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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h
“last year, Stephen Miller asked the bureau to allow agents to go undercover in his Virginia neighborhood's political activist group, several sources with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.” www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen...
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Trump adviser Stephen Miller spoke to agents at recent FBI training on domestic terrorism, sources say
Stephen Miller spoke at a training session at FBI headquarters just days before prosecutors criminally charged a man with making disturbing calls and texts to his wife, sources told CBS News.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1h
this is the funniest thing i've seen in a looooong time. city passes new rule allowing prayer before city council meetings. satanist prays. city council then debates proper time to "undo the curse that was just put on our city" www.404media.co/it-is-done-h...
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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 17h
If you're actively mapping Flock cameras for deflock.org, this site provides some useful data about where to look if either your local city/PD won't reveal the locations, or for cameras under private contract such as HOAs/retail. 👉 flocksurveillance.org NB. This data won't be updated over time.
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Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline
A new map shows Flock has more cameras in the U.S. than was previously known. The company wants the map taken down.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23h
Local cops now have access to sophisticated spy tech. Learn more about cell-site simulators, automated license plate readers, drones, and more at EFF's Street-Level Surveillance project. www.eff.org/sls
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Street Level Surveillance
EFF Presents: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Only 18 investigations into police violence are open at the IGPN, an internal non-independant inspectorate under the Interior Ministry. Meanwhile, the National Assembly passed a “licence to kill” bill, a US-style presumption of self-defence shielding police from further accountability.
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Distrust in media was expresed by students who drove out BFMTV over its historically police-aligned coverage. Footage circulates on social media, including from LFI lawmakers. Ex. a LFI MEP filmed an undercover officer throwing a projectile -police provocation, a known escalation practice in France.
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L'homme interpellé par le député LFI Anthony Smith était bien policier, confirme le procureur
L’homme apostrophé par le député européen Anthony Smith (LFI) lors des manifestations lycéennes, vendredi 2 octobre, à Reims (Marne) était bien un policier, confirme le procureur ce dimanche. Selon le...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Everything we've been warning about for years re: policing is playing out globally.
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
44 days between these headlines
Banner Press August 24 2026: Brenham Police Department secures grant to expand license plate reader tech
KBXT3 October 6 2026: Brenham police confirm internal investigation into officer following alleged Flock camera misuse
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm speaking today to the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility about the ethical implications of having money invested in institutions/funds that prop up police technology companies--these companies often avoid the same scrutiny investors put on arms manufacturers, fossil fuels, etc.
a screen shot from the movie All the president's men of a man in shadows saying "just follow the money."
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Law Forward @lawfwd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Journal Sentinel uncovered a paper trail showing the Legislature spent over $26 million on lawsuits with no public purpose, hiring private lawyers and bypassing Wisconsin’s Attorney General. We are trying to put a stop to this waste of taxpayer dollars with new filings in court this week!
Headshot of Kacy Gurewitz with the subheading "Law Forward's Kacy Gurewitz, Staff Counsel" and the quote "'The Legislature wrote itself a blank check to pay private law firms. Our clients are suing to vindicate the rights of all Wisconsin taxpayers and curtail the Legislature’s abuse of power.'"
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Cory Booker — who is being floated as a 2028 contender, and who just the other day did not deny the possibility of wanting to become leader of the Senate Democrats — promotes the book of Brett McGurk, a chief architect of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestine:
Cory Booker tweet:
@brett_mcgurk
 is one of our nation’s great experts on the Middle East and has spent decades working at the highest levels of diplomacy through some of the region’s most consequential moments.

I’m really looking forward to reading Brink and learning from his firsthand account of the extraordinary efforts to free the hostages, and confront the extraordinary challenges of the region.
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026
The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lol
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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Activists have launched a 'defendants union', likely the 1st project of its kind in the modern history of US political protest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... @dnbrgr.bsky.social @willpotter.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social @sdonziger.bsky.social
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Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 05/10/2026
“My big concern is that automakers love to collect data,” EFF's @Mguariglia.bsky.social told @wired.com. “With autonomous vehicles, there’s even more data to collect. And the more data they collect, the more they’re going to find reasons to sell it.”
wired.com
Your Driverless Cab Is Spying on You
Self-driving cars from Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are studded with cameras and sensors. Some of them are pointing at riders.
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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Whether or not consumers are aware, big tech companies are all over the vehicles that we drive ... It does not appear that a customer can buy a new car that does not track you." ICYMI, Mozilla also covered this in 2023: www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/priv... Every manufacturer failed!
consumerreports.org
Your Car Is Sharing Data With Big Tech Companies, Study Finds - Consumer Reports
New study finds cars send driver data to Big Tech companies, including locations, VINs, and other identifiers.
