Disophy
@disophy.bsky.social
Part-time dime-store dilettante, card-carrying poet manqué, gatherer of flaneurs & wild-flowers, mostly a composer of looped zero’s knot knot one narratives in novel form.
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from @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, worth considering
The DIY Dumbphone Method
In Jan 2024, I gave my smartphone a lobotomy. Here's the how and the results.
www.shesabeast.co
May 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
from @caseyjohnston.bsky.social, worth considering
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When it's all about *my* frustration, *my* hunger, *my* fatigue, I can easily choose to think everyone else is just in *my* way.
It's my automatic default setting.
I can easily choose to believe that *I* am the center of the universe, and everything should revolve around *my* priorities.
Or not.
It's my automatic default setting.
I can easily choose to believe that *I* am the center of the universe, and everything should revolve around *my* priorities.
Or not.
THIS IS WATER! by David Foster Wallace
YouTube video by The Actualization Agent
youtu.be
April 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
When it's all about *my* frustration, *my* hunger, *my* fatigue, I can easily choose to think everyone else is just in *my* way.
It's my automatic default setting.
I can easily choose to believe that *I* am the center of the universe, and everything should revolve around *my* priorities.
Or not.
It's my automatic default setting.
I can easily choose to believe that *I* am the center of the universe, and everything should revolve around *my* priorities.
Or not.
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Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens
Woman from Haiti died in ICE custody at a for-profit immigration detention center owner by GEO Group 👇
Woman from Haiti dies while in ICE custody at detention facility in Broward
She’d been at the facility for 20 days and in ICE custody for two months, 13 days.
www.miamiherald.com
April 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Let’s normalize putting the name of the corporation that owns the private prison in the headline whenever something like this happens
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SB 2880 out of Texas has the goal to wipe information about abortion pills from the internet. It is carefully designed to scare people into silence and will chill free speech.
Texas’s War on Abortion Is Now a War on Free Speech
Once again, the Texas legislature is coming after the most common method of safe and effective abortion today—medication abortion.Senate Bill (S.B.) 2880* seeks to prevent the sale and distribution of...
www.eff.org
April 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
SB 2880 out of Texas has the goal to wipe information about abortion pills from the internet. It is carefully designed to scare people into silence and will chill free speech.
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Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.
See how this works?
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Trump Slump: For the first time since 2001, a majority of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse. app.sosha.ai/s/OD62F1EU
Economic pessimism at 24-year high
app.sosha.ai
April 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Trump Slump: For the first time since 2001, a majority of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse. app.sosha.ai/s/OD62F1EU
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The way that our mail sorting equipment works is via photographing the letters and then applying a bar code to the front and back of the letter. We don't track all of those barcodes because that'd be impossible, but it's how letters get from A to B.
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🚨 WaPo Exclusive 🚨
The Postal Service's law enforcement arm is assisting Trump's mass deportation push, per docs and sources.
USPS takes photos of the front and back of mail and packages.
DHS *really* wants that info, me and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social report.
The Postal Service's law enforcement arm is assisting Trump's mass deportation push, per docs and sources.
USPS takes photos of the front and back of mail and packages.
DHS *really* wants that info, me and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social report.
USPS law enforcement assists Trump ‘mass deportation’ effort, sources and records show
The Postal Inspection Service recently joined a federal task force to locate undocumented immigrants using data from mail and packages, according to people familiar with the effort and records obtaine...
www.washingtonpost.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
The way that our mail sorting equipment works is via photographing the letters and then applying a bar code to the front and back of the letter. We don't track all of those barcodes because that'd be impossible, but it's how letters get from A to B.
1/?
1/?
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The first 100 days of Trump’s presidency have been marked by power grabs. Now another strategy has come into view: an unprecedented drive to undermine elections. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Early Victory for Voting Rights
A judge blocked a key part of the president's attempt to rewrite election rules.
www.brennancenter.org
April 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The first 100 days of Trump’s presidency have been marked by power grabs. Now another strategy has come into view: an unprecedented drive to undermine elections. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
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20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
kfor.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
20 ARMED men bust into your home. They claim they’ve got a search warrant.
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
They make you stand in the rain w/your 3 daughters in their underwear.
