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Actor. May have been in that thing you saw that one time. youtube/snapchat: davidaugust for fediverse interaction: @davidaugust@mastodon.online #actor

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#piracy
In the style of the old MPAA anti-piracy PSA campaign, “You Wouldn’t Pirate An Oil Tanker”
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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He posted this, in real life, so it seems only polite to flesh it out and finish the trilogy.

#USpol #hegseth #military #satire #FranklinTheTurtle #PeteHegseth
A post by Pete Hegseth featuring a mock book cover titled "Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists," depicting a cartoon turtle in military gear firing from a helicopter at boats below. The reply by @FoxBrambleFarm reads, "That was just book one in the series. Book two is Franklin Goes to the Hague." Mock book cover titled "Franklin Goes to The Hague," depicting a cartoon turtle in an orange prison jumpsuit and handcuffs standing in a courtroom with judges and lawyers in the background. A mock book cover titled "Franklin Does Life," showing a cartoon turtle in an orange prison uniform and handcuffs sitting on a bench in a jail cell.
December 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Today we commemorate that time an organized mob of asylum seekers [The Landing of Roger Williams in 1636 (1857) by Alonzo Chappel depicts Williams crossing the Seekonk River] showed up at the border and received food assistance.
November 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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In case you had not yet seen this elsewhere.

via @ash.renee411

#gmail #ai #privacy #infosec
screenshot of a 2 post thread: @ash.renee411 Gmail rolled out an update on October 10, 2025, and a lot of people didn't notice what it actually does. Google's Gemini can now automatically scan everything in your inbox - emails, attachments, receipts, financial docs, all of it - to train their Al and build ad profiles. If you don't want that, you can turn it off. 1/2 @ash.renee411 1. Open Gmail in your browser 2. Go to All Settings 3. Under General, scroll to Smart features and personalization 4. Uncheck the box 5. Then go to Google Workspace → Smart features → Manage Workspace and toggle off both smart-feature settings. That's it - you've opted out. 2/2
November 24, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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potus is pushing “peace plan” for Ukraine that US Secretary of State says US had input on, but US Senate has many who say it’s all russia, miss me with “Department of State is so efficient!”

Department is barely functional.

@senduckworth @senatordurbin […]

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A Department of State post reshared by rubio claiming a bureaucracy free state department, which is probably actually impossible, is more efficient.
November 23, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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@40thward your site https://40thward.org directs people to you slack, but your slack won’t accept anyone without a 40thward.org
or cps.edu email account. Is the intent for the slack channel to be accessible an accessed by everyone as your site suggests and invites?
You can use any account with the domain: • 40thward.org • cps.edu Don't have an email address from one of those domains? Contact the workspace administrator for an invitation.
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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#USpol #ice #illegal #law
screenshot of a post by Paul @SkylineReport: Nov 15 ICE dragged the country through a full-blown panic just to spit out 16 cases. Sixteen. That's a joke, a wet firecracker, an insult to everyone they terrorised. Meanwhile Trump has shoved thousands of actual criminals back onto the streets with his clown-car pardons. Forget 16. His body count of offenders not behind bars anymore is in the thousands. [quote post] CBS News @CBSNews: Nov 15 Only 16 of over 600 detained by ICE in Chicago area have criminal histories, records show. cbsn.ws/44b6PWe Nov 15, 2025 • 8:41 PM UTC
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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A US Federal Judge ordered the release of the people DHS now plans to hold anyway, illegally under both US and International Law.

15 of the people arrested at Broadview yesterday were clergy, peacefully protesting; bringing assistance to and advocating for the […]

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screenshot of a post by Homeland Security @DHSgov: Nov 14 Womp womp, cry all you want. These criminal illegal aliens aren’t getting released. Like clockwork, violent rioters have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility to demand the release of some of the worst human beings on planet earth. Get a job you imbecilic morons. Nov 14, 2025 · 6:39 PM UTC
November 16, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Might be a companion to this pic.

#USpol #ice #bean #Chicago

RE: https://www.threads.com/@andrefor40th/post/DQ4woaHDj4o
Hitler and his entourage strutting in front of the Eiffel Tower
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Seems worth posting this again:

#tech #ethics #DataEthics
Screenshot of a post by Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus Nov 8, 2021 · 10:49 PM UTC
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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CFO Palantir talking about how they're working to make the various data streams of surveillance efficiently useful and remove the needle-in-a-haystack anonymity we have previously enjoyed. Awesome […]

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So if we walk outside of this room and enter Midtown Manhattan, we are under constant surveillance. It’s not all government surveillance, but there’s a relaxation that you can feel where you’re like: OK, but all of this surveillance is distributed across so many different public and private entities, and unless I am literally a terrorist, the odds that people are going to be constantly watching and scrutinizing me are very low. But then the fear becomes: Well, if we have this incredible way to make it all more and more and more efficient, then maybe privacy does start to disappear. I don’t know. What do you make of that? Sankar: There are two thoughts there. One is: Well, are you saying that you feel safer because the institutions that are supposed to protect you are structurally incompetent? And that’s the part where I feel like — Douthat: The answer might be: Yes, sometimes — right?
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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RE: https://www.threads.com/@theheatherashley/post/DQnKTWUjKLU
Screenshot of a two post thread.Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX: After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC.MigratingCoconut @aheadwarp9: Replying to @GregAbbott_TX States cannot tariff each other. Read the Constitution. Article 1, sections 9 and 10. Nov 3, 2025 · 11:04 PM UTC
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Happy logical operator Halloween! 🎃
Meme showing six logical operators illustrated with jack-o’-lantern images.trick OR treattrick AND treattrick XOR treattrick NOR treattrick NAND treattrick XNOR treat
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I'm stopping using Spotify until the ICE ads are removed. Recruiting for the law breaking secret police is a choice and I refuse to fund it. #CancelSpotify

