"The surveillance appears to largely be an intimidation tactic, five students who have been followed, recorded or eavesdropped on said. The undercover investigators have cursed at students, threatened them and in one case drove a car at a student who had to jump out of the way, according to student accounts and video footage shared with the Guardian." #Michigan #Umich #AnnArbor #Education #Academia #Palestine #CityShield #USPol https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaza-surveillance
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Gonna try to be more anonymous on here. Still doing raccoon shit in Our Nation's Capital, Piscataway and Nacotchtank territory
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It's Muslim Ban 3.0!
"Once the list of banned countries is determined, everyone from those countries who had been admitted to the US since the last ban was repealed will need to undergo an undefined form of 'reassessment' with an eye toward finding possible reasons for deportation.…This provision *INCLUDES PEOPLE WITH GREEN CARDS*"
(Emphasis mine)
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-muslim-ban-new-version/
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My daughter is publishing another academic paper and has to run a filter to ensure there are no "controversial" words. It is an applied physics paper dealing with novel quantum matter. This timeline is so stupid and evil.
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feel like i curate my following enough on here that none of y'all need to hear any condescending platitudes about "doing the right thing" re: US elections, but mastodon is absolutely the kind of place where people do need to hear "hold on to your humanity and do not become this person, even a little bit"
![tweet by Adam Johnson: "Since Harris reiterated today that she will continue supporting Israel's siege and bombing of Gaza until Hamas is defeated (whatever this looks like) it'd be great for a reporter, any reporter, to ask her how many Palestinian children she is okay dying to achieve this nominal aim"
reply by @Treats0351: "I am sorry. I wish it were different, but right now she has a bigger problem on her hands. That's defeating a wanna-be fascist. If letting Palestinian children burn to death will give her a enough [sic] more votes to win, she'll do it. And she should. The alternative is far worse."](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/420/820/559/682/550/original/dddde4878be75745.png)
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Utterly shameful behaviour at the US National Archives as anything remotely confronting to white Americans seems to be being purged from the public national record. Whitewashing history is a shockingly regressive step.
To clarify this, we're talking public display and education. As far as I know, they're not removing items from the archives themselves, although if Trump wins that level of cultural vandalism wouldn't surprise me.
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China targeted and might have held for months access to the infrastructure used to do wiretaps on the AT&T and Verizon networks.
This is a huge "told you so" moment for the cryptographic community that has been saying that such infrastructure does present a huge risk to national security. China reportedly used this capability for intelligence collection, obviously without a warrant ...
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The FBI seized two of Eric Adams' work phones but he didn't have his personal device on him. So he changed the passcode on his personal device then told the FBI he forgot his password
https://www.404media.co/eric-adams-told-fbi-he-forgot-his-phones-passcode/
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Bunnie Huang, noted hardware hacker:
"The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. The current discourse around the potential reach of such explosive devices is clouded by the assumption that it’s technically difficult to implement and thus unlikely to find its way to our front door."
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/
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Please stop a grave miscarriage of justice from taking an innocent Black man’s life!
#savemarcelluswilliams #marcelluswilliams #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter
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"Why do Palestinians hate us?"
Almost every Israeli I know, including most of my relatives, has one very clear answer: textbooks which teach children to hate Jews and Israelis.
No one wonders if executions, torture, and daily humiliations perhaps play a role.
@mercnews hmm who exploded the devices
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@riotmuffin honestly, his ties to a notorious Christian cult should be getting a hell of a lot more attention. I grew up near those bastards and can tell you they are a real danger and should never be associated with ANYONE in power.
"Mark Robinson to hold fundraiser with church publicly accused of slavery, child abuse"
https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/politics/north-carolina-politics/mark-robinson-north-carolina-governor-candidate-controversial-fundraiser-word-of-faith-fellowship/275-acb5d1f7-57ad-435b-8598-a34190a58250
Word of Faith Fellowship via Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_of_Faith_Fellowship
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From the article:
A candidate for the Montana House of Representatives and a post-doctoral fellow at Montana Technical University in Butte has been reappointed to his position with the public university, even amid a request for an investigation by the state’s largest human rights organization because of concerns that he is an avowed white supremacist and neo-Nazi.
The Daily Montanan requested and received the letter appointing Trenin Bayless through the end of 2024 as a post-doctoral researcher who will work with students, something that specifically concerned the Montana Human Rights Network, which provided a detailed dossier of social media activities and posts attributed to Bayless. MHRN provided that dossier to the university system as well as the Daily Montanan.
The Montana Human Rights Network had earlier in the summer asked the Board of Regents of the Montana University System, which has oversight of all public colleges and universities in the state, including Montana Tech, to investigate the claims and, at a minimum, eliminate contact Bayless has with students.
#fascism #accelerationism #MHRN #TreninBayless #Montana #MontanaTech #Butte #NeoNazis #fcknzs #FascistsInHigherEd
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I have many questions... #luxury #yacht #exploding https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/us/video/yacht-marina-del-rey-fire-digvid
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A statement from University of Washington faculty on the murder of our student Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi in #Palestine. Ayşenur was one of the lead organizers of #UW’s encampment protests against the #Gaza #genocide. She’d spent most of her life in #Seattle.
This comes from the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, where she had just completed a minor. We are outraged and grieving. May this be the end of institutional silence. #aysenur #aysenurezgieygi #israel
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The donkeys are really enjoying tonight’s sunset.
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Some cracking barbarism for Bibi to eat up.
Fuck this inhumanity
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Specifically mentions housing co-ops, community land trusts, and ending the status of land as a commodity.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/opinion/aoc-tina-smith-housing.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L04.KMDZ.4IMxmclCUx1S&smid=url-share
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