Reposted by Christian VasquezNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Decades of experience. And every single one now handing their press pass in. Another step towards the authoritarian state. (📸 Mike Brest) 623887 238
Reposted by Christian VasquezKim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025White House made good on threats to fire workers during shutdown, and CISA was among those that lost workers - 176 were fired on Friday. A CISA spokesperson told Metacurity that CISA under Biden admin focused on "censorship, branding, and electioneering. This is part of getting CISA back on mission"metacurity.comThe White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs fearedScattered Lapsus$ Hunters leaked 5m Qantas, 23m Vietnam Air customers' records, Spanish cops dismantle GXC Team, Dutch gov't warns of China's Nexperia security risks, Breach of crypto betting platform... 45128 51
Reposted by Christian VasquezLeia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 12/10/2025CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m. The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom. While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop. The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor. 52828831989 2.9K
Reposted by Christian VasquezU.S. Press Freedom Tracker @pressfreedomtracker.us · 09/10/2025If you are a journalist — or know one — who has been attacked, seriously threatened, denied access by a public official or targeted with a legal order in the course of reporting, let us know. You can now submit tips in English or Spanish. Email: tips@pressfreedomtracker.us 02830 30
Reposted by Christian VasquezTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 09/10/2025The increasing use of AI to surveil people’s emotions endangers not only privacy but also personal autonomy—the bedrock of democracy, writes Oznur Uguz. Newly emerging AI laws fail to provide adequate safeguards, she says.buff.lyHow AI-Powered Emotional Surveillance Can Threaten Personal Autonomy and Democracy | TechPolicy.PressIf we do not regulate emotional AI surveillance now, we might soon have to fake how we feel to protect our privacy, writes Oznur Uguz. 071 7
Reposted by Christian VasquezDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 08/10/2025"While on the phone with 911, Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: 'Are you at fault if a fire is lift because of your cigarettes'" 57522 75
Reposted by Christian VasquezAndy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2025A source shares some screenshots of the Lapsus ransomware gang celebrating the government shutdown as a disruption to the FBI investigations tracking them. They also refer to Trump as "my king." 23121 31
Reposted by Christian VasquezCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2025* TRUMP TO U.S. MILITARY LEADERS: WE'RE UNDER INVASION FROM WITHIN @reuters.com 101490142 490
Reposted by Christian VasquezGlen @vaguebiscuit.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Well don't I feel stupid 283258146757 25.8K
Reposted by Christian VasquezAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 23/09/2025NEW: Here's our report on the "SIM farm" the Secret Service discovered, which hopefully helps better explain what the hell is up with all this. @agreenberg.bsky.social, @lhn.bsky.social, & @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/sim-fa...wired.com‘SIM Farms’ Are a Spam Plague. A Giant One in New York Threatened US Infrastructure, Feds SayThe agency says it found a network of some 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards—enough to knock out cell service in the NYC area. Experts say it mirrors facilities typically used for cybercrime. 719580 195
Reposted by Christian VasquezTechmeme @techmeme.com · 21/09/2025Researchers suggest LLM-powered medical AI tools understate the severity of symptoms in female patients and show less "empathy" toward Black and Asian patients (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink 1134 13
Reposted by Christian VasquezTrans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 11/09/2025“News organizations should be as transparent as possible about how details… are being confirmed, both to increase accuracy in reporting and build trust with audiences in a breaking news environment.” Our full statement: www.transjournalists.org/tja-urges-ca...transjournalists.orgTJA urges caution in reporting on details of Charlie Kirk shooting investigationVarious outlets have reported that authorities have found ammunition engraved with expressions of “transgender and antifascist ideology” alongside a weapon purportedly associated with the killing of C... 320871 208
Reposted by Christian VasquezBrad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Old journalism rule: Don't publish everything you hear on the police scanner. 1130564 305
Reposted by Christian Vasquezdarth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 11/09/2025i wrote this post in july two years ago when blue sky had around 200,000 total users and i thought i would ask again tell me what u are doing be proud of what u do and share it here 14683445530 3.4K
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 10/09/2025"This is the kind of signature that we would see that was made by something biological … it's kind of the equivalent of seeing leftover fossils … leftovers from a meal. And maybe that meal has been excreted by a microbe. And that's what we're seeing in this sample." www.npr.org/2025/09/10/n...npr.orgLife on Mars? NASA says a rock sample shows potential signs of ancient lifeAncient organisms may have left microscopic "biosignatures" on Mars. That's according to NASA scientists, who say a rock sample offers the most concrete proof yet that the red planet once hosted life. 000 0
Reposted by Christian VasquezKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 10/09/2025the president likely raped and trafficked children, you pathetic fucks 1948489 484
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 10/09/2025wat "There is increasing concern from U.S. officials that the devices, along with the electronic systems that manage rechargeable batteries, could be seeded with rogue communications components that would allow them to be remotely tampered with on Beijing’s orders." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...reuters.comExclusive: US warns hidden radios may be embedded in solar-powered highway infrastructureU.S. officials say solar-powered highway infrastructure including chargers, roadside weather stations, and traffic cameras should be scanned for the presence of rogue devices – such as hidden radios – secreted inside batteries and inverters. 184 8
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 10/09/2025I shouldn't have to preemptively ensure that I have access to imm lawyers in case I get profiled and detailed when traveling but here we are. 110 1
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 10/09/2025“My concern is that this is a never-ending war, where Israel is targeting more and more countries around the world with impunity,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash. Progressives Urge U.S. Arms Embargo After Israel Bombs Qatar theintercept.com/2025/09/09/i...theintercept.comProgressives Urge U.S. Arms Embargo After Israel Bombs QatarQatar is the sixth country Israel bombed this year, interrupting ceasefire negotiations in a war progressives say U.S. support makes possible. 030 3
