Oof. Hats off to the guy who took the video. That took some onions.

2025 is now, officially, the worst year for job creation outside of recession since 2003. @byheatherlong.bsky.social

Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."

Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: “We’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to ‘em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” 🇺🇸

Save the date: @katta.bsky.social and me are organizing the Austrian Computer Science Day #ACSD on June 1, 2026 at TU Wien with the motto CS in Modern Society: a Sign of the Times! More info and program coming soon here: informatics.tuwien.ac.at/acsd (CC) @tuwien.at & @informatics.tuwien.ac.at

Und zu allerallerletzt: lasst uns Antifaschismus als Begriff, als Auftrag, als Konsens, als verbindende Klammer gegen jeden Angriff verteidigen! Die Faschisten dürfen nicht durchkommen und die werden auch nicht durchkommen. NO PASARÁN!

Nach dem Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich aka Ermächtigungsgesetz dauerte es keine 2 Monate bis Oranienburg stand, dann kam Dachau, alles in 2 Monaten. Das vergisst man oft. Und auch dass die Atombombe grade so nicht auf Berlin gefallen ist. Auch das war arschknapp.

Was wir im Moment an den Entwicklungen in den USA sehen & daraus lernen müssen: Es geht verdammt schnell & umfassend, wenn der Faschismus an der Macht ist, er mäßigt sich nicht & lässt sich nicht zähmen, er tötet & zerstört jede kritische Infrastruktur. Aber er verliert eben auch jedes Maß. /1

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”

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The regime likely determined that the current protest movement represents an extremely dire security threat and the regime has intensified its crackdown, including by taking the rare step of using IRGC Ground Forces to suppress protests in at least one province 1/7 Read more isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

I still remember when, just last year, a politician smiled and said they weren’t going to be active on #Bluesky any time soon, because all the “important research findings” they needed to stay up to date with (as if 🙄) were supposedly to be found on #𝕏. Well… 🦋✨ Again, one excuse less.

X/Twitter's rough full volume is around 500 total million posts every day, or 182 (and a half) billion posts per year. By contracts, we found 11.2 million research posts in all of 2025 on there. In other words, 0.000006% of Twitter appears to be sharing research. Basically zero.

Wie kann ein Digitalisierung-Staatssekretär "privat" auf einem KI-Gipfel teilnehmen? (Abgesehen davon, dass die Assistentin im Bundeskanzleramt die Termine koordiniert hat): www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

AND Apple removed the ICEblock App from their AppStore which is even more scandalous in light of the Minnesota murder

So Musk didn't accidentally spend billions making what became a child porn machine, he purposely spent billions to make a child porn machine.

addendum: I'm not sure we can conclude--based on this--that all is well with Prolific. Especially given @seanjwestwood.bsky.social's recent PNAS.

This is it. This is the “I could … shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters”-test. But only if the Media, the Democrats, and the Voters let him.

This is not the law.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

These two maps give me a bit of solace at the moment. 1. Trumps approval ratings are really low – across the board. 2. They are low also in those states that Trump won from Biden in 2024. 3. There is quite a disparity between the full sample and the 2024 voters. So, mobilization will still be key.

The datasets from our @protestinstitut.bsky.social project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ are finally online for scientific re-use. We processed 30+ datasets, covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Now available @gesis.org 👇 search.gesis.org?source=%7B%2...

"Ablösegerüchte hören nicht auf", sagt Medium, das Ablösegerüchte fleißig nicht aufhören lässt.

“No evidence” There’s plenty of evidence.

From @theathletic.com: President Trump’s decision to seize control of three D.C. golf courses feels minuscule in the context of current events. It's still a brazen attempt to strip away a public good and hoard it for the privileged few, our columnist writes.

The best time for the government to quit X was August 2024, when its owner fuelled far right riots, the second best time is now.

