This is so Wes Anderson, I can almost hear the affectless Jason Schwartzmann voiceover saying "My mother used to design undercover disguises for the Stasi"

It's as American as apple pie.

In the US in the 1920s-1930s the same was said about Mexicans before "repatriating" up to 2 million of them based on skin color or language. It was just one of many excuses.

Just one example. It's been used against any minority, but especially those deemed foreign.

Lies about disease and crime are popular because they serve to override any moral misgivings about treating people badly.

We're protecting ourselves and our defenseless children from harm, after all.

ITYM blood lawyer.

Whoops!

The hero for our time.

Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims | TechCrunch Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.

One danger of the safety-brained approach to security is that if anything, history has taught us that anyone can be gotten to.

I don't know if this is true, but if the NSA can lose its exploit toolkit, why should we think Anthropic will be able to keep a tool like this under wraps for very long?

Cocaine bear's gotta eat something.

I thought maybe they added a 22-point manifesto to the box or something for a second.

Not proud of how hard I laughed at this.

Phoeo of a cute cat behind a super market toy set looking at the camera, with the silly caption of "Khajiit has wares if you have coin" which is a known The Elder Scrolls line.

Khajiit has wares if you have coin

Two things can be true:

Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and

Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.

One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.

Transphobia makes a lot of sense to the kind of person that stopped developing critical thinking skills in junior high and thinks that's what makes them a realist and a great debater.

Honestly if they're pointing to Websters and not a meme you should feel flattered.

The Supreme Court Just Twisted Its Cop Immunity Doctrine in an Even More Violent Direction Roy Scott was a 65-year-old Black man who called the police for medical help. He was soon killed.

The Rehnquist/Roberts court on Bivens: We will not let victims of abusive cops sue their abusers under this judge-created doctrine.

The same court on qualified immunity: We will hide behind this judge-created doctrine to make sure victims of police abuse cannot sue their abusers.

Cue the scaremongers telling you that feeding birds is bad, actually... Somehow.

Pazuzu was in “possession of a child,” just sayin’. (#OnlyHalfJoking, 😈)

again, gender roles are so “natural” that its boundaries have to be aggressively policed by these weirdos

Will Dispute Led ICE To Put 85-Year-Old Widow In Immigration Detention Personal motive involving an inheritance led Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to arrest and detain an 85-year-old French widow.

A federal employee asked ICE to detain and deport a widow so he could gain the inheritance of her late husband’s house, per a probate judge. At 85 years old, the widow was not likely the “worst of the worst” ICE claims it targets. @mclem.org @douglasrivlin.bsky.social
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Behold! The Brundledork.

It's okay, only bad guys use known narco routes.

my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article

Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help

Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death
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Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

InfoWars Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing…

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40’ tall aliens capturing humans and breeding them into teacup varieties

The Arc de Triomphe was commissioned to honor Napoleon in 1806. By the time construction had really begun in earnest, Napoleon had suffered a disastrous military defeat and had been forced into exile.

Chicago Books to Women in Prison Chicago Books to Women in Prison is an all-volunteer organization that sends free books to women and trans people in prison nationwide.

YALL.

There is a charitable organization in Chicago that donates books to women’s prisons. My boyfriend introduced me to it!!!

Yall support!! This is AMAZING. Women’s prisons do NOT get anywhere near the donations men’s do. That’s why my own organization exists.

LINK HERE: www.cbwp.org

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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