SWE dedicated to the open internet highlighting moral panic around TikTok. Concerns around data privacy can be handled with a data privacy bill. See Lamont v Postmaster General. Tag/DM for submissions. Fuck age verification laws. #NotATikTok
the irony here is that this used to be the old standard of party organizing (see the early German SPD or Austrian SPO having affiliated clubs, gyms, and mobilization activities)
Omar WasowResearch here suggests question: What would it look like for traditional parties to organize continuously rather than episodically? Not just parachuting in at election time, but building relationships, skills, and trust through year-round work in communities. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...
Research here suggests question: What would it look like for traditional parties to organize continuously rather than episodically? Not just parachuting in at election time, but building relationships, skills, and trust through year-round work in communities. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...
Inside the Democratic Socialist uprising - Niskanen CenterCandidates affiliated with (or sympathetic to) the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) have recently won several Democratic primaries.www.niskanencenter.org
we visualized the data chain that shows how your info can go from opening a credit card -> data brokers -> ICE www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You LiveHere's how your personal address travels from your credit card provider, through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE.www.404media.co
what a stupid, pointless, xenophobic game of whac-a-mole to ban American access to the best, cheapest drones available all to help the President's drone company. Under the pretense of privacy and national security.
The FCC is planning to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgetsSo long, Xtra and Skyrover?www.theverge.com
This is depressingly accurate, regarding how the civilian drone industry in the US has been totally devoured by MAGA-supported military and police money (which means no one is making a replacement for now-banned DJI drones for US consumers):
Sorry kid, drones are for war nowDJI is banned in the United States and nobody is coming to save you.www.theverge.com
One great writer on another great writer in a fantastic discussion of "Blue Power" defector.com/how-cops-con...
How Cops Consolidated So Much Power Over Local Governments | DefectorEven before his historic election as New York City’s mayor in November 2025, democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani had reportedly begun searching for “common ground” with the city’s rank-and-file police...defector.com
Remember this when people try to push hard to mandate uploading a drivers license to use a website. theintercept.com/2026/04/10/r...
A Redditor Criticized ICE. Trump Is Trying to Unmask Them by Dragging the Company to a Secret Grand Jury.An ICE summons to get the user’s identity failed. Advocates worry the move to a grand jury signals an escalation of the war on dissent.theintercept.com
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with PalantirThe revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.n.pr
Police in many cases are using Flock ALPR cameras to search not for cars, but for people. “Unfortunately, this ability to search cameras as though doing a search engine inquiry is increasingly common for surveillance cameras,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @404media.co.
How Cops Use Flock to Track People, Not CarsCops have used Flock's FreeForm search feature to look for people with tattoos and wearing specific sport shirts, and searches sometimes include the target's race, according to data reviewed by 404 Me...www.404media.co
