Normalize reporters telling Trump to fuck off.

The top 2026 X accounts gives insight into the lie that X is the town square. These people are niche celebrities and their influence on X does not represent influence elsewhere. Your participation is not going to change this graph www.natesilver.net/p/social-med...

This is *insane*. How do you close down one of the busiest parts of one of the busiest cities in the world.

Looking to throw some money behind a queer & trans led organization this Pride? Look no further than @fightforthefuture.org !

SignalTrace "links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate." It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

We proudly fly the Pride Flag above the Illinois State Capitol this month.

Just to be clear, social media ‘bans’, age verification, ‘device-level’ control over sexual images etc. all *increase* the power of the tech giants and the tech bros. They hand over enforcement and monitoring to the tech giants. They all give more data and more control to the tech giants.

Lawmakers must reject VPN bans to ensure that U.S. journalists can rely on this important privacy tool, and that all Americans remain free to access information online. Now is not the time to outlaw resources that can keep our freedoms secure.

67 is an industry plant to replace the inherently sexualized 69 with something more palatable to the prudish masses

In a groundbreaking move, Massachusetts has taken a stand against data brokers by allowing residents to sue if their location data is misused. Could this reshape privacy laws across the U.S. and protect vulnerable communities? 🔍

New: we've obtained a DHS document outlining ICE's plan to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...

We have to end his power in November. It is life or death.

always searching for the channels you care about in a large Discord server? you can now pin channels to the top of your channel list in any server, giving you quick access to them!

An energy we so badly need these days more than ever #TCMParty #TheBluesBrothers

Screwworm confirmed in Texas in the midst of having the worst imaginable people in charge. I guess we’re gonna have to keep getting hammered by infectious disease until we realize public health has a point.

Jail and prison are incredibly unsafe. There is no safe jail. The important thing to keep in mind when reading these stories is that the answer is always to let people be free (not to hire more doctors). apnews.com/article/ice-...

A new op-ed in the Washington Times finally says the quiet part out loud: Fascism demands sexual repression. "Pornography corrodes the exact social foundation that supports national strength... A society marked by loneliness, weakened families and diminished social trust becomes brittle."

If you’re one of our many readers who wants an electric car that won’t track you, Slate might have what you’re looking for.

when did leftists become enamored with intellectual property enforcement? please understand that copyright and trademark are and always have been regimes designed to benefit very large corporations and wealthy "rights" holders the idea these systems help artists and small businesses is a fuckin lie

Forty-six people, including members of the press, were arrested last night at the Delaney Hall protest. The authorities justified these arrests because protesters were carrying helmets, masks, and shields. When the state treats citizens as enemies for simply seeking protection… ITS FASCISM!

California’s age-bracketing regime is a recipe for censorship and a privacy disaster. AB 1856 was supposed to fix these flaws before the law goes into effect next year, but our core problem with the bill remains. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Now is a good time to remember that Meta has announced that it is laying off 10% of its workforce, including 2,000 people just today, while going in on a "AI will replace workers" strategy. www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Posting in favor of a censorship & surveillance bill (which will negatively affect everyone, but especially affect the LGBTQ+ community), on June 1st (the first day of Pride Month) is terrible optics IMO I'm tired of "protecting kids" being used to erode our rights and implement mass surveillance 😡

The First Amendment is your permit.

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data.

NEW: Protesters call for Lowe’s to cancel their contract with Flock & remove Flock cameras from stores nationwide, starting in San Francisco. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

✊🏽LETS GO - DEFLOCK SAN FRANCISCO!! Join us today at 4pm deets in graphic below 👇🏽 @securejustice.bsky.social @indivisiblesf.bsky.social @bayresistance.bsky.social @aptpaction.bsky.social

"Do I give up my privacy or do I burn all my progress and then just go to a different company and try and find somebody else, and start over?" www.404media.co/headway-ther...

Silencing freedom of the press. Essential for all dictators.

Today Oura announced the Ring 5, a nearly $500 wearable which locks you into a monthly subscription fee to even really use the data generated about your own health. Or, you could use Cracked Oura, which someone made to bypass the need for a monthly sub www.404media.co/cracked-oura...

Nothing good will come of this. "Headway is telling clients in customer support chats and emails that it will use the third-party vendor Persona to verify identities, according to emails viewed by 404 Media. Persona is part of the portfolio of Founder's Fund, Peter Thiel’s investment firm"

This seems like something Captain Brainworm's HHS would be verrrrrrrrrrrry interested in getting #MentalHealth patients to do. Instant database of everyone on #antidepressants. Or who are #autistic. Or gay or #trans. Or have substance abuse issues. Or are otherwise "undesirable" under the regime.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement inked a new contract to teach agents how to pull data from encrypted Apple products like iPhones & Macbooks, a newly published contract reveals. ICE awarded a $211,618 contract to the Delaware-based Sumuri for classes and software to break Apple encryption.

NEW: Chicago police responded 4 minutes faster to the most serious 911 calls for help in the 6 months after Mayor Brandon Johnson scrapped the city’s controversial ShotSpotter gunshot detection system in 12 South & West side neighborhoods, an analysis of Chicago crime data shows. @wttw.bsky.social

DHS is getting sued for the truth about its "domestic terrorism watchlist" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

John Deere won't let farmers repair their own tractors. The US Air Force can't fix its own fighter jets. These absurd situations stem from copyright protections designed to stop people from recording movies on VCRs 40 years ago, extended onto new technology.

ICE is expanding its use of iris recognition technology, with plans to deploy hundreds of scanning devices across the country. The practice raises concerns among privacy experts that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing a database of biometric data. n.pr/4dAMaAo

One lawsuit alleges that since 2011, at least 72 people have died under the care of Armor Correctional Health Services when it delayed hospitalizing patients.

"So a law sold as protecting children’s data will, in reality, build databases of children’s and parents’ government IDs, held by the same tech companies the bill treats as untrustworthy." Age verification has never been about protecting children. reclaimthenet.org/south-caroli...

BusPatrol plans to scan the license plates of all vehicles the buses drive past, and then let law enforcement search that data. The plan would essentially turn school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles.

NEW: She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. Emily Waldorf’s case shows how abortion bans have left hospital lawyers, not doctors, deciding who gets care — and how lawmakers and regulators have failed to change that.

Genuine question: how do we make Bluesky more functional for artists? I really want to get off Meta platforms, but I'll be honest that I feel stuck there because it's the only place people seem to engage with music, find events, etc Bluesky is great for hot takes and activism. Art? Not so much imo

They pepper sprayed a Senator.

I knew some homeless people in Los Angeles They weren't drug addicts & they sure as hell weren't animal abusers They were decent people who could NOT find an affordable place to live Fuck Spencer Pratt:

Being poor and unhoused is not a crime: Advocates challenge Mayor Smiley and the Providence Police to stop the abuse "We are not interested in living in a city where our solution is to kick people out of their homes and off the streets, leaving them with nowhere to go. That is not public safety."

Person X: How can you not support Gavin Newsom for POTUS Me: He supported exiling and incarcerating unhoused people and supported the Grant's Pass decision by SCOTUS ...dead to me

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines