SEC Bought Airline Data to Track Global Flights Without a Warrant The dataset covered flights between foreign countries, not just trips touching U.S. soil. The agency that polices securities fraud was running warrantless queries on who flew where. stateofsurveillance.org/news/sec-air...

SEC Bought Airline Data to Track Global Flights Without a Warrant

404 Media obtained SEC documents showing the regulator paid for access to more than a billion airline tickets covering flights between foreign countries.

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'If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future' - Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy and found the perfect government to enable them This isn't a hyperbole. Might not be the extreme of a fascist regime, but if the current course remains, most will be beholden to a wealthy few.

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

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Trump sued the BBC over his own Jan 6 fight like hell speech, and a judge just ruled the finances of 400 companies in his family trust are fair game because he put his brand's reputation on the line. His lawyers tried to retreat by dropping the business damages claim. Too late, the door is open.

Staggering lawsuit backfires as judge threatens to expose Trump's finances: report

One of President Donald Trump's own lawsuits is forcing him to expose his finances, according to new reporting.A federal magistrate judge in Florida ruled on Tuesday that Trump has to turn over detail...

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An association of thousands of FBI agents and other groups are backing a lawsuit filed by three bureau employees who were fired last year for their roles in an investigation into President Donald Trump's efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

3 FBI agents fired over Trump investigation get broad backing in lawsuit against administration

The agents were terminated as part of a broader personnel purge by FBI Director Kash Patel that has targeted employees who investigated Trump or are perceived as being against the administration's int...

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Millions of people rely on anonymous access to lawful online speech. This week, the Senate is looking at four bills that could vastly expand age verification and make anonymous internet use much harder. www.acteff.org/campaign/16...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

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Good morning Brenda & Breakfasters, we're offering spicy options today: An amber Spiced Pear & Cardamom Bellini. A robust orange-brown Caramelized Fig & Orange juice. A dark, complex Chipotle & Cocoa Mole Bloody Mary. And a fine rehydrating broth for our furry friends. Please help yourself! 🫴🏻

Tech fines tracker Big Tech, small consequences "In 2025, Google could pay its nearly $4.24 billion in fines with the free cash flow it generated in three weeks" proton.me/tech-fines-t...

Big Tech fines tracker | Proton

Tech giants like Google, Apple, and others face fines around the world for violating privacy and competition laws. Find annual totals here.

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Article quote "Rather than treating historic recoveries as a simple windfall for state treasuries, enforcers must deploy these funds to protect our communities and build a stronger foundation for our democracy."

Geoffrey Holz 22@geoffrey22db.bsky.social · 5h ago

Settlement Wins Against Big Tech Should Underwrite Digital Resilience Funds fas.org/publication/...

Settlement Wins Against Big Tech Should Underwrite Digital Resilience Funds fas.org/publication/...

Settlement Wins Against Big Tech Should Underwrite Digital Resilience Funds

Protecting the public from the tech industry's predatory business models and the next wave of AI harms is an enormous challenge, but we have the evidence that trying to build a healthier digital cultu...

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Three Women, One Congressman Named Max Miller, and a Party That Looks Away

His own lawyer told the court, he "just can't control himself."

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Articke quote 👇 "It is impossible for an honest person to not be repulsed by Trump’s grotesque adventures in self-enrichment, to his near-total sense of amorality..."

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 6h ago

Is Trump the GOAT of Presidential Corruption? The president’s gluttony for graft is the only truly remarkable thing about his political career. | TNR newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Is Trump the GOAT of Presidential Corruption? The president’s gluttony for graft is the only truly remarkable thing about his political career. | TNR newrepublic.com/article/2139...

Is Trump the GOAT of Presidential Corruption?

The president’s gluttony for graft is the only truly remarkable thing about his political career.

