“Practically every other member" of El Paso's National Guard "was in the Klan," one militay officer recalls, and many had joined the border patrol upon its establishment.

I really can't trust anyone who is like 'well you have to understand the rise of fascism is a response to wokeness going to far' in the year 2026

This!!!! A thousand times, THIS!!!!!!

Brazil bans Kalshi and Polymarket from operating in the country. obviously things aren't perfect there but I think we need to think seriously about how to get institutions like theirs

Hilariously people are now recirculating the month-old story instead of the new one, presumably because the archive link lacks a photo? I should have put in the paywalled WaPo link instead. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

One of the question I had after reading this article was, "how much DID this lady look like the photo that the AI thought she was her?" This article doesn't provide the photo, but the WEBP coverage did. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

“Drivers cruising along Fruitvale Avenue recently may have noticed a curious sight: a small black camera with a solar panel attached to a light post, splattered with purple paint.”

Happy anniversary of this not happening

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil is confirmed to have been killed by the IDF. Al Akhbar, her outlet, as well as LBCI and Al Jadeed, have confirmed it. The IDF, the world’s leading killer of journalists, was blocking rescue operations.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Texas cont] In an additional attempt to suppress LGBTQ+ speech, the policy includes STUDENTS: "no degree-culminating student research within the TTU System will be permitted to center on SOGI topics,” thus extending "Don't Say Gay" to dissertations and theses. 2/2

Boycott Luxottica

🚨 ICE Glasses are coming - specialized smart glasses designed by and for the Department of Homeland Security, documents reveal: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Unhappy to report the phishing one is quickly becoming a real problem now. Why go to the trouble of social engineering when people will just give up their ID, financial info, biometrics, etc. to an AV portal? There's no standards so how can you differentiate a fake one from a real one?

⚠️ ATTENTION ALL TWEAKERS ⚠️

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

disarm bigots, not their victims

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Can we please all collectively agree to not try to get Kash Patel fired, because I do not want someone competent in that position

Every 3D print in NY can be surveilled — from political speech to company prototypes — if these provisions make it into the state budget. We need to act NOW to stop it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Louisiana now makes it a crime for police to refuse ICE cooperation. Florida created a board to punish officials who don't comply with ICE. Texas forced nearly all sheriffs to become immigration enforcers. And the crackdown on resisting ICE is spreading.

This means that HHS can no longer initiate investigations of gender clinics for trans youth based on the Kennedy declaration or try to terminate federal funding through Medicaid and Medicare. This is an unequivocal win for the 22 states that brought this suit to protect access.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

It, again, truly doesn't matter whether vibecoding actually caused the outages or not - when you start bragging about how claude is making every engineer on staff more productive and the site goes through months of persistent downtime, that's a Statement.

More good news: Revolution Medicines says drug for pancreatic cancer shows strong results in drug trial share.google/IKS5BQ6P7HPx...

The Mayor knows that cutting library budgets is detrimental to quality of life. Why then has he proposed a cut in the preliminary budget? www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/18-n...

Webloc customers also include the national police in El Salvador and US law enforcement agencies at the federal, state, and local levels, including ICE, US military, Texas Dept. of Public Safety, and Dept of Homeland Security West Virginia.

We publish a major @citizenlab.ca report on Webloc, an ad-based mass surveillance system that monitors the movements and personal characteristics of hundreds of millions people globally based on data obtained from mobile apps and digital advertising. Customers include ICE, El Salvador, and Hungary.

Government Ordered to Turn Over Files on ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/04/09/r...

New from me: The latest in my "You can't hide your lying ICE" series. radleybalko.substack.com/p/you-cant-h...

New from 404 Media: Microsoft has terminated an account associated with VeraCrypt, the popular and long-running piece of encryption software. This means can no longer receive updates on Windows, the developer told me. Little explanation given by Microsoft www.404media.co/microsoft-ab...

Wildlife conservation police are tapping into AI-enabled cameras for ICE Watch/subscribe here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrHY...

Today is day 127 of the ICE occupation of MN. ICE is still here. Neighbors are still being abducted. So we’re here too. Still carrying whistles. Still standing watch in our neighborhoods. Still doing mutual aid. Still fighting for ICE OUT EVERYWHERE.

Paragon’s Graphite isn’t magical, it’s just malware. It still needs a zero day exploit to compromise a phone with updated software. The best thing you can do to protect yourself against Graphite is keep your phone up to date and enable Lockdown Mode on iPhone or Advanced Protection Mode on Android.

Let’s…uh…maybe cool it on the Taco stuff. Not sure that double-dog daring Trump into war crimes is good

Eyewitness video from the scene of today's ICE shooting in California appears to (you guessed it) contradict officials' claims that the man "weaponized" his vehicle. The car is reversing and the agents appear to be well clear of it.

Advocates say charges should be dropped against a Chicago mom who killed her boyfriend in self-defense. blockclubchi.co/4cugxHV

It is a moral abomination to be a cop, ICE or not.

New data shows 85% of Americans believe trans people should have the same rights and protections as everyone else. It is clear that the vast majority of Americans support trans rights, yet politicians continue scapegoating this population instead of focusing on the real issues. buff.ly/17U1WGw

aaron swartz was murdered by jstor, MIT and the US government

"It is impossible to have democracy and secret police at the same time." youtu.be/1d736ojx-ZY?...

there will be no Nuremberg 2.0. That would mean that your party was a completely different one than it actually is. You are a Senator and could propose your version of Nuremberg 2.0. to your constituents. Wondering why you haven't done that yet if you're serious about the idea.

Fund the public libraries. Just do it.

Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”