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Wisconsin Watch @wisconsinwatch.org · 04/10/2026
About 1 in 3 Wisconsin clerks use Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail or other consumer email for election business, a @Votebeat.org analysis found. That can make it harder for voters to identify official messages — and easier for scammers to impersonate election offices. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/10/wisc...
"Hundreds of Wisconsin election offices not using cybersecurity best practices" — news graphic over a photo of voters and poll workers inside a polling place, with a subheading about government domains being a challenge for small jurisdictions.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lucien Lazare, Jewish fighter in the French Resistance, has died at 101. After fighting the Nazis, he was rejected by his synagogue later in life for translating an article saying “Israel, today, is nothing but a formless mass of corruption, oppression and injustice.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...
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Lucien Lazare, Jewish Resistance Fighter in Occupied France, Dies at 101 (Gift Article)
He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
everyone especially the Senators confirming them knew this.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 02/10/2026
Don't let copaganda fool you — police violence is not tied to their safety. In 2025, the vast majority of killings began with police responding to suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported.
Screenshot of chart showing how police killings in 2025 began. 680 were suspected non-violent offenses or cases where no crime was reported. 112 were traffic violations. 84 were unknown.
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Lean ní Fhionn @leannifhionn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What in the fuck is going on with the timeline we live in?!
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Stuart Schrader @stschrader1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The new book I co-edited with @juliango.bsky.social, IMPERIAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF POLICING, is now shipping from @dukepress.bsky.social. Order your copy here: dukeupress.edu/imperial-ent...
Cover of Imperial Entanglements of Policing (red with black netting and white letters)
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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Drat,” said Toad.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"This is not models going rogue. This is gross incompetence & negligence by a particular company, which actually they could be held criminally liable for." @timnitgebru.blacksky.app cuts to the AI chase.
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Wisconsin Watch @wisconsinwatch.org · 02/10/2026
Oracle wants to power its massive Ozaukee County data center with electricity from Wisconsin's only operating nuclear plant. ⚡ We Energies says the proposal to tap electricity from the Point Beach nuclear plant could save other customers millions in fuel costs. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/10/wisc...
Wisconsin Watch graphic showing the Point Beach nuclear plant on Lake Michigan, announcing We Energies struck a deal to power Oracle's data center with nuclear energy and saying the proposal could save customers millions in fuel costs.
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/10/2026
the long shadow of the war on terror
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
VICTORY: A lawsuit seeking to end the Trump administration's social media surveillance program will move forward. eff.org/press/relea...
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Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss Social Media
NEW YORK — A lawsuit filed by three labor unions against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online can move
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability.
Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues
By Lydia Moynihan
Published Oct. 1, 2026, 6:00 a.m. ETAs the university system increasingly becomes a wildly expensive bastion of anti-Western sentiment, key figures in Silicon Valley are betting on alternatives to higher education. They argue that even the Ivy League is no longer producing the best candidates — nor are they even accepting some of the most qualified students.

“It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Jordan Hirsch, who runs Palantir’s semester-long intensive Meritocracy Fellowship, which accepts high school graduates.“But that’s not the case anymore… we suspected that there was a lot of talent being missed.”
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 02/10/2026
Israel is preparing to give settlers access to a main Palestinian thoroughfare in Ramallah, a move that would bring checkpoints and gates to one of the West Bank’s last spaces of free Palestinian movement and affordable urban growth. mondoweiss.net/2026/10/isra... #Palestine #Israel
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Lean ní Fhionn @leannifhionn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The US is following Israel’s lead by incorporating AI-driven targeting systems for airstrikes using autonomous drones."
thecradle.co
Pentagon unveils AI-powered 'Autonomous Warfare Command,' taps Elon Musk for key role
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth also plans to cut the number of US generals and admirals by 20 percent as part of a 'battlefield revolution'
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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ACLU of Wisconsin @acluofwi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
BREAKING: The resolution to remove Flock cameras from Milwaukee County park property passed the County Board unanimously.
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Palestine Legal @palestinelegal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
As we've been saying all along, it's absurd to say that opposing Zionism and genocide is antisemitic. Yehonatan Ovadia is a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who is now in ICE custody and facing deportation for protesting against Israel in October 2023. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/n...
nytimes.com
A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported. (Gift Article)
Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.
