Seventeen years of worrying...

Let's not call a second strike to kill survivors a "double tap".

I was on a fascinating panel put on by Helen Maria Nugent at CCA about AI and Art: Contemplating an Algorithmic Future, as part of CCA's After Intelligence event. My presentation, on AI and surveillance, is available here after-intelligence.cca.edu/events/day-1...

Bend the knee, get screwed over twice. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Israel hacked security cameras, phones to track Khamenei - FT | Iran International share.google/YT0LnRFYKNMC...

In case it wasn't clear, we are the dogs. And we're not lost. www.404media.co/leaked-email...

Unlike, say, data analytics giant Palantir, Ring is a surveillance network that homeowners have by and large deployed themselves, powered by fear mongering against our neighbors and unfettered consumerism. www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t... In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from DHS. This explosion is because they want to punish people for resisting their violent, discriminatory deportation campaign.

CIS Affiliate @granick.bsky.social reviews Orin Kerr's "The Digital Fourth Amendment," agreeing with his "equilibrium-adjustment" theory but criticizing his cautious approach to tech surveillance & his 1920s baseline that ignores racism in policing harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

I'm delighted that the Harvard Law Review has published a book review of "The Digital Fourth Amendment." The review, by @granick.bsky.social, is here. harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

The email that launched a 99-day DHS investigation. The investigation is over — but not the concerns it raises. Today, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/dhss-inves...

@orinkerr.bsky.social wrote an excellent book, The Digital Fourth Amendment, and I wrote a review of it. harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/u... Here's where you can buy the book: a.co/d/04G3OPoz

DHS is waging a bi-coastal assault on the free speech rights of people speaking truth about power. Last fall, in a separate case, the agency unsuccessfully sought the identity of our client who discusses ICE activity on Instagram. www.aclunorcal.org/press-releas...

Bay Area friends: I'll be speaking at this California College of the Arts event tomorrow, talking about the use of AI in the criminal system. There'll be other cool speakers too. RSVP! It's free... after-intelligence.cca.edu

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Homeland Security is targeting Americans who criticize it with unfounded investigations fueled by judicially-unsupervised administrative subpoenas. This article tells the story of our client who was so targeted. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

ICE 🇺🇸 has been on a surveillance shopping spree www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

It's easy to call your Senator and tell them to vote "no" on ICE funding: act.aclu.org/a/ice-out-se...

The New York Times excels at reporting based on video analysis. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

The Cato Institute is hiring a full-time Executive Power Scholar: recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j... #jobs

ACLU's Disability Rights Program is hiring a Deputy Project Director based in San Francisco or Washington, D.C. #jobs www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

If a foreign country bombed us (killing noone-is-reporting-how-many Americans) and loaded Trump onto an airplane for a foreign prison, would we call it "regime change" or an invasion? Would we say Trump was "captured", or abducted? News needs to use the right words, not euphemisms.

I gave money to San Francisco Aid for Animals, a nonprofit that helps pay for medical care for animals whose families cannot afford the treatment. There are few greater joys in life than the love between a pet and an owner, and money shouldn't be allowed to come between them. www.sfafa.org

I gave money to the SF-Marin food bank. Food insecurity is real, especially when kids aren't in school, where estimates are that almost 20% of all kids rely on free lunch for their nutrition. With cuts to SNAP programs, families don't know if they are going to have enough to eat. It's immoral.

#jobs with the excellent Brennan Center: Technology Policy Strategist, for someone with a graduate degree or equivalent experience in computer science, public policy, law or a related field: brennancenter.applytojob.com/apply/7G4Zjj.... This position is based in their NY office. 1/2

My first book, Takeover, was about Dick Cheney's quest to expand presidential power (or "restore" it, as he saw it, to the level it had reached when Nixon was president, before Watergate). First two chapters, including Cheney's rise, free here: charliesavage.com/books/takeov...

How can it be that Dick Cheney was 84 this entire time?

www.aclu.org/careers/appl... These are the best jobs. #jobs

I know you're busy. We're all busy. But it is SO, SO important to show up for freedom and democracy on Saturday. There are hundreds of events planned; find one near you here: www.nokings.org

Find a demonstration near you: www.nokings.org#map

www.acludc.org/jobs/staff-a... #jobs

@flohmann.bsky.social on Prop. 50: "for those who hate this partisan gerrymandering race to the bottom, I hear you, but a principled stand in California won’t restore fairness in the face of gerrymandering everywhere else" docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's great that some of the charges against journalist @bubbaprog.xyz were thrown out. We needed some good news. We wrote last year about why the rest should be tossed too. It's not journalists' job to keep corporations' secrets, and it's not computer fraud when they report what they find online.

ACLU SoCal is hiring! #jobs They are looking for a Senior Staff Attorney or Staff Attorney to work full-time on our Immigrants’ Rights team, with a focus on Kern County. www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

@nyclu.org (New York Civil Liberties Union) is hiring for a two-year litigation and related-advocacy position – the Richard Feldman Legal Fellowship – which will primarily focus on the rights of LGBTQ communities and gender equity. recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

New Hampshire has a Right of Revolution clause: “...Whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. 1/2

The ACLU of Florida @aclufl.bsky.social is hiring for an IR staff-attorney position as well as a supervising-attorney position that will ideally include a partial focus in either IR or 1A. www.aclufl.org/jobs/supervi... www.aclufl.org/jobs/staff-a...

51st.news/dc-residents... I've been guilty of saying that we are "powerless" against the deportation machine, but I was being too grandiose. DC shows us how to "look for the helpers", and find ways to be one.

SFO-LAS for #BlackHat25. Unfortunately can't stay through the weekend :-( but I'm hoping to see friends, not get locked into the utility stairway like that one time, and give a great talk on Thursday morning.

How is it possible that a far right podcaster Jack Posobiec, quoted in like the 15th paragraph, is the only person in this article who realizes that the woman serving a 20 year sentence might have an incentive to lie so that she can get a pardon from Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The @nytimes.com deserves credit for the video analysis reporting it does, like this important story: How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters www.nytimes.com/video/world/...

Has this happened to anyone else? Arriving SFO, I declined to have my photo taken at immigration. At some point, CBP asked me were whether I like to read, if I had any books with me, and ¡what the titles were! I asked why they ask and agent said that in the scanner, books can look like currency. 1

Why is the press reporting that the concentration camp plan is for immigrants who are here illegally? ICE is currently deporting people here legally, including a smattering of American citizens. That's not going to change. So, the camps will be for brown people. Just say the truth, MSM.

Why adopt the euphemism "regime change"? It's overthrowing a foreign government.

Good for the NYT presenting interviews with Iranians endangered by missile strikes. We don't see a lot of coverage of Iranian civilians. International news is an economic loss for newspapers, but so very important.

Yes, NYT. ICE agents arrested him. Why does the Washington Post say he was detained? Detained means stopped and delayed. Arrested is what happens when you are pushed up against the wall and taken away in handcuffs. Which is what these ICE agents did. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...