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[Home Base @homebaseok]

If this upsets you, join us for a town hall on May 27th at Mayflower Congregational 👀 https://t.co/859wuz0VBN

[Boyd Bible @9b56a5b4dee744c]

Maps of reported flock cameras in OKC and TULSA

[Okla City Free Press @FreePressOKC]

City Council voted Tuesday to adopt a $2 billion budget for FY27 despite residents calling for more participation, with an unexpected show of support from one councilor. | Tyler Smothers reports https://t.co/s1keI0TLFy

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down:

https://t.co/n8Az3Tkwmo

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

I received word that some liberal nonprofits and political consultants are trying to work with establishment Democrats on a political strategy to expand surveillance, militarized policing, immigration detention, and overall imprisonment with re-branded language. Lots of words like "community" thrown in there. This would be a catastrophic moral failure, but also an unbelievable strategic error given how unpopular repression is.  Those of us who want to see a more equal, more just, more safe society must do everything in our power to call thee people out and stop them, and we will.

[GL @gldivittorio]

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[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

As I've been saying for a while now, the only way to carry out a mass deportation operation of 4% of the population is to transform the United States into a surveillance state.

[miss talk sum @shootmeadub]

“What am I going to do today or tomorrow in order to contribute to the material conditions that enable revolutionary love to be the norm and not the aberration?”

— Joy James

[The Dig @thedigradio]

"The notion of the commons has to do with what we owe each other, as an aspect of mutuality, rather than what we own."

Dan's two-part interview w/ Peter Linebaugh is now available to read as a transcript: https://t.co/9cj4eSYunz

Find the episodes here: https://t.co/5Vmh9BHHfw

[lelu @lelulolololol]

it's a good practice to be able to identify the surveillance around you & risks with it - data harvesting, flock/axon cams, ring cameras - but part of the point of this surveillance saturation is to scare you into passivity under the assumption it's totally omnipotent, it's not.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: https://t.co/BEpc4DUhzT

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Speaking of gerrymandering, have you heard of prison gerrymandering?

White Republicans use incarcerated people to be counted by the census as residents of the town the PRISON is located in rather than their home communities. This increases their political representation and FUNDING for those districts while incarcerated people themselves cannot vote.

What you allow to happen to incarcerated people will happen to you.

[Texas Observer @TexasObserver]

Out today: Flock has sold nearly 92,000 cameras to local police departments—including more than 10,000 in Texas, according to an open source map.

Privacy advocates are determined to bring that number down, and they're starting to get their way. https://t.co/NBdh9YDvvJ

[Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @OaklandAboSol]

Prison mail scanning is a technology of isolation and surveillance, period.
It isn't "misguided" or "ineffective" dope policy.

"[IDOC] admitted there was no evidence mail scanning would resolve the introduction of drug contraband into its facilities"
https://t.co/zEsBi5ORQ0

[NOlympics LA @NOlympicsLA]

The cops don't give all these tools back when the Olympics are over. These are forever. This is always the pattern.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Automobile kill-switches are coming soon to car dealerships near you.

I teamed up w/ Scott Perry & Chip Roy to defund this Orwellian mandate, but too many colleagues (Republican & Democrat) voted against us, so the federal mandate for every new car after 2026 is still in place.

[Stuart Schrader @stschrader1]

May I recommend a Sunday morning listen? I spoke with Sasha Lilley on Against the Grain (KPFA) about BLUE POWER, focusing on the divergences between police unions and organized labor. https://t.co/lerCtFJwZs

[Truthout @truthout]

Organizers also channeled mass outrage into long-haul organizing for immigration justice in Oklahoma and beyond.
https://t.co/hb4vjqfjI4

[Alex Vitale @avitale]

One of the many ways police make us less safe.

[Stuart Schrader @stschrader1]

ICYMI, here is an excerpt from BLUE POWER in @nplusonemag, discussing how a new type of tough-on-crime Northern Democrat paved the way for police to develop a cohesive political voice. https://t.co/yS6my6YpRE