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Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
More than 55 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations sent a letter to the Cook County Board of Commissioners calling on them freeze law enforcement spending to protect social services. Learn more & read the letter: endmoneybond.org/55-organizat...
endmoneybond.org
55+ ORGANIZATIONS CALL ON COOK COUNTY TO FREEZE LAW ENFORCEMENT SPENDING TO PROTECT SOCIAL SERVICES - Coalition to End Money Bond
The Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and more than 55 community, faith, policy, and service-providing organizations sent a letter to the Cook County Board of Commissioners calling on them to prot...
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ACLU of Wisconsin @acluofwi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
45 community organizations sent a letter to the Milwaukee Common Council, Mayor Johnson, Chief Norman, and the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners calling on the City of Milwaukee to end its contract with Flock Safety, a company providing AI-powered surveillance technology.
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Advocates Call On Milwaukee Leaders to End Flock Contract, Establish CCOPS Framework to Regulate Surveillance - ACLU of Wisconsin
The ACLU of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Turners and 43 other orgs send letter to demand Flock cancellation, CCOPS policy
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
404media.co
USPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’
USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more.
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Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Over a 20-year period, people were sentenced to prison more often, and for longer terms, in years when prosecutors were up for election, a Northwestern Law study finds. In other words, prosecutors were more eager to rob people’s freedom when they thought it would help them politically.
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Prison admissions rose 3% in district attorney election years during 'tough on crime' era
New research from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law suggests that public sentiment associated with “tough on crime” politics may be tied to increases in the number of people admitted to state prison...
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
7 SUVs and 10 Homeland Security agents pulled up to a U.S. citizen’s home in Winter Springs, Florida. All over a tweet made months ago. The homeowner repeatedly demanded agents leave his property. Agents maintained the social media posts constituted potential threats that had to be investigated.
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ACLU of Wisconsin @acluofwi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We encourage Milwaukee County residents to contact your supervisors about this issue. People should not have to prove that they aren't doing something wrong to exist in public without unnecessary surveillance. Watch the meeting livestream here: milwaukeecounty.granicus.com/player/event...
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Committee on Parks and Culture on 2026-09-29 9:00 AM - REVISION #1 Please note the addition of new Item #9, File No. 26-694, which will be considered after 12:35 p.m. This meeting will be held in R...
Live and Recorded Public meetings of Committee on Parks and Culture on 2026-09-29 9:00 AM - REVISION #1 Please note the addition of new Item #9, File No. 26-694, which will be considered after 12:35 ...
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ACLU of Wisconsin @acluofwi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today, we're testifying in front of the Milwaukee County Board Committee on Parks and Culture in support of File #26-640, a resolution directing removal of fixed Flock Condor and automated license plate reader camera equipment from Milwaukee County park property.
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Milwaukee County - File #: 26-640
Title: A resolution directing removal of fixed Flock Condor and automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera equipment from Milwaukee County park property, and opposing the use of ALPR technology for ...
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
new: federal authorities tapped into a network of flock license plate readers and surveillance cameras owned by chicagoland police during their failed attempts to prosecute marimar martinez and anthony ruiz for following immigration agents last october.
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Feds tapped local surveillance networks in botched Chicago prosecutions - Chicago Reader
During their failed efforts to prosecute Marimar Martinez and Anthony Ruiz, federal authorities accessed a network of Chicagoland license plate readers and surveillance cameras.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
“VIDIZMO Intelligence Hub closes that gap. It brings Flock Safety data, Axon body worn camera footage, and any other evidence source into one searchable platform. Investigators search across all of it simultaneously —  by face, vehicle, or object in seconds.”
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
In a May email to Johnson City, Tennessee, deputy police chief Michael Adams, a salesperson from VIDIZMO wrote that the company’s product could do facial recognition on both Flock and Axon data in “one searchable platform.”
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Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras
A surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras.
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404 Media @404media.co · 29/09/2026
CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."
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Surveillance Finds a Way
CEO who wants to add facial recognition to Flock cameras says it's "the way the world will have to be."
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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Earlier this evening a federal jury struck down a brazenly unconstitutional traffic stop scheme "that turned mass surveillance of American drivers into a pipeline of pretextual traffic stops and unconstitutional searches." ij.org/press-releas...
The unconstitutional program ran in five steps: First, surveillance cameras across the state and country recorded license plates and logged when and where cars went. Second, analysts and anonymous tipsters flagged ordinary travel, like driving toward the border and back, as suspicious. Third, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies invented a traffic violation to justify pulling over the flagged driver. Fourth, deputies pulled drivers into their front seats, interrogated them and asked consent to search their car. Finally, fifth, if the driver refused to consent to a search, a K-9 alert from a manipulated dog supplied the probable cause to search anyway. This practice happened for four years to countless motorists.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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