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“Stealth crawlers” are simply automated tools to access and collect public web data without disclosing the user’s identity. Crawlers like these facilitate all kinds of important work that benefits the public, like investigative reporting and EFF’s own Privacy Badger. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to

EFF joined a group of 18 civil society organizations to send a letter encouraging New York Governor Kathy Hochul to Senate Bill 9934A, the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act. The letter

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Developers beware: these ad-tracking libraries will give up your users’ location data by default to third parties. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users’ Location

An EFF investigation identified several advertising software development kits (SDKs) that publicly acknowledge collecting and sharing users’ location by default when embedded in apps granted location

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Their discovery, published in the world leading journal Immunity, centres on activated dendritic cells, a specialised population of immune cells that orchestrate the body’s attack on cancer. Read the full story: www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/s... See the paper: www.cell.com/immunity/ful...

CCR7+ activated dendritic cells are essential for spontaneous and immunotherapy-driven anti-tumor immunity

Dendritic cells (DCs) can acquire distinct functional states. To examine how different DC states orchestrate anti-tumor immunity, Koufaki et al. develop mouse models to label and ablate CCR7+ DCs and ...

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THIS COULD TRANSFORM CANCER TREATMENT 👇 A little‑known group of hard-to-find immune cells could help transform cancer treatment, scientists at the University of Manchester’s Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute ( @cruk-mi.bsky.social) have found.

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Argent@sedahr.bsky.social · 7h ago

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@democracymichelle.bsky.social The White House App Has Huawei Spyware and an ICE Tip Line Your data goes to China, Russia, and ICE, all from the same download. Built by an Ohio WordPress shop for $1.4 million. stateofsurveillance.org/news/white-h...

The White House App Has Huawei Spyware and an ICE Tip Line

Independent security researchers found the official White House app contains a sanctioned Huawei SDK, Russian-founded Elfsight widgets, an ICE anonymous tip line

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Are we at war with Iran today?

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Joy doesn’t always arrive with fireworks. Sometimes it shows up in a quiet cup of coffee, a shared laugh, a blooming flower, or a few peaceful minutes at sunset. Keep your heart open—you never know where you’ll find it today. 💚💛 #Jaye’sMorningLight

Millionaires Taking Orders From Billionaires open.substack.com/pub/nickande...

Millionaires Taking Orders From Billionaires

Last week I drew this cartoon to illustrate a report by the Lone Star Project, which is a Texas-based political research and strategic communications organization.

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Exactly

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Schiff: "He waited until he became president. Why did he wait to bring this $10b lawsuit? He waited so he would have the power of the presidency to leverage the IRS and DOJ to make him more money!"

Only the best.

Oh look, another far-right extremist at the Pentagon

He oversees defense intelligence and security agencies and helps shape military operations.

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60 Minutes Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, & the story never aired. | TNR newrepublic.com/post/213927/...

60 Minutes Quietly Killed Story About Epstein’s Shady Banking Tactics

Senator Ron Wyden sat for an interview with correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi about Jeffrey Epstein’s bank transactions. Alfonsi was fired for other reasons shortly after, and the story never aired.

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NEW: The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. It provides additional insight into the breadth of data that airlines like Delta, American and United were selling without their customers' knowledge, and that law enforcement agencies were tapping into, likely without a warrant.

The SEC Bought Airline Data to Monitor Flights Worldwide

The SEC bought access to worldwide airline ticketing records. Airlines including Delta, United, and American sold the data.

404media.co

Believe it or not, you really can, on the prediction markets.

Sal and Eddie@salandeddie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump buying Greenland? There's $7 million riding on it in the prediction markets. Sal sees a long-shot while Eddie sees a Tom Clancy plot. The market has spoken, and it's weirder than fiction.

"Donald Trump keeps insisting that the economy under his watch is the “greatest” ever, declaring during a trip to Michigan last week that “Michigan is thriving,” and “America is winning like never before.” This is batty."

Words & Phrases

Trump’s ‘thriving economy’ is a disaster.

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