New, by me at this.weekinsecurity.com: Health wearable giant Oura says it has received government demands for users' information (because Oura does not use end-to-end encryption). Will Oura say how often it gets demands for user data, and how often Oura hands over users' data to authorities?

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Finally some good news. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

A general, a historian, and an economist are discussing Iran: General: Overwhelming military force is the only way to break the stalemate! Historian: Iran is extremely unlikely to relinquish the leverage which this threat gives them. Economist: Let us assume that the Strait of Hormuz is open...

Who shot V.G.?

If you spend 90% of your time arguing with people with whom you agree on 90% of things, you might be suffering from Polarization Poisoning. A little grace goes a long way. Maybe, just maybe, not everything is your business.

Jay Bhattacharya, who is best known for ranting about COVID conspiracies and “coverups” for the past 5 years, is now literally suppressing the data on COVID vaccines…because he is an antivaccine hack not a scientist

Prosecutors are not investigators. They’re not supposed to be witnesses. Any time prosecutors show up at a “crime scene” it’s a stunt, not an investigation. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

this guy's combination of obscene wealth and inability to keep his dick in his pants ended vaccination in America www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

💬 Perspective: Aluminum exposure from routine vaccines is significantly lower than dietary sources, and current evidence supports vaccine safety with no identified health risks. ja.ma/4dztwJk

The Dunning Krugerand.

This is amusing. A reminder Craig Brittain was fined by the FTC for setting up both a site where he asked people to send him non-consensual naked images of their exes AND a fake "lawyer" who you could pay to get your images taken down. www.ftc.gov/news-events/...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But... ...maybe there wasn't much planning?

It's "strait" of Hormuz, not "straits". That is all.

Behind Rakhi Israni's empty rhetoric is a record of cutting checks to far-right extremists. Israni claims she’s running as a Democrat when she’s really running as a fraud.

NEW: A Democratic candidate in the primary in Eric Swalwell’s district raised $2M in the first two weeks of her campaign from unknown donors. Rakhi Israni’s personal political donations have gone to over 10 MAGA and far right candidates including Laura Loomer. theintercept.com/2026/03/04/c...

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

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mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Large crowd at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fredericksburg. #WalkForPrace

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Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of repression. This case isn’t isolated. It’s part of a broader effort to silence dissent and erode democracy. But despite the administration’s best efforts, we’re going to win.

It’s hard to overstate how freakish it is for law enforcement who just shot someone to be shuffled off to other assignments with no investigative period at all.

*Excellent telephone-pole agitprop fodder there. #Amazon #ICE #Bezos #Trump #InternetofFascistThings

Just when you thought the Trump administration couldn't look any weaker. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

My Republican colleagues must take notice: The U.S. cannot base foreign policy on whether or not a president gets a prize. This is pathetic. It is petty and dangerous narcissism — behavior we might expect from a spoiled child, not the leader of a democratic nation.

If you're following the unbuilding of CBS News: "A story with on-camera sources, legal clearance, and five rounds of vetting gets killed for not being ready. A story with anonymous sources and internal objections gets published because the editor-in-chief wanted it." www.readtpa.com/p/what-the-t...

Reminder: Haidt is not actually an "expert" in this field and actual experts have called out that he's just wrong about almost everything. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/10/e...

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

interesting! here's a video i took yesterday of federal agents ramming community members with their car

NEW: The ICE agent who killed Renee Good yesterday in Minneapolis appears to be an Iraq war veteran named Jonathan Ross who lives in Minnesota. Me, @noahhurowitz.bsky.social and @jesswash.bsky.social theintercept.com/2026/01/08/i...

Watch how the authoritarian denying reality frames events: Blame shift Threat inflation Conspiracy (“coordinated” “ppl are being trained” —by who?) “it’s clear” is a rhetorical substitute for evidence; a power move that pressures audience to accept her frame even tho they saw something else.

A 6-year-old just lost his mother. A woman was shot in the face in front of her wife. The swift, lockstep attempt to dehumanize and villainize Renee Nicole Good might be the most depraved thing we've seen yet from these ghouls and their supporters. These people are utterly fucking dead inside.

Allow me to connect some dots for you: Too much of the world currently relies for its basic functions on resources which must be continuously extracted. You burn that oil one time and oops, now you need more. Geopolitical horrors are, in fact, one of the reasons we need to move to renewables ASAP.

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

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wow who was he up against

"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism. Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.

Moving in Stereo

Everyone does know what's going on here, right? Should the Epstein evidence bill pass both the House and Senate, these criminals will say it can't be released because there is an active investigation. Never mind that a thorough investigation was completed, and the DOJ was prepared to try Epstein.

I didn’t think Scott Adams could ever make me laugh again Cheers to all the little surprises in life 🥂

THIS is actually part of the FDR memorial, not in the wall of the former East Wing.

If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

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