clinodev

@clinodev.bsky.social

Reader of SF/F, history, politics. Intermittent writer, engineer, Quaker. GameDev-adjacent-ish.

*sigh* Again, what white Americans call "rising fascism🤡" is just what happens to Black people every day, now happening to people that aren't Black. We deploy cops, in schools, with electroshock gloves, so that they can be closer to the innocent Black students that they target to abuse and arrest.

OPD says its school resource officers have shock gloves at 29 schools and they've been used twice on students

OPD says shock gloves have been delivered to school resource officers at 29 Omaha area schools and used twice on students.

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Kash Patel lands smack in the middle of the FBI Epstein files he was supposed to be investigating. Fancy that. Fergie (that is, the former Duchess of York) tried to hook Kash up with Andrew's (that is, the former Prince Andrew) ex. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

New FBI Epstein Emails Show Sarah Ferguson Contacted Kash Patel

Internal documents shed new light on the government’s review of the Epstein files and reveal efforts by the former Duchess of York to connect a British socialite with the FBI director.

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While people like this have been asking us to convince them we have spent centuries being hunted like dogs, mourning our children, hoping our parents would come home & forced to explain why we don’t deserve to be lynched by the state with impunity. We aren’t trying to convince you. We know we can’t

Operation Democracy ✊🏼 Free DC!@democracyop.bsky.social · yesterday

Are y’all actually here trying to convince anyone to defund the police or are y’all just trying to be an angry echo chamber of hardliners moralizing against other leftists as if that’s somehow going to teach them to defund the police? Defund the police is a small minority view *within the left*. But

*sigh* Ironic. In the entire history of illegal boat strikes, 210 people have been killed. White Americans are rightly horrified by this fact. But... cops have killed 179 Black people *this year alone*. White Americans are like "Why are we even talking about woke1? Discourse is broken!🤡"

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’m on vacation but I gotta say, as much fun as it is to debate woke1 and Hasan Piker, the Trump administration is currently engaged in mass murder on the high seas as surely as any serial killer or lynch mob. And viewed from the distance of vacation, The Discourse doesn’t seem to give a shit.

A group of Iranian pilots flying dark with no radio or GPS to bomb US proxies from extremely low altitude is genuinely a way cooler movie premise than any of the war agitprop Hollywood has spit out this century.

Most of the people in jail in the US are innocent Black people that were falsely accused of a crime, then kept in jail for up to a year, in dangerous conditions where they were threatened with being stabbed, raped, or killed by medical neglect, to force them to plead guilty to crimes they didn't do.

Riley Bruce@rileybruce.bsky.social · 3d ago

What’s a thing from your area of expertise (or special interest) that you think it would behoove everyone else to know?

Read the whole awful story here. The way the current administration treated these vulnerable young kids is unconscionable. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Guatemalan Children’s Case and the Judicial Learning Curve

District court judges watch each other struggle with the Trump administration—and adapt.

lawfaremedia.org

Jackmerius Tacktheritrix@j-tacktheritrix.bsky.social · 3d ago

@annabower.bsky.social and colleagues at Lawfare produced great coverage of the ensuing legal case. Long story short: the government's story was bullshit. Recommended reading: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/l.g.... I departed ORR a short time later. (5/x)

It’s soooooo hard to overcome the police/prison/criminalization/punishment mindset, I think partly because people are terrified of harm and don’t know how to (or want to) think about how to prevent and address it. It’s too scary. Even among well-intentioned progressives! Everyone needs a bogeyman

W.E.D.em Boyz@leftistwonk.bsky.social · 3d ago

We are in the middle of a wave of DSA candidates winning across the country and yet the institutional left has clearly decided to abandoned the movement to even reform the police, let alone abolish or defund them.

It took longer than I'd like and also ended up much longer than I initially planned, but Prophet of Stone chapter 28 is now available for all my 1$ patrons. It's mostly about foot traffic and weird fantasy food but I did eventually get some lesbian sex in at the end. Enjoy.

Prophet of Stone Chapter 28 | Thorin Sorensen

Prophet of Stone Chapter 28 by Thorin Sorensen on Patreon. Join Thorin Sorensen's community for exclusive content and updates.

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The only two positions are Abolish Police or Point Guns At Moms Any rational reform position went out the window when kidnappings started. By terrorists whose uniforms say police The police that don’t kidnap don’t arrest them. They aid them How is a mom to know which police to run to or run from?

Aaron Fritschner@fritschner.bsky.social · 4d ago

Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.

“Woke 1 went too far!” The phrase “stay woke” comes from the movement against police murder of black people 12 years ago and in that time not a single police department was actually defunded nor abolished so idk what the fuck anyone is talking about