☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻11h ago

🚨#TechWeenieAlert

“Keep your head down. Compartmentalize. Don’t make trouble.

That’s what many #TechWorkers are taking their #CEOs’ strategic silence to mean, amid an immigration crackdown across the US by the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security. Widespread #violence by federal agents has sparked #protests in Minneapolis and across the country. One month after an ICE agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, and two weeks after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, the majority of tech CEOs have remained tight-lipped.

Internally, workers from several companies describe a #culture of #silence and #fear — and trepidation over what kind of future they’re helping to build.”

#tech / #authoritarian / #oligarch / #TechWeenie <https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/876558/tech-workers-ice-resistance-google-microsoft-clear-abbott> (paywall) / <https://archive.md/OczFC>

‘Shut up and focus on the mission’: Tech workers are frustrated by their companies’ silence about ICE

Tech workers at larger companies like Microsoft, Google, and YouTube, as well as smaller ones like Abbott and CLEAR, describe a fear-based culture on speaking out against ICE and the Trump administration.

The Verge
USAJusticeWatch3d ago
“US media company #Newsmax is launching a local news channel in #Ukraine, scheduled to begin operations this spring… Newsmax Ukraine plans to provide coverage in Ukrainian, English, & Russian, depending on the platform & audiences... The news comes shortly after the #WashingtonPost… owned by #oligarch Jeff #Bezos, shuttered its Kyiv bureau amid a mass layoff hitting about 30% of the staff.” | Kyiv Independent https://kyivindependent.com/newsmax-a-conservative-us-network-to-launch-ukraine-tv-channel/
Newsmax, a conservative US network, launching Ukraine news channel this spring

Newsmax, founded by Chris Ruddy, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, will open a full-fledged editorial office in Ukraine to produce local and regional news content.

The Kyiv Independent
Nat3d ago

Posting here for anyone interested:
My substack is multi-faceted interest wise but I come from an intelligence and anti corruption background. I write about #anticorruption and anti #oligarch focused pieces, why I got DOGE'D, travel, #HEMA (swordfighting) and "lore" about me personally. I'd appreciate it if anyone wants to check it out, leave a comment and subscribe if you like what you see. I'm trying to be more diligent about this and have some really cool ideas coming down the pipeline for my substack next.

Also— I understand the issues with #substack. I've switched to Ghost but unfortunately, as a full time student I can't afford the monthly platform subscription. If people want to see paid content or enough people pledge monthly, moving over would not be a problem.

https://open.substack.com/pub/daggeranddresswrites/p/minnesotas-no-pasaran?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=wyy02

Minnesota’s 'No Pasarán'

The Fascist Blueprint: ICE and the Spanish Lessons

Dagger & Dress
Show threadKevin Russell3d ago

@greenpeace

We need petitions for permission to start taking them apart and burning them.

#ai #surveillance #techbro #fascism #coup #oligarch #tech #spyware

Show threadKevin Russell3d ago

@ginger_tosser

They can't buy anything with those $billions except control. There is nothing in that price range except our democracies.

Our hopes.

Power corrupts,
billionaireism corrupts absolutely.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/absolute+power+corrupts+absolutely

#billionairism #nihillionaires #coup #democracy #oligarch #nokings #ElbowsUp #uspol #eu #cdnpoli

Show threadGrantFeb 5

@Tengrain

Here's a an article she wrote for Harper's Magazine in 1941. “Who Goes Nazi?” (Free read in their archive).

Has this level of understanding disappeared from the US??

(NB... Harpers made this available in 2015... I wonder why?)
https://harpers.org/2015/12/who-goes-nazi/

#Trump #Hitler #Fascism #Krasnov #Putin #Oligarch #US #USPolitics #Politics #War #WWII

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Donald Trump calls for a ban on Muslims entering the United States; Dorothy Thompson wonders who is most susceptible to Nazism.

Harper's Magazine
Show threadKevin RussellJan 25

@bert_hubert @xot

ALL techBro software grabs your wrists as you pick it up.

You can put it down, let it go,
but they never do.

Leave US software. HandcuffWare

#uspol #cdnpoli #eu #bro #techbro #techBroBillionaires #control #oligarch

RockerDoc (Ricardo Ismach)Jan 25
The #Oligarch owned, Trump boot licking WaPo editorial board had some limits to their toady-like capitulation, it turns out! https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/01/25/minneapolis-immigration-killing-government-shutdown-ice-alex-pretti/
The unjust killing of Alex Pretti marks a turning point in Trump’s second term

Congress can step in to stop the president from overreaching on immigration.

The Washington Post
Ricardo IsmachJan 25
The #Oligarch owned, Trump boot licking WaPo editorial board had some limits to their toady-like capitulation, it turns out! www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | The unjust killing o...
The unjust killing of Alex Pretti marks a turning point in Trump’s second term

Congress can step in to stop the president from overreaching on immigration.

The Washington Post
WIST QuotationsJan 24

A quotation from John Scalzi

My father deals with millionaires and billionaires on a daily basis, the sort of people who have egos just this side (and sometimes way over the edge) of sociopathy. The sort of person who thinks he’s the apex predator wading through a universe of sheep.

John Scalzi (b. 1969) American writer
Lock In, ch. 6 (2014)

More about this quote: wist.info/scalzi-john/35353/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #johnscalzi #arrogance #billionaire #ego #elite #millionaire #onepercent #plutocrats #predator #rich #sociopath #superiority #wealth #wealthy #oligarch

Scalzi, John - Lock In, ch. 6 (2014) | WIST Quotations

My father deals with millionaires and billionaires on a daily basis, the sort of people who have egos just this side (and sometimes way over the edge) of sociopathy. The sort of person who thinks he’s the apex predator wading through a universe of sheep.

WIST Quotations