I wonder if the audience of police at this conference Noem is speaking at is aware that everyone is watching?

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

Thank you to EVERYONE who helped supply the Whistle Crew with filament via our team-up with @protopasta.bsky.social! This is just ONE of several deliveries they made to larger cities all over the country. Every time folks gave $20, they gave us WAY more than $20 worth of filament! 💓

We watched Karina Villa chase down ICE in a suit and heels, telling them to get out of her community. Margaret Croke intentionally panicked white parents about their selective enrollment schools vanishing if neighborhood schools received additional funding. This race is ICE whistles vs. dogwhistles.

ALPRs are “incredibly ripe for abuse,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @SFstandard.com. “No matter how many legal or bureaucratic guardrails you put on those searches, officers are going to find a way to use it for their own personal reasons.” sfstandard.com/2026/02/27/...

Kristi Noem must go now. It's long past time she steps down, and it doesn't excuse her from justice or accountability. She believes she’s above the law while taking away fathers from children with cancer and mothers being shot in the face by her agents. We demand answers.

‘I have never wanted to suggest that my wartime experiences were any more important or heroic than any other pilot. But so many of them are gone now and I am still here. Their words deserve to be heard’ - Wedge Antilles 'Star Wars: Star Pilots' Oct 2026 (DK) geni.us/StarWarsStar...

This was a war of choice - there was no reason *after the US did a huge NEO operation just a few years ago* not to have all this planned out ahead of time.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it. We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

If you aren't following @shayan86.bsky.social, start now. His fact checking is the best of the best. Here's his latest look at the fake posts about the US/ Iran war.

We’re need a Digital Right to Privacy and Security Act that forbids companies and governments from being able to conduct this kind of constant warrantless surveillance.

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

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OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

I have a lot of thoughts swirling around but the one gnawing at me the most is why do this in the middle of the day (Tehran time) rather than at night when a lot of these buildings (including the school) would be empty?

I knew as soon as Flock issued a big statement it meant something was coming down the pipe

found myself considering a legal explainer about why the government can’t lie their way into a residence to kidnap someone and then was like wait why the fuck would I need to explain that

How do we get a wire service going with all the non-profit independent / local media? (Block Club, The Triibe, 404, Hells Gate, ect?)

Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones. I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below. www.404media.co/the-governme...

You mean this Flock? www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

I’m not sure there’s any way they could have done more damage to public safety than lying about tracking down a missing kid so they could go abduct a university student on campus

This is full on dystopian straight out of a cyberpunk story - and as @cydharrell.bsky.social says - Cyberpunk was a Warning

So Amazon Ring cancelled its partnership with Flock Safety after a wave of backlash from the public over it's new Search Party feature due to the obvious ways the company is blanket surveilling entire communities- what's next? 🪡🧵... www.theverge.com/news/878447/...

This is why people are so upset when people say Democrats need to stop focusing on trans issues because it's too woke and people aren't ready for it: we're not talking minor inconvenience here. We're not talking microaggressions We're talking: they are stripping IDs from trans people

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vindictive, vicious cruelty designed to humiliate and criminalize every trans person in kansas horrifying fascist shit reminiscent of the runup to the literal holocaust

I don’t have a good current status, but Flock is trying this with Evanston too. They were the first to terminate the contract in the area (versus not renewing) and were instantly sued. That makes it tough for smaller cities because the natural instinct for a corporation counsel is ‘avoid lawsuits’

Hey, #chicago let’s get Ranked Choice Voting before we are again swamped by candidates for Mayor. Next step: tell state lawmakers to pass #illinois SB2004 and provide needed clarity for municipalities to pass laws that stick. @indivisiblechicago.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/25/o...

IL 09 has made a lot of people I know start talking about ranked choice voting 🧐

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I bet that if we had a ranked choice voting system this would be different - mainly that Amiwala and Simmons would be much higher up (Voters who’d like to vote for them but are worried that they’d end up with Fine)

Or — hear me out — maybe, don't build a product capable of domestic surveillance or fully autonomous lethal ops to begin with? How is this difficult.

Vendors not delivering on contracts is a common problem and none of the remedies involve bullying or racist language. I mean, there’s a ton of civic tech people in Chicago who could give advice on best practices but not the point here

The US Justice Department disclosures give fresh clues about how tech companies handle government inquiries about your data. www.wired.com/story/heres-...

Broadview is a site of torture

Using data from the Data Liberation Project, @pubhealthwatch.bsky.social created an interactive map to learn about the 40 refineries that use the potentially lethal chemical, their accident histories and worst-case scenarios. publichealthwatch.org/2026/02/12/h...

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual. (also, someone please make me Nell's veil, thx)

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

How does Chicagoland buy back WGN and make it community owned?

In January 2025, Illinois Policy Institute president Matt Paprocki published an essay on the State Policy Network website explaining his organization's strategy. He called it the "blue city strategy." I'm going to quote him directly because you should read this in his own words.

It is a vile scandal that 2 of the biggest AI companies in the world attack children by inciting them to self-harm, and by generating sexually exploitative imagery of kids for profit. I wanted to document this so that people in tech will stop saying they don't know: www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/t...

An Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights spokesperson tells me they've gotten word of people recently being detained during immigration check-ins at the Broadview, IL ICE facility. They said ICIRR has also gotten word of people with asylum cases having check-ins moved up to this week.

There's a person who has requested more than 12,000 whistles at this point because they command a volunteer army of 700 and are committed to getting whistles into the hands of basically everyone in their community. Maybe that person is YOU in yours. toot.supply