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Telling stories about information politics, mostly. Words @edsurge @404media @motherboard & @npr member stations. Should've been a librarian. Based in CO.

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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

05.03.2026 20:41 👍 2420 🔁 1338 💬 79 📌 352
The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

01.03.2026 19:58 👍 3853 🔁 972 💬 139 📌 88
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City of Durango says ‘mistakes were made’ in attempt to obtain bookshop records The city of Durango will not seek to enforce a warrant demanding Maria’s Bookshop produce customer purchase records. “It’s a win for the First Amendment. It’s a win for the customers of Maria’s Books...

“It’s a win for the First Amendment. It’s a win for the customers of Maria’s Bookshop. It’s a win for the principle that people in Durango have a right to privacy in their book purchases.”

28.02.2026 00:51 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The Indigenous leader using AI to protect endangered languages Michael Running Wolf co-created a program to empower Indigenous communities to learn and preserve their languages

FLAIR will open source their code and methodology—without audio or cultural content—so that anyone can pick up the technology for their own tribe. “I want there to be an ecosystem of research,” Running Wolf said.
Read the latest story from Costin Beavin Pappas here:

26.02.2026 21:23 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

They found him. He died.

Another murder by our immigration goon squads

25.02.2026 20:29 👍 11844 🔁 5325 💬 387 📌 295
A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

A doodle titled “yeah I love the writing process” and showing four different scenes. A figure hunched over a piece of paper, another hunched ferally over a laptop, a third making a “werk queen” face at a keyboard, and a fourth dissociating in their chair.

Back at it again in the mines

25.02.2026 21:58 👍 3111 🔁 1043 💬 9 📌 20
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This really is a great picture:

20.02.2026 02:08 👍 29163 🔁 3679 💬 26 📌 313
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You Can’t Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries “Libraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.

"libraries absorb the stressors of a city where many people lack food, housing, mental-health care, and other basic supports. When a branch is operating with skeleton staffing, workers are often alone at a desk during escalating or threatening encounters." 📚

organizingmythoughts.org/you-cant-fig...

18.02.2026 15:48 👍 38 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 1

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

18.02.2026 15:55 👍 307 🔁 187 💬 20 📌 29

shared this ep with all my mommy friends!

17.02.2026 18:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The data analytics outfit was Colorado's biggest company... until it picked up and moved to Miami.

🔗 https://www.westword.com/news/things-to-know-about-palantir-technologies-40796239/ 

17.02.2026 18:30 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 3 📌 0

if you're not an owner you're a renter and the U.S. government is your landlord 💀

17.02.2026 18:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘A message to public bodies across Colorado’: Judge awards $148,822 to parent who sued Woodland Park school board over vague meeting description - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition A judge ordered the payment of $148,822 in attorney fees and court costs to a parent who won an open meetings case against the Woodland Park school board for its discussion of a charter school MOU und...

ICYMI: A judge ordered the payment of $148,822 in attorney fees and court costs to a parent who won an open meetings case against the Woodland Park school board for its discussion of a charter school MOU under a vague “BOARD HOUSEKEEPING” agenda item.

17.02.2026 18:04 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

I was at a nye party where a friend explained this to me and then someone put the Nashville ball drop with Jelly Roll on and that's how my 2026 began. Anyway, the whole thing was weird enough that I started building my own desktop.

17.02.2026 00:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I understand framing the AI bubble RAM supply crisis in terms of stuff like video game consoles because nerds can conceptualize that but the framing does really undersell the sheer magnitude of how it's going to fuck up everything that even touches a computer.

16.02.2026 19:49 👍 6380 🔁 1364 💬 25 📌 170
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

30.01.2026 18:45 👍 15193 🔁 8334 💬 206 📌 332

We did not properly punish the confederates. We did not properly punish the insurrectionists on January 6th. We have to punish ICE.

They can’t be allowed to slink back into their communities quietly. Expose them. Arrest them. Convict them. Imprison them.

29.01.2026 20:28 👍 21064 🔁 5471 💬 731 📌 327
"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wanted to "massacre" them.

But that language was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and top Trump adviser, four sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title.

His influence extends to de facto oversight of Noem, though she's a Cabinet secretary who technically outranks him.
"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios."

"Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wanted to "massacre" them. But that language was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and top Trump adviser, four sources tell Axios. Why it matters: The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title. His influence extends to de facto oversight of Noem, though she's a Cabinet secretary who technically outranks him. "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios."

"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.""

Anyone paying attentions - it's been President Miler calling the shots.

Now the vipers are going after each other. 🐍🐍🐍

27.01.2026 20:49 👍 1303 🔁 387 💬 77 📌 198
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“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

So much love for @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social

27.01.2026 15:12 👍 1344 🔁 365 💬 3 📌 25

ICE deporting a woman who's 8 months pregnant would have been a much bigger story had ICE not murdered an ICU nurse attending a protest

26.01.2026 23:18 👍 144 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 0
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Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

27.01.2026 00:30 👍 24633 🔁 11100 💬 693 📌 577
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Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

26.01.2026 16:25 👍 4163 🔁 795 💬 1389 📌 2511
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Four statements made by DHS about Alex Pretti’s shooting — and what these videos show that contradict them Kristi Noem made public statements about Alex Pretti and details surrounding his fatal shooting. But the videos tell a dramatically different — and tragic — story.

www.ms.now/news/four-st...

26.01.2026 03:27 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

26.01.2026 01:40 👍 17007 🔁 7046 💬 1530 📌 758

I've read hundred of stories from Minneapolis that all say the same thing: The bonds between the people of that city are tightening and strengthening in the face of mortal terror. No one in the administration can fathom this because they are all explicity anti-social.

25.01.2026 21:18 👍 153 🔁 34 💬 5 📌 1

Man this ad is hilarious. The ad for ChatGPT is that it’s a way to give you a vague way to not give up on running? This is why you assholes need $100 billion? This is why you owe Oracle $300 billion?
youtu.be/cjveRUfE7dc?...

25.01.2026 23:41 👍 1029 🔁 128 💬 46 📌 22

I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.

25.01.2026 20:56 👍 6592 🔁 1992 💬 110 📌 42

someone in a nail polish subreddit created a shade that matches the one in this photo and is selling it on etsy so she can afford to buy her boyfriend a bulletproof vest to wear while doing ICE watch at home depot. we live in hell but we are going to fucking win.

25.01.2026 19:26 👍 7766 🔁 1947 💬 37 📌 38

🧵 Yesterday, the finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards should have been announced. The organizers wisely postponed the announcements, which are always a much anticipated event in the vibrant Minnesota literary communit, in light of the murder of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis. 1/6

25.01.2026 18:55 👍 33 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 0
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Why won’t anyone stop ICE from masking? Americans do not like masked secret police.

And dropped the paywall on this one as well www.theverge.com/policy/86720...

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