Heavy military presence outside the Broadview #ICE facility in Illinois.
Snipers can be seen on top of armored vehicles. Protesters are also being arrested.

This is insane. This is not #America anymore.

Veteran Palestine campaigner #sarahwilkinson who was reportedly subjected to severe mistreatment in an Israeli prison, has now been detained by UK police at Heathrow Airport for interrogation. as the UK moves inexerbobaly toward a more aunthortarian state

Stripped of her phone and money, Wilkinson stands accused of documenting the Israeli genocide in #Gaza through her social media accounts. Apologies for re-editing. it seems some truth in my original story https://zirk.us/@SANKOFAB/115326705926472163

Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America's cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump's DoJ boss Pam Bondi:

https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/06/rogue-capitalism/

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I do not want that stupid app.
It’s spyware-bloated, full of crap.

I want appliances that work,
without tattling to some techbro jerk.

I’m sick of “AI” garbage-spew,
Sick of silo’d platforms too.

To analog I shall return,
and wait for all this mess to burn.

Signal said it would rather leave the European market than comply with a potential "Chat Control" rule that would require companies to build surveillance into their messaging services.

https://therecord.media/signal-calls-on-germany-to-vote-no-chat-control