Marnie
@mstoras.bsky.social
Canadian, former lawyer, journo, historian. Current news junkie very worried about the future of democracy.
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Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data
Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse.
www.theverge.com/news/867244/...
Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse.
www.theverge.com/news/867244/...
Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data
Microsoft complied with a warrant to hand over BitLocker recovery keys to the FBI, and privacy advocates are worried.
www.theverge.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Microsoft handed the government encryption keys for customer data
Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse.
www.theverge.com/news/867244/...
Privacy advocates are worried about the precedent this sets and the potential for abuse.
www.theverge.com/news/867244/...
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Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones
January 27, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Bovino’s retirement needs to be a cage. His command environment yielded Renee Good’s death, Alex Pretti’s death & Julio Sosa-Celis’ shooting. Failure to prosecute Bovino & everyone else materially responsible for these atrocities will be understood by ICE, CBP, etc as a green light for the next ones
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After Saturday's tragic shooting, I wrote about why Minnesota "officially" isn't doing more to resist ICE — and why Trump's actions are so dangerous. www.wired.com/story/why-mi...
Why Minnesota Can't Do More to Stop ICE
Democratic lawmakers have few options that wouldn't trigger something like civil war.
www.wired.com
January 25, 2026 at 7:22 PM
After Saturday's tragic shooting, I wrote about why Minnesota "officially" isn't doing more to resist ICE — and why Trump's actions are so dangerous. www.wired.com/story/why-mi...
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I recently spoke to @aljazeera.com about how commerically-trained AI models pose a significant safety and security risk in military operations that ultimately place life-or-death decisions in the hands of private companies, with little to no accountability.
January 26, 2026 at 9:52 AM
I recently spoke to @aljazeera.com about how commerically-trained AI models pose a significant safety and security risk in military operations that ultimately place life-or-death decisions in the hands of private companies, with little to no accountability.
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💥 "Friendly" drones have arrived in the Krasnodar Krai of Russia: An oil refinery is on fire in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, likely the "Slavyansk-Eco" refinery.
🔥 It's "hot" for the occupiers in the Luhansk region too. Media reports a fire at a substation after an airstrike.
🔥 It's "hot" for the occupiers in the Luhansk region too. Media reports a fire at a substation after an airstrike.
January 26, 2026 at 12:22 PM
💥 "Friendly" drones have arrived in the Krasnodar Krai of Russia: An oil refinery is on fire in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, likely the "Slavyansk-Eco" refinery.
🔥 It's "hot" for the occupiers in the Luhansk region too. Media reports a fire at a substation after an airstrike.
🔥 It's "hot" for the occupiers in the Luhansk region too. Media reports a fire at a substation after an airstrike.
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We get that Republicans want to argue that “you shouldn’t” protest or film agents, or that it’s “a bad idea.” But it’s a right. That means you don’t get to decide whether someone gets to do it if that’s how they choose to protest. It also means agents can’t kill people who do.
January 26, 2026 at 2:16 AM
We get that Republicans want to argue that “you shouldn’t” protest or film agents, or that it’s “a bad idea.” But it’s a right. That means you don’t get to decide whether someone gets to do it if that’s how they choose to protest. It also means agents can’t kill people who do.
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Trump’s contemplated annexation of Greenland and his attempt to create a Board of Peace are manifestations of the same impulse: Trump wants to do whatever he wants, wherever he wants, unconstrained by any checks or balances, and he would like to make a lot of money doing it. wapo.st/46dUKAF
Opinion | The Board of Peace is the Trump Organization, international edition
Trump’s attempt to rival the U.N., with him in charge, is likely to disappear and be quickly forgotten.
wapo.st
January 26, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Trump’s contemplated annexation of Greenland and his attempt to create a Board of Peace are manifestations of the same impulse: Trump wants to do whatever he wants, wherever he wants, unconstrained by any checks or balances, and he would like to make a lot of money doing it. wapo.st/46dUKAF
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Former Citi executive sues bank over handling of sexual harassment claims ft.trib.al/AKvFJXo
Former Citi executive sues bank over handling of sexual harassment claims
Complaint alleges ‘unrelenting and egregious sexual harassment’ by wealth chief Andy Sieg
ft.trib.al
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Former Citi executive sues bank over handling of sexual harassment claims ft.trib.al/AKvFJXo
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I can’t think of something more un-American than a federal law enforcement agency that can:
Enter homes without a judicial warrant.
Patrol our streets in unmarked vehicles.
Demand papers at random.
ICE has become a threat to our American freedoms.
