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Joseph Meyer<p>Empathy, Morality, and Caregiving</p><p>Albert Camus wrote a few different books about humanity, morality, empathy, and the inequities of justice in governments. Having just finished reading The Fall by Camus, I thought about the experiences of a local parent and her daughter who lives with a serious psychiatric illness and is currently in jail. Was kicking her father in the shin during a mental health crisis, or putting her in a jail cell for four months while attorneys argued if she could be involuntarily treated the greater immorality? I think the answer is obvious. By accepting and relying on the justice system to deal with mental health crises, we validate a traumatizing and punitive approach over medical and social responses. I have lost my confidence in the ability of government agencies in Texas to contribute humane solutions.&nbsp;(1/6)</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Empathy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Morality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Morality</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Government</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trauma</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MentalIllness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MentalIllness</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/NAMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NAMI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Policy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Policy</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Caregiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Caregiving</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Psychiatry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychiatry</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Healthcare</span></a></p>
Wen<p>Labour really think they won’t win the next election with their historical supporters and need to borrow from Reform do they?</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/24/uk-police-detain-pro-palestine-protester-80-almost-27-hours-search-house" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">ul/24/uk-police-detain-pro-palestine-protester-80-almost-27-hours-search-house</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/PalestineAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineAction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Cooper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cooper</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/FreedomOfSpeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreedomOfSpeach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/McSweeney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McSweeney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Clueless" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Clueless</span></a></p>
MediaFaro News Digest<p>An administrator of a major dark web cybercrime forum was arrested.</p><p>The suspected administrator of XSS.is was arrested in Ukraine, French prosecutors said on Wednesday.</p><p>The Russian-language site is one of the main hubs for global cybercrime, enabling access to compromised systems, stolen data and the sale of malware.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250723-an-administrator-of-a-major-dark-web-cybercrime-forum-was-arrested?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250723</span><span class="invisible">-an-administrator-of-a-major-dark-web-cybercrime-forum-was-arrested?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Cybercrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cybercrime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Malware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Malware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/DarkWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkWeb</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Europol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Europol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>The US has a police problem, of which private police are a subset. It's not primarily a private police problem. (Same for prisons)</p><p>This firm is the third-largest private employer in the US <br><a href="https://time.com/6278534/allied-universal-security-problems/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">time.com/6278534/allied-univer</span><span class="invisible">sal-security-problems/</span></a></p><p>and is doing contract work for both ICE and... my campus<br><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/07/ice-deportation-trump-private-security" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/07/ice-deport</span><span class="invisible">ation-trump-private-security</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/AlliedSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlliedSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a></p>
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> in America is organized brutality. In general, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> are best understood as a violent gang with state sanction, more akin to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackShirts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackShirts</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BrownShirts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrownShirts</span></a> than to any legitimate community &amp; public safety body. We should <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AbolishThePolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishThePolice</span></a>. This is William McNeil Jr, and he was stopped in Jacksonville, FL, for allegedly not having his headlights on. He asked, "Why was I stopped?", and got this... in broad daylight, mind you. He received a concussion and needed stitches on his face.</p>
Charlie McHenry<p>Cops Join Trump’s War on the Press - by Bill Lueders | <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/PressFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PressFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://www.thebulwark.com/p/cops-join-trumps-war-on-the-press-los-angeles-police-target-journalists" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thebulwark.com/p/cops-join-tru</span><span class="invisible">mps-war-on-the-press-los-angeles-police-target-journalists</span></a></p>
Wen<p>Orgreave ‘enquiry’ actually to take place!</p><p>This photograph captures much of the policing approach in a single image</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Orgreave" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orgreave</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Miners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Miners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcher</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BlackAndWhitePhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackAndWhitePhotography</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From 2021... This started before <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, but things are way worse now!</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiProtestLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiProtestLaws</span></a> Threaten <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> Movements</p><p>“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriticalInfrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalInfrastructure</span></a>” laws in over a dozen states wrongly invoke national security to justify targeting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PipelineProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PipelineProtesters</span></a>.