license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby. 🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...

Another great piece from @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/the-united-s...

Dem strategists are extremely helpful in consistently providing the worst imaginable advice. You can reliably assume that the right move in any situation is the polar opposite of whatever their recommendation happens to be.

They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok

Murphy: "It's clearly the biggest scandal in presidential history. He wouldn't be acting this way if he wasn't so deeply worried about what's in those files. What we've already seen is immensely incriminating. Clearly Trump was at the center of a child sex ring ... the scandal could bring him down."

💯💯💯💯💯💯 @jessedamiani.bsky.social substack.com/@damiani/not...

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Time to register as independent. I mean it. No more “lesser of two evils” voter alignment. It’s a small thing you can do to send the DNC a message.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

substack.com/@damiani/not... Platforms change policies constantly, and generally, we can choose to adapt or not (I left X entirely because no adaptation could salvage the content sewer it had become). @jessedamiani.bsky.social focuses here on Instagram/Meta’s latest move:

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

It's been a good day.

Fascist fitness?! It’s a thing - come and check it out on this substack live substack.com/@damiani/not...

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.

“A person wearing a chicken suit and stylized American-flag cape appeared to be the ringleader.” apple.news/ApnAw_7soQDW...

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

The race to the bottom almost everywhere apple.news/ADyoIbKZDTx-...

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents." www.theverge.com/news/789152/...

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

If you’re at all concerned about digital privacy, don’t miss this free webinar on 10/2! @jessedamiani.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/damiani/...

California bans most law enforcement including ICE from wearing masks

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

What kind of birth control does the Trump administration consider abortion? Well, the contraception the statement refers to was a stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Superb explanation of the imperial boomerang effect by @jessedamiani.bsky.social www.realitystudies.co/p/the-depart...

I had to save this post to read it with my morning coffee and my human literacy capacity fully charged. A deeply personal and caring message by @eryk.bsky.social which makes me think and feel things Meaning is the point. But meaning is the hardest thing mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...

Video shows the family fleeing after masked and unidentified men attempted to detain them and firing three gun shots at the passenger side door behind where the son was sitting. lataco.com/agents-shoot... By @afroxander.bsky.social Video via @ic4ij.bsky.social

I would like to amplify this post by 1000x because Reuters f'd up this story to start with -- by falsely reporting that Costco would no longer carry mifepristone, when it never did -- and other news outlets ran with it and far-right legal groups are taking credit for something that didn't happen.

Just as AI critics need to acknowledge when AI works, AI boosters need to own the fact that much of AI's value prop is stuff like this. AI is profitable when it serves as an accelerant for exploitation and enshittification, and that's obv relevant to evaluating the net social merit of AI

@marcelias.bsky.social: "I want everyone to pay attention... Trump is laying the groundwork to steal the 2026 election."

I’ve just published a new essay, Reading the Cosmic Web, inspired by Mark Neyrinck's Rivers of Galaxies in @aeon.co. It explores how the filamentary structure of the universe is echoed in rivers, mycelium, spiderwebs, and other branching forms of life. honorharger.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/r...

BREAKING via NYT The Trump administration’s agenda suffered another setback late Friday when an appeals court upheld a decision that temporarily halts federal agents from making immigration-related arrests in the Los Angeles area without probable cause.

also, this is very Soviet, except that Stalin then arrested and executed the statisticians

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

just an entire administration filled with utter incompetents who have zero idea what is going on and zero interest in knowing

Head of FEMA Urban Search and Rescue branch resigns. He told colleagues that TX delay was tipping point after months of admin efforts to dismantle the agency. DHS Sec Noem took 72 hours after TX flooding to authorize the deployment of FEMA’s search and rescue network www.cnn.com/2025/07/21/p...

This the context -> Meredith Whitaker at SXSW in the perfect summary of why agentic AI should be a top line concern: youtu.be/jY8cd2YMdI4?...