Enter homes without a judicial warrant.
Patrol our streets in unmarked vehicles.
Demand papers at random.
ICE has become a threat to our American freedoms.
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I can’t think of something more un-American than a federal law enforcement agency that can:
Enter homes without a judicial warrant.
Patrol our streets in unmarked vehicles.
Demand papers at random.
ICE has become a threat to our American freedoms.
Enter homes without a judicial warrant.
Patrol our streets in unmarked vehicles.
Demand papers at random.
ICE has become a threat to our American freedoms.
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Kanew: “One clapped. Another said it was like playing a video game. The way they are brazenly lying about Alex Pretti shows how full of 💩 they were about Renee Good. We are far off the cliff here, folks… Shame on anyone who tells you not to believe your own eyes.”
January 26, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Kanew: “One clapped. Another said it was like playing a video game. The way they are brazenly lying about Alex Pretti shows how full of 💩 they were about Renee Good. We are far off the cliff here, folks… Shame on anyone who tells you not to believe your own eyes.”
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His apology would be worthless. Carney pointed out that 30 Canadian soldiers were awarded the United States Bronze Star Medal for valor.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
Carney defends Canada’s Afghanistan record but does not ask Trump for apology
Prime Minister Mark Carney defended the Canadian military’s contributions to the war in Afghanistan today, but stopped short of asking U.S. President Donald Trump to apologize for belittling Canada’s ...
www.ctvnews.ca
January 26, 2026 at 9:15 PM
His apology would be worthless. Carney pointed out that 30 Canadian soldiers were awarded the United States Bronze Star Medal for valor.
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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🔴 Russian strikes hit Kharkiv school and residential areas leaving at least two injured.
Russian missiles and drones slammed into Kharkiv Monday evening, striking a school and damaging nearby apartment buildings and a kindergarten, Suspilne reports.
Russian missiles and drones slammed into Kharkiv Monday evening, striking a school and damaging nearby apartment buildings and a kindergarten, Suspilne reports.
January 26, 2026 at 8:47 PM
🔴 Russian strikes hit Kharkiv school and residential areas leaving at least two injured.
Russian missiles and drones slammed into Kharkiv Monday evening, striking a school and damaging nearby apartment buildings and a kindergarten, Suspilne reports.
Russian missiles and drones slammed into Kharkiv Monday evening, striking a school and damaging nearby apartment buildings and a kindergarten, Suspilne reports.
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“The problem with jobs today is that they have stopped servicing society and have prioritised servicing the annihilation of climate and ecology. The primary goal of work today is not to provide a service, but to generate profit”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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Laboured to Extinction: How We Became the Planet of the Working Zombies
As societies grew into increasingly complex economies, the need for specialised skills gave rise to specialised humans.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:33 PM
“The problem with jobs today is that they have stopped servicing society and have prioritised servicing the annihilation of climate and ecology. The primary goal of work today is not to provide a service, but to generate profit”
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
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With more than 51 million monthly users in the EU, WhatsApp is now classified as a Very Large Online Platform, meaning it will face a new level of regulatory scrutiny.
WhatsApp faces new obligations under the EU’s toughest digital rules
With more than 51 million monthly users in the EU, WhatsApp is now classified as a Very Large Online Platform, meaning it will face a new level of regulatory scrutiny.
l.euronews.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
With more than 51 million monthly users in the EU, WhatsApp is now classified as a Very Large Online Platform, meaning it will face a new level of regulatory scrutiny.
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The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."
It also sounds like at least some of them thought the cameras wouldn't matter because they were assuming that a couple of public executions would cause all of the resistance to run and hide.
January 26, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The regime obviously thought they'd be able to take out a few dozen scary-queer-weirdo Antifa types in black masks and then successfully cow the rest of the Coastal Elite Liberal class into terrified silence: they were not expecting "totally fearless mass nonviolent resistance by entire cities."
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I can hear my neighbour crying “I Can’t Breathe”
Now I’m in the struggle
I can’t leave
Calling out the violence of the racist Police
We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free
We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free
💥 Samuel L. Jackson
Now I’m in the struggle
I can’t leave
Calling out the violence of the racist Police
We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free
We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free
💥 Samuel L. Jackson
January 26, 2026 at 5:28 PM
I can hear my neighbour crying “I Can’t Breathe”
Now I’m in the struggle
I can’t leave
Calling out the violence of the racist Police
We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free
We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free
💥 Samuel L. Jackson
Now I’m in the struggle
I can’t leave
Calling out the violence of the racist Police
We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free
We ain’t gonna stop … til people are free
💥 Samuel L. Jackson
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Wow…look what i just found!
www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/21/t...
www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/21/t...
