Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying.
Flock’s CEO Is Lying to Cops About 404 Media's Reporting on Abortion Case
Garrett Langley, Flock’s CEO, told cops that a 404 Media story about cops using Flock to track someone who self-administered an abortion was "entirely false." He's lying.
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Son on the USS Lincoln, father in ICE detention. The son suffering during a senseless war abroad, the father suffering during a sadistic war on ourselves. www.atfkw.com/p/navy-sailo...
Navy Sailor’s Father Detained in Key West Immigration Operation
Joshua Aviles Castillo was completing his ninth month aboard the embattled USS Abraham Lincoln when he learned that federal immigration authorities had detained his father.
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Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety aboard the West Virginia. He then hopped on a AA gun and despite no training at all shot down at least one plane despite being under constant attack. He was later killed action aboard the USS Liscome Bay during Operation Galvanic
CNN@cnn.com · 6d agoThe US Navy is working to rename an aircraft carrier under construction that was set to honor a Black sailor hailed for his heroic actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, and there have been internal conversations about renaming it to honor President Trump, sources say. https://cnn.it/4hFq6a6
NEW: I can't get this story out of my head. And I know I'm not alone. The attempt to cover up the complicity of the UK media's role in Jason Arday's death may be its sickest move yet. broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...
The Jason Arday Reckoning
The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet
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Horrific account of settler violence in the West Bank www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/w...
Settler Siege of Palestinian Homes Highlights Growing West Bank Chaos
Two families have been trapped by settlers for days, casting a spotlight on the army’s struggle to curtail settler violence and protect Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank.
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To be clear: This is funding for what the State Department calls "civilizational allies" - MAGA-aligned people and parties in Europe, who share their disdain for human rights and their preference for ethnically pure societies and a totally unregulated internet
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · last mo.The State Department has just put out a tender, offering funding of up to $3 million to European organizations who want to fight against "Supra-national institutions" - presumably the EU - and governments who seek to regulate the internet and end Western Civilization. www.state.gov/drl-nofo-dev...
The FBI had to create training videos instructing agents on how to “use an Excel spreadsheet to log Trump’s name, the page number, and the document.” Even still, Trump was mentioned more than 38,000 times in the first release of the Epstein files. trib.al/fODNjQo
New Mexico’s Epstein investigation is being obstructed by Trump’s DOJ, officials claim
New Mexico officials say Trump’s DOJ is obstructing state’s Epstein investigation
Justice Department is causing ‘real and escalating harm’ to state’s investigation, top official says
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“These attempts to evade congressional oversight are unacceptable. The public deserves clear and consistent answers about ICE’s surveillance activities and its infringement of Americans’ civil liberties.”
ICE finds a new way to dodge Congress about a secret protester database
New letters show ICE shifting its rhetoric—and Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Max Frost demanding answers.
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Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...
Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICE
She believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.
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🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...
Revealed: Nigel Farage is breaking British company law
Farage’s personal company has almost £2m in cash but has not filed key documents
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History Professor Marci Shore explains how one of the most profound issues facing Russia today is a failure to recognize the subjectivity of the perpetrators of Stalinist terror, instead interpreting the evils of Russia's past as a metaphysical act of nature.
NEW: Meta is testing face-recognition software built by a company that primarily sells surveillance tools to police departments and the US military, as the company considers whether and how to deploy face-recognition tech in its smart glasses:
Meta Tapped a Pentagon Supplier to Prototype Face Recognition for Its Glasses
Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app.
wired.com
This morning scrolling Bluesky, there is nothing at all in my feed about Putin’s barbaric attack on the Ukraine’s holiest site, the UNESCO protected Lavra so I’m posting this here.
How interesting that Meta called @wired.com "dishonest" and then (quietly) removed the face-recognition system it had previously (also quietly) integrated into an app downloaded onto 50 million phones. Dishonest!
Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report
The code WIRED identified is gone from the latest version of Meta AI, the companion app for the company’s smart glasses. Meta won’t say why or whether it’s coming back.
wired.com
Trump just named Bill Pulte the Acting Director of National Intelligence to replace Tulsi Gabbard. Pulte is a real estate developer whose grandfather is in the Epstein files for facilitating the laundering of Russian money to Donald Trump through a real estate deal apparently brokered by Epstein.
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10mo agoLate billionaire developer William Pulte referred to here is the grandfather of Bill Pulte. Bill Pulte is director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) and chair of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under Trump. He is behind the mortgage fraud charges against Trump adversaries like Letitia James.
"Gentlemen, you can't report in here! This is the press office!"
Scott Nover@scottnover.bsky.social · 3mo agoSCOOP: The Pentagon has banned journalists from its press office, designating it a classified space. The change creates a new barrier between journalists and the public affairs officers who have traditionally answered their questions. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
“This is censorship...This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday I ‘interviewed’ Facebook whistleblower on stage at Hay…& she couldn’t say a word. Facebook took legal action to prevent her speaking. What pathetic, pointless vindictiveness. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Hitchens fails to address that Phillips is a pro-Russian propagandist, literally partied with occupying forces in Ukraine, denied war crimes, and filmed tortured POWs, and proudly received medals from Russian backed military groups for his efforts.
Daily Mail@dailymail.co.uk · 3mo agoThis man proves the UK isn't free - exiled and made destitute for views the government didn't like, while no one protests. It's ludicrous, says PETER HITCHENS trib.al/ZAYECAv
There’s something about this, looking at Trump’s sneer that now no one is watching Colbert, the realization that there are a lot of people in power who don’t understand the pleasure of doing something because it’s something you enjoy doing and do well, as opposed to getting more power.
Dave Jorgenson@davejorgenson.bsky.social · 3mo agoColbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...
NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/
“A Justice Department that is willing to stretch both the facts and the law to mislead a grand jury into returning an indictment could literally charge any American with a crime"
DOJ Enters a New, Even More Aggressive Phase
The department is growing bolder yet, cutting legal corners in service of getting President Trump the headlines—and revenge—he wants.
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Reminds me of JM Berger's definition of extremism as the belief that an in-group's success or survival is inseparable from the need for hostile action against an out-group.
James O'Malley@jamesomalley.co.uk · 4mo agoThis is grotesque on multiple levels.
Every single time a conflict breaks out that gets major news coverage, you get a bunch of morons beaming snuff films into their eyeballs, reposting it uncensored onto social media, and telling themselves they're doing "OSINT"
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · 4mo agoI think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.
🇺🇦🇮🇱 Zelensky: In all normal countries, the acquisition of stolen goods is an act that entails legal liability. This applies, in particular, to grain stolen by Russia. Another ship with such grain has arrived at an Israeli port and is preparing to be unloaded.
Hungarian oligarchs begin fleeing the country, transferring assets, in anticipation of corruption investigations giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Hungary’s business elite pivots away from Viktor Orbán
Several loyalists have moved overseas while others vow to form ‘constructive co-operation’ with incoming premier
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