@jamesrandisghost.bsky.social
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Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
www.eff.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Weird, it's almost like Biden was playing the game and protecting the ruling class.
We see it over and over again. Those who gain power don't want to prosecute others before them because it would make their own position less stable.
We see it over and over again. Those who gain power don't want to prosecute others before them because it would make their own position less stable.
Rep. Andy Harris: "My gut feeling is that if there is something in there about Donald Trump, the Biden DOJ would've released it." (Sounds like a great reason to release the files!)
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Weird, it's almost like Biden was playing the game and protecting the ruling class.
We see it over and over again. Those who gain power don't want to prosecute others before them because it would make their own position less stable.
We see it over and over again. Those who gain power don't want to prosecute others before them because it would make their own position less stable.
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With the rise of online betting and prediction markets, states and public health organizations are devoting resources to people who become addicted or develop a problematic habit.
Online gambling is everywhere. So are the risks
With the rise of online betting and prediction markets, states and public health organizations are devoting resources to people who become addicted or develop a problematic habit.
bit.ly
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
With the rise of online betting and prediction markets, states and public health organizations are devoting resources to people who become addicted or develop a problematic habit.
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Trump's upcoming National Security Strategy identifies the "homeland" as its top priority (above even China!) sources who have seen the strategy tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-nation...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-nation...
ICE, National Guard Deployments Just the Beginning
Upcoming national security strategy makes “homeland” top priority
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Trump's upcoming National Security Strategy identifies the "homeland" as its top priority (above even China!) sources who have seen the strategy tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-nation...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-nation...
The smarter capitalists are trying to use the release valve. When wealth inequality and mobility fall far enough, heads roll and governments fall. I'm glad they are advocating for this, but they are just trying to salvage the system that made them rich.
“It’s time for the wealthiest – people like us – to pay a fairer share, so we can help lift these kids out of poverty and begin rebuilding our public services and communities right across the UK.” - PMUK's Phil White
https://independent.pulse.ly/rj8l9q7mwi
https://independent.pulse.ly/rj8l9q7mwi
Why a group of wealthy Brits have urged Reeves to introduce a wealth tax
This appeal comes ahead of Reeves’s upcoming Budget announcement in Westminster later this month
independent.pulse.ly
November 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The smarter capitalists are trying to use the release valve. When wealth inequality and mobility fall far enough, heads roll and governments fall. I'm glad they are advocating for this, but they are just trying to salvage the system that made them rich.
This concept is known as the Tolerance Paradox. It states that a truly tolerant society MUST be intolerant of intolerance.
When a fascist says "so much for the tolerant left!!?!" they are trying to use this against us by demanding we tolerate their hate and bigotry.
When a fascist says "so much for the tolerant left!!?!" they are trying to use this against us by demanding we tolerate their hate and bigotry.
“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Liberalism's Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society
Liberalism is not just the mitigation of dangers. It is also an active striving towards a world that is truly free.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This concept is known as the Tolerance Paradox. It states that a truly tolerant society MUST be intolerant of intolerance.
When a fascist says "so much for the tolerant left!!?!" they are trying to use this against us by demanding we tolerate their hate and bigotry.
When a fascist says "so much for the tolerant left!!?!" they are trying to use this against us by demanding we tolerate their hate and bigotry.
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“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Liberalism's Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society
Liberalism is not just the mitigation of dangers. It is also an active striving towards a world that is truly free.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“Stigmatizing fascist beliefs is not at odds with the ideal of the open society because a commitment to that ideal is not a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
I hope stuff like this moves the needle but I've pretty much lost all hope of the fascist-lite chuds caring about.....anything.
My maga family was telling me a week ago all about how Elon Musk totally never did a Nazi salute and all those videos are just ai...
We have to fix this without them.
My maga family was telling me a week ago all about how Elon Musk totally never did a Nazi salute and all those videos are just ai...
We have to fix this without them.
Be careful what you share, Ivanka.
Some of us actually read the rest of the story.👇
Some of us actually read the rest of the story.👇
November 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I hope stuff like this moves the needle but I've pretty much lost all hope of the fascist-lite chuds caring about.....anything.
My maga family was telling me a week ago all about how Elon Musk totally never did a Nazi salute and all those videos are just ai...
We have to fix this without them.
My maga family was telling me a week ago all about how Elon Musk totally never did a Nazi salute and all those videos are just ai...
We have to fix this without them.
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New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director
In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
If a person did this they would be in prison. We desperately need to start holding these companies AND their entire c-suites criminally liable for their products that harm and kill.
Eat. The. Rich.
And also fuck all of DHS.
Eat. The. Rich.
And also fuck all of DHS.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If a person did this they would be in prison. We desperately need to start holding these companies AND their entire c-suites criminally liable for their products that harm and kill.
Eat. The. Rich.
And also fuck all of DHS.
Eat. The. Rich.
And also fuck all of DHS.