FRAUD ALERT: Newsom adds new list of Trump’s pardoned fraudster friends to Trump Criminals tracker | Governor of California
www.gov.ca.gov
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Wow…look what i just found!
www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/21/t...
www.gov.ca.gov/2026/01/21/t...
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ICE guys: so yeah you're pretty much going to abolish us now, huh
January 26, 2026 at 9:17 PM
ICE guys: so yeah you're pretty much going to abolish us now, huh
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In the Five Towers skyscraper in Moscow, they are selling luxury housing with the aroma of the adjacent thermal power station pipes TPP-20.
Apartments there cost from 26.5 million rubles. Fucking idiots.
Apartments there cost from 26.5 million rubles. Fucking idiots.
January 26, 2026 at 8:46 PM
In the Five Towers skyscraper in Moscow, they are selling luxury housing with the aroma of the adjacent thermal power station pipes TPP-20.
Apartments there cost from 26.5 million rubles. Fucking idiots.
Apartments there cost from 26.5 million rubles. Fucking idiots.
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THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman
At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:09 PM
THREAD: 404 Media has been covering ICE and the technology they've been using to surveil and raid "targets", detain people based on a flawed facial recognition app, and lie about violence on the streets.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
They have established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.
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When authorities used ICE's facial recognition app on a detained woman, it returned two different and incorrect names, raising serious questions about the accuracy of the app. Officials have said the app is better than a birth certificate.
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said…
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 10:01 PM
When authorities used ICE's facial recognition app on a detained woman, it returned two different and incorrect names, raising serious questions about the accuracy of the app. Officials have said the app is better than a birth certificate.
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
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This is the one major hope, too, with their monomaniacal demand for a civil war and why granting it to them is folly. L.A., D.C., Chicago, all show that non-violent resistance works, and these people are completely stumped by it. They also lack psychopaths who'd shoot artillery into the crowds.
I think MAGA writ large is slowly realizing that successfully convincing a majority of the country to passionately hate you is not nearly as fun as they thought it was gonna be.
black and white visions of upside-down Esso stations are perhaps starting to dance through their heads at night.
black and white visions of upside-down Esso stations are perhaps starting to dance through their heads at night.
January 26, 2026 at 8:47 PM
This is the one major hope, too, with their monomaniacal demand for a civil war and why granting it to them is folly. L.A., D.C., Chicago, all show that non-violent resistance works, and these people are completely stumped by it. They also lack psychopaths who'd shoot artillery into the crowds.
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Today is the one year anniversary of starting the Charlie Angus resistance substack. A year ago, I was speaking about the hypotheticals - the suspension of the rule of law, concentration camps, threats against other nations.
Now it is daily conversation.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/me-jonah-a...
Now it is daily conversation.
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Me, Jonah and the Fascist Whale
I woke up this morning as I do every day, poured a cup of coffee and began researching and writing.
charlieangus.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Today is the one year anniversary of starting the Charlie Angus resistance substack. A year ago, I was speaking about the hypotheticals - the suspension of the rule of law, concentration camps, threats against other nations.
Now it is daily conversation.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/me-jonah-a...
Now it is daily conversation.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/me-jonah-a...
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“All you fence sitters.
Read this man's Sermon.
I did. I agree with his Wisdom … Do not hide your strength, if it means protecting others.”
- David Seal
Read this man's Sermon.
I did. I agree with his Wisdom … Do not hide your strength, if it means protecting others.”
- David Seal
January 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM
“All you fence sitters.
Read this man's Sermon.
I did. I agree with his Wisdom … Do not hide your strength, if it means protecting others.”
- David Seal
Read this man's Sermon.
I did. I agree with his Wisdom … Do not hide your strength, if it means protecting others.”
- David Seal
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I experienced this when I was a student at UW/Madison in the early 1970s. I assume there has been a lot of technological change since then, but I can assure you that it is very challenging not to be able to see or breathe. What they threw at us back then burned our eyes and lungs.
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Federal agents are heavily deploying chemical irritants. What are the health consequences?
Munitions experts say ingredients can vary and can be considered proprietary.
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January 26, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I experienced this when I was a student at UW/Madison in the early 1970s. I assume there has been a lot of technological change since then, but I can assure you that it is very challenging not to be able to see or breathe. What they threw at us back then burned our eyes and lungs.
shorturl.at/tXkbZ
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