Really excellent article! 🙏

The whims of the neediest man (trump) and the greediest man (elon)…

The app, in other words, combines two time-tested secret-police techniques: incentivizing some people to denounce their neighbors and inducing others to add themselves to registries.” 3/

The app promises rewards for “capturing and uploading images of criminal illegal alien activity” and possibly even bigger rewards for self-reporting — for adding oneself to the ICERAID registry if one is “an honest, hardworking undocumented immigrant with no criminal history.” 2/

M Gessen, NYT commentary: “A private company has launched an app called ICERAID, billed as a “protocol that delegates intelligence-gathering tasks to citizens that would otherwise be undertaken by law enforcement agencies.” 1/

There’s already an app for that.

“A private company has launched an app called ICERAID, a “protocol that delegates intelligence-gathering tasks to citizens that would otherwise be undertaken by law enforcement agencies.” The app promises rewards for “capturing and uploading images of criminal illegal alien activity” ~M Gessen, NYT

I did the same stupid thing last year. I should know better. 😩 Never again!

Thanks!

Cool, I’m still figuring out Bluesky, what’s a starter pack?

This is scary and nothing is okay, but I will be strong, and I will keep my eyes open, and I will speak truth. I hope you will too; there is power in numbers. #powertothepeople #doitforourgirls

because I see our democracy being stolen, women’s rights being eroded, and corrupt billionaires taking away our freedoms. I have no idea if she’ll ever get a chance to vote— or if any of us will ever again.

Absolutely, it’s for revenge.

More accurately: the greediest man in the world.

It makes me think of how some men call women ‘hysterical’ just for getting upset.

For sure. Follow all the groups and join when and where you can. @womensmarch.bsky.social @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @teslatakedown.com