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License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/17/license-plate-surveillance-logs-reveal-racist-policing-against-romani-people/
License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People
More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license…
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November 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Pete Hegseth Has Turned State Violence Into TikTok Content
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/17/pete-hegseth-has-turned-state-violence-into-tiktok-content/
Pete Hegseth Has Turned State Violence Into TikTok Content
You know this is a spectacle, right? A show. That’s what it is. A performance for social media. With blood. Pete Hegseth just ordered the twenty-first strike on a suspected drug boat. Thr…
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November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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NY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work Until Paragraph 14
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/17/ny-times-runs-defense-for-social-media-bans-buries-evidence-they-dont-work-until-paragraph-14/
NY Times Runs Defense For Social Media Bans, Buries Evidence They Don’t Work Until Paragraph 14
Imagine you’re writing an article about a popular policy trend. The trend is expensive to implement, disruptive to normal operations, and—here’s the key part—there’s substantial r…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Daily Deal: Raspberry Pi Pico W Ultimate Starter Kit
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/17/daily-deal-raspberry-pi-pico-w-ultimate-starter-kit-2/
Daily Deal: Raspberry Pi Pico W Ultimate Starter Kit
The SunFounder Raspberry Pi Pico W Ultimate Starter Kit offers a rich learning experience for beginners aged 8 and up. With over 450 components, 117 projects, and expert-led tutorials, this kit mak…
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Federal Judges Frees More Than 300 Chicago-Area Detainees Because ICE Violated A 2018 Consent Decree
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/17/federal-judges-frees-more-than-300-chicago-area-detainees-because-ice-violated-a-2018-consent-decree/
Federal Judges Frees More Than 300 Chicago-Area Detainees Because ICE Violated A 2018 Consent Decree
Well, well, well. If it isn’t the system of checks and balances. We’ve missed you, buddy! Long story somewhat short: ICE has been terrible for years, but it’s been much worse unde…
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November 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Courage Doesn’t Scale
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/17/courage-doesnt-scale/
Courage Doesn’t Scale
It has been frustrating, to say the least, to watch many of the big Silicon Valley tech firms bow down to Trump and do his bidding, especially when it directly contradicts things they’ve said and d…
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November 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Former FCC Officials Push To Kill Dated ‘News Distortion’ Rule Trump Abused To Bully CBS And ABC Into Feckless Compliance
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/17/former-fcc-officials-push-to-kill-dated-news-distortion-rule-trump-abused-to-bully-cbs-and-abc-into-feckless-compliance/
Former FCC Officials Push To Kill Dated ‘News Distortion’ Rule Trump Abused To Bully CBS And ABC Into Feckless Compliance
A coalition of former FCC officials are pushing for the elimination of a longstanding FCC rule the Trump administration abused to “bully” ABC and CBS into kissing the president’s …
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November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/16/funniest-most-insightful-comments-of-the-week-at-techdirt-185/
Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, all our winning comments came in response to our post about Donald Trump falling for satire from a website called The Dunning-Kruger Times. In first place on the insightful side, it&#821…
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November 16, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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This Week In Techdirt History: November 9th – 15th
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/15/this-week-in-techdirt-history-november-9th-15th/
This Week In Techdirt History: November 9th – 15th
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we looked at election polls as an example of the challenges involved in defining and handling misinformation. We noted how Trumpland seemed to have entirely forgot…
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November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Nut Huggers Apparel Plans To Battle Back Against Bullshit Buc-ee’s Bullying
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/nut-huggers-apparel-plans-to-battle-back-against-bullshit-buc-ees-bullying/
Nut Huggers Apparel Plans To Battle Back Against Bullshit Buc-ee’s Bullying
We’ve written about Buc-ee’s a couple of times recently, given the famed convenience store chain of the south’s aspirations to become the Monster Energy of convenience stores when…
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November 15, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/details-of-dhs-agreement-reveal-risks-of-trump-administrations-use-of-social-security-data-for-voter-citizenship-checks/
Details Of DHS Agreement Reveal Risks Of Trump Administration’s Use Of Social Security Data For Voter Citizenship Checks
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. This year, when states began using an expanded Department of Homeland Security system to check their …
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November 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Clearance Sale! Grab One Of The (Very Few) Remaining Copies Of Our Social Media Card Game
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/clearance-sale-grab-one-of-the-very-few-remaining-copies-of-our-social-media-card-game/
Clearance Sale! Grab One Of The (Very Few) Remaining Copies Of Our Social Media Card Game
A couple months ago we offered up the few remaining copies of our social media card game, One Billion Users, after fulfilling orders from our Kickstarter backers. Quite a few of you took the chance…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/investigation-shows-trumps-boat-strikes-arent-killing-narco-terrorists/
Investigation Shows Trump’s Boat Strikes Aren’t Killing ‘Narco-Terrorists’
