David Jekel
@davidjekel.myatproto.social
Mathematics poastdoc from US at University of Copenhagen. Personal account/opinions. Posts often about current events, sometimes math & education. Leftist, anti-war, anti-colonialism, food & housing for all.
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Odai is running out of time. Every day without surgery takes away his chance to walk again. This is not a story or pity, it is a real child losing his future right now. One click today can change everything. Please don’t scroll past him.
tinyurl.com/odai-care
He deserves a chance to walk. Today
tinyurl.com/odai-care
He deserves a chance to walk. Today
February 11, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Odai is running out of time. Every day without surgery takes away his chance to walk again. This is not a story or pity, it is a real child losing his future right now. One click today can change everything. Please don’t scroll past him.
tinyurl.com/odai-care
He deserves a chance to walk. Today
tinyurl.com/odai-care
He deserves a chance to walk. Today
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Minnesota remains under siege, operations have started up again in Maine and never stopped in Chicago or LA.
Find on the ground groups to support (mutual aid, legal assistance, watch groups) and in as much as you are able to build up your capacity and your community's to sustain a general strike.
Find on the ground groups to support (mutual aid, legal assistance, watch groups) and in as much as you are able to build up your capacity and your community's to sustain a general strike.
For all those who have been calling for a General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
How we support a localized/ state-wide General Strike to succeed, is an important muscle building exercise for a larger General Strike.
Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager
January 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Minnesota remains under siege, operations have started up again in Maine and never stopped in Chicago or LA.
Find on the ground groups to support (mutual aid, legal assistance, watch groups) and in as much as you are able to build up your capacity and your community's to sustain a general strike.
Find on the ground groups to support (mutual aid, legal assistance, watch groups) and in as much as you are able to build up your capacity and your community's to sustain a general strike.
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People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
February 10, 2026 at 9:55 AM
People on Reddit are getting Amazon to refund their Ring products because of their partnership with Flock and that creepy Super Bowl ad
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
www.reddit.com/r/FlockSurve...
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its not complicated: any tech that can "find a lost dog" can by definition also track human beings in real time across space.
Not the kind of thing we should be cheering in the Year of our Lord 2026, least of all from Bezos Inc.
Not the kind of thing we should be cheering in the Year of our Lord 2026, least of all from Bezos Inc.
“People need to reject this kind of disingenuous framing and recognize the potential end result: a scary overreach of the surveillance state designed to catch us all in its net.”
No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare
Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartf...
www.eff.org
February 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
its not complicated: any tech that can "find a lost dog" can by definition also track human beings in real time across space.
Not the kind of thing we should be cheering in the Year of our Lord 2026, least of all from Bezos Inc.
Not the kind of thing we should be cheering in the Year of our Lord 2026, least of all from Bezos Inc.
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Turkish court blocks access to news reports on Epstein documents mentioning İhlas Holding CEO
In one of the emails, Ahmet Mücahid Ören wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell, “Thank you so much. And I need to learn more from you to be naughtier.” bianet.org/haber/turkis...
In one of the emails, Ahmet Mücahid Ören wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell, “Thank you so much. And I need to learn more from you to be naughtier.” bianet.org/haber/turkis...
Turkish court blocks access to news reports on Epstein documents mentioning İhlas Holding CEO
In one of the emails, Ahmet Mücahid Ören wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell, “Thank you so much. And I need to learn more from you to be naughtier.”
bianet.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Turkish court blocks access to news reports on Epstein documents mentioning İhlas Holding CEO
In one of the emails, Ahmet Mücahid Ören wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell, “Thank you so much. And I need to learn more from you to be naughtier.” bianet.org/haber/turkis...
In one of the emails, Ahmet Mücahid Ören wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell, “Thank you so much. And I need to learn more from you to be naughtier.” bianet.org/haber/turkis...
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This is a threat delivered by King David! He’s saying he’ll slaughter every “wall pisser” among Naval’s house! Translating it “male” removes all the profanity & aggression!
Yet the King James Bible is the only one I’ve found that translates this literally! My edition of Koren puts it in a footnote.
Yet the King James Bible is the only one I’ve found that translates this literally! My edition of Koren puts it in a footnote.
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
This is a threat delivered by King David! He’s saying he’ll slaughter every “wall pisser” among Naval’s house! Translating it “male” removes all the profanity & aggression!
Yet the King James Bible is the only one I’ve found that translates this literally! My edition of Koren puts it in a footnote.
Yet the King James Bible is the only one I’ve found that translates this literally! My edition of Koren puts it in a footnote.
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Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries.
ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social
ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social
Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development
Discover how the Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development and its implications.
ricochet.media
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Funny/not funny. Ontario government calls Ring of Fire minerals ‘the most ethical on Earth,’ while passing legislation that suspends treaty rights, species protections, and human rights — to benefit extractive industries.
ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social
ricochet.media/indigenous/o... via @ricochetmedia.bsky.social
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
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More off-shoring bad news::
EU moves closer to creating offshore centres for migrants and asylum seekers
MEPs vote to allow people to be deported to places they have never been to, as NGOs express fears over new ‘safe third countries’ list
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:57 PM
More off-shoring bad news::
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Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.
For all the WHO ARE THE NAMES people in the comments: www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Democratic congressman Ro Khanna names six men appearing in unredacted Epstein files – live
Khanna, who co-sponsored the Epstein transparency act, named six people including Victoria’s Secret tycoon Leslie Wexner on the House floor
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Leslie Wexner, former CEO of Victoria's Secret, was the other man named by Ava Cordero as her rapist and abuser alongside Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, only to be mocked and degraded and dismissed as crazy because she's trans.
