@jtertz.bsky.social
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As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent. The legal academy treated the development like breaking news. Here's what to know.
Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent.
nyti.ms
October 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
As the Supreme Court seems poised to expand the president’s power, a leading scholar whose work the justices have often cited issued a provocative dissent. The legal academy treated the development like breaking news. Here's what to know.
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I hate that zuckerberg has stolen the word "meta" from us but in the old sense of it I went a little meta this week
with bonus Felix cameo
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
with bonus Felix cameo
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Cartoon: Closing time
This is, in fact, the final cartoon that will appear in OUR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE , and I decided to have a little fun with that. The campaign runs another two weeks, but we are getting things ...
www.dailykos.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I hate that zuckerberg has stolen the word "meta" from us but in the old sense of it I went a little meta this week
with bonus Felix cameo
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
with bonus Felix cameo
www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
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On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑
October 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑
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NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:01 AM
NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...
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Protest organizers are also recommending that you don't lean into antifa.
October 14, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Protest organizers are also recommending that you don't lean into antifa.
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On Feb 24, I gave a lecture at UW explaining what my team's decade-plus research on online rumors during crises reveals about the right wing "bullshit machine." Fittingly, a lightning strike impacted the original audio. Here's a fixed version w/ the full transcript: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG...
A Spotlight on Rumors
YouTube video by UW (University of Washington)
www.youtube.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
On Feb 24, I gave a lecture at UW explaining what my team's decade-plus research on online rumors during crises reveals about the right wing "bullshit machine." Fittingly, a lightning strike impacted the original audio. Here's a fixed version w/ the full transcript: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjiG...
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If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.
Attending a Protest
For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download).
Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power accountab...
ssd.eff.org
June 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you're heading out to a protest, there are a number of concepts to keep in mind to keep yourself—and your data—safe.
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CNN just pivoted from an update on the assassination in Minnesota to a light hearted, upbeat look at the military parade in DC…
“What type of truck is this?” 🤪
Shameful. Pathetic.
“What type of truck is this?” 🤪
Shameful. Pathetic.
June 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
CNN just pivoted from an update on the assassination in Minnesota to a light hearted, upbeat look at the military parade in DC…
“What type of truck is this?” 🤪
Shameful. Pathetic.
“What type of truck is this?” 🤪
Shameful. Pathetic.
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It's hard to show in a picture but this crowd is HUGE. I have it on good authority that it's "way bigger" than Hands Off.
June 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
It's hard to show in a picture but this crowd is HUGE. I have it on good authority that it's "way bigger" than Hands Off.
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Somewhat surreal life experience. Just marched in Philly with the King family on No Kings Day. And we published this op-ed together this morning! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
The ‘No Kings’ mass mobilization debunks Trump’s biggest myth
While the president hosts a grand parade, we hold a parade of the people.
www.msnbc.com
June 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Somewhat surreal life experience. Just marched in Philly with the King family on No Kings Day. And we published this op-ed together this morning! www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.
June 14, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.
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Holy moly.
June 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Holy moly.
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DOGE’s creation of one massive, omnipotent database could let authorities retaliate against critics of the government, undermine political foes or personal enemies, and target marginalized groups, EFF’s Tori Noble told @gizmodo.com.
With Its Destruction of Government Data Silos, DOGE Is Building a 'Surveillance Weapon'
There's a reason the government's vast trove of data is compartmentalized.
gizmodo.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
DOGE’s creation of one massive, omnipotent database could let authorities retaliate against critics of the government, undermine political foes or personal enemies, and target marginalized groups, EFF’s Tori Noble told @gizmodo.com.
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EFF had filed an amicus brief in the appeal before the Ninth Circuit, in which the court ruled that private companies like NSO Group are not immune from being sued simply because their clients are governments.
EFF to Ninth Circuit: Don’t Grant Immunity to Notorious Spyware Company
EFF filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in support of WhatsApp’s lawsuit against notorious Israeli spyware company NSO Group. WhatsApp discovered last year that NSO Group ...
www.eff.org
May 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
EFF had filed an amicus brief in the appeal before the Ninth Circuit, in which the court ruled that private companies like NSO Group are not immune from being sued simply because their clients are governments.
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@jilldlawrence.bsky.social describes how the Trump regime is disappearing data it doesn't like and gathering personal data it can use against Americans. A disaster for democracy that depends on knowledge and a danger to every one of us.
www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump’s Information Warfare Against America
Federal data used to be economic jet fuel. Now much of it is either gone or weaponized.
www.thebulwark.com
May 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
@jilldlawrence.bsky.social describes how the Trump regime is disappearing data it doesn't like and gathering personal data it can use against Americans. A disaster for democracy that depends on knowledge and a danger to every one of us.
www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...
