A new amendment could ban anyone who accepts federal highway funds from using automated license plate readers like Flock cameras for any purpose other than tolling. All members of Congress must support this needed privacy protection. Learn more from @dell.bsky.social at @wired.com

Just now, Dem Rep. Rick Larsen & other members of the House Transportation Committee voted to reject an amendment to block federal funds for states & cities that misuse automated license plate cameras for mass surveillance. It’s shameful to prioritize Flock’s profits over the American people.

All those books about the declines and falls of empires that I never read.... do they cover how dumb things were? I was unprepared for how dumb things were going to get.

DOJ in a nutshell... #Iran #Epstein #TrumpFiles

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." -- Princess Leia

Trying to find news stories of companies selling more products or hiring more people due to AI productivity gains.

📌Trump is a dangerous authoritarian who has weaponized OUR Dept. of Justice to go after people HE doesn't like. For the life of me, I can't understand why this isn't a bigger story.

Some publications get their covers just right!!

Google signed a classified Pentagon deal to deploy AI on secret military networks, sparking a massive internal revolt. Despite 600+ staff demanding a rejection, the move allows Google’s tech to be used for secret operations, echoing the 2018 Project Maven crisis. www.ibtimes.co.uk/google-penta...

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

My favorite #NoKings pic so far

If you’re wondering about GOP priorities… ICE is still getting paid during a shutdown because Republicans gave them $75 BILLION extra in the tax cuts for billionaires legislation that also: - Cut health care for millions - Added trillions to the debt - Left TSA unfunded

Both the problem — long airport lines caused by Trump’s opposition to funding TSA — and his response — stationing ICE agents at the airports — seem to have their origins in Fox segments he had been watching. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/tru...

again I point out how strange it is that high-level diplomatic negotiations of war and peace are being conducted by freelancers Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, both of whom have egregious conflicts of interest, and not the actual secretary of state

ALERT: Professional news. Nine days after leaving CBS, I have found a new professional home: Chief Washington Correspondent and Anchor for @meidastouch.com

One party owns this shutdown. Democrats keep trying to fund TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, and cyber security. Republicans have blocked every single vote.

Trump just said the quiet part out loud. He told Republicans to block a deal that would pay TSA agents, so he could force the SAVE Act through. I hope TSA workers realize Trump is holding their paychecks hostage.

Major mid-day update: ICE agents run from photographers at airports out of fears of being photographed. Trump rejects deal to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard—telling Republicans to tie the SAVE Act to TSA funding and to do it for Jesus. Supreme Court poised to gut mail in ballots.

Sending ICE agents who are being paid handsomely to the airport to stand around not helping TSA agents who aren’t being paid at all because of a dispute over paying ICE agents …it’s pretty diabolical.

Massive airport security lines are being seen nationwide thanks to Republicans who continue to block bills that would fund the TSA. Even Senate Republicans now support funding all of DHS except ICE, which would allow TSA agents to be paid. But Trump said NO. 😡 He owns this chaos.

ICE goons strolling around airports, all geared up, mostly doing nothing on the clock while TSA personnel who've gone unpaid for over a month look at lines of hundreds of people to screen does not seem to be a great way to build inter-departmental understanding or to improve public opinion

Today at Atlanta airport, ICE "agents" are helping TSA and passengers by standing around and engaging in a fascist coffee klatch. Please identify these unmasked goons:

Incredible scene: Travelers wait on hours-long security line at George Bush International Airport in Houston while Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” blasts through the speakers. (video shared directly with me)

ICE agents at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) manhandling a woman are getting called what they are: “Assholes.”

God this is hilarious

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I don’t understand, how do you even bet on this?

You absolutely cannot separate the artist and the art without contributing to the persecution of trans people. Boycott everything Potter.

Stop being an egotistical fool and drop out/endorse Kat PLEASE. AIPAC is supporting you because they know you're kneecaping Kat's chance of winning.

⚡️Israel Killed Over a Dozen Lebanese Paramedics in 3 Days, Now Claiming That Ambulances Are “Hezbollah” Targets Among the most targeted groups of Israel’s expanded war on Lebanon have been medical workers. Hezbollah’s Islamic Health... Lylla Younes reports... www.dropsitenews.com/p/lebanon-me...

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WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin? NOEM: Yes WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that? NOEM: No.

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

As a historian, I'd just like to remind the politicians who follow me that it is not, in fact, 2003 anymore and the current GOP war in the Middle East is not, in fact, even remotely popular. So if you're a weathervane who just tries to do what's already popular, full-throated opposition is it!

WAIY NOOOOOO

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ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start. so, let me help: here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!) 🧵:

I get why/that people say this, but dont' underestimate this: all other social networks are invested in making sure that posts that link to journalism remain buried, or at least never go viral. BlueSky doesn't do that. That makes it very valuable to a ton of newsrooms righ tnow.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

We are deeply concerned by reports that military commanders are framing the Iran war as “God’s plan” and invoking Armageddon in official briefings. Service members swear an oath to the Constitution — not to any religion. We are reviewing these reports and will demand accountability.

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

Sorry, but here’s my opinion on the next presidential election, lord willing we have one… We need younger people on the ballots.

“We have the most extremist oligarchs colluding with the most Co opted, non-critically thinking rapture-preppers conducting American foreign policy, and it would be a joke if it wasn't so incredibly dangerous.” 💯💯💯 - Jennifer Welch, IHIP (I’ve Had It Podcast) News.

It’s literally every year

GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”