@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-20 08:48:19
There are a lot of takeaways from this:
1. Organizing locally gives you a massive advantage because you will always know your local area better than ICE ever can.
2. Be agile. You can always change tactics faster than a centralized organization.
3. Organize now. The sooner you build your networks, the sooner you can learn.
4. Identify ICE facilities and organize monitoring them directly.
But I think the most interesting one that's not explicitly in there, one that's hinted at the last one, is to go on the offensive. ICE is already afraid. If we all take the anger we have at the murder of #ReneGood, find the local ICE facility that they'll stage from, and bring that anger to #OccupyICE we might be able to just shut the whole thing down preemptively. Completely stop all ICE operations across the US. If they want to fight, they can fight *with everyone, all at once.*
Shut down their ability to operate at all. They have a logistics pipeline. They need cars, they need oil in those cars, they need to be able to move those cars to target areas. They also need money to pay those agents. All of those can be disrupted.
The regime needs your money and labor to maintain the illusion of legitimacy. They chose a bad time because you can hit both of those at once *right now* with a combination of #GeneralStrike and #TaxStrike, and then #BoycottEverything.
The regime is weaker than it's ever been. It's flailing. Their own base is demanding the release of the #EpsteinFiles. Their last gasp attempt to prevent the radical change that's coming is just to ethnically cleanse the US back to the 50's (which is what they always meant by "Make America Great Again"). Trump will do anything to stay in power, even if it means killing everyone on Earth in the process. But Americans can end it now by going on the offensive.
Now is the time.
#USPol
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-02-11 01:39:50
And so the humongous flat antenna of the direct-to-cell comsat #BlueBird 6 has unfolded, "the Largest Commercial Communications Array Antenna Ever" as the AST press release https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260210108166/en/AST-SpaceMobile-Successfully-Completes-Unfolding-of-BlueBird-6-the-Largest-Commercial-Communications-Array-Antenna-Ever-Deployed-in-Low-Earth-Orbit crows: now it's now up to the astronomical community to observe it and determine its magnitude. Are the Block 2 BlueBirds worse than the already outrageously bright Block 1 satellites - or did the promised (!) countermeasures reduce their impact? In any case dozens more of these satellites are to be launched this year, followed by hundreds more ...
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-11 19:15:29
The Oglala Sioux Tribe is seeking answers after
four enrolled members were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis.
Tribal President Frank Star Comes Out said in a statement on Facebook that the men,
who were homeless and living near the Little Earth housing complex in Minneapolis,
home to nearly 1,500 people,
many of whom are Native American.
The men were taken into custody without their names being recorded, the tribe …
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-12-14 08:49:00
"Europa wird im Digitalen nur souverän sein, wenn es seine eigene Rolle richtig versteht: nicht als Festung, nicht als Kopie amerikanischer Tech-Konzerne, sondern als Gestalter industriellen Deep Techs, als Produzent von Präzision, Energieeffizienz und strategischen Technologien, die niemand ersetzen kann. Souveränität wäre dann nicht das Pathos des Ausnahmezustands, sondern die Nüchternheit der Gestaltungskraft." @…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-29 17:42:03
Meanwhile, Schumer’s much-touted list of demands is (oh, shocker) pathetic weak sauce: “a prohibition on [ICE] wearing masks, the imposition of a code of conduct and independent investigations of violations.”
…which, like…
(1) Sure, that would be nice — comically insufficient, but nice
(2) DHS already ignore the very clear laws that are on the books; why on earth do you think it would help to have more rules for them to ignore?
(3) ICE CBP right now are basically the KKK except with a budget the size of Russia’s military. Decimate that budget or GTFO.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/senate-democrats-deal-dhs-funding-bill
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-01-26 18:41:36
"... for his and his family’s safety, [Gustavo Petro] agreed to a diplomatic posting in Belgium in 1994. While there, he studied environmentalism and economics at the University of Louvain, and he became deeply interested in the work of Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, who warned that while the global economy relies on constant growth, the Earth cannot be exploited forever."
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2025-12-04 02:08:49
Solving the Mystery of the Electron Radiation Belt at #Uranus - Leveraging Knowledge of Earth's Radiation Belts in a Re-Examination of Voyager 2 Observations: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL119311 -> SwRI may have solved a mystery surrounding Uranus’ radiation belts: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/swri-may-have-solved-mystery-surrounding-uranus-radiation-belts
@buercher@tooting.ch2025-11-24 19:32:58
In a separate case, Lord Evans is to be suspended for five months after a finding that his actions “could erode public trust in parliamentarians”, with the watchdog finding four separate breaches of the rules.
The Labour peer was caught offering to introduce undercover reporters – who were posing as property developers hoping to lobby the government – to fellow parliamentarians.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/nov/24/house-of-lords-peers-richard-dannatt-david-evans-suspended-breaking-lobbying-rules?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other