🧵 2/n
Or this part:
"They explained that there had been an allegation against me, that it concerned our four-year-old twins, and that a forensic interview had been arranged for the children the following day."

Ok, where does Pete live?
Michigan.
What law governs CPS?
MCL§722.621-638

§722.625 limits of confidentiality: Except for Mandated reporters, police, or Child advocates, "the identity of a reporting person is confidential subject to disclosure only ... or by judicial
process. "

This is the case here, an Anonymous caller reached out to CPS.

#PeteButtigieg #SubStack Swatting via CPS.
First a caveat, #SubStackIsANaziBar and I don't recommend patronizing it. Why doesn't Mr. Buttigieg move to Ghost instead?

Any, way, I just read this article and I am struggling to understand parts of it.

Like this part: "a police officer and a CPS worker showed up at our home and politely asked to speak with me.

I showed them in"

Did they have a Warrant? Why would you invite the police into your house in their official capacity absent a threat on your life?

Or this part: " An anonymous caller had contacted CPS. The caller said that he had spoken to a woman who claimed to have met me at a conference several years ago in Alabama, where she said I told her that I had committed unspeakable violent crimes, and the caller believed my children were still at risk."

[How many degrees of hearsay are there in this statement?
Anonymous caller: (1)
Spoke to a woman (2) ]
The un-named woman alleged unspeakable crimes, years ago.
[So it is not an imminent threat?]
The caller, not the woman he unveiled his crimes to, was concerned about his children?
I am so confused.

🧵 1/n

Why do #Trump, #Epstein, and #Lutnik, along with everyone who went to #EpsteinIsland get to rape children with no consequences?

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/116788889530851172

Really great thread.
#AbolishThePolice #AbolishPrisons

Happy #AutisticPride today, June 18th

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_Pride_Day

Holy Cow, this is such a good article by @TheGuardian
Bravo Mr. Baker.

"[During the 2003 Iraq war ] On UK-led shifts, there were no friendly fire incidents and no significant collateral damage....What the next generation of reformers would measure as latency – the delay between identifying a target and striking it – was the window in which mistakes could be caught."

Article: The long read
AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying - By Kevin T Baker

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/116223781289008238

#Prairieland #Antifa #1stAmendment #ICE #Lawfare #USPol #2ndAmendment

Holy shit y'all. It is officially federal precedent that protesting the government is "Domestic Terrorism" and we no longer have the freedom of assembly, or the freedom of the press.

I would love to see the jury instructions.

I also want to know why "In a surprise move, all 9 defense teams rested their case immediately following the conclusion of the prosecution's time. " WTAF!!
Are the defendants going to argue #ineffectiveCouncil ?
Why didn't Benjamin Song's council argue Self defense?
Via post: https://mas.to/@dfwsupportcommittee/116208013043435784

2/3
Our #peshmerga forces were run over by #Iraqi tanks. Even now, Iraqi forces continue forcing Kurds out of their homes, as they have since the 1960s, because the city is #oil-rich.
We are the same Kurds in northern Iraq whom you urged to stand up against the #Saddam regime in 1991, only to abandon us when we rose up. We were massacred, and 2 million of us were displaced. You were shamed into Operation “#ProvideComfort,” but only after thousands of us had already been killed following your call to rise.
We are the Kurds in #Bakur, south eastern Turkey whose lives and bodies have been sacrificed because of your economic and military ties to Turkey- your NATO allies who built a #jihadi corridor and openly supports ISIS, al-Qaeda and #alNusra
We are the same Kurds in #Rojhilat whom you betrayed during the 1975 #AlgiersAgreement. The Kurdish uprising collapsed overnight; tens of thousands were displaced. Iraqi forces launched severe reprisals—those who witnessed what had happened to our fellow Kurds in Basur and Rojava now refuse to be your foot soldiers.
We are the same Kurds you are trying to strong-arm into a #war we do not wish to participate in.
We know who you are, America.

In fact, an armed bloc is more likely to keep the peace than a bunch of unarmed protesters.

From the #NoKings event page:

"A core principle behind all No Kings events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events"

If the Fash are collaborating with the police and beating people to death with impunity, what is their suggestion, strongly worded letters?

Seems to me that if you are allowed to carry weapons legally, you are acting lawfully, de-escalate all you like.

@aral Just saw you on a Al-Jazzera short on Privacy! Great job!

So I haven't been donating to the Palestinian groups for two reasons:
1) I am in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and don't have space in my budget for charity at this point.
2) I live in the US and under our current Fascist regime, I could easily be accused of Material Support for Terrorism given this administrations broad crack down on any and all Palestinian aid groups and NGOs in general. To be clear, this was true during the Biden administration as well.
I am happy to "#Boost" posts, and @aral is doing an Amazing job with #GazaVerified.

An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded
- People with caring responsibilities
- People with disabilities
- People with health vulnerabilities
- People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies
- People who work for orgs with ethical no-fly policies
- People who have their travel disrupted due to climate chaos
- People who only engage with fully open access scholarship (if you have to travel+pay to watch a talk, it's not at all open access, even if a related publication is)
- People who can't leave their country for fear of not being let back in
- People who can't get visas
- Unfunded/underfunded people
- People with unfavourable exchange rates
- People who have limited holidays off work
- People who can't afford it
- etc..

