Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Wanted to listen to a new favorite band, Durry, this morning and saw they just dropped a new video, and it's another banger. I'm a sucker for clever lyrics, and Durry always delivers. For instance, check this out:

If you got time to lean, then you got time to clean
Is what they told me
They don’t own me
They just own the only thing that’s keeping me alive
They swear that’s not a threat
'Cause I could always starve to death
I guess I’ll pledge allegiance to the paycheck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcEvNwQ7v-U

The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, just keeps getting worse.

She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications and threw her in a detention facility in Georgia.

Her case is getting a decent amount of media attention, with petitions circulating to get her released.

But did you know it’s not the first time she’s very nearly faced deportation?

In 2020, she was a key witness in a legal battle against Irwin County Detention Centre.

She helped blow the whistle about a doctor performing unnecessary hysterectomies and sterilizations on immigrant women detained in the facility.

This is Nazi level eugenics.

They’re grabbing people off the streets. They’re disappearing them. Many die in custody and/or are never seen again.

Sterilization of ‘undesirables’ is sadly nothing new. It’s a way to push white supremacy.

It takes a lot of courage to speak out against such practices, and it’s horrifying that she’s again sitting in a detention centre without due process.

https://fightbacknews.org/articles/free-alma-bowman

#almabowman #ice #immigration #fascism #uspol #disability #ableism #eugenics

With almost no exceptions, journalists have again been conned by Elon Musk and his PR minions.

One key exception, as usual, is Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-fall-for-elon-inc-s-press-campaign/sharetoken/f4c7e195-4c56-4ba1-afca-ccf994331d0d

A PR person (whose name I've forgotten) once said to me, "You people" -- the press -- "are so easy."

“If people can’t trust that the data they are giving the government will be protected, (and believe) that it will be used for things other than what they gave it for, it will lead to a crisis of trust,” EFF’s Mario Trujillo told @newyorktimes https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html

🔔 Join us for a conversation about the Trump administration's attacks on broadcast licensees and nonprofits, featuring FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, Elias Law Group political law Chair Ezra Reese, and FPF's Caitlin Vogus.

🗓️ June 9, 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT

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I haven't customized the shop yet, but two of these are already up on Threadless for those interested. https://mcfadden.threadless.com/

Some ideas for an updated Massachusetts flag. https://www.patreon.com/c/BrianMcFadden

Born in 1814, Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary and key anarchist thinker. Trained as a soldier, he turned to radical politics and spent his life opposing the state, organized religion, and authoritarian socialism. Exiled and imprisoned across Europe, he fought for workers’ liberation and collective freedom.

The Super-Fun-Pak Comix Reader is long out-of-print, but you can still order a signed, sketched copy directly from me.

https://tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/tom-the-dancing-bug-store/#signed-books

Lawmakers don't need to risk criminalizing journalism to outlaw stalking and harassment.

Good for the New England First Amendment Coalition and the Rhode Island Press Association for speaking up about the problems with this legislation.

https://www.nefac.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/h5655_nefac_ripa.pdf

From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker:

Dropping federal oversight programs into police reform means journalists are left to the policies and reform measures — if any — at the state and local level.

This and more updates in our Tracker newsletter from managing editor Kirstin McCudden:

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/protecting-journalism-without-federal-police-reforms/

Chaos on German autobahns as Google Maps wrongly says they are closed - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/chaos-on-german-autobahns-as-google-maps-wrongly-says-they-are-closed "Drivers using the navigation app confronted with mass of red dots indicating stop signs" there's a moral here... #germany #google

Your guide to Cryptogate, Trump’s $4 billion corruption scandal that’s 10 times bigger than Watergate | Will Bunch
https://share.inquirer.com/BdAFY7

"That shift explains why Massachusetts remains a global center of education today. Even as late as World War II, the phenomenon was still regional, anchored on the East Coast, but its logic was already spreading. After the war, the credential became national. You could swing a hammer without a degree. But if you were expected to think, Harvard, or someplace like it, had to give you permission first."

This ☝️ is the worst thing about working manual labor jobs, imho.

Hi again folks 👋

As some of you may have noticed, we're experiencing another spam wave. Although a content reporting feature was merged into Forgejo very recently (https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/6977 🎉 ), they didn't make it to Codeberg like some other improvements.

Here's how you can help for now: Just tag @moderation in a reply (or e-mail moderation@codeberg.org), and we will get around to removing all of an account's issues.

Bullshit and fraud are the Trump regime's touchstones, so it's not even a tiny surprise to learn that RFKjr's "Make America Healthy Again” report cites bogus "studies" and lies about real ones.

Fine reporting from Notus, a news site you probably hadn't heard about.

https://www.notus.org/health-science/make-america-healthy-again-report-citation-errors

Ok #Fediverse: if I was keen to set up an Aotearoa-based tech services #cooperative, what coop models would people suggest I look at - looking for good descriptions of how they'd be set up, especially to recognise the contributions of those involved. All insights appreciated!

The difficult truth is that since the Microsoft takeover, GitHub has evolved into a near-totally automated vast human labour exploitation apparatus, that holds coders to ransom through their legacies and professional dependence upon it. They built up coder morale and buy-in on the back of a rhetoric and culture of openness and collaboration (and great tooling) only to quietly work to implement the very machinery that ultimately threatens that same culture, its openness and warmth.

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“The idea that the police are actively tracking the location of women they believe have had self administered abortions under the guise of ‘safety’ does not make me feel any better about this kind of surveillance,” EFF’s @evacide told @404mediaco. https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-nationwide-for-a-woman-who-got-an-abortion/