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This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
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I will miss Kristi Noem's inimitable constitutional insights, as when, asked by Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. at a Senate hearing to define "habeas corpus," she replied, "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country."
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
[Exit Murderer.]
If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.
I wonder why are they still using this vendor, when it enables the law enforcement agency to violate California state law? It is keeping in line with law enforcement's distaste for accountability for themselves and their vendors.
'In a policy memo released Thursday, SJPD Chief Paul Joseph asks the City Council to approve key changes, namely shrinking the retention period for plate data from one year to 30 days' #ALPR www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/26/f...?
Someone told tech companies the phrase “mass surveillance” is radioactive, so now they spend a bunch of time trying to pretend they are actually doing something different.
Big watching.
Large looking.
Titanic tracking.
NEW: We filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to ban police from using geofence warrants, which forces tech companies to hand over location data for everyone in a certain area during a certain time.
These invasive searches ensnare innocent people and violate our Fourth Amendment rights.
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_...
who made this
One thing missing from the discussion: Why does Flock enable California agencies to violate the law? There shouldn't be an option for national lookup or to share with agencies outside the state of California. El Cajon is currently using Flock in a way that violates the law.
Florida wants its own CIA. That could lead to unchecked domestic surveillance
A bill to create a state intelligence operation would allow scrutiny based on "opinions" — and could prompt other states to follow
FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social and @laurenleharper.bsky.social explain:
1. According to multiple reports both Saudi Arabia and the UAE lobbied Trump to attack Iran.
Both countries have increased their influence with Trump by investing billions in projects that personally enrich Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
Can the Trump Administration force Anthropic to let the military use its products however it likes? My latest for Civil Liberties in 60 seconds.
Our baby has been alive for two deadly, illegal campaigns by the U.S. to remove a foreign leader. She’s 7 weeks old.
Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you'd think someone in the building might have flagged that…
Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission.
Full statement from the band:
The Pentagon is demanding control of Anthropic's AI system - saying it will only use it for lawful purposes, and not, say, for domestic surveillance.
At the same time the DoD can't even follow current law and get FAA approval before using lasers to shoot down DHS drones.
Why should it be trusted?
😂🤣
Congratulations to Santa Clara, Los Altos Hills, Cupertino, Mountain View, California and Lynnwood, Washington for rejecting mass surveillance and cancelling their Flock contracts this week.
Many more to follow.
"Ramos drew a chilling parallel on Tuesday between the repression her parents experienced under martial law and local residents’ warnings about automated license plate readers contributing to an expanding state #surveillance in their own community" #ALPR www.mercurynews.com/2026/02/25/m...?
Awesome reporting on the covert license plate readers that provide mass surveillance of Californians on public roadways by @khari.bsky.social and @wendyfry.bsky.social
More in this EFF letter to Caltrans: www.eff.org/document/coa...
calmatters.org/justice/2026...
New: the government just made it harder to see what spy tech it buys. This includes ICE, the FBI, essentially any agency. Why? Because they decided to retire the perfectly good system for searching contracts and replaced it with one that fucking sucks
www.404media.co/the-governme...
CW: transphobia.
See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤
This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.
But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.
In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.
Paragraph 175 and 183.
Phrases in Trump's SOTU:
Blood all over. Gushing blood. Pouring blood. Bleeding profusely. Shot in the head. Shot violently. Violently murdered. Brutally extinguished. Shredding his leg. Lying dead in a bathtub. Viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body. Searing pain. The edge of death.
In a 5-minute phone call to dispatchers, a federal immigration officer requests police backup last October to help with a kid tailing him on a motorized bicycle. "I need someone here now, or else I'm going to have to shoot this kid," the officer said on a recording of the call obtained by OPB.
JUST IN: Judge Murphy has ruled that the Trump administration's policy of sending deported immigrants to third countries without notice or a chance to challenge is illegal and unconstitutional.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Your free speech rights end where billionaires’ feelings begin.
