Clarence Okoh (TTJ) breaks down what AI weapons detection can truly do in schools: more surveillance, false alarms, and harm for students. We all want safe schools, but not at that cost. undark.org/2026/02/13/a...

Freedom isn’t just a vote. It’s being able to show up, organize, and live without your phone turning into a tracking device. ICE is scaling surveillance through private vendors, widening the net to target citizens and non-citizens, including at protests.

The “New Jim Code” (Ruha Benjamin) names how “neutral” tech can reinforce racial inequity under the banner of efficiency. So the question is: Who benefits, and who pays the price? Head to our website to learn more.

At TechTonic Justice, we’re uplifting the legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson, who passed away earlier this week. A lion of justice movements in the U.S. and abroad, his life reminds us that systems do not change on their own. It’s up to us to make the systems better.

We’re honored to have TTJ’s Civil Rights and Technology Attorney, Clarence Okoh, join Color Of Change’s Black Tech Town Hall: AI, Algorithms, and the Costs to Our Future on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, at 8:00 PM ET on Zoom.

We’re looking for new additions to our team of Do-gooders this year as we expand and focus our work on key states in 2026. There are two positions in California and one in Arkansas. Come join us! More details below 🧵 Link to apply in bio. Deadline to apply is March 1st.

New workplace metrics just dropped: clicks, pauses, mouse wiggles, break time A slow day becomes a suspicion. A quiet hour becomes a warning. Because nothing says “we value our team” like tracking your every movement. That’s not management; it’s a threat to keep you in line... 💔

This tax season, your dollars are doing the most 💸 Not for childcare. Not for healthcare. Not for the safety net or your retirement. They’re using your dollars to build undemocratic systems that track dissent, give bonuses to kidnappers, and throw immigrants into inhumane warehouses.

Coverage for them. Consequences for you. They cash the checks. The AI says “denied.” You cover the fallout. Their AI prior authorization systems don’t help you be healthier. They overrule your own doctors in deciding what you need. 💔

How can we resist AI injustice? This week, the STIA program hosted the annual Loewy Lecture featuring Kevin De Liban, founder & president of @techtonicjustice.bsky.social. He discussed how AI weakens public systems & harms marginalized communities, urging for accountability & collective action.

Move fast, break wages, bad bots do it well ❣️The algorithm catches the blame. The billionaires keep the bonus.

Landlords adore AI. After all, the math is simple: Black-box tenant scores + unexplained rejections + higher rents = more money in their pockets. Whether they box you out or box you in, they can always send you packing.

Big Tech and this AI-loving president are K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes 'love.' It begins with showering tech giants with generous handouts and friendly policies.

We appreciated the opportunity to present at and attend this year’s Legal Services Corporation’s Innovations and Technology Conference.

Want to know the latest happenings at TechTonic Justice? We've got job openings in California and Arkansas, new teammates, new resources to fight coming Medicaid cuts, new media appearances, and a whole bunch of general freshness! Check it out in our latest newsletter. Sign-up link in thread

It’s a new year, and it’s time for some new introductions! At the end of 2024, our founder, Kevin De Liban, started TechTonic Justice. It’s incredible how we’re starting 2026 with an outstanding team of Do-gooders ready to fight to end poverty and for justice for all.

As we build upon such radical imagination, we have to understand a key truth: there’s no AI in freedom.

We’re looking for new additions to our team of Do-gooders this year as we expand and focus our work on key states in 2026. There are two positions in California and one in Arkansas. Come join us! More details below 🧵 Link to apply in bio. Deadline to apply is Feb 22nd.

Interested in learning more about how technology furthers injustice but don’t know where to start? These are our current TTJ reads (and where to find them). We know how daunting times feel right now. As the AI hype is “byte”-ing everything in sight, don’t let it swallow you whole.

AI’s usefulness as a tool of authoritarianism couldn’t be clearer: ICE is using AI to abduct people off the streets, out of their homes, and at schools, and to retaliate against anyone who stands up to them.

Dr.King’s words still ring loud and true. When machines and AI, profit, greed, and property rights are treated as more important than people, systems of oppression like poverty, racism, and authoritarianism don’t merely survive; they scale, and they scale hard.

Starting off 2026 right! Here’s the link to an MS NOW (MSNBC) interview with TTJ president @kevindeliban.bsky.social about the powerful people pushing AI and the hurt they’re inflicting on real people right now. This is the heart of our work. Let us know what you think! youtu.be/dXvZYpHWb8c?...

Heard about Medicaid cuts and want to do something to help people keep their health insurance? Share this *BRAND NEW* best-practice guide written by us, @upturn.org, and @nhelp.bsky.social, with people in your state who work on Medicaid, esp. state officials and advocates. tinyurl.com/BTAHreport

Join the @noticecoalition.bsky.social, @advancementproject.org and the Alliance for Educational Justice for their upcoming speaker series on Ending Youth Surveillance. Sign up link here: www.tciamn.org/noticecoalit...

Feeling overjoyed to share that we made it to the 🔝 We're one of the most-listened-to podcasts of 2025—and it happened because people are ready to confront tech power. Listen here: www.techpolicy.press/interrogatin...

💫New Year New Us—We’re hitting the ground running. From shaping a bold strategic plan to building the team that will bring it to life, 2026 is about momentum and purpose.

Our founder and president Kevin spoke with MS NOW about the rampant harms AI is already causing low-income communities. Here’s a snippet. More to follow once the whole segment is posted.

