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Alexei Karamazov
@jrandomdude.bsky.social
· Nov 29
existential movie
YouTube video by xformbykr
youtu.be
an existentialist take on events of the past one-plus years youtu.be/I06mxf9GWtA
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What is happening in this country to people without the right papers- or without those papers recognized by their kidnappers- truly can't be exaggerated.
www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
What is happening in this country to people without the right papers- or without those papers recognized by their kidnappers- truly can't be exaggerated.
www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...
Thinking about how to solve it.
December 8, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Thinking about how to solve it.
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ICE is just going to outsource the stalking of undocumented immigrants to random private investigators, is willing to spend $180 million on it: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
ICE is just going to outsource the stalking of undocumented immigrants to random private investigators, is willing to spend $180 million on it: www.404media.co/ice-plans-to...
This was a good book review! Also recommend Douglass' book "JFK and the Unspeakable". sovereignista.com/2025/11/08/b...
Book Review: Martyrs to the Unspeakable: The Assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK by James Douglass – Chronicles – Sovereign Global Majority
sovereignista.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This was a good book review! Also recommend Douglass' book "JFK and the Unspeakable". sovereignista.com/2025/11/08/b...
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If you think “No Kings” is not anti-imperial enough, take note. I took a Palestine sign to the first one and while I saw others, I got a lot of engagement from folks. Even if they’re organized by lib normies, these events need NOT be a ceiling. They’re a floor. Go raise the roof at them.
Can report back from the Charlotte No Kings that "free Palestine" is now, if not the normie lib position, then at least fully accepted among the normie libs. Lots of signs and flags scattered about, no apparent drama at all.
October 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If you think “No Kings” is not anti-imperial enough, take note. I took a Palestine sign to the first one and while I saw others, I got a lot of engagement from folks. Even if they’re organized by lib normies, these events need NOT be a ceiling. They’re a floor. Go raise the roof at them.
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very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses
Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very interesting what is not allowed these days. in this case, basic archiving of real videos
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
www.404media.co/apple-banned...
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SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:44 AM
SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...
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Following Apple’s removal of ICEBlock, both Google and Apple have removed a similar app for reporting ICE raids called Red Dot.
Google states it removed the app for targeting a vulnerable group that is at risk of violence — ICE agents.
Google states it removed the app for targeting a vulnerable group that is at risk of violence — ICE agents.
Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’
The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
www.404media.co
October 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Following Apple’s removal of ICEBlock, both Google and Apple have removed a similar app for reporting ICE raids called Red Dot.
Google states it removed the app for targeting a vulnerable group that is at risk of violence — ICE agents.
Google states it removed the app for targeting a vulnerable group that is at risk of violence — ICE agents.
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“In Hallam’s view, the liberal elite… has been duped by the corporate elite into retracting from the analysis the simplest historical fact—that as a class, the rich will always murder to keep & grow their wealth.”
- @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...
- @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...
Is it Climate Change or a Genocide?
'What we're dealing with is a social project by the global elites to have billions of people die in order to maintain their power.'
open.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“In Hallam’s view, the liberal elite… has been duped by the corporate elite into retracting from the analysis the simplest historical fact—that as a class, the rich will always murder to keep & grow their wealth.”
- @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...
- @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...
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Thanks for this, Phil. The rich will certainly allow and rule over the decline, however much a disaster, in order to keep their place, which is all they care about.
Power and place. And whatever it takes to keep it. How’s that not a genocide, globally enacted?
Power and place. And whatever it takes to keep it. How’s that not a genocide, globally enacted?
“In Hallam’s view, the liberal elite… has been duped by the corporate elite into retracting from the analysis the simplest historical fact—that as a class, the rich will always murder to keep & grow their wealth.”
- @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...
- @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/neuburge...
Is it Climate Change or a Genocide?
'What we're dealing with is a social project by the global elites to have billions of people die in order to maintain their power.'
open.substack.com
September 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Thanks for this, Phil. The rich will certainly allow and rule over the decline, however much a disaster, in order to keep their place, which is all they care about.
Power and place. And whatever it takes to keep it. How’s that not a genocide, globally enacted?
Power and place. And whatever it takes to keep it. How’s that not a genocide, globally enacted?
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Today’s piece is “Donald Trump’s Kink is Firing Black Women - Even when he can’t get it up. (By “it” of course I mean the legal standing.”😁
All about Trump’s incredibly obvious effort to fire every prominent Black woman that he can… even if he can’t.
All about Trump’s incredibly obvious effort to fire every prominent Black woman that he can… even if he can’t.
Donald Trump’s Kink is Firing Black Women
Even when he can't get it up. (By "it" I mean the legal standing.)
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Today’s piece is “Donald Trump’s Kink is Firing Black Women - Even when he can’t get it up. (By “it” of course I mean the legal standing.”😁
All about Trump’s incredibly obvious effort to fire every prominent Black woman that he can… even if he can’t.
All about Trump’s incredibly obvious effort to fire every prominent Black woman that he can… even if he can’t.
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From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
NEW YORK—Claiming that the humanizing of occupied peoples is not what the newspaper stands for, The New York Times issued an apology Tuesday for reporting on Palestinian deaths. “Our thoughtful and ac...
theonion.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
From The Archives: ‘New York Times’ Issues Apology For Reporting Palestinian Deaths
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Despite Smalls being profiled by every major US publications, no major US outlet has written anything about his beating or detention.
