MuinteoirSaoirse [she/her]

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Cake day: June 17th, 2024

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  • Yeah the CBC spends a lot of time talking about illegal border crossings to imply that has something to do with it, but there’s no information about what actually happened. Either way, this coupled with the executive order Trump signed to take “complete operational control” of the borders (this is one of the only bits of his orders that was worded to include the border with Canada, whereas most of the language of his orders yesterday specified the southern border) and all the premiers pushing for tougher borders to appease him and mitigate the tariffs…seems that the northern border is about to get more militarized



  • “RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP”

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-freedom-of-speech-and-ending-federal-censorship/

    This is largely the no-more moderating hate speech order, but this bit is pretty sweeping: “The Attorney General, in consultation with the heads of executive departments and agencies, shall investigate the activities of the Federal Government over the last 4 years that are inconsistent with the purposes and policies of this order and prepare a report to be submitted to the President, through the Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, with recommendations for appropriate remedial actions to be taken based on the findings of the report.”

    The Attorney General’s office is going to be busy as hell keeping up with all these wide-scale audits of Biden’s regime that pretty much every order calls for. Altogether, these orders point to sweeping retaliation within the fed for the past four years, and an explicit threat to get in line for the next four. Not unexpected, of course.






  • When India banned it they banned it for all Indian SIM cards, so you have to remove your SIM and use a VPN, but even that won’t work for the US ban. They rolled out a specific app version for people in the US, and then set that to just load the ban message, so anyone who installed it in the US can’t access it even if they remove their SIM and use a VPN. They’re also banning US accounts, so it’s not even certain that getting a hold of an international phone with an unblocked version would let you access your account if you’re American.

    Edit: you’d probably be able to get on TikTok if you got a non-US phone with the app, connected without a SIM and on a VPN, and using a non-US account. (Disclaimer: I’ve never used TikTok so I am not sure this would work, and it’s a lot of effort to go to for some videos anyway)