NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

On behalf of the entire Commodore team, a HUGE THANK YOU to our incredible community. Hitting 10K pre-orders of the Commodore 64 Ultimate is only possible because of your passion & support. Welcome to The future we were promised! #WeAreCommodore #Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

This is very true.....

We have an FAQ section over at commodore.net which covers a lot of the questions we frequently receive. In the meantime, here are some questions and answers to them that frequently come up regarding the Commodore 64 Ultimate, a thread🧵👇 #WeAreCommodore #Commodore64 #C64 #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

The Commodore.net factory in China got an inspection visitor today, as CEO/Head Chef Peri Fractic installed the first power switch to power up Commodore! #WeAreCommodore #C64 #Commodore64 #RetroGaming #RetroComputing

We are slowly reaching a point in time where it comes to this: Making a Floppy Disk from scratch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBiF...

Is that true @jeriellsworth.bsky.social that you badgered WOZ? Unbelievable 😂 "Several years ago Ms. Ellsworth cornered Stephen Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, at a festival for vintage Apple computers and badgered him for the secrets of his Apple II floppy disk controller"

Watch Peri Fractic (Christian Simpson) make grown men cry in this beautiful video (and final chapter) of Commodore's rise from the ashes. @wearecommodore.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR5o...

Watch Us Acquire Commodore + Commodore 64 Ultimate Production Update video is live 👉 youtu.be/uR5oW7YFqfQ Let us know what part of the video was your favourite. Commodore is back! #WeAreCommodore #C64 #Commodore64 #RetroComputing

AP: The Trump administration says it's reviewing all 55 million people with U.S. visas for potential deportable violations.

The #ZX81

I'm preparing myself for the arrival of the new Commodore 64U. The Mug is already tested and in working condition..... @wearecommodore.bsky.social

I just became a paid subscriber of @bcmerchant.bsky.social and so should you if you want to learn more about the intrusion of AI in to our life. Brian offers a very thoughtful deep dive in to today's technology.

Watch the full interview with @timmiller.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySs...

“Being there for four months and two days taught me that the truth always has to come out first. And that is absolutely true. The abuse, the sexual harassment that I suffered from the people inside the detention center.” - Andry on the abuse at CECOT

“We survived by holding on to God. Really for us, there was not a day when we didn’t pray. We prayed for our families, for our mental well-being.” - Andry on how he survived

After four months in the hell that is CECOT, Andry Hernández Romero is now free. @timmiller.bsky.social spoke to him in an exclusive interview about what he experienced, how he survived and how he plans to go forward. This is what he told Tim. 👇

We Did It. Commodore Is Home. With the final payment locking in the deal CEO Peri Fractic signed the final contracts in The Netherlands, officially acquiring all 47 original Commodore trademarks. After decades adrift, the brand is finally where it belongs - with fans. #WeAreCommodore commodore.net

The EPA is reportedly preparing to rescind a landmark 2009 declaration, known as the “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to humans. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Luckily there are still ways around it. My Android phone doesn't support AI, Linux doesn't have AI and I ditched Proton for Tuta Mail. True, it doesn't solve all the AI intrusion but it is a good start.

Big tech promotes the story that since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, AI has been so popular it's rushed to meet the demand. The reality is different. A study by design scholars shows tech co's have had to push AI on its users with a variety of intrusive tactics. How big tech is force-feeding us AI:

WILD story. An 82-year-old from Chile lost his green card. In June, he went to pick up a new one at a USCIS office. While there, he was handcuffed and detained by ICE. An unknown caller claiming to be a lawyer told family she could help. Later, she said he’d died. Now he’s turned up — in Guatemala!

Andry Hernández Romero, the innocent make-up artist imprisoned without trial for 4 months in El Salvador by the Trump admin, is FREE. He was wrongfully accused of being a gang member because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, and illegally sent to El Salvador without due process.

#BRINGTHEMBACK After 125 days of torture, media reports of a potential prisoner swap may mean that our clients Andry, Maikel, Arturo, Ysqueibel, Miguel, Pedro, & Edwin are finally freed from CECOT. We are following reports closely and in contact with their families.

