New: this app lets ICE track vehicles and owners across the country. ICE uses phone to scan license plates, add to a database of billions of records. Thomson Reuters then enriches that with marriage, voter, other info. Can predict where a car will be in the future www.404media.co/this-app-let...

generally speaking, 'safe and legal routes' preclude asylum seekers. it refers to resettlement pathways for refugees (recognised as such by UNHCR) living in refugee camps. the rhetorical move is to leverage the moral force of resettlement to delegitimise in-country asylum applicants

Turns out the temporary alliance between "writing stuff" and "meaning stuff" was good actually

Just to say, I am a supervisor here: UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Responsible and Trustworthy in-the-world Natural Language Processing www.responsiblenlp.org/2026-student... If you are reading things like this and planning PhD project, do reach out: www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Trump slaps Antifa with its first-ever foreign terror label, in move that explicitly cites NSPM-7. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-slap...

Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News. GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Read this thread in its entirety. And then realize that there are individuals in the US who not only approve of what ICE is doing but they also relish with glee about that kind of inhumane treatment to other human beings whose only “fault” is being a different skin color and race to theirs.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

The last 15 years of HE policy in the UK: Gov: act like you're in a market! universities: OK Gov: not like that!

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New from 404 Media: CBP has quietly launched a facial recognition app for local cops to do immigration enforcement. Scans their face, tells cops whether to contact ICE about this person or not. A truly rapid expansion of ICE's facial recognition app to local cops www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

As LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. D&S's Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, & what researchers can do to help. datasociety.net/points/on-ar...

investment in telerobotics is primarily driven by immigration policy

tomorrow belongs to me

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

'Net migration will fall very sharply in future years... Any political benefit the government may gain from this fall in immigration could be jeopardised by the economic damage that it causes'. Some eye watering estimates here from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

it blows my mind that anyone is still pretending like trump is anything but a dictator, here is steve bannon talking about how they, in clear and certain terms, intends to install trump as president in 2028

Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

what exactly are university managers doing, when they put pressure on staff to dedicate months of their time applying for these?

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

The Trump administration had high hopes that its compact would be accepted by every university. Alas, it appears that every university rejected the administration except for its safety school. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

I've spent *weeks* working on this special report for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social on GB News co-owner Paul Marshall – and the astonishing, unprecedented influence network he's built on the UK's right. There's never been anything like it before. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-p...

big night for online safety

Apple and Home Office agree to drop legal claim over encryption backdoor www.computerweekly.com/news/3666325... @ianbrown.tech @bernardkeenan.bsky.social @privacyinternational.org

Bloomberg bubble charts the Bubble:

This review prompted me to go buy this monograph today at ye olde feminist bookstore: postmodern fascism is not just sadistic, it is erotic. jacobin.com/2025/09/herz...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Start of term is their breeding season

also what my toddler says when he sees a photo of himself

This is a bit older, but useful to share for fellow academics who want some empirical data to support their decision to refuse "AI" and other unnecessary platforms into their teaching, the aim of which is to foster critical reasoning.

The 'Find My Parking Cops' map tracks officers handing out tickets all around San Francisco is real time. Developer reverse engineered how the system works and built this tool. Was taken down for a moment, now it's back. The City is very much aware of it. www.404media.co/find-my-park...

The McCullough Review on the PSNI's covert measures against journalists, lawyers etc... www.psni.police.uk/sites/defaul...

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

2025 is a record-breaking year for claims filed by fossil fuel and mining firms against democratic policies – marking a grim milestone in a surge of polluting industries seeking compensation for lost profits via a secretive tribunal. For @ftm.eu with contributions by ao @anilyilmaz.bsky.social

I wish Peters Kyle and Mandelson had someone as smart and experienced as Tim Wu on their side when they were negotiating the "Tech Prosperity Deal" on.ft.com/47WmGLi

My favorite “critique of rights” law review article www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/1179_qac...

Labour: the party of properly costed ethnic cleansing

Re the new Reform pledge, a sports writer has already got to the heart of the matter better than the politics commentators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Final month of my brother's show at the Bauhaus Dessau, catch it when you can (will try myself!).

I wrote an article about last year's amendments to the Investigatory Powers Act and how they relate to the recent Apple encryption case, the growing use of AI by UK secret intelligence services, and the role of private intelligence services like Palantir. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

PSA: A "Major Terrorist Organization" (MTO) is not a thing. The Immigration and Nationality Act *delegates* power to the State Department to designate *FOREIGN* terrorist organizations (FTOs) based on certain criteria. It doesn't apply to domestic orgs. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Correct - the point is that anyone can be called antifa

A decent amount of world history is explained by the facts that some proportion of people are creepy weirdos who hate being contradicted and love exercising dominion over their fellows, and that communal or political turbulence tends to filter for the worst of those types obtaining office.

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism. This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...