The executive branch is using lawfare to silence the fourth estate, and everyday citizens are caught in the crossfire. This civics-meets-privacy discussion explains what information is at stake and sets the stage for a deeper look into how authoritarian policies lead to abuse of power.

On May 8, Instagram discontinued end-to-end encrypted chats following a series of court losses earlier this year that found the social media company (among others) failed to protect children on its platforms. Meta claimed the decision was due to low use rates. ravenwoodintel.com/instagram-di...

Many organizations apply different labels when describing the intelligence cycle, but one thing remains the same. It is a continuous process of planning, evaluating, processing, and analyzing information to best position consumers for success. ravenwoodintel.com/a-strong-fou...

Does anyone else hear Anti-Flag whenever someone mentions spending a billion dollars on a ballroom? I sure do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD3R...

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Suddenly, I saw the leaders at NIH sort of kowtowing it was bizarre. There's this whole idea of 'On Tyranny, don't comply in advance' and that's what I saw them doing: Let's just placate and perhaps will come out fine in the end. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

440 Secret Service agents with an average of nearly 22 yrs/service left the agency in 2025. They hired 538 new agents averaging 0.7 yrs/service. 485 had no prior government service. 200 were under age 25. It's quite literally amateur hour over there right now. data.forkingoff.com

"Thankfully, my time as an FBI intelligence analyst prepared me well for projects like this. I wanted to build something approachable that would enable anyone to dig for the stories they cared about..." For example...

If you're worrying about this through the lens of genocide, you're not worried enough. This sounds like a nuclear threat endangering all of humanity. The @thebulletin.org set the #DoomsdayClock to 85 seconds to midnight in January, the closest we've ever been to global catastrophe. This is worse.

25th Amendment. Now!!!

Trump: "They didn't know there was somebody missing until this leaker gave the information. Whoever it was, we think we'll be able to find out, because we're gonna go to the media company that released it and we're gonna say, 'National security. Give it up or go to jail.'"

Listen to his words. He's threatening to imprison a journalist to get to their source.

Perhaps the unparalleled access is for the administration and not the American public? I can see where the confusion lies. English is a tricky language.

“The U.S. government’s infrastructure is being attacked from all sides right now, and having an amateur WordPress developer running the White House’s public presence puts everybody who visits it at risk.”—Philip Fields, former FBI intelligence analyst. www.notus.org/technology/t...

“The current state of journalism in this country is perfectly reflected by the fact that no one in the fourth estate has noticed this opinion.” www.courtwatch.news/p/170-the-op...

I think I can speak pretty authoritatively on behalf of all FBI and DOJ employees (past and present) who actually care about justice when I say this: Fuck that guy.

While armchair developers and infosec experts have questioned some of the app’s technical design choices, a former FBI intelligence analyst uncovered an unusual fact: The small business owner behind the White House app has a side hobby as a conspiracy theorist.

The first DRP came around and it was basically an eye roll. No big deal. This is like another credit card offer in the mail. Rip it up and throw it away. Thanks. Have a good one. Hard pass. But after that, the risks just continued to grow.

Have you ever wondered how governments get hacked? Maybe it starts with granting White House tech contracts to paranormal conspiracy theorists? Tl;dr - Don't download the new White House mobile app, or the browser plugin that you may not have heard of yet. hax4libre.com/jokers-wild/

If you use GitHub and Copilot and don't want your interactions to be used for training data, make sure to opt-out before April 24th. GitHub Account Settings > Copilot> Features > Privacy > Disable 'Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training'.

"We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs..."—The Shins, but now also us... We've got maps! Check out our new data exploration project, which is looking at OPM separation data between January 2025 and January 2026. Which country surprised you most? I know my answer. data.forkingoff.com

Over 1,800 intelligence professionals left their federal jobs between January 2025 and January 2026. A third of those were through deferred resignation. Learn more about what the federal government lost in 2025 through our new data visualization project at data.forkingoff.com.

Did you know over 20k IRS employees left government service through deferred resignation in 2025? The states hardest hit? Texas, Utah, and Georgia. Learn more about what the federal government lost in 2025 through our new data visualization project at data.forkingoff.com

He didn't have to... Because he knew if push came to shove he'd get a pardon.

This is the bad place!!!

Yesterday, Mohammed Bailor Jalloh completed the attack he began planning in 2016. In doing so, his case joined a growing list of preventable counterterrorism failures. Learn more about how many of them intersected here: hax4libre.com/sisyphean-fa...

Fixed it: "What makes America special right now is our depravity."

As a child, I was often told, "get your nose out of those books and go outside." We lived out in the country, so I eventually learned to just take my book out into the woods where I could climb a tree and read in peace. I still think about this anytime someone rants about "screentime."

Make it cute! This is legitimately good advice. We need more privacy tools that give 'kittens pouncing on fascists.'

We are the bad guys... “President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”.

Hey! This guy gets it!

Why stop at impeachment? Kash Patel's handling of the FBI's response to the Epstein Files Transparency Act is justification for inherent contempt. Congress shouldn't just fire him and let him go back to podcasting with Bongino. They should hold him accountable now.

In case it's not clear. This is how they plan to prevent transgender people from voting.

We're just a boy and a girl, standing outside America's window holding up a boombox saying, "Pick Liberty. Choose Justice. Love Democracy." Want more inspiring quotes? Check out our newest episode. Website: forkingoff.com Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Maybe start with the Attorney General and FBI Director who have ignored their obligations under the Epstein Files Transparency Act? The FBI's fuel budget would appreciate the break.

"If the FBI can figure out who was among the crowd of thousands of people that stormed the Capitol behind masks on January 6th, certainly the US Congress can have a commission to figure out which federal employee was behind the mask in each ICE abuse incident." @dantully.bsky.social

In less than a year Allan traveled across the United States and as far away as Poland to bear witness to the impact of the Trump administration's targeting of civil servants. We hope you'll take some time to hear his story and explore his work.

With all of the effort NBC put into keeping anti-ICE messaging out of the Super Bowl, you'd think they could have at least convinced the teams to play a decent game. Bad Bunny deserves the MVP. At least he practiced and looked like he wanted to be there. #ICEout

The files are in the computer? It's so simple.

I spent 13 years at the FBI analyzing terrorist propaganda in search of evidence to bring terrorists to justice. Here's what I learned by analyzing the videos capturing the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. hax4libre.com/groundhog-day/

As we see images of violence and brutality in our streets, Moderators can burnout fast when it has impact to their communities and their lives. Making sure we are looking after them and their wellbeing is a responsibility we should not take lightly. tgthorley.com/blog/f/trust...

We dropped our paywall for this new piece. Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism ‘Dockets Die In Darkness’ www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

There's a lot of talk about Epstein's "hacker." I'm not saying this guy was definitely hacking people for Epstein. I'm just saying he fits the description and his name is in the Epstein files at least 636 times. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

I spoke about this threat with the New York Times. Disbanding FBI's FITF and kneecapping FARA make elections less secure and threaten our stability. "They disbanded our Foreign Influence Task Force. They said we had to pull back on investigations under [FARA]" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Imagine how different our situation would be right now if everyone had the courage of Ilhan Omar.

Greg Bovino choosing to stand in front of a mourning audience and talk about choices and consequences is sheer hypocrisy. music.youtube.com/watch?v=-206...

We went 227 years without a Department of Homeland Security; 132 years without an FBI; 158 years without armed federal law enforcement. We can do it all again.

The year is 1984.

Let's not forget that an FBI supervisor in Minneapolis literally just quit their job because DOJ blocked their ability to conduct a proper investigation of ICE's last murder. The NRA is full-on freedom for me but not for thee.