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American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.
This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
American police departments are spending hundreds of thousands on Massive Blue’s unproven and secretive technology that uses AI-generated online personas designed to interact with and collect intelligence on “college protesters,” “radicalized” political activists, and suspected traffickers.
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Every day, it just gets worse. Now Elon’s staff is moving to hide their actions — by secretly using Starlink.
April 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Every day, it just gets worse. Now Elon’s staff is moving to hide their actions — by secretly using Starlink.
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Once again sharing this info.
Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.
Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.
April 14, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Once again sharing this info.
Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.
Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.
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I obtained a letter Albertsons sent to its suppliers saying it is "not accepting cost increases due to tariffs." That means suppliers will raise prices on Albertsons' competitors that have less market power. This is one way Trump's tariffs entrench monopolization.
prospect.org/economy/2025...
prospect.org/economy/2025...
How the Trump Tariffs Assist Monopoly
Imposing market power on suppliers or seeking special exemptions from the president are not avenues available to small businesses.
prospect.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I obtained a letter Albertsons sent to its suppliers saying it is "not accepting cost increases due to tariffs." That means suppliers will raise prices on Albertsons' competitors that have less market power. This is one way Trump's tariffs entrench monopolization.
prospect.org/economy/2025...
prospect.org/economy/2025...
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
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While we had "guardrails" around Trump in T1. They also to credit for making him look somewhat intelligent enough to be capable of reading a Dr. Suess book. The guardrails are gone, and now all we see is how completely stupid he is.
"Eventually, the facts of his incompetence will overwhelm even the vast propaganda network that defends him. I just hope the economy doesn’t have to collapse for that to happen."
The Right-Wing Media Machine Is What’s Saving Donald Trump—for Now
The president isn’t governing as if he wants to be popular, but he’s getting help sweeping his wreckage under the rug.
newrepublic.com
April 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
While we had "guardrails" around Trump in T1. They also to credit for making him look somewhat intelligent enough to be capable of reading a Dr. Suess book. The guardrails are gone, and now all we see is how completely stupid he is.
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This is bad. And it’s where universities should band together and take action.
Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government.
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox.
with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social
DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions
A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is bad. And it’s where universities should band together and take action.
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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
![SpellWild110 • 2 points 17 hours ago
I just got this email too and I am a US citizen? Born and raised in the US. So confused.
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+ [-Potential_Travel_294 • 2 points 17 hours ago
Yeah, so confusing
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+ [H] ramoros1865 • 2 points 13 hours ago
I go this email last night as well and I have a green card](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihzoewvqjpslxfzhgd2va4qwmpxhbeyh7f3yur55pdomuhmtd46da@jpeg)
![[-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
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Got this today at 6ame9the thing is I was born here this is the email that sent it: [automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov]
(mailto:automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov)
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+ [-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
Has anyone clicked the link?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifbnpl6vrxsj35d2na7bq22mw3cve6ptfxmlnw26totsic2nzotoy@jpeg)
![+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I just got this same email right now
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+ [-JOk-Comfortable948 • 1 point 20 hours ago
Me too. I am an LPR since an year now and def concerns me seeing this. I got the email from cbpnoreply@cbp.dhs.gov and email looked legit due to its domain though, hope its a scam email. Crazy idiots not sure what they keep doing. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I have daca and i am wondering if i got it because I did advance parole in 2023
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+ |-] Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got the same email twice to my two different email adresses, I think its's a scam.
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+ [-]Ok-Comfortable948 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got it twice to my same email.
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+ [-]Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
Yeah, me too, I got twice too to a kind of personal email address, it's even not my work email address. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ [-]thawk1986 • 1 point 11 hours ago
It's legit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mi
grants-cbp-one-app-legal-status-stripped-dhs/
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April 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
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Two groups representing Harvard professors sued the Trump administration on Friday, saying that its threat to cut billions in federal funding for the university violates free speech and other First Amendment rights.
Harvard Professors Sue Trump Administration Over Threat to Federal Funds
The administration is reviewing about $9 billion in federal funding that the university receives.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Two groups representing Harvard professors sued the Trump administration on Friday, saying that its threat to cut billions in federal funding for the university violates free speech and other First Amendment rights.