Christopher Whitaker

This is an actual Pentagon press release. “An Army believed to be casualty…the believed to be death”

I wonder if the audience of police at this conference Noem is speaking at is aware that everyone is watching?

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out, Kristi Noem.

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We watched Karina Villa chase down ICE in a suit and heels, telling them to get out of her community. Margaret Croke intentionally panicked white parents about their selective enrollment schools vanishing if neighborhood schools received additional funding. This race is ICE whistles vs. dogwhistles.

I get the scenario that Pritzker was trying to avoid (somebody getting killed at Broadview and the Guard flooding Illinois) — but that was still a good hit by the Reader

San Francisco cop used license plate reader data to find wife’s stolen car: report In the latest abuse of Flock cameras, the officer posted images of the car on Instagram.

ALPRs are “incredibly ripe for abuse,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @SFstandard.com. “No matter how many legal or bureaucratic guardrails you put on those searches, officers are going to find a way to use it for their own personal reasons.” sfstandard.com/2026/02/27/...

Kristi Noem must go now.

It's long past time she steps down, and it doesn't excuse her from justice or accountability.

She believes she’s above the law while taking away fathers from children with cancer and mothers being shot in the face by her agents.

We demand answers.

A black holding cover for the book 'Star Wars: Star Pilots' by Chris Kempshall

Wedge Antilles from the Star Wars franchise piloting a snowspeeder in The Empire Strikes Back

‘I have never wanted to suggest that my wartime experiences were any more important or heroic than any other pilot. But so many of them are gone now and I am still here. Their words deserve to be heard’ - Wedge Antilles

'Star Wars: Star Pilots' Oct 2026 (DK) geni.us/StarWarsStar...

This was a war of choice - there was no reason *after the US did a huge NEO operation just a few years ago* not to have all this planned out ahead of time.

Americans Stranded in the Middle East Aren’t Getting Help from the State Department “Please do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation,” a State department hotline said when NOTUS called Tuesday afternoon.

NEWS: Americans were told to evacuate the Middle East — but the State Dept is not helping them do it.

We called the State hotline. First thing you hear is an automated message: "Do not rely on the U.S. government for assisted departure or evacuation."

If you aren't following @shayan86.bsky.social, start now. His fact checking is the best of the best. Here's his latest look at the fake posts about the US/ Iran war.

We’re need a Digital Right to Privacy and Security Act that forbids companies and governments from being able to conduct this kind of constant warrantless surveillance.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

SCOOP: An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations.

This surveillance can happen through all sorts of apps, such as video games, news apps, weather trackers, and dating apps.

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OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

I have a lot of thoughts swirling around but the one gnawing at me the most is why do this in the middle of the day (Tehran time) rather than at night when a lot of these buildings (including the school) would be empty?

I knew as soon as Flock issued a big statement it meant something was coming down the pipe

found myself considering a legal explainer about why the government can’t lie their way into a residence to kidnap someone and then was like wait why the fuck would I need to explain that

How do we get a wire service going with all the non-profit independent / local media? (Block Club, The Triibe, 404, Hells Gate, ect?)

Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones.

I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below.

www.404media.co/the-governme...

I’m sorry - you can not have 80k cameras that can all be linked together with drones and dashcams and doorbell cameras and an AI tracker an then try to claim it isn’t ‘mass’ surveillance

You mean this Flock? www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

I’m not sure there’s any way they could have done more damage to public safety than lying about tracking down a missing kid so they could go abduct a university student on campus

This is full on dystopian straight out of a cyberpunk story - and as @cydharrell.bsky.social says - Cyberpunk was a Warning

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash Flock off

So Amazon Ring cancelled its partnership with Flock Safety after a wave of backlash from the public over it's new Search Party feature due to the obvious ways the company is blanket surveilling entire communities- what's next? 🪡🧵...

www.theverge.com/news/878447/...