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A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

constitutionally collect this information about one car-and its driver-by
following that vehicle on public roadways over a month. But this leaves the
question of why is it the government's business where everyone goes all the
time? The government cannot go snooping through our personal lives and
business without an adequate basis to do so. That is what the Supreme Court
has said since its decision in Katz through its decision in Chatrie this year,
nearly sixty years later. It is not too much to draw the line at indiscriminate
mass surveillance.
No doubt, ALPR technology comes with remarkable benefits that the
Court cannot ignore. But the Fourth Amendment requires courts to draw a line when the cost is too great. Alaniz's search in just the ALPR system
provided him with more than 50 individual records of Kyle's whereabouts
across the country for an entire month. The Court finds that because the
ALPR systems Alaniz used to search Kyle's historical location information
intruded on her reasonable expectation of privacy in the whole of her physical
movements, it was a search under the Fourth Amendment. Based on the
information in the record, the only reason Alaniz conducted that search was
because he saw her license plate was from California. That search was not
supported by probable cause, and it was done without a warrant in violation
of Kyle's Fourth Amendment rights. That search also has a nexus to the
remainder of the traffic stop because Alaniz began following Kyle's car while

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Indivisible Next 2sday Arts ❌ 👑 @next2sdayarts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Come have some fun at Block Party for Democracy — Cleveland and get Ready, Set, VOTE!! Info/RSVP: mobilize.us/s/VpJuo1. Sat., Sep. 19, 2026 1 - 5 pm Euclid Beach Park (entrance is across from Collinwood Recreation Center) ART :: GAMES :: MUSIC :: FOOD :: FAMILY FRIENDLY :: VOTING RESOURCES

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/05/2026

ICE hides flight info because if they can get detainees to detention hubs in the south before lawyers and family can locate them, they face harsher courts. But jurisdiction doesn’t change until the flight lands. That’s where this tracking tool comes in. 1/ gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

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Habeas Flight Watch: New tool helps track ICE flights to your city

Activists have been quietly piloting a live map of ICE flights to help immigration attorneys with habeas filings. Now they say it's ready for everyone to use.

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Indivisible Next 2sday Arts ❌ 👑 @next2sdayarts.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Next stop: KNOX COUNTY, OH. 🇺🇸✊ The giant preamble is heading to Kenyon College - come add your name!! Location details/full tour info/donate: next2sday.com/wtpoh Then it is on to Columbus. #WeThePeopleOhio #WTPO #WTP250 #SeeUNext2sday #BackboneCampaign #ohio #knoxcounty #gambier #kenyoncollege

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This is what verification looks like once national identity sits above method. Rigorous when it's pointed at adversaries, conveniently absent when it's pointed at us. Symmetric, evidence-led investigation of allied conduct, exactly what Bellingcat does, becomes the thing the worldview can't tolerate

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Point 21 is the giveaway, some cultures produce "wonders," others are "regressive and harmful." Once you accept that hierarchy, you've quietly been given permission to apply different standards of verification to different actors. The form of verification stays, but the democratic function doesn't.

21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Healthy accountability is triggered by evidence, points upward at power, and happens in public. Disordered accountability protects insiders and aims its punishment outward. What the document does is argue for the second while calling it the first.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Points 9, 18 and 19 go after accountability directly. Scrutiny of public figures gets reframed as a kind of cultural sickness driving talent away from public life. The problem becomes the people doing the scrutinising, not the people being scrutinised.

9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within.

19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The 'adversaries won't wait' statement doesn't reject deliberation outright, it just makes serious deliberation always feel premature. You can debate this or that war, but the underlying question, whether to build the systems at all, is treated as settled, & that's deliberation as performance.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The headline argument is straightforward enough, democratic survival depends on hard power, hard power is now software, so Silicon Valley owes the West an AI weapons industry. Adversaries won't wait, so we can't either, which taken at face value sounds like a defence of democracy.

5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

A diagram showing the VDA framework and the Arc of Democracy. At the top, three icons label the essential elements of democracy: Verification (tick), Deliberation (speech bubble), and Accountability (magnifying glass). Arrows descend from each through three horizontal bands representing the arc: Substantial (truth tested, voices included, power constrained), Performative (forms remain but substance is weak, rituals without consequence), and Simulated (appearance maintained but functions inverted: propaganda as verification, polarisation as deliberation, scapegoating as accountability). A vertical arrow on the left marks the arc's direction: improvements, decline, collapse. A column on the right maps counterpublics onto the same three states: functional counterpublics act in a substantial way, hollow counterpublics in a performative way, disordered counterpublics in a simulated way. The bands shift from grey through pink to red as democracy moves toward simulation.

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Indivisible Next 2sday Arts ❌ 👑 @next2sdayarts.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The We The People of Ohio tour launched in Cleveland at the IRTF Annual Conference — and what a start! 🎉 Next stop: Springfield. Follow the tour + donate at next2sday.com/wtpoh #WeThePeopleOhio #WTPO #WTP250 @backbonecampaign.bsky.social @irtf.bsky.social

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosassociates.com · 11/04/2026

Some of the booths at "We The People" constitution #Ohio Launch Party. Hosted by @next2sday.bsky.social in partnership with @backbonecampaign.bsky.social. next2sday.com/wtpoh/

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosassociates.com · 11/04/2026

@apemade.bsky.social silk screen posters being made at "We The People" constitution #Ohio Launch Party. Hosted by @next2sday.bsky.social in partnership with @backbonecampaign.bsky.social. next2sday.com/wtpoh/

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosassociates.com · 11/04/2026

"We The People" constitution #Ohio Launch Party. Hosted by @next2sday.bsky.social in partnership with @backbonecampaign.bsky.social. This hand-painted artwork has signatures and messages from across the USA, and will be displayed in Washington, D.C., on July 4th.🇺🇸 next2sday.com/wtpoh/

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosassociates.com · 11/04/2026

Thank you to the organizers of today’s "We The People" constitution #Ohio Launch Party. Hosted by @indivisibleneo.bsky.social art committee @next2sday.bsky.social in partnership with @backbonecampaign.bsky.social. 🇺🇸 next2sday.com/wtpoh/

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosassociates.com · 11/04/2026

I am attending the "We The People" constitution #Ohio Launch Party. Thank you @next2sday.bsky.social for partnering with @backbonecampaign.bsky.social to bring it here. This hand-painted artwork has people’s messages from across the USA, and will be displayed in Washington, D.C., on July 4th.🇺🇸

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Indivisible Next 2sday Arts ❌ 👑 @next2sdayarts.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Here is a flier about the IRTF conference. You can find out more and register here: tinyurl.com/liberation26

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Indivisible Next 2sday Arts ❌ 👑 @next2sdayarts.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

It's here. Ohio's turn starts April 11. 🎉 @backbonecampaign.bsky.social's hand-painted Preamble has traveled the country and been signed by thousands — and now it's coming to Ohio. Follow the tour 👉 next2sday.com/wtpoh #WeThePeopleOhio #WTPO #WTP250 youtu.be/JBfOggMQSX8

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We The People of Ohio Tour - Chapter 1

YouTube video by See U Next 2sday

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosassociates.com · 11/04/2026

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Stuart O. Smith, Jr. - sosAssociates.com @sosassociates.com · 11/04/2026

"We The People" #Ohio Launch Party is happening during the @irtf.bsky.social Liberation Lab Learn more about IRTF InterReligious Task Force on Central America at www.irtfcleveland.org Today’s Liberation Lab website www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket... @next2sday.bsky.social @backbonecampaign.bsky.social

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IRTF Cleveland @irtf.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Our Liberation Lab: The Fire Inside will be held at CSU Law SATURDAY, APRIL 11TH from 11:30AM-5PM. This is our 27th Annual Social Justice Teach-In and maybe our best yet. We will be talking about the Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde. And we will have...

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

SCOOP: DOJ has waived policy requiring newly hired prosecutors to have least a year (more often 3 years) experience practicing law. As DOJ struggles to replace mass departures w/ qualified applicants, this move allows hiring straight out of law school. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School

The Justice Department has waived a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to possess at least one year of experience practicing law, as US attorney’s offices struggle to find qualified repl...

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 26/02/2026

Today, a week of action against ICE begins in the Twin Cities. melttheicemn.com We can't just try to mitigate the worst effects of their bad behavior. We have to take the initiative—to make it impossible for them to continue doing harm. If you can't make it to the Twin Cities, act where you are.

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 11/02/2026

The De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition's next coordinated stand out is planned for Saturday, March 7. To join the effort, reach out to the coalition at de.ice.citizensbank@gmail.com.

With key financial backing from Citizens, these corporations continue to expand a detention system that separates families, endangers detained individuals, and erodes fundamental rights to safety and due process. Banks matter because they provide the financial backbone for more arrests and detentions.

