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Hey, cool. @lastweektonight.com just did a segment using reporting I did w/ @farooqumar.bsky.social
Oliver was talking about body cams--and how law enforcement agencies have often undermined their potential
The same body-cams Dems are centering that ICE reforms on
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP4_...
They want to cut suicide prevention among veterans even as they drag us into another war.
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NEW from ProPublica:
Guards at Trump's family detention camp are grabbing kids' writing, artwork, and crayons.
They've even taken one kid's drawing of Bratz dolls.
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
by @mckenziefunk.com and @micarosenberg.bsky.social
They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.
btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind
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Gearóid Keogh, a foreman at one of the Hudson River Tunnel sites, was to be Sen. Schumer's guest at SOTU this evening -- until Amtrak delays kept him from getting to the Capitol in time.
I talked to Keogh while he was waiting for his train.
tomorrow tomorrow
Rhiannon Fox was on her way home from meeting with city officials about how to reduce danger from cars on Friday when she was hit by a car.
I’m still not using genAI for any tasks
this is because I don’t think the perceived convenience for me personally is worth the cumulative environmental and social costs of this tech. I worry that mass gradual adoption is slow forcing a future we don’t actually want and haven’t actually consented to
Pa. high school students are *still in custody* after being *arrested* during Friday anti-ICE walkout www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/l...
Local news inoculates democracy against propaganda, so of course it’s being dismantled, largely by people wielding financial instruments
NEW: Homeland Security officials are asking companies to help them combine all of their face and fingerprint systems together into one giant biometric platform.
Buttttttt it's unclear how workable this really is since DHS uses a wide mishmash of proprietary algos.
Still no information from ICE on the 4 Oglala citizens allegedly illegally detained last month.
time.com/7379166/ice-...
The new mayor pledged to dedicate 1% of the city budget to parks and 0.5% to libraries. His preliminary spending plan delivers less.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/19/m...
here you go
“This is the kind of persecution that I think the world should not allow to happen,” said Ibáñez Carranza. “We serve humanity. We are delivering justice for the most vulnerable victims around the world, for millions and millions of women and children who have no voice.”
Facial recognition technology is dangerous when it works and when it doesn't.
The last thing we need is Big Tech, the government, or anyone else capturing our biometrics as we go about our lives.
Meta must not add this unreliable and invasive technology to its glasses.
This is a good essay, but sometimes as a thought experiment I think about how we defended the ubiquity of cars 100+ years ago. Sure, we can't really walk places anymore and they kill tens of thousands a year and gasoline makes the air toxic, but getting places fast in a personal bubble is cool!
So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.**
“It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Thread! Here's how the top photo in the "crying" article varies across different language Wikipedias! In Czech, it's a kid named Stephen who "was sad that his 3 hot dogs, box of donuts, and 2 liter bottle of soda fell to the ground"(2009)
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
"He said during the trial period, of the 5677 alerts police were requested to respond to, only one resulted in a breach of bail, with one in five due to a flat battery."
That suggests the things don't work correctly enough to make people wear them.
ICE to spend $38bn turning warehouses into detention centers, documents show
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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