BTW this bit of #surveillance #fascism from #Amazon
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

reminds of a question been meaning to ask: are Amazon’s Kindles so bad that’s why people throw them away the minute they get them?

i’ve been looking for a used tablet to root and every other fucking tablet in the second-hand market is a friggin’ #Kindle.

why are people throwing them away?

also, are they that hard to root and reformat?

btw: rumbas and rings are also flooding the second-hand market . it’s bananas.

In the dispute over the #NationalGuard, US District Judge April Perry said she found no substantial evidence that a “danger of rebellion” is brewing in #Illinois during the #Trump #immigration crackdown.

#Chicago #law #SCOTUS #ActivistCourt #immigration #Constitution #FreedomOfAssembly #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #PosseComitatusAct #MartialLaw #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy

"They do so with two express intentions: to make people believe that their political foes are doing that which they themselves are trying to get away with, and to make it easier to get away with defiling the Constitution."

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/13

"Once again, these are not mere lies from Johnson et alia. I make this distinction from time to time, and it’s worth making again here. A lie is a mere denial of truth—'I never said that' or 'No, Mom, that isn’t my pot, I was just holding it for Mark.' What Republicans are doing here, as they do with such regularity, is more than lie. They invert the truth. They say its exact opposite."

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/12

"Have a gander at this map of march locations for tomorrow. There are 16 in Wyoming—a state notoriously pulsing with Hamasniks. There are 18 in Oklahoma, that veritable hornet’s nest of antifa hooliganism. There are another 18 in my home state of West Virginia (go, Morgantown contingent!), where Marxism has obviously taken deep root among an unsuspecting populace."

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/11

As House Speaker Mike "God Talks to Me" Johnson tries to deter attendance at tomorrow's pro-democracy, pro-America demonstrations by saying that they'll be anti-American and full of pro-Hamas, antifa, and Marxist types, Michael Tomasky notes WHO IN THE REAL WORLD is going to be at these demonstrations:

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/10

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=a4380923dd651c195b1631af7c829187.2298&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"Facts are becoming less sacred by the day in Donald Trump’s US, where many of his supporters now deny the very existence of truths. To them, inconvenient evidence is by definition 'bias'. His followers and those who fear his fist are falling into line: media, universities and that infamous regiment of tech zillionaires who stood right behind him on inauguration day."

~ Polly Toynbee

#Trump #MAGA #truth #language #lies #fascism #MoralInversion #reality #facts
/4

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/17/trump-anti-truth-crusade-facts-jd-vance-nigel-farage-censorship

"In honor of the October 18, 2025, No Kings Day demonstrations happening all over the country, I’m offering the first of three installments of 'The Patriot’s Glossary of MAGAtarian Doublespeak.' May it help illuminate the MAGA attacks on facts and reality, and may we hold onto the truth that will make us free."

#Trump #MAGA #truth #language #lies #fascism #MoralInversion #doublespeak #reality #HannahArendt #NoKings
/3

"Since his eruption onto the national political scene, Trump and his MAGA movement have waged not just political battles but an all out war on the very idea that there are such things in the world as facts, reality, and truth."

#Trump #MAGA #truth #language #lies #fascism #MoralInversion #doublespeak #reality #HannahArendt #NoKings
/2

"In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt concluded that the ideal subject of authoritarians are not necessarily their most convinced partisan followers, but 'people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.'”

~ Robert P. Jones

#Trump #MAGA #truth #language #lies #fascism #MoralInversion #reality #HannahArendt #NoKings
/1

https://www.whitetoolong.net/p/the-patriots-glossary-of-magatarian

"Sometime at the end of next April the carefully manufactured conservative majority on the United States Supreme Court will finish off the Voting Rights Act. It will do so on the basis of threadbare arguments easily summarized by the phrase: 'Black civil rights discriminate against white people like me.'”

~ Charles Pierce

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/9

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a69060220/voting-rights-act-supreme-court-justice-roberts/

"My main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act

-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale."

~ Madiba Dennie

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/8

https://bsky.app/profile/audrelawdamercy.bsky.social/post/3m3bcbngb5c2r

The target’s family, friends & co-workers could also be probed.

While the overview says undocumented #immigrants would be the main target for the #socialmedia team, the draft guidelines designate “domestic or international terrorism,” which under Trump’s executive order includes #antifa, as being among the most urgent category of cases.

#Trump #law #4thAmendment #FirstAmendment #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #infosec #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #RightToProtest #NoKings

"Ahead of Saturday’s 'No Kings Day' protests…, the oral arguments in Callais were a reminder that the Roberts Court has been acting as an unelected king for the last 20 years."

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism #NoKings
/7

"You get the historical effects of slavery brought back to life, that’s what you get. ...

Welcome to 1964. Welcome to Jim Crow. That’s where we will be if the Supreme Court puts a torch to the Voting Rights Act."

