Ali Winston
@awinston.bsky.social
Investigative Reporter. Criminal Justice/Privacy/XRW. Book: THE RIDERS COME OUT AT NIGHT.
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
Ali.winston@protonmail.com
Awinston.17 on Signal
WIRED/Guardian/Vanity Fair/BBC/Popular Front/Rolling Stone/elsewheres
https://bleeding-edge.ghost.io/
Ali.winston@protonmail.com
Awinston.17 on Signal
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Reupping
Tisch’s family are core to the Israel lobby. She started at NYPD doing “analysis” at Ray Kelly’s Intel Division during its “mosque taking” era. When sworn in, Tisch wore a prominent blue & white Star of David necklace. NYP is pushing her for Mayor
Want more? bleeding-edge.ghost.io/jessica-tisc...
Want more? bleeding-edge.ghost.io/jessica-tisc...
Jessica Tisch, NYPD Intelligence Division, and the Handschu Agreement
Reporting from Ali Winston on law enforcement, extremism & privacy with some international affairs thrown in. Always away from the pack, never boring
bleeding-edge.ghost.io
November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reupping
Reupping
I know you all are riveted by the train wreck on Capitol Hill rn but the NYPD's Zionist Commissioner attacking First Amendment activity while appearing on stage at an organization in bed with a genocidal state & the world's richest Nazi is...a big deal nypost.com/2025/03/04/u...
Tisch vows NYPD will fight antisemitic crimes in pointed remarks at ADL forum
Tisch had even more pointed rhetoric for many of the protesters who demonstrated on college campuses, events she described as “especially despicable.”
nypost.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Reupping
Unbelievably stupid
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to announce Saturday that “the era of permanent protection for refugees” is over in the UK.
She’s also going to say the UK’s borders are “out of control”.
Apart from sounding like a trailer for a Reform government, it’s already causing anger within Labour.
She’s also going to say the UK’s borders are “out of control”.
Apart from sounding like a trailer for a Reform government, it’s already causing anger within Labour.
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Unbelievably stupid
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The Network State is top news in Sonoma County!
“Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”
“Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”
November 14, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The Network State is top news in Sonoma County!
“Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”
“Is the Network State — an online movement that uses cryptocurrency to fund self-governing micro-communities — coming to Cloverdale?”
What else do you think 30 something Groypers would do with their time
Attacking a federal district judge as an “activist” for issuing a lawful ruling is an assault on judicial independence. A democracy cannot function when executive agencies denigrate judges for doing their jobs.
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
What else do you think 30 something Groypers would do with their time
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A prominent Bay Area author said one of his books has been quietly flagged at Yosemite National Park as part of a March 2025 federal directive aiming to remove and revise “negative” information relating to American history.
November 14, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A prominent Bay Area author said one of his books has been quietly flagged at Yosemite National Park as part of a March 2025 federal directive aiming to remove and revise “negative” information relating to American history.
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Oh no what is happening
November 13, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Oh no what is happening
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Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
November 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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A vote to sharply lower rent hikes for 1.5 million Los Angeles tenants caps years of wins for local activists and comes amid a national focus on affordability punctuated by Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Los Angeles limits rent hikes in historic vote
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday to cap rent increases for most apartments, a decision that continues a wave of tenant victories in the city and across the country.
www.politico.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
A vote to sharply lower rent hikes for 1.5 million Los Angeles tenants caps years of wins for local activists and comes amid a national focus on affordability punctuated by Zohran Mamdani's victory in New York. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Gang databases=ICE access. Always
And Illinois State Police provides access to gang database info to DHS. In June, I found that DHS Enforcement and Removal Operations signed a data sharing agreement with ISP in *2024*. news.wttw.com/2025/06/02/i...
November 13, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Gang databases=ICE access. Always
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
How far we have fallen
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
How far we have fallen
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“I’ll see you in court,” New York Attorney General Tish James says to Condé Nast at a rally over, well, my own firing. Reinstate the Fired Four ✊
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“I’ll see you in court,” New York Attorney General Tish James says to Condé Nast at a rally over, well, my own firing. Reinstate the Fired Four ✊
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling
www.404media.co/judge-rules-...
www.404media.co/judge-rules-...
Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By Anyone
A Washington judge said images taken by Flock cameras are "not exempt from disclosure" in public record requests.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
New: A judge in Washington has ruled images from Flock surveillance cameras are public records and that anyone can request them. Highlights the pervasiveness of this tech and just how much surveillance is being done. Very notable ruling
www.404media.co/judge-rules-...
www.404media.co/judge-rules-...
Nazis at Cal? That always ends well for them www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Four arrested at UC Berkeley Turning Point USA event
The visit is the nonprofit organization’s first to a California college campus since the killing of cofounder Charlie Kirk.
www.eastbaytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Nazis at Cal? That always ends well for them www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
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Some pro-Israel and anti-Muslim groups closed out last week's NYC mayoral election by boosting hateful rhetoric and conspiracy theories about @cairnational.bsky.social -- a Muslim civil rights group that supported Zohran Mamdani.
Our latest blog takes a closer look: openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
Our latest blog takes a closer look: openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
Ahead of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory, Opponents Smeared a Muslim Advocacy Group Supporting Him - Open Measures
Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.
openmeasures.io
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Some pro-Israel and anti-Muslim groups closed out last week's NYC mayoral election by boosting hateful rhetoric and conspiracy theories about @cairnational.bsky.social -- a Muslim civil rights group that supported Zohran Mamdani.
Our latest blog takes a closer look: openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
Our latest blog takes a closer look: openmeasures.io/zohran-mamda...
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Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
“around 5,500 people — not all of them attorneys — have quit the department, been fired or taken a buyout offered by the Trump administration.”
Since the start of the Trump administration, the Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys and filled only a fraction of the vacancies amid hiring freezes, delays, and a shortage of qualified candidates.
Justice Department struggles as thousands exit — and few are replaced
The Justice Department has lost thousands of experienced attorneys and backfilled a fraction of the open jobs, in part because of a lack of qualified candidates.
wapo.st
November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“around 5,500 people — not all of them attorneys — have quit the department, been fired or taken a buyout offered by the Trump administration.”
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Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
How the government captured the BBC
A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Nearly two years ago, I wrote about the extraordinary influence of former Tory spin doctor Sir Robbie Gibb on the BBC. It's still a helpful backgrounder for what's going on now. New readers start here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
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This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
Every day. More of this
November 10, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Every day. More of this
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My latest, on ICE/CBP use of facial recognition & the larger threat it poses to our right to vote.
Opinion | ICE and CBP’s use of facial recognition technology needs guardrails — now
If left unchecked, immigration enforcement’s use of facial recognition technology could potentially trigger a constitutional crisis.
www.msnbc.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My latest, on ICE/CBP use of facial recognition & the larger threat it poses to our right to vote.