This is going on everywhere, not just #Chicago. #ICE is not welcome in most hotels or restaurants. They have to book under false pretenses at most hotels; then protesters find them and make noise outside until the hotel throws them out.
Nor do truck companies intentionally rent to them-- at the very least, they do not want anyone riding in cargo trailers for liability reasons! If you EVER see ICE in a rental truck/trailer, get the USDOT number of the rental and report them to the company.
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OOPS! U.K. Conservatives Serve Up VERY Embarrassing Typo On Chocolate Bar | HuffPost Latest News
OOPS! U.K. Conservatives Serve Up VERY Embarrassing Typo On Chocolate Bar
The attempted troll of the rival Labour Party backfired deliciously.Lee Moran (HuffPost)
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A black-and-white cartoon depicts a tense scene with several people and police officers. The foreground shows a police officer standing with their back to the viewer, holding a gun pointed forward. Behind the officer are several demonstrators holding signs that read "I HATE COPS", "STOP POLICE BRUTALITY", and "POLICE REVIEW BOARD NOW". A counter with items visible behind the officer seems to be a pawn shop. The cartoon is signed "R. COBB" and has the year "1966" in the bottom left corner, with a statement that reads "THIS CARTOON IS FROM 1966. YOU CAN'T REFORM THE POLICE".
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Hey website owners!
If you run a site please please please include an "About" page that is easy to find. Make it a succinct, straightforward and specific description of what your site is about, don't use hype or vague handwavy stuff.
I've been going through hundreds of Fedi-connected news sites over past couple of days to decide what to list on fedi.directory and the descriptions on these sites are often just something like "Home of the best journalism" or "Challenging the status quo" or "Fearless, never afraid" etc which don't mean anything.
Don't force people to carry out detective work just to find out what your site does 🙂
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1. she absolutely deserves it
2. just to watch Trump have a meltdown threads.com/@shiona.not.fiona/… @shiona.not.fiona
Shiona 🍉 (@shiona.not.fiona) on Threads
Greta Thunberg is officially eligible for a Nobel Peace Prize. Here’s why she needs to win: 1. she absolutely deserves it 2. just to watch Trump have a meltdownThreads
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“The conflict [Bleeding Kansas] was characterized by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and murders carried out in the Kansas Territory and neighboring Missouri by proslavery ‘border ruffians’ and retaliatory raids carried out by antislavery ‘free-staters’. According to Kansapedia of the Kansas Historical Society, 56 political killings were documented during the period, and the total may be as high as 200. It has been called a ‘tragic prelude’ or an overture, to the American Civil War, which immediately followed it.”
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#GOP BUSTED USING SOUTH AMERICAN RIOT PICS TO JUSTIFY OREGON TROOPS: 'WE'RE BAD MEMERS'
The #Oregon #Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in #Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America
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Welcome, Bluesky users! To help you get acclimated, here’s a helpful guide to Mastodon language.
Here, skeets are “toots,” reskeets are “boosts,” and TERFs are called “blocked accounts.”
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I don't like judging people by the place they come from.
I welcome everybody with kind manners and a good heart, regardless of their provenience.
@mina @padeluun @musevg Many of us came from Twitter. I found here just because it was mentioned as a possible refuge as Twitter was collapsing.
Where we have come from, what we did before is not relevant. Welcome all. Like with the foreign legion, your past is not relevant, you are welcome and I am glad that you have finally found The Good Place.
A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings
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A Complete Digitization of Leonardo Da Vinci's Codex Atlanticus, the Largest Collection of His Drawings & Writings
No historical figure better fits the definition of “Renaissance man” than Leonardo da Vinci, but that term has become so overused as to become misleading.OC (Openculture.com)
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Tesla is in hot water for mishandling insurance claims | Electrek
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#Tesla #california #ca #insurance
Tesla is in hot water for mishandling insurance claims
California is taking significant enforcement action against Tesla Insurance, alleging the company has been systematically failing to handle claims properly...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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A black and white cartoon depicts a line of uniformed people standing at attention, facing a person also in uniform who is standing in front of a whiteboard. The person at the whiteboard is pointing towards it with one hand. The whiteboard has text on it that reads “Operation Circular Reasoning” with an accompanying circular arrow diagram. The uniformed people all appear to be wearing military-style hats and carrying rifles. Below the cartoon is text that reads: “We’re being deployed because of the protests about us being deployed.”
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Don't underestimate the power of socioemotional damage against fascists—especially low-level ones.
Show your contempt for their choices/actions/affiliations early, loudly, and often.
Meme their mistakes.
Make fun of their symbols, uniforms, and tactics.
Make them look like the fucking bigot-clowns they are.
