled up to the wealthy in history
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
trumps administration is the largest looting of the working class funneled up to the wealthy in history
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NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
This is absolutely insane. Watch this.
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is absolutely insane. Watch this.
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ICE sprays large canister of pepper spray directly into family car—hitting 1 year old baby.
"They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said man who took video.
"ICE agents drove by and sprayed pepper spray directly inside—where their baby and 16 year old sister sat."
Cicero, Illinois
"They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said man who took video.
"ICE agents drove by and sprayed pepper spray directly inside—where their baby and 16 year old sister sat."
Cicero, Illinois
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
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The Dodgers title celebration continued into Tuesday night
(via @TacosLosCholos)
(via @TacosLosCholos)
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Dodgers title celebration continued into Tuesday night
(via @TacosLosCholos)
(via @TacosLosCholos)
Good article from Reuters on how politicians in Europe are viewing Mamdani's victory in NYC:
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
November 6, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Good article from Reuters on how politicians in Europe are viewing Mamdani's victory in NYC:
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Yamamoto World Series MVP incoming
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Yamamoto World Series MVP incoming
I WILL find a way to have Yamamoto's babies.
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I WILL find a way to have Yamamoto's babies.
This game is going to kill me holy shit my heart just dropped for a second
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
This game is going to kill me holy shit my heart just dropped for a second
It's wild that people can get used to this - Ukrainians here pretty damn calm as drones and artillery(?) slam into their building / directly next to it over and over and over.
Intense fighting continues in Pokrovsk as Ukrainian defense forces repel Russian assaults under relentless drone attacks. Combat footage from the area shows the intensity of the battles.
November 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
It's wild that people can get used to this - Ukrainians here pretty damn calm as drones and artillery(?) slam into their building / directly next to it over and over and over.
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November 1, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...
Tutorial: How to cancel your Spotify subscription
YouTube video by Indivisible
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...
@sodrock.bsky.social My Discover page is recommending me this stuff now and I blame you
Sharing this recent podcast by me on how civil-military relations (ideally) should work in liberal democracies.
See here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsma...
See here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsma...
October 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
@sodrock.bsky.social My Discover page is recommending me this stuff now and I blame you
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Hurricane Melissa continues to set records, with the lowest barometric pressure ever observed this late in the season in the Atlantic, 906 millibars. The picture below is of its fearsome eye
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...
Jamaica braces for Cat 5 Hurricane Melissa, Earth's strongest storm of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections
A remarkable three of the Atlantic's five hurricanes this year have hit Cat 5.
yaleclimateconnections.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Hurricane Melissa continues to set records, with the lowest barometric pressure ever observed this late in the season in the Atlantic, 906 millibars. The picture below is of its fearsome eye
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...
yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/jama...