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· Sep 18
Release 1.1.0-alpha1 · Open-Security-Mapping-Project/ice_detention_scraper
Large rewrite of the ice_detention_scraper, many thanks to @johnseekins and a couple volunteers who tested the many new refinements and additions. This brings us up to more than 190 facilities, man...
github.com
New release for ICE Detention Facilities scraper v 1.1.0-alpha1, a python script greatly enhanced. Now can collect prisoner data on each facility, carefully matched addresses & more. new contributor overhauled everything in detail. Volunteers tested!
Release notes:
github.com/Open-Securit...
Release notes:
github.com/Open-Securit...
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According to the 2025 Freedom on the Net report, global internet freedom declined for the 15th consecutive year. Of 72 countries assessed, conditions deteriorated in 28, while 17 registered overall gains. The US was among the countries that experienced the most significant declines.
Global Internet Freedom Declines for 15th Consecutive Year | TechPolicy.Press
Despite funding cuts, Freedom House delivered its annual report on how countries are performing on measures of digital rights and internet freedom.
www.techpolicy.press
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
According to the 2025 Freedom on the Net report, global internet freedom declined for the 15th consecutive year. Of 72 countries assessed, conditions deteriorated in 28, while 17 registered overall gains. The US was among the countries that experienced the most significant declines.
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From: Jeffrey Epstein
jeeyacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 10/24/2012 4:58:47 PM
To: Weingarten, Reid
have one of your cronys ask to see the mortgage to mara lago cash from electricinas union, (his driver MAtt was the bag man, later made an exec at the public co. ) and the 30 milllion dollar loan from the casino to donald trump. backdated,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qyqbfjkwwohghps2bbknj4ni/bafkreidd7omm5ouoidsiunt2y2slanamyvmgshbcscf6u3ptcozgzrahde@jpeg)
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Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Grad Students: The Larry Summers news should shed any shred of imposter syndrome you've felt in academia. Clearly, academics* can be far from perfect (at everything from spelling to relationships to human decency) and still make it all the way to the top of ivory tower.
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According to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
NIH scientists publish letter criticizing Trump's deep cuts in public health research
The letter addresses the termination of 2,100 research grants valued at more than $12 billion and some of the human costs that have resulted, such as cutting off medication regimens to participants in...
www.pbs.org
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
According to a source, Jenna Norton, who led a letter criticizing Trump's decimation of the NIH (see below), has been placed on administrative leave. She's the first at NIH to be put on leave, joining EPA officials who criticized Trump policies.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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I remain skeptical that any rich people plot to control the media requires them to bother dictating day to day coverage, when class solidarity can also get it done, and with less effort
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I remain skeptical that any rich people plot to control the media requires them to bother dictating day to day coverage, when class solidarity can also get it done, and with less effort
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Data for Progress provided voters with various actions recently taken by ICE agents, and asked whether they approve or disapprove of them. The poll finds that each action is unpopular with voters nationwide.
(@dataforprogress.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251113-top...
(@dataforprogress.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251113-top...
November 13, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Data for Progress provided voters with various actions recently taken by ICE agents, and asked whether they approve or disapprove of them. The poll finds that each action is unpopular with voters nationwide.
(@dataforprogress.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251113-top...
(@dataforprogress.org)
More, via Opinion Today:
opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251113-top...
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The DHS taunted the wife of British journalist Sami Hamdi, who is being detained by ICE, on social media on Wednesday, after she publicly urged her husband’s release and warned that he was suffering a health emergency in custody.
DHS Falsely Labels Journalist a “Terrorist Sympathizer” After Wife’s Op-Ed Denounces ICE Detention
The detention of Sami Hamdi "is about silencing political dissent to create a chilling effect," his wife wrote.
truthout.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The DHS taunted the wife of British journalist Sami Hamdi, who is being detained by ICE, on social media on Wednesday, after she publicly urged her husband’s release and warned that he was suffering a health emergency in custody.
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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
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‘Stop emailing each other all the time you fucking idiots!’
November 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
‘Stop emailing each other all the time you fucking idiots!’
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They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
Gregory Bovino, the top Border Patrol official leading the charge on the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in cities, and his officers are heading to Charlotte, according to a source familiar with the planning. That was news to city officials. https://cnn.it/49crpZT
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
They are coming to Charlotte literally because of a few right-wing propaganda accounts on X and I am livid.
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1/2 One of the big problems for the always-punching-left Democratic consultants is that they are waging ideological battles in public that actually _reinforce_ the left-wing image of the party that they are trying to fight. That is a risk they have decided
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
1/2 One of the big problems for the always-punching-left Democratic consultants is that they are waging ideological battles in public that actually _reinforce_ the left-wing image of the party that they are trying to fight. That is a risk they have decided
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
substack.com/@lakshyajain...
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"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
Letter from Chicago broadcast veterans: Federal immigration agents have traumatized us and eroded our rights
The fact that some federal immigration forces may be leaving soon is cold comfort given the damage they’ve done.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
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"Journalists behind bars, describing endless forms of payback, told us that retaliation was the greatest constraint on their work." Andrew Crespo & Corinne Shanahan of @endmassinc.bsky.social break down the ways prisons stop reporting of what goes on behind their walls.