</p><p>Kaylana Mueller-Hsia, March 17, 2021</p><p>"In 2016 as a member of Congress, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DebHaaland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DebHaaland</span></a> stood for four days in solidarity with protesters at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a> Reservation against construction of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DakotaAccessPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DakotaAccessPipeline</span></a>. Today, as the first <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> to be the secretary of the interior — the first to lead any cabinet department — she has the opportunity to support the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> rights of the protesters she joined in the past.</p><p>"With her authority over energy development on federal lands, Haaland can be a voice for Indigenous and climate movements facing an urgent threat: the rapid spread of laws to protect 'critical infrastructure' that single out activists.</p><p>"Since 2016, 13 states have quietly enacted laws that increase criminal penalties for trespassing, damage, and interference with infrastructure sites such as oil refineries and pipelines. At least five more states have already introduced similar legislation this year. These laws draw from national security legislation enacted after 9/11 to protect physical infrastructure considered so 'vital' that the 'incapacity or destruction of such systems and assets would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic security, national public health or safety.'</p><p>"Many industry sectors are designated critical infrastructure, including food and agriculture, energy, water and wastewater, and communications, but most state critical infrastructure laws focus more narrowly on oil and gas <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pipelines</span></a>. While protecting critical infrastructure is a legitimate government function, these laws clearly target environmental and Indigenous activists by significantly raising the penalties for participating in or even tangentially supporting pipeline trespassing and property damage, crimes that are already illegal. Many laws are modelled on draft legislation prepared by the American Legislative Exchange Council, also known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ALEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ALEC</span></a>, a powerful lobbying group funded by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> companies like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonMobil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonMobil</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shell</span></a>.</p><p>"Central to the new critical infrastructure laws are increased criminal penalties and vague, broad definitions that could discourage protest and particularly, nonviolent civil disobedience. Many laws make any 'damage' to or 'interference' with a facility deemed critical infrastructure a felony. Under <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a>’s law, trespass with the purpose of 'tampering' with a facility is a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine. In Indiana, a felony conviction is applied for any facility trespass, a crime that is typically a misdemeanor or fine.</p><p>"Vague language like 'damage,' 'tamper,' and 'impede' in critical infrastructure laws makes it unclear if, for example, knocking down <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SafetyCones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SafetyCones</span></a> and starting a fire next to a natural gas facility are the same under the law. Many critical infrastructure laws do not clarify if they apply only to land a company fully owns or also to pipeline easements, which run through both public and private lands. At least some laws apply to both. Only a week after Louisiana’s critical infrastructure law was enacted, opponents of the Bayou Bridge pipeline were charged with trespassing for boating on public waters on the border of a pipeline easement.</p><p>"The combination of overly broad language and steep penalties in critical infrastructure laws make it likely that future activists and supporting organizations will be discouraged from exercising their First Amendment-protected protest rights. A lawsuit brought in response to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BayouBridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BayouBridge</span></a> charges will test the laws for the first time on First Amendment grounds.</p><p>"Many of these laws even extend beyond the protesters. In a proposed law in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a>, anyone who 'recruits, trains, aids, advises, hires, counsels, or conspires' someone to trespass without a 'reasonable effort' to prevent the trespassing is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oklahoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oklahoma</span></a> organizations that conspire with perpetrators are liable to be fined up to $1 million. These laws may infringe on the freedom of association protected under the First Amendment. Indeed, the Supreme Court ruled that the illegal actions of a few individuals do not implicate an entire group.</p><p>"The criminalization of environmental protest is fueled by federal security agencies and oil and gas companies, who are often major political donors. For years, the Department of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HomelandSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomelandSecurity</span></a> and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have labelled activists at infrastructure sites as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DomesticTerrorists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DomesticTerrorists</span></a> and violent extremists in order to justify further <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>surveillance</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a>. Government documents have been released that detail the FBI’s focus on '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnimalRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnimalRights</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalExtremism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalExtremism</span></a>,' describing even <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NonviolentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NonviolentProtesters</span></a> as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/extremists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extremists</span></a>.</p><p>"At Standing Rock, a private security firm [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a>] hired by the pipeline companies consistently referred to protesters as 'terrorists' while working with law enforcement. Ahead of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KeystoneXLPipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KeystoneXLPipeline</span></a> protests in 2018, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a> agents held an '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AntiTerrorism</span></a> training' for state and local authorities. In contrast, members of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> militant group the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThreePercenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThreePercenters</span></a> have established a significant presence at oil and gas plants with little law enforcement reaction.