Notices by Nonya Bidniss :CIAverified: (nonya_bidniss@infosec.exchange)

"you got riled up by a marketing machine that fooled you into thinking that your problems could be attributed to the immigrant working beside you and not the rich guys picking your pockets." #immigration #ICE https://www.alreporter.com/2025/06/02/opinion-this-is-exactly-what-you-voted-for/

Looking at the video of the ICE raid in California yesterday where they really went total bugfuck and I wish I had a megaphone that would magically blast into every ICE thugs ears across the country. WE HATE YOU! YOU ARE SHIT!

It's a little bit weird how there's a lot of talk about how Elon Musk is "taking Stephen Miller's wife with him" and Stephen Miller probably gave Elon the black eye etc. but let's focus on this mindset that his wife is a thing that is being taken by some guy, that's the framing and everybody just takes that framing for granted. You know, I'm not interested in their weird little drama but what interests me is that Katie Miller, despite probably being a godawful hell bitch, is a person with agency who has apparently made her own decision about where she's going to work. That is all.

I'm listening to #nonfiction #audiobook Attack From Within by Barb McQuade. Disappointed in her mispronunciations, for one thing, and she just mentioned the alien conspiracy theory about "Area 51, a military base in Roswell, New Mexico." Uhhh, Area 51 is in Nevada, you could've just looked that up? I haven't learned anything new from this book 3 hours in, but I'm always aware of the news & politics so I guess if I was a low info person this book would be an eye opener to some extent.

“Theocrats are embedding Christian nationalism into the highest levels of government — and if we don’t push back now, the damage to our democracy could be lasting.”

FFRF is demanding that the Department of Defense immediately cancel any future “Secretary’s Prayer Meetings” and recommit to its constitutional obligation to religious neutrality. The Pentagon must represent all Americans — not function as a megachurch for one religion or political agenda. #FFRF #ChristianNationalism #theocracy #military #DOD https://ffrf.org/news/releases/sectarian-takeover-at-pentagon-must-be-stopped-says-ffrf/

"while the tax cuts would go into effect immediately, the cuts to Medicaid are currently scheduled not to hit until 2029, enabling the Republicans to avoid voter fury over them in the midterms and the 2028 election." https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-18-2025

And ICYMI, tucked away in the disastrous budget bill:

"A provision in the proposed spending bill would restrict the authority of federal courts to hold government officials in contempt when they violate court orders. Without the contempt power, judicial orders are meaningless and can be ignored.

There is no way to understand this except as a way to keep the Trump administration from being restrained when it violates the Constitution or otherwise breaks the law." https://www.justsecurity.org/113529/terrible-idea-contempt-court/

The ICE thugs cover their faces because they know they're doing wrong & breaking laws, and at risk because of it. The statute of limitations on their acts is a lot longer than Donald Trump's term. When Dems take Congress in 2026, they need to immediately make it illegal for ICE thugs to wear masks.

"What they are trying to do to immigrants is what they are already doing to U.S. citizens" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbSMcIDwdmg

You may have heard about this one but you should really hear the local news report on it. 20 armed men busted in, never identified themselves, they stole everything in the home plus all the family's money, and now the family has no idea which agency to appeal to (or to sue). Who's to say this wasn't just a break-in and armed robbery? If this is the standard for Federal agencies, you can bet other criminals will copy it. #fascism #authoritarianism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUMJqz53YW0

I've never been threatened by a trans person. Never been harassed, abused, assaulted, or discriminated against by a trans person. Never by a gay person either. I've had all of those things happen to me but the perps were every single one of them cishet men.

So I don't need protection from trans people or any variety of LGBTQ people at all. People who claim that are not speaking for me, they are seeking to oppress me. What I need is for cishet men to unfuck themselves and learn to respect others' autonomy and right to live free from cishet men's aggression and odious dominance displays.

Trump's pick for Surgeon General, yes, another fraud
#medicine #USPol https://lastcampaign.substack.com/p/trumps-surgeon-general-pick-distorted

Use NOAA data? Might use it someday? Get it before many datasets disappear. #science #NOAA https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/documents-reports/notice-of-changes

If you're a woman or girl who plans to someday get married, I cannot stress this enough. Do not change your name. Never change your name. Even before this abominable SAVE Act threatened to take away the right of millions of women to vote, it was already a mistake because life is change and if someday you aren't still married and you maybe don't want that name anymore, it becomes a colossal pain the ass to change it back when your bank accounts, your home, your car title, your bills, your will, your social security, your insurance, and any other thing you can name will have to be changed and they will all require you to go through some sort of bureaucratic fuckery from mild to extremely painful. DON'T DO IT.

I am talking about a specific case here, the tradition of women changing their names in marriage. I'm not getting in the weeds on other types of name changes.

Timothy Snyder on the moment the Trump regime has created. He's following historical examples that led to mass murder. #authoritarianism #fascism #Nazis #history

When the ICE director said he wanted to create an "Amazon Prime for humans" sort of deportation system, it reminded me how in The Third Reich At War, Richard J. Evans writes about how the Germans overseeing the mass murder of thousands of Jews and others per day would refer to them as objects such as "packages." And I remembered also how the Japanese of Unit 731 who were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people called the victims of their vile human experimentation "logs." So arguably the worst corner of our government, the lawless thugs of ICE, are now thinking of people as packages, or objects by whatever name. Is this the fifth stage of fascism yet?

"A disgraced former Milwaukee cop with credibility issues helped seal the fate of a gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to El Salvador's notorious prison, according to documents reviewed by USA TODAY.

A report approved by the police-officer-turned-prison-contractor claimed the Venezuelan man was a member of the notorious gang Tren de Aragua.

But the credibility of Charles Cross Jr., who signed the report, was so bad, prosecutors flagged him on a list of police who had been accused of lying, breaking the law or acting in a way that erodes their credibility to testify in Milwaukee County.

Cross was fired from his position as a Milwaukee police sergeant in 2012 after driving his car into a family’s home while intoxicated. He appealed the decision and resigned in the process, according to the department.

At the time, Cross also was being investigated for claiming overtime he allegedly hadn’t earned."

Remember after 9/11 when TSA positions were rapidly filled with anyone capable of fogging a mirror -- including people who had criminal records. A huge expansion in the deportation-industrial complex will result in scumbags, psychopaths, and criminals wielding unaccountable power over vulnerable people. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2025/04/10/fired-milwaukee-police-officer-report-gay-stylist-salvadoran-prison/83005721007/

One of the main things that saddens me about the U.S. Gov being taken over by incompetent, vicious fascists is the breaking of our ties to allies around the world, including our closest neighbors. I recall throughout my career that we Americans were always thrilled when we had the opportunity to host or visit our allied counterparts. We admired them and enjoyed their perspectives, and we genuinely felt they were our partners in a common defense of democratic governance. Now that's destroyed by an absolute lunatic pig and his demented band of oatmeal-brained maniacs. It's very sad, an incalculable loss.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark

@patrickcmiller thank god