Big Tech is rapidly building out data centers to power AI—without adequate oversight, transparency, or accountability. @publiccitizen.bsky.social has released a new report revealing who truly benefits from the acceleration of AI across all sectors of society, and who is left to pay the price.⬇️

As we celebrate one year, we’re also looking ahead. The challenges before us are real and urgent, but so are the opportunities. Our next chapter is about scaling our impact, deepening our partnerships, and pushing for lasting change. But we can’t do it alone. We need your story — & your commitment.

Our work begins with a simple, but bold idea: powerful people using AI to decide our fates is not inevitable. At TechTonic Justice, we’re working for a better today and a better tomorrow. And, we want you to join us!

We’ve seen the harms that happen when powerful people use AI to decide how low-income people live, learn, work, and survive. We need more than simple guardrails around AI; we need meaningful ways to reduce, disrupt, and repair the harms people suffer. That’s what our legislative agenda stands for.

In just one year, we’ve made real progress. Every milestone we have hit belongs to you. We’re building collective power that resists harms that AI, algorithms, and related technologies by supporting, coalescing, and catalyzing local justice movements to litigate, educate, and organize.

A year ago, I founded TTJ to fight for the people AI leaves behind. This first year has been a journey of learning, growing, and proving that when vision meets action—incredible things can happen. We are just getting started. Watch how it all began 👇

In our first year, we: -Trained 2,000 people, incl. 1,200 legal aid lawyers fighting frontline injustices -Reached countless more via press + podcasts -Advised people fighting harmful AI in 20 states -Wrote useful guides seen by 17,000 people -Grew to a team of 7 Thanks for your support!

NEW RESEARCH ALERT 🚨 In a new paper, @techequity.bsky.social highlights potential lessons for approaching workforce development or re-skilling against the backdrop of the current moment of AI hype and uncertainty. Check it out: bit.ly/AI-Workforce...

One year ago, TechTonic Justice began as a bold idea: that legal aid, community organizers, and technologists could come together with low-income communities to resist the harms of AI.

Join our partners at @powerswitchaction.org, @justfutureslaw.bsky.social, @datasociety.bsky.social, @nelp.org, @techequity.bsky.social, CoWorker.org, Gig Workers Rising, and Warehouse Worker Resource Center for a cross-issue panel on AI surveillance and what you can do to stop it!💪

Powerful people routinely use AI to make life harder for people who don’t have as much power, particularly low-income folks, immigrants, and communities of color. Here, we see right-wing Wisconsin legislators using AI to justify racist “English-only” policies. 1/

SNAP update: On October 29th, two courts ordered the USDA to release funding from the SNAP contingency fund to ensure that 42 million people do not go hungry despite attempts by President Trump to force families, children, disabled people, and veterans into food insecurity. 🧵

Spooky Season & AI Decision Making Algorithms have one thing in common: STRANGE HAPPENINGS!👻 AI Decision Making algorithms do not go bump in the night, they decide how we live, learn, work and survive. Watch our full video here: tinyurl.com/247ebbhn 🧵1/2

It’s spooky season and something strange is in the air. Have you been denied an apartment, a job, or benefits? AI is often behind these decisions🔎 But we've uncovered some clues to help us identify AI. Check out our latest instagram reel to learn more!🕵️ tinyurl.com/2h64vvyj

⚠️New from our Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub (BTAH) partners at @upturn.org: Calculated Need, exposes how states are outsourcing critical Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) to opaque, profit-driven algorithms. Read it here: www.upturn.org/work/calcula...

THANK YOU to the experts who taught us that AI isn’t new, and we have the power to keep it accountable: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social @techtonicjustice.bsky.social @reclaimphila.bsky.social @amistadlaw.bsky.social @abolitionistlawcenter.org @18millionrising.bsky.social @phillydsa.bsky.social

For all the technologists want to use their skills to advance the cause of justice—join our small, mighty, and growing team to fight the harms that use of AI is causing low-income communities! $120-$150k, 👌 benefits, remote. And, you’ll quickly have legions of adoring fans in the advocacy world.

Our teammate @clarenceokoh.bsky.social co-authored this wonderful essay about a fellowship program that the @noticecoalition.bsky.social created to imagine and enact freedom from the violence that AI is wreaking on marginalized communities, particulary Black youth. Read + share!

AI systems are often used to determine public benefits—but they have been proven to cut off eligible people, deny needed services, and falsely accuse people of fraud. These injustices can’t be made better by having a human simply review and approve the AI: keeping a “human in the loop” isn’t enough.

New job for a technologist w/ extensive experience working on Medicaid (preferred), SNAP, or Unemployment Insurance. They will support advocates to reduce harms to Medicaid recipients intensified by the recent reconciliation bill + also support TTJ’s other advocacy. 10/20 deadline. $120K-$150K.

It’s NYC Climate Week! 🌎 Our partners @ainowinstitute.bsky.social, The Maybe, Common Wealth, and the Climate and Community Institute are co-hosting a livestream on September 24, 2pm PT | 5pm ET about the impacts of the AI data center boom. (1/2)

Big Tech is building huge data centers in the South that increase energy prices and exacerbate environmental harms. We are attending @mediajustice.bsky.social LIVE launch of their new Report + Toolkit to hear from frontline advocates and how we can fight back! Register HERE: bit.ly/DataCentersSouth

New Digital Manager job posting to build out our communications work w/ a focus on community engagement + organizing. Remote, 5+ years experience req’d, pays $75-$95K, great benefits, flexible schedule. Preference for person in the US South. Full details + application process below. Please share!