They seize your phones, laptops, your cash life savings.
The suspects listed on the warrant? They don’t live there anymore.
kfor.com/news/local/w...
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The U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun assisting Trump's 'mass deportation' effort, sources and records show
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
April 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The U.S. Postal Service has quietly begun assisting Trump's 'mass deportation' effort, sources and records show
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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I've tried several times to be quiet about this, crossed out posts and stories, but Axios broke the seal, so it's at least known: Trump hasn't sent a single judge to the Senate since the inauguration.
www.axios.com/2025/04/25/t...
www.axios.com/2025/04/25/t...
Senate awaits Trump judges
By this point in Trump's first term, judicial nominees were already in the pipeline.
www.axios.com
April 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I've tried several times to be quiet about this, crossed out posts and stories, but Axios broke the seal, so it's at least known: Trump hasn't sent a single judge to the Senate since the inauguration.
www.axios.com/2025/04/25/t...
www.axios.com/2025/04/25/t...
Federal library funding supports programs, services, and resources at libraries in every state and territory.
Show up #ForOurLibraries and make your voice heard.
Call Congress to tell the White House to BACK AWAY from its attack on libraries: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Show up #ForOurLibraries and make your voice heard.
Call Congress to tell the White House to BACK AWAY from its attack on libraries: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Call on Congress to Protect Federal Library Funding
Call on Congress to Protect Federal Library Funding
bit.ly
April 27, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Federal library funding supports programs, services, and resources at libraries in every state and territory.
Show up #ForOurLibraries and make your voice heard.
Call Congress to tell the White House to BACK AWAY from its attack on libraries: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
Show up #ForOurLibraries and make your voice heard.
Call Congress to tell the White House to BACK AWAY from its attack on libraries: bit.ly/CallCongressForLibraries
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Trump is getting killed in the public opinion war over his illegal deportations to El Salvador. Both WaPo and NYT polls find broad opposition to these deportations. And majorities of independents disapprove, a key tell.
New piece on why this is happening:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
New piece on why this is happening:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
Trump Is Failing in One Big Way: Americans Are Rejecting His Fascism
Immigration was his best issue. But striking new data shows he’s sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.
newrepublic.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Trump is getting killed in the public opinion war over his illegal deportations to El Salvador. Both WaPo and NYT polls find broad opposition to these deportations. And majorities of independents disapprove, a key tell.
New piece on why this is happening:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
New piece on why this is happening:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
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The FBI recommended that Americans use a browser ad-blocking extension to stay safe against malicious search engine ads.
Too bad the FBI hasn't heard that Google destroyed the ad-blocker scene to protect its ad business that profits from the same malicious ads.
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www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA...
Too bad the FBI hasn't heard that Google destroyed the ad-blocker scene to protect its ad business that profits from the same malicious ads.
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www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA...
April 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The FBI recommended that Americans use a browser ad-blocking extension to stay safe against malicious search engine ads.
Too bad the FBI hasn't heard that Google destroyed the ad-blocker scene to protect its ad business that profits from the same malicious ads.
🧠
www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA...
Too bad the FBI hasn't heard that Google destroyed the ad-blocker scene to protect its ad business that profits from the same malicious ads.
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www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA...
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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com
Trump Has Now Deported Multiple U.S. Citizen Children With Cancer
Two families who had lived in the United States for years, including a child with cancer and a pregnant mother, were deported by ICE on Friday.
www.rollingstone.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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So he is basically doing what he wanted to do during his first term and suspending the Constitution? Sounds like Congress should start writing Articles of Impeachment like yesterday!
ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
April 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
So he is basically doing what he wanted to do during his first term and suspending the Constitution? Sounds like Congress should start writing Articles of Impeachment like yesterday!
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Even if you assume that alien enemies don't have constitutional rights (they do), the owners of the private property do. There is no way anyone can enter a private property without a warrant just because they suspect an alien enemy may be inside. Show a judge your probable cause & get a warrant!
