Let’s check in with people who threatened to leave Zohran Mamdani’s NYC: defector.com/lets-check-i...

In 2023, students at Ohio State blocked the doors to the president's office. Little did they know, live video from campus CCTVs were being fed straight to DHS. It's part of a little-known, decades-long surveillance effort built on the back of college football. www.foiaball.com/p/dhs-colleg...

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BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

@damonberes.com , as always, very optimistic about our future: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Speaking as a NYC resident/not as a reporter, I'm still in awe of how weird and bad Cuomo's campaign was. His message during the primary seemed to be "I am owed this." After he lost it was "ignore Dems, you Dems," plus islamophobia. The last day it was "my car technically isn't the same as OJ's."

There is an entire PhD about the 21st Century to be written among the intersection of three events in the last 24 hours: Dick Cheney's death; McClatchy (key to disproving Iraq War lies) closes its DC bureau; & the US elects first Muslim mayor of NYC and first statewide official ever (in VA).

NBC officially calling Zohran victory.

New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field. In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront. By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:

This NYT Obit of VP Cheney mentions something that seems impossible in retrospect: That he and GWB were re-elected *after* it was proved there were no WMDs in Iraq. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

I'm not the world's biggest baseball fan and have zero connection to either of these teams but man this is some good Earned Drama.

New from me: As Flock Safety cameras proliferate across the US, creating a real-time national database on Americans' movements for police, people in cities like Austin, Denver and Sedona are pushing back.

NBC News spoke with 18 SNAP recipients who spent the week contemplating once unthinkable tradeoffs to put food on their tables.

New from 404 Media: you can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's new facial recognition app, according to internal DHS document I obtained. Photos captured by the app are stored for 15 years, including U.S. citizens. We've seen officers scanning faces w/ phones on streets www.404media.co/you-cant-ref...

New: I wrote about how all AI browsers are fundamentally vulnerable to prompt injection, how they're all already getting pwned, and hint that one might not want to hand over control of your email and bank accounts to ChatGPT.

Literally the only redeeming aspect of this Marshall game.

Here is DHS making false allegations about @katmabu.bsky.social. Read the affidavit and show me where it alleges that she assaulted anyone. Spoiler: it doesn't. The conspiracy charge / title of the statute is throwing people off / leading to a lot of bad faith attacks.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

"ICE Kidnapped My Neighbor in Broad Daylight. The Aftermath Left Me Reeling." by Freddy Martinez truthout.org/articles/ice...

NEWS: Federal prosecutors indict Kat Abughazaleh, congressional candidate, county board candidate Cat Sharp and Dem committeeman Michael Rabbitt over September Broadview protest

A funny thing about being a tech reporter is anytime you have a formal interaction with a company their people insist on using that company's tech. Interview somebody at Zoom, they want to do it over Zoom. Microsoft, a Teams meeting. Spokespeople for Meta/WhatsApp message you on WhatsApp.

SCOOP: On Mon, Kaspersky said it found new spyware called Dante targeting Windows users in Russia & Belarus, saying the spyware was developed by Milan-based Memento Labs. Memento's CEO confirmed to TechCrunch that Dante is its spyware, and blamed one of its government customers for getting caught.

Impressive depth of reporting here

people don't like to credit Bezos, which is understandable because he sucks, but leveraging the logistical scale of amazon the retail business to meet evident unmet need for abstracted, scalable compute was one of the most viciously successful business strategies in the history of the internet

I have heard of tech bloggers doing this but it is not something real news outlets do!!

NEW: I reviewed a text chain provided by an acquaintance of Graham Platner where the person discussed with others Platner’s Nazi-like tattoo months before the story became public, undercutting claims Platner only recently learned of it. www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

you've gotta admit the NCAA has an incredible sense of comic timing

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Living in the age of smartphone scams, where slave labor is tricking grandma out of her life savings: fucking sucks. Living in a new golden age of brazen museum heists and busts of mob-run gambling at the highest levels of American sports: I'm sorry this is very fun.

Good story because it highlights the question of where exactly are people with AI-induced psychosis supposed to turn??

This is a good tech critique but it's also an example of a parenting thing I made up called a Doubleday. Double your kid's birth weight and boom, the day they hit that weight is their Doubleday and you can celebrate it. Double that, another holiday. You'll probably get about four or five per kid.

🚨NEW🚨 In a recently-unsealed warrant ICE's HSI division detailed a case in which it spied on an undocumented immigrant's WhatsApp account. She was dealing fake ID documents. An ICE HSI agent spied on who she contacted on WhatsApp, then identified those contacts. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

Also, as a reminder. There's at least two cases of Bluesky users that have been subject to arrests and charges because of what they've posted on Bluesky. Homeland Security Investigators are monitoring Bluesky, sending subpoenas out, and charging people. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"In Russia, it’s hard to escape MAX, the new state-controlled messaging app.... Schools are recommending it. Celebrities are being paid to push it. Cellphones are sold with it preloaded. In one city southeast of Moscow, the municipal emergency loudspeaker belted out an exhortation to install it."

The John Bolton indictment released on Thursday contains a lot of interesting info about the AOL email account prosecutors say he used to send classified info to his wife and daughter while national security advisor - an email account that Iran allegedly hacked. I wrote about the indictment here:

If your protest privacy/security advice does not start with a discussion of threat models, it is probably not good advice.

Today’s WhatsApp v NSO injunction is a BIG DEAL & may essentially kill Pegasus spyware *as we know it.* To comply, NSO would have to ensure that their spyware cannot access WhatsApp messages or break WhatsApp’s encryption. This means that NSO can no longer offer “unlimited” access to victims’ 📱s

Apologies to whoever owns [email protected], as everytime somebody demands an email address to use their wifi I throw you under the bus. I don't want to put you on those tracking lists but better you than me.

I know this stuff isn't surprising anymore but I really can't stress enough how much everybody involved with CISA and cyber tried to keep the field nonpolitical and nonpartisan before this administration.

On CISA media call just now to discuss the F5 hack and source code breach, CISA staffer interrupted the discussion to blame the Democrats for the government shutdown and forcing workers to work without pay

If you live in California and have a good idea for a privacy complaint you should file one. And if you get a good response you should tell me, the reporter who recently wrote the words you're reading right now.

New: We jailbroke four versions of ChatGPT to get instructions on how to create viruses and chemical weapons. The instructions were all flawed, and the it didn't work on GPT-5. But 4 of the 5 big AI companies have internally found their top models are close to being able to tutor bioterrorists.

I want an internet IP lawyer to flesh this out better than I could (and let me know if you know where one has), but I kinda can't get over how the IP industries steamrolled tech in the late 90s and early aughts and now tech is steamrolling the IP industries.

A PSA if you are into nerdy first contact sci fi novels, as I am: @aptshadow.bsky.social's latest, Shroud, is very fun and good.

This kind of news outlet push alert hits different when you work at that news outlet.

Not an expert on this stuff but I have the sense that no one backing Weiss understands that what she has done her whole career, opinion-based news-flavored content, is distinct from news reporting.