Posts by cdarwin@c.im
(DIR) Post #B0qS1qBmXpXOZrBDiC by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-02T16:45:35Z
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Pete Hegseth, told soldiers under his command in Iraq to ignore legal advice about when they were permitted to kill enemy combatants under their rules of engagement.The anecdote is contained in a book Hegseth wrote last year in which he also repeatedly railed against the constraints placed on “American warfighters” by the laws of war and the Geneva conventions.Hegseth is currently under scrutiny for a 2 September attack on a boat purportedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean, where survivors of a first strike on the vessel were reportedly killed in a second strike following a verbal order from Hegseth to “kill everybody”.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/hegseth-us-soldiers-iraq-rules-engagement?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #B12j2riYNQkQj26OFk by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-08T15:24:53Z
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Hey Bandcamp Fridays are fee-free!The artist gets 100%, 12-12 PST. Bandcamp Fridays will be continuing in 2026! Find the dates below, and mark your calendars:February 6thMarch 6thMay 1stAugust 7thSeptember 4thOctober 2ndNovember 6thDecember 4th. -- Jay PeachMy bandcamp site is 👇https://mastodon.social/@jaypeach53/115666327668276979
(DIR) Post #B167mecEP1SNmkOK3M by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-09T04:33:54Z
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Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Amount of Formaldehyde Considered Safe to InhaleThe chemical industry finally got its wish.Industry lobbyists have long pushed the federal government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the 💥cancer risk 💥from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make or use them.Last week, in a highly unusual move, 👉the Environmental Protection Agency embraced that approach in announcing that it is revising an assessment of the health dangers posed by formaldehyde, 🆘a widespread pollutant that causes far more cancer than any other chemical in the air. Working on that effort were two of those⚠️ former industry insiders, who are now top EPA officials.https://www.propublica.org/article/epa-formaldehyde-risk-assessment
(DIR) Post #B1CVKsPt3rGOKOfGOu by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-13T04:50:56Z
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Within minutes of federal agents with ICE, the DEA and FBI arriving at the workplace, a rapid response network mobilized to confront the agents carrying out an immigration raid at the Bro-Tex distribution center.As community members rallied to halt the raid, federal agents cordoned off the area and began trying to clear protesters. Agents used pepper balls, OC canisters and pepper spray on the crowd as they tried to clear a path for a convoy of their vehicles, some of which carried detained migrants, to leave the area. The crowd quickly grew into several hundred people by the time federal agents left the area.Fourteen people were detained by the time the raid was over. This was the largest federal operation in the Twin Cities since the controversial June 3 “Homeland Security Task Force” deployment on Lake Street which led to federal charges against local poet Isabel Lopez. At least one person was detained outside. According to a series of Bluesky posts from their spouse, they were detained at the Bishop Henry Whipple Building at Fort Snelling. He added that a federal agent shouted at him, “Fuck you. You’re not even real Minnesotans. You’re all from Canada.”https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/insight-from-the-bro-tex-raid-what-activists-saw-while-confronting-ice/
(DIR) Post #B1CVKxfJXvZgbgv9do by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-13T04:53:27Z
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Dan Feidt for Unicorn Riot: What’s the take away from today?Anthony Maki: I expected escalation [from law enforcement], but I think they delivered a bit more than my expectations.Matt McRee: I would agree with that.Maki: I went out of it after having heard that it was happening through a Signal chat. I started thinking, “I’m going to go outside and check out what’s happening.” I woke up Matt. We started getting ready for about 15 minutes, and I was prepared for anything to happen, I guess. But I didn’t think arrests were very likely
(DIR) Post #B1QALof585fe9Cojui by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-19T20:38:33Z
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@TCatInReality/115748145381668635Even Mitt Romney says Tax the rich
(DIR) Post #B1gIYMEQJmuAMux9Yu by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-27T16:51:40Z
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German videos – titled Balaclava Kitchen – started in 2014 and ran for months before YouTube took down the channel for violating its guidelines.But it offered a glimpse of how far-right groups have seized on cultural production – from clothing brands to top 40 music – to normalise their ideas, in a process that researchers say has hit new heights in the age of social media.“It’s frightening, honestly,” said Katherine Kondor, a researcher with the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies. “You can be radicalised sitting on your couch.”In affiliation with the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX), Kondor is leading a six-country project looking at how the extreme right uses aesthetics, from fitness influencers to memes and stickers, to spread their views across Europe.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/27/its-frightening-how-far-right-is-infiltrating-everyday-culture?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #B1gIYNkifCKh5N4SXY by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-27T17:29:26Z
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As the numbers of women embracing the concept online surges, the content’s far-right roots have been increasingly obscured. Even so, the views they often promote – from anti-feminism to a nostalgia for an imagined past – continue to boost far-right aims.These cultural elements serve as gateways, at times helping to reel people into extremism, Kondor said. “I think there’s a mistaken idea that people join the far right because they believe in that ideology and want to meet like-minded people,” she said. “But that’s not how it works.”While there are some who are driven by prejudices against certain groups or specific beliefs, or others who tag along with friends who are already involved, many are lured by the subcultures that encase these movements, she said.
