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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just one day after another of cartoonish villainy
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
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New ICE Facility for Migrant Children Raises Alarm Over Trafficking Risks
A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These are not crimes
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 03/10/2026
Estonia trains children to operate drones in response to Russian threat
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Estonia trains children to operate drones in response to Russian threat
In Tallinn, students grasp joysticks and face flight simulator screens at the Energy Discovery Center. The exercise enhances the already mandatory defense training for high school students.
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404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out. www.404media.co/cops-can-byp...
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Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims
Magent Forensics, the owner of the GrayKey phone unlocking tool, says it can bypass an iPhone rebooting feature that was locking cops out.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But ice cream shops can’t give a free cone to someone with an “I voted” sticker
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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I made a big deal this spring over Kotlikoff’s refusal to take responsibility for hitting a student with his car, and the Board’s unwillingness to do so either. This is why. An administrative culture of “not our fault” is how you botch a rape investigation. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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GUEST ROOM | Kotlikoff Makes the Rules; He Needs to Follow Them Too
Cornell Law Professor James Grimmelmann analyzes and discusses the legality of the incident between students and President Kotlikoff following the April 30 Cornell Political Union debate.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Of course it was all lies. All the fuckers do is lie
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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, this may be it: 1989 Teamsters were put under federal oversight bc they’d been mobbed up forever. Ever since they’ve looked to Repubs to help them end the consent decree. Nothing was more important to them I looked, & sure enough, DOJ just ended federal oversight teamster.org/2026/09/u-s-...
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U.S. District Court Grants End to 37-Year Federal Monitorship of Teamsters Union
(WASHINGTON) – After nearly four decades, the U.S. government has officially ended federal monitorship of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, followin
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Love to see Republicans embrace automatic enrollment. Boosts participation from 5% to 100%. Now let’s just do it with actual safety net programs. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
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Most American Children Are Being Auto-Enrolled in Trump Accounts. What to Know.
The Trump administration may have just signed up your child — and more than 60 million others — for a 530A savings account (if you haven’t already done so).
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Of all the politicians Navatek’s CEO courted, Susan Collins was its most important patron. The senator’s office steered federal contracts worth millions toward the company while her campaign was pumping its CEO and his network for donations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyiFFB7Kjg
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Anne-Marie W. Clark 👩‍👧‍👦🐶⚖️😷🌎🚢📚🌦️⚜️ @amwclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Empire of Grift” by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu
Slowly, the Brazilians were learning the same lesson as other American allies around the world: The United States of America is no longer the entity they knew. And American power is no longer deployed solely by trained diplomats and reliable officials, working through state channels. Informal envoys, private companies, online grifters, and hardened ideologues both inside and outside the government matter more. Unlike their predecessors, these people do not talk about spreading democracy, and don’t want to build long-term relationships. They don’t care about America’s reputation. They are deploying the tools of American diplomacy and government for their own purposes, to promote their own business interests or their own ideological goals, because, suddenly, they can.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It’s going to be really hard for them to say Trump’s lost his mind because their feeling of superiority to us dirty hippies has depended for so long on insisting he’s some sort of savant and he’s always been a monster and we knew it and weren’t afraid to say so.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No one ever says “that’s not true”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If the lessons Democrats (& democrats) draw from DOGE is “right idea, wrong implementation,” we are doomed. Everyone involved in the unprecedented crime that was DOGE needs to go to jail forever, & Democrats need to rebuild all of the programs & agencies first, not do digital management consulting 🤦‍♂️
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Taipan @taipanfang.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What are they so scared of
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back). www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Autopsy shows National Guard fatally shot Memphis man in the back
The report conflicts with the authorities’ initial account, which said Tyrin Johnson had been shot in the chest.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Hayden Center @haydencenter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Carney will wait to be briefed on new Havana Syndrome details before deciding response
Former spies and security officials have called for inquiry into treatment of diplomats who reported range of unexplained health ailments in Cuba
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Jared @jaredmcclain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Emily Marris bought raw milk from a farm recommended to her on Facebook. After her 17-month-old drank it, the toddler contracted E. coli and nearly died. Despite knowing this, the farmer continued advertising “raw goat milk from a clean tested herd.”
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ooooo, 100 whole dollars?!? Finally my grandma can get a half a tank of gas.
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 03/10/2026
NEW: Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Donald Trump to impose sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies involved in developing a rival satellite network to Starlink. He told me China was working with Russia on the tech and that Rassvet could become operational by “the end of the year, beginning next year”
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Donald Trump to block Russia and China’s Starlink rival
Ukraine’s president says he requested his US counterpart to impose sanctions on companies involved in developing ‘Rassvet’
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Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency. buff.ly/lbn1dhB The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The man who took out full page ads demanding the death penalty for five Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused of rape is out here worried that the seven majority white Cornell frat boys accused of rape "won't get a fair shake".
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Rosemary Thomas @rozzthomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Excellent from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social US cakeism at large. Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/divide-and...
