Jake Laperruque
@jakelaperruque.bsky.social
Center for Democracy & Technology Deputy Director on Surveillance. I talk about tech, privacy, and surveillance policy: AI, FISA, facial recognition, location tracking, reproductive health privacy (Also cats, movies, cooking and baseball)
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Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.
January 1, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.
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A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
December 31, 2025 at 11:40 PM
A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News.
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
Homicides in NYC...
1990: 2,262
1993: 1,927
1998: 629
2001: 649
2013: 335
2019: 320
2021: 488
2024: 382
2025 (as of 12/28): 302
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Presidential power is the great constitutional issue of 2025. This epic power grab has not gone unchallenged. We recap this year's defining challenges and the response by courts, advocates, and the public.
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bit.ly/3Y72AYH
A Year of Challenge and Hope for American Democracy
As our Constitution is tested, citizens respond.
www.brennancenter.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Presidential power is the great constitutional issue of 2025. This epic power grab has not gone unchallenged. We recap this year's defining challenges and the response by courts, advocates, and the public.
bit.ly/3Y72AYH
bit.ly/3Y72AYH
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New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
ICE plans $100 million ‘wartime recruitment’ push targeting gun shows, military fans for hires
An internal ICE document shared among immigration officials details plans to use influencers and geo-targeted ads to rapidly hire thousands of deportation officers.
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December 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows.
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j
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USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
December 29, 2025 at 7:14 PM
USPS quietly changed its postmark rules — mail is no longer dated when you drop it off. The “official” date is when it hits automated sorting — sometimes days later
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
Which could have major implications for mail in voting — it’s a clever way to disenfranchise voters that’s going largely overlooked
The three biggest (and arguably most innovative) companies in America are Nvidia, Apple, and Google. Two of the three were created by immigrants who came to America from Taiwan and the Soviet Union. The third was created by the son of a Syrian immigrant.
December 29, 2025 at 3:33 AM
The three biggest (and arguably most innovative) companies in America are Nvidia, Apple, and Google. Two of the three were created by immigrants who came to America from Taiwan and the Soviet Union. The third was created by the son of a Syrian immigrant.
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Imagine if we could have AI developed not by a bunch of billionaires whose brains were fried by misreading sci-fi but by a group more representative of society, a group that was thoughtful and responsible and concerned about the impact. Then, AI might actually be a force for good.
December 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Imagine if we could have AI developed not by a bunch of billionaires whose brains were fried by misreading sci-fi but by a group more representative of society, a group that was thoughtful and responsible and concerned about the impact. Then, AI might actually be a force for good.
I love Internet bros freaking out about amour in the Odyssey trailer being historically inaccurate.
My , they’re a bunch of Caucasian dudes speaking English and also they’re fighting a 20 foot cyclops monster.
My , they’re a bunch of Caucasian dudes speaking English and also they’re fighting a 20 foot cyclops monster.
December 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I love Internet bros freaking out about amour in the Odyssey trailer being historically inaccurate.
My , they’re a bunch of Caucasian dudes speaking English and also they’re fighting a 20 foot cyclops monster.
My , they’re a bunch of Caucasian dudes speaking English and also they’re fighting a 20 foot cyclops monster.
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This was literally one of the concerns raised during the immunity case, and the majority hand waved it away.
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
This was literally one of the concerns raised during the immunity case, and the majority hand waved it away.
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Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia highlights the perspectives of four professors teaching at the intersection of disability rights and technology on their experiences under the Trump Administration’s policies targeting higher education, including lost research support and chilled classrooms.
Ask The Experts: Teaching Disability Rights and Technology in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
Ariana Aboulafia spoke to experts about how Trump’s policies are chilling the the academic study of tech's impact on society.
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December 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia highlights the perspectives of four professors teaching at the intersection of disability rights and technology on their experiences under the Trump Administration’s policies targeting higher education, including lost research support and chilled classrooms.
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Yeah, brilliant idea to grant the franchise to infinitely replicable digital entities controlled by cadres of tech executives. Muskbrained.
it’s hard to think of a bigger grift than the claim that predictive text aka gAI is ‘conscious’ and thus “deserve rights” like the ability to vote
December 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Yeah, brilliant idea to grant the franchise to infinitely replicable digital entities controlled by cadres of tech executives. Muskbrained.
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If you were Nick Fuentes coming up with a mean-spirited and bigoted “satirical” character to mock and belittle Jews or to discredit complaints about antisemitism you would wind up with something very like Eve Barlow, who said it was a “pogrom” to be called Eve Fartlow
What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome
December 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
If you were Nick Fuentes coming up with a mean-spirited and bigoted “satirical” character to mock and belittle Jews or to discredit complaints about antisemitism you would wind up with something very like Eve Barlow, who said it was a “pogrom” to be called Eve Fartlow
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Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.
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The internet is revolutionary to free speech because it empowers individuals and citizens to route around censorship in all its forms—even a captured “free” press.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
December 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The internet is revolutionary to free speech because it empowers individuals and citizens to route around censorship in all its forms—even a captured “free” press.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
This is why private platform governance; law on internet access or online content, and anonymity online will always matter.
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New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns."
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
‘It’s a war’: Inside ICE’s media machine
Thousands of internal ICE messages show how its public affairs team has coordinated with the White House to satisfy Trump administration demands for viral arrest videos
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December 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
New: We obtained thousands of internal chat messages from the ICE team creating viral videos of raids and "EPIC takedowns."
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
A scramble to satisfy the White House and "feed the beast" spawned a new "propaganda" machine, current and former officials told us.
"It's a war!"
wapo.st/4s6YnC5
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One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
December 23, 2025 at 12:12 AM
One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.
We've already achieved full Streisand Effect for this news segment. Any effort by CBS to pull it off platforms it's been uploaded to is just going to amplify that.
New: archivists have distributed the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss killed. iCloud, Mega, torrent too. Shows won’t be able to keep this episode offline www.404media.co/archivists-p...
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
www.404media.co
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
We've already achieved full Streisand Effect for this news segment. Any effort by CBS to pull it off platforms it's been uploaded to is just going to amplify that.
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Recommend everyone take 15 minutes and watch and share this segment, which CBS executives did not want you to see.
WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Recommend everyone take 15 minutes and watch and share this segment, which CBS executives did not want you to see.
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NEW: The federal government has retreated from gun enforcement in Baltimore and elsewhere this year as more of its investigators turn their attention to President Donald Trump’s new priority for law enforcement: hunting immigrants in the U.S. illegally to deport.
www.reuters.com/world/how-im...
www.reuters.com/world/how-im...
December 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
NEW: The federal government has retreated from gun enforcement in Baltimore and elsewhere this year as more of its investigators turn their attention to President Donald Trump’s new priority for law enforcement: hunting immigrants in the U.S. illegally to deport.
www.reuters.com/world/how-im...
www.reuters.com/world/how-im...
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Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia highlights the perspectives of four professors teaching at the intersection of disability rights and technology on their experiences under the Trump Administration’s policies targeting higher education, including lost research support and chilled classrooms.
Ask The Experts: Teaching Disability Rights and Technology in 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
Ariana Aboulafia spoke to experts about how Trump’s policies are chilling the the academic study of tech's impact on society.
buff.ly
December 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Tech Policy Press Fellow Ariana Aboulafia highlights the perspectives of four professors teaching at the intersection of disability rights and technology on their experiences under the Trump Administration’s policies targeting higher education, including lost research support and chilled classrooms.
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?
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CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
December 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
CATO INSTITUTE:
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡
www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...
Reminds me of a FISA Court opinion 😬
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Reminds me of a FISA Court opinion 😬