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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New from 404 Media: we've seen and verified video of a CBP agent wearing Meta's AI glasses during immigration raid in LA. Glasses capable of recording, live-streaming, Meta plans to add facial recognition. Experts deeply concerned about this tech being abused by DHS www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

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A CBP Agent Wore Meta Smart Glasses to an Immigration Raid in Los Angeles

Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency t...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/07/2025

The Trump administration’s attacks on Head Start are an attack on working and immigrant families. We’re fighting in court to defend people’s access to this essential program.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Humbled to see my work published. Thanks to members of the Editorial Board of the Seattle University Law Review Online for their incredible assistance in making this article better. Pa' Lante. digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/sulr_supra/36/

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Towards a Critical Legal Tech Education: A Decolonial Approach

The intersection of law, technology, and decolonial theory offers a critical framework for exposing and challenging power asymmetries embedded in both legal and technological systems. Drawing from his...

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The charges against Prof. Willoughby-Herard were finally dropped yesterday. She courageously defended UCI students against police stifling dissent against Israel's genocide in Gaza. I am inspired by her courage and honored to have represented her in this case. Solidarity with those who fight.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

“In practice, the Data Consortium would provide a one-stop shop for agencies to cheaply purchase access to vast amounts of Americans’ sensitive information from commercial entities, sidestepping constitutional and statutory privacy protections.”

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U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data

The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025

58% of women in prison are mothers to minor children. Of those women, most are single mothers. Hundreds of births take place in prisons and jails every year, often with the baby immediately separated from the parent after birth. Families belong together, not separated by prison bars.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

State department official filed affidavit to comply with Judge Xinis’ order for daily updates on Abrego García. Says he is alive at CECOT and being “detained pursuant to the sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador,” which is something that the plaintiffs will certainly dispute

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Thanks Delaware Law for inviting me to speak at your Dignity Law conference. Incredible event.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

New from 404 Media: we've seen an ICE database that filters people by hundreds of different, highly specific categories. Experts say possibly helping ICE identify and deport people. Scars, location data, immigration status, eye color, much more. Created by Palantir www.404media.co/inside-a-pow...

404 Media saw a recent version of the database, which allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, which include things like resident status and entry status (“refugee,” “border crossing card,” “nonimmigrant alien refused admission,” “temporary protective status alien,” “nonimmigrant alien transiting without visa,” “undocumented alien,”); “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos)”; “criminal affiliation”; location data; license plater reader data; country of origin; hair and eye color; race; social security number; birthplace; place of employment; driver’s license status; bankruptcy filings, and hundreds more. A source familiar with the database told 404 Media that it is made up of “tables upon tables” of data and that it can build reports that show, for example, people who are on a specific type of visa who came into the country at a specific port of entry, who came from a specific country, and who have a specific hair color (or any number of hundreds of data points).

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Spend my afternoon talking about citizenship, using Captain Picard, Walter Rodney, Marx, WB Dubois, Dussell, Bosch and el rockero Meléndez-Badillo in our panel hosted by The Bell Collective at Albany Law. Pa’Lante.

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Fernando Tormos-Aponte @fernandotormos.com · 08/04/2025

Check out my new Nature article. I call for avoiding distractions like false solutions to climate change, following environmental justice and Jemez Principles, strengthening EJ-labor collaboration, & redistributing organizing resources away from the big greens & into the hands of grassroots groups.

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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 04/04/2025

“‘Que vergonha!’, disse a funcionária da Microsoft Ibtihal Aboussad, dirigindo-se diretamente ao CEO de IA, Mustafa Suleyman. ‘Você é um mercador da guerra. Pare de usar a IA para genocídio. Você tem sangue nas mãos. Como vocês têm a audácia de celebrar enquanto a Microsoft está matando crianças.’”

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Debí tirar más foto de cuando te tuve, debí darte más besos y abrazos las veces que puede. Ojalá que los míos nunca se muden. Y si hoy me emborracho, pa’ que me ayuden. Toy bien loco, toy bien loco.

