“The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product,” Diaz said. “They were never really selling to us in the first place. What they are doing is selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.”

A scientist who worked in the ER during COVID, here since he was 8, no criminal record, on his way to his newborn in the NICU—grabbed by ICE and still being held

I should say here that although Afroman is very funny, the underlying facts are outrageous. He had his house raided based in part on an insane tip that he had a sex dungeon in his basement reason.com/2023/06/12/o...

RFK Jr promotes the view, contrary to scientific evidence, that routine childhood shots are linked to autism and chronic disease rates, posing more dangers than the illnesses they prevent. Such views are now broadcast by the federal government. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

I’m pretty sure the baby is coming out whether you show ID or not.

"This would take global hunger levels ‌to ⁠an all-time record and it's a terrible, terrible prospect," said the WFP. "Already, before this war, we were in a perfect storm where hunger has never been ​as severe ​as now, ⁠in terms of numbers and how deep that hunger is." www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Some course descriptions for the Fall 2026 offerings of the Washington Center for Civics, Culture, and Statesmanship at West Virginia University

El Salvador has subjected some nationals deported from the U.S. to enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention without revealing their whereabouts or bringing them before a ​judge, a report by Human Rights Watch said on Monday. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

"After being held in isolation for about five days. Rodríguez was forced to strip naked in a shower while an officer "poured some kind of chemical liquid on her head, which seemed to be something used to clean floors and burned her eyes,” the filing read."

"WhY aReN't ThE sTuDeNtS protesting?¿?¿"

A Minnesota photojournalist (with help from @rcfp.org) is suing the FAA over a rule restricting drone flights within 3,000 feet of Homeland Security assets — including vehicles. But drone pilots have no way of knowing whether an unmarked ICE vehicle is in their vicinity. For @minnesotareformer.com

"[C]ompanies that work with ICE are collecting at least $260.4 million from [NYC] taxpayers." "[C]ould be much higher, as many firms including [.] Microsoft and Amazon reportedly sell [.] to ICE through third-party contractors." #NewYork #USA #Policing #Weapons #Taxes #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

A former Afghan special forces soldier who had worked alongside U.S. Army Special Forces since 2005 was evacuated from Afghanistan with his family in 2021 when the ​US withdrew its forces after ​a war lasting two ⁠decades, said AfghanEvac president Shawn VanDiver. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

WaPo is using dynamic pricing for its remaining subscribers. This seems like a really bad decision. washingtonian.com/2026/03/12/t...

In my deep dive into the life of Renee Good (see post from earlier today) I spoke w/ lawyers for her family, and they say the shooter, Jonathan Ross, and the federal agencies involved, have not responded to their request for documents and evidence preservation. www.cpr.org/2026/03/11/r...

Texting daily with a random human peer is more effective at reducing loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot. Next time you feel lonely reach out to a human, any human. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

"In their haste to make life in the United States intolerable for even lawful immigrant workers by depriving them of their ​livelihoods, Defendants have acted ​arbitrarily and capriciously, failed ⁠to comply with CBP’s own rules, and violated workers' due process rights," the lawsuit said.

An astounding statement from a federal judge about the executive branch, generally; the Justice Department, more particularly; and these subpoenas, specifically.

This is bonkers. “According to the school district, her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to ‘license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight’ in July and August.”

As of January, more than 900 children had been held in family detention for longer than 20 days, according to the data. Roughly 270 of those children were confined for more than twice as long.

“In a democracy, it ultimately should be up to the communities what kinds of powers they want police to have over them,” said Jay Stanley, a privacy and drones expert with the American Civil Liberties Union. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

🚨Reuters investigation by @pearswick.press & me: Iran school struck on 1st day of war had yearlong online presence, including many photos of children & their activities, before it was bombed with at least 6 other buildings along 325m axis. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

It's crawfish season and Louisiana's crawfish processing plants are at a standstill because there is no migrant labor www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/new...

Is that what she thinks squinting does?

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

This is ridiculously cliche at this point but the annual US Institute of Peace budget when I worked there was ~$35m. And we were required to justify every dollar.

Featuring yet another alarming statement from Senator Wyden concerning classified information he believes the public ought to know. www.wired.com/story/us-law...

Here's a new one: ICE detained a man in Utah who had been arrested for a suspected drug sale ... that turned out to be dried pinto beans. Utah case was dropped but the man, who arrived in US as a minor and has deferred action, was transfered to ICE. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee.

“Today’s technologies ... are being used to create an environment of mass surveillance that ensnares almost all individuals within the U.S.,” said Beryl Lipton, a researcher at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/02/07/a...

Several ⁠congressional aides have said they expect the White House to soon submit a request ​to Congress for additional funding for the war. Some officials have said the request ​could be for $50 billion, while others have said that estimate seems low. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Over the years, the woman said she has spent tens of thousands of dollars and sought help from several lawyers to track down missing documents and rectify what she believes is a clerical error. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

If you care about surveillance, privacy, policing, tech, and power and are not financially supporting 404media you are doing something wrong. Every day they are doing the work for you. Fund them so they can hire all the tech journalists who have been fired.

One in every 1,257 American residents.

[10/x] The SAVE America Act is deliberately designed to make it difficulty to impossible for anyone who has had their name changed—for whatever reason—to get the documents they would need to vote. It is designed not to root out fraud, but to keep us, especially us women, from voting.

[8/x] Now throw in the so-called SAVE America Act. If I, with all my resources, can't prove what my name was at birth without a court order plus my two official IDs aren't a perfect match with my marriage license, how are other women with fewer resources going to prove their own name changes?

Here are the photos the Pentagon doesn't want you to see.

MAGA wanting to require voters to provide proof of citizenship while also saying that the paperwork does not actually prove that a voter is an American is raising some questions for me

Excellent reporting here by @raphae.li about a hacker who breached an FBI server, apparently without knowing it was the FBI, and accessed the Epstein files. The hacker allegedly threatened to report the server's owner TO THE FBI bc of disgust over CSAM on the server, www.reuters.com/world/us/for...

A 4th circuit panel of Republican appointees has ruled that Medicaid coverage bans on gender affirming care for adults are not unconstitutional. They cited Skrmetti 70 times in the decision. The en banc circuit court previously found it unconstitutional. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.

"Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it." -- Hannah Arendt www.jstor.org/stable/23025...

"What we've seen since the pandemic is inflation is just a little more stubborn ​than people expect, and that's likely to continue." www.reuters.com/world/us-10-...

The subcommittee also turned down HB2523, a Democrat-sponsored measure that would prevent discrimination by maternal healthcare providers. The Maternal Health Protection Act was written in response to an incident in which a Jonesborough woman was allegedly denied care because she was unmarried.