heroic courage here

Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R

The resistance to this authoritarianism is just so American. Each city is putting a heroic defense of their neighbors AND doing it in such a unique way that matches the personality and character of the people who live there. They are only making me love this country and our people more and more.

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

It’s a critical moment to make our voices heard loud & clear: No wars. No kings. No ICE. See you in the streets tomorrow: www.mobilize.us/indivisiblen...

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

ICE apparently lacks capacity to oppress more than one city at a time. This is performative authoritarianism. performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. It’s not a joke. But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation. They lack the numbers to win.

Can anyone from DC @indivisible.org or Mobilize explain how I’m supposed to attend a protest with a private location? Or are you actually demanding an email address before you’ll show it, and prioritizing your list-building over attendance (and the privacy of attendants)??

Fox News claims to be airing the "entire video" -- but they're cutting off before the officer says, "fucking bitch."

new all time reaction image just dropped

We're taking to the streets this weekend in protest of ICE. Use this link to find events hosted by our partners at Indivisible taking place near you. Indivisible will know you were referred by us.

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

At Status_ @oliverdarcy.bsky.social has learned that Bari Weiss, CBS News' Trump-approved minder, has held up another “60 Minutes” report: An Anderson Cooper investigation of Trump’s acceptance of white S. African refugees, which is “guaranteed to provoke Trump and inflame his MAGA base.”

"Quit demonstrating" is not something that a pro-democracy politician says. It's something that an authoritarian tool says.

This plus face rec plus new AI-enabled surveillance capabilities coming online adds up to everything every tech civil liberties advocate has been warning about for decades, now in the hands of a gleefully lawless and well-funded secret police with no problem pointing guns at whoever they like.

A question for AI bsky: imagine creating an LLM-based tool that can import into one AI service the JSON portability file offered by another AI service. Would the LLM need to process every token of that file to identify and parse the separate chats for potential import, or...

Under President Trump, the GOP & the Justice Department have tried to erase or change history, deleting a database of charges & convictions for assaulting police & seditious conspiracy. @npr.org tracked every prosecution in a database & published an account of the riot for us to access, & remember.

As the former Google Associate General Counsel for web search -- a product built on scraping third party content without permission -- I'm having a lot of trouble processing Google's new lawsuit against someone else for scraping search results. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog...

A point I find myself raising repeatedly: people focus on tech policy within a silo (privacy, speech, safety, copyright, competition, etc.), without understanding the actual impact on the system, where you push on just one of those levers and don't realize it's disastrous for the other ones.

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

An excellent & very disturbing overview of the scope & scale of domestic surveillance systems deployed in the US 🇺🇸 by @peter.andringa.me @financialtimes.com 👇 Ostensibly for deportation, these can (& likely are) being fine-tuned for deployment on critics of the Trump regime -- a chilling prospect

An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president. Just fucking pathetic.

Brendan Carr is being toasted by all of DC’s communications lawyers. @freepress.bsky.social and @publicknowledge.bsky.social are here to remind them what’s at stake

I'm super-excited about this free Tech Law coursebook from @crootof.bsky.social and @bjard.bsky.social being freely published, and not just because Ashkan Soltani and I have a journal article of ours reprinted in it! (See Chapter 7)

One reason you hold a meeting to pressure/cajole/threaten Boebert in the Situation Room is so she can't record it.

“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Yet still the damned question mark in the headline. Let me fix that for you, NYT editorial board: "WE ARE LOSING OUR DEMOCRACY", period.

C’mon, it’s plainly unfair to label Bovino a Nazi just because his barber and tailor are Nazis.

If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

There's an AWS outage this morning impacting lots of services; it started around 07.30 UK time. People who use services like Alexa as their alarm clocks have just had a helpful reminder that using a device reliant on connectivity to carry out a task that doesn't need connectivity is not a good idea.

This is well-stated, and most welcome www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

This administration has been, by far, the most censorial administration in my lifetime. They're punishing people for speech about Palestine, about Charlie Kirk, about ICE, about the President. It's been nonstop attacks on speech.

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

Keep persevering on your goals & dreams. You may be inspiring & motivating others as an example, just by your continuing efforts. Especially in adversity. It's not just the end result, but your dedication & perseverance in the process that can be a light & catalyst to others.

The media’s overriding concern is not being accused of bias by the right, which means all coverage is framed around granting the right the maximum benefit of the doubt, however implausible. Such that sewage becomes “a brown liquid” until other possibilities are ruled out. Maybe it’s cake batter!

The premise here appears to be “He can’t be a king as long as I can think of additional abuses of power he hasn’t yet committed,” which is not how this works.

wonderful thread of pics

No Kings NYC

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

Love to see It

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly. Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested. Stay safe out there.