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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/02/2026
The Department of Defense is reportedly offering Anthropic an ultimatum: let us use your technology for whatever we want, or else. No company should be forced to be a tool of civil liberties violations.
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Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing Surveillance
The Secretary of Defense has given an ultimatum to the artificial intelligence company Anthropic in an attempt to bully them into making their technology available to the U.S. military without any res...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 18/02/2026
"I was detained for writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts," writes Rümeysa Öztürk. "My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression."
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After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to treat trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 09/02/2026
A Speaker of the House who bills himself as a "constitutional lawyer" is answering a basic questions about the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement by chuckling and saying that Republicans would "never go along" with it
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Mike Johnson Is Very Annoyed By the Fourth Amendment’s Existence
For a constitutional lawyer, the House Speaker sounds alarmingly unfamiliar with how the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement works.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/02/2026
Q: You're a constitutional lawyer. Can you detail the 4th Amendment protections someone has if ICE approaches their home w/an administrative warrant? MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
One common response to Moltbot is something like "We're so cooked." We are pretty cooked. Not because Moltbots will bootstrap us to the Singularity. Just because people readily turn their hard drives and personal info over to programs they don't understand. www.zdnet.com/article/molt...
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The viral AI agent Moltbot is a security mess - 5 red flags you shouldn't ignore (before it's too late)
Handing your computing tasks over to a cute AI crustacean might be tempting - but you should consider these security risks before getting started.
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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John Kastellec @jkastellec.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Haven't read the paper, but you can take most issues and find that the Republican justices are voting more conservatively over time and that the Court is increasingly polarized. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
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Will Roth @willr.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The cost of DHS and ICE activity is a feature, not a bug.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
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Will Roth @willr.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Maxwell also told Blanche she specifically did not believe Trump spent any time at Epstein’s house:
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Will Roth @willr.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Here is how Maxwell answered when DAG Blanche asked about Trump and Epstein:
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Will Roth @willr.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Super obvious case for the left to embrace privacy (specifically from corporate and police-state surveillance) as a core tenet of its politics
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Will Roth @willr.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The electoral college is a monstrosity that, among other issues, totally warps how Americans see each other
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James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I wrote about Trump’s missile strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific, and about the secret Justice Department opinion that underwrites them. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...
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Opinion | The Secretive Office Approving Trump’s Boat Strikes
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Will Roth @willr.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
To summarize: the United States is punishing Colombia for pointing out that the United States bombed a distressed Colombian fishing boat in Colombia’s waters?
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Will Roth @willr.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
So much of this was just pundits seeing the Fortune 50 executives they schmooze with lining up behind at Trump at the inauguration
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/10/2025
It is impossible to understand the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act cases without the context that John Roberts has hated the Voting Rights Act since he was working to water it down as a 26-year-old Reagan staffer. This is his life’s work, and he can’t wait to finish the job.
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Killing the Voting Rights Act Is John Roberts’s Life’s Work
As a 26-year-old Reagan staffer, Roberts was already convinced the Voting Rights Act had to go. He can’t wait to finish the job.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
"Blistering opinion" is absolutely right. But this principled, outraged ruling is an entirely appropriate response to Trump's effort to imprison and deport people for their constitutionally protected speech. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Judge issues blistering opinion against Trump policy to deport pro-Palestinian students
Judge rules non-citizens have the same free speech rights as US citizens under the first amendment
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
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Will Roth @willr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
This is the way (and will lead to huge economic gains for NM)
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
State collapse.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
We're living through Redemption again.
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
We're still taking our shoes off & can't carry water past airport security because of a thwarted terrorist attack nearly a quarter century ago that killed no one. Last week a terrorist tried to murder hundreds of federal employees and killed an officer and the president hasn't said a word about it.
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Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com · 18/11/2024
You might think from the name that panpsychism is the belief that bread is conscious. And you’d be right.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Two-hundred page account of the Trump administration’s effort to arrest, imprison, and deport foreign students who had the audacity to exercise their First Amendment rights. @knightcolumbia.org @aaup.org @mesa1966.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/post...
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Post-Trial Brief Supplies Comprehensive Account of Trump Administration’s Arrests, Detentions, and Threatened Deportation of Student Protesters
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The U.S. Army is being ordered to terrorize the American people.
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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
I know anew outrageous thing happens every day but this is really truly up there. www.nydailynews.com/2025/06/27/i...
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Immigration attorney blocked from visiting ICE detainees at MDC Brooklyn
Guards at MDC Brooklyn federal jail, known for its horrific conditions and widespread violence, barred an immigration attorney from visiting ICE detainees, telling her they do not have a procedure …
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Sadly not a new phenomenon. Many veterans have been deported over the years, often because of drug problems they acquired after PTSD from their time in the service.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A powerful post from @attackerman.bsky.social -- www.forever-wars.com/war-on-terro...
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War on Terror Nightmare Arrives As Trump Bombs Iran
Just want to congratulate everyone who said Trump was the president of peace, didn't start any new wars, etc. Is there an antiwar party in America?
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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
One thing I think it important to internalize is that the government can act unlawfully and unconstitutionally, as here, without there being any redress in court, as is unlikely here. The Executive Branch is largely supposed to police itself. This one doesn't.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
An absolute must-read from @attackerman.bsky.social
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The Imperial Boomerang Lands in Los Angeles
As police and the National Guard escalate against anti-ICE protesters, the Department of Homeland Security bridges US violence abroad and US violence at home.
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