DJSmyth
@djsmyth.bsky.social
Digital media, digital literacy, film studies
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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My son just described a Paul McCartney solo album as being “part of the Beatles Extended Universe” and I almost swerved my car into a tree.
September 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
My son just described a Paul McCartney solo album as being “part of the Beatles Extended Universe” and I almost swerved my car into a tree.
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Laura Loomer as the Rasputin figure in a decaying American empire really does make total sense. An attention-addicted College Republicans washout who looks like she told her plastic surgeon "just keep going until I say stop" is our rough equivalent of a Siberian sex wizard.
August 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Laura Loomer as the Rasputin figure in a decaying American empire really does make total sense. An attention-addicted College Republicans washout who looks like she told her plastic surgeon "just keep going until I say stop" is our rough equivalent of a Siberian sex wizard.
Masked men shoot at man for not letting them apprehend him without due process or consent identifying themselves
Immigration officers open fire during vehicle stop in San Bernardino
August 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Masked men shoot at man for not letting them apprehend him without due process or consent identifying themselves
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Noticing a pattern here.
August 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Noticing a pattern here.
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America in a nutshell.
July 21, 2025 at 3:56 AM
America in a nutshell.
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Are you fucking shitting me
July 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Are you fucking shitting me
Just indiscriminately slaughtering civilians l
BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.
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July 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Just indiscriminately slaughtering civilians l
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ICE arrests have surged in the DMV since Pres. Trump retook power — up 470% year-over-year in Virginia alone.
Despite the admin's "worst of the worst" rhetoric, the majority of those arrested now have no criminal history beyond their immigration status. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Despite the admin's "worst of the worst" rhetoric, the majority of those arrested now have no criminal history beyond their immigration status. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Immigration arrests have surged 470% in Virginia so far this year — with majority now having no criminal record
Maryland has also experienced a 290% increase in ICE arrests since Donald Trump took office, with many detained for lacking legal status rather than criminal acts.
www.wusa9.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:20 PM
ICE arrests have surged in the DMV since Pres. Trump retook power — up 470% year-over-year in Virginia alone.
Despite the admin's "worst of the worst" rhetoric, the majority of those arrested now have no criminal history beyond their immigration status. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Despite the admin's "worst of the worst" rhetoric, the majority of those arrested now have no criminal history beyond their immigration status. www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Meanwhile Jack booted masked thugs are “ridding communities of criminals.”
Atwood is one of at least 17 pardoned Capitol Rioters that have been arrested or have faced additional criminal charges, since receiving pardons from Donald Trump: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...
July 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Meanwhile Jack booted masked thugs are “ridding communities of criminals.”
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Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
Colbert's cancellation is a dark warning
CBS's decision marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large.
www.motherjones.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large
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“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
July 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”
It will never cease to amaze me how even the most ardent, diehard maga’s who feed into the manufacture of “dissent” anger-tainment machine, don’t, ever, get tired of this whining snowflake. Apart from the pure batshit crazy, do they not just get tired of the fucking complaining?
July 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
It will never cease to amaze me how even the most ardent, diehard maga’s who feed into the manufacture of “dissent” anger-tainment machine, don’t, ever, get tired of this whining snowflake. Apart from the pure batshit crazy, do they not just get tired of the fucking complaining?
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Here’s the true reported scandal of NYT’s scandalously bogus hit job on Mamdani spoon fed to the paper by a white supremacist shill. As thread says NYT should now cover *this* story with far greater fervor & outrage than it covered Claudine Gray - but don’t hold yr breath waiting for it to do that.
The saga of the NYT's anti-Mamdani story taken from notorious white supremacist Jordan Lasker (they call him an "academic") gets even more amazing: Lasker's only impactful paper, which claimed white people are smarter, is infamous: it misused data so badly it got his tenured co-author fired. 2/
July 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Here’s the true reported scandal of NYT’s scandalously bogus hit job on Mamdani spoon fed to the paper by a white supremacist shill. As thread says NYT should now cover *this* story with far greater fervor & outrage than it covered Claudine Gray - but don’t hold yr breath waiting for it to do that.
Substack persona self identified one assumes as “academic”.. and is published as so.. “The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X and who is an academic”..
Just woeful by NYT
Just woeful by NYT
worth noting the pipeline here:
* Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data
* Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data
* NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign
* Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story
* Trump-supporting anons hack Columbia data
* Nazi twitter accounts dig around in the data
* NYT picks up on Nazi substack posts, publishes Zohran story to damage his campaign
* Chris Rufo immediately boosting the story
July 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Substack persona self identified one assumes as “academic”.. and is published as so.. “The data was shared with The Times by an intermediary who goes by the name Crémieux on Substack and X and who is an academic”..
Just woeful by NYT
Just woeful by NYT
Obscene- silence from dem leaders is deafening. Should be setting their heads on fire with rage but not
Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.
July 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Obscene- silence from dem leaders is deafening. Should be setting their heads on fire with rage but not