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Scoop: Threat intelligence reports obtained by WIRED and @propertyofthepeople.org show military and state-run fusion centers are tracking civilian-made ICE encounter maps, while others distribute "threat" alerts about tomorrow's "No Kings" protests.
By me @wired.com (free to read):
By me @wired.com (free to read):
'No Kings' Protests, Citizen-Run ICE Trackers Trigger Intelligence Warnings
Army intelligence analysts are monitoring civilian-made ICE tracking tools, treating them as potential threats, as immigration protests spread nationwide.
www.wired.com
June 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Scoop: Threat intelligence reports obtained by WIRED and @propertyofthepeople.org show military and state-run fusion centers are tracking civilian-made ICE encounter maps, while others distribute "threat" alerts about tomorrow's "No Kings" protests.
By me @wired.com (free to read):
By me @wired.com (free to read):
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Straight up uncut protection racket. Government as Paulie Walnuts.
In order to approve a major ad merger, the FTC is suggesting that the ad firms sign a deal agreeing not to boycott or withhold ad dollars from conservative platforms www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/b...
F.T.C. May Hit a Mega Ad Merger With an Unusual Rule: No Boycotting
www.nytimes.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Straight up uncut protection racket. Government as Paulie Walnuts.
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Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
May 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Things the president of the United States said on meet the press today:
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
He doesn’t know if he has to follow the constitution
He’s fine with a recession
Americans can do with less
Small businesses are just “a couple of little businesses”
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“If a worker committed the kind of incompetence that WorkComposer did, this data might be used to fire them,” EFF’s José told @gizmodo.com of a massive bossware data breach. “WorkComposer, too, should be out of a job.”
An Employee Surveillance Company Leaked Over 21 Million Screenshots Online
The leak highlights how digital workplace surveillance exposes employees to new risks.
gizmodo.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“If a worker committed the kind of incompetence that WorkComposer did, this data might be used to fire them,” EFF’s José told @gizmodo.com of a massive bossware data breach. “WorkComposer, too, should be out of a job.”
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Imagine dedicating your life to advancing human knowledge and saving
lives and you have to explain your work to some giggling script kiddie, VC wannabe.
This is the world they want, where they get to decide what’s true and important. No one else but them.
lives and you have to explain your work to some giggling script kiddie, VC wannabe.
This is the world they want, where they get to decide what’s true and important. No one else but them.
Hearing now that every National Science Foundation grant is having to go through a new “DOGE review”. So existing grants and long term science and technology research having to undergo review by one of Elon’s interns. Huge percentage not passing their muster.
May 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Imagine dedicating your life to advancing human knowledge and saving
lives and you have to explain your work to some giggling script kiddie, VC wannabe.
This is the world they want, where they get to decide what’s true and important. No one else but them.
lives and you have to explain your work to some giggling script kiddie, VC wannabe.
This is the world they want, where they get to decide what’s true and important. No one else but them.
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Despite the narrative that Biden's economy was bad for working people, it was the first time since the 70s when organized labor had leverage in negotiations, and the government took anti-trust regulations seriously.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that tech, media, and finance elites revolted.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that tech, media, and finance elites revolted.
April 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Despite the narrative that Biden's economy was bad for working people, it was the first time since the 70s when organized labor had leverage in negotiations, and the government took anti-trust regulations seriously.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that tech, media, and finance elites revolted.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that tech, media, and finance elites revolted.
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It's not normally discussed this way, but I'd argue the Biden era was a moment of marginal steps towards a more pro-worker, anti-corporate economy.
There was a real backlash amongst capitalist elites (from tech, media, Wall Street, etc) as the result of compression, and decrease in inequality.
There was a real backlash amongst capitalist elites (from tech, media, Wall Street, etc) as the result of compression, and decrease in inequality.
Extremely cool FEDS Note that links consumer sentiment data to actually spending at the respondent level and shows that the disconnect between sentiment and spending post-COVID was extremely unique and driven by inflation perception not real incomes.
Tracking consumer sentiment versus how consumers are doing based on verified retail purchases
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
www.federalreserve.gov
April 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's not normally discussed this way, but I'd argue the Biden era was a moment of marginal steps towards a more pro-worker, anti-corporate economy.
There was a real backlash amongst capitalist elites (from tech, media, Wall Street, etc) as the result of compression, and decrease in inequality.
There was a real backlash amongst capitalist elites (from tech, media, Wall Street, etc) as the result of compression, and decrease in inequality.
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I have a new post on Techdirt about the Privacy Act litigation with respect to DOGE attacking the Social Security Administration, but in it I highlight a court's observation that there's a "probable cause" problem with what DOGE wants to do.
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/25/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/25/e...
Enter The Fourth Amendment, Yet One More Reason DOGE Is Such A Constitutional Nightmare
This post is about two things: that it looks like DOGE has violated an injunction, at least in spirit if not letter, and why it matters. The injunction in question arose in the hybrid case, America…
www.techdirt.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I have a new post on Techdirt about the Privacy Act litigation with respect to DOGE attacking the Social Security Administration, but in it I highlight a court's observation that there's a "probable cause" problem with what DOGE wants to do.
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/25/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/25/e...
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Deep dive into Trump administration's U-turn on mass cancellation of foreign students' immigration records in US. One seems 'terminated' for boarding an out-of-service city bus. Another due to dispute over airline's $100 carry-on bag fee. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
How a Trump administration crackdown on foreign students unraveled
The administration reversed course after dozens of judges ordered it to reinstate legal records for student visa holders.
www.politico.com
April 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Deep dive into Trump administration's U-turn on mass cancellation of foreign students' immigration records in US. One seems 'terminated' for boarding an out-of-service city bus. Another due to dispute over airline's $100 carry-on bag fee. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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If you haven’t already, please consider following @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social — organizations I co-founded to help counter myths and disinformation about the economy and politics.