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/5

"What do you get when you discriminate on the basis of race for 400 years, and you pass laws that say that racial discrimination is wrong for about 60 years, and then you defenestrate those laws the way Justice Roberts and the rest of the arsonists on his Supreme Court want?"

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/4

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/republican-supreme-court-arsonists

"This administration has upgraded the earlier model, showing through word and action that it believes the shameful sides of America’s past were, in fact, good—even examples to follow today."

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/2

"The Trump administration is seeking to rewind the clock on an entire century of legal—and moral—progress. ...

We’re no longer in the usual realm of Republicans whitewashing or downplaying the darkness in our history, e.g., the Supreme Court saying we don’t need voting protections because racism isn’t so bad anymore."

~ Dan Holtmeyer

#SupremeCourt #Trump #JohnRoberts #corruption #racism #WhiteSupremacy #VotingRights #fascism
/1

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pro-massacre-pro-segregation-pro-eugenics-administration/

…#ICE also reported a $2 million contract for #Penlink’s #Tangles & #Weblocs data systems on Sept. 25, which combine #socialmedia & #darkweb data to build detailed portraits of individuals. Weblocs allows clients to track the mobile phone location data of targeted individuals, information that government officials would otherwise need a #warrant to obtain. Penlink did not respond to a request for comment.

#Trump #law #4thAmendment #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #fascism #NoKings

"but I know I will be heartened by the images that will emerge tomorrow in cities and towns big and small all across our country that the country that I’ve believed in for my entire life isn’t gone yet. ...

For me, amid much darkness day-to-day, hope lives."

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/9

"Yes, there are lots of reasons to believe this moment is different — that the GOP is fundamentally committed to a white nationalist authoritarian vision for America unlike any party in power in history and that they’re willing to wreck our country to achieve that —"

~ Garrett Graff

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/8

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/why-i-have-hope-for-america

"Professor Stanislav Vysotsky, an expert on fascism: 'Yes, this is classic authoritarianism. It’s an intentional framing of the opposition as violent and dangerous in order to dehumanize them, which then justifies a violent crackdown. Authoritarians routinely paint their opposition as a menacing existential threat to peace and safety for just that reason.'”

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/7

"No Kings organizer Ezra Levin was asked by HuffPost why rhetoric from Republicans has gotten so hysterical about the rallies: 'I don’t think it’s that complicated. The one thing an unpopular authoritarian regime is scared of is mass, organized, peaceful people-power. That is it."

~ Ron Filipkowski

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/6

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-230-101625

#Paragon lists no contacts; requests for comment to Redlattice, a related Virginia-based company, drew no response.

Maria Villegas Bravo, Electronic #Privacy Information Center counsel, said #ICE’s use of Paragon #spyware raised questions of whether it infringed on the #4thAmendment against unreasonable search & seizure, as well as the #FirstAmendment’s protection of #FreeSpeech & the rights to #assembly & #petition.

#Trump #law #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #fascism #NoKings

"Republican Governors across the country are calling up and mobilizing the National Guard in their states ahead of tomorrow’s No Kings Day protests, which are now set to be the largest protests in American history."

~ Aaron Parnas

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/5

https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/breaking-republican-governors-mobiliz

"The MAGA coalition is doing everything it can think of to control our thoughts and behavior through propaganda, threats, and fear. Millions of people plan to defy them and show up anyway."

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/4

"MAGA is trying to scare us into staying home, but in doing so, they’re showing us their hand. The more people turn out for these events, the more media coverage they receive, and visuals are shared online -- it becomes clear just how big the movement opposing Trump in America has become."

~ Melissa Ryan

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/3

https://www.altrightdelete.news/p/community-courage-joy-and-defiance

"Even if regional superpowers never went to war over boundaries, as they did in the past, humanity would still be divided between dominators and vassals. Do Argentinians feel particularly sovereign at the moment? Brazilians? Europe would become the last bastion of liberal democracy, but how well and long would it hold up, sandwiched between nightmare America and irredentist Russia?"

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/2

Brian Beutler thinks that protesting now (and tomorrow) is "the most urgent calling of our lives. The stakes are nothing less than whether the most militarily powerful nation in the history of the planet becomes a rogue dictatorship.

Where in the world will be lastingly safe if authoritarian kleptocrats carve the globe into spheres of influence?"

#NoKings #Trump #fascism #resistance #authoritarianism
/1

https://www.offmessage.net/p/no-kings

#ICE posted drone footage of #protesters & ICE officers clashing in #Chicago on its #Facebook page on Oct 3.

