The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffries will endorse Mamdani for NYC mayor, after nine months of pressure and just before early voting begins Saturday. That leaves Schumer as the last key person in the state's Dem leadership to withhold support.

👀 When is research not exactly facts. When it's Silicon Valley.

Who's in the room when legislators make tech decisions? What makes communities visible? What makes science legible? Some highlights from CAT Lab @cornelluniversity.bsky.social Summit on NY State tech policy. citizensandtech.org/2025/10/at-c... w @eleag.bsky.social @natematias.bsky.social

What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...

Throttled by Meta.

I don't think Dowager Countess dry delivery meets the moment, NYT.

@mashagessen.bsky.social on 'angry grief': "[Robert Jay] Lifton used this term when he carried out research on the 1968 My Lai massacre in South Vietnam, in which American soldiers killed as many as 500 unarmed civilians ... in one hamlet. 1/4

"In a sign of the continuing chaos in Nepal, where many official documents and records have gone up in smoke, Ms. Karki’s online biography was unavailable. In fact, the entire Supreme Court website was not operational."

Iran Likely to Have Moved Nuclear Components Ahead of Fordow Attack - @mazmhussain.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-nucle...

Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Unfolding reactions to SCOTUS stripping/limiting lower court power to issue nationwide injunctions. See NYT, and @katiephang.bsky.social on Substack: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... open.substack.com/live-stream/...

NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:

Advocacy in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia shows that Global South demands gain traction in platform governance when they align with Western priorities, are amplified by international allies, and build trust with marginalized communities, writes Mai Van Tran.

As Malaysia investigates possible Chinese local use of restricted chips, this explainer on remote poaching I helped develop remains very timely. Researcher Min-yen Chiang goes deep on how China continues sourcing chips and expertise. www.opentech.fund/news/how-chi...

So far, the two let's-normalize-war alerts I've gotten are from NYT and the UK's conservative standby The Spectator.

New Yorkers

So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem

More accurate headlines. 2024: Netahyahu OKs Biden exaggeration of ceasefire prospects. 2025: Netanyahu OKs Trump proxy saber-rattling.

On Russian relationship w/Iran: "Iran has supplied Russia with Shahed kamikaze drones to be used on Ukrainian targets, and last year, there were reports that Russia received hundreds of Fath-360 ballistic missiles from Iran." @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

I get so tired of all the ways pundits talk around Democrats’ real problem, which is so obvious that an entire industry exists to obfuscate it. They cannot describe, let alone attack, the real sources of injustice in this country because to do so would indict themselves and their donors.

If you’re looking for quality independent reporting on what’s happening in Los Angeles, I’ve put together a starter pack for it. If you’d like to be added or know an indie who should be added, hmu

Watching Karen Hao, Emily Bender & Alex Hanna discuss links between AI as an "empire" (Hao's book) and AI as a "con" (Bender/Hanna book). "'Empire' and 'con' are both powerful frames to look at what AI is doing, and doesn’t actually do." @karenhao.bsky.social datasociety.net/events/chall...

The quote marks are attempting a lot of work here. George Lakoff called.

Oh come the fuck on.

You know how customer service bots and standard search engines like saying "Did you mean ...?" Too often the Google AI Overview still feels like that. No, I didn't. Please show me my results. "Operator... Operator..."

I don't usually post basic outrage posts, but the idea that the media is credibly talking about Trump "pushing" Putin to do anything is just ... *gestures wildly* *pounds bar* *McConaughey tears* ... really offensive.

"'Innovation' is bullshit." Prof. Neil Richards of Washington University. It's a concept wielded as a"self-serving, self-contained selective ideology that contains only the things that tech companies think are good." #framewars @knightcolumbia.org More Neil here: source.washu.edu/experts/neil...

As Musk team harvests data across agencies, US attacks its longstanding "structural prohibitions" against a massive federal database. @juliaangwin.com in dialogue with @ellenwapo.bsky.social at @knightcolumbia.org event in DC. More in Julia's Apr. 30 op-ed: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

ICYMI last week the European Commission decided to refer Czechia, Spain, Cyprus, Poland and Portugal to the Court of Justice for not appointing a digital services coordinator and not laying down the rules on penalties under the Digital Services Act ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Funding opportunity! The Spyware Accountability Initiative is giving grants to civil society orgs fighting spyware abuse. Learn more + apply by June 13th at stopspyware.fund/apply #SpywareAccountability #Funding

Is that stupid person in the room with us right now?

"Empowering a partisan FTC to enforce ambiguous legislation is a recipe for weaponized enforcement that risks durable progress in the fight against image-based sexual abuse." - @beccabranum.bsky.social of @cendemtech.bsky.social via @mmasnick.bsky.social www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/c...

This one glance should quash any talk that it was not FLOTUS but a double.

Realism and clarity about latest attacks on the left's support infrastructure. Post by Julia Rosen: www.linkedin.com/posts/juliak... @actblueorg.bsky.social

Government contractors like Bezos and Musk are not the only ones making free speech decisions for profit reasons. "Paramount [CBS] controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, is eager to secure the Trump administration’s approval for a multibillion-dollar sale..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

Purported draft EO re. State Department would narrow US Africa strategy to "coordinated counterterrorism" and "strategic extraction and trade of critical natural resources." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Trump, May 2023: "“If I’m president, I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours." #ukraine #fraud www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/p...

👇 Remember that joke, "Daddy drinks because you cry?" 👇 finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

We had a night! 1. Susan Crawford crushed Schimel in WI, an absolute landslide. 2. Cory Booker lit up the Senate floor making history. 3. FL01: +17pts toward Dems since Nov! 4. FL06: +19pts toward Dems since Nov! This momentum’s real. Let’s keep pushing. #BlueWave #ElectionWins #KeepGoing

I'm here for "plain language version" of research reports. Check out work by @cendemtech.bsky.social and also my 2014 thoughts on plain language as the proverbial last mile in knowledge, on @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/public-leade...

A vital lesson in how and why to resist Trump’s fascist EOs and his toadies’ attempts to enforce them via unconstitutional withholding of vital services: After Gov. Mills rejected Trump’s ban on transgender athletes, SSA’s Dudek *canceled* Maine’s contracts with SSA. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...

"Exactly one hour before he received the termination email, the far-right influencer Laura Loomer posted on social media about Mr. Schleifer ... referring to a five-year-old message of his in which he praised Adam Schiff [and] criticized Mr. Trump." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/u...

Clinging to the House by a crazy red thread.

U.S. RESCINDs the termination of funding for @opentechfund.bsky.social, Radio Free Europe, hours before next hearing with judge who paused the termination. The work continues. The rule of law matters. thehill.com/regulation/c...

We are all in a "garbage demo" of how trolls imagine people solve problems outside their troll simulacrum.

As a fed, I am accustomed to knowledgeable and diverse coworkers who don't get snookered by the latest buzzwords. But yesterday at GSA headquarters, 6 white guys in suits (one without a tie!) took the stage. They demo'd GSAi like it was pure magic to them. www.wired.com/story/gsa-st...

Anyway, I'm sure this is fine and does not in any way pose a security risk to the nation. www.vox.com/world-politi...

White supremacists hiding the achievements of non-white people is a pretty good indication that they know white people aren’t supreme.