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

#WestNile virus is spread by mosquitoes and there is no human vaccine
Climate change is facilitating its spread across Europe In eastern Austria, the virus has been established for years and is causing a growing number of infections Our paper on cases, risk areas.. now out in @eurosurveillance.org

A feature, not a bug. If you pay, you retain access to the feature. I urge everyone to leave this morally bankrupt space. Continuing to post there legitimizes the platform & its practices. The best moment to disengage was a year ago; the second best is now. Responsibility lies with those who stay.

First step towards Brentry?

Nichtmal in der Twitter-Maga-Bubble sind die Reihen in der Sache geschlossen. Der Mord an Reneé Good ist ein entscheidender Moment in der Geschichte des amerikanischen Faschismus.

Der Faschismus arbeitet übrigens auch damit, dass seine Gegner glauben er ist übermächtig und unbesiegbar. Glaubt das nicht. Sie sind es nicht.

Trumps Geheimpolizei hat im mittleren Westen e weiße working class mom von 3 Kindern erschossen. Und es ist alles auf Video. Es ist auch auf Video, d sie e Arzt nicht zu ihr gelassen haben. Und das sehen auch die Wähler_innen. Deswegen der verzweifelte Versuch sie als verrückte Linke zu diffamieren.

Once again as someone who doesn't always experience my feelings in real-time: you can be a good person & do good things even if your heart is not racing and your eyes are not filled with tears.

I agree with this. I read alt text despite being able to see images because it has good context about the "point" of the image - what it's about, what elements are supposed to be the focus, why it's being shared (I especially like when people alt text memes and explain the joke).

5 republikanische Senator*innen haben heute für eine Mehrheit gesorgt, die Trump weitere militärische Schritte in Venezuela ohne Zustimmung des Kongress untersagt. 17 republikan. Abgeordnete haben heute für eine Mehrheit gesorgt, die die Steuergutschriften für Obamacare retten sollen. Es bröckelt.

That said: Es ist gut, dass endlich viele Republicans offen in den Widerstand gehen. Gestern haben 22 Senator*innen & Abgeordnete offen gegen Trump gestimmt, bei Dingen, die ihm wichtig sind. Er hat sie dann öffentlich beschimpft. Das kann im besten Fall ein Dammbruch sein und der Widerstand wächst.

Trump wird nicht nur keine Wahlen mehr gewinnen. Er ist auch am Ende der Loyalität seiner Partei angekommen und wird zur gefährlichen Lame Duck. Weil er wird noch radikaler ausreizen, was in seiner Befehlsgewalt geht (und wo er zwar illegal unterwegs ist, aber effektiv niemand was tun kann).

Senate is voting NOW on this war powers resolution to block Trump from using military force "within or against Venezuela" without approval from Congress. Led by Kaine, endorsed by Rand Paul, Schiff and Schumer. Needs a simple majority to pass. www.kaine.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed

Since last year, Trump admin planned what to do if ICE agents were accused of crimes (even murder): Protect them “no matter what." Trump laid out ways to retaliate: —Refuse to hand over an agent —Charge local officials with “obstructing" —Threaten to cut off more funding led by @swin24.bsky.social

by mid-next year the white house will be renamed the Ballroom Annex

BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.

I think what is remarkable here is that it illustrates the bubble Trump is in. As soon as another human being questions his interpretation as they watch the actual video, he moves on. Online, and clearly in the White House, no-one is pushing back and so he makes outlandish claims.

Minneapolis Public Schools canceled classes district-wide for the remainder of the week “due to safety concerns,” following the killing of a woman Wednesday by an ICE agent. The district said it was acting “out of an abundance of caution.”

Minneapolis Council Member Robin Wonsley told me Wed. every local official needs to oppose FBI taking over: "Definitely do not trust the FBI, that has given authority for ICE agents to terrorize our communities here in Minneapolis. There's no reason they should be owning the tragedy they caused."

The state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"

Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

"At least this isn't technically fascism!" I say cheerfully as people are gunned down on the street by masked enforcers and I'm hauled off to a gulag for protesting against it.