(DIR) Post #B1gIYOsYTYC8ZxkEOO by cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-27T17:31:54Z
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“Now there’s technology that we can use to generate an image or video in an instant or music within just a couple of minutes,” said Jasser. “So the playbook is old, but the speed is much faster.”The economics of social media have also transformed the process, leading to questions regarding who is creating far-right content and their motivations.“It could be posted by a bot. It could be anyone and anything wanting to generate income from producing as many AI videos and images as possible,” said Jasser.“Which then interestingly calls into question how ideologically driven many of these accounts are, or if it’s a way to generate revenue. "
(DIR) Post #B1rLaAcqsQhhYOUieG by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-02T01:46:37Z
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@Nonilex Capitol “riot” 'does not happen' without #Trump, #JackSmith told #Congress@mastoreaderio unroll please
(DIR) Post #B27NNxZjYhIL5v14BU by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-09T19:22:12Z
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@Nonilex The head of Minnesota’s state investigations agency said Thursday that the #USattorney’s office has #barred it from taking part in the #investigation into an #ICE officer’s fatal #shooting of #ReneeGood@mastoreaderio unroll please
(DIR) Post #B2IV8kxB8mdFycnqAi by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-15T03:50:03Z
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This should be getting more attention Lawsuit: DHS wants “unlimited subpoena authority” to unmask ICE criticsDHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/instagram-user-fights-dhs-for-the-right-to-post-ice-sightings-anonymously/
(DIR) Post #B2IV8qsR7KP6Led8c4 by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-15T04:03:01Z
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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is fighting to unmask the owner of Facebook and Instagram accounts of a community watch group monitoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Pennsylvania.Defending the right to post about ICE sightings anonymously is a Meta account holder for MontCo Community Watch, John Doe.Doe has alleged that when the DHS sent a “summons” to Meta asking for subscriber information, it infringed on core First Amendment-protected activity, i.e., the right to publish content critical of government agencies and officials without fear of government retaliation. He also accused DHS of ignoring federal rules and seeking to vastly expand its authority to subpoena information to unmask ICE’s biggest critics online.“I believe that my anonymity is the only thing standing between me and unfair and unjust persecution by the government of the United States,” Doe said in his complaint.In response, DHS alleged that the community watch group that posted “pictures and videos of agents’ faces, license plates, and weapons, among other things,” was akin to “threatening ICE agents to impede the performance of their duties.” Claiming that the subpoena had nothing to do with silencing government critics, they argued that a statute regulating imports and exports empowered DHS to investigate the group’s alleged threats to “assault, kidnap, or murder” ICE agents.DHS claims that Meta must comply with the subpoena because the government needs to investigate a “serious” threat “to the safety of its agents and the performance of their duties.”
(DIR) Post #B2KjogbnTLaCL2bqmu by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-16T00:47:17Z
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"Terrible things are happening outside.Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes.Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated.Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."- Diary of Anne FrankJanuary 13, 1943
(DIR) Post #B2aeaSXlIhwp9m1nqC by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-23T19:01:26Z
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Following the invasion of 3000 ICE officers, everyday Minnesotans are pouring into #rapid #response networks and scouring their neighborhoods—even in 20-degree weather before the sun has come up.“I’m being tailed by a car I think is ICE, I can make out two masked individuals through the tinted windshield,” someone says. The call goes quiet for a few seconds. “I’m being pulled over.”Dispatch chimes in: “Stay unmuted, turn down your volume so they don’t hear the call, everyone else please stay on mute.” We hear banging, then something shatters. “ICE just smashed their window,” our driver explains calmly, decelerating ahead of a red light. We are shocked, but this is a regular occurrence. Everyone on the call keeps their cool.We have heard stories from rapid responders about ICE tailing them, boxing them in, smashing their car windows, pepper-spraying them, holding them at gun point, shooting out their tires, detaining them. Some responders have been taken to the regional ICE headquarters, the #Whipple building. Others have been driven to the other side of the city and thrown out of the vehicle, ❄️alone in the cold. Their cars have been left running in the road. The responders tell us all these stories in passing, quickly returning focus to the work that is to be done.Of course, ICE has done worse than this, too. ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed #Renee #Good as she was trying to drive away. A week later, as ICE agents were pursuing someone, they shot live ammunition at a house with a family in it, hitting #Julio #Sosa-#Celis in the leg.But when you ask patrollers what they want people to know about what’s happening in their city, they barely mention the broken windows and bruises. They describe the feeling of connection and solidarity filling the streets. They make ❤️hearts with their hands from car to car, they blow kisses. They make dinners for one another, they drop off groceries for undocumented families that have been locked inside their homes for weeks. They tell us about how, when a skirmish broke out on a busy road, an entire café full of people stood up as one, dropping what they were doing to run towards the sound. We hear again and again about their deep love for the community in the Twin Cities and for their neighbors. Every day, people who never imagined themselves fighting ICE are participating in bold combative actionshttps://crimethinc.com/2026/01/21/from-rapid-response-to-revolutionary-social-change-the-potential-of-the-rapid-response-networks
(DIR) Post #B2aeaTreOFS1FkLCTo by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-23T19:04:33Z
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The situation in Minneapolis is not like anything we’ve seen before. It’s not just an uptick in raids. It is a full-scale military occupation, confronting you wherever you go. You can’t drive more than a couple blocks without seeing roving bands of cars with tinted windows containing masked men in full military equipment: helmets, balaclavas, long guns, tactical equipment, crowd control munitions. They pull up to bus stops, leap out, grab a brown person, shove them in the car, then speed away. They don’t check papers. Some people have been held in detention centers for weeks before it came out that they were US citizens.We are witnessing a #racial #pogrom.
(DIR) Post #B2aeaZRddsD0YoDVlg by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-23T19:09:39Z
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At this very moment, ICE is undergoing a transformation into a #political #police force. Recent leaks show that 💥secret ICE programs seek to exploit every detainee to acquire information, 💥and they aim to deploy up to 2000 “intelligence” assets into communities around the country for the purpose of #spying on migrants and citizens alike. These operations—and the strategy of the Department of Homeland Security in general—are not just targeting immigrants; 🆘 They are also intended to target opponents of the Trump regime.The administration alleges threats from so-called “Antifa” and the “radical left” to justify their authoritarian consolidation of power. But the fact that the FBI called Renee Good a domestic terrorist and pressured prosecutors to investigate her widow shows what they mean by these terms. 🔥The “radical left” is a catch-all term that will be retroactively deployed to describe anyone who is randomly murdered by federal agents—or anyone that they would like to murder. Whenever they say “radical left,” they are saying that they intend to go on murdering people -- the way that they murdered Renee Good, and they intend to do so with impunity.When the Department of Homeland Security posts a meme on its official social media account promoting “100 million deportations,” it should be clear to all that ICE is not just targeting those who currently lack the proper immigration documents. ⛔️They have all of the hundreds of millions of people who oppose the Trump agenda in their sights. Given a free hand, they will kidnap or murder every single one.
(DIR) Post #B2aeaetpMUjDTgRats by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-23T19:15:56Z
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Following a July 4th rally at the ICE-operated #Prairieland #Detention #Center in Alvarado, Texas, an officer 👉allegedly sustained a gunshot injury. The officer in question ⚠️has no medical records substantiating this claim, but the authorities 💥arrested nine people that night and ten more in the months since. 🆘 All nineteen now face the threat of decades in prison on account of their alleged connection with the rally or else for their political beliefs alone. One Dallas teacher, #Dario #Sanchez, faces state charges for allegedly removing someone from a Signal group chat. #Daniel #Sanchez #Estrada, a local artist, faces federal charges for carrying a box of pamphlets out of his wife’s home. Neither of these individuals were even at the Prairieland Detention Center for the rally in questionhttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.410488/gov.uscourts.txnd.410488.100.0.pdf
(DIR) Post #B2h6sXzTT3LAFEi1QG by cdarwin@c.im
2026-01-27T00:39:21Z
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The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago last fall, -- only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records that show how the feds respond when “their agents use deadly force against U.S. citizens.”#Marimar #Martinez’s lawyer argued Monday that top Trump administration officials continue to smear her name, and that the White House’s false narrative about her arrest has even seeped into writings by Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.All the while, a standard court order bars Martinez from sharing records in her case. Designed to protect against the improper disclosure of evidence, attorney Chris Parente says the order has instead become “a prophylactic to countering a pernicious misinformation campaign mounted by the United States.”“They are forcing the public, and Supreme Court justices, to have to rely solely on the government’s inaccurate version of events,” Parente wrote. “This court has the power to shed light on the truth of what happened on October 4.”https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/01/26/marimar-martinez-shot-border-patrol-chicago-asks-judge-release-evidence?mrfcid=202601276977f246c73253080ec76e09
(DIR) Post #B2yuAk6dMMhiTRgNI8 by cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-04T00:09:38Z
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The U.S. is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich and just before the start of World War II."…nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training."https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/into-the-abyss