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IJM says hundreds of thousands of children globally in places like the Philippines and elsewhere are sexually abused live online for the benefit of paying customers in the US and UK. Help stop it here: www.ijmuk.org/techthatprot...
We Are Calling for Tech That Protects Children
Stop livestreamed child abuse before it starts. Write to your MP today, calling on them to enact legislation that makes it a requirement for all devices sold in the UK to include on-device safeguards....
www.ijmuk.org
January 28, 2026 at 6:27 PM
IJM says hundreds of thousands of children globally in places like the Philippines and elsewhere are sexually abused live online for the benefit of paying customers in the US and UK. Help stop it here: www.ijmuk.org/techthatprot...
Like what kind of assurances? Like, don’t worry guys, I’ll follow the law next time?
Republicans Josh Hawley and Todd Young flipped after receiving ‘assurances’ from Trump administration
US Senate kills resolution that would have limited Trump action in Venezuela
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Like what kind of assurances? Like, don’t worry guys, I’ll follow the law next time?
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The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding | Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons
The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding | Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons
The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding | Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons
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These Instagram Reels featuring AI-generated influencers having sex with celebrities frequently have hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of views. They don't disclose that they are AI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...
Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
These Instagram Reels featuring AI-generated influencers having sex with celebrities frequently have hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of views. They don't disclose that they are AI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...
Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...
Really good reporting by 404. Slightly frightening. Where the people who are concerned with tyranny now? Are the don’t tread on me crowd up in arms?
Here is our breakdown of Webloc, the phone surveillance tool ICE has bought which lets the agency track phones in entire neighborhoods. See phones it has data on in an area, follow them home or to work, see the exact route they took www.youtube.com/watch?v=rurJ...
The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods
YouTube video by 404 Media
www.youtube.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Really good reporting by 404. Slightly frightening. Where the people who are concerned with tyranny now? Are the don’t tread on me crowd up in arms?
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NEW: ICE is stopping its purchases of warrantless travel data.
This comes after months-long reporting by 404 Media and pressure from lawmakers. Read our story here:
This comes after months-long reporting by 404 Media and pressure from lawmakers. Read our story here:
January 14, 2026 at 4:14 PM
NEW: ICE is stopping its purchases of warrantless travel data.
This comes after months-long reporting by 404 Media and pressure from lawmakers. Read our story here:
This comes after months-long reporting by 404 Media and pressure from lawmakers. Read our story here:
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
Just deleted Grok from my phone. Musk is disgusting.
January 15, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Just deleted Grok from my phone. Musk is disgusting.
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Israel is forcing Doctors Without Borders & dozens of other humanitarian groups to end their work in Gaza. Countless innocent people rely on these services amid the ongoing crisis there.
This is yet another cruel, inhumane step from the extremist Israeli government.
This is yet another cruel, inhumane step from the extremist Israeli government.
Israel Tells Doctors Without Borders to End Its Work in Gaza
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Israel is forcing Doctors Without Borders & dozens of other humanitarian groups to end their work in Gaza. Countless innocent people rely on these services amid the ongoing crisis there.
This is yet another cruel, inhumane step from the extremist Israeli government.
This is yet another cruel, inhumane step from the extremist Israeli government.
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The Justice Department has subpoenaed the Fed over chair Jerome Powell's testimony over the central bank's headquarters renovation. Powell calls it part of a pressure campaign over interest rates. n.pr/45GFwUD
DOJ subpoenas Federal Reserve in escalating pressure campaign
The Justice Department has subpoenaed the Fed over chair Jerome Powell's testimony over the central bank's headquarters renovation. Powell calls it part of a pressure campaign over interest rates.
n.pr
January 12, 2026 at 5:57 AM
The Justice Department has subpoenaed the Fed over chair Jerome Powell's testimony over the central bank's headquarters renovation. Powell calls it part of a pressure campaign over interest rates. n.pr/45GFwUD
I gather the US is gaming a Greenland invasion. Meanwhile, our ally is prepping in their own way:
January 12, 2026 at 9:26 AM
I gather the US is gaming a Greenland invasion. Meanwhile, our ally is prepping in their own way:
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Trump on Taiwan. If any other president of any party had said this, congressional Republicans would be flipping out.
January 8, 2026 at 11:14 PM
Trump on Taiwan. If any other president of any party had said this, congressional Republicans would be flipping out.
Calling all Parisians… à show by the fabulously talented Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.
January 9, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Calling all Parisians… à show by the fabulously talented Hugh Kinsella Cunningham.
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To add to this point, after Lavoy Finicum almost plowed his car into an FBI agent and then reached for a gun while yelling “shoot me,” it fueled (and fuels) so much rage in the far right, despite it being captured on video.
When FBI agents killed white separatist Vicki Weaver while trying to take her criming husband into custody, it fueled the anti-government militia movement that formed one tributary into today's MAGA right, which is shrugging off today's state murder of Renee Good.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ri...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Ri...
