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Tom Toles
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.

Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.

Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.

-Sara Whitmer

If you couldn’t attend a No Kings event but want to do something to resist and help an ICE target… sign the petition for Rodney Taylor.

He’s a disabled double amputee who’s been held for months in ICE custody.

He was days away from receiving
new legs when he was taken.

He’s been placed in solitary confinement. Denied reasonable accommodations. Facing deportation to Liberia.

He’s been in the US since he was two years old:

https://www.change.org/p/demand-the-release-of-rodney-taylor-from-ice-detention

#uspol #abolishice #nokings #fascism #disability #ableism #eugenics

Millions of Americans may not get their SNAP payments because of the government shut down

Millions are in the streets for No Kings protesting the rise of fascism

What are the tyrants doing? Spending $172 million on private jets for Noem

Sending funds to Argentina

Shooting missiles into California

"#Microsoft built a data centre in the northwestern Netherlands despite opposition from local farmers, promising it would only need between 12 and 20 million litres of water annually. Dutch media later revealed the data centre was consuming more than four times that — as locals were being asked to limit their own water use. " #Tech #Environment #ClimateChange cc: @cbcnews https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data-centre-canada-water-use-9.6939684

Decline of privately-funded science journalism in the age of Trump.
https://undark.org/2025/10/15/science-journalism-funders-trump/

"Science journalism has been fragile for many years now: Outlets like National Geographic and Wired have undergone layoffs. Others, like Sapiens, have shuttered. The environmental publication Hakai Magazine shut down last year when its funder, the Tula Foundation, withdrew its support to focus on research efforts, for example (the magazine has since joined forces with bioGraphic). A few years earlier, the U.K.’s Wellcome Trust pulled the plug on its long-form digital science magazine Mosaic."

#DefendResearch #Funding #Journalism #Philanthropy #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

https://kolektiva.media/w/kRsAgZ1vpnAECinLuMsygJ

6 years ago today students in Santiago, Chile blocked the rails and evaded fares to protest a 30 peso fare price increase. Little did they know that these protests would quickly evolve into a mass uprising that would shake the foundations of the Chilean state to it's very core.

We see this as one of many uprisings, part of a wave, that shook the world from 2019-2020. Power relations around the globe were called into question.

The uprising in Chile, aka the Estallido Social became the first topic we covered a documentary series we intend to make about this entire wave of global uprisings.

We are already hard at work on InterRebellium 02. Shut Down Canada

Consider helping us out at https://www.firefund.net/interrebellium02shutdowncanada

When you hear or read anything from Trump and his apparatchiks, you shouldn't merely suspect that it might not be true.

You should assume that it's a lie.

Example(s):

https://newrepublic.com/article/201957/trump-chicago-secret-police-shot-woman-damning-info

I'm so tired of this timeline.

https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/115389279859384745

There are no longer any defensible reasons for using any Microsoft products. The alternatives are better and lower cost, and the Microsoft stuff is just finding innovative new ways to suck rocks.

This is very good: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/10/the-pivot-1.html Many thanks @cstross! Between you and @pluralistic, we may start having the digestible emergent narratives we need to create the beneficent movement for change we so urgently need.

Forgive me, I've been a digital letterer for 16 years.

#Forgejo 13.0.1 was just released!

We recommend that all installations are upgraded to the latest version. The v13.0.0 release revealed a bug that has been in the codebase for years and caused the corruption of the Forgejo Actions secrets on instances using PostgreSQL.

Check out the release notes and download it at https://forgejo.org/releases/. If you experience any issues with this release, please report to https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues.

#forgejorelease

@mhoye christ, the framing on these questions is *bleak*. They might as well be asking "What are the key barriers to awakening great Cthulhu from his slumber at R'lyeh , and how can government and industry work together to accelerate responsible madness?"

Behave this weekend. Don't want to give them an excuse to do anything they're already doing. (This is from June, but I was in the middle of a move and forgot to post it.) https://www.patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

🔵 This week's comic:
👀 You won't believe what backward, brutally violent country the latest adventure of Billy Dare, boy adventurer, takes place in!
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Brought to you by the intrepid Inner Hive, including longtime member Katt Lady and new member Len Testa!
( bit.ly/theInnerHive )
READ IT RIGHT HERE👇

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Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security.

https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

“There was absolutely no question, there was no ambiguity, and they just did it anyway.” Photojournalist Tom Hudson was tackled to the ground by federal officers while documenting anti-deportation protests outside an ICE facility in Broadview, IL, on Oct. 3.

https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/photojournalist-tackled-by-federal-officers-at-illinois-immigration-protest/

Garrett Graff's latest newsletter post, "Three Reasons I Still Have Hope for America," is today's must-read. Please take a few minutes to absorb this.

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/why-i-have-hope-for-america?utm_source=www.doomsdayscenario.co&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=why-i-have-hope-for-america