The time is now to fight the surveillance state. Join our Solidarity Over Surveillance webinar next Wed, June 3 w/ experts @eltragon.bsky.social of @lataco.bsky.social, @safiyanoble.bsky.social, @chadmarlow.bsky.social of @aclu.org, & @attorneynora.bsky.social Details here: bit.ly/fpsossocial

My first legal job was with the Georgia AG office prosecuting white collar & public official crimes. Preventing IRS inquiry into Trump is the biggest news of illegal activity. @froomkin.bsky.social has a great piece on media failure to cover this for what it is: presswatchers.org/2026/05/news...

"Vought is the connective tissue linking different elements of the MAGA coalition... into a machine for advancing the interests of a small minority of oligarchs." Really hard to overstate how important this point is. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/democra...

Waiting for these Georgia results. I don't know if my nerves can take it lol.

A geofence warrant lets police sweep up data on every phone in a defined area during a defined window. Is that constitutional? The Supreme Court will decide in Chatrie v. United States. Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque talks with NACDL's Michael Price, who represents the plaintiff.

“I think a lot of people that we considered when we were operational for three years were very deserving of clemency,” says a North Carolina lawmaker and former judge who served on the state’s now-disbanded Juvenile Sentence Review Board.

For the Tech Policy Press podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke with scholar and former European Commission official Paul Nemitz, who is one of the authors of a new book titled The Open Future and Its Enemies: How We Can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship.

The Georgia Supreme Court race is not a primary. It is Election Day for those nonpartisan races. Make sure you’re voting for Miracle Rankins and Jen Jordan (and Will Wooten and Fatima for appeals court) on Tuesday.

Democratic shakedown USA happening now.

Congratulations to @chanda.blacksky.app on the success of her new book “The Edge of Space Time.” and her NY Times interview! If you haven’t read this book yet — why not?! Pick it up and you won’t be disappointed!! #science #poetry

Join Hammer & Hope at the Black Zine Fair this Saturday, May 9, at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. We’ll be selling limited edition booklets, hoodies, T-shirts, tote bags, and more. See you there! ✊🏿

So here's what lots of folks are thinking about: the midterms are coming. SCOTUS has authorized racial gerrymandering. Trump wants to drive up civil unrest so he can legitimize invoking military presence near polling locations. It's a bad scenario if you play it out. But we ALL have agency to act.

🚨BREAKING: Internal emails between DOJ personnel suggest that, from the very outset of the effort to obtain sensitive voter data from states — much earlier than previously known — officials there planned to share it with the DHS. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Govt & private brokers swapping sensitive info on voters, drivers, biometric data is problematic. When govt buys this data, it violates Fourth Am. search & seizure limits & First Am. privacy & anonymity rights. Also the basis for 2016 election manipulation. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya is reportedly delaying the publication of new findings within the health agency showcasing the strong effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. The report found hospitalization rates drop by 55% amongst vaccinated adults.

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

Ed Blum truly loves nothing more than denying Black kids a college education Gets him out of bed in the morning Puts some pep in his step ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to issue a ruling that could weaken or even eliminate a key part of the Voting Rights Act that’s critical to challenging racial discrimination in election maps. Here’s how this could upend Mississippi:

Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.

I wasn't alive in the US in 1860. I'm alive today and I see the foul shit the government is doing TODAY. I can speak to that from experience. Doesn't mean that I am negating the foul shit from 1860.

Federal immigration agents based in the New York City field office arrested three times as many people in early 2026 compared to the same time period in 2025: gothamist.visitlink.me/fCl2vP

very few sounds sweeter to my ears than a Southern drawl saying “It’s giving war crime. You can’t do that.”

"Schumer takes no action" will be on his tombstone

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

Still thinking about all the folks back in 2023 who didn't want to talk about Project 2025 in hopes it would just blow over.

hmm, what if i told you that it wasn’t

Trump is holding an entire nation hostage. But, somehow, the rest of the world continues on. The markets chug along. Congress continues to be in recess, with dissent confined largely to social media. It is hard not to feel like we have failed some critical test of the bounds of our own humanity.

@thewaywithanoa.bsky.social writes, "We need to clearly map the landscape we are currently operating within and name the harm, because Trump is not alone."

Sometime soon we’re going to see some kind of weird conflict between the right wing Catholics on SCOTUS and the right wing Protestants elsewhere

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

"Cyndie Hutchings, another activist, said opposition to data centers has the potential to swing elections ... 'They tell me that they are lifelong Republican voters, but this has changed the way they’re looking at everything.'" Oh.

On today's episode, we go deep on the Christian influencers pushing for War with Iran. Plus, @akelalacy.bsky.social and I discuss how the war is shaping the midterms. theintercept.com/2026/04/03/t...

States are dogged in their introduction & advancement of bad bills to target free speech, press, access to information. Here’s an excellent piece on a bill I’m disturbed by in GA, where we’re actively fighting for open govt & records: georgiarecorder.com/2026/03/27/g...

Question for fans of Paradise who have also watched Fringe... am I the only one seeing parallels between Sinatra and Walter and Peter and Dylan?

They did this to our organization.

well i dunno who i trust more on this, the most prestigious medical association on earth or four dipshits who asked claude to sum up some cherry picked papers

Resharing this request from a fellow fan: Please respectfully let Paramount know how you feel about the way they're handling this and other Trek series. The head of original series production is Jane Wiseman, at [email protected].

Been meaning to share! Did you know about the Toni Cade Bambara Scholar-Activism Conference at Spelman? It’s organized by students every year & when I was a student I helped organize it! If you’re around Atlanta this weekend it’s an amazing gathering, & they’ll show the new documentary on Bambara.

That's us! Health insurance costs a little more than the mortgage. And everything keeps going up.

During a shutdown, TSA agents go unpaid while ICE agents roam airports, questioning and intimidating travelers. That’s not safety. That’s abuse of power. Know your rights. Stay informed. 👇

tbqh I'm not sure how the math is gonna work out I can imagine Barrett and Kavanaugh joining Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas on v narrow grounds, but I can also imagine them not doing that Roberts didn't say much, and seemed to be on the liberal justices' side when he did, but who knows? 🤷🏾‍♀️

Rick is right that Watson v. RNC should be an easy case That it isn't says much more about the Court than the law

"SCOTUS won't support him" see if you've done your homework on Christian Nationalists then you know SCOTUS is a conservative Catholic stronghold and coincidentally -- conveniently! -- Vance happens to be cut from the same cloth bsky.app/profile/chan...

Lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Ramadan has officially ended. Eid Mubarak! Hoping that we take the lessons of Ramadan into the year and that we offer more compassion to each other and commit to lessening suffering how we can.

I should start recording the scammers who call me and posting them in addition to the reports. Like, why are there so many scams? People are getting ripped off everywhere we turn.

🔔 Join EIPAD for a conversation about the Trump admin's escalating attacks on the First Amendment, featuring @attorneynora.bsky.social, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, and Ben Wizner, moderated by @laurenleharper.bsky.social. 🗓️ March 25, 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT RSVP: umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A new survey suggests around 2 million Americans have lost health insurance after Congress let the subsidies expire.

Trump has nominated as a top Homeland Security official a man who needs to be told that it's not legal to shoot people on the Senate floor.

Oh hell no. Misogynoir leaped out