“I’ve never met James Dolan... But, like, there does seem to be a bit of a pattern here,” @evangreer.bsky.social tells me, citing WIRED’s reporting on MSG’s minute-by-minute surveillance of a trans woman. “They just seem overly interested in queer and trans people in their venue.”

is that good?

“Art is, strictly speaking, wasteful. It shares this with trash. Hampton wasn’t wealthy as we would define wealth, but his Millennium Throne is a byproduct of wealth, only possible in an empire with surplus. His work, then, is a product of Empire.”

NPR publishes, then immediately retracts, article saying that Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito is retiring www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

For my latest, I reported from Florida, where more death-row prisoners have been executed since 2025 than all other states combined. I looked at how this accelerated pace is affecting people on the ground, beginning with a priest who ministers to men on death row. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/m...

"How should bodies like the MSPB or NLRB, which are mostly adjudicatory but may also possess some other functions, be treated?...More questions, which have long been at rest under Humphrey’s, are sure to follow" Sotomayor writes in dissent www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Scoop for @wsj.com in response to our Polymarket investigation, w/@klong.bsky.social and @neilmhta.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

NEW from me: the US is about to deport a retired pastor, Edward Nalwamba, back to Uganda. Not only is Uganda in the midst of an Ebola outbreak, but Nalwamba says he was the target of the country's security forces before coming to the US. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-us...

A letter penned from the UN cites NYC home care workers' 24-hour shifts as violations of human rights that amounts to a form of forced labor. Read the latest from @amirkhafagy.bsky.social here: documentedny.com/2026/06/25/h...

In the name of journalism, I bought the Palantir chore coat. It is *so* much weirder than you think www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

A thoughtful conversation between @adamserwer.bsky.social and @adamhsays.com ahead of the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, and what it would mean to end more than a century of precedent. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

It appears Trump may have gotten special access to an obesity drug. Bonkers story. Incredible reporting from STAT. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀

NEW: A college student filmed the exciting moment he won $100,000 – except the bet wasn’t real. A flood of videos showing fake trades and fake wins, is fueling Polymarket’s hype machine, our @wsj.com investigation found. It's part of a secret campaign for Americans’ attention on social media.

Life (and death) after Guantánamo Bay…

A friendly reminder that Double Fine's Psychodyssey is one of the finest pieces of media ever created, and a must-watch for anyone who cares about video games, yet somehow it's also completely free www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Incredible quote from Wyden, that it is time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

One more way courts find that ICE systematically violates its detainees' constitutional rights: holding them for deportation to a third country when it doesn't actually have a country to send them to. Latest article, with Tim Healy. documentedny.com/2026/05/26/d...

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These stories are just the beginning. We’ll publish more feature articles, guides with actionable information and workshop materials. Follow along here: documentedny.com/2026/04/27/h...

On Nov. 1, seven men were arrested by ICE on a single street corner in Corona, Queens while the block watched. What happened next galvanized a neighborhood. ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZGq...

For TechCrunch, I wrote about the landmark Chatrie privacy case before the U.S. Supreme Court that examines the legality of "geofence" search warrants. The case could redefine digital privacy rights for people across the U.S. if cops are limited from mass-searching the databases of tech giants.

[spins wheel] PREGO has partnered with [shuffles deck] STORYCORPS to create a [throws dart] SURVEILLANCE DEVICE

writing this has irreparably damaged my brain techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/a...

Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...

I wrote some words for TechCrunch about Section 702, the U.S. government's warrantless surveillance law that is set to expire on Monday. A bipartisan pro-privacy group of lawmakers are calling for passing major reforms that they say are “essential” for protecting the privacy rights of Americans.

Government is Yoshi

“Government is yoshi and philanthropy is the golden mushroom, that edge to beat bowser on the rainbow road. … Bowser is corporate greed in this scenario.”

Scoop🚨 Gov. Hochul Moves to Block City Bill Banning 24-hour Home Care Shifts: Sources Say Despite growing opposition to the bill, home care workers will begin a hunger strike tomorrow if the bill is not brought up to a vote New for @documentedny.bsky.social documentedny.com/2026/04/15/g...

Home care workers in New York are set to begin a hunger strike on Thursday as they fight to ban 24-hour shifts. The city and state seem prepared to wait it out, as Hochul and Mamdani work behind the scenes to block a bill that would end the practice, sources tell @amirkhafagy.bsky.social

New, by me: Mounir Idrassi, the developer of the popular file encryption software Veracrypt, says Microsoft has locked his account used for sending software updates, and warned that Windows users who encrypt their PCs with his software may soon find it "impossible to boot," Idrassi tells me.

they're gonna give hot wings to Punch, that baby monkey in Japan

NEW: Someone hijacked an open-source software development tool to push malware to millions of people. The supply chain attack was stopped in less than three hours, but it's still unclear how many people got hacked. techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/h...

NEW: Medical data giant CareCloud says hackers had access to one of its six environments that stores patients’ electronic health records for around eight hours during a March 16 cyberattack. CareCloud is used by 45,000 doctors, physicians, and therapists to store data on millions of patients.

the scandal is not that Waymo uses remote guidance to move its stuck vehicles, the scandal is that sometimes they don't techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/w...

NEW: Waymo has gotten a lot of flack for its "remote assistance" workers. But it has a whole other "roadside assistance" team that's supposed to move vehicles that truly get stuck. And yet Waymo still relies on first responders to move robotaxis in some situations. techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/w...

BIG STORY from @seanokane.bsky.social: When a Waymo vehicle gets stuck, the company relies on firefighters and police to move its vehicles. In at least six cases over the last few months, taxpayer-funded first responders have served as Waymo's unofficial safety net. techcrunch.com/2026/03/25/w...

NEW: Someone has publicly leaked an exploit toolkit called DarkSword, which allows any hacker or cybercriminal to easily hack iPhones and iPads running iOS 18. Apple said it is aware & has issued patches. Security researchers have already tested the code as working. w/ @lorenzofb.bsky.social:

SCOOP: Someone has found new samples of the iPhone spyware DarkSword and published them on GitHub, putting millions of iOS users at risk. A cybersecurity researcher told us that the leaked spyware is "way too easy to repurpose" and "we need to expect criminals and others to start deploying this."

NEW from @zackwhittaker.com @lorenzofb.bsky.social Someone uploaded an exploit kit that can hack hundreds of millions of iPhones to Github. The hacking tool, known as DarkSword, targets out-of-date iOS devices. Apple recommends updating to the newest OS now. techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/s...

On top of everything else, immigrant street vendors struggle with finding proper care for their children while they work. @documentedny.bsky.social, as usual, doing great work here.

New, by me: A cyberattack on a vehicle breathalyzer company called Intoxalock has left drivers across the United States stranded and unable to start their cars.

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In case you haven't been following Le Monde's "Stravaleaks" reports — today the newspaper found the location of a French aircraft carrier because someone on board was logging their runs. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

He's got a point.

Is MAGA cringe? Is Fox News cooked? Is the alt right unc-coded? Is America done Rightmaxxing?

jesus christ "He was criminally charged with theft for improperly obtaining gift cards worth $154.62. His bail was set for $150,000. Ge had no previous criminal record."

NEW Chaofeng Ge, a 32-year-old immigrant from China, died in ICE detention in Pennsylvania last August. He was found hanging, with his hands and feet bound behind his back. Officially ruled a suicide, some activists and lawmakers have raised suspicions. His family wants answers.