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A modern abortion ban necessarily involves the absolute erosion of all privacy rights for everyone who may become pregnant. All become suspects the moment they miss a period.
April 7, 2024 at 2:07 PM
A modern abortion ban necessarily involves the absolute erosion of all privacy rights for everyone who may become pregnant. All become suspects the moment they miss a period.
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Merely *being* pregnant will you on a list to monitor, in real-time, for suspicious activity.
Every natal health concern will be viewed as a possible crime, the moment that data gets transmitted.
Every natal health concern will be viewed as a possible crime, the moment that data gets transmitted.
April 7, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Merely *being* pregnant will you on a list to monitor, in real-time, for suspicious activity.
Every natal health concern will be viewed as a possible crime, the moment that data gets transmitted.
Every natal health concern will be viewed as a possible crime, the moment that data gets transmitted.
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And that is data which will be reflected in a hundred disparate ways, across one's digital footprint, some completely unexpected and unintuitive.
April 7, 2024 at 2:07 PM
And that is data which will be reflected in a hundred disparate ways, across one's digital footprint, some completely unexpected and unintuitive.
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Anyone who may become pregnant, becomes subject to the whole well-organized surveillance apparatus built up, over decades, that was previously aimed at other people. People they may not have particularly cared for.
Look at FOSTA/SESTA for example.
Look at FOSTA/SESTA for example.
April 7, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Anyone who may become pregnant, becomes subject to the whole well-organized surveillance apparatus built up, over decades, that was previously aimed at other people. People they may not have particularly cared for.
Look at FOSTA/SESTA for example.
Look at FOSTA/SESTA for example.
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That same surveillance that they may have dismissed as applying to *those* people, now will be focused on them.
The same private-sector channels of doxxing and targeting, now levied at trans people, sex workers, etc will apply to pregnant people.
The same private-sector channels of doxxing and targeting, now levied at trans people, sex workers, etc will apply to pregnant people.
April 7, 2024 at 2:07 PM
That same surveillance that they may have dismissed as applying to *those* people, now will be focused on them.
The same private-sector channels of doxxing and targeting, now levied at trans people, sex workers, etc will apply to pregnant people.
The same private-sector channels of doxxing and targeting, now levied at trans people, sex workers, etc will apply to pregnant people.
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The groundwork of the surveillance apparatus that will now target pregnant people, was laid by building one for sex workers and other groups that society, in general, didn't particularly think deserves privacy.
April 7, 2024 at 2:07 PM
The groundwork of the surveillance apparatus that will now target pregnant people, was laid by building one for sex workers and other groups that society, in general, didn't particularly think deserves privacy.
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Oh: FOSTA/SESTA?
Passed 388-25 in the house, 97-2 in the senate. Ubiquitous digital surveillance of sexworkers was *overwhelmingly* bipartisan.
The democrats didn't give a single shit about that apparatus possibly being expanded to include pregnant people.
Passed 388-25 in the house, 97-2 in the senate. Ubiquitous digital surveillance of sexworkers was *overwhelmingly* bipartisan.
The democrats didn't give a single shit about that apparatus possibly being expanded to include pregnant people.
April 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Oh: FOSTA/SESTA?
Passed 388-25 in the house, 97-2 in the senate. Ubiquitous digital surveillance of sexworkers was *overwhelmingly* bipartisan.
The democrats didn't give a single shit about that apparatus possibly being expanded to include pregnant people.
Passed 388-25 in the house, 97-2 in the senate. Ubiquitous digital surveillance of sexworkers was *overwhelmingly* bipartisan.
The democrats didn't give a single shit about that apparatus possibly being expanded to include pregnant people.
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Now there's a firmly entrenched, massive ecosystem of surveillance that literally did not exist in 1973 and has gotten even more powerful within only the last 5 years.
April 7, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Now there's a firmly entrenched, massive ecosystem of surveillance that literally did not exist in 1973 and has gotten even more powerful within only the last 5 years.
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Trump has helped convicts avoid more than a century of prison time through pardons and commutations. And that’s excluding Jan. 6 cases. Add them and the total is 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.
Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174
Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174
May 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Trump has helped convicts avoid more than a century of prison time through pardons and commutations. And that’s excluding Jan. 6 cases. Add them and the total is 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.
Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174
Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174
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The impact of choosing to pardon the J6s is far greater than the number of yrs reduced, so not trying to downplay those pardons.
And the clear corruption of current choices is ... super-bad too.
Think it's more that it's also important to realize JUST HOW MANY person-yrs of prison the Feds impose.
And the clear corruption of current choices is ... super-bad too.
Think it's more that it's also important to realize JUST HOW MANY person-yrs of prison the Feds impose.
May 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The impact of choosing to pardon the J6s is far greater than the number of yrs reduced, so not trying to downplay those pardons.
And the clear corruption of current choices is ... super-bad too.
Think it's more that it's also important to realize JUST HOW MANY person-yrs of prison the Feds impose.
And the clear corruption of current choices is ... super-bad too.
Think it's more that it's also important to realize JUST HOW MANY person-yrs of prison the Feds impose.
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For perspective, the average sentence imposed on ~155,000 ppl in Fed prison is 152 months (12.67 years). That's a total number of person-years of just under 2 million.
Ppl in Fed prison serve ~85% of time imposed. That's 1.7 million person-years.
700 is 0.04% of 1.7M.
My point is complicated tho:
Ppl in Fed prison serve ~85% of time imposed. That's 1.7 million person-years.
700 is 0.04% of 1.7M.
My point is complicated tho:
Trump has helped convicts avoid more than a century of prison time through pardons and commutations. And that’s excluding Jan. 6 cases. Add them and the total is 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟕𝟎𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬.
Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174
Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174
May 30, 2025 at 3:18 AM
For perspective, the average sentence imposed on ~155,000 ppl in Fed prison is 152 months (12.67 years). That's a total number of person-years of just under 2 million.
Ppl in Fed prison serve ~85% of time imposed. That's 1.7 million person-years.
700 is 0.04% of 1.7M.
My point is complicated tho:
Ppl in Fed prison serve ~85% of time imposed. That's 1.7 million person-years.
700 is 0.04% of 1.7M.
My point is complicated tho:
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homeless people. the shooter drove up to an encampment, got out, and started shooting at people with a BBgun.
targeting homeless people.
targeting homeless people.
targeting homeless people.
targeting homeless people.
May 24, 2025 at 6:24 PM
homeless people. the shooter drove up to an encampment, got out, and started shooting at people with a BBgun.
targeting homeless people.
targeting homeless people.
targeting homeless people.
targeting homeless people.
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didn’t we used to have a word for this
A sheriff in Mississippi, the highest paid and most powerful public figure in his county, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the local jail and used taxpayer-purchased equipment to improve it, an investigation by The New York Times and Mississippi Today found.
Mississippi Sheriff Used Inmate Labor for Family Farm
In Mississippi, incarcerated trusties cleaned chicken houses, fixed cars and installed flooring for the benefit of a local sheriff and his associates, a new investigation found.
www.nytimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
didn’t we used to have a word for this
this is testing the waters of how public opinion/checks and balances will respond to the en masse confinement & growth of the Carceral Industrial Complex vis a vis people experiencing homelessness
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
Trump Turns Homelessness Response Away From Housing, Toward Forced Treatment
Staffing cuts would hit part of housing agency overseeing homelessness spending particularly hard
www.medpagetoday.com
March 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
this is testing the waters of how public opinion/checks and balances will respond to the en masse confinement & growth of the Carceral Industrial Complex vis a vis people experiencing homelessness
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
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When exchanging your @signal.org contact info over an insecure channel (like a text message or DM), it's a good idea to generate a Signal link (URL) from the app, then you should RESET that link after you connect with the other person on Signal.
Thanks to @micahflee.com for reporting.
Thanks to @micahflee.com for reporting.
