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New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news
"What I refer to as The Iron Triangle of #Fascism ..A new paradigm--RW #media, corporate media & weak Dem leadership combine to pave a path to perdition.
A major event occurs. It can be the #CharlieKirk shooting or Benghazi..And here’s how it goes from there.."
https://www.blueamp.co/p/charlie-kirk-holds-up-a-mirror-to #shooting #tv #news #politics #press #donaldtrump #trump #russia #china #eu #tech #ai #memes #ukraine #israel
Is what's happening at home now the same as what we've been doing to others out in the world?
Really y’all, it’s a good time to rewatch the Jimmy Saville doc on Netflix and think about Trump.
Not because suggesting Trump is a serial abuser of vulnerable underage targets, but only to refresh on how a human lizard hides in plain sight.
And how it’s enabled.
Today I launch “Amped Up w/ Cliff Schecter,” my new #Substack show every Thur 2pm et!
@ 2pm et TODAY I talk w fab co-host David Shuster & great guest Joe Walsh w some righteous anger & cutting humor re Trumpy & Co
Exclusively on Substack https://open.substack.com/live-stream/21418?r=j0lyx&utm_medium=ios #news #politics #tech #ai #usa #us #eu #europe #tariffs #stockmarket #media #donaldtrump #elonmusk #trump #tv #musk #press #nato #canada #china #russia #ukraine #america
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" #Trade & #security Aren't a GoFundMe! The #usa Wasn't Played—We Wrote the Rules!" https://www.blueamp.co/p/trade-and-security-arent-a-gofundme #news #press #politics #us #america #media #ai #elonmusk #musk #donaldtrump #tv #trump #tariffs #stockmarket #tech
A second reflection I wrote after being at the Hands Off demonstrations yesterday, this time an exploration of what it means to be "blessed"--even when an angry Trump supporter yells at you from his car window.
https://catecheticconverter.com/a-blessed-insult
#Theology #Bible #Jesus #Episcopal #Church #Politics #HandsOff #Hawaii
The arrests of #media member Don Lemon, a Democratic political candidate, and activists demand an immediate national response. Read my letter here... and let's take action!
https://www.blueamp.co/p/an-open-letter-to-journalists-and #politics #news #press #usa #unitedstates #socialmedia #ice #murder #dhs #trump #us #russia #eu #nato #us #america #tech #fascism #democracy #minneapolis #minnesota
"Die betroffenen Arten spüren den Wetterumschwung immer ein bisschen früher. Sie sind wie Vögel“, schreibt Mely Kiyak. Seit 15 Jahren warnt sie vor dem Aufstieg des Faschismus. Sie schreibt mal wütend, mal witzig, mal polemisch, mal zynisch (ein Lachen am Abgrund), aber immer seismographisch genau in der Beobachtung und geschliffen im Wort.
Diese Beiträge von Kiyak tun weh zu lesen. Und das ist gut so. #Bücherwabe #bucher #books #livre #politics #politik #chemnitz #antifa #Faschismus #melykiyak
"Some of us always knew this was where this would end up. A bloated, stumbling, smash-and-grab, cash-licking cadaver who spent an entire life born on third base—yet somehow finding a way to get thrown out at second—taking out his vast wilderness of dumbf*kery on us all"
Read The Rest: https://blueamp.substack.com/p/trump-mimics-stalin-uses-total-bs #news #politics #russia #ukraine #usa #nato #eu #us #america #unitedstates #bls #writing #stalin #jacksmith
https://blueamp.substack.com/p/kamala-told-colbert-the-systems-broken Kamala Told Colbert the System’s "Broken;"
#Trump Proved it, Ended #PBS / #NPR "Kamala sat across from #Colbert—recently fired to make the slovenly golf-cheat happy so he’d “allow” Skydance #Media to take over Paramount Global—and admitted our system is broken"
READ THE REST & SUBSCRIBE! #news #politics #writing #russia #america #us #usa #unitedstates #press #tech #ai #donaldtrump #nato #eu #epstein #jobs #entertainment #tv #business
When I see news with a link, but the link is to an article behind a paywall, it is still helpful because I then do a Google search or a Bing search for the same news. I often find more information about this news, sometimes from a television station or a foreign newspaper.
#FindingFreeContent #media #politics
Green Queer Erotic Love Magic is an ecological, queer and anarchist manifesto of love as a politics that seeks to integrate humanity with the earth as an erotic whole. It plugs into myth, poetry, queer theory, the science of diversity, emancipatory fiction, nature and anarchist politics as the means to doing this. It is a book that is pro-love and pro-life, pro-queer, pro-trans and pro-diversity.
https://archive.org/details/green-queer-erotic-love-magic
#trans #queer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #politics #anarchy #ecology #nature
"Taiwan’s vibrant and competitive democratic system has allowed for regular peaceful transfers of power since 2000, and protections for civil liberties are generally robust. Ongoing concerns include inadequate safeguards against the exploitation of migrant workers and the Chinese government’s efforts to influence policymaking, media, and the democratic infrastructure."
Just out from @josephinelee and Joelle DiPaolo: After three decades of fighting back against #vouchers, the governor enlisted the help of the president to destroy the last vestiges of Republican resistance this week. https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-trump-house-vouchers-pass/
#education #schools #Trump #GregAbbott #politics #USpol #news #TXlege #Texas #Republicans #democracy
Another quiet week in the news, with nothing much to report… But if you do want to follow the very little, totally inconsequential stuff that's happening, here’s a thread of news- and politics-related #CustomFeeds that have been created using Surf, plus a video on how to build a feed using our Starter Sets.
RS:
‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter
“Whatever people's views on Trump's broader politics, these are the words of a man who is having some sort of serious mental breakdown,” wrote Dan Hodges, a British columnist and political commentator...
“This is plainly deranged,” wrote British writer and former lawmaker Daniel Hannan in a social media post... "The Nixon, Clinton and, indeed, Trump impeachments were triggered by less.”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674907657/
"The #monopoly #media morons for whom he’s entertained tens of millions of ad-viewing viewers deemed it so, and I’m sure it has nothing to do w Stephen #Colbert using his brilliant timing and razor-sharp wit to disembowel Don-Don on the regular"
CONT-> https://www.blueamp.co/publish/post/168652683 #writing #humor #funny #tv #ai #usa #america #unitedstates #fascism #us #russia #democracy #tech #news #politics #press #entertainment
A new campaign has begun: Let Cuba Play.
[Updated with new info]
The #Trump administration in the #USA has refused to grant visas to Cuban athletes who need to compete in various events in the upcoming months in order to qualify for the 2028 #OlympicGames in #LosAngeles.
#Cuba #sports #news #politics #Olympics #USpol #HumanRights
@HarriettMB
“The whole system is premised on commodifying human beings.”
From Sandy West in our magazine: In the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, adoptions are on the rise in #Texas. But some private foster care and adoption agencies may have crossed serious ethical lines. https://www.texasobserver.org/private-adoption-agencies-legal-custody-battles/
#RoeVWade #children #HumanRights #politics #USpol #Texas #adoption #news
I still can't get over that time the #NYPD used a $250m ladder to reach a second floor window, with 3 more of these $250m ladders also owned but not used
$250,000,000 + $250,000,000 + $250,000,000 + $250,000,000 = $1,000,000,000 for four ladders.
Home Depot rents cherry pickers for $500 a day
