I’ve just been staring at the AQI in my sister’s town not knowing what to do with this. Not knowing how this isn‘t wall-to-wall news. Chicago. Milwaukee. Everywhere in between.

SCOTUS has just ignored its own precedent to make sure the commissioners of independent regulatory agencies like the FTC, FCC etc. — who go through the same appointment and confirmation process as SCOTUS justices — can now be fired by POTUS as political retribution.

the tools Cisco developed for the Chinese government included "real time monitoring" of religious minorities' online activity as well as a video surveillance system equipped with facial recognition technology to track religious minorities' "non-internet activities."

your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.

jeff's right, doubling his taxes would be rookie numbers. dream bigger.

as Congress wrangles over extending vs. reforming controversial government surveillance powers under FISA Section 702, Trump has logged on to say the quiet part out loud: a clean extension of Section 702 would enable ongoing violations of our rights

Congress has had two years (!) to pass wildly popular bipartisan reforms to FISA Section 702 in order to prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from using it for **domestic surveillance.** Now they have one week, and suddenly we've got the CIA putting out statements like this.

good morning, someone at the the CIA decided to target Swifties in a last-minute effort to keep Congress from reforming a warrantless government surveillance authority that's been used to spy on journalists, protestors, and judges

super normal thing to post after an illegal bombing campaign that has killed hundreds and displaced millions

finally some good news: the Pentagon is opening its networks to AI agents. what could possibly go wrong

everyone who ignored local fights against data centers for the past few years and are rushing to dismiss them now that they're registering on the national political landscape are fully missing the forest for the trees

From Georgia‘s Facebook account — Bluesky is only allowing me to upload a short clip.

Ring is simply partnering with a company that similarly "does not work with ICE" but DOES work with local law enforcement agencies *known to conduct searches of its data on behalf of ICE*

Using headlines to launder quotes from the officials openly violating domestic and international law is not a neutral description of events. Call a legal expert. Quote them.

This new rule would add to the mix surveillance powers even more invasive than the surveillance people are regularly subjected to during the immigration process and would sweep in family and other community members, regardless of citizenship.

the proposed rule is absurdly broad: anyone who files -or is associated with- an immigration request could be swept up in this expanded DHS dragnet. age restrictions preventing the collection of biometric data from children under 14 would be eliminated.

with less than 48 hours left in 2025, DHS is preparing to push through a proposal that would radically and unlawfully expand ICE/CBP's collection of DNA and other highly sensitive biometrics. colleagues across dozens of orgs are working to meet the agency's Friday deadline for public comment.

is there a #bugsky? potato quality photos but who is this guy??

Four of the five individuals work with NGOs, the fifth — former EU regulator Thierry Breton — is being targeted for his work as an EU regulator and in particular, putting Elon Musk on notice of potential enforcement actions against X/Twitter.

Any reporter covering future shootings, vehicle rammings, etc. by ICE/CBP (there will be more) needs to LEAD with this context. Because these were the headlines when this first happened.

House leadership announces they’ve called up extra security for these members and their families following Trump’s death threats democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

the U.S. President is calling for the execution of U.S. lawmakers who made a video reminding the military that they don’t have to follow unlawful orders.

starting to think that repeatedly sinking trillions into Silicon Valley's new favorite toy while tech companies spend millions to kill any meaningful regulation is actually not going to end well

what could go wrong

what this leads to:

this is just the last 3 weeks

the story behind the first headline: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

“street battles” and it’s a guy just vibing in an inflatable frog suit getting maced by federal law enforcement

“hand to hand combat against antifa”