Another example of how your data will be used against you. You should be able to own and drive a vehicle without it transmitting ANY data at all. Alternatively, include an ability to turn it off. Why should consumers pay for this self-surveillance that benefits others? @profferguson.bsky.social

Brooke Jenkins's SF DA's office won't file conspiracy or accomplice charges against police officers who participated in and/or covered up a sexual assault, but anti-genocide protestors on the bridge face conspiracy charges carrying potentially 14 years in prison. We said this would happen.

Alameda Co Sheriff wants to spend another $723k on Peregrine, for a total $1,409k, on its system that combines case records, service calls, custody records, body worn camera video, and CAD/RMS data & enables agency sharing. Item continued from 4/21 meeting. www.alamedacountyca.gov/board/bos_ca...

We are losing our best and brightest. Trump’s immigration policies will have an effect on immigrant scientists like Shirley Meng. She is stepping down as director of Energy Storage Research Alliance and will be relocating to Singapore. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

What made John Brown a great man was not actually that he was a "great" man. It was that he recognized himself as a regular man that rejected white supremacy. And was willing to die for that. That when he saw another Black face, he saw a human like himself. May 9, 1800 he was born

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 𝐉𝐔𝐋𝐈𝐄 𝐊 𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐍 On winning the Museum of Political Corruption's 2026 Nellie Bly Award AND a Pulitzer! Well-deserved honors for your impactful and courageous reporting. @jkbjournalist.bsky.social #NellieBlyAward2026 #MuseumofPoliticalCorruption

Blocking donations to the SPLC based on this bogus indictment is wrong on every level. My new article in the Intercept: theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

"Xavier Becerra’s decision to keep police misconduct records secret betrays public trust and the law." I wrote this in ... 2019! www.sacbee.com/opinion/edit...

Another example of the impunity with which police frequently operate. In this case, an Illinois State Police officer (Kevin Bradley) stole a laptop from someone he improperly stopped and accused of DUI - which appears to be part of a pattern. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dt9...

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

NEW: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email.

Meta comms guy brings up the historical record. Ok let’s go. I revealed: —FB allowing ad targeting of “Jew-haters” —FB allowing ads to block being shown to Black users —FB promoting Stop the Steal groups prior to J6 —FB guidelines showing “white males” as protected class but not “black children”

Who could have predicted that police would abuse body cameras by making sure they are off when they want to abuse the people that they serve? archive.is/7rWt4

Like so many mass surveillance vendors, Flock cannot be trusted. In Dayton, data from license plate readers was used for immigration enforcement. Data being collected for one purpose always ends up being used for other purposes. @deflockatlanta.org www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton...

Fresno Superior Court Judge says the Fresno City Council violated the #BrownAct by doing final city budget negotiations in a secretive nonpublic ad hoc committee. fresnoland.org/2026/05/05/j...

To sum up: the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were passed to remedy a century of attempts to disenfranchise and unperson African-Americans by any possible, often through voting-related tricks and tests and barriers. They worked -- for a while. But then..../1

The Trump administration wants to re-open FCI Dublin as an ICE detention facility. Anyone across the country can submit a public comment on this federal issue, so time to make your voices heard! The deadline is June 1, 2026. Send via email to [email protected].

Sometimes, the public records responses could be a little more helpful. 😬

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

This is how to respond when your university starts pushing Gemini on you

El Cerrito joins a growing list of cities and counties deciding to cancel or not renew contracts with the mass surveillance vendor Flock. Vote was 3-2 at about 12:30am to not renew the contract. @deflock-redmond.bsky.social @deflockatlanta.org @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social

$25k seems pretty cheap to sell your soul and sully your reputation.

Support this 100%!! Also end mass surveillance using license plate readers at Lowes and Raleys!

And what, exactly, is a blockade of an international waterway? 🤔

This is despicable. This is how authoritarian regimes behave.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

El Cerrito to vote on spending $315,000 for 40 mass surveillance cameras over 3 years at tonight's City Council meeting. @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social @deflock-redmond.bsky.social @deflockatlanta.org @flockenburg.bsky.social elcerritoca.portal.civicclerk.com/event/921/fi...

So I tried Instagram’s AI photo enhancement tool - and the Caucasity! Hey Meta - don’t fix my face. Fix your structural racism

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

Leak of Modesto PD shows surveillance of antifascists who protest the yearly Straight Pride rally put on by white nationalist Don Grundmann In 2022, MPD fired pepper balls and beat anti-racist protestors with batons. The event has seen coordinated gay-bashings from Proud Boys, Militia, & Neo-Nazis

This is the fourth case @aclu-norcal.bsky.social has filed to stop efforts by DHS to target people they disagree with from speaking out online. Proud to contribute to these cases in collaboration with many colleagues from ACLU affiliates around the country.

Nature retracted a paper that claimed ChatGPT had a positive impact on student learning. it's not the only paper making this claim that has this problem www.404media.co/nature-retra...

It's official! I'm *permanently* banned from X for tweeting "TLDR: Fascism." (appeal denied) What an honor—and a sign that the Silicon Valley billionaires feel threatened by my book. (One of my final viral posts featured this cover.) Pre-order here! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

According to its 2025 annual automated license plate reader report, Oakland detected 638,747,333 vehicles with its 290 ALPRs. There were 33,235 alerts for stolen vehicles but only 25 recovered stolen vehicles attributed to ALPRs. @oaklandprivacy.bsky.social www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

🚨Emergency Update 🚨 @theonion.com

Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

DHS is buying access to real-time location data—the latest expansion of its “invasive” surveillance technology, @mauriziogro.bsky.social reports. The new $2.9 million contract with Penlink PLX allows Trump’s Homeland Security Task Force to track people’s movements.

This week I received a 30,376-page PDF in response to a public records request—the largest single PDF I've ever seen in more than 20 years of filing foias. @jasonleopold.bsky.social does this beat your record?

After a county board vote last week, local law enforcement in Dane County, Wisconsin, home to Madison, will no longer be able to use AI-enhanced cameras created by the surveillance company, Flock Safety.

Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts Lawsuits Executive Pay Global Footprint Lobbying Activity Media Strategies All in One Place ›› palantirwatch.org #privacy #government #surveillance #technology

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

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This is how the United States Department of Justice writes now.

Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about whether your data can be used against you. Or, more precisely, whether your Google location data can be used against you if you opted in to location storage services across one of Google’s many products. 1/12

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Them: "think of the children!!!!" Me: omg yes you are so right. we should abolish child prisons, stop funding militaries that slaughter children, ensure every child has access to medical care and healthy food, provide mental health counselors in schoo-- Them: NO WE MEAN CENSOR THE INTERNET!!!

Flock Cameras - my comic in the new issue of @realchangenews.org