A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society.”
The DHS is using Mobile Fortify, an app that allows officers to photograph a person’s face and immediately query DHS databases for matches, on protestors.
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Logging in to provide further proof, so all the conservative influencers and “journalists” stop downplaying this.
Shawn Beauvais-MacDonald (who showed up to intimidate me) is a SELF-DESCRIBED Nazi.
Alex Vriend, who Western Standard platformed, is a SELF-DESCRIBED white nationalist.
Receipts.
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
Time to rethink whether #DeIdentification #Anonymization provides any #privacy protection at all.
Of _course_ #ArtificialIntelligence #LargeLanguageModels are fantastic at re-identifying users. It is the exact type of task they excel at--finding correlations in data
arstechnica.com/security/202...
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“It is impossible to protect privacy from authoritarianism without addressing consumer privacy.” - from Daniel J. Solove, Privacy in Authoritarian Times - final published version here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #PrivacyMatters
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9. The message from Democratic voters is not subtle. Abandoning transgender people does not win you new supporters—but it may win you an uphill primary challenge you are likely to lose.
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7. While Levy's victory was the most notable of the night, other anti-transgender and right-leaning Democrats faced similar fates. Former Representative Michael Wray, who voted with Republicans on sports bans and trans youth care bans, lost his primary by 34 votes in 2024.
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6. She ran on an explicitly pro-LGBTQ+ platform, writing on Facebook that "this campaign has always been about showing up for working families, Seniors, LGBTQ+ neighbors, immigrant communities, veterans and students to ensure our values are consistently represented in Raleigh."
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5. Instead, the district will be represented by progressive Democratic challenger Veleria Levy, a community health policy advocate with more than 20 years of experience in healthcare and HIV advocacy.
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A Purity Test for Democrats
The North Carolina Democratic Party won’t share voter-turnout tools with certain candidates who previously voted to override the governor’s vetoes.
4. Asked to explain his vote, Majeed offered only: "There were some moral issues in there that I had some sentiments, some deep sentiments about it." Afterwards, the North Carolina Democratic Party revoked his access to VoteBuilder, the party's voter contact software.
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CHOICE
TOTAL
Veleria M. Levy
4,949
Nasif Majeed
1,889
Tucker Neal
376
Tie
Not Reported
Not Participating
2. Last night, primary elections in North Carolina told a different story: if you abandon trans people, your Dem voters will abandon you. The state's most prominent anti-trans Dem, Nasif Majeed, fell to progressive challenger Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform, by more than 40 points.
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#NotNewsom
reason 1 bazillion and 2 why a newsom presidential run will fail. do not let him anywhere near even a primary
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To the center right and third way Democrats who have been trying to triangulate on a position that allowed them to abandon trans folks and push increasingly far right agenda items to appeal to the nazis, your time is over.
This should scare the newsom kkkrew deeply as they will lose the election
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no country should have permanent bases within another.
thats generally called occupation.
need a joint military base for allies , great, the host can provide it.
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I desire an absolute end to american hegemony and empire.
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the risk is the end of the petro dollar to avoid global war.
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People I trust who know about money are feeling like the world is on the brink of a financial crisis on the scale of 2008, so that's fun
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Let this serve as a warning to Dems who abandon trans folks and vote for anti trans bills. You will be primaried, and you will lose.
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The issue with the coverage of the far right is that it is generally done to make those covering it and their audience feel good about themselves rather that actually tackles the roots of the issue
We cannot defeat the far right if we refuse to address systemic forms of oppression
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no one talked about covid either.
not at first. then as deaths started happening to people they knew it happened.
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It's absolutely surreal how no one is talking about the Iran war in daily life. No one is discussing it and they seem oblivious. This conflict is spiraling and deteriorating in a way that it will substantially disrupt daily life for most of the world for the first time in decades.
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Funny thing about white supremacist Christian nationalists is no matter how many bribes you give them, if you’re not white and Christian, they ain’t gonna care about your safety or concerns.
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BREAKING: SHAMWOW GETS RINSED!
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JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in the Arkansas state House.
The Republican governor had initially called the special election in June, but a court moved up the contest.
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