</p><p>"To be sure, as the recent power outages in Texas showed so vividly, the United States needs reliable energy. But it’s questionable whether pipeline construction sites that could feasibly be moved or replaced with renewable energy sources should legitimately be considered 'vital' to the energy grid. Furthermore, a singular focus on this aspect of security comes at the cost of others. Whose essential resources do pipeline projects protect and whose do they threaten? Black Americans are disproportionately likely to live near natural <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GasPipelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GasPipelines</span></a> and experience higher <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CancerRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CancerRisk</span></a> due to unclean air. An oil spill from the Dakota Access Pipeline could devastate the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SiouxTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiouxTribe</span></a>’s water source. Meanwhile, on some reservations, 10 percent of households lack electricity and as many as 40 percent of households must haul water and use outhouses. The well-being of these communities must count too.</p><p>"The rise in critical infrastructure laws may foreshadow more anti-protest legislation to come. A similar wave of anti-protest laws has already begun in response to the 2020 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> protests. State legislators contemplating critical infrastructure laws should bear in mind that laws that criminalize trespassing and protect the safety of construction workers and law enforcement already exist. Critical infrastructure laws don’t fill an unmet need — they only raise the penalties for specific groups of people. Courts adjudicating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstAmendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstAmendment</span></a> challenges in the coming years should recognize that these laws are overbroad and impose disproportionately severe penalties that chill freedom of assembly and association.</p><p>"As secretary of the interior, Haaland promises to uplift the voices of Indigenous and climate protesters in the Biden administration. State legislators, law enforcement, and the fossil fuel industry should follow suit and listen to these activists rather than suppressing constitutionally protected activity under the guise of national security."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/anti-protest-laws-threaten-indigenous-and-climate-movements" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">brennancenter.org/our-work/ana</span><span class="invisible">lysis-opinion/anti-protest-laws-threaten-indigenous-and-climate-movements</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BrennanCenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrennanCenter</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDAPL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDAPL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoKXL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoKXL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PipelineProtests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PipelineProtests</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ErikPrince</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blackwater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandWithStandingRock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandWithStandingRock</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StandingRockSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StandingRockSioux</span></a></p>
doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@robparsons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>robparsons</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@TimWardCam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>TimWardCam</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ChrisMayLA6</span></a></span> </p><p>Describing those aircraft as military targets, ought to suggest an intentional attack on them isn't terrorism.</p><p>I submit that the "antiterrorism" police have fallen to Jerry Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/beurocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beurocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/terrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>terrorism</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/civics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/lawfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lawfare</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whatWouldSirRobertPeelDo</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>"Justice Chamberlain refused Ammori’s request for a stay on the proscription order, but said that he was doing so because the order does not make pro-<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> protests illegal and that former <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/PalestineAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PalestineAction</span></a> members are even free to commit similar criminal damage, which would not cease to be criminal but neither would the crime be ‘aggravated’ by the ban on PA." </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://skwawkbox.org/2025/07/16/police-abuse-of-pal-action-proscription-to-harass-other-protesters-already-ruled-unlawful-by-judge/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">skwawkbox.org/2025/07/16/polic</span><span class="invisible">e-abuse-of-pal-action-proscription-to-harass-other-protesters-already-ruled-unlawful-by-judge/</span></a></p>
COPS campaign<p>New on our site - report from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spycops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spycops</span></a> public inquiry's questioning of 'AFJ', a hunt saboteur &amp; antifascist activist in the 1990s who was spied on by officer HN2 Andy Coles. He exposes the farcicality &amp; lies of Coles's deployment.</p><p><a href="https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/07/15/ucpi-daily-report-13-december-2024-afj/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">campaignopposingpolicesurveill</span><span class="invisible">ance.com/2025/07/15/ucpi-daily-report-13-december-2024-afj/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicinginquiry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicinginquiry</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ucpi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ucpi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>undercover</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/undercoverpolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>undercoverpolicing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cointel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cointel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spying</span></a></p>
