✨ “The ultimate aim of authoritarian propagandists is often to sow so much doubt and confusion that it leaves people passive and ready to give up their agency to a strongman leader...” #Perspectives #Navigatingchaos #Authoritarianism #Hungary #Synthesis #Propaganda

Sometimes I log onto this site for quick updates on the world and go wtaf and put my phone back down for a bit.

Big “we did it” energy from two losers who absolutely did not do it.

Wow, I am thrilled that @zackwhittaker.com included a reference to my article in his below piece. In many situations its not that "humans are the weakest link" in #cybersecurity but rather "humans are our last line of defence" and we need to design our systems to be more secure and resilient

Buckle up for a wild one. April Morganroth was fired from a Colorado newspaper for making up quotes. Then she changed her name, moved states, and got back in the journalism game. Now she's facing decades in prison. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/08/a...

Pet your dogs, everyone, and appreciate that they have no idea what is happening in this fucked up world.

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

Not enough of you know what being a teenage girl is like and it shows.

Commenter here is right about their take sounding bad. It is a bad take. The image in the article is an example of the type of book review districts are being pressured to take seriously. It's a bad take generally bc it refuses to consider the greater literary purpose for it's inclusion at all.

I respect and appreciate this very well written piece a lot.

New from me over at @404media.co - a look at how the parental rights movement uses digital tools to get more books pulled from shelves using commercial generative AI tools.

I want to start posting more about the books, movies, music, shows and games I've enjoyed recently. I know what I like isn't for everyone, but maybe it's for someone!

For @defector.com, I wrote about the Nitehawk Workers Union, "saving movie theaters," and why humans respond to other humans defector.com/fair-pay-fee...

For #SunshineWeek, the National Security Archive’s Annual FOIA Audit found that federal agencies’ use of “clarification of scope” letters undermines the rights of FOIA requesters. Read our investigation here: nsarchive.gwu.edu/foia-audit/f... @nsarchive.bsky.social

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

“It’s a win for the First Amendment. It’s a win for the customers of Maria’s Bookshop. It’s a win for the principle that people in Durango have a right to privacy in their book purchases.”

FLAIR will open source their code and methodology—without audio or cultural content—so that anyone can pick up the technology for their own tribe. “I want there to be an ecosystem of research,” Running Wolf said. Read the latest story from Costin Beavin Pappas here:

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Back at it again in the mines

This really is a great picture:

"libraries absorb the stressors of a city where many people lack food, housing, mental-health care, and other basic supports. When a branch is operating with skeleton staffing, workers are often alone at a desk during escalating or threatening encounters." 📚 organizingmythoughts.org/you-cant-fig...

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

The data analytics outfit was Colorado's biggest company... until it picked up and moved to Miami. 🔗 https://www.westword.com/news/things-to-know-about-palantir-technologies-40796239/ 

if you're not an owner you're a renter and the U.S. government is your landlord 💀

ICYMI: A judge ordered the payment of $148,822 in attorney fees and court costs to a parent who won an open meetings case against the Woodland Park school board for its discussion of a charter school MOU under a vague “BOARD HOUSEKEEPING” agenda item.

I was at a nye party where a friend explained this to me and then someone put the Nashville ball drop with Jelly Roll on and that's how my 2026 began. Anyway, the whole thing was weird enough that I started building my own desktop.

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE. They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios."" Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots. Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

ICE deporting a woman who's 8 months pregnant would have been a much bigger story had ICE not murdered an ICU nurse attending a protest

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

I've read hundred of stories from Minneapolis that all say the same thing: The bonds between the people of that city are tightening and strengthening in the face of mortal terror. No one in the administration can fathom this because they are all explicity anti-social.

Man this ad is hilarious. The ad for ChatGPT is that it’s a way to give you a vague way to not give up on running? This is why you assholes need $100 billion? This is why you owe Oracle $300 billion? youtu.be/cjveRUfE7dc?...

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

🧵 Yesterday, the finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards should have been announced. The organizers wisely postponed the announcements, which are always a much anticipated event in the vibrant Minnesota literary communit, in light of the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis. 1/6

And dropped the paywall on this one as well www.theverge.com/policy/86720...

Anyone else watching the live press briefing with Bovino? He just announced that anyone who "interferes" with ICE, just by being present the scene, is fair game to be shot.

The events of the last 24 hours show why it's important to build functional verification structures in public and counterpublic spaces to resist the authoritarian erosion of our democratic systems, as described in this thread.

we have won the horse girls. repeat: we have won the horse girls

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i don’t think they understood how big this bear they poked is gonna be