Reposted by Nathan Goodmanbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 3ha few days ago i was making small talk with a somali man about how welcoming everyone was when i stayed in a majority somali neighborhood and he immediately started tearing up and saying thank you. it didn’t feel good things have gotten so bad something that small could provoke that reaction 349457
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 13hMercantilism is really intuitively appealing. I think it's genuinely difficult to get people to recognize that a country's wealth just works differently than a person or company. I think this is the fundamental reason that we don't want businesspeople running the country. 521031
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanThe Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Hadley of #Spokane3 Defendant Support talks about the cases of Justice Forral, Bajun Mavalwalla II and Jac Archer, charged with defending their neighbors from ICE. Then, Marina Christodoulou on Ontological Exhaustion via Radio Ausbruch thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/08... 23124
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanCenter for a Stateless Society @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"Processing is not magic, a supercomputer the size of the sun can’t crack some encryption schemes and so too are there significant and inescapable constraints on processing through economic considerations." - @rechelon.bsky.social c4ss.org/content/53019c4ss.orgAction Is Sometimes Clearer Than Talk: Why We Will Always Need TradeIs it possible for our enemies to discover actual insights? The impulse to deny this is universal. The third reich dismissed special relativity as “Jewish physics” and lost significant advantage. The ... 021
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 07/10/2026Local 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/slssls.eff.orgStreet Level SurveillanceEFF Presents: A Field Guide to Police Surveillance 010255
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 06/10/2026It may be the case that Republicans have a longterm intrinsic advantage on immigration. But for at least the next two years, we can hammer into voters' minds the association of deportations with masked ICE thugs, kidnappings, concentration camps, and summary executions. 2202
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026NEW: The Trump administration keeps denying and downplaying that immigration agents have been detaining Americans. It’s wrong. We’ve found more than 500 U.S. citizens have been held against their will, including handcuffed or held at gunpoint.projects.propublica.orgMore Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublicaThe government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati... 5927611573
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanFrank 🏴 @newtalax.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"agents had a practice of intimidating protesters and observers. They did this, the filing says, by doing drive-bys of the observers’ homes and, in the case of at least one observer, requiring that she be referred to secondary inspection any time she tries to cross the border" 0137
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanElectronic 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.comYour Driverless Cab Is Spying on YouSelf-driving cars from Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are studded with cameras and sensors. Some of them are pointing at riders. 316368
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanSimulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The land they’re carving in two for that atrocious double border wall 089
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanDefend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/10/2026DEFEND OUR JURIES We’ve stood against David Lammy’s attack on trial by jury since it was first proposed. We believe it to have been a direct attempt to block acquittals of people of conscience in protest trials. This is a step in the right direction: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukCourts backlog will fall despite scrapping plans to curb jury trials, Alex Norris insistsProposals to limit jury trials were first introduced by former justice secretary David Lammy last year. 23011
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Many societies that historically did not have prison systems instead relied on reputation, ostracism, outlawry, etc. You can debate whether that's better or worse than prison, but it's clearly a kind of alternative governance arrangement. 1346
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Part of what's objectionable about prisons is that they trap prisoners in situations where they have no ability to exit, which gives guards & fellow inmates incredible leeway to abuse captive victims. In contrast, disassociation is a type of exit of the sort prisons prevent. 1377
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026You can simultaneously favor prison abolition & strong reputation mechanisms, boycott dynamics, and ostracism. 45512
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 02/10/2026ICE’s new tactic, witnessed repeatedly at the federal building in MN: when a detained immigrant makes a successful habeas petition, release the immigrant for a few steps outside the building… then tackle and re-arrest them, and claim the habeas petition has been honored and nullified 19745232
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This happened in the twin cities in 2008. SWAT teams raided the homes of anarchists on Friday before the RNC, held people without charges over the weekend and labor day, then for the two "working days" they're allowed.... then let one go on Thurs and immediately re-arrested her outside the building. 14810