Charlie McHenry<p>SF, Oakland cops illegally funneled license plate data to feds - <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/CBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CBP</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/cops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cops</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/Surveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surveillance</span></a> <a href="https://connectop.us/tags/SurveiillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveiillanceState</span></a> <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakland-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/?utm_source=native_share&amp;utm_medium=site_buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site_buttons" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sfstandard.com/2025/07/14/oakl</span><span class="invisible">and-san-francisco-ice-license-plate-readers/?utm_source=native_share&amp;utm_medium=site_buttons&amp;utm_campaign=site_buttons</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>Wired: DHS Tells Police That Common Protest Activities Are ‘Violent Tactics’</p><p>DHS is urging law enforcement to treat even skateboarding and livestreaming as signs of violent intent during a protest, turning everyday behavior into a pretext for police action.</p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wired.com/story/dhs-tells-poli</span><span class="invisible">ce-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a></p>
inquiline<p>Chilling and important read. "American universities are rapidly becoming test beds for the kind of repressive technology we associate with authoritarian states abroad"</p><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-campuses-have-become-the-newest-laboratories-for-surveillance-technology/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/us-campu</span><span class="invisible">ses-have-become-the-newest-laboratories-for-surveillance-technology/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/PolicingTheCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PolicingTheCampus</span></a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a></p>
doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@Paul_Harts" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Paul_Harts</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@continuation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>continuation</span></a></span> </p><p>I think the fact that traditionally Jews couldn't practice usury on other Jews, nor Christians on other Christians, but each were allowed to practice on the other, leads - in a body of people composed largely of one group - to the other group being the usurers. This seems to end badly. My key take home point is that human beings are dickheads, and we need to be very, very careful when we lend capital that the borrower has a clear plan for repayment, understands the financial cost, and has a clear plan regarding how they'll create sufficient funds for repayment, and how we'll insure against failure in that regard on very clear, simply written terms that everyone is happy with.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/banking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>banking</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/organisedReligion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>organisedReligion</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/usury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>usury</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/lending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lending</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/contract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contract</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/civics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/debt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>debt</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the blogosphere ...</p><p>2 new <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Disintermedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disintermedia</span></a> blog posts to celebrate the southern, seasonal new year. One a sort of state of the blog update;</p><p><a href="https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/guess-whos-back-tell-a-friend" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">disintermedia.substack.com/p/g</span><span class="invisible">uess-whos-back-tell-a-friend</span></a></p><p>... and another Indymedia Story about my experience with a police informant who spent a decade spying on activist groups, including many I was involved in;</p><p><a href="https://disintermedia.substack.com/p/indymedia-stories-3-rob-and-me" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">disintermedia.substack.com/p/i</span><span class="invisible">ndymedia-stories-3-rob-and-me</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Indymedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indymedia</span></a></p>
Ohmbudsman<p>🇬🇧 UK police chiefs want to reduce forces from 43 to as few as 12.</p><p>Original: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/06/police-chiefs-call-for-cuts-to-number-of-forces-in-england-and-wales" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">ul/06/police-chiefs-call-for-cuts-to-number-of-forces-in-england-and-wales</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Policing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reform" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reform</span></a></p>
doboprobodyne<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>DemocracyMattersALot</span></a></span> </p><p>Thank you. Interesting to see big multinationals like 3M, and to a lesser degree Uber, in there. I'm always happy to vote with my wallet.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/civics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>civics</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/lobbyist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lobbyist</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>First the police, now Big Tech wants to put 'crime-predicting' tech in UK probation services.</p><p>A lack of transparency and reliance on flawed data means that institutional racism will be hardwired into the justice system.</p><p>All at the expense of dignity and rights.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/01/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/society/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">ul/01/tech-firms-suggested-placing-trackers-under-offenders-skin-at-meeting-with-justice-secretary</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/SafetyNotSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SafetyNotSurveillance</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/predictivepolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>predictivepolicing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a></p>
Open Rights Group<p>Tech that claims to 'predict' crime is only as 'objective' as the data it's fed.</p><p>With crime data reflecting historic racist and discriminatory practices, we must act now to prevent injustice for over policed communities.</p><p>Sign the petition to BAN it (UK) ⬇️</p><p><a href="https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions</span><span class="invisible">/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/policing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>policing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/SafetyNotSurveillance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SafetyNotSurveillance</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/predictivepolicing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>predictivepolicing</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpolitics</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/ukpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukpol</span></a> <a href="https://social.openrightsgroup.org/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a></p>