The Trump administration now says they are allowed to enter your home to look for migrants without a warrant.
They claim their actions are unconstrained by the Fourth Amendment.
They claim their actions are unconstrained by the Fourth Amendment.
Justice Department memo claims Alien Enemies Act allows warrantless home searches and no judicial review
The memo says "Alien Enemies" aren't subject "to a judicial review of the removal in any court of the United States."
reason.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Even if you assume that alien enemies don't have constitutional rights (they do), the owners of the private property do. There is no way anyone can enter a private property without a warrant just because they suspect an alien enemy may be inside. Show a judge your probable cause & get a warrant!
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If this doesn't wake SCOTUS up, I honestly don't know what will.
Bondi declares war on the courts: "What has happened to our judiciary is beyond me ... they are deranged ... we are sending a very strong message today ... we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."
April 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
If this doesn't wake SCOTUS up, I honestly don't know what will.
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When voters learn the facts of Trump's misrule, they respond.
Trump's been losing independents, who decide elections, on the economy for weeks.
As Trump's immigration "policy" is revealed to be performative sadism and brazen attacks on the rule of law, he's losing ground on that issue as well.
Trump's been losing independents, who decide elections, on the economy for weeks.
As Trump's immigration "policy" is revealed to be performative sadism and brazen attacks on the rule of law, he's losing ground on that issue as well.
Remarkable from WaPo poll: Trump sinking fast on immigration among independents.
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
56% disapprove of handling of issue
62% oppose removing foreign students
52% oppose renditions to El Salvador
Only 21% want Abrego Garcia left there
Engage, Dems.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1944...
Trump Is Suddenly Bleeding Independents. A Brutal New Poll Shows Why.
Immigration was his best issue in the polls. But now he's sinking on it. Maybe Americans care about the rule of law after all.
newrepublic.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
When voters learn the facts of Trump's misrule, they respond.
Trump's been losing independents, who decide elections, on the economy for weeks.
As Trump's immigration "policy" is revealed to be performative sadism and brazen attacks on the rule of law, he's losing ground on that issue as well.
Trump's been losing independents, who decide elections, on the economy for weeks.
As Trump's immigration "policy" is revealed to be performative sadism and brazen attacks on the rule of law, he's losing ground on that issue as well.
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All Gmail users at risk from clever replay attack #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy www.malwarebytes.com...
All Gmail users at risk from clever replay attack
All Google accounts could end up compromised by a clever replay attack on Gmail users abusing Google infrastructure.
www.malwarebytes.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM
All Gmail users at risk from clever replay attack #cybersecurity #hacking #news #infosec #security #technology #privacy www.malwarebytes.com...
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For those of you that found me thanks to this video, hi 👋
A little about me…
I came to the study of disinformation from studying Russia, so when I warn about autocratic behavior, I know it well. Russia banned me from entering their country 🙃
I’m the author of two books (linked below) 1/
A little about me…
I came to the study of disinformation from studying Russia, so when I warn about autocratic behavior, I know it well. Russia banned me from entering their country 🙃
I’m the author of two books (linked below) 1/
🔥 @ninajankowicz.com to the European Parliament: "Before I describe the details of Russia's recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America."
April 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
For those of you that found me thanks to this video, hi 👋
A little about me…
I came to the study of disinformation from studying Russia, so when I warn about autocratic behavior, I know it well. Russia banned me from entering their country 🙃
I’m the author of two books (linked below) 1/
A little about me…
I came to the study of disinformation from studying Russia, so when I warn about autocratic behavior, I know it well. Russia banned me from entering their country 🙃
I’m the author of two books (linked below) 1/
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There's an overwhelming misconception among MAGA that migrants have no right to due process.
Send this to your misguided MAGA pals.
Send this to your misguided MAGA pals.
April 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
There's an overwhelming misconception among MAGA that migrants have no right to due process.
Send this to your misguided MAGA pals.
Send this to your misguided MAGA pals.