NEW: The FBI has launched "domestic terrorism" investigations into anti-ICE activity across the US. Some cases are under Trump's NSPM-7 order to crackdown on "anti-fascism" and "anti-Americanism." Docs obtained by @propertyofthepeople.org + shared w/ Guardian include FBI map of cases in 30+ states:

“…the feature helps Ring determine who is visiting your house based on their apparel, actions, and what they are holding, and responds accordingly.” Doorbells with dress codes now. 🤷🏿‍♂️

NEW STORY: Three nursing home residents died because employees of UnitedHealth Group helped delay or deny them critical hospital care, 2 pending lawsuits and a complaint to state authorities have alleged 🧵 on our 6,000 word story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

For months, I've been talking to providers and researchers across the country to understand how the Trump administration's immigration policies are impacting reproductive health. The story is out today in @rewirenewsgroup.com. I hope you'll give it a read: rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/12/17/i...

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Among those murdered in Sydney is Rabbi Eli Schlanger.  Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger’s son Nossen became bar mitzvah, reading from a Torah that tied his family back generations, both to devastating loss and to Jewish resilience. www.australianjewishnews.com/an-incredibl...

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Bystander tackles and wrestles gun from alleged gunman during Bondi beach mass shooting

Mass shooting targeting attendees at a Jewish cultural event in AUS. 11 known deaths. “Hundreds had gathered for an event at Bondi Beach called Chanukah by the Sea, which was celebrating the start of the Jewish festival...” www.npr.org/2025/12/14/g...

“All three women encountered by the Colorado hospital staff were reluctant to take their monitors off, fearing that doing so would trigger an alert to ICE or BI Inc, the staff said, even if removing the device was deemed medically necessary.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. They’re too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when it’s medically necessary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"They’re asking themselves what they can get away with in terms of violating civil liberties for these patients,” the employee said. “That’s the true pilot program: how far can they overreach?” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly: - DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems - Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

An incredibly important story. "Her delivery wasn’t progressing the way the care team hoped, and she needed a C-section... To prevent possible burning and electrocution, patients are instructed to take off all jewelry or metals before the surgery. The mandatory watch had no way to be easily removed"

A woman facing preeclampsia was afraid to take off her tracking device, even after medical staff warned her it could cut off her circulation. Another woman panicked bc staff had to cut off her device to prevent electrocution during her c-section. From @jmbooyah.bsky.social

Healthcare workers tell @jmbooyah.bsky.social that ICE “smartwatches” that cannot be removed are causing confusion, fear and delays in the hospital’s ability to care for pregnant women. Horrifying.

“Staff eventually did remove the device, and ICE agents did not show up at the hospital during the delivery. The nurses said they do not know what happened to the woman after she left the hospital with her baby.”

“They’re looking at people who literally can’t speak up, who have no legal resources, who are not American citizens, and are pregnant. They’re asking themselves what they can get away with in terms of violating civil liberties for these patients.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security said that Hillary Clinton sought to sweep aside young people’s moral opposition to genocide by incorrectly blaming social media and “propaganda.” “Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit amount to outright genocide denial.”

This, btw, is my last story for a bit as I head off on maternity leave. In lieu of gifts, please read and share the story.

New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. They’re too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when it’s medically necessary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

spoke to afghan families & leaders who say the community has been targeted w/ calls to check in at ICE field offices, agents arresting folks at work, barging into homes in early morning etc, for this story w/ @andreacastillo.bsky.social @racheluranga.bsky.social www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

"In a place such as Storey county, which...has an avg rainfall of...11in a year, some locals fear the datacenters’ demands could decimate already scarce resources. That includes the Pyramid Lake Paiute, a Native American tribe that has lived downriver from where the industrial center now sits."

Great photos, great story: Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Irish authorities asked to investigate Microsoft over alleged unlawful data processing by IDF

Excrement encryption exaggerated.

I am looking to speak with individuals about their affordability concerns and issues they're experiencing this holiday season and the impact on their families. Please reach out to me at [email protected] or direct message me here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...

reminder that people in the US government keep trying to ban regulation of AI.

This is going to be a mess. “Minneapolis police chief, Brian O’Hara, asked residents of the Twin Cities who see masked individuals purporting to be law enforcement officials to call 911…citing this summer’s killing of Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Okay, this is deeply intriguing: adversarial poetry prompts have a significantly higher rate of jailbreak success on nearly every model the researchers tried. Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is a heartwarming story about how true art can transcend all barriers www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

America 2025.

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

📢 BREAKING 📢 We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: www.eff.org/press/relea...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

This one is a LONG time coming. @eff.org sues over San Jose’s warrantless use of automated listened plate readers to conduct mass surveillance of people’s movements.

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine: hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...

We’ve reached the stage of pregnancy where my maternity jeans are too tight.

By me: One in every 25 participants at Cop30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, outnumbering every country delegation apart from Brazil, and as Indigenous peoples struggle to get a seat at the table www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"NYPD has used facial recognition and selective enforcement against certain NYPD critics." "[T]wo men were wrongly targeted by facial recognition at the [2019] New Year's Eve celebration [..] for not dancing and speaking a Middle Eastern language." #NewYork #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Technology

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Our latest (with Joseph Gedeon): www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I think @damonberes.com nailed this one: Social media is not social anymore, and with the pivot to AI, companies that build social media are building something that is isolating us even more www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

George Santos lived in Huntington, Long Island before becoming a member of Congress. He lived in the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey after that.

Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of an LA Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler in the backseat. His mother spoke about the "very, very frightening" incident: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This will be *interesting*: Tinder to begin accessing your camera roll for “insight” & training its AI models #privacy #AI techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/t...

YES WE DID PAY US TO STAY HOME AND DO NOTHING

The last New York City mayoral candidate to secure over 1 million votes was John Lindsay in 1969. Zohran Mamdani will be the seventh New York City mayor ever to receive more than 1 million votes.