Eric Goldman

Every Trump speech now produces approximately two dozen 30-second clips peppering the feed that each alone should trigger impeachment or 25th amendment proceedings and are indistinguishable from what your worst uncle would produce if he had any idea how to make ai-generated videos

"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries

YouTube video by Universidad de Palermo Charla del CELE UP: "Are content moderation policies protected as expression? "

In September, I spoke on a CELE panel titled "Are content moderation policies protected as expression?" along with Joan Barata & Agustina Del Campo

The video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Ia...

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Jesus Christ. DHS has held this guy in the hospital handcuffed to a bed and under constant guard for over a MONTH without ANY warrant or even ANY steps taken towards putting him into the removal system!

"this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law. [The Trump administration has] made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil & military federal power—to the detriment of this nation"

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

ICE gassed members of the Chicago Police Department sent to protect them from protesters

From Babylon 5, season 5, episode 5.

Sech Turval: "The strongman, or 'bully,' as the humans call it. Essentially a coward whose only skill is convincing others to do what he's afraid to do himself. Notice the lack of technique. No follow-through"

The violated the 4th amendment rights of everybody in that building and zip tied children for this

'Digs us a deeper hole!' GOP senator warns White House may 'destroy' their credibility Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) ripped President Donald Trump's White House on Friday over his targeting of blue states.Budget chief Russ Vought aggressively targeted blue states last year over Trump. The Tru...

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) ripped President Donald Trump's White House on Friday over his targeting of blue states.

Tillis warned that if Vought's office cancels programs "foundational to past compromises, you destroy the credibility of future compromises."

www.rawstory.com/thom-tillis-...

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

Doing massive damage across the economy and then individually "saving" those who kiss up to the leader, doesn't seem like the best way to build a strong economy.

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all.

The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

The Wrap Taxonomy Vexes the Judge in the LinkedIn Insight Tag Cases - Technology & Marketing Law Blog In the LinkedIn “Insight Tag” cases, Judge Davila issued two opinions where he classified UIs into the Wrap Taxonomy–and left a trail of appeallable issues in his wake. L.W.A. v. LinkedIn Corp., 2025 ...

Blog Post: The Wrap Taxonomy Vexes the Judge in the LinkedIn Insight Tag Cases

blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

Reminder:
Homan is on tape taking $50,000 in cash to 'help' with government contracts.

He just sent in 300 armed agents to pull children from their beds at night, zip tie them, separate them from their parents, and put them in vans because he's "going after criminals."

H-1B visa fees, tariffs, a stake in Intel? How Silicon Valley has fared under Trump Trump’s policies have affected Nvidia, AMD and the tech industry in different ways. Some experts worry about the effects on innovation.

Dan’l Lewin called Trump’s arrangement with Nvidia & AMD a “gangster move...we’re at a gangster’s thug-like whim”

calmatters.org/economy/2025...

Alt text: Screenshot of a Fox News Digital article reporting that Apple removed the ICEBlock tracking app from its App Store after the Department of Justice raised safety concerns. The article states DOJ officials, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, asked Apple to take down the app, claiming it endangered law enforcement officers and shielded illegal immigrants. Bondi confirmed the removal in a statement, saying ICEBlock put ICE agents at risk and emphasized DOJ’s commitment to protecting federal officers.

This was done at the direction of Pam Bondi. The US government is now dictating what apps you can have on your phone.

The underlying threat here is if Apple didn't comply, they'd slap billions in tariffs on Apple products.

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

Brendan Carr is running the FCC like Don Carrleone, using "mafioso" tactics (says Ted Cruz) to silence criticism. His threats ("We can do this the easy way or the hard way”) are un-American. They're straight out of 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘧𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘴 (Cruz) or 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘥𝘧𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, as I explain:
thehill.com/opinion/civi...

DHS posts an antisemitic meme about keeping "globalists" out of the US.

One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme.

The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

"2 years into a conservative takeover of New College of Florida, spending has soared & rankings have plummeted...New College spends more than 10 times per student" than the other colleges in the State University System 📉

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Court “Sanctions” SAD Scheme Judge Shopping—Crimpit v. Schedule A Defendants - Technology & Marketing Law Blog Another SAD Scheme plaintiff has been caught judge-shopping. The court’s timeline: March 10, 2025: plaintiff files a SAD Scheme complaint in SDFla, Miami division, that is assigned to Judge Ruiz. Marc...

Blog Post: Court “Sanctions” SAD Scheme Judge Shopping—Crimpit v. Schedule A Defendants

blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/202...

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'?

JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said.

S: Those are quotes

Undercover cop adopted a "nonwhite" alias and bitmoji on Snapchat to do gang-related monitoring. The Massachusetts Supreme Court holds that this could indicate racially motivated selective enforcement, in which case the evidence would be excluded

www.mass.gov/doc/commonwe...

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

the only responsible position for Democrats on any bill that gives Trump more power over anything is no

this goes double for bills that are abjectly terrible on their own merits, like KOSA

Hegseth: The military is for killing people and breaking things. No more rules of engagement.

Trump: I’ll be sending the military into U.S. cities.