Notices by Diligence Jones (deliachristina@sfba.social), page 3

Um....I'm watching a Murder, She Wrote I have *never* seen.

Jessica Fletcher is in VA doing research on a distant Aunt of hers and she meets a professor (Phylicia Rashad) whose distant grandfather Samuel was lynched -- and was enslaved by Jessica's distant aunt!! Well, these two decide to solve the mystery of his killing.

And thus ensues a MASSIVE FLASHBACK TO THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH.

Y'all. Omg they actually said the n-word.

Where did this come from?!?

It's a 90 min movie!!

Someone: You should ask Person for input.

Me: Nah, I don't need their input.

Someone: Some of their feedback will be useful.

Me: Certain folks are *overrepresented* when it comes to opinions.

Listen up, GenXers - the kids today are talking about a commercial featuring some girl named Sydney Sweeney (who is she? I dunno. She's some rich blonde MAGA influencer.)

But she's in a jeans commercial and the cultural discourse it has triggered is about Whiteness and, of course, the far Right.

If you watch it, see the subtext immediately, but are talking to a YoungUn who doesn't see it, try and get them to bone up on cultural literacy with Jack Solomon's very short and very accessible book: The Signs of Our Times: semiotics, the hidden messages of environments, objects, and cultural images (1988).

Yeah, it's an old book but it's a really good one. I read it in undergrad and it did MOAR to strengthen my media literacy than all the toks on the interwebs.

For some reason, I'm wondering if Alex P. Keaton would be a MAGA Senator or the CEO of a rapacious private equity fund today.

@kingrat

Like, the MSM headlines about this meeting say *nothing* about how utterly bonkers he was.

Nothing about that meeting was normal.

I'm reading about Trump's meeting with the president of the Philippines.

While the Philippines has problems of their own, they didn't deserve any of that.

It was basically a version of 'Sir, this is a Wendy's.'

#uspol

"PRESIDENT TRUMP: And I don’t mind if he gets along with China, because we’re getting along with China very well. We have a very good relationship. In fact, the magnets, which is a little complex piece of material, but the magnets are coming out very well. They’re sending them in record numbers. We’re getting along with China very well. And I don’t mind if the president dealt with China. That’s meant because I think he has to do what’s right for his country. Make the Philippines great again. Do whatever you need to do. But you’re dealing with China wouldn’t bother me at all.

PRESIDENT MARCOS: Well, it is something that we have to do in any case."

DUDE.

Omg the transcript of this meeting is BONKERS.

https://singjupost.com/transcript-president-trump-oval-office-remarks-with-philippines-president-ferdinand-bongbong-marcos-jr/

"PRESIDENT TRUMP: [unhinged rants about Obama, Hillary Clinton]

REPORTER: Mr. President, I have a question to President Marcos.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Yes.

PRESIDENT MARCOS: Yes. Sorry, what was the question again?"

WTH.

This isn’t representation—it’s digital blackface with imperial intent.

It’s camouflage.

The message is war.
But the messenger looks like someone you’ve learned to trust.

The AI video I saw showed a young “Black servicewoman” in combat greens surrounded by other service personnel in a 'desert' holding her phone like it was recording her, celebrating a successful bombing on Iran.

I think the caption was something like a Matthew 5:9 scripture quote, "Blessed are the peacemakers." (a pun on the type of missile, I guess.)

But she wasn’t real.
No real woman said those words. (And how effing dare they tap into the whole church thing.)

Someone generated her to perform consent.

To make empire sound like empowerment.

Black women carry cultural credibility.
We’ve been truth-tellers, moral anchors, movement leaders.

We signify justice, resistance, clarity.

So now? We’re being simulated to sell messages we never co-signed.

Problematic as hell.

🧵THREAD: Why Are AI-Generated Black Women Selling War?

There’s a new kind of military propaganda happening—and it has a face.
Not a general. Not a flag.
A Black woman.
Digitally generated. Dressed in fatigues. Smiling, jubilant as she praises a U.S. airstrike against Iran.

Let’s talk about why that’s not progress. 👇🏾

When it comes to dating, these days I feel like the angel who came to Sodom.

Me: ☝🏽Verily, I will not burn down this motherfucking place if I can find a righteous Heau.☝🏽

The Heaux: 🤡[no social skills; bad politics; unsolicited pants selfies; vague vibes; emotional fuckery; 'Pleasure Dom' BS; unexamined patriarchal nonsense; can't fuck]🤡

Me: 👿Gotdammit.👿

🔥FOOSH🔥

The pretense at legality is gone.
The US govt is just abducting non white people off the street.

Gee, when has this happened before?

Reposting the Stand Down campaign ideas so that it's boostable!

Slide into my DMs if you want the whole campaign framework.

There's a Hong Kong activist giving advice to American protestors on Tik Tok and his recommendations are really good. Sharing them here.

1. claim moral high ground and use a unifying code to create a manifesto under which folks can protect lawful rights: FIRE (Free Immigration Resist Expulsion), and use this consistently. His messaging here is really smart.

2. have a clear organizing structure: rapid response; legal; media/comms; logistics; command; propaganda; liasons; extraction

3. release propaganda and tell a clear story: Illegal immigration is a lie; we are all immigrants and WE make America great.

4. decentralize and synchronize: split into smaller groups and target opponents; use uniformity; use domestic (US/CA) flags to reinforce message that WE BELONG here - it reframes 'foreign invader' narrative. Create media traps and disseminate globally.

5. prepare non-fatal incendiaries for direct action, if necessary (this one will scare folks) to create chaos.

6. leverage political warfare to win

I'm disassociating from the horrors in Gaza.

A nation that lures starving people to a fake aid station and then picks them off by sniper, one by one, should be a pariah state.

And so should the country arming them.

On Tik Tok, a guy asked a purely click-baity question: If you could get rid of ONE thing on the planet, what would it be?

It's the kind of post designed to elicit a lot of engagement.

After reading that Daily Kos post about Trump's new ethics office head, I have my answer: the manosphere.

Just *foop* it's all gone: the podcasters, the infrastructure for it, the monetizing, the advertisors, the creators, the listeners, the -stans. All of it just sucked into a black hole.

Earth would heal.

UPDATE!

The House Republicans removed this provision -- for now!

The sector and our friends rallied!

Thank you, Fediversians, for spreading the word and making those calls!

#ProtectNonprofits