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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 13h

Just switched Signal safety numbers FYI

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Mikael Thalen @mikaelthalen.bsky.social · 1d

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.

san.com

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 4d

Exactly

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 4d

lol

Antifa CEO @antifa.bsky.social · 4d

Terrifying

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 4d

It must be scary to be the CEO of Antifa right now

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 4d

It must be scary to be the CEO of Antifa right now

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

I said what I said: Kristi Noem should be tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 8d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 8d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 9d

I have criticisms of ICEBlock, but this is authoritarian bullshit, and the fact that nearly all smartphone use one of two app stores controlled by US corporations does not bode well for the future

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10d

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store

Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

www.businessinsider.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10d

There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...

Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store

Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."

www.businessinsider.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11d

1. Dr. Jane Goodall 1934 - 2025

In 1962, a very young woman named Jane Goodall stepped into the African forest.

What she would discover shattered our understanding of the place of human beings in the world.

She revealed that chimpanzees use tools, form bonds, and experience emotions.

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 11d

using Signal is easy, even if you’re not tech savvy (like me). follow these tips on how to get the most out of it once you get the app

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 12d

Just deleted a post about what looked like internet censorship in Germany but probably wasn't. But in any case, Free Palestine

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 12d

I very well might be misinformed about this specific case

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 12d

It's illegal to say "from the river to the sea" in Germany

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 13d

A good post by Bruce Schneier: digital threat modeling under authoritarianism www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism - Schneier on Security

Today’s world requires us to make complex and nuanced decisions about our digital security. Evaluating when to use a secure messaging app like Signal or WhatsApp, which passwords to store on your smar...

www.schneier.com

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 20d

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

PANEL 1: A guy sporting a pin shaped like a monster leans over to a big glass tube full of skin in the close foreground.
GUY: Hey Geoff. I see you're not wearing a Bone Farmer memorial pin?

PANEL 2: GEOFF, the skin pile, starts to talk, over the shoulder of the GUY.
GEOFF: I mean, it'd be kind of tough to–
GUY: It's bone farmer memorial day.
GUY: We're all remembering all the good stuff he did.

PANEL 3: The GUY dabs away a tear.
GEOFF: Like what? Name one thing.
GUY: Shh! I'm remembering it all right now. Silently.

PANEL 4: THE GUY, dialing a phone.
GUY: It's like you don't even know the rules of the day?
GUY: I'm going to call the cops.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 21d

“The obvious next step in that playbook is to expand from targeting immigrants to go after anarchists, leftists, and other opponents of the regime…”

What does that mean?

How can we prepare to weather the storm?

Read this @crimethinc.com how-to guide

Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression

Donald Trump has declared that he is designating “Antifa” a “terrorist organization.” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather the storm?

crimethinc.com

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NorCal Resist @norcalresist.bsky.social · 21d

We’ve got migra watch coming up 9/22/25 at 7pm, tinyurl.com/NCRSept22 not sure if we’re your network? Check the map, we cover rural NorCal areas that don’t have an already-established hotline from Trump 1.0.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 21d

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · 21d

It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

Craig Shirley, a presidential historian and biographer of President Ronald Reagan, said Mr. Trump's experience was so searing that he did not believe the president would improperly restrain others' free speech, whatever his public exhortations.
"We all especially know Biden used government to censor Trump, kicking him off many media platforms, a clear violation of the law," Mr. Shirley said. "As his own First Amendment rights were abridged, my guess is he's especially sensitive to anyone else seeing their First Amendment rights taken away."

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 22d

This is so so so good. Watch it.

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · Aug 19

My DEFCON talk "We are currently clean on OPSEC" now has over 30k views on YouTube, so now more people watched my talk than attended DEFCON itself. If you haven't seen it, please do! The Trump admin's incompetence is mindbogglingly BONKERS www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33)

YouTube video by Micah Lee

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DWink @d-winker.bsky.social · 22d

This is such a good talk. I'm not a cyber person, but the story is clear and plays out like something from a movie. The big one, so ridiculous that I'm worried I misunderstood it, is that the "fake signal" app that Hegseth et al. were using exposed everyone's unencrypted messages online.

Micah Lee @micahflee.com · Aug 19

My DEFCON talk "We are currently clean on OPSEC" now has over 30k views on YouTube, so now more people watched my talk than attended DEFCON itself. If you haven't seen it, please do! The Trump admin's incompetence is mindbogglingly BONKERS www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...

"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33)

YouTube video by Micah Lee

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23d

Biden is Catholic, and many in the Democratic leadership are also Christian, but I think I see your point. Everyone who is not Christian is demonic, and that's the root of all the problems? So "Demoncrat" is basically saying that Democrats are against Christ?

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 24d

Ah yes the many times The Woke demanded the President pull comedians from TV

Ross Douthat @DouthatNYT
X.com
The woke were warned their tools could be turned against them but couldn't imagine history's arc bending rightward. (I struggled to imagine it myself. Now populists facing the same warning keep implying no future censorious left could exceed what we've had already. (We'll see.)
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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