I guess you end up with rooms mostly of academics with travel budgets who are too senior to really do research any more, and research students with stipends. That's fine but the perspectives can feel limited, ungrounded and underinformed.. with a huge environmental cost.

In light of US tech oligarchy setting its sights on Wikimedia Foundation, a historical detail I did not know before: #Wikipedia became the non-profit it is today partly as the result of a labour strike of Spanish Wikipedia editors who disagreed with the proposed inclusion of advertisements. Initially, it was not clear what revenue model Wikipedia would get, and Wales moved towards a for-profit model already a year after launch. However, rather than working for free, so Jimmy Wales could profit from their labour via advertising, Spanish contributors forked Spanish Wikipedia as the Encyclopedia Libre Universal. Under the threat of losing the editorial community of such a large language, Wales conceded and set up the non-profit.

That is to say, however imperfect they are, all the digital commons we have are the result of ongoing struggle and hard work to keep them as commons.

Via Las Redes Son Nuestras (https://www.consonni.org/es/publicaciones/las-redes-son-nuestras) by @teclista

Update with more info:
https://post.lurk.org/@rra/113873611500414068

hey rememeber that time we installed a barbed wire fence inside a building and then ran a telephone signal over it? well- you still have 'til 4 today to see it, and from 3-6 on Monday!

This just in:

FinchHaven@infosec.exchange hates blind people with a burning passion. Also the sight impaired. God forbid, I suggest adding Alt-Text to a photograph containing multiple lines of text when the other posts that @McSpocky do an amazing job of having #AltText.

"Default #Mute and #Block for all pissy HOA / Hall Monitors contributing nothing but "Always add #AltText!!!"

About two heartbeats away from #DomainBlock on #Kolectiva and just being done with their pissy edgy judgementalism"
via https://infosec.exchange/@FinchHaven/112932441021989738

#Meta is pro #Nazi, really no other way to read this:
"For the few weeks that [Le Coin des LGBT+'s account] was around on Threads, every single one of the account’s posts was bombarded with insults, death threats, and literal nazi imagery. Day after day, I spent hours trying to report every single one of them. Not only did the swastikas stay up and reappear faster than I could report them, but every single one of my reports was also met with a cold, disturbing, automated message from Instagram in my email inbox telling me that, “No violation was found”."

https://www.macstories.net/stories/lgbt-and-marginalized-voices-are-not-welcome-on-threads/

Had to unfollow @antifaintl due to no #AltText. Seriously, WTH! Don't be posting pictures without the frigging Alt text.

"As I can live
let me never unsee
children burying their
mothers, fathers, siblings
friends
let me never unsee parents &
grandparents burying
children that should have buried
them
let me never unsee hospitals,
schools, universities
homes, archives, memories
knowledge, history turned into
nothing but grey rubble
let me never unsee men publicly
stripped & paraded in their underwear
let me never unsee the pregnant & menstruating
women with nothing to clean
themselves
& let me never unsee the tik tok
videos of Israelis celebrating
mass civilian murder
& mocking Palestinian humanity.

As I can live
let me never unhear
the wail of a Palestinian doctor
at work when her lifeless daughter
was wheeled past her
let me never unhear the cries
of children undergoing
surgeries without anesthesia
let me never unhear the pain of a father holding the blown apart pieces of a son
in a plastic bag
let me never unhear the rumblings of stomachs
that have not been feed
the cracking of journalist voices
who have not had water
the Palestinians prayers
for their families
let me never unhear
the press conference of children
pleading to live
the nightmares of children
pleading to dream
& let me never unhear the sound
of bombs laced with genocidal words
of Israeli leadership
and the international silences
that killed them.

As I can live,
let me never unsmell
the wonder of fresh air
the warmth of Palestinian food
full of spices, fresh olive oil
friendship & love
and remember all they
smell is death
the decomposing of bodies
not given the dignity of a proper
burial.

But most of all,
As we can live
let us never unsee, unhear, unknow
the bravery of grieving families
turn to help others
the medics who stayed to die
with their patients
the journalists who used their last
breath to upload a report
and the poets who died
to bring us hope,
to be a tale.

-Melissa Castillo

Dec. 8, 2023"

"Opinion Crime doesn’t have to be violent to create a sense of lawlessness" Opinion written by the National Retail Association, oops just it's shill Colbert King. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/19/theft-crime-dc-police-lawlessness/
Let's talk about other non-violent crimes more concerning to the community.
Wage theft, especially of service workers.
Blatant OSHA violations and Environmental violations, all non-violent crimes that heavily impact minority communities, yet they are rarely prosecuted.
Tax theft, companies and individuals not paying their fair share, keeping communities underfunded and destitute.
In fact, these forces, rampant corruption, tax evasion, and environmental depredation are the well spring of these non-violent crimes. If communities had the resources for housing, education, and good jobs, or even #UBI, it is highly unlikely that we would see retail theft or even drive by shootings as prevalent as we do now.