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanAlex Pilkington @alxpilk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026June 1978: seventeen women in San Francisco founded Samois, the first lesbian S&M group whose records survive. May 1983: it quietly closed. No raid, no lawsuit. A year later, many of the same women started over with bylaws. New Leather & Lavender essay: what carried across. 🧵 111
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanWilliam Gillis 🏴 @rechelon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I believe with near perfect credence that teddy bears are not morally relevant agents, *nevertheless* I think it's good that we frown on and recoil viscerally from those who attempt to torture teddy bears, because of what such behavior signals and habituates. 4428
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanChristopher Hudson @chrishudsonjr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“A fully freed market means liberating essential command posts in the economy from State control, to be reclaimed for market and social entrepreneurship. The market that would emerge would look profoundly different from anything we have now.” - Charles W. Johnson @c4ssdotorg.bsky.socialc4ss.orgThe Many MonopoliesA fully freed market means liberating essential command posts in the economy from State control, to be reclaimed for market and social entrepreneurship 042
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Thanks to @murosinvisibles.bsky.social for having me on Pirate Wire Radio to discuss border militarization and its adverse consequences for civil liberties. 044
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanJoshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026piratewireservices.comHow militarization of borders inevitably erodes domestic libertiesThe US is a test-case in how “tough on migration” quickly evolves into criminalization of dissent 061
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanJoshua Collins @murosinvisibles.bsky.social · 02/10/2026How militarization of borders inevitably erodes domestic liberties The US is a test-case in how “tough on migration” quickly evolves into criminalization of dissent LATEST podcast for Pirate Wire Radio (full episode below) 12314
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 02/10/2026"Surveillance is not safety," EFF's Rindala Alajaji said, via @nbcbayarea.com. "That’s why EFF and the ACLU of Northern California are suing the city of San Jose on behalf of SIREN and CAIR - because in a single year, San Jose PD ran over 250,000 warrantless searches on this location data."nbcbayarea.com'Surveillance is not safety': Protesters push San Jose to shut down Flock camera networkProtesters issued a renewed call for San Jose to shut down its network of roughly 500 automated license plate reading cameras. 616751
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanJohn Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My latest @ms.now, on why it‘s not (legally) cruel and unusual for Tennessee to try to execute Christa Pike again, even w all the risks that remain, but also on why Gov. Bill Lee has far more political room to use his clemency than our conventional political narrative suggests.ms.nowOpinion | Tennessee botched its attempted execution of Christa Pike. It shouldn’t try again.John Pfaff: Gov. Bill Lee can do what the Supreme Court will not — and prevent a punishment that already feels morally cruel and unusual. 55222
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 01/10/2026If you can stomach it, here's a detailed reported story from @dropsitenews.com on the schoolchildren that the US bombed in Iran. However angry you are, it's not angry enough.dropsitenews.comMassacre at Minab: The School That Became a GraveThe bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story. 6249114
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanAndrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 01/10/2026"BENTON COUNTY, Arkansas — Benton County leaders are defending their decision to approve a fund connected to the county’s 287(g) partnership... Justice of the Peace John Rissler says some people went as far as calling the money 'blood money' and 'bounty money.'" Because it is, John.5newsonline.com 145
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanThe UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 01/10/2026Abolish ICE Before Its Abusive Tactics Spread to Other Law Enforcement: A Conversation With Radley Balko The agency has gone rogue and cannot be reformed By @shikhadalmia.bsky.social www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ice…theunpopulist.netAbolish ICE Before Its Abusive Tactics Spread to Other Law Enforcement: A Conversation With Radley BalkoThe agency has gone rogue and cannot be reformed 37330
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 30/09/2026Getting Signal up and running on your phone only takes a couple minutes. If you've already got it set up, take a minute to help your friends, too. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...ssd.eff.orgHow to: Use SignalDownload location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify... 310146
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanSheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 30/09/2026Chicagoland friends, I have a favor to ask. I have a pro bono client, a Black woman, who is currently facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun at her abusive ex - who admitted to raping her. I would love if there could be a show of support for her at her next few court dates. 9651326
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 653022990
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanIt's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Trump administration has used far-Right influencers as an extension of the state itself. 16019
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026“In some ways, Axon is actually worse than Flock,” EFF's @maassive.bsky.social told @indyweek.bsky.social. “Flock never had mobile license plate cameras, and Axon does. They install them on patrol cars, and that means patrol cars become like roving data vacuums.”indyweek.comApex Town Council Committee to Make Recommendation on FlockUnder pressure from residents, the town council is reconsidering the Apex Police Department’s contract with Flock. 29851
