The Bandit
@criticalblinker.bsky.social
Amateur motorist, mustache professional, ally to Sally.
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EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.
Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...
Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...
Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility
Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.
san.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A cell-site simulator, commonly referred to as an IMSI-catcher or "Stingray," may have been used at the ICE facility in Portland.
Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...
Analysis of cellular signals in the area showed phones receiving abnormal spikes in requests for their unique identifiers. san.com/cc/exclusive...
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This is actually fucking brilliant.
Like in judo, use your opponents weight and momentum against them.
Let’s make Charlie Kirk a leftist icon, and watch his cult deny he was supportive of any equality, freedom or human rights.
Like in judo, use your opponents weight and momentum against them.
Let’s make Charlie Kirk a leftist icon, and watch his cult deny he was supportive of any equality, freedom or human rights.
If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.
September 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is actually fucking brilliant.
Like in judo, use your opponents weight and momentum against them.
Let’s make Charlie Kirk a leftist icon, and watch his cult deny he was supportive of any equality, freedom or human rights.
Like in judo, use your opponents weight and momentum against them.
Let’s make Charlie Kirk a leftist icon, and watch his cult deny he was supportive of any equality, freedom or human rights.
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The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape.
A thread:
A thread:
6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape.
www.wired.com
June 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The White House has undertaken initiatives to crack down on immigration, suppress speech, and curtail US public health efforts. These online tools are tracking the rapidly changing US landscape.
A thread:
A thread:
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As climate change juices up severe storms and wildfires and makes heat waves even deadlier, cuts at all levels across the US federal government have thrown agencies tasked with preparing the country for disasters—and helping it recover—into chaos.
In Trump's America, what do we do? A guide:
In Trump's America, what do we do? A guide:
How to Prepare for a Climate Disaster in Trump’s America
Here’s how to find reliable information and keep safe during the summer heat and hurricane season following the unprecedented cuts at federal agencies.
www.wired.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
As climate change juices up severe storms and wildfires and makes heat waves even deadlier, cuts at all levels across the US federal government have thrown agencies tasked with preparing the country for disasters—and helping it recover—into chaos.
In Trump's America, what do we do? A guide:
In Trump's America, what do we do? A guide:
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NYT, Page One:
“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”
@nytimes.com
“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”
@nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
NYT, Page One:
“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”
@nytimes.com
“Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.”
@nytimes.com
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Happy Easter, EVERYONE!! 👇
Seemed. Appropriate. Today. 😎✨
Seemed. Appropriate. Today. 😎✨
April 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Happy Easter, EVERYONE!! 👇
Seemed. Appropriate. Today. 😎✨
Seemed. Appropriate. Today. 😎✨
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Oh look. Elon Musk is back at it again trying to bribe people to vote.
How is this not illegal???
How is this not illegal???
March 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Oh look. Elon Musk is back at it again trying to bribe people to vote.
How is this not illegal???
How is this not illegal???
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President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue.
Trump signs order ending union bargaining rights for wide swaths of federal employees
President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue.
www.npr.org
March 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
President Trump's new executive order ends collective bargaining for wide swaths of federal employees, as part of his broader campaign to reshape the government's workforce. Unions are vowing to sue.
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If private equity gets involved in Social Security,they will do exactly the same as they're doing with healthcare and nursing homes. This will be catastrophic.
As DOGE Mauls Social Security, Profit-Hungry Private Equity Is Swooping In. Three private equity veterans are weaseling their way in, reportedly on the orders of the presumptive Social Security Administration commissioner. truthout.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?...
March 17, 2025 at 3:32 AM
If private equity gets involved in Social Security,they will do exactly the same as they're doing with healthcare and nursing homes. This will be catastrophic.
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The United States has announced its withdrawal from the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which investigates and gathers evidence of Russia's invasion for potential future legal proceedings.
news.sky.com/story/ukrain...
news.sky.com/story/ukrain...
March 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The United States has announced its withdrawal from the International Centre for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, which investigates and gathers evidence of Russia's invasion for potential future legal proceedings.
news.sky.com/story/ukrain...
news.sky.com/story/ukrain...
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March 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car
electrek.co/2025/03/14/t...
electrek.co/2025/03/14/t...
Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car
A survey of over 100,000 Germans revealed that 94% won’t buy a Tesla vehicle. It doesn’t bode well for the...
electrek.co
March 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won’t buy a Tesla car
electrek.co/2025/03/14/t...
electrek.co/2025/03/14/t...
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Elon Musk spent $290 MILLION to help elect Trump.
Now, he's shelling out another $100 MILLION directly to Trump's political operation.
Then Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom.
How is this disgusting spectacle not blatant corruption?
Now, he's shelling out another $100 MILLION directly to Trump's political operation.
Then Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom.
How is this disgusting spectacle not blatant corruption?
March 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Elon Musk spent $290 MILLION to help elect Trump.
Now, he's shelling out another $100 MILLION directly to Trump's political operation.
Then Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom.
How is this disgusting spectacle not blatant corruption?
Now, he's shelling out another $100 MILLION directly to Trump's political operation.
Then Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom.
How is this disgusting spectacle not blatant corruption?
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re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
March 9, 2025 at 10:25 PM
re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens
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Never enough of YOUR tax money for YOUR Medicare, veterans benefits, or social security but always enough of YOUR tax money to protect THEIR corporations and oligarchs. #3E #TeslaTakeDown #EndOligarchy
March 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Never enough of YOUR tax money for YOUR Medicare, veterans benefits, or social security but always enough of YOUR tax money to protect THEIR corporations and oligarchs. #3E #TeslaTakeDown #EndOligarchy
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Elon Musk responded to Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski regarding Starlink:
"Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink."
"Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink."
March 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Elon Musk responded to Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski regarding Starlink:
"Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink."
"Be quiet, small man. You pay a tiny fraction of the cost. And there is no substitute for Starlink."
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March 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
March 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here
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“A little-known Starbucks subsidiary in Switzerland appears to have played a big role in how much the coffee chain paid over the last decade in taxes, according to a new report.”
Starbucks likely avoided taxes on $1.3 billion in profit using a Swiss subsidiary, a new report finds
Starbucks booked millions in profit at a Swiss subsidiary, where the company likely paid less in taxes than it would have elsewhere, a report found.
www.businessinsider.com
March 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“A little-known Starbucks subsidiary in Switzerland appears to have played a big role in how much the coffee chain paid over the last decade in taxes, according to a new report.”
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A must read review of No Other Land www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-o...
No Other Land movie review & film summary (2024) | Roger Ebert
Maintaining the ability to be shocked by heartless cruelty is what makes us human, and the only thing, at times, which keeps the flame of hope alive.
www.rogerebert.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A must read review of No Other Land www.rogerebert.com/reviews/no-o...
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Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
March 7, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.
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NEW: The US General Services Administration plans to sell hundreds of government buildings, including FBI headquarters.
Use our interactive tools to see where they are—and which Congressional districts they're in.
Link: www.wired.com/story/map-fo...
Use our interactive tools to see where they are—and which Congressional districts they're in.
Link: www.wired.com/story/map-fo...
March 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
NEW: The US General Services Administration plans to sell hundreds of government buildings, including FBI headquarters.
Use our interactive tools to see where they are—and which Congressional districts they're in.
Link: www.wired.com/story/map-fo...
Use our interactive tools to see where they are—and which Congressional districts they're in.
Link: www.wired.com/story/map-fo...
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It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
March 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
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Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
March 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY.
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”
David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”