Our labor publications look at why paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
Our labor publications look at why paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls Detained & Beaten by IDF, But US Media Ignores It
This week, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) boarded the Handala, a ship associated with the Flotilla Freedom Coalition, that was attempting to reach Gaza with supplies for starving Palestinians. The ID...
paydayreport.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Despite Smalls being profiled by every major US publications, no major US outlet has written anything about his beating or detention.
Our labor publications look at why paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
Our labor publications look at why paydayreport.com/amazon-union...
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the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
Google’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
Google’s AI Overview, which is easy to fool into stating nonsense as fact, is stopping people from finding and supporting small businesses and credible sources.
www.404media.co
July 23, 2025 at 7:05 PM
the research showing Google AI Overview is stopping people from clicking links is a huge huge huge problem not just for websites but for people's brains which are about to be absolutely mangled www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...
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“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...
The Public Is Resisting Trump. The Elites Aren’t.
The president is encountering little resistance as he remakes our society. And yet polling is clear that voters aren’t with him.
www.thebulwark.com
June 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...
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We Live in Cop Country. The Gates Are Closing Fast
by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
h/t @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @ianwelsh.bsky.social
neuburger.substack.com/p/the-monste...
by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
h/t @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @ianwelsh.bsky.social
neuburger.substack.com/p/the-monste...
The Monster AI, Security, and Wars That Come Home
Links for Friday, June 6
neuburger.substack.com
June 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
We Live in Cop Country. The Gates Are Closing Fast
by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
h/t @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @ianwelsh.bsky.social
neuburger.substack.com/p/the-monste...
by @thomasneuburger.bsky.social
h/t @kenklippenstein.bsky.social @ianwelsh.bsky.social
neuburger.substack.com/p/the-monste...
This is a great example of realism with regard to the present political and legal situation in the US. It is a seriously good antidote to our Kool Aid, consumed since the 50's (even, 40's, but I wasn't there).
May 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This is a great example of realism with regard to the present political and legal situation in the US. It is a seriously good antidote to our Kool Aid, consumed since the 50's (even, 40's, but I wasn't there).
A recent realization while driving past the Chesapeake Correctional Facility in Baltimore: previously I planned to stop taking insulin if I were sent to prison, but now I would head on in there and see what kind of life could be made, especially giving help and aid - like being on a mission
May 9, 2025 at 2:39 AM
A recent realization while driving past the Chesapeake Correctional Facility in Baltimore: previously I planned to stop taking insulin if I were sent to prison, but now I would head on in there and see what kind of life could be made, especially giving help and aid - like being on a mission
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im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country
April 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country
this post from the excellent Naked Capitalism deserves to be widely read and considered www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/more...
More on DOGE's Fraud and Destruction | naked capitalism
An update on DOGE's rampage through government operations.
www.nakedcapitalism.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
this post from the excellent Naked Capitalism deserves to be widely read and considered www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/more...
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There are a lot of explainers out there about the "state secrets privilege." For the most part, they gloss over or omit the origin of this privilege and how it is rooted in fraud. The privilege also allows the government to keep information from judges.
More here: thedissenter.org/trump-admini...
More here: thedissenter.org/trump-admini...
Trump's 'State Secrets' Claim Reflects History Of Fraud
The Trump administration is using the "state secrets privilege" to perpetuate government deception and fraud, which is how it's always been used.
thedissenter.org
March 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
There are a lot of explainers out there about the "state secrets privilege." For the most part, they gloss over or omit the origin of this privilege and how it is rooted in fraud. The privilege also allows the government to keep information from judges.
More here: thedissenter.org/trump-admini...
More here: thedissenter.org/trump-admini...
Recommended!! This was a very useful read. In my mind I have substituted 'political era' for 'constitution' in the title.
March 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Recommended!! This was a very useful read. In my mind I have substituted 'political era' for 'constitution' in the title.
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A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
March 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time:
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves.
Q: Why are you running away?
Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels.
Q: But you’re foxes!
Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.
I like John Helmer's critical-of-anyone stuff. This one is about corporate state-craft whose tools include various forms of deception, plus bullying. johnhelmer.net/trumps-money...
TRUMP’S MONEY SHOT – GUNNERS SHOT FIRES BACK
by John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with
In Hollywood as in Bollywood, filmmakers and the executive directors representing the production fin
johnhelmer.net
March 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I like John Helmer's critical-of-anyone stuff. This one is about corporate state-craft whose tools include various forms of deception, plus bullying. johnhelmer.net/trumps-money...
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Border officials refused to allow a French scientist to enter the country after searching his electronic devices and discovering messages to his colleagues that were critical of Trump, saying they could be “qualified as terrorism.”
Customs Officials Deny French Scientist U.S. Entry Over His Anti-Trump Texts
An FBI inquiry was briefly opened, then dropped, after which the scientist was deported to France.
truthout.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Border officials refused to allow a French scientist to enter the country after searching his electronic devices and discovering messages to his colleagues that were critical of Trump, saying they could be “qualified as terrorism.”