Don't forget the passing of the Online Safety Act in the UK. Forced age verification to use the internet is stinky and bad and disruptive and anti-privacy and this is your reminder to call your reps to say NO to KOSA and other similar bills. www.badinternetbills.com

#animalWelfare #Turkiye #liveExports #EU

The #Python Software Foundation has rejected a $1.5 million government grant because of anti-DEI requirements imposed by the Trump administration... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... - @arstechnica.com #DEI #TrumpRegime

#FGM #Canada

Looking to protect your sensitive information from data brokers? Don’t want Big Tech monetizing your personal data? Privacy Badger is here to help! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Gift link. I have to warn you. This article is devastating to read. But it is also important. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

The Israel-Gaza War Always Had an Unacknowledged Third Front www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Intro'ed 15 years ago Indians need Aadhaar digital biometric ID to buy a house, get a job, open a bank account, pay tax, receive benefits, buy a car, or enrol children at school. Not mandatory but w/o Aadhaar Indian govt does not recognise you exist. #UKpol #NZpol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Okay, I’m going to take a mea culpa on this one, as initial reporting suggested he was ONLY facing removal because of the murder conviction he’s been exonerated from. But there’s more; at 19, he pled guilty to dealing LSD. And in immigration law, that’s its own “aggravated felony” ground of removal.

Norway recognised Palestine as a state last year. So now Palestinians would have to comply with an 8-year residency requirement to access Norwegian nationality instead of the usual 3 years that they were accessing before, says a legal expert. Read more: scroll.in/article/1087... Via TRF

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

Has lived in the US since he was NINE MONTHS OLD.

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl... > Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement. #Apple #ICE #FirstAmendment

One thing I’d be nice if Schatz and others acknowledged is that even judging their hard right turn on immigration in Spring 2024 on its own terms it failed miserably. In July when Harris took over Trump led on “immigration” by 9pts, by election day he led 13pts. At best it, electorally, did nothing

Tell Congress: Cosponsor H.R. 3565 to block weapons transfers to Israel - action.ccrjustice.org/a/email-cong... #USA #Israel #Gaza #BlockTheBombsAct #HR3565

If someone says "why don't they just get in line," send them this.

The End of the Belle Époque, by Pankaj Mishra harpers.org/archive/2025... The arc of Indian affinity for America. #india #usa #pankajmishra

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

www.freepress.net/news/leading... #MarioGuevara #pressFreedom

@warren.senate.gov has co sponsored KOSA despite overwhelming opposition from LGBTQ human rights groups + First Amendment experts. @evangreer.bsky.social @helpbyamg.bsky.social + other locals callu on her + @edmarkey.bsky.social to oppose any legislation that would harm the LGTBQ community 🗣️

Emmy-Award Winning Journalist at Risk of Deportation Over ICE Coverage truthout.org/articles/emm...

NEW: SCOTUS majority says Trump can ignore precedent if the majority doesn't like it. A 90-year-old precedent meant nothing to the majority allowing Trump to fire an FTC commissioner during litigation. This is no way to run a court, let alone a country. Tonight, at Law Dork:

Excellent outcome for the case! It’s notable that this began before Trump took office, although it got worse after. When the government alleges someone is connected to terrorists, it can be extremely hard to get them to back down.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article... #aca #obamacare #healthinsurance #trumpregime

Overcrowded cells. Unsanitary conditions. Limited access to food and water. These are the conditions that ICE has created at 26 Federal Plaza, which eleven elected officials sought to expose. Instead, they were arrested. They must be released right now — and inspectors let in.

#dhs #ice #civildisobedience #nyc

#california #prop50

#surveillance #Flock #ALPR

Perdue Rescue Trial Court Watch - Week 1: Sept 15th-19th, 2025 - www.directactioneverywhere.com/dxe-in-the-n... - @dxeofficial.bsky.social #animalCruelty

I wrote a piece in July abt how a lot of liberals simply can't understand authoritarians use language differently than liberals. That's what Ezra doesn't understand. Or one thing he doesn't understand. He doesn't understand how threatened marginalized people are www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/06/s...

In his new piece--which is largely about the reaction to his last piece--Ezra Klein says that he is deeply shaken by Charlie Kirk's murder essentially because they were in the same business: They both did public politics. This is honest on his part. It's also the problem. >

Commendable generosity. Now imagine Kirk was a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Sikh... Jamie Lee Curtis Sobs Through Charlie Kirk Remembrance www.thedailybeast.com/jamie-lee-cu... #JamieLeeCurtis #hate #hatespeech #Christian

"Clemente" Docu Omits His Union Leadership & Relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. - paydayreport.com/clemente-doc... - @mikeelk.bsky.social #baseball #labor #MLK #Pittsburgh #RobertoClemente

A major public university caves to fascism.

Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him do it for U.S. citizens.

Basel Adra, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” told The Associated Press that Israeli soldiers conducted a raid at his home in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, looking for him and searching his wife’s phone.

Trying to figure out how to alert Brett Kavanaugh that his wildly permissive standard for kidnapping can sweep up Irish guys as well.

A 5-month investigation... > Establishing an invisible “security perimeter” then shooting civilians who cross it has become common practice in Gaza, Israeli soldiers have testified. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... #gaza #idf #israel #warcrimes

450 were napped by ICE at a Hyundai construction site in Georgia, where 3 workers had been killed. Workers complained about the deaths to Trump's OSHA, which did nothing. Instead, ICE showed up in an act viewed as retaliatory. paydayreport.com/450-napped-b...

Illinois strengthened its anti-SLAPP law after a nonsensical court ruling excluded news reporting from the law’s protection. This prevents elites from chilling and punishing "constitutionally protected speech, including journalism," we told @kgosztola.bsky.social.

This should be getting far more attention from the media, and it should be investigated as a hate crime. A 14-year-old Black teen was targeted, beaten, and dehumanized with racial slurs by white teens while people stood around cheering. 1/4

#freespeech #TrumpRegime

#Guantanamo #ICE #detention #immigrants #RonDeSantis

New Bloom is participating in a global media blackout organized by @avaaz.org and @rsf.org today against the killing of journalists in Gaza. To read more and see the full list of signatories, see here: rsf.org/en/rsf-and-a...

NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.

Here's more on this in a note at Law Dork from @chrisgeidner.bsky.social: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...