New from me today - DHS hack shows funding for AI surveillance including automated surveillance in airports; adapters allowing agents to use phones for biometric scanning; and an AI platform that ingests all 911 call data nationally www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union. This could have tremendous implications for voting:

After former President Biden nominated Scott Colom to serve as a judge on a federal court, U.S. Sen. Hyde-Smith blocked his nomination...because of his support for trans rights. Now, he's her November 2026 opponent.

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

Sorry ladies Palantir has a message for you and it’s that Rosie the Riveter also had to eat it and go back to her husband’s kitchen newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

A whistleblower complaint alleges John Solly claimed to have stored highly sensitive Social Security data on a thumb drive. Solly and Leidos, his current employer, strongly deny the allegations. www.wired.com/story/john-s...

I usually avoid posting things from the other place but I will make an exception because this is so damn cool. @yappelbaum.bsky.social

hey #rctid, Oregon old growth forests need us. comments needed against logging plans. please help

Please go comment on this. If we leave it to that ketamine-addled creep, the planet will be suffocating in space junk just so he can control a Starlink fleet

proud this is the 4th google result for WEXMAC TITUS

Wow.

Green’s Dictionary of Slang is now available as a free website! greensdictofslang.com

UPDATE: @rustygrills is no longer chair of the ag subcommittee (he’s chair of business and utilities sub instead) his bill to shield giant foreign pesticide companies from lawsuits from sick farmers recently stalled 🧑‍🌾

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Great news, January 6 hero Officer Harry Dunn is running for Congress in Maryland. We need many more great human beings like him in govt.

I wrote about how the Heartland Institute (of Project 2025 fame) is helping the GOP attack the Netflix Warner Brothers merger because they really want Larry Ellison to build state television out of the remnants of CNN and HBO:

In response to outcries from Milan, DHS has announced that the ICE agents being sent to the Winter Olympics will only work from an office in the US Consulate there. If they can to their job from an office in Milan, they can do it from an office in the USA. There is zero reason for them being there.

IMMORAL… This drawing was made by one of the 5 year old El Gamal twins. It shows children behind bars with the caption, “I’m 5 years old.” An immigration judge denied them bond, citing “insufficient assets.” These children could remain in detention for years while their case is appealed.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

A message from Greenland…

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Gary Kasparov, as usual, perfectly understands what's going on.

I try to avoid hyperbole when it comes to Trump policies, but this is absolutely frickin’ insane—on about eleventy different levels. Massive, systemic Fourth Amendment violations because … reasons.

This is important to us because what’s happening right now in Congress could permanently change protections for a beloved wilderness area. With everything else going on, this quietly moved forward while most people weren’t paying attention and it should concern all of us.

NEW: ICE wants to spend up to $50M on a detention hub in Minnesota, one capable of moving detainees anywhere within a 400-mile radius across several U.S. states:

Underappreciated fact: The paths and positions of the cable damages around New Years 2026 were to most of Estonia's internet backbone routes. Had it fully succeeded/happened by accident (lol) Estonia would have been left with a crippled connectivity.

DHS employees entered our store this afternoon and served us a Notice of Inspection, demanding copies of I9 forms for each employee. In 27 years as shopkeepers, we have never been subjected to this type of investigation.

Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson & American Moment co-founder Nick Solheim presented a talk at Peter Thiel’s 2024 “Hereticon” event titled, “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony.” Gibson & his colleagues have also been eyeing Venezuela, Honduras, & Nigeria. 1/

Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He: Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion. Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/

Ex-Mississippi welfare chief John Davis confessed to WWE wrestlers Ted DiBiase Jr. and Brett DiBiase that he "tried to buy your love" as he sent millions in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds to The Million Dollar Man's sons. While denying 99% of poor families who applied.

Aux USA, des scientifiques ont découvert que la maladie de Parkinson était en majorité provoquée par l'exposition au Trichloréthylène. De plus en plus d'études démontrent que l'environnement et l'épigénétique, sont autrement plus déterminants que nos gènes dans l'apparition de maladies chroniques.

This is a phenomenal conversation. Confused about tokens?, crypto?, venture capitalists?, Broligarchs?, this conversation puts the "exit" into the "holy fuck we need to do something-now" perspective we all should have. @gilduran.com once again with a grand slam episode w/ @ojutel.bsky.social

Hey so this seems like something more people should be talking about 🤔 🗳️ www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...

"When I started speaking out about [Trump's] addictions in 2015, I was trying to warn people that it wasn’t the substances themselves that presented a problem, as much as it was the personality defects underneath them that we needed to fear the most." Read this:

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

The playbook ….

@theguardian.com reporting on Lib Dem calls for an investigation into hostile state interference to include the current US administration. Far right religious orgs like the Heritage Foundation & Turning Point UK are funding Farage &Robinson, their goals are bigger-to influence elections in Europe

I tried to explain this to some colleagues and they laughed at me. We're doomed

For those who care: www.vice.com/en/article/t...

"there is little reason to doubt what the aim [of the massive investment in AI] is: to embed knowledge in machines—knowledge that previously belonged to the people working in these domains." 🧵

Peter Thiel, Sam Altman and Marc Andresson have a ton of money in Próspsra, an island off of Honduras that had the same basic setup, but was shut down after Hernandez was no longer the president. Number one reason Trump pardoned him..

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What a great idea! We need to do this somehow.....

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

Brazil approves the first vaccine against dengue. The disease killed 6000 Brazilians in 2024. This is a really remarkable achievement. I got dengue in 2015, and even with the mild case I had, it was a really miserable experience.