Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area ICE facility and began to pray. The masked ICE agents on the roof responded by firing pepper balls, with one striking him in the head religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

"That somebody might use the app to break the law doesn't mean the app can be banned any more than a newspaper ... because someone might use its reporting in a manner that the administration considers unlawful," FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social told BBC.

The court records show that the facts of the case are far worse than we initially reported. It was a "death investigation" into a "nonviable fetus," the police asked the district attorney if they could charge her for taking the pills. The search happened TWO WEEKS after she took the pills

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

I thought the one where he was a Black Panther was in poor taste

CALIFORNIA folks: Local organizers with @aclucalaction.bsky.social @arocaction.bsky.social CAIR California + others are organizing a last push to defeat AB715, a bill that threatens local free speech and curriculum in schools. Call @governor.ca.gov + oppose AB715: action.aclu.org/petition/ca-...

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Jonathan Haidt is posting anti porn slop again www.instagram.com/reel/DO_7Tzv...

Anyway watch the whole thing from Broadview. "Proud" isn't even the word, it's nowhere near how I feel about how strong she's been in the last month.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

It’s the unlawfulness. ICE also lied to us and unlawfully obstructed access to our client…they are above the law

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

Where are those "free speech warriors" who misleadingly insisted Biden was censoring people now that the Trump admin is openly doing so?

It's too long a story to explain how I know this, but I once found out that the FBI made challenge coins about how they tried to force Apple to break iPhone encryption. Challenge coins celebrating shitty behavior is deeply a part of FBI culture.

Welcome to Opt Out October, our collection of tips to slowly break free from online surveillance and throw sand in the gears of overreaching large tech companies. Today’s tip is about establishing good online security fundamentals. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Just when you thought drug policy couldn’t get any stupider… “Manitoba introduced a bill that would allow authorities to detain people “intoxicated on drugs other than alcohol” for up to 72 hours, and is aimed at dealing with the longer-lasting effects of methamphetamines and some other substances”

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

If you work at CBS or Paramount, I'd love to hear your thoughts and what you've been told (or not told) so far. My Signal is willoremus.24

The American people are capable of turning the tide against repression. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Excellent interview @taylorlorenz.bsky.social. VPNs are our last line of defense against internet censorship. It was only a matter of time before the censors come after us. youtu.be/IoXafCNjl54?...

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration reut.rs/4mIfztt

#NotATikTok, ICE is more a threat to our country than a short video app

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

What ICE is doing is terrorism.

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

the government should not be able to smash into your home and drag you into the street for no reason. it's kind of a core civil right, perhaps THE core civil right.

Don't have full confirmation on this yet, but hearing that Guevara was sent to El Salvador this morning, which is just fucking shameful. He was here with legal permission and this was 100% punishment for his journalism about protests.

I cannot emphasize enough that this administration shouldn’t get 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘵𝘦 from the Dems until they start obeying the law. Not. One. Optics matter: if you want people to turn out next election despite troops in the streets, then show them it matters. Do your goddamn jobs and hold the line.

Good one. "Kavanaugh Stops" for when DHS officers grab US citizens on the street and detain them for anywhere from 20 minutes to a couple days, and "Kavanaugh Raids" for when DHS officers raid a worksite or apartment building and detain US citizens for hours/days while they check everyone there.

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

Once again: Hegseth is the exact type of guy The Art of War was written for, which means he will never read it

An arrest of a person due entirely to the person having dark skin color is now known across the country as a "Kavanaugh stop," based on Justice Kavanaugh's justification of the practice. slate.com/news-and-pol...

NEW Immigration judge denies Kilmar Abrego García’s request to reopen case The judge, who works for DOJ, found “insufficient evidence” that the Trump administration would send Abrego to Uganda. DHS had said “He will be processed for removal to Uganda.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

My Paul Graham story is that in 2011 I had sent him (and Jessica) an email asking if he could pass along to the YCombinator list a letter from startups opposing SOPA that I had written and was organizing. A week later I sent a followup. Paul responded:

This is a good argument for abolishing the Department of Homeland Security and replacing it with a number of smaller, independent agencies; or another umbrella organization without such a fascistic name.

This country has *never* been able to do that with white supremacy. We have *never* acknowledged that it is a rampant problem that pervades all areas of American life. We have *never* allowed ourselves to actually identify it in real terms so that we can start to create accountability.

Of course, the state isn't leaving anything to chance. It will promote state-approved messaging on sexuality, including the claim that pornography is "linked" to misogyny.

Surprise. The Online Safety Act is only pushing people to worse corners of the internet. To combat the fact that their surveillance law is a failure, Labour proposes revamping school curriculum focused on digital literacy, which is what they should have been doing all along.

I couldn't possibly capture all the things that are extraordinary about Judge Young's ruling, but here's my abridged attempt. theintercept.com/2025/09/30/r...

Glad he's filing this, especially because it's a clear example that the whole "Kavanaugh stop" thing where they have someone show ID and then immediately let them go about their day is BS.

The UK is demanding another backdoor in Apple’s encryption. www.ft.com/content/d101...

When Trump threatens to nix funding to NYC if Zohran Mamdani wins, it only helps Zohran. It inflates the Trump threat, positions Zohran as a fighter for NYC against Trump, and pushes Cuomo into the role of Trump stooge. There's a lesson here for Dems. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum. archive.ph/Whji1

SESTA/FOSTA backfired miserably. The UK's age verification law backfired miserably. The TikTok ban is backfiring miserably. So of course @blumenthal.senate.gov has decided now is a great time to revive the terribly written Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) which will ... spoiler... backfire miserably

"A second Trump-appointed U.S. attorney has been disqualified."

And people still with a straight face tell me age verification companies dont track you. #NotATikTok #Ohio www.biometricupdate.com/202509/inter...

When will people on the left wake up and realize they fell for a right wing moral panic about social media and cell phones that’s currently being used to strip us all of civil liberties? Jonathan Haidt, one of the primary architects of this moral panic, just brought his misinfo blog to Bari Weiss