This is the Fascist prerogative state being built. It will harm innocents and that is part of the point. If everyone is afraid of being caught up and targeted, even those on "their side" are only safe if they are prominent and influential enough to bypass the normative state.
Attempts to put guardrails around license plate reader tech have failed for decades, EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told @LPM.org. “There are so many different pathways, and there's so many different holes that are so difficult to plug.” www.lpm.org/investigate...
Louisville police share data with national immigration dragnet
Louisville Metro Police collect data through license plate readers and share it with thousands of law enforcement agencies.
www.lpm.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is the Fascist prerogative state being built. It will harm innocents and that is part of the point. If everyone is afraid of being caught up and targeted, even those on "their side" are only safe if they are prominent and influential enough to bypass the normative state.
The President has the power to pardon someone. If the president has no idea who this guy is, that means the pardon is invalid right?
Every. Single. Person. Connected to this admin needs to be prosecuted and barred from politics in the US for life or we will never be rid of these fascists.
Every. Single. Person. Connected to this admin needs to be prosecuted and barred from politics in the US for life or we will never be rid of these fascists.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
November 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The President has the power to pardon someone. If the president has no idea who this guy is, that means the pardon is invalid right?
Every. Single. Person. Connected to this admin needs to be prosecuted and barred from politics in the US for life or we will never be rid of these fascists.
Every. Single. Person. Connected to this admin needs to be prosecuted and barred from politics in the US for life or we will never be rid of these fascists.
This is part of why they are trying to make it illegal to regulate AI development. It's just another tool of control, the free AI apps that let you make stuff are only there to get us to accept it.
So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...
October 31, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This is part of why they are trying to make it illegal to regulate AI development. It's just another tool of control, the free AI apps that let you make stuff are only there to get us to accept it.
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Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
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This is damage mitigation. It's not a replacement for SNAP because charity cannot replace the welfare state in scale, reach and depth. But it is something we can do that will lessen the pain in our communities.
but don’t take away from that the idea that food banks are useless. they’re going to feed people- not going to feed them enough, and not going to feed enough people, but food in mouths.
anything you can do for food banks right now isn’t at all wasted, it is more sure to be useful than ever
anything you can do for food banks right now isn’t at all wasted, it is more sure to be useful than ever
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This is damage mitigation. It's not a replacement for SNAP because charity cannot replace the welfare state in scale, reach and depth. But it is something we can do that will lessen the pain in our communities.
I can't even express how proud I am to see people putting themselves on the line to speak out.
As someone for whom this is not currently an option, you are fucking heroes.
This, I think is one of the biggest hurdles. When is it more harmful to fight than to submit?
I'm close...
As someone for whom this is not currently an option, you are fucking heroes.
This, I think is one of the biggest hurdles. When is it more harmful to fight than to submit?
I'm close...
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I can't even express how proud I am to see people putting themselves on the line to speak out.
As someone for whom this is not currently an option, you are fucking heroes.
This, I think is one of the biggest hurdles. When is it more harmful to fight than to submit?
I'm close...
As someone for whom this is not currently an option, you are fucking heroes.
This, I think is one of the biggest hurdles. When is it more harmful to fight than to submit?
I'm close...
Not all heroes wear capes.
A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 24, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Not all heroes wear capes.
I want off Mr Bone's Wild Ride....
Mystical TV screens that purport to cure illnesses have raked in nearly $100 million for their creators and funneled money to a burgeoning MAGA media empire. So I had to try the treatment myself!
My craziest newsletter yet for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-he...
My craziest newsletter yet for @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-he...
How a Bizarre Healing-TV-Screen Tycoon Is Funding MAGA Media
I had to try it out for myself.
www.thebulwark.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I want off Mr Bone's Wild Ride....
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Q: What do you have to say to farmers who feel that the deal is benefitting Argentina more than it is them?
TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying
TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying
October 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Q: What do you have to say to farmers who feel that the deal is benefitting Argentina more than it is them?
TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying
TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying
The fire suppression system installed under that desk must be top of the line to contain those flaming pants of his...
God I despise this man so much.
God I despise this man so much.
KARL: I mean, you could swear in Adelita Grijalva tomorrow, right?
MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
MIKE JOHNSON: No, not tomorrow. We couldn't. We wouldn't.
October 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The fire suppression system installed under that desk must be top of the line to contain those flaming pants of his...
God I despise this man so much.
God I despise this man so much.
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"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism. We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who only understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."
www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
All the Pretty Little Nazis
The shape of things to come.
www.thebulwark.com
October 16, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism. We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who only understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."
www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...
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The MAGA movement is and has always been a racist extremist project and anyone who is too afraid to say that in plain language does not deserve your support and should not be taken seriously
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The MAGA movement is and has always been a racist extremist project and anyone who is too afraid to say that in plain language does not deserve your support and should not be taken seriously
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...