he was literally born in michigan

bleak as hell with ian miles cheong is the only voice of reason there & it’s nowhere near a full moon

starting my compilation/collage of right wing white dipshits losing their shit over the word “inshallah”

We knew license plate readers, PredPol, and “targeted enforcement” were used to effectively occupy particular communities with constant surveillance and harass anyone who left/lived there. We added capacity anyway.

Instead of taking on the power of policing directly we keep reaching for clever workarounds that are then used by the police to concentrate more power.

The technological solution to racist policing being abused by the police until it becomes publicly untenable is a particular type of dark irony.

404 Media@404media.co · 5h ago

NEW: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to determine that a man “travels to Michigan frequently,” where marijuana is legal, then back to Wisconsin, where it is illegal. They then used his travel across state lines as tracked by Flock as part of the probable cause justification to search his car.

SCREEN Act, which would have required mandatory age-verification for sites (like this) that allow "material harmful to minors" failed to pass out of committee after thousands and thousands of people called their Senators. More work ahead!

Alison Boden@alisonboden.bsky.social · 6h ago

The SCREEN Act just failed to pass in the Senate Commerce Committee! 🎉 Enormous thanks to the thousands (!!) of you who told your Senators to vote no! Your voice matters and you should feel good that you made a difference. Obviously, the fight isn't over, but this was an important victory.

When a prospective judge refuses to say Biden won in 2020 they are signalling that they are more beholden to Trump than to truth. This is immediately disqualifying and Dems have to find a mechanism to have them all removed because they are a danger to democracy

The revealing part isn’t that they know the answers. Of course they do. It’s that they’re already practicing how to bend plain facts around Trump’s sensitivities before receiving lifetime appointments. Imagine what that instinct looks like once they’re on the bench.

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮

YouTube video by Aaron Rupar

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Hearings like this are a reminder that if you work for Donald Trump, you are a person of low character and have no integrity. There are no exceptions.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

😮 Trump's nominees are the most pathetic men in the world 😮 During a hearing, Blumenthal made Trump nominees squirm by asking them who won the 2020 election -- a question they refuse to answer -- but then Schiff upped the ante by asking them *who won the 2016 election.* Here's a supercut:

the visuals may have become mostly coherent enough to depict something intelligible in the individual panels (save for that last comic, jfc) but these are still fucking fever dreams on the same level as 2020 era AI Dungeon as far as actual storytelling goes

i'm just saying, discerning perverts should demand better quality than this!!!

AI smut is really not the biggest issue facing us right now, i'm just mad that it's (A) NOT GOOD and (B) SOMEHOW EXEMPT FROM THE ANTI-PORN MORAL PANIC SO SOON IT WILL BE YOUR ONLY CHOICE

For years, when I was drawing comics, readers just whined ENDLESSLY about "oh you drew the nose slightly bigger in this panel, i hope someone got fired for that blunder" but now a robot can't even form words and people are all "yeah, that's fine. in fact, it's good!"

Obviously, I can understand what's being said because the human brain naturally seeks order in chaos, but is this what the future is? just endlessly shrugging our shoulders and going "it's good enough, because anything better would require effort"

deviantart is all shit like this now. AI boosters go on and on about the potential of AI, but this is the level of work they consider acceptable to post publicly. I'm just supposed to ignore that the dialogue is all fucked up? you thought i wouldn't notice??

it's like sorry, you're going to jail for drawing a good picture of a naked person and posting it on the website that's entirely bad pictures of naked people, but also i'm not supposed to notice that the internet is all bad pictures of naked people now

the AI boosters have to pretend its got some other use, but really it's an infinite number of monkeys typing "inflate helum baest: ballooooon!!!" at infinite typewriters

One thing that makes me feel insane is that the primary use of AI is to mass produce the pornography that they are trying to make it illegal for humans to make. But also, the AI isn't even good at it. None of it is hot!

#Haiti ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status

The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David.

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cause that's exactly what it is

War Against War@waragainstwar.bsky.social · 6h ago

#Haiti ICE shackles Haitian workers with GPS monitors after stripping legal status The electronic branding of Haitian immigrants resembles nothing so much as the Nazi policy of forcing Jews to wear yellow stars of David. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed

"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.

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My grandmas life insurance policy couldn't be activated because it was a 2 year and she still had 3 months to go. So, it's gonna be out of pocket for the funeral. I'll start a go fund me I suppose. If anyone is interested, I don't know.

A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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Exploration of who you are, your identity and sexuality is super important. It is also so discouraged socially. You can find out. You can get to know yourself. There is always time, it is never too late. It does not make you lesser, fake. It is fine if you haven't always known.

"What if the Purge but for sex" I think the straights might need to be banned from writing romcoms

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 5h ago

i'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else

I have a working theory that most, if not all, of these racists in the Trump admin little twerps (like this guy)who get off on what they think is their tough rhetoric

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

SCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know