These guys (and a few gals) thrive on their cowboy Gravy Seal paramilitary cosplay identities. They want people to think they're tough and scary, but they're just fucking irrelevant cowards who peaked in highschool (if that) trying to exert control over others with their limp-dick energy because their mom didn't hug them enough and their dad was too busy drunk-texting Tucker Carlson's Only Fans line to play catch with them.
#FuckICE #FuckTrump and #FuckFascism
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@pixelnull see now, I wouldn't bat an eye at a balding guy—it happens, it's natural, and it's not something anyone has any control over.
But you know what you do have control over? Being a weird fascist dickbag who spraypaints his head.
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"I don’t think it’s necessary to kill them entirely, we’re not a barbaric people, we respect life. Therefore torture is the way to go. Because tortured people can live. Torture is a celebration of life and human dignity..."
"Miller’s former classmates recalled that he would challenge Latino students to speak English and loudly opposed putting student announcements in multiple languages"
Damning Resurfaced Video Reveals Just How Evil Stephen Miller Is
A resurfaced video from Miller’s teen years shows he has always espoused horrific views.The New Republic
i am 💯 w/ this.
more of these people need to be told to their faces that they are no longer accepted among the good people of society
#MyBlueWorld 💯 #magafree
This is how i deal with them💙
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Someone saw me feeding pigeons this morning, and stopped to talk to me
This is how it went - and how it should always go - if you are anti-fascistopen.substack.com
@Vive_Levant 🤣 that's me feeding the #pigeons . it started out as an experiment to test a hypothesis i'm working on. now i've come to appreciate their beauty💙
she just thought it was cool watching them fly in & out of my hands, landing on my arms & wanted to talk w/ me.
i asked her who she voted for, then told her, "No, go away. I want nothing to do w/ you."
whether online or in person, they don't get my time, attention or $. 💯 #magafree
#MyBlueWorld #My💙🌐 #WT7
Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To
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After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.
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This seems bad. I've lost count of all the ways.
Unitree makes consumer grade robots. Humanoid and quadruped ripoffs of Boston Dynamics (the US military contractors).
German security teams found bi-directional backdoors to servers in China that 1) allow 24/7 remote surveillance 2) receive remote commands.
The robots are semi-autonomous with AI.
A ready-made robot army distributed all over the world. And if AI takes over and even blccks control from China . . .
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宇树科技是全球最早公开零售高性能四足机器人和最早实现四足机器人行业落地的世界知名机器人公司，专注于消费级、行业级高性能四足机器人、灵巧机械臂自主研发、生产及销售，并且全球销量历年领先。曾经荣登《央视春晚》《北京冬奥会开幕式》《美国超级碗》等。宇树科技—全球四足机器人行业开创者
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In the US, it’s National Banned Books Week. GLSEN is an organization that raises awareness about the impact of censorship on LGBTQ+ stories and voices, and provides resources like Rainbow Library Book Lists for educators and librarians. 🌈📚
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A comic panel depicts a person presenting a diagram to a group of people. The diagram is a simplified street map with dashed lines indicating routes for cars and bikes. To the left of the diagram is the label “CARS BIKES” with a small car and bicycle icon beside it. The diagram shows “MAIN STREET” with arrows indicating car routes going straight and bike routes curving around. A person stands to the right of the diagram, pointing with their right hand, while a group of four people stand facing the diagram, appearing to listen. The text at the top of the panel reads: "CITIES GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO ACCOMMODATE BICYCLES". Below the diagram it states: "NO NEED TO TAKE AWAY OR DRIVING LANES ON MAIN STREET. WE'LL GIVE BIKES THIS GREAT PARALLEL ROUTE!".
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DC Council’s Brooke Pinto running for Del. Norton’s congressional seat
D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto told WTOP Monday she has entered the race to become the city’s next congressional representative.Diane Morris (WTOP News)
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The image is a brightly lit stage photograph featuring a performer mid-action, likely during a concert. The performer is wearing a shiny, silver, asymmetrical outfit and high-heeled boots. They are standing with one leg bent and arms outstretched, appearing to be in a dynamic pose. A microphone is visible on a stand in front of them, and a blurred audience is in the background. Overlaid on the image is text that reads: "LET'S BE CLEAR: IF YOU BELIEVE THE GOVERNMENT BELONGS IN A WOMAN'S UTERUS, A GAY PERSONS BUSINESS OR MARRIAGE, OR THAT RACISM IS OKAY- THEN PLEASE IN THE NAME OF YOUR LORD NEVER FUCKING LISTEN TO MY MUSIC AGAIN. AND ALSO FUCK RIGHT OFF. WE GOOD?" In the top right corner, there is a logo with the text "SHE CAN".
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This highlights a fatal flaw in fascist regimes. Their purity tests around race, gender, and personal loyalty make them less competent and narrows their perspective. As a result, they drastically weaken their ability to correctly judge threats to their power and their ability to confront them.
It leads them to do disastrous things like, oh I don't know, invade the USSR because they think they'll be pushovers.
