Our client Amanda (@catsonacouch.bsky.social) runs a political commentary page dedicated to making fun of Vice President Vance, which is her constitutional right. She was stopped by armed Secret Service agents from attending an official vice presidential event, which she had registered for.

Great work by @evangreer.bsky.social and @fightforthefuture.org for helping block some of the most dangerous internet legislation in the country — in MA of all places! There’s more work ahead, but we wouldn’t be where we are without their fight.

“The Trump Administration is making lists of trans people. They are subpoenaing our medical records. Anything that subjects our community to more surveillance makes us less safe in this moment. And that’s not just true for trans folks, that’s true for all kinds of vulnerable communities.“

This needs to result in criminal prosecutions. Rubio belongs in a cell.

This isn’t for “child protection”. It is censorship and surveillance.

Framing it as something only the extreme right-wing care about is wild. If anyone across the political spectrum wanted to watch legacy media, then they would be. The fix to this would be that legacy media actually make good content, instead of making the framework to force themselves onto people.

which one of you did this 😭 #anthrocon

Since apparently this isn't making it beyond UK news yet, Rockstar petitioned a British court to section an 18 year old autistic kid under the mental health act for hacking their server and leaking a short GTA 6 clip a couple of years ago. No trial, no term of sentence, just locked up in hospital.

People who are unfamiliar with the UCMJ may not realize that for an active duty major to do this in uniform, the consequence can be court martial and incarceration. All of it is prohibited, but the wearing of the uniform was an intentional choice, and a likely forfeit of both his career and freedom.

ICE kills again! An 85-Year Old Man who is a German national, is the 21st Person to Die in ICE Custody in 2026. Adrian Andreas Florian died early on July 2, 2026. #CrushICE

Site's getting hammered because of this but: web.archive.org/web/*/https:... Of course we saved it.

Today on #NotATikTok, we will look at who actually threatens your privacy, Texas. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

A Brief History of Kids Today Are Selfish 🧵

The KIDS Act [containing KOSA] has passed the House This sucks, but its not the end. It still has to pass through the Senate committee and then be voted on by the Senate itself Please continue contactimg your Senators and demanding they oppose the KIDS Act & KOSA www.congress.gov/members/find...

It also means that data breaches of people's personal information will get A LOT more common. You want your identity stolen? You want cybercriminals selling your information to scammers? You want the government breaking down your door over a post? KOSA would be the cause of all that shit.

A reminder to call your reps and tell them NO KOSA We made a Call tool w/script at www.badinternetbills.com

I feel like common sense has completely left the chat when it comes to privacy in 2026

#NicoleReneeGood #AlexPretti #Immigration #Leadership

After federal agents shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a New Yorker sent ICE's director an email in January comparing him to a Nazi. This week, DHS agents stalked him across New York. His home. A hotel. They gave his wife a letter warning of criminal prosecution. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

This email is not a threat. It's moral condemnation. It's political hyperbole. It's exactly in line with what the Supreme Court said was protected by the First Amendment in Watts v. United States: www.fire.org/supreme-cour...

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

The Supreme Court is about to decide if children still have free speech rights www.vox.com/politics/492...

"LGB-no-T" campaigner Julie Bindel says she'd BAN pride if she could, in order to protect children from predatory gay men. Absolutely fucking appalling. A whole column — "A Pride of Perverts" — going on like this. TERFing really cooks the brain.

easily the most censorial time of my life right now, no one in charge really seems to give a shit though

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

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Today on #NotATikTok we will look who is actually exploiting developing countries for medical information, the United States government.

every single study done on this shows that the actual best behavior is done under consistent pseudonyms and people behave worse under real names it’s counterintuitive but at this point the real names thing is willful denial of evidence

The ONLY reason our charges got dropped at the last possible second is because of our incredible lawyers (which cost money!), the sloppiness of the prosecutors in covering up their own misconduct, and our judge willing to hear us out. And while our case can help others now, nothing is guaranteed.

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

You mean to tell me the guy who has been parading around Capitol Hill rubbing elbows with the Christian right and pushing to blow up Section 230 and censor the Internet … … was in a fascist group chat? I’m shocked. Pikachu shocked. Never saw this coming.

The actual target is not the kids, it's you Actually, it's both, a big part of it is to leak kid's data to data brokers

Evidence from Australia six months after implementing its "total ban" on young people accessing social media indicated that SEVENTY PERCENT of young people were evading it. SEVENTY PERCENT. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Right, it’s terrifying to consider the possibility of kids not reporting groomers and abusers if they’re afraid THEY will get in trouble for defying age verification laws.

The most timeless legal principle is that the law is established for the sake of human beings. If the state creates these lex cogit ad impossibilia situations ("you need the ID to get the ID") then the state is fine un-personing them. This is the creation of a "death world" in necropolitics.

I made a short film about losing my wallet while legally homeless in the US—& the bureaucratic, Kafka-like terror which followed to prove I existed. This is threat facing millions of USians who are legally homeless and/or unsheltered. (With @propublica.org & @brian-goldstone.bsky.social cameos)

I'd missed this @masnick.com excellent column "Haidt is coddling the American parent: providing them with a clear, simple, and wrong solution to what is ailing their children." web.archive.org/web/20250616...

And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...

“Ezra Klein is in Peter Thiel’s secret society with Joseph Gordon-Levitt” is a sentence I have been cursed by history to understand and not even find surprising.

if there’s a lens to view the Iran War through—it’s tabloid media. it was a media event. it was supposed to be a “quick win” à la Venezuela—one that produced splashy headlines amid a bad quarter. there was never consideration of Iranian interests bc it was viewed purely as how it’d play to the rags

"Trump took us to war with Iran and he didn't even get us good terms" is some bizarre and ghoulish neoliberal shit, sorry.

Celebration! The beginning of movement repression cases often get a lot of buzz on social media. But the dismissal of charges often doesn't get as much attention. weelauneethefree.org/state-felony...

Growing up, social media was a big part of self-discovery for me and lots of other LGBTQ teens. That's exactly why conservatives want to ban these platforms for kids. They would prefer to keep them isolated and in the dark while surveilling us all via digital IDs. spitfirenews.com/p/social-med...

This is great. Here's @owenjones.bsky.social basically doing the WKUK bit on TV, but about how in the UK you can't legally say you support the group Palestine Action.

NEW — Belfast-based writer @hleehurley.com talks about the racist pogroms that have terrorized his city, how existing tensions in Northern Ireland (and *not* Elon Musk) primed local factions to turn violent, and how Minnesota’s response to ICE inspired their community to care for one another:

Signal encrypts messages in transit. Who is communicating, when they're doing so, and messages sent to a snitch or left on a device are still identiable. Disappearing messages helps with the "left on the device" part. Webs of trust + vetted group chats help with the "don't message snitches" part.

I’m always a little puzzled by the “Ken has talked openly about depression and anxiety, I bet he will be humiliated if we make fun of his mental health” crowd. Bless their hearts, they try their best.