Reposted by Christian VasquezChris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Oh, I see that neither @reuters.com nor @advocate.com credited Law Dork with breaking this story. Not cool.lawdork.comFeds indict LGBTQ org lawyer over testimony in Alabama "judge-shopping" investigationIn an indictment unsealed Monday, Lambda Legal counsel Carl Charles faces a felony charge of making a false declaration to the investigating judicial panel. 121259304 1.3K
Reposted by Christian Vasquezalec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 09/09/2025A few random headlines from the last 24 hours are a reminder that the system of “law enforcement” only attempts to enforce *some* laws against *some* people. Being “tough on crime” always means ignoring crimes of the powerful while ruthlessly crushing vulnerable people and political targets. 4393170 393
Reposted by Christian VasquezAmistad Law Project @amistadlaw.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Please do not call the cops when someone is having a mental health crisis. They escalate the crisis and put people in more danger. In Philly, you can call 988 to get in touch with non-police mobile crisis teams. Thank you @leximcmenamin.com for reporting on this for @teenvogue.com. 5361157 361
Reposted by Christian VasquezBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025Being Latino and speaking Spanish is not probative of anything but being Latino and speaking Spanish The only way the Court could conclude otherwise is if it thinks being Latino is incompatible with innocence ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/noem-...ballsandstrikes.orgConservative Justices Declare Racial Profiling Just Fine If Mister Trump Asks For ItOnce again, the Court issues an unexplained shadow docket order that will inflict real-world harm on people whom Supreme Court justices never encounter or think about. 8346105 346
Reposted by Christian VasquezDave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025It adds that ChatGPT has been granted an "Authority to Operate" at the FISMA Moderate level, referring to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. Here's what "moderate" means: 2479 47
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 09/09/2025there is nothing scientific or transparent about generative ai's "answers" 010 1
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 09/09/2025matty realizes the leopards would in fact eat his face 000 0
Reposted by Christian VasquezJohnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Lawyer here, currently representing nearly 40 clients who themselves, or who have family that were kidnapped by I.C.E., weeks ago in Los Angeles. @RonFilipkowski.bsky.social’s advice is fine—but please understand: “proof of citizenship” will NOT stop I.C.E. from kidnapping you or your loved ones. 510044 100
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 09/09/2025"... there is a danger that with this rhetorical move, the Trump administration is attempting to open a new “forever war” against an amorphous set of actors who are not in reality engaged in hostilities against the United States." www.justsecurity.org/119985/label...justsecurity.orgLabels, Not Law, to Justify Lethal Force: Venezuela Boat StrikeA new label does not transform a problem or grant the U.S. president or the U.S. military expanded legal authority to kill civilians. 000 0
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 08/09/2025reddit post: old.reddit.com/r/PleX/comme...old.reddit.comOh boy.Posted in r/PleX by u/richpanda64 • 218 points and 159 comments 100 1
Reposted by Christian Vasqueztierney cyren @bnb.im · 08/09/2025plex got pwned, reset your passwords 7205105 205
Reposted by Christian VasquezFrancesca D'Annunzio @francescadnunz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025NEW: Chihuahua, Mexico's most sprawling state, is building a surveillance system. Once complete, it'll have almost 10K cameras, including some w/ facial recognition capabilities. Authorities offered to share access with US police—including Texas DPS. 🧵 www.texasobserver.org/texas-chihua...texasobserver.orgJust Beyond the Texas Border, Chihuahua Is Launching a Burgeoning State Surveillance SystemThe 20-story Torre Centinela looming over Juárez is part of a much larger AI-powered network that won’t stop at the U.S.-Mexico divide. 37651 76
Reposted by Christian VasquezJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits. 7528981205 2.9K
Reposted by Christian VasquezAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Justice Sotomayor, not mincing words, also says that today's decision will lead to the "creation of [] a second-class citizenship status" for Latinos, who now will have the burden to "carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely." 732427887 2.4K
Reposted by Christian VasquezAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction." 10920313 920
Reposted by Christian VasquezAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." 242245804 2.2K
Reposted by Christian VasquezMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Signal Secure Backups are here 🙌 16573130 573
Reposted by Christian VasquezMark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees." 747112274406 11.2K
Reposted by Christian VasquezThe TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 07/09/2025Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com. 16964656 964
Reposted by Christian VasquezEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/09/2025Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday 62572512141 7.3K
Christian Vasquez @chrismvasq.com · 06/09/2025the ability to accurately measure risk seems like an important skill tbh but what do i know 000 0
Reposted by Christian VasquezGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/09/2025Your reminder that we don’t even know who wrote this crap because my former employer no longer says who is on its editorial board. And if you ask its AI helper, it lists seven people, three of whom have left and one of whom is semi-retired and lives in Hong Kong. 161415369 1.4K
Reposted by Christian VasquezAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/09/2025🚨NEW: Reversing *generations* of practice, the Board of Immigration Appeals gives ICE exactly what it demanded, ruling that any undocumented immigrant who entered illegally is categorically ineligible for release from detention on bond — expanding mandatory detention by millions of people. 17529261660 2.9K
Reposted by Christian VasquezLorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 05/09/2025NEW: X has started rolling out it's end-to-end encrypted chat for all users. I was invited to start using it yesterday, so I asked a couple of experts if users should trust it. The answer: no, nobody should trust it at this point. There are several reasons why, which they explained to me here.techcrunch.comX is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat. You probably shouldn't trust it yet. | TechCrunchX's new encrypted messaging feature, XChat, has some red flags. 611971 119