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Слава Україні, Esq. @pincheesq.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#publicdefender friends, I'm looking to diversify my pool of potential expert witnesses. Can anyone recommend any of the following who work for defense? - SANE nurses, especially those who still see patients - Forensic or ER nurses - Forensic pathologists - Toxicologists

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Randle DeFalco @randledefalco.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Interested in dignity as a legal concept in teaching, advocacy, and scholarship? Come join us at Widener Law Delaware April 11. I’ll be moderating a panel on dignity and crim law w/ @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social, Terrell Woolfolk, Jocelyn Getgen-Kestenbaum & Dwayne Bensing of ACLU-DE

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Some time ago, a student told me that when she told her mom that her law professor in the U.S. was from Puerto Rico, and that he spoke Spanish, she started to cry. She couldn’t believe that her daughter would find someone in this space she could relate to. That was a very special conversation.

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carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Newsletter: Court records say that at least one employee of Puerto Rico’s Treasury Department (Hacienda) has been “deputized” by the ATF. A look into the objections to a recent report and recommendation in the PR municipalities climate RICO case heavyweather.media/weather-repo...

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Weather Report #4: The Taxman Works for the ATF and Puerto Rico Municipalities Climate RICO Update

📄The court records used to report this article cost about $15. Heavy Weather is a 100% reader-funded site. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support this work or send us a one time donatio...

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 20/03/2025

Visa holders face more risk than US citizens & permanent residents from device searches at ports of entry, Saira Hussain told @theverge.com. “If you refuse a search of your phone or your laptop, customs officers can use that to potentially revoke your visa.”

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The airport panopticon is getting people deported and detained

One lawyer called it a ‘feedback loop’ of surveillance.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

My paper Legal Tech Abolition: Using legal technology to free them all, co-authored with Dr. Michael Chou from Providence College, has found a home at The Ohio State Technology Law Journal, Vol. 22. If you have any comments, feel free to reach out. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Legal Tech Abolition: Using legal technology to free them all

Since the 1960s, the American criminal justice system has grown exponentially. Much of this growth has been the result of so-called "tough-on-crime" a

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Excited to present my paper: The Founder's Gaze, How the 4th Amendment is a surveillance technology that enables AI to scale control over the subaltern next Friday @ St. John's Center for Race and Law. Register here to attend this conference vitrtually. Thanks. www.stjohns.edu/law/academic...

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Center for Race and Law

Understanding American law requires an understanding of the impact of race. Established in 2022 under the leadership of St. John's Law Professor Renee Nicole Allen, the Center for Race and Law provide...

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Perfect time for nations to delink from empire.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Excited to share that my short piece: Towards a Critical Legal Technology Education: A Decolonial Approach has a home with the Seattle University Law Review Online. Pa'Lante. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Towards a Critical Legal Tech Education: A Decolonial Approach

In this paper, I expand on ideas I posited during the 2025 Justice Innovation panel at AALS annual conference, particularly on the oppo

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Excited to share a short piece on how I plan to critically interrogate the intersection of law and technology in my academic scholarship and pedagogy. Hope you enjoy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Towards Critical Legal Tech Education: A Decolonial Approach

In this paper, I expand on ideas I posited during the 2025 Justice Innovation panel at AALS annual conference, particularly on the oppo

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Excited to share my new article: Legal Tech Abolition: using technology to free them all. Thanks to my co-author Dr. Michael Chou, from Providence College. It's available here: download.ssrn.com/2025/2/11/51...

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

2 years sober. I hope this helps anyone out there asking themselves if they can.

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Adrian Carrasquillo @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

🚨What the hell is going on? 🧵 Another PUERTO RICAN family detained, a man tells Telemundo his sister, her mother in law, & a child were taken by ICE in Milwaukee & driven to facility where his sister explained they’re US CITIZENS. ICE response to this flagrant violation? “Sorry”

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Familia puertorriqueña habría sido llevada a centro de detención en Milwaukee

Hermana de una de las detenidas alega que los arrestaron por hablar español.

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Benjamín Torres Gotay @torresgotay.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Agentes federales de inmigración condujeron esta tarde un operativo en Barrio Obtero, epicentro de la comunidad dominicana en San Juan, como parte del endurecimiento de las políticas migratorias de Donald Trump www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/seg...

