elena
@meowpheus.bsky.social
linguist, gaymer, cat enthusiast, occasional ceramic maker. she/they.
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This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...
slowly insulting all my friends by insulting maths
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
slowly insulting all my friends by insulting maths
at a nostalgia emo festival, passing by someone, "its just whiny emo music" my brother in christ, what did you expect 💀
October 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
at a nostalgia emo festival, passing by someone, "its just whiny emo music" my brother in christ, what did you expect 💀
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Just triple underline emphasize that he refuses to be briefed by experts within his own government and will get rid of anyone who tries to brief him.
(His schedule claims he's receiving his daily briefing ~once a week, but odds are that's just who is in the room while he's ranting about whatever).
(His schedule claims he's receiving his daily briefing ~once a week, but odds are that's just who is in the room while he's ranting about whatever).
Shouting match. Cursing.
And this ⤵️
Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..
"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”
www.ft.com/content/7960...
And this ⤵️
Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..
"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”
www.ft.com/content/7960...
October 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Just triple underline emphasize that he refuses to be briefed by experts within his own government and will get rid of anyone who tries to brief him.
(His schedule claims he's receiving his daily briefing ~once a week, but odds are that's just who is in the room while he's ranting about whatever).
(His schedule claims he's receiving his daily briefing ~once a week, but odds are that's just who is in the room while he's ranting about whatever).
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The ceasefire agreement for which Trump received an avalanche of praise—including a TIME cover—lasted six days.
Six days.
Six days.
October 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The ceasefire agreement for which Trump received an avalanche of praise—including a TIME cover—lasted six days.
Six days.
Six days.
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His brains gone
October 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
His brains gone
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seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.
Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.
October 19, 2025 at 6:21 PM
seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
October 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
It costs a lot less to house people.
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I suspect there is more of this behind the scenes, which is why the admin is using the CIA
"One current and one former U.S. official, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats" near Venezuela
Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I suspect there is more of this behind the scenes, which is why the admin is using the CIA
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So inconvenient
October 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
So inconvenient
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This sounds familiar.
This. Said. It. All. ⬇️⬇️
Please. Share. So. Everyone. Knows. The. Truth.
Please. Share. So. Everyone. Knows. The. Truth.
October 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This sounds familiar.
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This reporting is so important, and also just wanted to say that I love @propublica.org's How We Did This notes. I think it does so much for transparency and context, and helping people understand how a story is told.
"Critically, there is no way to know the complete scope of these stops since the government itself does not track them."
An astonishing amount of work that went into shining a light on the details in this remarkable void.
An astonishing amount of work that went into shining a light on the details in this remarkable void.
October 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This reporting is so important, and also just wanted to say that I love @propublica.org's How We Did This notes. I think it does so much for transparency and context, and helping people understand how a story is told.
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The more accurate personal data is, the more valuable it is to sell, rent, trade. This has been Meta's agenda for a long time.
Everyone knows that Meta is basically single-handedly behind the "do age verification in the app store" push, right?
Government mandated online age verification is dangerous, doesn't work, and poses a massive threat to human rights and free expression no matter where/how it's done. Full stop.
Government mandated online age verification is dangerous, doesn't work, and poses a massive threat to human rights and free expression no matter where/how it's done. Full stop.
October 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The more accurate personal data is, the more valuable it is to sell, rent, trade. This has been Meta's agenda for a long time.
it feels very awkward as someone with an invisible disability to get up to board early, am i the only one or?
October 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
it feels very awkward as someone with an invisible disability to get up to board early, am i the only one or?
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Just amazing. Police will cause a whole ass riot rather than taking even the tiniest responsibility for brutalizing marginalized communities
October 16, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Just amazing. Police will cause a whole ass riot rather than taking even the tiniest responsibility for brutalizing marginalized communities
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Un-American! — A cartoon by Michael de Adder
Un-American!
A cartoon by Michael de Adder
contrarian.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Un-American! — A cartoon by Michael de Adder
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a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?
white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans
www.nytimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?
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"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy
If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
October 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy
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last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’
The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."
www.yahoo.com
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Depraved.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term
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These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.
Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
TRUMP: Suspending who?
Q: Habeas corpus
TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.
October 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.