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Don’t Post About Crimes @katerosebee.bsky.social · 14h

Big moment for me, my first-ever publication credit!
The Digital Defense Fund team contributed to this paper on practical data privacy practices for research with abortion seekers, including those facing the most serious threats. Just out in Contraception:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Society of Family Planning Research Practice Support: Digital and data security for abortion research in a post-Dobbs era—A primer for qualitative researchers

Abortion is banned or severely restricted in nearly half of the United States. Research on the impact of these restrictions and abortion care has neve…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Sarah Spain ✨ @sarahspain.com · 1d

Brilliant.

Someone send these to RFK Jr.

h/t www.instagram.com/p/DPrnHZ1kuS...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat

ARLINGTON, VA—Saying the Pentagon had acted swiftly on an insider tip about the vessel having a “big adventure” planned, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. military had car...

theonion.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Mike Katz-Lacabe @mlacabe.bsky.social · 2d

Details from the Oct. 14, 2025, agenda of the Alameda Co. Board of Supervisors:
alamedacounty.granicus.com/DocumentView...

www.acgov.org/board/bos_ca...

www.acgov.org/board/bos_ca...

Mike Katz-Lacabe @mlacabe.bsky.social · 2d

Why is Alameda Co. Sheriff still spending taxpayer money to send people to be trained in the junk science of computer voice stress analysis? Were there no spots left in the phrenology or visual hair comparison classes?

@susien.bsky.social @mgafni.bsky.social

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

65. Sheriff - Sergeant and two Deputy Sheriffs - Computer Voice Stress Analyzer Re-Certification - Reno,
Nevada, 11/17/25 - 11/20/25 ($1,595 each)
Attachment 65

66. Sheriff - Deputy Sheriff - Computer Voice Stress Analyzer Re-Certification - Reno, Nevada,
11/17/25 - 11/20/25 ($1,595)
Attachment 66

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 2d

This is why neither the companies profiting from a technology nor the agencies deploying it can be trusted to tell the full story about how it's being used. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and

www.eff.org

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ваят @denbib.bsky.social · 4d

Apple is planning a special initiative featuring iPhone 17 with Memory Integrity Enforcement. To rapidly make this defense available to those targeted by mercenary spyware, the company will provide a thousand iPhone 17 devices to civil society organizations.

security.apple.com/blog/apple-s...

A major evolution of Apple Security Bounty, with the industry's top awards for the most advanced research - Apple Security Research

Today we’re announcing the next major chapter for Apple Security Bounty, featuring the industry’s highest rewards — up to $2 million and a maximum payout in excess of $5 million — expanded research ca...

security.apple.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

ICE agents that are attacking your neighborhood and kidnapping your neighbors are being housed at his family’s hotel chain

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 5d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Mike Katz-Lacabe @mlacabe.bsky.social · 5d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks:

I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 7d

Here’s video of the incident

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · 10d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 10d

What’s a true shithole country? One that zip-ties children’s hands and puts them in cages. One that sends people to a mega prison in El Salvador without due process. One where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents wear face masks to conceal their identities. And so on...