The Trump administration has been ramping up its rhetoric against Venezuela since Day 1. Efforts to arrest up to 3,000 migrants a day focused on Venezuelans, many of whom had fled to the United Sta…
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November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Copyright Is The Wrong Tool To Deal With Deepfake Harms
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/copyright-is-the-wrong-tool-to-deal-with-deepfake-harms/
Copyright Is The Wrong Tool To Deal With Deepfake Harms
A key theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is that copyright, born in an analogue age of scarcity, works poorly in today’s digital world of abundance. One manifestatio…
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November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Daily Deal: The Complete IT Exams Training Bundle
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/daily-deal-the-complete-it-exams-training-bundle/
Daily Deal: The Complete IT Exams Training Bundle
The Complete IT Exams Training Bundle covers five platforms — Cisco, AWS, CompTIA, Microsoft, Google, and Linux — with expert-led courses, labs, and exam prep. The bundle comes with acc…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Judge Dismisses Bullshit Lawsuit Claiming Pollster Committed Fraud By Being Wrong
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/judge-dismisses-bullshit-lawsuit-claiming-pollster-committed-fraud-by-being-wrong/
Judge Dismisses Bullshit Lawsuit Claiming Pollster Committed Fraud By Being Wrong
Last year, we wrote about Donald Trump’s bullshit lawsuit against Iowa pollster Ann Selzer for releasing surprising polls right before the 2024 election suggesting that Kamala Harris might ac…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Border Patrol Commander Locks Down Another Injunction After Admitting To Lying About Being Attacked
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/border-patrol-commander-locks-down-another-injunction-after-admitting-to-lying-about-being-attacked/
Border Patrol Commander Locks Down Another Injunction After Admitting To Lying About Being Attacked
Gregory Bovino’s star will continue to rise. Admitting you lied to a court no longer matters when the entire administration does it on a daily basis. All that matters is that you serve the fa…
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November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry ‘Self-Regulation’ Regimes Like NARB, NAD
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/14/after-destroying-federal-regulators-att-wages-war-on-industry-self-regulation-regimes-like-narb-nad/
After Destroying Federal Regulators, AT&T Wages War On Industry ‘Self-Regulation’ Regimes Like NARB, NAD
It’s not hyperbole to say that after decades of hard work and lobbying, companies like AT&T have effectively destroyed whatever was left of federal U.S. consumer protection and corporate …
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November 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/no-one-lives-forever-turns-25-you-still-cant-buy-it-legitimately/
‘No One Lives Forever’ Turns 25 & You Still Can’t Buy It Legitimately
One of my favorite things in all of professional sports is the unofficial holiday referred to as “Bobby Bonilla Day.” The short version of it is that Bonilla played for the New York Met…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deviation From The Teen
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/ctrl-alt-speech-deviation-from-the-teen/
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deviation From The Teen
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, …
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November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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A Love Letter To America
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/a-love-letter-to-america/
A Love Letter To America
I love America. You’re so fucked up. But I love you. You’re built upon a beautiful and preposterous idea: that ordinary people—you and I—can govern ourselves. Together. Not through superior intelli…
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November 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Furloughed Employees Sue Administration For Adding Partisan Wording To Their Out-Of-Office Messages
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/furloughed-employees-sue-administration-for-adding-partisan-wording-to-their-out-of-office-messages/
Furloughed Employees Sue Administration For Adding Partisan Wording To Their Out-Of-Office Messages
Here comes more pathetic, childish bullshit from an administration that has made petty bullshit its brand. The just completed government shutdown caused problems everywhere. The Trump administratio…
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November 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Daily Deal: MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with Floating Stand
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/daily-deal-magstack-foldable-3-in-1-wireless-charging-station-with-floating-stand-8/
Daily Deal: MagStack Foldable 3-in-1 Wireless Charging Station with Floating Stand
MagStack is the perfect on-the-go wireless charging station that also transforms into a floating stand for smartphone FaceTime or video playback while charging. This 3-in-1 foldable design featurin…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/judge-orders-openai-to-give-lawyers-20-million-private-chats-thinks-anonymization-can-keep-them-private/
Judge Orders OpenAI To Give Lawyers 20 Million Private Chats, Thinks ‘Anonymization’ Can Keep Them Private
A federal magistrate judge just ordered that the private ChatGPT conversations of 20 million users be handed over to the lawyers for dozens of plaintiffs, including news organizations. Those 20 mil…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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GOP Threatened To Keep The Government Shut Down If 8 GOP Senators Couldn’t Profit From Being Investigated
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/13/gop-threatened-to-keep-the-government-shut-down-if-8-gop-senators-couldnt-profit-from-being-investigated/
GOP Threatened To Keep The Government Shut Down If 8 GOP Senators Couldn’t Profit From Being Investigated
Last night the House passed, and then Donald Trump signed, the funding bill that reopened the government after the longest government shutdown in history. Amazingly, the Republican’s sketchy …
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November 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM