So, in addition to carrying LRAD-sound and microwave reflecting signs, protesters and #ICE watchers need to start wearing electrical-insulator base layers under surface layers with a continuous mesh of copper thread or another conductor sewn in. I'm going to assume these gloves will be cheaply built and lack overload protection and thermal circuit cutoffs.
#immigration #protest #CivilRights #ExcessiveForce #Sturmabteilung #authoritarianism #fascism #tyranny
AP Exclusive: #ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks
ICE plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase thousands of “conductive distraction & de-escalation devices” for officers & agents by March, according to a notice published Monday by #DHS.
#law #Trump #immigration #RightToProtest #CivilRights #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
apnews.com/article/ice-electri…
How criminals are taking down Flock cameras
#surveillance #politics #resistance #resist #usa #authoritarianism #fascism #civildisobedience #USAFascistShitShow #policestate #policemilitarization #federalinvasion #nokings #abolishice #privacy #flock #palantir #4thamendment #Chatrie_v_United_States
Source: mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/11704…
#jokes #sigh #trump #ComradeKrasnov #authoritarianism #dictator #liers #criminals
How many Trump supporters does it take to change a lightbulb? None. Trump said he did it and they all clap in the dark.Col (Mastodon 🐘)
Mehta had sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison & imposed lesser prison terms on other top #OathKeepers who were #convicted at #jury trials. #Trump commuted those prison sentences on his first day in office last year, & he pardoned more than 1,500 rioters.
#whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
WTF???
Judge dismisses #Jan6 #SeditiousConspiracy charges against #OathKeepers
While taking the last step in the legal process to wipe out penalties from the #insurrection, the judge also criticized the #DOJ for undoing the most serious convictions.
#Trump #whitewashing #RevisionistHistory #propaganda #law #ElectionInterference #BigLie #coup #ConspiracyTheories #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
washingtonpost.com/national-se…
All about the safety of the kids¹ they said,
All about the safety of users² they said,
All about the safety of the citizens³ they said,
All about the money, control & power⁴ they left unsaid.
¹ mastodon.social/@madeindex/116…
² arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0…
³ mastodon.social/@madeindex/113…
⁴ gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-u…
mastodon.social/@madeindex/116…
#Privacy #HumanRIghts #Freedom #Surveillance #Authoritarianism #Control #Government #Data #Masssurveillance #id #verification #rights #corps #evil #ageverification #corruption
It's ironic to see those same global elites who love partying with the likes of known & convicted child sex-trafficker Jeffrey #Epstein now urging worldwide restrictions on E2E / #VPN & promoting age, biometric, and identity verification online - all…MadeInDex 📰🌎 (Mastodon)
"To become genuinely empowered, people can work in community to meet their essential needs — food, housing, healthcare, education, energy, technology and economic stability. This is not theory. It’s already happening. Across the globe, people are building systems from the ground up that meet human needs while resisting corporate and state overreach."
Link: resilience.org/stories/2026-07…
#Climate #PolyCrisis #Capitalism #Community #Sustainability #Economy #DeGrowth #Local #Activism #Authoritarianism
Vulnerable communities face growing threats: the climate crisis is outpacing scientists’ worst predictions and authoritarianism is no longer a distant possibility. So what can we do? We build.Shanal Otchere (resilience)
Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.
I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.
This is not a drill.
If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.
They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊
#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:
• Official identification of every adult using social media.
• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.
• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.
• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.
• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.
• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.
• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.
• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.
• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.
• The list goes on and on.
This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.
Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.
Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.
The future depends on us.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
#Trans folx in #Kansas given 1 day to surrender their (now invalid) IDs and driver's licenses to the state. As of tomorrow (Thursday), driving while trans is a class-B misdemeanor ($1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail).
The zero-grace-period execution means driving to turn in your license is a crime.
Oh yeah, this bill also enacted a bathroom bounty program allowing private individuals to sue trans folx for using the restroom.
erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-…
erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-…
#AntiTrans #Authoritarianism #FuckTrump #FuckRepublicans #ProtectTransFolx
The bill, which is racing through the Kansas legislature, stands a significant chance of passing the Senate.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
Beware of false nostalgia.
Signal IMO has bad security because when someone decides they are not interested in an overpriced, underperforming service of "phone number" and stops using their SIM, they cannot deregister the number from Signal and the new owner of the number either can hijack their Signal account, or people may be blocked from using newly purchased SIMs with Signal.
Also, authoritarian regimes IMO can temporarily transfer a number into a provider's internal SIM in order to hijack a Signal account and impersonate a dissident against another dissident, facilitating abduction, torture and murder.
I feel
c o n t e m p t
towards Signal when it is designed this way.
#badsecurity #incompetence #signal #phonenumberasidentity #security #SIM #contempt #securityhole #securityflaw #attack #hijacking #torture #murder #abduction #authoritarianism #regime #authoritarian
This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
Remember this? We the People seeing beginnings of a police state, repression, and assaults on #democracy itself.
From a legend with a heart of gold and a keen eye for #truth - plus #peace, #love, and #respect among #humankind
How many more?
#NeilYoung #CSNY #music #joy vs. #TrumpVirus #ICE #cruelty #hate #authoritarianism #madness #war #BrainSpurs
(Music And Song Courtesy:Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)I DO NOT MAKE ANY MONEY OFF OF MY VIDEOS I DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THIS VIDEO OR ANY MUSIC IN THIS VID...peaceandfreedom2011 (YouTube)
A very helpful history of how capitalist libertarianism, Silicon Valley and Trump’s authoritarian movement join forces in making crypto-currency their main fuel, by Finn Brunton, a professor of science and technology studies at the University of California-Davis and the author of “Digital Cash: The Unknown History of the Anarchists, Utopians, and Technologists Who Created Cryptocurrency.”
nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion… #crypto #cryptocurrency #trump #maga #authoritarianism #thiel
Meanwhile, in the "Where have we heard this before" Department
in cooperation with the #GQP / #Project2025 Ministry of #Truth and #Doublespeak
Sound Familiar?
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Cross Orwell, Goeebbels, Stephen Miller and the terrific voices in Sir #TrumpVirus' head, and voilà!
#fascism #authoritarianism #dystopia #literature #censorship #ThoughtPolice #BigBrother #CancelCulture #BrainSpurs
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.’ These three short sentences are a central part of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949…InterestingLiterature (Interesting Literature)
Update: they’ve reportedly reinstated the #antifa hashtag. As well as #noAFD, which was, apparently, also blocked.
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Hey FLOSS.social, do you understand that “antifa” stands for “anti fascist?” Do you know what folks who are anti-anti fascist are? That’s right, they’re fascists.
While you’re at it, you might also want to look up what the “F” and the “L” in your name stand for.
If they don’t fix this ASAP, I’d recommend a swift #fediblock by any instance that isn’t fascist.
#FLOSS #FOSS #freedom #antifa #fascism #censorship #authoritarianism #fediverse #mastodon floss.social/@OddDev/114040785…
Important edit:
Meanwhile, the admin responded and clarified the situation. It was a configuration mistake. #antifa was auto blocked because of spam (if I got this correctly?) and #NoAfD basically for the same reason. The latter, however, wasn't resolved that fast because it has never been reported. Which is believable because it's super German specific.
floss.social/@admin/1140418176…Original:
@admin I'm sorry, what?!#Fediverse #Mastodon #FLOSS #antifascism
FLOSS.social :mastodon_oops: (@admin@floss.social)
@OddDev Thanks for reporting; this has been fixed. There is a small number of hashtags that trended early in the history of the "trending hashtags", and not since then, that had a misconfiguration applied to them some years ago.FLOSS.social