Ruby Ridge standoff - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 AM
To add to this point, after Lavoy Finicum almost plowed his car into an FBI agent and then reached for a gun while yelling “shoot me,” it fueled (and fuels) so much rage in the far right, despite it being captured on video.
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Breaking News Update: Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The victims were transported to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear their condition, police said in a release.
Federal agents shoot 2 people in East Portland
Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The victims were transported to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear their condition, police said in a release.
www.opb.org
January 8, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Breaking News Update: Two people were shot Thursday by federal officers operating in East Portland, according to the Portland Police Bureau. The victims were transported to a local hospital. It was not immediately clear their condition, police said in a release.
I agree with Krugman- thé Trump administration objective is personal and familial enrichment, not making Americans great, or helping those who’ve slipped through the cracks during globalization:
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
The Looting of US Foreign Policy
Goodbye, national interest. Hello, ego gratification and profits for the ruling clique.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:42 AM
I agree with Krugman- thé Trump administration objective is personal and familial enrichment, not making Americans great, or helping those who’ve slipped through the cracks during globalization:
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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Two people shot by US federal agents in Portland
Two people shot by US federal agents in Portland
Mayor urges ICE to pause operations as representative says victims alive but extent of injuries unknown
US federal agents shot two people outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, a day after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis.
The Portland police bureau (PPB) said in a statement on Thursday afternoon that two people were in the hospital following a shooting involving federal agents, adding that the conditions of those shot were not known. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:33 AM
Two people shot by US federal agents in Portland
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Yet another reason why every major media outlet that reported "grok apologized and promised to put in place new safeguards" was so full of shit (beyond the fact that Grok can't apologize and was just responding to a user prompt, Elon has made it clear: he wants X to be the deepfake abuse creator)
Grok producing vile sexualized deepfakes of women and children isn’t an accident
www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...
www.cnn.com/2026/01/08/t...
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Yet another reason why every major media outlet that reported "grok apologized and promised to put in place new safeguards" was so full of shit (beyond the fact that Grok can't apologize and was just responding to a user prompt, Elon has made it clear: he wants X to be the deepfake abuse creator)
Brought to you by the guy who tried to make our government more efficient and effective (by cutting a tiny government department that saved millions of lives each year and promoted democrat and peace) and who’s racing to create agentic AI… no thank you! Divest!
Grok being used to create sexually violent videos featuring women, research finds www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Grok being used to create sexually violent videos featuring women, research finds
AI tool also used to undress image of the woman killed by a federal immigration agent in the US, says research
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2026 at 7:38 AM
Brought to you by the guy who tried to make our government more efficient and effective (by cutting a tiny government department that saved millions of lives each year and promoted democrat and peace) and who’s racing to create agentic AI… no thank you! Divest!
Among the conventions from which the US has withdrawn, the International Law Commission, which has identified the prohibition against the use force in acquisition of territory as a norm of international law, applicable in ICJ rulings. Watch out Greenland… here we come.
aje.io/ckpm2l
aje.io/ckpm2l
US to withdraw from dozens of UN, international organisations
The sweeping changes will see the US quit major forums for cooperation on climate change, peace and democracy.
aje.io
January 8, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Among the conventions from which the US has withdrawn, the International Law Commission, which has identified the prohibition against the use force in acquisition of territory as a norm of international law, applicable in ICJ rulings. Watch out Greenland… here we come.
aje.io/ckpm2l
aje.io/ckpm2l
So who had invade a foreign country and kidnap a sitting President on their apocalypse bingo card?
Venezuela attack: what we know so far as Trump claims Maduro captured
Venezuela attack: what we know so far as Trump claims Maduro captured
US president confirms attack on Venezuela and says Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores have been flown out of country
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:55 PM
So who had invade a foreign country and kidnap a sitting President on their apocalypse bingo card?
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Venezuela attack: what we know so far as Trump claims Maduro captured
Venezuela attack: what we know so far as Trump claims Maduro captured
US president confirms attack on Venezuela and says Nicolás Maduro and wife Cilia Flores have been flown out of country
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Venezuela attack: what we know so far as Trump claims Maduro captured
Reflecting on 2025… in which Americans spent more on Halloween candy than it’s government did on international aid…
January 1, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Reflecting on 2025… in which Americans spent more on Halloween candy than it’s government did on international aid…
Happy new year Blue Sky! I have only just got round to reading the following, published last September; an important contribution to thinking about a world we want to live in, I thought.
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
open.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Happy new year Blue Sky! I have only just got round to reading the following, published last September; an important contribution to thinking about a world we want to live in, I thought.
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...
Not cool and not in keeping with Israel’s responsibilities under IHL to allow humanitarian assistance: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Israel to bar 37 aid groups from Gaza
The move was criticised by foreign ministers from from 10 countries including the UK, who said the new rules were "restrictive" and "unacceptable".
www.bbc.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Not cool and not in keeping with Israel’s responsibilities under IHL to allow humanitarian assistance: www.bbc.com/news/article...