they want you to sacrifice liberty for their idea of safety, we choose to sacrifice their idea of safety

"Britain, if you're listening, we hope that you can find the emails linking our #predatorinchief who's been squatting in the Oval Office with the same unspeakable crimes that have rid you of your #princeofpredators who's been squatting in your palace...." 😅 […]

"An internet-connected Google Nest camera captured an unidentified person in a mask and gloves and carrying a backpack and a gun approaching Guthrie’s home just before her disappearance. FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau was able to collect the video from “backend systems.” Who knew, a […]

@economics_that_works For all of you, people in the back just remember that the huge debt ratios governments are carrying is because lots of money has been printed, and it isn’t being taxed out of existence. Has anyone noticed that corporations and the super rich the epstein class doesn’t pay […]

ICE List: The small European website exposing US immigration agents The Netherlands-based site uses public information and tips to reveal identities of agents involved in crackdowns across US It started as a cheeky response on social media to the US secretary for homeland security. Months […]

Thompson also spent considerable time criticizing #dhs Secretary #kristinoem, who is not here. Thompson is one of several #democrats calling to #impeach Noem. He said her department “has the blood of American citizens on its hands. But she takes no responsibility for anything,” Thompson said […]

Top federal immigration officials answer lawmaker questions On Capitol Hill, leaders for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will answer questions from the House homeland security committee. Rodney […]

EFFecting Change: Get the #flock Out of Our City https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/effecting-change-get-flock-out-our-city #eff #privacy #activism #alpr #surveillance

#immigration Judge Says #trump Admin Cannot Deport #tufts Student The student, #rumeysaozturk, who is from Turkey, was detained by immigration agents last year after she co-wrote a pro-Palestinian opinion article for her student newspaper. #law #constitution #firstamendment #freespeech […]

The lies, non-compliance, delays in compliance - all show the endless bad faith of the Trump regime, from its highest officers to rather low-level ones. It will take decades of reconstruction to return executive branch agencies to abiding by law.

The names of the abusers are in the files. There are graphic descriptions of what they did with underage girls. Where are the arrests? Where are the prosecutions? We’re all just supposed to pretend this is ok and allow them all to walk away? Society is over. Literal pedophiles can have sex […]

Remove Your Ring Camera With a Claw Hammer “With the curved end of a claw hammer, deliver a sharp downward stroke to the device’s top edge. Think of the blow as a slicing or chopping motion. When the unit is severed from your doorway, place it in the trash.” [non-Substack link in comments] […]

"There is no universe in which I will prioritize 'Upload ID' over 'Delete Account'"

It’s 2026 and I hate to be again the guy who states the obvious, but: * Participating to university protests against the supply of weapons to governments who violate human rights shouldn’t result in a campus ban. * The ICE should have no jurisdiction on the activities of American citizens […]

Khanna calls on Trump to TESTIFY before Congress on Epstein. Taking on the Epstein Class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MJDpqcZ9eM

A lot of hate being directed towards Discord for introducing age verification. But when half the governments in jurisdiction you operate in start demanding it, perhaps anger should be directed towards polticans and groups who support it. #discord #privacy #ageverification

Kristi Noem's Muzzling. And now I need to look up a new term. - fascistic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A25aqmdvUiE

Well well well, if it isn't exactly what privacy nerds have been warning about forever! https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/ice_data_advertising_tech_firms/

Looks like someone built a tool to check your LinkedIn network for names from the Epstein documents. Soon I expect other tools will follow to work with other social media platforms. This is what the beginning of what community accountability looks like. Just because the legal system is captured […]

It’s been almost a decade since I wrote a blog post on the State of Mobile XMPP in 2016. Time to start working on an update. The situation has only improved since then, and #xmpp has matured into a solid, feature-rich protocol for federated instant messaging […]

@bruces Any journalist ever to republish Musk's claims should be required by law to also include the video clip of him offering Level 5 self driving cars "next year" for a decade.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub […]

Inspector General Investigating Whether #ice's #surveillance Tech Breaks the Law https://www.404media.co/inspector-general-investigating-whether-ices-surveillance-tech-breaks-the-law/ #politics #dhs #privacy

#epstein survivors ad on this #superbowl

LAWYER: Sneaky Ways Police are WATCHING You & How to Stop It. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgFPL-Mv47Q

Yes, American Christianity Is Cruel On Purpose. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd76uNMpXIc

The billionaire media is laying off great tech journalists in crazy quantities this year - replacing them with AI and sycophants. This would be a great time to throw some dollars, euros, pounds, or dollarydoos to @flipboard.com/@404media, @ProPublica or another independent outlet.

Could Mandelson’s Epstein Ties Bring Down Starmer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUumjm-7iYE

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

@skinnylatte we saw a Chevron billboard with a photo of a scientist in a lab. The messaging said “AI is proudly powered by Chevron”. While so many companies are downplaying the energy usage of their server farms, it was interesting to see a huge oil company bragging about all the new business […]

The Epstein files provide a rare window into how he reacted and strategized in real time to the political and cultural earthquake of #metoo #epstein https://19thnews.org/2026/02/jeffrey-epstein-files-tracked-metoo-fallout/

Olympic Figure Skater Quits Social Media After MAGA Backlash https://www.thedailybeast.com/olympic-figure-skater-amber-glenn-quits-social-media-after-maga-backlash/

Four Big Tech Companies Avoid $51 Billion in Taxes in Wake of #trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act “ The annual financial reports recently released by #amazon, #alphabet, #meta, and #tesla disclose that these corporations collectively reported $315 billion in US profits for 2025. Yet they […]

Interesting developments in Texas: – Hundreds of Texas public school students walk out to protest ICE killings https://www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/texas-students-protest-ice-capitol/ — A Manly (probably MAGA) Man in Texas assaults a teenage student protestor […]

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In a wide-ranging live conversation, MIT President Sally Kornbluth joined Jim Braude and Margery Eagan live in studio for GBH’s Boston Public Radio on Thursday, February 5. They talked about MIT, the pressures facing America’s research enterprise, the importance of science, that Congressional […]

terrorizing our coworkers with the power of `tcpdump` and our extensive understanding of TLS, as one does

This story, by Pooja Salhotra and Jazmine Ulloa, has multiple examples of: - person with legal status going about their business gets kidnapped off the streets by ICE in Minnesota - ICE has no interest in IDs proving legal status, and ships the person off to a detention center in El Paso, Texas […]

When Rights Become Conditional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw613PCjFtQ

How is it that we end up with so fucking many people who don't want to leave a better world to the next generation? Like isn't that one of those fundamental things of being a good adult?

nbd, just a satellite we launched, orbiting another planet, checking in to Australia from a hundred million miles away at transfer rates I lusted over when I first got on the Internet. https://bot.country/@dsn_status/statuses/01KGTPJEB9WG5M6H2Y280BN0XM

RE: https://union.place/@propublicaguild/115934821150669685 Thread is kind of shocking given the kind of work @ProPublica does

“Mona Charen: @thebulwark.com MAGA may look huge—but even a few Republicans staying home or independents flipping could tip elections. Its power isn’t as solid as it seems. #Midterms #MAGA” www.thebulwark.com/p/how-big-is...

🚨 MAGA Ambassador Meltdown 🚨 U.S. ambassador to Poland goes nuclear on parliament speaker for snubbing Trump’s Nobel fantasy — cutting all contact over “outrageous insults.” NATO ally or MAGA drama stage? 🇺🇸🤯🇵🇱 #TrumpWatch #DiplomaticDisaster #MAGA www.thedailybeast.com/maga-ambassa...

Trump’s racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it @apnews.com Trump’s social media post featuring former President Barack Obama & Michelle Obama, as primates was deleted after backlash from Republicans & Democrats who criticized video as racist.