iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

This is amazing!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🚨 oh look! Jack Smith is calling Marsha Blackburn’s bluff. Surely she should want him to testify publicly if she isn’t entirely full of 💩, right? Right?? www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

When Tish James walks into a courthouse tomorrow — the target of a political prosecution demanded by a President obsessed with revenge — she does not walk in alone. New York has her back. Grateful to Governor Hochul for bringing us together tonight.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

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Federal Action Reporting Form

Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/10/2025

Glad ICE is getting called out for plate swapping in Illinois, but this has been happening in California from the jump.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/10/2025

I’m absolutely exhausted in the best possible way. I love us. We did it! #NoKings

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 04/10/2025

The absolute worst people in the country benefit from all this shit.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2025

Attn Black people, stop scrolling. This is not a drill: Chicago

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 18/09/2025

@ericswalwell.bsky.social on Kimmel: “That’s what it looks like in China, that’s what it looks like in Russia, that can’t be what it looks like in America”

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KJ Carmichael @kcsquare.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Imagine this man has nuclear codes !!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

One week ago, thousands of New Yorkers tried something new. They heard about it last minute. They didn’t know where it would take them or who they would meet. It was free, earnest, even educational. It was the #ZcavengerHunt and it was a thing of beauty.

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KJ Carmichael @kcsquare.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Release the Epstein files and have a smile 😊

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

(🚨) On June 14, 2025, the Summer of Protest formally begins. We should expect weeks and weeks of various forms of tumult that will change our country forever. PROOF has created a primer to help you understand some of the events MAGAs will distort to try to end American democracy.

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The Summer of Protest Is Here. This Primer Will Help You Understand What You See.

Corporate media and the far-right disinformation ecosystem haven’t just done nothing to educate Americans about public protests, they have poisoned the language we use to discuss them. That must end.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14/06/2025

We cannot move on from what happened yesterday. A Senator being roughed up and handcuffed for trying to ask a question is what you see in a DICTATORSHIP. Our country is at a crossroads and we need EVERY American to stand up to defend freedom, democracy and our Constitution.

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We cannot move on from what happened to Alex Padilla

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns

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KJ Carmichael @kcsquare.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

If you don't understand why Black Americans are celebrating the symbolic dismantling of this monument to bondage and generational oppression — well, today, we simply don't care." Brad Gordon

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/05/2025

The federal government is attempting a radical, massive expansion of what constitutes "wiretapping" that threatens everyone working in media/as a journalist today and I hope you'll read this and share it with everyone you know. I'm not just fighting this for me. I'm fighting it for everyone.

Advisory to Journalists: The Dangerous Expansion of the Federal Wiretap Law

Journalists, podcasters, and digital media professionals beware: the U.S. government is currently advancing a legal theory under 18 U.S.C. § 2511—the federal wiretap statute—that threatens to criminalize the mere act of downloading publicly available videos or listening to podcasts. This interpretation risks not only chilling investigative journalism but undermines the very foundation of freedom of the press.

The federal wiretap law makes it a felony to intentionally “intercept”—that is, acquire the contents of—a “wire communication” unless you are a party to the communication or a party has given prior consent. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2510(1), a "wire communication" includes any transfer containing the human voice that travels at any point by wire or cable. Originally meant to prevent unlawful phone taps in 1968, the statute has not meaningfully evolved to reflect digital media distribution in the 21st century.

As a result, many core journalistic practices today—listening to audio on a video stream, downloading a podcast, reviewing livestreamed footage—can be construed as “intercepting” a wire communication. And unlike “oral communications” (which are only protected if private) or “electronic communications” (which are exempt if publicly accessible), wire communications have no similar public-access defense. This leaves journalists legally vulnerable for accessing material that is otherwise freely available to the public.

This is not just a theoretical risk. In Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Department of Justice is actively prosecuting my client, journalist Timothy Burke for allegedly violating the wiretap statute by downloading publicly accessible livestreamed interviews from a video server. The journalist used only a URL—no password, no hack, no deception.

The government claims that because the streams included the human voice and were transmitted in part by wire or cable, they are “wire communications”. Under this interpretation, even if the stream was intended for public consumption, and even if no reasonable expectation of privacy existed, the act of acquiring and publishing the content becomes a federal felony. The government also asserts that the same communications are also “electronic communications,” where the law makes it clear that it is not a violation if the electronic communication is obtained from a server that is configured so that the communication is “readily accessible to the general public” -- however, the government has argued (and the court has agreed) that whether or not the communication was obtained from a publicly accessible server is a fact question that the journalist must prove at trial - not an element of the offense that the government must prove. This means that a journalist that obtains public information may still be subject to search, seizure, arrest, indictment and prosecution.