When Reporting Is a Crime - Corinne Shanahan & Andrew Crespo - Inquest
States have restricted, surveilled, and punished prison journalism for decades, with dire consequences—for incarcerated people and for democracy.
inquest.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
"Journalists behind bars, describing endless forms of payback, told us that retaliation was the greatest constraint on their work." Andrew Crespo & Corinne Shanahan of @endmassinc.bsky.social break down the ways prisons stop reporting of what goes on behind their walls.
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''Prison journalism should not be illegal. It should not be starved, stifled, or silenced ... laws need to change."
Read @inquest.bsky.social's article featuring Jeremy's account of how his own journalism, and that of outside reporters wanting to tell his story, is stifled by prison authorities.
Read @inquest.bsky.social's article featuring Jeremy's account of how his own journalism, and that of outside reporters wanting to tell his story, is stifled by prison authorities.
"Journalists behind bars, describing endless forms of payback, told us that retaliation was the greatest constraint on their work." Andrew Crespo & Corinne Shanahan of @endmassinc.bsky.social break down the ways prisons stop reporting of what goes on behind their walls.
When Reporting Is a Crime - Corinne Shanahan & Andrew Crespo - Inquest
States have restricted, surveilled, and punished prison journalism for decades, with dire consequences—for incarcerated people and for democracy.
inquest.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
''Prison journalism should not be illegal. It should not be starved, stifled, or silenced ... laws need to change."
Read @inquest.bsky.social's article featuring Jeremy's account of how his own journalism, and that of outside reporters wanting to tell his story, is stifled by prison authorities.
Read @inquest.bsky.social's article featuring Jeremy's account of how his own journalism, and that of outside reporters wanting to tell his story, is stifled by prison authorities.
why is DHS even involved w foreign military base areas anyway
This and US military working in El Salvador, along with announcement of Hegseth today, strengthens they plan to attack Venezuela and are looking at expanding. This is a war on Latin America, with collaborators and allied regimes lining up.
www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...
www.upi.com/Top_News/Wor...
Kristi Noem tours site of potential U.S. military base in Ecuador - UPI.com
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem toured facilities in Manta to evaluate a a site for an American base.
www.upi.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
why is DHS even involved w foreign military base areas anyway
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Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
ooh SDRs
US holdings of IMF SDRs went down by 640.8mn in October. Argentina's holdings of SDRs went up by 640.8mn in October. Then it had a 621mn SDR payment to the IMF. So did the US backstop this payment? The authorities involved wouldn't comment. www.ft.com/content/2730...
US drew $900mn from IMF account as Argentina debt payment loomed
Buenos Aires’s reserves rose by the same margin as Washington seeks to bolster Javier Milei’s government
www.ft.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:35 PM
ooh SDRs
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44 / 40 / 46
September 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
44 / 40 / 46
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This is a real image the U.S. Department of Homeland Security just posted to Twitter in response to the governor of California.
Real weird shit, as they say
Real weird shit, as they say
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
This is a real image the U.S. Department of Homeland Security just posted to Twitter in response to the governor of California.
Real weird shit, as they say
Real weird shit, as they say
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This is going to go down as the dumbest war in the Western Hemisphere since Napoleon III decided that only a Habsburg princeling could save Mexico
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is going to go down as the dumbest war in the Western Hemisphere since Napoleon III decided that only a Habsburg princeling could save Mexico
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This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
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Rubio is working on legal grounds to persecute antifa. Four foreign groups are now Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and they hope to designate them FTOs. Only one is actually an antifascist group: Hungary has previously focused on Antifa Ost (Hammerbande).
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...
www.state.gov
November 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Rubio is working on legal grounds to persecute antifa. Four foreign groups are now Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and they hope to designate them FTOs. Only one is actually an antifascist group: Hungary has previously focused on Antifa Ost (Hammerbande).
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
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See my recent @lawfaremedia.org piece on indictment of a purported Texas "antifa cell" and how these terrorism statutes work. Rubio's actions mean that anyone who provides "material support"—defined *very* broadly—to these foreign groups has committed a felony.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
Rubio is working on legal grounds to persecute antifa. Four foreign groups are now Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and they hope to designate them FTOs. Only one is actually an antifascist group: Hungary has previously focused on Antifa Ost (Hammerbande).
www.state.gov/releases/202...
www.state.gov/releases/202...
Designations of Antifa Ost and Three Other Violent Antifa Groups - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State announces the designation of Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense...
www.state.gov
November 13, 2025 at 10:20 PM
See my recent @lawfaremedia.org piece on indictment of a purported Texas "antifa cell" and how these terrorism statutes work. Rubio's actions mean that anyone who provides "material support"—defined *very* broadly—to these foreign groups has committed a felony.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...
the boys from brazil (neurodivergent)
Exclusive: Adolf Hitler’s DNA has been sequenced by scientists
It has:
- shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development
- debunked rumours about his ancestry
- shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder
www.thetimes.com/article/e728...
It has:
- shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development
- debunked rumours about his ancestry
- shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder
www.thetimes.com/article/e728...
Hitler had hidden genetic sexual disorder, DNA analysis reveals
The Nazi dictator had Kallmann syndrome, which hinders normal puberty and the development of sexual organs, according to groundbreaking research
www.thetimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 AM
the boys from brazil (neurodivergent)
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What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month