Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

“The actual state of Palestine” — brilliant front page from UK Observer

US marketing companies are helping to rebrand the genocide in Gaza | Arwa Mahdawi

Women & children are being cast out onto the street b/c the WH illegally froze US foreign aid $$. “Lefteris Papagiannakis, director of the Greek Council for Refugees, says: ‘We are losing the whole of the international protection system that has been in place for the last 80 years in six months.’”

Now do wage theft.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

"The termination is the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza. The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which...will retain access to other services."

Microsoft has terminated the Israeli military’s access to technology it used to operate a powerful surveillance system. The decision to cut off Unit 8200’s ability to use some of its technology results directly from an investigation published by the Guardian & +972 Magazine last month.

Child care in this country works for almost no one, care providers and parents alike. And yet ... you have to figure it out or your family can't survive.

I thought their mission was to eliminate crime 🙄

Must read investigation. “Now [with access to more federal databases] Ice can use this type of surveillance apparatus on anyone – not only anyone who is undocumented but anyone who this administration wants to criminalize and anyone who the administration wants to put under surveillance”

In 2021, a 25-year-old US citizen had their DNA collected by CBP at a Chicago airport according to new govt data. They were just one of about 2000 US citizens who had their DNA collected by border agents & shared with the FBI including some as young as 14. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Documents offer rare insight on Ice’s close relationship with Palantir via @jmbooyah.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

NEW: How does ICE actually use Palantir? A new cache of documents obtained by @justfutureslaw.bsky.social from 2014-2022 give us a fresh look at real examples of how the agency has used the technology to perform enforcement operations www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Locking in.

Emojis officials claimed were “commonly” used by Tren de Aragua as part of a’ “code language” include trains, swords, ninjas, aliens & strawberries. Gang experts and immigration attorneys who reviewed the records said the claims were "uneducated” & “baseless” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I recapped all the tech that ICE is using to power its ruthless deportation operations. Hat tip to everyone who's been doing great reporting on these companies and tools. techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/h...

If you're sick of mainstream media normalizing the unthinkable, read hard-hitting journalism in the Guardian. And if you can afford it, throw a bit of money their way.

‘It happened so fast’: the shocking reality of indoor heat deaths in Arizona #climatecrisis Vital reporting by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I spoke with former NLRB general counsel Jennifer Abruzzo and former NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran about the efforts by the Trump administration, Elon Musk's SpaceX, and other corporations to undermine and further weaken the National Labor Relations Board www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It's "hard to imagine that an active government employee...would assume control over a pharmaceutical company seeking FDA approval." “I think the aim is to get MDMA-assisted psychotherapy approved by the FDA by any means necessary." theguardian.com/technology/n...

@azmatzahra.bsky.social:"by that same logic, you could target somebody who had previously worked for or had previously been in a military and became a journalist. And I think that's a really, really dangerous precedent to set." Like w/ targeted killings, tolerating such violations will damage IHL

Flock seeking partnership "with a company that makes AI-powered dashcams placed inside peoples' [.] cars." "Nexar customers drive 150 million miles a month, generating 'trillions of images.'" "[P]olice perform immigration-related Flock lookups for ICE." #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Why publish one story about A.I. gone wrong when you can publish two? Here's my other story today on how the NYPD used facial recognition tech to arrest the wrong man for public lewdness. The perp was 5'6''. Cops charged Trevis Williams, who is 6'2''. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n...

A group of former & current Google, Microsoft and Oracle workers with No Azure for Apartheid appear to have occupied Microsoft president Brad Smith’s Office with a list of demands including that the company divest from Israel entirely www.twitch.tv/videos/25504...

‘It happened in seconds’: residents count the cost of deadly floods that have left Pakistan in crisis

"Palestinian life remains bifurcated into these two categories—terrorist and victim—separating those who may be eradicated from those who should be protected, making starvation outrageous but the bombing of civilians insufficiently genocidal." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

"Palantir has contested reports that it conducts widespread surveillance of Americans and says it is “committed to defending human rights”. For all the reasons above, I reject those claims." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

NEW! A top White House official has a $2 million to $10 million stake in Palantir. That official's office is playing a key role in the gargantuan Golden Dome missile defense program, which Palantir is seen as likely to benefit from - more @pogo.org www.pogo.org/investigatio...

BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.

"Now, while [Scott's] marriage is in a healthier place, he also has Sarina, who he considers his girlfriend. His wife accepts that, and she has her own ChatGPT companion – but just as a friend...He credits her with saving his marriage." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

new chatbot? call it an agent. new software feature? sure, yes, agent. Old feature that's been there for years? It can be an agent if it wants to be, and how dare you suggest otherwise nymag.com/intelligence...

I wrote about Israel’s assassination of Anas al-Sharif, a brave journalist in Gaza, and the work of local journalists everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

Five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza were civilians as of May, according to Israel's own military intelligence. "In Gaza we are talking about a campaign of targeted assassinations, really, rather than battles, and they are carried out with no concern for civilians.”

“Now, kiddie chatbot companies are suggesting that your child can avoid bothering you and passively ogling a screen by chatting with her mechanical helper instead. Which feels a bit like unleashing a mongoose into the playroom to kill all the snakes you put in there.”

IRS has official passed over taxpayer information to ICE, per court filing storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

So excited to be able to partner with the amazing folks at @proton.me (especially Chris Cannucciari and Julia Jade Duffy) for this project on privacy and mass surveillance! youtu.be/QpFw7dk9l-0?...

In 2024, Planned Parenthood held more than 1.5 million visits for people who use Medicaid. Now, thanks to Trump and the GOP's plan to "defund" Planned Parenthood, those people may have nowhere to go for care. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Recognising a Palestinian state must not distract from ending the genocide in Gaza, says Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur for the occupied territories www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

“You sound real corny being scared of the subway.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway...

On Gaza’s killing fields, journalism faces its darkest hour – but that won’t stop us reporting | Asef Hamidi

I've been wanting to draw immigration court in SF for years but could never get the assignment. Now I'm an editor so I could make the assignment. A heartbreaker from Jesse Alejandro Cottrell and Dan Bransfield. sfstandard.com/2025/08/11/a...

it's apparently now Good Business (and Government) to rip through rounds of indiscriminate firings and then ask those people to come back

The basement is sub-basement. This is unacceptable. For press freedom. For the reporters who lost their lives. The truth that has been recast so grossly to frame these people as terrorists, simply for doing their jobs of shedding light on what is happening in Gaza. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NEW: @carolinehaskins.bsky.social breaks down what Palantir actually does, and why answering that question is trickier than it might seem (or need to be). www.wired.com/story/palant...

My latest AI piece is about a man who wanted to use ChatGPT to develop an idea for a short story. Instead he experienced more than a month of psychosis as he conjured “ghosts” of famous philosophers in a quest for ultimate meaning and truth. By the end, he had stopped sleeping.