I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.
I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.
November 12, 2024 at 7:45 PM
If you haven’t already, please consider following @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social — organizations I co-founded to help counter myths and disinformation about the economy and politics.
I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.
I expect our team to be posting here more actively in the coming months.
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Our latest scoop: Engineers who work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been brought on as senior advisers at the Federal Aviation Administration. Some have been onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.”
These Are the SpaceX Engineers Already Working Inside the FAA
SpaceX engineers were said to be simply touring the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday. In fact, some were already being onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment…
wrd.cm
February 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Our latest scoop: Engineers who work for Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been brought on as senior advisers at the Federal Aviation Administration. Some have been onboarded at the agency under a policy designed to increase “employment opportunities for people with disabilities.”
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This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
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"That would include any books that mention slavery, the civil rights movement or the treatment of Native Americans... At one elementary school, that has amounted to hundreds of books in several stacks, filling rolling carts."
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com
At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...
clarksvillenow.com
February 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"That would include any books that mention slavery, the civil rights movement or the treatment of Native Americans... At one elementary school, that has amounted to hundreds of books in several stacks, filling rolling carts."
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Homan on CNN suggests AOC is committing a crime by informing people about their constitutional rights
February 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Homan on CNN suggests AOC is committing a crime by informing people about their constitutional rights
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Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.
February 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Musk has sicced his followers on the WSJ writer who reported on a DOGE staffer’s racist online, history demanding her firing. This is a tactic Silicon Valley’s neoreactionaries have been advocating for years: Pick a reporter, dox and harrass, make an example of them, make everyone else afraid.
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I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts
A staffer for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency whose access to U.S. Treasury payment systems was approved by a federal judge on Thursday has links to a deleted social-media account that...
www.wsj.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I linked DOGE staffer Marko Elez to a deleted X account that advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act, backed a “eugenic immigration policy,” and wrote, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
He just resigned. www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...
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But her emails?
Wrote about the absolute scandal that is the CIA passing names of ALL hires from the past two years in an unclassified email as demanded by the White House.
It looks like they did so because they (again) misunderstood "diversity"
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/b...
Wrote about the absolute scandal that is the CIA passing names of ALL hires from the past two years in an unclassified email as demanded by the White House.
It looks like they did so because they (again) misunderstood "diversity"
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/b...
But Her Emails Redux: Team Trump Makes CIA Send List Of All Recently Hired Employees Over Unclassified Email
Remember when Donald Trump and the MAGA universe wanted to “lock her up!” over Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server for State Department business? Let’s be clear, we f…
www.techdirt.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
But her emails?
Wrote about the absolute scandal that is the CIA passing names of ALL hires from the past two years in an unclassified email as demanded by the White House.
It looks like they did so because they (again) misunderstood "diversity"
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/b...
Wrote about the absolute scandal that is the CIA passing names of ALL hires from the past two years in an unclassified email as demanded by the White House.
It looks like they did so because they (again) misunderstood "diversity"
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/06/b...
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DOGE staffer resigns after reporters uncover racist posts
DOGE staffer resigns after reporters uncover racist posts
‘I was racist before it was cool,’ one post reads.
buff.ly
February 6, 2025 at 10:20 PM
DOGE staffer resigns after reporters uncover racist posts
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"Representatives from Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending, according to two people with knowledge of the DOGE team’s actions." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
U.S. DOGE Service workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Representatives from Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending, according to two people with knowledge of the DOGE team’s actions." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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wild how wired dropped this guy's name and less than 3 days later he gets outed as a weirdo
Staffer at Musk's DOGE resigns after racist social media posts exposed
Elon Musk is running DOGE, or the Department of Government Efficiency, for President Donald Trump, in an effort to slash government spending and staff.
www.cnbc.com
February 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
wild how wired dropped this guy's name and less than 3 days later he gets outed as a weirdo
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Luca Casarini, co-founder of the Mediterranea Saving Humans charity, showed Reuters the spyware alert he had received from WhatsApp on Friday.
Just in case you're wondering what kinds of people governments are snooping on using Paragon Solutions' spyware:
www.reuters.com/world/italia...
Just in case you're wondering what kinds of people governments are snooping on using Paragon Solutions' spyware:
www.reuters.com/world/italia...
Italian sea rescue activist targeted with spyware, according to Meta alert
Meta Platforms warned a well-known Italian migrant rescue activist that he was recently targeted with spyware, according to a screenshot of the alert shared with Reuters, making it the second such case made public in Italy so far.
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Luca Casarini, co-founder of the Mediterranea Saving Humans charity, showed Reuters the spyware alert he had received from WhatsApp on Friday.
Just in case you're wondering what kinds of people governments are snooping on using Paragon Solutions' spyware:
www.reuters.com/world/italia...
Just in case you're wondering what kinds of people governments are snooping on using Paragon Solutions' spyware:
www.reuters.com/world/italia...
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Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...
A 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested cod…
www.techdirt.com
February 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Okay, let's keep going. Got another one today looking at just how absolutely fucking crazy it is that an inexperienced Musk-lackey is apparently pushing untested live code to America's checkbook. Tried to contextualize all of it.
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...
www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/a...
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I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that.
The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct.
What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.
The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct.
What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.
February 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I know all of us who understand what is happening are experiencing mental health challenges because of that.
The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct.
What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.
The only message of comfort I can offer to this community of readers is this: you are correct.
What you think is happening is really happening, and is just as concerning as you think it is.