Four websites ran commercial visitor-tracking software, configured to evade the privacy tools many web users install, and none carry the public filings federal privacy laws require. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I bet Claus runs his HOA

Lol. @typewriteralley.bsky.social and I drew a bigger crowd for our tour of historic traffic calming in Seattle.

An entirely new sentence just dropped “Mt. Olive Pickle Co. exits Great American State Fair over Confederate flag”

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them

A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.

“We control the … Supreme Court.” Indeed.

"Hello ladies. I would love to talk about your wombs."

a giraffe disappears and tom kean jr shows up and we’re supposed to pretend these are two separate stories. wake up sheeple

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

If you want to get your blood pressure up this morning

Police love to find incredibly specific and rare sets of circumstances and make that the sole justification for why they need access to a certain type of tech--it's a recipe tailor made for mission creep.

The Ohio cities of Columbus and Springfield are bracing for impact after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump can end legal status for Haitians who’ve fled the violence in their home country. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/25/o...

no shit www.rte.ie/news/world/2...

Monsanto sells Roundup in exchange for money my guy.

"Opinions Differ on Shape of the Earth"

Really putting the "theater" in security theater www.reuters.com/world/us/ref...

Really hoping someone files a FOIA into this and gets some investigatory material, because there is not a single shred of doubt that her post is protected free speech under the First Amendment and agents SHOULD know that. She literally identified the source of her information as a newspaper!

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Authorities search homes of current and former NYPD leaders in bribery probe gothamist.com/news/authori...

Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets: Draconian sentence threatens journalists and news consumers

Last month mom’s memory care called me for permission to install of an AI monitor in her room. I declined, as did a lot of other families. Yesterday when I visited I noted that they had been installed in every room, with a little plaque on each door reading “room under electronic surveillance” 1/

"Much has been written about the blatant efforts to suppress access to books that could contain any remotely challenging ideas or that deviate even slightly from cis white heterodoxy, but there’s been little talk about what that means from the rest of us." www.404media.co/are-public-l...

Truly, the best way to deal with the botched renovation of a beloved 2,030 by 167 foot national reflecting pool is with a 5,000 foot long chain link fence & blue tarps the color of the wrong epoxy paint you used (to create the duck-killing disaster) that hides the disgusting mess from public view.

Just one in four Americans believes President Donald Trump's war with Iran was worth its costs ‌and a majority worry that a truce with Tehran is unlikely to last, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

A federal judge in California vacated the ‌Trump administration's nationwide policies expanding arrests at immigration courthouses and the duration for detaining noncitizens in short-term facilities, finding the actions of ICE "arbitrary and capricious." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Egypt and Iran have requested that Pride events in Seattle during their World Cup match be canceled and… no. Welcome to Seattle. This might be the most patriotic I’ve felt in my life. Pride isn’t happening during your game; you’re here during Pride. Suck a rainbow. apnews.com/article/worl...

We've updated this story to reflect today's shocking sentencing hearing, with many defendants receiving the maximum sentence for their charges.

Diabetes researchers removed from a conference for handing out printed copies of their editorial warning that the Trump administration's funding cuts & delays will make America's health worse. The editorial: diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Thanks to all the folks flagging W.E.B Du Bois' groundbreaking data visualization work, which helped people better understand how Black political power was being diluted. I had no idea. www.jasonforrestftw.com/projects/201...

Britain's vote to leave the EU in 2016 has acted as a persistent drag on its economy, compounding some of the structural problems behind the push for Brexit. It has seen ​more inflation than any other Western European country apart from Austria since the Brexit vote www.reuters.com/world/uk/sca...

reflecting pool puns keep showing up in my feed; must be the algaeorithm

At some point you just have to laugh

Families in Tennessee with critically ill or severely disabled children who are undocumented are being asked to leave the state program that pays for lifesaving medication and treatment or stay and have their child reported to immigration authorities.

Mona Khalil, who devoted her life to protecting turtles, killed by Israeli airstrike: defector.com/mona-khalil-...

New from 404 Media: Madison Square Garden made a dossier on activists who have opposed the venue's facial recognition program. MSG scans faces of people so some can be arbitrarily denied entry. Dossier includes specific activists, their contact info, tweets, etc www.404media.co/madison-squa...

Really jaw-dropping. STAT can’t say with 100% certainty that Donald Trump got a compassionate use exemption—usually reserved for the terminally ill—for an experimental drug to treat “refractory obesity with obstructive sleep apnea and pulmonary hypertension.” They got a lot of non-denials, though!

In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

This paragraph forcefully upholding the right to legally observe ICE (and any governmental authority) is so so important right now

national guard deployed to keep people from touching the reflecting pool

As Caitlin Vogus of @freedom.press points out, the judge was quick to issue the TRO, but has kicked the can down the road when it comes to holding a contested hearing -- so the prior restraint remains in place: www.nj.com/opinion/2026...

Listen as a New Jersey judge orders a newspaper (New Brunswick Today) to delete a security video the school district wanted deleted from the internet -- and orders the newspaper not to write about it *at all.* This is a prior restraint in violation of the First Amendment.

Trump is spending taxpayer money to kill green energy projects and develop more fossil fuel production www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Trump is accused of trying to erase ‌aspects of ⁠American history to fit his own false narratives about the nation. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Chanelle Diaz, an assistant professor of medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, said the data and records show the agency is choosing to imprison medically vulnerable people, resulting in a “spike in preventable deaths.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

“Tennessee to report disabled immigrant kids getting public healthcare to ICE, advocates say." For more than 50 years, Children’s Special Services “has served children with severe disabilities who need ongoing care and have no other insurance, regardless of immigration status.”

It's more difficult to hold the government to account if there's no reliable data. Disempowering citizens is how authoritarians maintain a grip on power. This move is part of a larger effort to consolidate and control data and research in America.