“Free” surveillance is a trap. Vendor trials, private donors, and federal grants hand police no‑cost tools that quietly build massive databases on all of us and feed ICE and DHS pipelines. Cities can and should refuse the bait. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

“I was taken out of that place unconscious."

Americans have a caricatured view of democracy of something that has just always existed, and this is an unfortunate oversight. American history has always been a conflict between democracy and authoritarianism. Hopefully we emerge more democratic on the other side. 9/9

I view American history as a tug of war between these forces, and recently we've seen an upsurge in support for Southern style authoritarianism, but it is not new. In fact, the South has been an authoritarian enclave far longer than it has been a democracy. Authoritarianism ain't foreign. 7/x

The struggle between authoritarianism and liberal democracy is an enduring part of American history. We are currently living through another chapter of this long running conflict. We've made progress towards being a multiracial democracy, but democracy has never been universally accepted here 6/x

Si vas a asistir a una manifestación, hay una serie de conceptos que debes tener en cuenta para mantenerte -y mantener tus datos- a salvo. ssd.eff.org/es/module/a...

Join EFF's online town hall to discuss ways to stay safer and how the digital rights community can help address ICE and CBP's brutality against immigrants, observers, and those seeking to hold them accountable. Livestream on Thursday at 10 AM PT eff.org/livestream-ice

Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This is the time where, "ICE can't eat here" and "ICE can't stay here" and "ICE can't park here" and "ICE can fuck off" are the only way forward.

this is clear & expert reporting (by journalists trained in visual investigations at berkeley's human rights center) demonstrating ICE's execution of alex pretti

Took up too much space apparently 🙄 Love those unspoken norms!

this is a very strange video. it accuses @adamserwer.bsky.social of recapitulating a narrative of founder worship and liberal nationalism — which he does not do in the piece in question — and then concludes with an appeal to reconstruction, when serwer’s piece is grounded in that exact appeal!

The Trump administration is working to dramatically expand school choice, moving kids to a range of private & religious schools or homeschooling. Ultimately, what percentage of children would remain in public schools? A Moms for Liberty co-founder told me: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

not all heroes wear capes

(2) Write a letter of support to the library defending the freedom to read by emailing [email protected] (there is no deadline). Let us know if you're going to go in person or send an email!

The Watertown Library Trustees will be meeting July 31 at 7 pm at Watertown Middle School (68 Waverley Ave). Support the library and the freedom to read in one of two ways: (1) Come to the meeting in person (no hybrid option) and make a public comment. Signup is first come first served.

The books are: A Map for Falasteen by Maysa Odeh and Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck watertown.minlib.net/Record/.b429... watertown.minlib.net/Record/.b416...

Watertown Free Public Library has received >2000 emails from across the country, as well as some direct local harassment, claiming that 2 books on their suggested summer reading lists are antisemitic.

🚨 The Watertown Free Public Library (MA) has been receiving organized harassment for including 2 books on suggested summer reading lists. Support the library and defend the freedom to read JULY 31 at 7 pm at the library board meeting at the Watertown Middle School. @authorsabb.bsky.social 🧵

That sound you hear is future generations screaming fuuuuuck youuuuuu

what happens when a bunch of dumb as bricks, roided up, incurious Nazis use machine learning technology to "predict threats" in cities? we may be about to find out. theintercept.com/2025/07/23/c...

Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here. Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre? Trump: I think so. He stole her.

OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals. Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet? 📚 www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...

An American-funded food distribution network provided Israel with cover as starvation spread, @pemalevy.bsky.social reports. “This is Trump’s famine."

"This Pro-Israel Silicon Valley Bro Just Went Viral for Islamophobic Tweets About Zohran Mamdani" Meet Shaun Maguire, the multi-millionaire tech VC embracing anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate as Silicon Valley pours money into US and Israeli defense startups:

ICYMI | Here are a few headlines from this week: 🏛️ @usedgov.bsky.social Outlines Plan to Change Debt-Relief Program for Public Servants 💸 Tuition Discounting Hits Another High 🔬 Researchers ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ NIH Will Restore Grants Read more ➡️ #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3G2TJ4V

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"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.' But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."

ICE is essentially disappearing people. “The Ice official told me they are under no obligation to tell the family or the attorneys of the detainees that they have been apprehended, or that they’ve been moved to another state, to another facility, or that they’ve been deported.”

Editors should stop letting people do the “big reveal,” that they used chatgpt, for the end of the essay. At least show it up front so I don’t waste my time reading it. www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/17/1...

We're going to live shorter, poorer, and worse lives than the generations that came before

Iran launched new missile attacks on Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported at least four killed in central Israel. Iran has vowed retaliation for the deadly surprise attack on its nuclear program and military leadership that Israel began last Friday.

Every single one led by a Black mayor.

Trump is now directing ICE to focus on Democratic-led cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York:

Trump posted this deranged message ordering every federal agency, including the pentagon, to do mass deportations in major cities because of trans people. I wish I was joking.

Trump's sweeping travel ban limits immigration based on bigotry, not safety. It will put countless lives at risk and tear mixed-status families apart. Hate is a bad policy. We're ready to fight it again.

Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide. In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care. It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.

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Things are going to get a lot uglier because that has always been the intention of the fascists who've seized the federal government, and folks who continue to blame victims and resistors are going to be on the wrong side of a moral struggle.

People trying to protect their neighbors are not the problem. The fact that some of you are thinking that way reflects a level of psychological capture & submission to fascism that you should interrogate. If they want an "excuse" to do something, they'll create one. The good guys aren't the problem.

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" cuts Medicaid. Cuts to health care for babies and new moms. Cuts to heath care for seniors in nursing homes. Cuts to health care for rural hospitals. Cuts to health care for people with disabilities. Republicans in Congress approved these cuts.

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Yep bsky.app/profile/hype...

The only idea they have left is to try to sell surveillance.

NEW: The Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years. By @mtredden.bsky.social

George Floyd's murder by a Minneapolis police officer shocked the national conscience. But what looked like historic momentum for racial justice has collapsed — eclipsed by a reactionary movement backed by the full force of the U.S. government.

This case is a lightning rod. Intentionally divisive for those who disagree w/ Khalil's speech & unaware the stakes are universal: if Khalil loses, we all lose. If it's speech for Palestinian rights today, it'll be other speech the Trump admin disagrees w/ tomorrow. abcnews.go.com/US/palestini...

"Even if the programs are eventually revived, some losses we’ll never be able to recoup—like the institutional knowledge and jobs lost when digital skills trainers and coordinators lose the funding for their salaries" www.techpolicy.press/trumps-cance...