Becky Lingafelter

Jackhammering Into the Sewer A look through the Epstein files.

New article! On the Epstein files, the cruelty of the release, and the crimes that came before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/jackhammer...

A community organizer’s guide to Signal group chats Key privacy settings and best practices.

“People have a First Amendment right to observe, document, and communicate information about law enforcement activity,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TheVerge.com. “There is nothing about using Signal that changes that.” www.theverge.com/tech/872493...

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.

Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now? This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, what’s at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF

Even though there’s no way to implement mandated age gates in a way that fully protects speech and privacy rights, EFF wants to help you minimize the infringement of your rights as you manage the imposition of age gates. Learn more in our guide to navigating age assurance: eff.org/deeplinks/2...

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show Trump: Anyone Is A Target, Sarah Kendzior

"Trump is a wartime president. The war is on the American people."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=USNT...

Kansas governor defies rule threatening to block singing of 'Lift Every Voice' at MLK gathering • Kansas Reflector Gov. Laura Kelly joins legislators and activists to honor the life and legacy of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with song — even if it meant bending the rules.

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It’s Time to Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security Even Republicans used to know that this was a mistake.

It's time to dismantle the Dept of Homeland Security. slate.com/news-and-pol...

By the numbers: the latest ICE and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US

We've updated our ongoing project to track ICE and CBP data on arrests, detentions and deportations in the US with the latest from immigration enforcement.

See the new numbers here:

"Americans are being pulled into something worse than war. We are being pulled into a global realignment in which our existence is inconvenient. The ruling class doesn't want to spill my blood: they want to kill my soul and hope that I don't notice. They want the same for you, whoever you are."

Sale extended through Wednesday due to the state of the world.

YouTube video by The Daily Show Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show

lol it’s so genuinely fun seeing Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. Even if you know “enshittification” well, this is worth the watch. And love to @eff.org! youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE

How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options.

Our guide unpacks the range of options suitable for various budgets, different experience levels, and different rooms in your home.

The world needs social sovereignty The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodo...

The world needs social sovereignty blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-... "By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay"

Here's a gift link: www.wsj.com/world/russia...

you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.

Stoners Kept the Flame A guest post from Jeremy Braddock on Firesign Theatre, the countercultural comedians who romped through the old "mecca" of Golden Age radio drama, paying tribute while also mocking the past.

Find out how @firesigntheatre.bsky.social are the missing link between radio's creative past and present, thanks to this fantastic guest post by @jbraddock.bsky.social continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/stoners-ke...

I've got the backstory of this @firesigntheatre.bsky.social album from @jbraddock.bsky.social over at my newsletter: continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/stoners-ke...

We'll have a lot more to say about this one tomorrow, but I'm so proud of this update and our tireless all-volunteer timeline-building and sensemaking crews.

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show Jeffrey Epstein, The Difference Between Conspiracy & Conspiracy Theory, Sarah Kendzior

"Every administration had people directly connected to Epstein in top positions. Barr, Blinken, Acosta, etc. You can play 'six degrees of Jeffrey Epstein' but it's like, the guy down the hall. You don't have to look very far."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84j...

The Empty Stage Johnny Cash, loss, and redemption

I wrote about Johnny Cash.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

If you're just now hearing about the hemp ban, I wrote about what it means for farmers like me here: bsky.app/profile/fray...

Home • Kansas Reflector

On the plus side, our website itself is working, so please visit kansasreflector.com to read all the latest. #ksleg (2/2)

A Cloudflare outage is taking down large parts of the internet - X, ChatGPT and more affected, here's what we know Cloudflare issues are affecting many websites

If you’re an @kansasreflector.com newsletter subscriber and your links don’t work this morning, that’s because we’ve been caught up in an widespread outage. #ksleg (1/2)

Donate • Kansas Reflector

Today kicks off Kansas Reflector’s year-end fundraising drive. Between now and December 31, we’re aiming to raise $60,000 to power our nonprofit news into the new year.

If our work has helped you understand Kansas better, consider supporting our work today. kansasreflector.com/donate/?oa_r...

As a hedge fund owner, Scott Bessent avoided over $900K in Medicare taxes by exploiting a major loophole.

As Treasury Secretary, he now oversees the IRS — which has backed away from closing the loophole since Trump took office.

The foxes are guarding the henhouse.

Tim Berners-Lee On Apple’s Browser Engine Ban and Web Apps - Open Web Advocacy

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and HTML, has expressed support for compelling Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS. He also states that having a powerful browser on iOS would "change the dynamic" with respect to web app's viability on mobile.
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Vivaldi 7.7: less friction, more control | Vivaldi Browser This release brings together features that have been carefully refined based on what you’ve told us matters most: seamless access to your tabs across desktops, a unified Start Page that finally…

Vivaldi Desktop 7.7 is out today, for anyone who prefers a browser without planet-burning plagiarism-fulled Generative "A.I." inserting itself between them and the Web. vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi...

The Confluence I’ve been right so long, I’ve been done wrong.

"The Vichy Dems' heel turn is not new. You couldn’t see the heel because it was stepping on your face."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-conflu...

The Celebrities Some of my favorite essays on the two-year anniversary of this newsletter.

New article! Or rather, a round-up of articles I wrote on some of my favorite people. David Lynch, Gunnar Hansen, Georgia O'Keeffe, Bobbie Gentry...

And commentary on my least favorite people, Trump and Epstein...
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