Yet another fash-enabling take from the NYTrash. Please don't post this rag of imperial disinformation.
Here's a better take: Was Alex Pretti the subject of a targeted assassination?
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Facist state
If you think that any nation-state with the money to implement this shit isn't doing it already, I have a bridge to sell you.
Surveillance is a matter of power and maintaining it, far more than any ideological thing. There are already people being caught by this sort of shit in the UK and Europe as well.
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The IDF is training ICE
This technology was developed by palantir to assist Israel with their settler colonialist genocide target Palestinians, journalists and children
Our politicians are still being blackmailed by Israeli intelligence because Epstein and Ghisline were Mossad
Washington is literally occupied by Israeli assets
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/12/epstein_israel
I’m pretty sure the incompetence we see is because there’s a mix of Russia in there too so everything is push pull tug throw.
Fascists are incompetent regardless of nationality.
This is a dangerous assumption.
fascists are also opportunistic backbiting bitches always looking for the moment to turn on eachother
I am confused on this.
They simultaneously get only 47 days of training.
But somehow they've got Mussad level training.
Please make it make sense.
They certainly do not appear to have a high level or training in any video I have ever seen
They're not being trained to be elite troops the way that people mythologize the IDF who somehow managed to miss all of the warnings about October the 7th and can't tell the difference between a baby and a bomb.
They're being trained to be the enforcers of apartheid. Racistly motivated government shock troops don't have to be competent or capable they just have to be cruel and follow orders.
The IDF is mainly occupied in breaking the arms of 12-year-old kids and murdering civilians. If that makes them an elite force, then maybe ICE will be one too.
Your problem is assuming that "Mussad level training" is some kind of complicated thing.
It's just another course on racism, murder, terrorism, etc.
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One of the tools, which was built by Paragon, an Israeli technology company, lets people take control of phones or remotely hack into them to read messages or track locations. The others were built by Penlink, a Nebraska-based software company. They use social media data scraped from the web and information from data brokers to help build dossiers of anyone with a social media account.
ICE’s use of facial recognition software was documented in videos and photos from local activist groups in Minnesota this month and reviewed by The Times. Two photos captured fatigue-clad agents using cellphones to scan the faces of protesters in Minneapolis, while in one video, agents could be heard telling people that they were being recorded with facial recognition technology and that their faces would be added to a database.
i HaVe NoThInG tO hIdE! 🤡
Can someone explain to me why this is focused on the city of Minneapolis specifically? Why is ICE focusing specifically on that city of all of them?
Aside from revenge against Walz... one theory is that we're a functioning community that's ethnically diverse, relatively progressive, union strong, and very friendly to queer folks. Fox News would have you believe that any one of those features creates a godless hellscape, but we're doing pretty good. Minnesota grew a huge budget surplus under Walz, and then we invested it in schools and social programs. The Republican tradition is to destroy something (see: the federal government) and say, "See? Told you it was broken!"
ilhan omar
So a two fer.
My guess is his personal vendetta against Walz.
Racism against Somalis plus he hates Walz for running against him
I read an opinion piece that suggested that he is upset that Minnesota is the only blue state in a region of red. Given that Minnesota is primarily white, he felt that he could use the Somali fraud as a way to turn [white] people against the democrats using xenophobia.
Edit: I found the article.
It's a "sanctuary city".
Personal grudge against Waltz, for running against him amongst other grudges
That's what citizens pay for now in Trump's USA. With their lives. Petty grievances of an Alzheimer patient.
Don’t forget Omar.
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Bruce Springstein's protest song : Streets of Minneapolis
Reasons I installed GrapheneOS November 2024 and moved to Lemmy/Mastodon only in July 2023, intensifies.
That only mitigates. There are still a number of ways to potentially track a hardened phone, and countless ways to breach proper OPSEC on social media that have nothing to do with the platform.
Don't rely entirely on system choices to keep you safe.
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As usual, the Trump admin is using tools that have been available to the feds for years but they use them so ineptly that it has become obvious that they exist. I guess that is better than competent administrations doing to the same thing for less trivial and obvious shit.
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