The pinned post on ICE’s official Facebook page is a warning to the agency’s critics that they will “Face the Consequences” of long prison sentences if they assault or impede officers, cyberstalk, dox or make threats online.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #RightToProtest #FirstAmendment #NoKings

Now I am hungry and want to buy a tamale by bicycle.

h/t @grumpasaurus

Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/17/chicago-cyclists-are-buying-out-tamale-carts-to-keep-vendors-home-and-safe-from-ice/

#BikeTooter #ICE #Fascism

A number of #ICE’s #surveillance orders this year are explicitly for #immigration enforcement, such as a $30 million contract to #Palantir to build #ImmigrationOS, a platform for granularly tracking undocumented immigrants’ movements and any self-deportations. But #US officials have also begun to say that their efforts may serve the crackdown on #antifa as well.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

Many of those funds reflect long-term contracts that will be paid out over time in the future. Hundreds of millions of dollars are earmarked for technology products, according to a review of the contracts by The Washington Post, with major spending also on #detention centers, air transport and guns.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#ICE’s contracted obligations in September tallied up to $1.4 billion, its highest monthly sum in at least 18 years, according to USASpending.gov. The upsurge in awards coincides with the agency’s access to more than $170 billion in funding that #Congress allocated for border security & #immigration enforcement in its July spending bill.

#Trump #law #privacy #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

In one contract that #ICE signed last month for #Clearview #AI facial recognition software, the agency said in a filing that it would be used to investigate “assaults against law enforcement officers.” Other federal contracts show ICE has been expanding its fleet of small, remote-controlled drones, which it has said it is using to film #protesters.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

But Democratic lawmakers, #CivilRights watchdogs & fmr officials have expressed concern that #ICE now has a green light not only to monitor immigrant communities, but also to carry out broad #surveillance of Americans exercising their #FirstAmendment right to oppose government action.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

“We have some of the best special agents, criminal investigators,” Lyons said on Beck’s podcast. “We are going to track the money. We are going to track these ringleaders.”

Lyons said the investigations will focus on “ringleaders” & “professional agitators” who he said are out to turn protests into violent confrontations.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

The blitz of #surveillance purchases is motivated in large part by ICE’s intensive, nationwide campaign to find & deport undocumented #immigrants. But documents show that some of the #technology may also be used to target what the admin regards as anti-ICE extremist groups. Late last month, #Trump declared “#Antifa” a domestic #terrorist organization in the wake of a few violent clashes & a Dallas shooting at an #ICE facility.

#law #privacy #immigration #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#ICE has been rapidly building out its #surveillance capabilities in recent weeks, signing a string of contracts for technologies to identify individuals by their irises or facial features & to monitor their cellphone activity, social media posts & physical movements, according to a review of federal spending disclosures.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#ICE amps up its #surveillance powers,
targeting #immigrants & the nonexistent group #antifa

Iris scanners, facial-recognition apps, phone-hacking software & cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.

#Trump #law #privacy #immigration #tech #SurveillanceState #MilitaryState #fascism #tyranny #NoKings

#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/4nWuulq

LA Times: "...Video that appears to show federal immigration agents using their vehicle to ram the truck of an immigrant rights activist has sparked controversy and public outrage in the city of Oxnard, an agricultural town that has been the frequent target of immigration raids.

At the center of the controversy is a claim by federal agents that the activist was the aggressor, ramming into their vehicle.

...The incident is the latest controversy involving federal immigration agents that has not only sparked outrage among activists and residents but also raised questions about some of the claims agents made previously. ..."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-16/agents-accuse-activists-of-slamming-into-their-vehicle

#ICE #Fascism #VenturaCounty

KTLA: Federal vehicle involved in crash in Oxnard, report says

"A vehicle containing federal agents and another vehicle collided in Oxnard Thursday morning.

The vehicles crashed in the 200 block of Fifth Street just before 8 a.m., the Ventura County Star reports, citing information from Oxnard Assistant Police Chief Rocky Marquez.

Marquez told the Star that the federal vehicle was tied to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Protesters and police gathered at the scene. "

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/federal-vehicle-involved-in-crash-in-oxnard-report-says/

#Fascism #ICE #Oxnard

@nando161 Isn't it basically a fine line? All those in #Capitalism #Consumerism #Banks etc are sharing #Fascism's wide umbrella?

People are helping also, both ignorant spenders and intentional #Fascists ?

Kind of the same as both #ignorant or liking being #Capitalist... just #fascist don't complain as much which not seeing it's them also?

"The young Republicans are the truest Republicans. A little Nazi stuff? What's the big deal?"

~ Paul Waldman

#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
/12

https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-young-republicans-are-the-truest

"This isn’t a 'few bad apples' scenario. It is a structural failure of values—amplified and rehearsed in private so it can flourish in public. The chat shows what happens when a party encourages loyalty through fear, extremism, and moral inversion."

~ Michael Cohen

#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny #Nazi #fascism
/11

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/vile-texts-expose-gop-rot

The judge went on to explain that the use of #BodyCameras by agents would help sort out any confusion about what happened. Unlike cell phone cameras that are often whipped out after something occurs, body cameras “pick up events before the triggering event happens,” she said.

#Trump #law #judiciary #Chicago #immigration #Constitution #RightToProtest #CivilRights #HumanRights #fascism #Tyranny #PoliceBrutality #MilitaryState #ICE #CBP #Gestapo #WhiteSupremacy