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Legal Technologist (eDiscovery), #DFIR, Dad, aspiring triathlete, views here are my own. #legaltech #law #ai #python #machinelearning #cyclist #bikes #running #sneakers #e-discovery #LegalWeek

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Stephen Miller at an international conference about cartels: "These organizations can only be defeated with military power. I see some heads nodding because they understand. You're dealing with a lot of lawyers in your own country, I'm sure. You have my permission not to listen to them."

05.03.2026 14:36 πŸ‘ 1241 πŸ” 373 πŸ’¬ 456 πŸ“Œ 288

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

01.03.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 757 πŸ” 497 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 18

In several rounds of intense negotiations, Tehreran was unable to match the bribes to the Trump family offered by its regional rivals Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE.

28.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 711 πŸ” 148 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 8

I’m a lawyer not a historian, but I believe it’s fair to say that the founders expected a Trump to emerge, and they willingly bet the nation on their confidence that, when he did, the Congress would impeach and remove him.

28.02.2026 16:29 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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Just discovered that @sarahjeong.bsky.social is part of my machine learning coursework. Congrats on achieving textbook status.

28.02.2026 15:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At the Liberty Science theater they have a Departure/Arrivals screen for diseases and it is the most depressing and anger-inducing thing I’ve seen in a while.

22.02.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow.

22.02.2026 00:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats! When you get the BWC footage, use Relativity for review. Their AvTranscribe tool has excellent machine transcription quality (better than OtterAI). I recently processed 60 hours of video in just 20 minutes iirc

We’ve added on some custom facial recognition and other ai models when we use

20.02.2026 17:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UK bank bosses plan to set up Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears Exclusive: First meeting to be held over domestic payments system aimed at reducing reliance on US networks

β€œIf Mastercard and Visa were turned off, it would send us back to the 1950s,” before cards dominated the UK economy, and businesses wholly relied on cash, one executive familiar with the project told the Guardian.

β€œOf course, we need a sovereign payments system.”

16.02.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 6

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

08.02.2026 19:50 πŸ‘ 38087 πŸ” 14353 πŸ’¬ 1381 πŸ“Œ 742
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Why is LinkedIn recommending that I follow Bari Weiss.

04.02.2026 11:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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RESIST FASCISM

26.01.2026 11:24 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Stasi or Nazi. In the sick, twisted, minds (or what's left of their brains) of Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino and their loyal masked thugs, this is a war of us vs. them. And, in war, in their playbook, anything goes ... anything.

25.01.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So far in Minnesota

They Shot a 37-year-old mother Renee Good four times, killing her, right after she dropped off her son at school.

Then Ice kidnapped a five year old.

Then ice kidnapped a two year old

Then border patrol murdered Va nurse.

Then Sec Noam went on tv and lied about it

24.01.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 14440 πŸ” 5176 πŸ’¬ 671 πŸ“Œ 211

The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.

24.01.2026 22:03 πŸ‘ 9976 πŸ” 2518 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 45

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country.

As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

24.01.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 15145 πŸ” 4266 πŸ’¬ 420 πŸ“Œ 153

Alex Pretti’s last words were β€œare you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

24.01.2026 19:51 πŸ‘ 17003 πŸ” 5530 πŸ’¬ 128 πŸ“Œ 172

Let’s be clear: anyone defending the Trump Administration after watching masked, anonymous agents assault a man, pepper spray him, then fire 5+ rounds into his back is irretrievably complicit in political terrorism.

24.01.2026 19:04 πŸ‘ 2127 πŸ” 635 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 16

It's time to identify those 23 people and begin the pressure on them. This administration will not stop, even if the courts order it. That much is clear.

24.01.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 2165 πŸ” 674 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 20

Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.

Here is a photo he used for several accounts.

24.01.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 14936 πŸ” 6801 πŸ’¬ 428 πŸ“Œ 548
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Mayor Jacob Frey: "How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end? "

24.01.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

the most important comment here isn’t about the gun, it’s the β€œi think the video speaks for itself”

24.01.2026 18:18 πŸ‘ 893 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump β€” 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

24.01.2026 18:26 πŸ‘ 13216 πŸ” 5092 πŸ’¬ 223 πŸ“Œ 405
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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

24.01.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 31052 πŸ” 14497 πŸ’¬ 1763 πŸ“Œ 1450

THEY TRIED TO GET A WARRANT TO CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE WOMAN THEY SHOT DEAD

24.01.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 7507 πŸ” 2020 πŸ’¬ 156 πŸ“Œ 98
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Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

23.01.2026 19:35 πŸ‘ 541 πŸ” 325 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 27
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Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

New: "Microsoft Gave FBI Keys To Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw"

@thomasbrewster.bsky.social for @forbes.com

23.01.2026 13:34 πŸ‘ 47 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

17.01.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 40033 πŸ” 14694 πŸ’¬ 1321 πŸ“Œ 1047

Neighbors standing guard over churches so that parents can have secret meetings about how to keep daycares safe. This is what's happening in the Twin Cities right now.

14.01.2026 04:58 πŸ‘ 4534 πŸ” 1413 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 37
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I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There. Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, surrounded by death

I found it! This is his first post, from September 2020. There are two follow-ups linked at the bottom.

I appreciate the author's frankness and candor.

10.01.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2