Signal’s New Usernames Help Keep the Cops Out of Your Data
Ephemeral usernames instead of phone numbers safeguard privacy — and makes the Signal messenger app even harder to subpoena.
theintercept.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
When exchanging your @signal.org contact info over an insecure channel (like a text message or DM), it's a good idea to generate a Signal link (URL) from the app, then you should RESET that link after you connect with the other person on Signal.
Thanks to @micahflee.com for reporting.
Thanks to @micahflee.com for reporting.
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it may be that I just keep reposting @mskellymhayes.bsky.social 's posts here for a minute and that's all I do, but they're gooduns. organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-r...
Must-Reads, Resources, and Some Thoughts Sustaining Ourselves
Let’s develop the practices and build the infrastructure we need to stay in the fight.
organizingmythoughts.org
January 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
it may be that I just keep reposting @mskellymhayes.bsky.social 's posts here for a minute and that's all I do, but they're gooduns. organizingmythoughts.org/must-reads-r...
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Just cause it’s “the best option” we have or has been an improvement doesn’t mean it’s ethical. And it is important to note his financial conflict of interest when he opposes socialized healthcare (like he did last week), etc. Feel free to argue with yourselves about other things I didn’t say 🤷♂️
If he wanted to give people meds at cost he could. Or even at 10% markup. Yet he doesn’t. So all I am saying is it’s not ethical. Not judging whether it’s “good” or “bad”
January 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Just cause it’s “the best option” we have or has been an improvement doesn’t mean it’s ethical. And it is important to note his financial conflict of interest when he opposes socialized healthcare (like he did last week), etc. Feel free to argue with yourselves about other things I didn’t say 🤷♂️
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Profit reports are not public but estimated they made at least $25M in the first 3Q of 2023. Should people make money off of products people need? I’ll let you decide. But making literal lifesaving medications a for-profit business is not ethical by any definition. There are no ethical billionaires.
January 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Profit reports are not public but estimated they made at least $25M in the first 3Q of 2023. Should people make money off of products people need? I’ll let you decide. But making literal lifesaving medications a for-profit business is not ethical by any definition. There are no ethical billionaires.
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Everyone loves Mark Cuban’s pharma company because he doesn’t profit off of cancer patients *as much* as some others but at the end of the day he’s doing it because he is profiting off of cancer patients.
They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.
They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.
January 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Everyone loves Mark Cuban’s pharma company because he doesn’t profit off of cancer patients *as much* as some others but at the end of the day he’s doing it because he is profiting off of cancer patients.
They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.
They literally add a 15% markup to their production cost, plus a $3 “pharmacy fee” & shipping.
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“The scientist in me is in disbelief at how stupid it is. How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?”
@msjpauly.bsky.social talked to @kateclancy.bsky.social about the absurdity of Trump’s exec order for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@msjpauly.bsky.social talked to @kateclancy.bsky.social about the absurdity of Trump’s exec order for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s definitions of "male" and "female" are nonsense science with staggering ramifications
"How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?"
www.motherjones.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:47 PM
“The scientist in me is in disbelief at how stupid it is. How can you so fully misunderstand basic human biology and then legislate about it?”
@msjpauly.bsky.social talked to @kateclancy.bsky.social about the absurdity of Trump’s exec order for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
@msjpauly.bsky.social talked to @kateclancy.bsky.social about the absurdity of Trump’s exec order for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Just in time for the new Trump administration: The Oath Keepers have rebooted under the leadership of an infamous ex-cop
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Oath Keepers Are Back -- and Targeting America's Youth
Leaked documents and unreported podcasts unveil strategy of rebooted paramilitary group.
www.rollingstone.com
January 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Just in time for the new Trump administration: The Oath Keepers have rebooted under the leadership of an infamous ex-cop
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Texas GOP chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle” www.texastribune.org/2025/01/15/t... by @robertdownen.bsky.social
Texas GOP chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle”
Abraham George’s comments are the latest sign of the state GOP’s embrace of fundamentalist ideologies that seek to center public life around their faith.
www.texastribune.org
January 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Texas GOP chair claims church-state separation is a myth as lawmakers, pastors prep for “spiritual battle” www.texastribune.org/2025/01/15/t... by @robertdownen.bsky.social