How AI safety took a backseat to military money www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...

She Warned About Silicon Valley 25 Years Ago. We Ignored Her. www.thenerdreich.com/she-warned-a...

Ann Fagan Ginger, Venerable Defender of Civil Liberties, Dies at 100 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

the Trump administration is likely to continue the foreign policy tradition of disregarding the UN Charter, thanks to decades of impunity enjoyed by previous administrations truthout.org/articles/as-...

a wartime culture of lawlessness in Special Operations had come home to roost in another way: a wave of domestic crimes committed by soldiers with the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, many of them around Fort Bragg www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...

How LA Unified is trying to protect immigrant families during Trump's pervasive crackdown calmatters.org/education/20...

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

It’s hard to convey the insanity of a thirty-something White House staffer getting an interim US Attorney appointment and marching into the grand jury room alone four days later to indict the former Deputy Attorney General and Director of the FBI

In the spirit of 'yes, and': something needing to be distinguished from constructively shaming illiberal public figures is the (arguable) necessity of not shaming fellow citizens who might be persuaded via dialogue to think/act/vote less illiberally. Still seems an essential tactical practice.

Trump says he's sending troops to Portland to protect ICE facilities he claims are "under siege" by Antifa and "other domestic terrorists." https://cnn.it/3IuZxFt

I saw some of the most committed, inspiring, and diverse protest tactics against an aggressive federal invasion into Portland in 2020. The feds have stocked up on cameras, tear gas, and tech since then, but I know like last time other cities will look on us as an example on how to beat them.

You know if they’re getting rid of stare decisis then I think it’s only fair to forgive my law school debt

NYPD Use of Force Complaints Surged Under Mayor Adams—And You'll Never Guess Which Neighborhoods Had the Most hellgatenyc.com/comptroller-...

Police depts. are quietly disabling AI report safeguards www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...

We are also a feminist cooperative providing communications services that amplify diverse voices in public interest technology. internet.exchangepoint.tech/about/

Greece’s expansive refugee deportation law tests limits of rights in EU www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

To Restore Our Humanity We Must De-Zionise The World www.donotpanic.news/p/to-restore...

“Justice Nyakundi gave the Kenyan Government two options, either pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act or amend an Intersex Persons Bill that it is already considering so that it also ensures legal recognition for transgender people under Kenyan law.”

"To no one’s surprise, both LAPD and LASD forces were present at the protests that followed the raids and assisted ICE by blockading and brutalizing protesters." Leah Perez on the thinness of so-called "sanctuary" policies, in LA and beyond

"Cell phone images smuggled out of jails and prisons across the country reveal food that hardly looks edible, let alone nutritious. ...kitchen workers at prisons in Arizona, Oregon, and elsewhere reported seeing boxes of food that were served to prisoners marked: 'not for human consumption.'"

I have said it so many times before, ABOLISH. THE. ATLANTIC.

Weird how Charlie Kirk’s killer is not even a news story anymore

After settlers murdered Saeed yesterday, they came back today during the Saeed's funeral ceremony and opened fire on mourners

One of the most interesting things about Jimmy Kimmel, and what I loved most about his conversation with Bill Burr a few months back, was that they’re both middle-aged white comedians who heard how culture has evolved, took notes, grew up, didn’t get defensive, and became *even more* successful.

YouTube removed a channel that was dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being shot in the head following 404 Media’s request for comment. The videos were clearly generated with Google’s new AI video generator tool. 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact www.theregister.com/2025/09/20/u...

Trump’s Idea of the Criminal Left Is a Fiction. A Coordinated Defense Against His Fascism Shouldn’t Be. theintercept.com/2025/09/19/t...

What looks like order—forms, doctrines, jurisdiction—can be a choreography of domination. Fanon taught that colonial violence is not only the blow of the baton but the quiet grammar that makes the blow seem natural. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/08/27/t...

We are meant to understand that people have not so much forgotten, as have been willed to forget. There is political struggle implied. www.anothergaze.com/great-motion...

The record shows that the Trump administration has been preparing for this transformation of war—redefining military attacks on certain civilians as legitimate, defensive actions—since Trump took office and even before www.newsweek.com/trump-milita...

data scraping on the platform was a problem because WhatsApp failed to implement protections that are standard on other messaging platforms, such as Signal and Apple Messages. arstechnica.com/security/202...

Disconnection is not care. Dissociation is not care. Silence is not care. convergencemag.com/articles/bla...

If you want to work on digital systems to assist the public, post-18F, post-“DOGE”, what are your options? Where remains that’s doing good work?

My final public walking tour of 2025 is about Black Abolitionists in NYC on Sunday October 5. I am fundraising for REBUILD so please donate generously if you'd like to join me. Space is limited. www.eventbrite.com/e/black-abol...

A Venezuelan man from The Bronx told THE CITY that he has begun a hunger strike to protest that immigration authorities have jailed him for more than seven months, despite multiple court rulings ordering his release.

A new House bill "Authorizes the State Department to revoke passports to any individual who been charged, convicted, or determined to have knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to a foreign terrorist organization." foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/press-r...

to be fair every computer should have the same warnings

Parents of young children should be organizing relentlessly for free universal childcare because this seems unsustainable. Truly. At the very least, folks should be vociferously backing politicians who run on this.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Before the Nazis engaged in mass murder of Jews, they did mass murder of people with mental illness and disabilities.

Domestic Workers Face Low Pay, Exploitation — and Fear of Deportation documentedny.com/2025/09/10/d...

ICE spyware deal put on hold by Biden released by Trump www.theregister.com/2025/09/02/b...

Mamdani has an opportunity to establish a new vision for public safety that isn’t rooted in the politics of austerity, in which the denial of basic services is papered over by intensive and invasive policing of the poor. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

An interview with Anthony Seidman from Ramón García - Plume plumepoetry.com/an-interview...

Denmark summons US envoy over report on covert American ‘influence operations’ in Greenland share.google/QGizzLLFzTic...

there is a reason why most authoritarian regimes try to avoid traditional legal routes and you're beginning to see why

Microsoft tag teaming with the FBI to target people speaking up for Palestine. Fuckers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Professor Alexandra Roberts’ latest research exposes the stark truth behind multilevel marketing's promise of financial freedom. Read more in the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. @clicatnusl.bsky.social @lexlanham.bsky.social magazine.law.northeastern.edu/summer-2025/...

"Between the 1860s and the 1950s, defenders of slavery succeeded in creating a dominant narrative in the nation’s textbooks, trying to show that slavery wasn’t so bad and that the real outrage was the abbreviated period of Reconstruction." Lost Cause-ism is back, writes Bob Kuttner.

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