"when You're Being Mean This Is Who You're Being Mean To Btw" And The Photo Accompanying Is A Grainy

"when you're being mean this is who you're being mean to btw" and the photo accompanying is a grainy shot of you idling on your phone in your living room at night taken from outside your window with the faintest reflection of the photographer naked and salivating illuminating the glass

More Posts from Minirosebush and Others

9 months ago

PLEASE help Waffaa and her children get safely out of Gaza. They're nearly halfway to their goal. They've had a lot of recent family deaths. Reblogs are greatly appreciated and ESPECIALLY donations

@wafs-posts is the page

https://gofund.me/ebe76b75

10 months ago

i'd like to draw attention to a fundraising campaign for Hossam Bardaweel. Hossam's immediate family, his parents and his siblings, has been martyred. he's currently living in a tent with his neices and nephews and his campaign is still a long way from its goal.

this campaign was shared with me through direct contact with a palestinian whose campaign has been vetted and reached its goal alhamdulillah, and i trust its legitimacy. please donate any amount that you can spare!

Donate to Urgent Relief Needed: Rebuild Hope for Hossam's Family, organized by Walid AS
gofundme.com
Dear Compassionate Hearts, My name is Walid. Today, I reach out on… Walid AS needs your support for Urgent Relief Needed: Rebuild Hope f

$2,641 / $20,000

10 months ago

I want more people to know that while the Palestine Olympic team consists of only 8 athletes, at least 69 Palestinian Olympic athletes have been killed since October 2023. This includes athletes who were going to compete in these games and retired athletes such as Majed Abu Maraheel, the first Palestinian Olympian, who died of kidney failure in a refugee camp product of lack of medical treatment.

Remember them during these games.

5 years ago

Veganism will not help the rainforest.

I’m not one of those nihilistic “there’s NOTHING us consumers can do!!!” people nor am I one of those anti-vegan bacon cultists but I’m seeing a lot of discourse about this and people on both sides need to be aware of something:

The beef industry is only the leader in Amazon deforestation because it is the highest bidder right now. For half a decade that was exceeded by soy production and in Indonesia the biggest rainforest killer is palm oil. Rainforest land that isn’t sold directly for some kind of food production gets cut down anyway because they still sell the timber and then the land is auctioned away to whoever will take it, even if it’s practically pennies, because the people holding that land have made a profit either way and a corporation that buys it for cheap is almost guaranteed to get some kind of use out of it or find someone else who wants it. Changing your diet will do absolutely nothing. Neither will boycotting paper and wood products. If they couldn’t even give the logs away they would raze the land and, again, just sell it for the corporate equivalent of a nickel. Protecting the land, period, is the only thing that makes a difference. The only thing. THE ONLY thing. ONE THING.

10 months ago
Stagnant Campaign: @ahmed8311

stagnant campaign: @ahmed8311

he has been fundraising since April and has only been able to collect €10,555/€100,000.

he needs to evacuate his family (8 adults) from gaza. there are rumors that the rafah crossing might open this month and he is far from his goal.

please donate to his gfm if you can, share it if you can't. it has been vetted by @/el-shab-hussein.

Donate to Help the Abu Shammalah Family Find Safety and Rebuild, organized by Ahmed  Abushammala
gofundme.com
Dear Friends, Family, and Kind Strangers, I am writing to… Ahmed Abushammala needs your support for Help the Abu Shammalah Family Find

he also graciously shared his paypal. please feel free to donate to that if you can.

PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/AhmedAbushammala796 and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries

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10 months ago
Twitter thread by Alec Karakatsanis
(@equalityAlec)
11 Jul 24

THREAD. I didn't fully know what to expect when I started digging into over a decade of records, statements, financial data, and other information about police body cameras. I suspected it to be troubling, but what I found shocked even me.

I also examined hundreds of news articles about police body cameras. The result? The public campaign to sell police body cameras as a liberal "reform" is one of the great frauds of modern domestic U.S. propaganda. It carries profound lessons for anyone who cares about democracy.