We found hacked data that revealed dozens of people on deportation flights to El Salvador are missing. 🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Wow. Over 1,000 preorders in day one! THANK YOU for the love & support. The Commodore 64 Ultimate - not an emulator, not a PC - is helping power the Commodore® IP comeback. More in Let’s Buy Commodore - Part 3 soon. #WeAreCommodore #Commodore64 #C64Ultimate #DigitalDetox #RetroGaming #ModernPower

We've been sleeping for 30 years. Please excuse us. Now, the best-selling home computer ever is back. Unplug The Chaos. Return To The Pixel. #wearecommodore www.commodore.net

Finding a loved one after an ICE arrest can be difficult, but there are steps you can take to help locate them. Learn how you can find a friend or family member who's been arrested for immigration reasons, then share this guide: www.nilc.org/resources/ho...

The first group of immigrants has arrived at a new “camp” deep in the Florida Everglades, where officials are openly describing it as “concentrating” certain people in one area. Have you seen the photos of the flooding? This entire site is a human rights violation.

Print still hits.

She’s right again, you know. She usually is.

"They have borrowed directly from Nazi sources to make the very same points that the Nazis were making. They understand very well that the way to establish a form of government that is not bound by law or reason is to declare a state of emergency."

When experts warned for months that the NWS “is being destroyed” by Trump’s personnel cuts, Howard Lutnick assured Congress that forecasting won’t be affected. Now TX officials are blaming a faulty forecast by NWS for the deadly impact of a storm. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

German Intelligence Service BND as well as Intelligence Services MIVD and AIVD from Netherland reporting that Russia is using chemical weapons with Trichlornitromethanin (Chlorpikrin) in Ukraine. (use Google translate) tinyurl.com/22yduzfw

Nasa astronaut on ISS, caught this sprite over Mexico and the US this morning. Sprites are TLEs or Transient Luminous Events, that happen above the clouds and are triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below. Source: NASA Astronaut Nichole Ayers

Happy 4th of July, Batman.

‚How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months - An assault on federal protections may bring about a new era of unchecked discrimination.‘ (Text: The New York Times) #IndependencDay #4July 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

"When you have a 'feeling' that a politician from a different race, ethnicity or religion threatens you...and you ignore the avalanche of evidence – his words, his record, his associations – that no such threat exists, that feeling you have is called racism." – @attackerman.bsky.social

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

This is Pearl and her puppies. They arrived at a shelter as strays where they all caught parvovirus. Due to the high cost of treatment they were at risk of euthanasia. Thanks to your support of our merch @15outof10.org was able to cover the entirety of their care, and they all made a full recovery ❤️‍🩹

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

This is a monstrous bill, a declaration of war on American families. It guts our services to fund giveaways to billionaires and exponentially scale up Trump's personal secret police force. We'll hold Rs who passed it accountable and we'll fight every step of the way to protect those it harms.

⚡️US halts Ukraine-bound weapons already staged in Poland, WSJ reports. The shipment includes over 2 dozen PAC-3 Patriot missiles, more than two dozen Stinger air-defense systems, Hellfire air-to-ground missiles, and over 90 AIM air-to-air missiles intended for use with Ukraine's F-16 fighter jets.

Democracy is hard to recover after the free press is silenced. The Paramount settlement is a disgrace to journalism. It's also why we're doing this: creating America's first grassroots newsroom — accountable to the people, not the powerful. Please consider supporting us: www.getrealnews.org

Ok, so Republicans just introduced a 900 page bill none of them have read. But my team is going through it line by line and on this 🧵you can see the hidden provisions we found. Will update all day. 1/ NEW Medicaid cuts, so now 17 million - instead of 16M - lose health care.

The United States never has enough money to keep people alive at home but always has enough money to kill people overseas.

In the last week, Marines were deployed in an American city, the president has called for a governor to be arrested & the speaker of the House has called for that gov to be tarred & feathered, a senator has been pinned and handcuffed, and two state legislators have been shot in their homes.

Before WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks, BayFiles, or Transparency Toolkit, there was Cryptome - an open internet archive that inspired them all, helped ignite the first digital crypto war, and even gave Julian Assange his start before falling out with him on principle. www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...

So the administration that claimed they wanted to give Americans more medical choice is banning my choice to get a Covid booster to protect my own health? The anti-freedom admin strikes again.