They're going to overplay their hand, if they haven't already. We just need to keep up the pressure and, sooner or later, they'll collapse in on themselves.
♲ @tpf@diasporasocial.net:Netanyahu admits to war crime committed in Tunisian port
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Senator Cruz Figure Out Who Was President From 2018 To 2020 Challenge; Impossible
I have a simple question for Senator Ted Cruz: Who was president in 2018? How about 2020? I ask because Cruz just released a “bombshell” report claiming that the Biden administration “convert…Techdirt
♲ @joyce_donahue@diasporasocial.net:Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago is on fire this morning!
He just signed an executive order prohibiting ICE from using private or public property for staging after a weekend when children were zip tied in their underwear in the street in the middle of the night and Chicago police were later tear gassed by federal agents.
♲ @psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com:mastodon.social/@flexghost/115… flexghost@mastodon.social - South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein blocked the Trump admin from getting voter data.
And now, her Edisto Beach home was set ablazeHer husband, 76, broke both legs jumping from the 2nd floor. Others were badly hurt.
Political violence is wrong.
Not when it’s your team
Not when it’s my team
All of it.
#uspol #politics
Making the job bad news:
Suppose that when an ICE agent tries to arrest someone, state and local officials demand to see their identification and the warrant for arresting that person. If the agent fails to provide one, the state law-enforcement officer could say: "Since you are apparently not working for the federal government and have no arrest warrant for this person, I have to assume you are a common criminal trying to kidnap someone. Kidnapping is a state crime. You are under arrest. You have the right to remain silent, etc." Then the ICE agent is handcuffed, taken away and charged with kidnapping. ICE agents who break down doors to gain entry to buildings and can't prove they are federal agents following lawful orders could be arrested for burglary or breaking and entering under state laws. Having states aggressively enforce their own laws against individual agents and doing their best to not have them released on bail changes the incentive structure for wanting to work for ICE. How many headlines do there have to be saying: "ICE agent arrested for kidnapping and held without bail" before many agents start looking for other jobs?
The whole article on how to defeat #Trump #blackmail is excellent. Please boost so the idea takes hold, especially if you k ow people in state and local law enforcement.
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Before I read any of the responses, I think this is a great idea: “Having states aggressively [assertively could be a more appropriate term] enforce their own laws against individual agents and doing their best to not have them released on bail changes the incentive structure for wanting to work for ICE”.
State forces could need special/ enhanced training; and then be paid more because they’re better trained & have more skills. Highly transferable skills. It could be an opportunity to refresh - or retrain - state forces in non-violent methods of controlling armed hostiles & protecting civilian populations. Hell, mixed training groups could be developed for state forces to work together with motivated civilians; it could be a bonding experience! [you may call me a dreamer 😁]
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The image is a text-based graphic, resembling a "hack" or tip, presented in a list format with numbered points. The background color is a light pastel green. The graphic begins with the heading “MEDICAL HACK: So, your doctor ordered a test or treatment and your insurance company denied it. That is a typical cost saving method.” Below this, a numbered list provides instructions:
- "Call the insurance company and tell them you want to speak with the “HIPAA Compliance/Privacy Officer” (By federal law, they have to)."
- "Then ask for the NAMES as well as CREDENTIALS of every person accessing your record to make decision of denial. By law you have a right to that information."
- "They will almost always reverse the decision very shortly than admit that the committee is made of low paid HS graduates, looking at “criteria words,” making the medical decision to deny your care. Even in the rare case it is made by medical personnel, it is unlikely that it is made by a board certified doctor in that specialty and they DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS!"
- "Any refusal should be reported to the US Office of Civil Rights (OCR.gov) as a HIPAA violation.”
The graphic is signed “~BAA, RN” at the bottom. The overall tone suggests a method to navigate insurance denials by leveraging patient rights.
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False flags all the way down the escalator: immigrants, brown people, black people, woke, liberal, gay and trans people. Divide and conquer. Distract from climate disruption, the hollowing out of the middle class and the race to become the first trillionaire.
As the last living survivors of the last round of fascism pass away a new round of fascism is on the march. If it can be stopped it will be stopped by massive peaceful demonstrators in the streets.
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Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS!
in reply to Mary Austin VOTED 4 HARRIS! • • •Remember how they were using Penske? Then they got reported to Penske multiple times and all the franchisees involved banned those users. The company reached out to DHS and asked them not to use Penske trucks.
Now it's Budget or UHaul, wash rinse repeat.
Obviously a boycott is in order if a company GETS the report and does nothing, but the main thing now is to report! It's very unlikely that any truck company wants to rent to them, between liability reasons and public reputation.
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When a military force enters a war zone, they bring their own rations, food, cooks, t.p. (or use leaves), supplies, fuel, etc They don't rely on the "enemy." They are 100% on their own for sustaining themselves.