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Captain & co-founder of Massachusetts Pirate Party. I show people how to protect their privacy and run for office. Occasional photographer. Not a Special Circumstances agent. Primarily at jamesokeefe.org / masspirates.org. Should be posting my photos.
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This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

NEW: TeleMessage, the Signal knockoff used by Mike Waltz and potentially other gov officials to archive group chats in plaintext, has suspended all services after it was hacked *at least twice.* @404media.co reported a hack last night; a different hacker also broke in and gave me evidence.

"Independent journalists like Kabas uncovering major scoops are something of an existential threat to mainstream media’s business model, because they prove that you don’t need to spend millions of dollars to report the news."

Nobody gets a "trial" before being deported. You have no right to an attorney, or a real Article III judge, or a jury, or to witnesses and evidence. You get an executive branch employee cosplaying in a black robe, who is usually a rubber stamp. That's what he's talking about as too much due process.

"Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation" www.404media.co/globalx-airl...

The path for Trump targeting college students was paved by the Democratic Party & their leaders making enemies out of these young people. If you want to talk about fascism, they deployed a police state on campuses all across California. Don’t ever forget this.

Here is a start: masspirates.org/wiki/2025_Ad...

Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.

It really tells you everything you need to know about the Democratic Party that they can't go after Trump for the most blatant corruption scandal in the history of the presidency because some of them are in bed with the same corruption coin guys.

Radical Skepticism and Its Limits existentialcomics.com/comic/601

Donald Trump spent $23M on golf (up to mid march). Over 56 days, he spent $410k of our tax dollars each day at his own clubs. That is one 3-year NSF grant per day. Waste and abuse, my ass. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So Israel has announced their plan for a further attack on Gaza and included is the fact that they intend to force everyone out of the North and no aid will enter until everyone complies. International law is a joke.

An actual press release from an actual government agency in the supposed land of the free: "USCIS adopted social media vetting for anti-Americanism."

Based in part on documents published by @ddosecrets.com

“Shein had learned to play the uniquely American game of naked influence peddling. An 8-page Shein internal doc from June 2023 reviewed by WIRED...outlined what the company’s vast team of public & gov relations professionals & some lobbyists was tasked with working on." @timmclaughlin3.bsky.social

Obvious pretext for censorship. It has nothing to do with propping up American filmmakers and everything to do with controlling access to information. Next week it will be book tariffs and so on.

El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.

MA has new "Antisemitism" Commission. But the commission keeps acting like it's an arm of Heritage Foundation. Jewish faculty are speaking out. Read today's letter criticizing Commission for platforming ADL & sidelining actual scholars of antisemitism. concernedjewishfaculty.org/2025/05/05/c...

One thing I think a lot about is that we’ve allowed performative masculinity to crowd out other, more productive definitions of being male. The whole concept of being a mensch is important — How are you part of your community? How will you age into a respected elder?

trump is a criminal and wants to help his criminal pals. basically open season on financial theft and money laundering now.

this wednesday, support Somerville teachers, and support Somerville schools! #SomervilleMA

If you're in Cambridge and want to protest a fascist. 20 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 at 7pm.

It's nice that Trump's children's corruption, trading on their father's position to pocket millions for themselves, is getting some media coverage. I wonder if someday it will add up to as much attention as "let's pretend Hunter Biden did what Jared, Ivanka, Don Jr., and Eric actually did" received.

I have this downloaded rn and am getting a build working in Android Studio :))) if journalists have anything they want me to look for here, I'm an android dev with 12+ years experience, so I do know what I'm talking about w/ these things

Is this bad? I'm no international shipping expert, but this sounds bad.

pretty bad!

We cannot stop with just people in government. The billionaires, hedge fundies, private equity chieftains, finance bros and every CEO, corporate officer and board member who screws workers, enshitifies companies and destroys competition must go!

This was pretty much inevitable ever since people noticed the hardcoded credentials in the source code the other day:

The articles of impeachment write themselves

Member meeting tonight at 8pm Eastern. Details and Agenda at masspirates.org/blog/2025/05...

The problem with the theory that FPTP keeps fringe parties out is that it does until it doesn't, at which point it creates a massive ratchet effect. Having FPTP and a successful radical right party is essentially a gamble of sorts.

The Senate Dem leader literally voted for Trump's spending bill, and many of them are routinely voting to confirm Trump nominees. They also refuse to do any real obstruction. I suppose you can dismiss anything you want as "performative nonsense," but that's the fallacious catch-all on this list.

In a world filled with Joe Rogans, be a Fred Rogers.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

ICE just staged a big production to try to arrest a guy who posted the names and photos of agents to telephone polls, likely on the theory that doing so was criminal incitement.

NOAA is America’s oldest scientific agency. They help farms produce food, keep ships from sinking, warn people about natural disasters, and collect and analyze the data we need to understand global warming. This month, Republicans are throwing it all away. skepchick.org/2025/05/trum...

I've said this before, but there is a long list of adult civil servants who should be ashamed they caved to this group of dorks

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be: We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.