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Agentes de ICE realizan operativo en el área de Barrio Obrero en Santurce

Aunque de inmediato no se tenían detalles oficiales sobre la intervención, al menos una persona habría sido detenida

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Washington Commanders are one win away from the Super Bowl! Wow. Amazing. Let’s go! “Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere”.

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Al Quds News Network @alqudsnewsnet.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Occupation forces blow up a residential area around the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip #Gaza #Palestine

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Feliz por comenzar el año compartiendo experiencias en la educación legal. Acá por San Francisco, CA. #AALS

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 06/01/2025

A federal court has ruled that Florida can detransition inmates. Some trans inmates are having estrogen pulled, hair shorn, and put through state-run conversion therapy. This is the cruelty of abandoning incarcerated trans people. The latest from Mira Lazine. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Federal Court Rules In Favor of Forcibly Detransitioning Transgender Inmates In Florida

Incarcerated transgender people were a major topic of debate in the 2024 elections. Now, a judge ruling on a Florida policy shows how cruel abandoning trans people in prison can be.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Abrazar la nacionalidad no es la meta. Es chévere, nostálgico y es importante, pero no se compara con lo que podemos lograr con un movimiento de base para que el Pueblo pueda participar en su futuro. Se requieren proyectos económicos y políticos equitativos. La liberación exige más que un momento.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

He penetrated the top ranks of prominent right-wing militias & devised elaborate ruses to gather evidence of ties to high-ranking law enforcement officials. He was so successful, he became a militia’s top commander in Utah. The latest must-read from @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @propublica.org

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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

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Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei @rsbartolomei.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Y recuerden, contrario a lo que dicen lxs diletantes por encargo, esta distopía que vivimos se debe a que Puerto Rico es una utopía neoliberal.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The governor of Puerto Rico wants environmental protestors that interrupted her "coronation" charged with a crime. Police and Prosecutorial discretion will be tighly controlled and they will go after hard against those who exercise their right to protest. www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/gob...

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“Tienen que hacer valer la ley”: Jenniffer González espera que sometan cargos contra manifestante que irrumpió en misa

Mientras, la Policía confirmó que Adriana Vázquez Pérez, conocida como Audri Nix, quien guardó silencio ante las autoridades, fue citada nuevamente para el próximo 8 de enero a las 9:00 a.m.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

#PuertoRico Fanon highlighted that the toursism industry was a neocolonial project meant to be an entertainment arena for the colonizers. "Live Boricua" and "Proyecto Esencia" are just 2 examples. But we must also contend with the harm of space colonization. newsismybusiness.com/puerto-rico-...

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Puerto Rico issues RFP for Roosey Roads Vertical Space Launch Facility

Interested developers can access detailed information and submit questions through the Local Redevelopment Authority’s website. #NewsismyBusiness

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etienne toussaint @etiennetoussaint.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

🚨Big news!🚨 I just launched "Freedom Papers"—a newsletter where personal storytelling meet critical scholarship, exploring law, justice & culture through creative writing. Subscribe to join this journey and stay updated on my future creative projects: open.substack.com/pub/freedomp...

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Welcome to Freedom Papers

Notes on Grief, Dignity, and the Journey to Liberation

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

The debilitating conditions of Puerto Rico’s power grid responds to a neoliberal interest in taking over public resources for private gain. Every private actor will make a profit and the losses will be socialized amongst the masses. Cannot think of a better example than this.

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Diego Alcalá Laboy @diegoalcalapr.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Waking up to a general power outage in Puerto Rico. Neoliberalism at its finest!

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

All this dystopian x-risk AGI futurist BS is (1) an expression of male technological ego and (2) a distraction from present-tense crisis. Fascism is upon us, folks. Stop with your p-doom doomer bullshit and pay attention to now.

Godfather of AI’ shortens odds of the technology wiping out humanity over next 30 years
Geoffrey Hinton says there is 10% to 20% chance AI will lead to human extinction in three decades, as change moves fast

‘We need dramatic changes’: is societal collapse inevitable?

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