"One is almost tempted to measure the degree of totalitarian infection by the extent to which the concerned governments use their sovereign right of denationalization." - Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Ilhan Omar Investigation Aims to Build Case for Stripping Her Citizenship
Authorities have subpoenaed members of the Democratic congresswoman’s family as part of a broader look at their immigration paperwork.
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American WaPo veteran photojournalist Heidi Levine was severely beaten by Israeli “settlers” in the West Bank, along with Palestinians harvesting olives. Story: www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/1... Here she is in the ambulance:
“People don’t understand what kind of data they’re handing over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @theverge.com, because Muse’s user interface is designed to encourage you to overshare. "It’s using dark patterns, and as a result you end up with Muse doing things that people don’t want.”
Friends don’t let friends feed their data to AI agents
You may have consented to sharing with Muse, but all your friends sure didn’t.
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NEW: Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party. WIRED's tracking his America PAC funding efforts here - read @hugolowell.bsky.social + @dell.bsky.social:
Elon Musk Is Almost Single-Handedly Funding the Republican Midterms Push
Elon Musk has assembled a presidential-level field operation this midterm cycle, underscoring the extent to which he has taken over the get-out-the-vote effort for the Republican party.
wired.com
Katie Zacharia sat on the advisory board of an organization that calls for women who have abortions to be executed “in the public square,” and for pro-choice Americans to lose their right to hold public office.
Trump’s New Press Secretary Supports the Death Penalty for Abortion Patients
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I have never once seen a woman in the passenger seat of a cybertruck. #incelmobile
El Paso and New Mexico spent millions on climate plans. Three new data centers could undo them. www.texastribune.org/2026/10/14/d...
Data centers in Texas and New Mexico may upend climate goals - The Texas Tribune
El Paso and New Mexico planned to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Neither plan considered how three new data centers could upend their climate goals.
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Meanwhile, the world's richest and most vocal white supremacist, who was given direct control of the government to shape it in his vision, is doing this.
Musk has spent $366 million to help Republicans retain control of Congress
Elon Musk has spent roughly $366 million on the 2026 midterm elections so far, $276 million just since July, trying to help Republicans retain control of Congress, even as Democrats' chances of retak...
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Whatever you think of Hasan Piker, at the end of the day, dude is a streamer. The coverage a streamer has gotten while we've seen a full-blown push towards white supremacy from the government, complete with dramatic pre-dawn raids and masked men shooting people across the country, is obscene.
As the President is running roughshod over the constitution and creating chaos in communities across the country, a lot of people are going to count keeping the "dangerous" left at bay as their chief contribution to the moment.
The Atlantic publishing their Hasan Piker deep dive the day the President raids Ilhan Omar's home is also one hell of a contrast.
My @cactuscon.com talk with @huertanix.bsky.social, Worst of Cybersecurity Reporting 2025, is live! Watch us roast all the bad takes from last year, and send us your candidates for 2026! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMSN...
CC14: Worst of Cybersecurity Reporting 2025
YouTube video by CactusCon
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Here's a list of every media company we've linked to Brown Brothers Media: futurism.com/artificial-i...
Here's Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills
The little-known company Brown Brothers Media operates a vast media empire. Here are the many sites we've linked to the network.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last mo.NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...
“We have a leader that we believe in. Who has a spine. Who is going to make the right choices – or we’re going to make sure he makes the right choices because he has a movement behind him." Great story about how @juliopenabk.com is going to transform the party chair role in Brooklyn
Meet the new kingmaker who could lead the Brooklyn Democratic Party
What would reform look like, if Julio Peña III takes over for Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn?
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I've wondered many times if it's that people who feel driven by a desire for equity & social justice are more likely to trust what 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 true even in the face of hard data to the contrary. One of the biggest fights I get from folks is "tech addiction must be real because it FEELS real".
As celebs like Kylie Jenner promote Ray-Ban Meta glasses, Lorde made it known at her concert: "Fuck the glasses." 404 Media has reported on how its been used by ICE officers, by people filming secretly at massage parlors and how some have hacked the recording light. www.404media.co/whats-the-di...
Every year, @huertanix.bsky.social and I do a "Worst of Cybersecurity Reporting" talk at @cactuscon.com. We first roasted 2019 articles and keep getting invited back. We work on this talk all year long, discussing candidates in a shared doc, and we'd love your help.
The Democrats' Project 2029 is to force through the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 tech policy agenda
This is a @404media.co appreciation post. What an incredible newsroom. They consistently report stories that are genuinely meaningful and wouldn't have received adequate coverage elsewhere - and they do it so incredibly well. I'm an enormous fan.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...
Extremely useful risk mitigation advice from @freedom.press 👇
Freedom of the Press Foundation@freedom.press · 8mo agoAlready protecting your phone’s data from police confiscation with full disk encryption? Great. If you need to protect people you photographed by redacting their faces, here’s how from our digital security team:
i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 9mo agoIs anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?