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Divide And Rule: The US Strategy Towards Europe
And Why It Could Work
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I definitely think it possible Trump would be so shameless as to appoint Aileen Cannon. Which makes the current timing of the hearing on lawsuit to liberate the stolen documents report, November 2, of interest.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK 'Digital Armies' and Disinformation: How Big Tech is Influencing Brazil's Upcoming Election By Caroline Orr Bueno and PhD Read below. ↓
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'Digital Armies' and Disinformation: How Big Tech is Influencing Brazil's Upcoming Election
Caroline Orr Bueno reports on why Brazil is a testing ground for information warfare tactics as the country heads to the polls on Sunday 4 October
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 03/10/2026
Russia strikes second major bridge in Ukraine capital
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Russia strikes second major bridge in Ukraine capital
The latest strike on the Northern Bridge in Kyiv follows multiple attacks on crossings over the Dnipro river that link the eastern and western parts of the capital.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The leading bidder is a group involving Trump donor Todd Boehly, Qatar-based investors with business ties to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, an Abu Dhabi fund linked to Sheikh Tahnoon and the US government. Putin sees it as a way to cement ties with the US.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The endless grift continues. The Trump administration has been talking to Russia about a multibillion-dollar deal for Lukoil’s international assets, NYT reports.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS🚨 Renee Good's family has filed two lawsuits. One lawsuit is against the ICE FUCK Jonathan Ross & the other against the Regime. youtu.be/gxtUyqAi0E4?...
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BREAKING: Trump hit with the LAWSUITS he FEARED MOST
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🔎 From the archive: Was Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – targeting democratic dissent as well as illegal immigration? WIRED confirms ICE stored information about protestors in a Palantir-built database #PalantirSpyTech
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‘Domestic Terrorism’: ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent
Peter Thiel’s controversial data firm – which holds contracts with the UK’s NHS and Ministry of Defence – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s data platform to conduct mass deportation. Are its tools now targeting democratic dissent as well as illegal immigration?
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Very good points from @mjtoma.bsky.social here: Any movement (and president!) that are nutball enough to go down Eric Schmitt-style rabbit holes will be willing to steal the election and much worse. This humiliation won't dissuade them in the slightest: newrepublic.com/post/216176/...
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Eric Schmitt’s a Joke. The Assaults on Jack Smith Are Anything But.
The Missouri senator and other Republicans made fools of themselves Tuesday. But that won’t stop them lying about—and trying to destroy—Donald Trump’s prosecutor.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026
Concerned about mass surveillance, from Flock ALPRs to face recognition to creepy ads that seem to know everything we’re thinking and planning? Meet those who’ve been warning about and fighting this dystopia for decades on the “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast.
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Privacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries
People are increasingly concerned about the ways in which mass surveillance is tracking our every move: from Flock license plate readers to face recognition to creepy ads that – based on what we see a...
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One simple way that you know the United States is not a full democracy & has experienced significant democratic backsliding is that, in actual democracies, it does not matter "which party runs elections" heading into the next one. "Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections"
Przeworski, Democracy and the Market coverDemocracy is a system in which parties lose elections
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As we learn more about Christa Pike’s condition and the madness of the botched execution, I’m re-sharing yesterday’s column. Abolish the death penalty. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Christa Pike's botched execution is a moral stain on America | Opinion
I understand the shock over Tennessee's botched execution of convicted murderer Christa Pike. But it never should have happened in the first place.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I read about the break-ins in Finland and immediately remembered a story John Sipher told me years ago when he was stationed in Moscow. I don’t know if Russia is behind this but it does have the hallmarks of an old KGB tactic
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Someone Is Entering the Homes of Finnish MPs and Leaving Signs Behind
Today, for a change, I am not writing about explosions, arson attacks, drone incursions, information operations, or critical infrastructure going up in flames somewhere in Europe.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Similarly, people keep asking me if immigration will get much better if Democrats retake Congress and the answer is "probably not." ICE is largely insulated from Congressional pushback (the 2026 budget reconciliation bill funded them through 2029) and hearings and subpoenas can only do so much.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is an important element of the 2026 elections, and I'm glad to see @stephenwolf.bsky.social and @the-downballot.com looking at it systemically.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/10/2026
Calling someone a terrorist would almost certainly be protected as rhetorical hyperbole, but of course Benny went further and made specific factual claims about them, which can certainly cross the line into defamation.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History won't ask what you posted. It'll count who showed up. Be in the count: check your registration, make your voting plan, and bring two people with you. When we vote, we win. #LetsGetVoteReady
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Part of the post-Trump repairs to democracy must be inspectors general. What if we house them in the legislative branch, where a president cannot fire them? Courts could serve as a check.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
3/ The PRC may be surveying undersea cables near the Philippines’ Batanes Islands, an island chain located near Taiwan. The PRC could disrupt communications between Taiwan, the Philippines, and other Taiwanese partners and allies in a future Taiwan contingency.
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Michael Steele @michaelsteele.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What our government and its judges continue to do to children in our name. A Moment of Clarity youtu.be/7_GzC3sk_1A
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The Shocking Reality Inside Child Immigration Courts
YouTube video by Michael Steele Network
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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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404 Media @404media.co · 02/10/2026
The massive FBI hack; a company wants to add facial recognition onto Flock; and Muse in some cases is actually just people.
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Podcast: The FBI Was Hacked. We’ve Seen the Data
The massive FBI hack; a company wants to add facial recognition onto Flock; and Muse in some cases is actually just people.
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