First, a fact more people should know is that police leaders and prosecutors desperately *wanted* body cameras for years. They had a problem though: cops couldn't get hundreds of millions of $$$ in funding for them. So how did police finally get them?

After the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson ten years ago generated massive public outrage over police violence, police and multi-billion dollar surveillance companies realized they had an opportunity.
They realized that while they'd been unable to get local governments to pay billions for the surveillance bonanza before, now they could partner with "reformers" to pitch body cameras as a *solution* to police violence. Liberal "reformers" were a perfect target/accomplice.

The money started flowing. President Obama called for hundreds of millions in cash from the feds to supplement local and state spending, which liberal leaders and cops championed. The market value of the main companies grew by billions, with exploding yearly sales.
[image of a graph. Title: "Soaring Body Camera Sales" Strap: Sales of body-worn cameras and related products from Avon, the largest manufacturer of tjee equipment.
The x marks the amount of spending while y denotes the years. The graph shows a line beginning from approximately USD 10 million in 2013, curve dramatically upward through the consecutive years until it ends at USD 192 million in 2018.]

Almost every news article published for the following decade omitted something crucial: police and prosecutors wanted the cameras not because it would make them "accountable" and "transparent" but for *exactly the opposite reasons.*
Police and their industry allies used the news media to focus the public on the supposed need to capture police violence on video. They said police lacked funding for tech that could provide the public with “accountability" and "transparency."

In reality, according to their own statements, they sought the greatest expansion of surveillance infrastructure in modern policing history, and dreamed of lucrative contracts to link the new video with AI facial and voice recognition software and predictive policing algorithms.

For example, they wanted an easy tool that cops could deploy at protests to scan the crowd and know who is there and who is associating with who based on facial recognition. They wanted to be able to share this intelligence about protestors in massive profitable databases.

Cops/prosecutors also wanted them because it's the most powerful new form of evidence: outward looking videos that bureaucrats could create, direct, curate, edit, and control both in terms of what's captured, what's left out, and at which political moment it's publicly released.

Body camera videos are now routinely used in almost every prosecutor office in the U.S. as evidence to get mostly poor people to quickly plead guilty to things like drug possession and trespassing. They are almost never used against police officers.
To the contrary, the videos are often given privately to cops prior to their internal statements about controversial incidents in which they used violence to create and standardize initial police narratives with the goal of reducing potential civil and criminal liability.

The benefits of body cameras to the punishment bureaucracy and big corporations unfolded exactly as police chiefs and corporate sales representatives from the companies discussed the devices over a decade ago when formulating their goals *before* Michael Brown’s killing.

Most profoundly, though, body cameras served a propaganda function. They steer public away from *systemic* questions about the role of armed government agents, why they only enforce some crimes against some people, why they are in certain neighborhoods in the first place, etc

With the explosion of cameras, police killed more and more people each year. Exactly as everyone on the inside knew, cameras didn't make police less violent. A little known fact: the federal government's own review of studies shows body cameras *do not make police less violent*!

For example, each year since George Floyd was killed --captured in a useful angle horrifically on video by a bystander not the police body camera--police have killed more people than they did the year before despite huge new sums spent on body cameras.
There are so many fascinating details in this story. You can read my full article here explaining this entire process in detail in the Yale Journal of Law & Liberation: campuspress.yale.edu/yjll/files/202…

UPDATE: I've been tracking hundreds of coordinated far-right replies and quote-tweets. It's interesting for a few reasons.  First, many of them assert ludicrous falsities about basic facts. Second, many fundamentally misunderstand the arguments.  But most important:

The scope and silliness of the right-wing replies all helps make one of the core points: liberals who supported body cameras as "reform" should pay attention to who is defending this lucrative, authoritarian tech and the hateful nonsense they are spewing.
Screenshot of Twitter profile. Name: 
Alec Karakatsanis
Username: @equalityAlec
Bio: founder, @CivRightsCorps civil rights lawyer, author of usual cruelty (2019) and copaganda (forthcoming 2024)
Location: Washington, DC
Link: [civilrightscorps.org]
Joined: February 2014

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5 years ago
NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION TO SHUT DOWN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND ABOLISH ICE, JULY 12 2019!

NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION TO SHUT DOWN THE CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND ABOLISH ICE, JULY 12 2019!

On Friday July 12th, 2019, Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Concentration Camps, will bring thousands of people to locations worldwide as well as to concentration camps across the country, into the streets and into their own front yards, to protest the inhumane conditions faced by refugees. 

At Trump’s concentration camps, teen mothers and babies are held outdoors in “dog pounds.” We have witnessed the sick and elderly confined to “icebox” rooms for weeks at a time. Unbelievably, children as young as 4 months are taken from their parents, medicine is confiscated, and medical care withheld, and LGBTQ and disabled individuals are held in solitary confinement.

Perhaps most terrifying, refugees are beginning to be moved onto military grounds, where there will be a lack of oversight from the media, lawyers, and human rights monitors.

“Now is the time for every person to stand up and say, ‘We will not accept this!’ No more hesitating. No more denial. No more fear. We need to be bold, and loud, and unrelenting. That’s the only way we can stop this.”

Useful preparation resources:

HOW TO ORGANIZE AN INSURRECTION

THE DO-IT-YOURSELF OCCUPATION GUIDE

HOW TO FORM AN AFFINITY GROUP

BLOCS: BLACK AND OTHERWISE (PROTECTING DEMONSTRATIONS FROM THE STATE)

STORMING THE GATES: THE NEW WAVE OF FRONTAL ATTACKS ON PRISONS, JAILS, AND DETENTION CENTERS

LIST OF COMPANIES PROFITING FROM CHILD DETENTION CENTERS

9 months ago

I am writing this post for you Because the program has blocked sending messages to others I don't know what I did wrong Is it because I requested aid for my children injured in the war? Or is it the fault that we were created in Gaza while we are Palestinians? And the whole world is against us Has humanity reached this point? I don't know why!

I Am Writing This Post For You Because The Program Has Blocked Sending Messages To Others I Don't Know

This us me and child 👦 mazen before he got injured 🤕

Thanks to god for anything in our life

For the good things and bad things

Alhamd allah 🍉🙏🤲🇵🇸

Even if my family died . Palestine 🇵🇸 will be and still free .

Thanks especially to a friend is really a nice person I’ve known him , I wish that I known him before .

@ apollos-olives

Donate to "Give Hope to a Family in Gaza: Your Donation Lights Up Thei, organised by Feras Almanssi
gofundme.com
Hello, I am Firas Al-Mansi, and I am currently managing a … Feras Almanssi needs your support for "Give Hope to a Family in Gaza: Your Do
1 year ago
Gaza Has A Large Disabled Population. Wissam Is Just One Of Tens Of Thousands, Who Need Medication And
Gaza Has A Large Disabled Population. Wissam Is Just One Of Tens Of Thousands, Who Need Medication And

Gaza has a large disabled population. Wissam is just one of tens of thousands, who need medication and care, facing the devastating choice of being slaughtered at home or out on the streets. All districts in Gaza but one have been declared combat zones.

9 months ago

Hi. I'm Khaled from Gaza. Because of the war, I want to evacuate Gaza and continue my studies. Please donate for so that I can achieve that.

I have £758 raised as of July the 18th

My old post on the deleted account vetted by @90-ghost click here

Donate to Help Khaled evacuate Gaza and get a Master's Degree., organized by Khaled  Altaban
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My name is Khaled Altaban. I'm a 24 years old Palestinian from Ga… Khaled Altaban needs your support for Help Khaled evacuate Gaza and get
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