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Chad Loder

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Community activist, cybersecurity expert, citizen journalist based in Los Angeles. 🌴☀️ they/them

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · Nov 6

There is one fundamental truth about mutual aid, and it always shocks people:

YOU MUST BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE.

This truth alone should radicalize you.

The more you work on scale, branding, recognition, institutional funding, the harder it becomes to actually
help people.

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Pride Was A Riot, Sacramento @pridewasariot.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 MUTUAL AID REQUEST 🚨

We also vouch for this comrade. They’ve provided an immeasurable but incredible impact on our work, and you should support this fund to protect them from eviction.

Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 MUTUAL AID REQUEST 🚨
A good friend on the West Coast has been going through some health issues and needs rent assistance this upcoming month. If you can spare a few bucks, it would help out a whole lot. (I personally vouch for this fundraiser and would really appreciate a boost.)

Comrade Survival Fund

By SoCal Mutual Aid Network

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Murph @murphtracks.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 MUTUAL AID REQUEST 🚨
A good friend on the West Coast has been going through some health issues and needs rent assistance this upcoming month. If you can spare a few bucks, it would help out a whole lot. (I personally vouch for this fundraiser and would really appreciate a boost.)

Comrade Survival Fund

By SoCal Mutual Aid Network

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.

Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 7d

I am just the messenger! The community is the gift.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 7d

appreciate you

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 7d

appreciate you, i will let u know! this request does come up from time to time

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 7d

Hell yes thank you! That's perfect. DM on its way

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 7d

LA. She's a single mom and she's writing her papers on her old Android phone right now 🫠

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 7d

Southern California peeps: Looking for a spare laptop donation for a 45-year old Black woman comrade who is going back to school.

Laptop just needs to work reliably and run Microsoft Office and connect to her school's Google workspace stuff. Thank u!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9d

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel

A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

www.uscannenbergmedia.com

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 9d

i really don't know how much more vocally anti-israel and anti-genocide i have to be before goyim actually care about what i have to say about their antisemitism

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 9d

Telegram is still on the App Store after being linked to multiple mass shootings.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 9d

Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 9d

A one-panel cartoon of a dog sitting in a chair at a doctor's office

My dog talking to his therapist:
"And then she told me to stop following her to the bathroom, which is weird because she follows ME to the bathroom"

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 11d

The border must go. We cannot do this to people over lines on a map. We CANNOT

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12d

This passage nearly broke me.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12d

Miguel Ángel García-Hernández, a house painter and father of four from Mexico who was critically injured by a sniper at an ICE facility in Dallas, has died, the second fatality of the shooting, according to Latino civil rights leaders representing his family.

Second Victim of Dallas ICE Shooting Dies

A house painter who had been in the United States for two decades had been critically injured in Dallas by a gunman who the government said was aiming at federal law enforcement officers.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, although ready access to guns is the main predictor of gun violence

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 12d

DAILY MEMO: At Least 18 People Kidnapped In Another Day of Heavy Raids and More

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a monthly or yearly member of L.A. TACO so we can continue to bring you this vital information.

@eltragon.bsky.social

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 12d

So a Trumper with an assault rifle massacred people in a church and burned it down because he hated Mormons. But we're so used to seeing THAT, it'll be out of the news by the end of the week.

No flags at half staff for the slain worshippers I guess.

Jason Allen, a Burton resident, told CNN that even locals who didn't personally know Sanford recognized his truck.
With flags flying from the back as Sanford drove it through town, "you couldn't miss the truck," Allen said. Sometimes, he said, Sanford would
"switch one of his flags out for a 'F*** Biden' flag."
Sanford, who went by "Jake," was an Iraq War veteran and outdoorsman, according to military records and social media posts. He grew up in the Flint area and had lived for years in the suburb of Burton, public records show.

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 13d

Was just about to roll my own yaml config loader (again)

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 14d

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

South Bay Queer Solidarity @sbqsolidarity.bsky.social · 15d

A huge win for trans people in California: the state legislature passed five bills protecting our rights!

Now it's time to call on Governor Gavin Newsom to sign them. Contact him before October 12th: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

#TransRights #TransYouth #TransCalifornia

Action Needed: Urge Governor Newsom to Sign Five Critical Trans Rights Bills

TransFamily Support Services is proud to co-sponsor five critical trans rights bills that have officially passed the California Legislature. This is a major victory—one made possible through a powerfu...

transfamilysos.org

Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 14d

shatterproof goggles are for little things like chips of wood or metal, not for large heavy projectiles llke beanbag rounds or foam baton rounds

your typical shatterproof goggles will do very little to protect you, they'll just mash into your eye with everything else