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Please review The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Adopted 20 November 1989
General Assembly resolution 44/25
www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen....
Adopted 20 November 1989
General Assembly resolution 44/25
www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen....
February 10, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Please review The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Adopted 20 November 1989
General Assembly resolution 44/25
www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen....
Adopted 20 November 1989
General Assembly resolution 44/25
www.ohchr.org/en/instrumen....
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Yes and it's a problem if we continue to frame migrants as important fiscal resources rather than people who should have freedom of movement
Fascism is the cult of suicide.
Until recently, America was one of the few large nations *not* facing population & then economic collapse.
Why? Immigration! People wanted to come here.
Now, we’ve lost ~7 million future people over the past year because Trump is stabbing the US with a rusty spoon
Until recently, America was one of the few large nations *not* facing population & then economic collapse.
Why? Immigration! People wanted to come here.
Now, we’ve lost ~7 million future people over the past year because Trump is stabbing the US with a rusty spoon
The UK faces a demographic disaster. By 2030, if net migration falls to 0% then the UK total population will top out at 70m.
That means more old people and fewer carers.
According to one think tank it also implies a reduction of GDP by 3.6%.
2/ www.theguardian.com/business/202...
That means more old people and fewer carers.
According to one think tank it also implies a reduction of GDP by 3.6%.
2/ www.theguardian.com/business/202...
February 10, 2026 at 8:33 PM
Yes and it's a problem if we continue to frame migrants as important fiscal resources rather than people who should have freedom of movement
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“That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder."
-- Noam Chomsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
-- Noam Chomsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Newly released files shed new light on Chomsky and Epstein relationship
Latest communications undermine Chomsky’s earlier claims that he primarily had financial dealings with Epstein
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder."
-- Noam Chomsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
-- Noam Chomsky
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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in a very special loop of american healthcare hell where my insurance keeps telling the pharmacy that they need preauthorization from my doctor's office, my doctor's office keeps calling them and giving it, and the pharmacy keeps cancelling the order and not telling anyone.
February 10, 2026 at 6:33 PM
in a very special loop of american healthcare hell where my insurance keeps telling the pharmacy that they need preauthorization from my doctor's office, my doctor's office keeps calling them and giving it, and the pharmacy keeps cancelling the order and not telling anyone.
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"While the Trump administration’s immigration blitz hit Midwestern cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, a quieter escalation unfolded in San Diego late last year with agents making thousands of arrests in and around the city"
calmatters.org/justice/2026...
calmatters.org/justice/2026...
Immigration arrests surge by 1,500% in San Diego: 'I feel the temperature rising'
Immigration agents escalated their presence in San Diego in the second half of 2025, where they made hundreds of arrests as part of President Trump's crackdown.
calmatters.org
February 10, 2026 at 4:39 AM
"While the Trump administration’s immigration blitz hit Midwestern cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, a quieter escalation unfolded in San Diego late last year with agents making thousands of arrests in and around the city"
calmatters.org/justice/2026...
calmatters.org/justice/2026...
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Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown
Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
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LockDown Browser seems bad, right? Why does my kid have to install malware in order to take a placement test 😠
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
LockDown Browser seems bad, right? Why does my kid have to install malware in order to take a placement test 😠
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It's funny how whenever I read that so-and-so has a very influential substack, my brain immediately tunes out.
February 10, 2026 at 7:35 PM
It's funny how whenever I read that so-and-so has a very influential substack, my brain immediately tunes out.
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Zammi's father now has to pay 2,400 Danish Kronar every month because he claimed parental tights to Zammi. Keira has been paying since Zammi's first month of life.
All while Zammi is still not home. The State of Denmark claimed her and took her two hours after birth and put her into a foster home
All while Zammi is still not home. The State of Denmark claimed her and took her two hours after birth and put her into a foster home
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Zammi's father now has to pay 2,400 Danish Kronar every month because he claimed parental tights to Zammi. Keira has been paying since Zammi's first month of life.
All while Zammi is still not home. The State of Denmark claimed her and took her two hours after birth and put her into a foster home
All while Zammi is still not home. The State of Denmark claimed her and took her two hours after birth and put her into a foster home
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Pleasantly surprised by how my crashing waves went
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Pleasantly surprised by how my crashing waves went
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my feeling is that if we are going to let AI loose we should start simple and low-risk, like criminal profiling, autonomous driving and medical advice before we let it handle complex tasks
It’s crazy the sheer number of supposedly rational people who were like “ok but it’s good at health stuff” early on.
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
February 10, 2026 at 4:11 AM
my feeling is that if we are going to let AI loose we should start simple and low-risk, like criminal profiling, autonomous driving and medical advice before we let it handle complex tasks
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@repscottpeters.bsky.social, you are my current representative.
@sarajacobs.house.gov, you will most likely be my representative in January.
I need you both to pay attention to what Rep. McIver is doing. I need you both to join her, to go on record and say with your full throat, ABOLISH ICE.
@sarajacobs.house.gov, you will most likely be my representative in January.
I need you both to pay attention to what Rep. McIver is doing. I need you both to join her, to go on record and say with your full throat, ABOLISH ICE.
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
@repscottpeters.bsky.social, you are my current representative.
@sarajacobs.house.gov, you will most likely be my representative in January.
I need you both to pay attention to what Rep. McIver is doing. I need you both to join her, to go on record and say with your full throat, ABOLISH ICE.
@sarajacobs.house.gov, you will most likely be my representative in January.
I need you both to pay attention to what Rep. McIver is doing. I need you both to join her, to go on record and say with your full throat, ABOLISH ICE.