Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social)

Do people NOT know what white nationalists and American Neo Nazis want to see happen??

Like, when JD Vance says that Angie Nixon (a Black AMERICAN) doesn't belong in America, do folks not connect that dot to all the other dots happening??

There was a video on Insta yesterday of a clean cut Nazi in a white button down and khaki pants proselytizing on a NYC train.

In any other timeline this MFer would have gotten his lights knocked out.

In *this* timeline?? Folks were silently listening to him like he was selling Amway and they were considering signing up. A young Black guy even said, Well I think everyone has to make up their own mind.

The ONLY person who was a speedbump to the Nazi's coercion was a woman yelling that he was a Nazi and he should wear his swastika armband if he's so proud of it and everyone could know who he is. The death glare he gave her...oof.

Y'all. Sitting silently and letting a literal Nazi recruit on a train is NOT how to meet this fucking moment. WTF.

@irene

And it's that lack of imagination that stuns me.

Because I would think it's obvious:

We make public life inhospitable for them.
We extract a COST for being a NeoNazi fuckhead.

Example: I knew someone who would help organize left-wing conferences and convenings. He noticed that, at one, there was a panel featuring a speaker who had a long, documented (but quiet) history of being a Nazi sympathizer. This speaker was welcomed by academics and writers on the Left. My friend made it his mission to get this speaker removed from the conference and make it widely known that this person was a Nazi sympathizer.

We extract a COST.

Also, I hope the fucking #Cornell7 never know a moment's fucking peace ever again.

Fuck them.
Ruin their nascent careers.
Humiliate and shun their families.
They raised violent sexual predators.

I hope they become nothing but desolate.

@heidilifeldman

This is exactly why the Trump admin is hobbling the Dept of Ed.

Under previous admins, the OCR in Dept of Ed would investigate this under Title IX. This is obviously administrative negligence for so heinous a breach of a student's right to have access to an education without gendered sexual violence.

But under this admin's interpretation of Title IX -- and its destruction of previous guidance and rules -- schools are allowed to coddle predators, rapists, and sexual harassers because holding them accountable is tantamount to 'subversive gender ideology'.

For fascists, there is no rape or sexual violence. It's just normalized 'sex.'

For Cornell and the men in charge of Cornell, an essay to mitigate 'sex' that 'perhaps got out of hand' is an appropriate response -- especially considering who these young men's families are. (These are not poor 'boys.')

However, every Title IX advocate knows schools have been slapping the wrists of rapists *for decades* (remember Stanford?).

Some of y'all are main characters in Nordic noir.

Just negative and bleak AF.

Damn.

If I was leading a team of resistance fighters I'd kick you out.

'We're doomed and there's no end in sight' is NOT how you fight the power. Jesus christ.

Have some fucking grit and hope, for fuck sake.

Here's the thing:

Without saying too much I am literally helping folks fight the power in ways that do NOT include electoral theater.

They are taking some real risks but also doing some real WORK to level the playing field between the Death Star and the people being targeted by the Death Star.

Voting has NOTHING to do with any of this. Why? Because once the electoral apparatus has been fucked with it's no longer viable unless you WORK to keep it viable.

This isn't purity -- it's reality.
I don't know how a post criticizing Eeyore Doomers became about voting but it's super interesting how anti fascist WORK always comes down to *voting* with y'all.

Here's a clue: IT IS NOT.

To fight the Death Star you fiiiiiiiiiiiight.

GotDAMN.

I'm going to eat some chocolate now.

GOTDAMMIT

I ate my chocolate last night.

ICE is deliberately digitally disappearing thousands of detainees to escape oversight and accountability.

When this is over and all these bastards are held to account, the fact they have digitally ERASED our neighbors and community members so they are denied their constitutional rights is *criminal.*

HOW will families reunite? How will we know how many people have lost lives, livelihoods, homes, family members?

This fucking administration is corrupt and morally bankrupt to its core -- everyone.

Voting only gives you the opportunity to redress this mess. Having the fortitude, bravery, and moral GRIT to send every single one of these assholes down a long hole is the question.

https://apnews.com/article/ice-detainee-locator-disappear-removal-orders-c3329a70bce424879bc5880b286c019c

I watched a lot of 9/11 videos last night.

They told me stories I had forgotten:
The Canadian island that took in all those diverted passenger planes.
The bodegas in lower Manhattan that sheltered fleeing New Yorkers as the first tower fell.
The cameramen who kept filming everything because they knew it was important.
The daycare women who saved all those kids -- even though alot of those kids' parents didn't make it.
The biggest maritime evacuation in maritime history.
The brave manager of the restaurant at the top of the tower on 106 and her heroic but futile attempt to save her crew.
The way people organized themselves to make sure folks from the same neighborhoods made it home in groups, on foot.
The guy who carried that woman in a wheelchair down 68 flights and saved both their lives.
All those first responders running up toward the fire and heat, and the way they surely knew they weren't coming back.
The search and rescue Rottweiler crew.
The kids+teachers on the Pentagon flight.

Query: if the Affordability Crisis is hitting you and your household like a freight train, slide into my DMs.

I'm looking for folks who'd be willing to talk with local media in these markets:

IL
VA
PA
NM
NY

Particularly if you are:
A parent
A working mom
An Independent voter
Someone who uses child care or provides elder care
If you need paid family leave
Or someone just trying to make ends meet

Slide into my DMs.
Please.

GAH. And this is in a BLUE state.

State health inspections of ICE detentions halted by California Legislature

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article316886675.html

#ICE
#DHS
#Collaborators
#CALeg

RE: https://sfba.social/@lynnjbecker/117146095465826614

This is a really good, in-depth piece on the ins/outs of how data centers are assessed. It's a complex and a not-standardized practice, but there are some assessors (like the guy featured in Chicago) who are being rigorous about closing loopholes corps use to lowball or appeal their appraisals.

Gary, IN still does not have power.
Other towns and counties have had their power restored but not Gary.

The mostly Black city's residents have been pulling together feeding each other, sharing resources and generators, and doing what they can.

The relief effort is here:
https://legacyfdn.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/create/fund?funit_id=5554

Read about it here:

Frustration mounts for thousands still without power after deadly Indiana storms - CBS News https://share.google/YnVD274bUOKqfbjdx

Omg everyone: treat the US like a pariah.

You know what we are, right now. We cannot be trusted while this family, these people, Vought and Miller, are in the White House and MAGA has compromised the judiciary and legislative.

I see all these countries pretending like the US is sane right now and having 'talks.'

WTF.

Whyyyy are you talking to an insane country run by a demented poopy diaper wearing nazi and his balding nazi sphincter mouthpiece, Stephen Miller?!?

Why?
Protect yourself and make alliances with other countries.

Sorry, global relationships.
Make us hurt.
Make the US feel the consequences.
Create pressure.
Sanction us FFS.

Like, we have a government full of Israeli and Russian assets.

It's being advised and propped up by a bunch of insane pedo nazi billionaires.

A gang of religious white nationalist wackos is egging it on, thirsting to get their chance at pillaging the public coffers.

What the ever loving fuck is anyone doing trusting and dealing with the US?!?

I was on a town hall call with a CA Dem member on the House Oversight Committee and I kept asking in the chat, What *specifically* are you all *doing* to hold the line?

And he just kept saying how orgs like mine need to do more to call our Reps.

Like, do I need to call you do remind you how to do your fucking JOB??

This call was also hosted by my professional association here in CA which is supposed to fight tooth and nail to protect our interests. (This is what our membership pays for.) I applied for an open spot on their Public Policy committee back in 2017 and I remember saying that this association had better learn how to go up against fascists and they needed folks with guts on their com'tee. I was politely declined.

Anyway. This is happening. Call your rep and remind them to do their fucking job. I guess.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/21/us-postal-service-mail-in-voter-rule

Tech Equity (on the briefing call): "If you look too permissive [about AI], you start to lose trust with the populace."

Folks want this genie back in the bottle.

This is a fascinating study.

I was on the briefing call yesterday and, y'all -- people (especially older women) HATE AI with the personal kind of passion one reserves for the villain who killed your father.

They HATE tech execs. Like, HAAAAATE.
And this sentiment does not change when folks 'get used to' AI. In fact, distrust has increased despite everyone using it.

They absolutely distrust AI boosters. No one believes the hype and an overwhelming majority believe this shit is bad -- because of personal experience of harm or they know someone who has been harmed.

People want AI *punished* they hate it so much. (This is me editorializing.)

And they want someone to wrap some chains around AI before it's too late. #RegulateAI

Duuuuude. Faaascinating.
Full report drops next week.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lKvEjvDK_zwIvGDdCdL8d74ov5eVFqkm/view?pli=1

WHYYYY has no enterprising and 'fuck-it' journalist camped out in the bushes waiting to get a shot of this man supposedly being 'discharged'?

We wouldn't be in this fascist mess if more people weren't so fucking full of chicken shit. Jesus christ, we used to stalk ex boyfriends better than this.

https://www.salon.com/2026/08/06/suspicious-mcconnell-hospital-discharge-revives-conspiracy-theories/