Reposted by Nathan Goodmanben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026rationalists are like cybernetic socialists who think supercomputers can trivially solve the calculation problem even if true there are still other knowledge as well as logistical problems with central planning that supercomputing cant magically solve, just as agi will still face real constraints 1163
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanCenter for a Stateless Society @c4ssdotorg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"By criminalizing drugs—deciding what an adult can put into her own body—the state has immersed the country and world in a cycle of violence that has very little, if anything at all, to do with actually preventing people from using drugs." - David D'Amato c4ss.org/content/7586c4ss.orgNo Good Guys in the War on DrugsDavid S. D'Amato on the real substance of the War on Drugs. 062
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026Our new “Privacy’s Defenders” podcast talks to the activists, lawyers and technologists who have fought for a better, more secure and private digital future – a future that’s still attainable. Episode 1, “Cowboys, Cypherpunks and Visionaries,” is our origin story.eff.orgPrivacy’s Defenders Podcast: Cowboys, Cypherpunks and VisionariesPeople 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... 16618
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanMichael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...nytimes.comICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation DriveA similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits. 112
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026There are probably some types of lies (e.g., fraud) that it is permissible to coercively interfere with. But I don't think all lies are like that. Giving the state or other coercive enforcers extensive powers to decide what's true & coercively suppress what they deem false seems dangerous. 020
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026America's First Amendment remains a powerful tool for protecting free expression. But to fully protect free speech, we need to rein in executive power. Right now, the executive branch has far too much power to surveil, sanction, repress, & harass speakers that its leaders dislike. 050
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026These sanctions powers, which trace back to the Bush administration's reaction to 9/11, illustrate a more general problem: during crises, the executive branch has been able to consolidate extraordinary levels of power. 140
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026These types of sanctions involve the executive branch exercising significant concentrated power, with very few checks placed on them by other branches of government. Moreover, private parties (such as banks & payment processors) tend to over-comply. 140
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The designation of the Italian tech collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" is a similarly problematic attack on free speech. Not just for its effects on A/I itself, but for its effects on the speech of users like @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social 241
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The surveillance of anti-ICE activists in Minnesota as part of Operation Puppet Master, the prosecution of the Minneapolis 15, and the singling out of political beliefs for special scrutiny via NSPM-7 all represent this kind of impermissible crackdown on political speech. 131
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My colleagues & I recently discussed possible limits to free speech. I argue that regardless of what the appropriate limits are, people with power have incentives to try to repress speech to a degree that's impermissible. When this happens, we need to push back. And I argued that's happening now.pursuitofliberalism.comAre there limits to free speech?here’s what we each argued during a recent debate! 2124
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanEryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This, from Dennett, I wish I'd taken to heart earlier in my life. www.themarginalian.org/2014/03/28/d... 520236
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026personally I think making your side of any dispute think worse for the tasty mcvibes of putting down an out group is rarely a good trade off, unless you have extremely powerful propaganda tech at your disposal or don't need your side's brains for anything later 748351
Reposted by Nathan Goodmanbrian nam-sonenstein @bson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ICE cannot do what it’s doing without local law enforcement. They need their manpower and infrastructure. That means if you want to stop ICE you are going to have to confront police collaboration and police power. I’m sorry but progressive hopes of avoiding this conflict are a recipe for failure. 51660488
Reposted by Nathan GoodmanLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 390198456369
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In particular, I emphasized NSPM-7, the prosecution of the Minneapolis 15, and the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist." These all illustrate how concentrated executive power in the security state threatens free expression. 155
Nathan Goodman @nathanpgoodman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I recently appeared on a panel/debate about free speech with some of my colleagues. I argued that political leaders have incentives to restrict speech so as to make their power less contestable. I argued NSPM-7 & related repression is an example of just that. open.substack.com/pub/thepursu...open.substack.comAre there limits to free speech?here’s what we each argued during a recent debate! 153