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Lorax Horne

@lorax.bsky.social

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Editor and writer. Tech critic. Doing work stuff for my local Center for Migrant Worker Rights (which isn't on Bsky). If you like anything I've posted, donate to this family: https://chuffed.org/project/116311-protect-an-open-source-engineer-and-his-family

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 13d

It has been a few days since anyone donated to their crowdfund page, but the Abu Matar family is still working on their tent site and making progress, thanks to @raindovemodel.bsky.social and the Safebow team. Donate here: chuffed.org/project/1163... to help the family finish their new home.

A hole for a latrine dug into a sandy ground. A pile of cement bricks is set up nearby under the shade of a red canvas wall.

Wooden framing sticks set up in a rectangular shape on an empty lot with red canvas sheeting laid out on the sandy ground ready to be nailed to the sticks. In the background, other white canvas tents can be seen.

A 30-something man with black jeans and a blue polo shirt with a measuring tape clipped to his belt is standing on a plastic chair so he can reach up to attach a red canvas sheet to a wooden frame. It is a sunny day with blue skies and he is wearing a baseball cap and glasses, and there is a shine of sweat on his brown arms.

A child of about 7 years old wearing a black t-shirt and long pants stands under the shade of a red canvas wall with a relaxed pose, holding their hands together in front. In the background the shape of two people are putting up the red canvas sheet, stretching it out on a wooden frame. On the ground in front of the child, a large red canvas sheet is laid out on the sandy floor, with two hammers and other tools and some sticks lying nearby. It is a sunny day with blue skies and a whisp of cloud.

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Digital Action @digitalaction.bsky.social · 16h

📣 #Tomorrow!

🗣️ Join us for the launch of the new report:
“Shadow Banning: The Subtle and Hidden Censorship of Major Digital Platforms”. Co-hosted by Observacom & Forum on Information and Democracy.

🕚 11:00 (Chile)
🌐 Online – in Sp w/live En
🔗 Register: us06web.zoom.us/j/87418423128

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 1d

This is what The Hague was invented to deal with btw.

Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social · 1d

The death toll in now up to 27 in five high-seas murders of alleged drug runners ordered by Trump and executed by the U.S. military with explosive projectiles.
apnews.com/article/trum...

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver doing media critique of Bari Weiss: I am in my happy place.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety.

The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying:

John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News:

"I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading."

Reingold then quotes it saying:

Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

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J☠️🇨🇦 @existential122.bsky.social · 2d

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 2d

They are hostages, not prisoners. They were not charged with anything and were being held and tortured as bargaining chips.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Israeli authorities released hundreds of Palestinian detainees and prisoners as part of the ceasefire agreement.

Amna Abu Mussa was overjoyed to find out her son was set to be released. “We’ve been living in constant worry,” she said.

Joyous crowds greet Palestinians released by Israel in ceasefire deal

The roughly 1,700 detainees from Gaza who returned there Monday are among thousands of people from the enclave the Israeli military seized during the war.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 2d

“Governments are repressing human rights defenders and the current trajectory is incompatible with the realization of human rights for all. It’s just a road to destruction … I think states are behaving in a criminal fashion”

‘It’s a road to destruction’: climate defenders facing surge in reprisals, says UN expert

Mary Lawlor, UN special rapporteur for human rights defenders, accuses US, UK and other governments of paying lip service to climate goals while criminalizing activists

www.theguardian.com

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 3d

Yes..

Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 3d

That the family of the author will sue you if you cast women in any of the roles?

BroadwayWorld @broadwayworld.com · 3d

Everything to Know About WAITING FOR GODOT

Broadway audiences return to Beckett’s barren lane as Waiting for Godot arrives at the Hudson Theatre, starring Keanu Reeves (in his Broadway debut) as Estragon and longtime collaborator Alex Winter as Vladimir. Let's unpack the play’s history, its evolving meanings, and its stubbornly persistent legacy...

www.broadwayworld.com

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 3d

This is the guy they want to appoint governor of Gaza ... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein in No 10 on advice of Peter Mandelson, documents reveal

National Archives papers show how then MP pushed for 2002 meeting between PM and ‘young and vibrant’ financier

www.theguardian.com

Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 4d

Crypto crash is underway, folks.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine that

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

Tech industrial complex replacing the military industrial complex

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 5d

Well, I mean..

www.salesforce.com/news/press-r...

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 5d

Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli prisons, are still released into an apartheid country where they can be killed at any moment by Israeli security forces, by settlers or by disease and neglect because freedom of movement is restricted. The struggle does not end until Palestine is free.

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 5d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 6d

Needed.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 6d

Go woke, go Pope

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

www.npr.org

Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 7d

a young man is smiling with his eyes closed and his mouth open .

Alt: leonardo dicaprio crying in one of his movies as a young actor

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 7d

And everything in the story, has probably already happened, to some revolutionaries somewhere, whether in the Argentina dirty war, Chile under Pinochet, in the Black Panthers, or today in Calais or Nauru and other immigrant concentration camps. The movie isn't fanciful, it's brutalist realism.

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 7d

[Spoilers of themes in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER]

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I would say this story it too romantic, exaggerated, extreme. Except we live in a world of white supremacist cult members conspiring in underground bunkers, billionaires like Peter Thiel / Elon Musk killing USAID, c/o Stephen Miller.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 7d

Shoutout to the Montreal Convention.

Lorax Horne @lorax.bsky.social · 7d

#Wikimedia is currently electing open positions on its Board of Trustees. Wouldn't you know, two pro-Palestinian candidates have been removed from the ballot under mysterious circumstances. Statement from the Arabic Wikimedia community: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Objecti... #censorship #fascism

Objection to the removal of Ravan from the Board of Trustees election process 2025/Arab Community - Meta-Wiki

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