The amount of disinformation, deep fakes, and other misdirection I hear about from friends and relatives that they get from traditional social media is insane.

They have to tell me about it because I am almost always completely unaware, even though I am “on the Internet” just as much if not more than them.

This is a deep advantage of using Mastodon/the Fediverse right now. And it is not because fake stuff doesn’t exist here.

It is just not automatically sent to me by every owner, bot, and user. And if it is, it is generally swatted down hard.

#fediverse #mastodon #realInformation

01-10-2026 - Portland - Dancing @ ICE

Last night @ DHS/ICE facility

#Portland #PortlandOR #PDX #Oregon #ICE

NO MASK BANS, NO SECRET POLICE.
These are not incompatible goals.

Yes, Law Enforcement Officers must be required to identify themselves at all times by clearly displaying name, agency, and badge number. We need to know who we are dealing with, and it should not be so easy for random people to imitate law enforcement officers.

But they should be wearing respirator masks. The fact that more Immigration officers have died of Covid-19 than of any other cause since 2021 has been cited as indicating that despite their claims they are not subject to violence from immigrants or other members of the public. That's true and important.

But it also indicates that they are disease vectors! They interact with many members of the public and thus have a high chance of contracting and spreading illnesses. LEOs should be wearing high filtration respirators (like N95s, not cloth gaiters, which offer negligible protection against disease).

The Covid-19 pandemic continues: the WHO ended the public health emergency, but notes that "This does not mean the pandemic itself is over."
Influenza is spreading, and people are more vulnerable to other illness because covid (even when asymptomatic) causes immune damage.

ICE officers are sickening enough already. Putting respirators on them would be a win for anyone breathing in their vicinity.

That liberals and progressives think a mask ban is a good idea only shows the extent to which health fascism has succeeded in confusing and misleading the public about public health.

#PortlandOr #PDX #CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask #NoMaskBan #NoSecretPolice

https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/public-hearing/masking-id-draft-public-hearing

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/ice-deaths-assaults-administration-masks-covid19-shooting-dhs-trump/

https://www.who.int/europe/emergencies/situations/covid-19

https://www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-does-covid-19-impact-the

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/27/mask-bans-and-the-age-of-pandemics-and-fascism-and-climate-crisis/

https://peoplescdc.org/no-mask-bans/

Regarding the two people that CBP shot in Portland, Oregon on Thursday:

The man driving the vehicle is currently in FBI custody after being treated for gunshot wounds to the arm and abdomen. The woman in the car with him who was shot in the chest has already been transported to the ICE detention center in Tacoma, Washington.

In court documents made public earlier today, the FBI claims that it found no surveillance or other footage of Border Patrol wounding these two people. CBP also told the FBI that they shot them after the driver allegedly backed up into an unoccupied vehicle they had rented. Conveniently, none of the six agents present when this happened were recording on their body cameras either.

#pdx #Portland

The problem is not simply human overshoot – the real problem is capitalism.

Humans have been around for 200,000 years, living mostly in harmony with our surroundings, taking what the Earth could give us, but not much more.

Then, about 500 years ago, capitalism arrived. We’d had commerce and markets before that, and it was fine. But capitalism supercharged everything, rewarding greed and plunder with unimaginable wealth and power, while pushing the planet well beyond safe boundaries.

It is capitalism that causes overshoot.

#History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism