For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

The evidence is increasingly pointing to the probability that an ICE agent killed a woman after misreading her as a threat because he was distracted by his simultaneous effort to record her so he could upload her image to a facial recognition database.

ICE has recently bought the capability of monitoring the location histories of entire neighborhoods worth of phones. The data is likely harvested from apps that sell your data, which filters up through data brokers and eventually to companies that sell to ICE: www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

How long will Grok / xAI be able to keep doing this without facing consequences?

You can draw a draw a straight line from a right wing YouTuber's unverified viral video about Somali American daycares to ICE showing up in Minneapolis to this killing. This feels like a galvanizing moment for the city in the same way George Floyd's death was five years ago.

Both videos of the fatal shooting in Minneapolis – which I don't want to repost – show an ICE agent shooting directly into a car at head height while leaning on the hood. There's very little to contradict these facts, even from DHS.

Here’s an eyewitness account from @mprnews.org

Officially a British-American journalist.

Five Years After Jan. 6, Lawlessness Has Triumphed: "That day was indeed a turning point, but not the one it first seemed to be. It was a turning point toward a version of Mr. Trump who is even more lawless than the one who governed the country in his first term."

FT is wild for this one

Honestly took me a minute to realize "Hegel" isn't an obscure programming language

three bylines, six months late, almost zero new information we hadn't reported months ago. lowercased our name and mentioned deep in the story. no link to us. said they couldnt find the govt privacy document (we did). good job wall street journal

The president views energy geopolitics "like the world is a Settlers of Catan board." Incredible quote: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Operating the search interface for the Epstein files means that the Justice Department has full visibility into all of the queries entered, and could in theory use this to gauge public interest in releasing certain information (or not). Worth being aware of...

Epstein Files Transparency Act: "The Attorney General shall ... make publicly available in a searchable and downloadable format." NYT: The DOJ "website also contains a search function, though it is unclear if it’s working properly. A query for 'Epstein' returned no results."

Happy Epstein files release day to all who celebrate

People are paying up to $50 to get their chatbots high on "drugs" (code modules) that simulate the effects of cocaine, ayahuasca, cannabis, alcohol, and ketamine. Some tell @matthabusby.bsky.social it's made their chatbots more "human" and "free-thinking."

95 extra judicial killings as of today.

🇦🇺 Australia's leaders agreed on Monday to toughen gun laws after attackers killed 15 people at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach, the country's worst mass shooting in decades decried as antisemitic "terrorism" by authorities ➡️ u.afp.com/S7z5

With the Epstein files due to be released at the end of this week, I wrote about building a pipeline for @afp.com to analyze text at scale with Google Gemini and a cloud database: corinfaife.co/posts/email-...

New! We worked with the Public Interest Research Group to test a bunch of LLM-driven toys ahead of the Christmas. That sexual talking teddy bear wasn't a one-off; it turns out disturbing behavior is deeply built into these toys across the board.

I don't usually use Claude Code so I didn't know how fast it burns through tokens 🫣

I'm hiring a Director of Product Engineering for our product team at @propublica.org. If you're an engineering leader in the US who wants to truly make a difference, we're a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuses of trust in the public interest. Please consider joining us. #amhiring

A FOIA search - not even a release - for a single document will take nearly a year. It's hard to think of a more clear example of WHY whistleblowers, leakers, and journalists are essential for the public's right to know.

Working on a blog post.

“It’s essentially technology tailor-made for political retribution and harassment.”

The FBI is seeking companies to help them integrate AI into drones, per this request for information. Details specify systems that provide facial recognition, license plate detection, and movement tracking from a live video feed: sam.gov/workspace/co...

The venue where UN climate talks is taking place just caught on fire. Metaphors really write themselves these days...

Now that’s a lede. Story by @taracopp.bsky.social and @michelleboorstein.bsky.social. Read here: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Reclaiming my status as an out-of-touch coastal media elite

NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials. “Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."

So apparently Noam Chomsky was emailing Epstein.

NEWS👀👀: After many years in the wilds of freelancing, I start TODAY as a full-time staff reporter for @theintercept.com My beat: -The FBI! -Trump's purges and reshuffling of federal law enforcement and courts! -The invasion of American cities by ICE/CBP/National Guard! -ETC!

Top Mamdani-leaning neighborhoods, top Cuomo-leaning neighborhoods, and results from the highest-turnout areas: www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... And the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I became a US citizen 25 days ago and let me tell you, I am ready to vote!!!

"FOR THREE YEARS, NOTHING WILL BE PASSED, AND REPUBLICANS WILL BE BLAMED" Trump seems genuinely panicked about losing the midterms.

Also pictured: a graph of who wants those Halloween-only "I voted" stickers.

Fellow Bluesky users: I admit that have still not 'got into' this website, in the same way that I was into Twitter. What am I overlooking in terms of getting the most value, and fun, out of it?

NYC mayor election: with the 9 day early voting period over, the demographic that cast the most votes were between 25-35 years old! This reverses the previous trend from days 1 - 5 only, and in theory, heavily favors Mamdani.

Though it's true there's a 'Boomer bump' in early voters for the NYC mayoral election as reported by Gothamist etc., there's another large but less well-reported peak for voters in their late 20's and early 30's, as the data I got from the Board of Elections shows:

There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles. Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8

Louvre theft. Putting together what we do at BBC Verify with what the Visual Journalism can do to make a picture-first story work. (The industry term is a “scrolly”.) Really pleased I could contribute toward this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Trump suggested just yesterday that he could relocate World Cup matches from cities deemed "unsafe" (i.e. Democrat-run), but a contract solicitation posted today by DHS shows the agency is still looking for hotel rooms in the 11 original host cities: sam.gov/workspace/co...

Where we stand, in long arc of history: -Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people. -Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites. I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

New: Records obtained by the @aclum.bsky.social show police across the state are conducting dragnet surveillance of motorists and sharing their location information with cops in states that have banned abortion and gender affirming care, and those that work w/ICE data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f...

Due to the government shutdown, CBP claims not to have enough money to update its website, though it *does* have the money to keep hiring more border officers.