We have ~15 separate radio dispatches, one for each neighborhood, and dozens more for the suburbs/Saint Paul. Each dispatch/monitoring channel contains somewhere between 500 and 2000 people. At any given time there are probably a dozen mobile patrols and 100 on-foot observers in each neighborhood.

using Signal is easy, even if you’re not tech savvy (like me). follow these tips on how to get the most out of it once you get the app

A good post by Bruce Schneier: digital threat modeling under authoritarianism www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

When Putin consolidated power in Russia, one of his earliest and most decisive moves was to seize control of the media environment. Independent television channels such as NTV, once critical of the Kremlin, were stripped of their licenses or taken over by state-aligned companies in the early 2000s.

Sometimes my interest in state spying and my interest in stalkerware overlap in weird ways. For example, Kenya arrested four journalists, seized their devices and returned them with FlexiSpy installed:

cpj.org/2025/09/spyw...

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

U.S. Special Operations Command, recently implicated in a covert anti-vax campaign targeting Asian countries, is seeking machine learning tools to automate digital propaganda and “suppress dissenting arguments" online, according to a procurement document I obtained theintercept.com/2025/08/25/p...

NEW: Vegas police named the Cybertruck incident the 1st case of a bombmaker using AI, but a stack of US intel reports obtained by WIRED show domestic extremists have been sharing bootleg AI to aid lone wolf attackers build bombs & stage attacks on the US electric grid.

www.wired.com/story/las-ve...

Remember how @lukeobrien.bsky.social
reported in 2020 that Peter Thiel’s close associate, Jeff Giesea, had donated to an organization led by former “alt right” leader Richard Spencer (whose followers threw Nazi salutes to celebrate Trump’s win in 2016)? … 1/ www.huffpost.com/entry/clearv...

For months, YouTubers and random people have been using GeoSpy, marvelling at its results. Some people in its Discord ask for help stalking specific women. The founder said "the real work is the law enforcement models."

www.404media.co/the-powerful...

Skilled amateur radio operators in WWII secretly worked from home, decoding enemy transmissions. Under suspicion from neighbours, they intercepted Nazi communications, aiding Bletchley Park. Their courageous silence saved lives | Kate Moore

Learn more about them here ⤵️

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...