The implications for the First Amendment are chilling. Under the government’s interpretation of interception of “wire communications”, the government could prosecute journalists based not on their methods, but on the content they choose to listen to or report on. The wiretap law also criminalizes the disclosure of the contents of a wire communication. Thus, quoting from a podcast or a leaked livestream could subject a reporter to criminal liability regardless of intent, public interest, or harm.

This is a dangerous expansion of government authority. It converts the passive act of receiving a communication—something essential to journalism—into a criminal offense based solely on outdated statutory definitions and prosecutorial discretion.

The broader issue is not just technical—it’s constitutional. A law that is so vague or overbroad that it allows the government to pick and choose whom to prosecute based on their speech, targets the very heart of press freedom. It is unconstitutionally vague under the Fifth Amendment and overbroad under the First.

By failing to modernize the statute—or at least to interpret it in line with modern communication platforms—the government risks turning millions of journalists, researchers, and citizens into potential criminals. The law as it stands today is an anachronism of the analog era being misapplied in a digital one.

If you are a journalist, you should be alarmed. If the DOJ’s current theory prevails, simply clicking “play” could one day lead to prosecution. The press cannot operate in an environment where the law punishes access to speech—particularly where that speech is both public and newsworthy.

The press must not only report on this misuse of power, but challenge it—legally, politically, and publicly. Because the right to receive and report information is not just a constitutional luxury. It’s a democratic necessity.

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Mark Rasch
MDRasch@gmail.com
(301) 547-6925

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14/05/2025

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.

The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

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CMR @cindotx.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Use this spreadsheet to call/email/write any of our representatives as often as possible. Not just your own state reps, reach out to those in other states. Be as loud as you can and share this. Use your voice and make some “good trouble.” docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Senate and House representatives with phone numbers/addresses/emails

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Dear Canada- Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever. ❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸 #MakeAmericaNormalAgain

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KJ Carmichael @kcsquare.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is the hard reality that the Democrats must face in order to rebuild to win again !

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KJ Carmichael @kcsquare.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

For those not paying attention, we have reached 1932 again !

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

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The CFPB Has Been Gutted

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated the positions of 1,406 employees at the congressionally mandated agency.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

We just wanted to keep you all updated estimates are now approaching 4 million. Incredible job pulling this off on a holiday weekend! It was tough to get accurate counts today because small towns showed up in force. Some states had record-breaking turnout we didn’t expect this includes

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

If anyone you know in ICE tells you they’re “just following orders” remind them of the following: - they can read - they’re aware of the SCOTUS ruling and numerous injunctions around the illegality of what they’re doing - feigning ignorance will not soften their place in history…or in America.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

One of my followers created the ICE Block app just for this! Right now, it's only available on the Apple store. Here's the link- apps.apple.com/us/app/icebl...

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‎ICEBlock

‎Stay informed about important local information in real-time while maintaining your privacy. ICEBlock is a community-driven app that allows you to share and discover location-based reports without re...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Communities are organizing ICE patrols using radios and megaphones—but what we really need is an ICE alert website where people can share details of ICE activity in real time to help protect and inform one another.

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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is something we can all do.👇🏼 File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.

Go to the online DC or Florida Bar orgs and file a complaint against Pam Bondi for not complying with the Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador. Her bar # is 886440.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/04/2025

NEWS: Hong Kong has suspended postal service for all goods being sent to the United States, saying the U.S is "unreasonable, bullying, and imposing tariffs abusively."

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KJ Carmichael @kcsquare.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I would like to remind everyone that the concentration camps like Auschwitch were not in Germany!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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KJ Carmichael @kcsquare.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Trump has lit the Constitution on fire! The DOJ will not enforce the law if SCOTUS holds him or his administration in contempt!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Jeffries: The Supreme Court and or the federal district court actually needs to enforce its order. And the vehicles that are available relate to contempt, and that contempt can be directed at a variety of different members of the administration, including the Secretary of State…

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 14/04/2025

Today, Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont, walked into an immigration office to complete a final step for citizenship. Instead, he was arrested by plain-clothed, armed individuals with faces covered. This is immoral, inhumane, and illegal. He must receive due process and be released.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Rep Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “Mr. Abrego Garcia must be returned immediately before he is killed in one of the most dangerous prisons in the world. Enough with the fake bravado. This is not America. The Supreme Court must aggressively enforce its order immediately.”

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