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Indivisible NEO @indivisibleneo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Sat, 3/7/26 11am-12pm Protest at Citizens Bank branches to demand that they stop financing ICE prisons. tockify.com/neohiounited... Get details from @boycottcitizens.bsky.social tinyurl.com/De-ICECitizensBank BoycottCitizens.org For more NE #Ohio Resistance events: IndivisibleNEO.org/#calendar

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Citizens Bank: Stop Financing ICE prisons

Sat 7 Mar, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM [EST]: Watch for updates at: tinyurl.com/De-ICECitizensBank and BoycottCitizens.org WE ARE DOING IT AGAIN! Join us across the region on Saturday, March 7th, 2026 from 11...

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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Get rid of your ring subscriptions and the devices. Or, if you ABSOLUTELY cannot….At least try to put clear tape over the lens to make it very blurry but still able to detect movement.

Ring doorbell flyer: ICE THANKS YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. Ring announced in October they they will partner with Flock to share data that helps them surveil, murder and kidnap people.

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Minneapolis Spring @minneapolis-spring.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.

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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

21 minutes ago

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Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration.

Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest.

Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Locals say ICE used tear gas as they left

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

An ICE vehicle appears to have crashed into a telephone pole

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15/01/2026

Near Lyndale and 24th Ave in Minneapolis tonight, feds have reportedly shot another person. Preliminary info is shaky for now, hearing two people injured. BORTAC just rolled up in an armored vehicle. A crowd is gathering outside the police tape—MPD presence as well.

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rockslammer @rockslammer.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It looks like ice may be going door to door in central Columbus, Ohio area. Location:719 Georgian Dr, Columbus, OH 43228, USA Critical Time Occurred 9:00 AM Date 12/20/25

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/12/2025

"I was ripped off the bench." Tania Nemer is one of about 100 immigration judges removed by the Trump administration this year, despite a backlog of millions of cases. Nemer is suing for unlawful discrimination.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Page One in Cincinnati: “.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.” #ICE

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IRTF Cleveland @irtf.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

On Sunday, November 9, 2025, we will commemorate the lives of human rights defenders in Central America and Colombia lost this past year for their brave outspokenness against injustices in their communities. Our guest speaker (and music performer) is Sebastián Torogós

Art and Historical Memory
Sunday, November 9, 2025
45th Annual Human Rights Banquet
Commemoration of the Martyrs
4-8pm (6pm HYBRID program)
In-person and ONLINE - 2592 West 14th St. Cleveland, OH 44113
Guests from Radio Venceremos, Los Torogoces de Morazan, El Salvador

more info at: tinyurl.com/artmemorycommemoration

childcare available, wheelchair accessible building
LANGUAGE INTERPRETATION:
-will be available (Spanish to English).
-Inquire about our virtual option for the presentation and music performance.
SCHEDULE: Come for any/all of the event: 4pm social hour; 5:30pm interfaith ceremony and guest speaker; 7pm Central American dinner
TICKETS: Reserved seats: $45
Group tables for 8 or more: $40 per person ($320 for a table)
Walk-ins: $50 at the door | Online only: $15
(Suggested donations)

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Marcy Kaptur @repmarcykaptur.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

The situation in Gaza is dire. People of all walks of life, including my constituent Philip Tottenham have come together to deliver humanitarian aid. After being intercepted by the Israeli government, it's imperative all are safe, treated humanely, and released promptly. Aid must reach Gaza.

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Israel intercepts almost all flotilla vessels trying to reach Gaza | CNN

Israel’s navy boarded vessels aiming to break the country’s blockade of Gaza, detaining dozens of people including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. But the Global Sumud Flotilla says some ship...

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Atlanta Justice Alliance @atlantajustice.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Tort's mother, Belkis, is trying to raise money for two families in Venezuela. They are struggling to get by and desperately need medications. If you are able to help, any amount will make a difference. Her goal is to raise $500. Venmo @Belkis-Teran Cash App @atljusticealliance

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Lynn Tramonte @lynntramonte.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

So. Drunk white ppl in Cincinnati get their a$$es kicked after hurling racial slurs at Black ppl + kicking a car. 7 Black people charged w felonies while white people claim victimhood. It takes weeks to charge just 1 white man w a misdemeanor. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/c... Meanwhile...

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Is charge against White man in Cincinnati brawl political or not enough? Debate continues

Local Black leaders say the charge doesn't go far enough, while the police union says it's unwarranted and that the city ordered the charges filed.

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farce majeure @hongpong.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New today: soft-launch of "Open Security Mapping Project" for documenting ICE detention facilities. Includes web scraper and data on 117 facilities, all open source. Covers ICE .gov, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap +Wikidata. github.com/Open-Securit... -main info github.com/Open-Securit... -Python scraper

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Open Security Mapping Project

Open Security Mapping Project has 3 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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