https://indivisible.org/cancel-spotify

#USpol #Indivisible #ice
#cancel spotify
GET ICE OUT OF Spotify #Indivisible ICE DOESN'T NEED A PLAYLIST. IT NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.
October 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#SNAP benefits
screenshot of a post by Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov: BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown. Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful. October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
October 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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#NoKings #USpol
#No Kings
2 post thread: Post 1: John Ekdahl @JohnEkdahl: Does this "No Kings" messaging make a lick of sense to anyone outside the far left? Post 2: Heath Mayo @ HeathMayo: The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, for starters.
October 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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No Kings rally in Evanston, IL, looking N, W and S.

A good time, peaceful, neighborly. Democracy.

cc @indivisibleteam @indivisible_evanston @indivisiblechicago @50501movement @thedailynu @evanstonnow @thedailyherald @cityofevanston

#NoKings #indivisible #rally […]

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Looking North: A large crowd of people marching down a tree-lined city street during a protest, holding signs including one that reads "Democracy has no kings" and "NOPE." Looking South: A group of people gathered on a city street for a protest, holding signs, with tall buildings and autumn trees in the background. Looking West: A large crowd of people marching down a city street during a protest, holding signs, with a tall apartment building in the background and a "No Parking Snow Route" sign visible.
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Father Larry Dowling's account of leading a Eucharistic Procession to offer Holy Communion to those held by ice in Broadview, IL (near Chicago) and being barred from doing so.

"No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could […]

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Larry DowlingI had…privilege…of leading…Eucharistic Procession… to…ICE Detention Center in Broadview…to pray…bring Holy Communion…to…men & women detained…under inhumane conditions. Over 1,000 Catholics…marched in peaceful prayer & song, facilitated by…Police Departments &…State Police. I cannot speak more highly of…public safety officers in providing us safe passage. Upon arrival…was…different…no ICE or Federal representatives…When requesting to talk w/…representative…over…phone, After…brief wait…answer came back…clearly: NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION & PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE! NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER…SOLACE TO…MEN & WOMEN FEARFUL & SUFFERING INSIDE! NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS…SON OF GOD…LOVE OF GOD, INTO THIS PLACE! No one had…courage to speak…to us. No one from [DHS] could stand in…presence of…Monstrance holding…Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in…presence of Christ. …been able to do for detainees for…past…written into…law [alt text limit]
October 12, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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Oh, @zuck, you sad child. You have such a wonderful chance to make the world an amazing place and fail so spectacularly it would almost be impressive if it weren’t so hatefully pathetic you bootlicking infant.

Your sad excuse for a moderation system promoted this:
Foolish “consider editing your post.”
October 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Get a sense of scale of the Broadview ice facility and the peaceful city of Chicago.

#USpol #Broadview #ice #Chicago #Illinois #protest #NoKings #NoIce

cc @chicagosmayor @govpritzker @indivisiblechicago 50501chicago @indivisibleteam @50501movement
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Get a shirt, get a hoodie, be cozy as the authoritarian impulse flails about desperate to push through and consolidate power.

A do it at a discount!

Will you buy a whole new wardrobe designed by me? Maybe.

Will @threadless re-share this? I dunno.

Have I oddly […]

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6 t-shirts displayed with various slogans: "Imposter Syndrome Expert...," "Human Kind Be Both," "I'm In The Wrong Timeline," "Deny, Defend, Depose," a Halloween themed design and "VOTE," with promotion text "$13.95 Regular, Fitted, & Classic Tees - $15.95 Extra Soft Tees, $29.95 Comfort Color Tees- Discounts on Hoodies, Stickers and More Through October 21st at 5 PM CT, davidaugust.threadless.com"
October 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Pure fiction.

This senior adviser to potus can’t even see that Oregon’s 6,695 sworn police officers are less numerous than the FBI’s ~13,700 special agents.

Stephen Miller shouldn’t be trusted to advise on a coffee order, let alone government policy. He is out […]

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Photo by David August ❌👑 on October 04, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of 1 person and text.
October 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Yes, refineries do need repairs after Ukraine blows them up.

But they don’t want to admit that. ⛽️💥

🤦‍♂️😝

source (in russian): https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7971552

#RUpol #russia #gasoline #war #Ukraine #euphemism #refinery
"Despite the fact that Russia produces fuel in large volumes, its delivery to remote regions, especially to the south, Siberia, the Far East, remains difficult due to the shortage of specialized rolling stock. Also, the reduction of supply in the domestic market is associated with repairs at several large Russian oil refineries at once," explains Pavel Karpus, a partner of S+Consulting.
October 3, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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The @gop controls the House, Senate, and the White House. It is their government.

If the government shuts down or the government stays open, that is on the gop.

#USpol
control - noun 1. the power to influence or direct people's behaviour or the course of events - Example: the whole operation is under the control of a production manager [example synonyms] jurisdiction sway power authority command dominance
September 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM