The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.
Happy Harriet Tubman Day to all those who celebrate.
Trump pressed Republicans to enact sweeping new voting restrictions as a way to "guarantee" victory in November's midterm elections.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
Friends and family said the 28-year-old’s iPhone pinged at the Broadview facility, and even though that's what her location showed, family members claimed federal officials and local police denied Naqvi was there.
If you see a message from “Signal Support Bot”, no you didn’t
Feds have acted as if civilians have no right to observe or record them, said David Bier of the Cato Institute. “Once you adopt those positions then everyone’s a viable target,” he said. The consequences ... “amounts to going after the political opposition,” Bier said. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...
So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
And even worse, it appears the #WHCA chose to appease him by booking a magician as entertainment and abandoning the tradition of a comedian roasting the president. If he's unwilling to accept that tradition, they should not have invited him, in addition to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social's list.
"bets made among the staff over which detainee would be next to die by suicide." apnews.com/article/suic...
So they basically told her that if she flew back she'd be thrown in a notorious concentration camp
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
www.statesman.com/business/art...
A photo of Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaking at a rally in support of the Kids Online Safety Act on Dec. 10, 2024, in Washington, D.C., overlaid with the headline, "Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online."
"The laws will lead to more data being collected on kids, which predatory companies can then use to target them in more invasive ways," writes @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. interc.pt/4s5Rr7u
Rodriguez Flores is from Colombia, has lived in the U.S. for five years, and "frequently reports on stories critical of ICE," her lawyers said in a court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. www.reuters.com/business/med...
Look at my counterterrorism chief, dawg www.propublica.org/article/trum...
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
For the Student Who Said Grammar Doesn’t Matter When People Are Dying What can kill is unclarity. The misplaced modifier, for instance: Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. Did the wind have no hope? Clearly the writer meant, Having no hope, he wasn’t moved by the wind. But someone no doubt had told the writer about the passive voice, to avoid it at all costs, like passion, and the writer, feeling with a chill how costly life can be when we are passive (the lover’s last knock unanswered at the door), opted for this construction. Having no hope, the wind didn’t move him. The difference is between mystery and confusion, between the wind’s stillness and a soul that won’t be opened. And why not? Why can’t the wind hope? I don’t know. I just know it matters. Everything matters. What is erasing what. Who is bombing whom. It took me all day to misunderstand correctly: Forgetting their children, the conquerors destroyed them. —Joseph Fasano
It matters.
“NBC's Kristen Welker asked Mullin what should happen to babies born in the United States whose parents are deported, given that the children are U.S. citizens under current law.
'Well, they should go where their parents are,’ said Mullin, of Oklahoma.”
oh GREAT now i have to completely rewrite my script "Fuck Plane"
We've now got a "I don't have a question, but I have a comment" guy talking about ICE agents facing "extreme violence."
Kristi says she'll "let them know" he said that, and Kristi, no you won't.
Oh my God
Trans ppl under attack from the govt could be identified and outed w/o their consent.
Undocumented immigrants would be cut off from the ability to communicate w advocates.
Young ppl seeking abortions won't be able to access info safely and anonymously.
This is what congress is advancing today 👇🏻
really hope people figure out soon that the future we're speeding toward on the internet, where age — and what will often mean identity — verification becomes the accepted global norm, is not just going to affect 15 year olds who want to post on TikTok
Not in our database: Corey Lewandowski.
Lewandowski has a special status as a "volunteer" DHS.
Yet he is also signing off on contracts and policies.
Here's one of 'em!
www.propublica.org/article/kris...
The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. -James Baldwin
Tapping the sign
