wiselephant.bsky.social
@wiselephant.bsky.social
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eat the rich, kill nazis, abolish ice
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In Middleton, NY.

This guy probably saved his neighbors from Trump's masked thugs.

This is how you firmly assert your rights and stand up for our communities.
August 19, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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NYC Comptroller Brad Lander: "I don't think the line for the [Democratic] party right now is between progressives and moderates; I think it's between fighters and folders."
June 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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The protests have to mark the beginning of a larger democratic movement.

We can’t expect authoritarians or the wealth class to simply give up. We have an incredible fight ahead of us, but the feeling of mass action and solidarity can keep us going.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/no-kings-h...
No Kings Has to be the Beginning
Saturday was the start of something, not the end.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
June 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Have we mentioned lately that Palantir is evil? At CDC, we’re forced to use Palantir software to track disease—that’s the *good* kind of surveillance. But Palantir is also working with the Trump administration on the *bad* kind of surveillance. Let’s dive in: 🧵 [gift link]
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
June 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Trump’s halting of data collection could have effects that last far beyond his time in office.

Even if a future administration seeks to resurrect some of the curtailed efforts, the 2025-29 hiatus will make trends harder to identify and understand.
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose…
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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1/ 🔒 Imagine a private company embedded in gov systems—processing and analyzing your health records, immigration status, and social media use.

That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.

Let’s discuss 🧵
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Ok, so let me get this straight….
-The tech reich indoctrinated the base using AI and disinformation bots…
-The base was programmed to vote for a morally corrupt greed monger to do their bidding who stands the most to gain (money and power) from tearing down Democracy (enter yarvin, stage right…)
April 21, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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🔥 “Without a level playing field — without Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion — Meritocracy fails spectacularly… it’s ok to at any point stop and admit you didn’t think this all the way through.”

cc: Rep. Aron Maberry (who is carrying yet another an anti-DEI bill)
March 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM