Adam Rose

THUS SPAKE ZARATHUSTRA, Pt. 3; Charles Schultz, Peanuts (United Features Syndicate, 1950).

You can read the whole thing here, but honestly all you need is that intro.

Oh, and the footnote to the intro.

You don't hear this often, but that is a beautiful footnote in this legal filing. 🤣 🤣 🤣

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INTRODUCTION Vedic teachings, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football all hold that events are destined to eternally recur. Litigation, however, should progress linearly toward a denouement—precedent builds on itself, cases move forward, and courts do not have to repeatedly decide the same questions in the same case.

LA Press Club v. Noem is the case where we won a preliminary injunction against DHS (ICE, Border Patrol, etc.) to stop them shooting journalists and innocent protesters.

DHS is appealing, so our lawyers had to write a legally dense 33-page court filing. But I think they had fun with the intro!

Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor' Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former girlfriend and business partner of using a Gmail "backdoor" to spy on her and company employees.

Periodic reminder we should have called it "epostcard" and not "email" ...

Lawsuit: "Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider 'backdoor' to Google servers... the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information."

“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids ...

It's dizzying (in good way!) how many small and independent newsrooms are in Los Angeles. More spinning up as described in article.

Not sugar coating news economics here. Still, these upstarts are SO valuable to civic life and community!

Important we support them ALL when it comes to press rights.

“We don’t have a democracy without an informed public. We don’t have an informed public without a free press,” Rose said.
- @adamrose.bsky.social

LA County must face journalist's challenge to retaliatory investigation, court rules Journalist Maya Lau, co-represented by RCFP attorneys, sued LA County for unlawfully investigating her in retaliation for her reporting about police misconduct.

A federal judge has ruled that LA County must face journalist Maya Lau’s lawsuit, which alleges that sheriff's deputies unlawfully investigated her in retaliation for her reporting about police misconduct.

@rcfp.org attorneys are co-representing Lau in the case.

For context...

LADN initial editorial: www.dailynews.com/2025/11/06/l...

City Attorney op-ed response: www.dailynews.com/2025/11/11/h...

LAPD Chief statement: www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/102...

My simple response to all arguments: If LAPD just followed the law, they wouldn't have a problem.

Larry Wilson: Stop shooting at the press while we do our jobs The LAPD doesn’t like being watched

Lots of new discourse in LA newspaper editorials, City Attorney op-ed, and LAPD press release basically asking:

Can LAPD shoot press?

The answer: NO!!

But all LA City officials do is deflect from the question.

This piece is right on the issues, and right on how great @susanseager.bsky.social is!

This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline. After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...

$300,000

That's it. Nine tsunami-tracking stations going offline over a $300,000 funding cut.

That's like 1.5 ICE agents/year.

Probably less than it cost just to fix potholes caused by Trump's birthday parade.

What are we doing here?

An American soldier stands tall, looking over his shoulder and smiling.

I often think about this photo, not just on Veterans Day. This is my grandfather, an American GI standing triumphant at the end of WWII in Germany -- after defeating his own father's homeland. Look at that smile. Nobody would question his loyalty to the United States. Bill was born in the Bronx, loved baseball, and retired after 40 years with the Army and Department of Defense. He escaped from frigid ocean waters when a Nazi U-boat sank his ship. Maybe the one who pulled the trigger was one of his distant relatives. Bill dedicated his life to this country, not because of a sense of the past but a sense of the future. That's the American Dream to me. We're all immigrants when you go back far enough. We somehow wound up in this crazy experiment in democracy, and in order for it to thrive we must embrace others no matter where they or their families came from. That's how we build loyalty to something greater. Our nation's leaders must take that vision into account when they make decisions about our military, whether it's where we send them or how we take care of them when they come home. Happy Veterans Day to all who serve a future that makes us smile.

Happy Veterans Day! 🇺🇸

This is Bill from the Bronx. All-American boy savoring victory in Germany. Look at that smile!

Bill's dad was from Germany. Didn't matter. Immigrant families are loyal to countries that are loyal back.

I learned that from Bill, my grandfather.

Here's what today means to me:

Furor among Democrats about members caving on the shutdown make me wonder if there's momentum for a new political party.

Also ... didn't Elon Musk say he'd formed a new political party this summer? World's richest person couldn't pull it off?

What's it gonna' take to break this duopoly?

By Reid J. Epstein Reid J. Epstein has two mostly agreeable children. Nov. 10, 2025 Updated 6:22 p.m. ET It’s not great when your defiant kid says you are wrong. It’s a little bit worse when you are in the United States Senate and your defiant kid is running for Congress. Stefany Shaheen is running for a House seat in New Hampshire on a health care platform and with a boost from her family name and the legacy of her mother, Jeanne Shaheen, the state’s former governor and now its senior senator. So when the elder Ms. Shaheen negotiated to move toward ending the government shutdown without a Republican agreement to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that Democrats have demanded, the younger Ms. Shaheen had a problem.

Pretty good lede, made much funnier by the author's mini-bio. Touché.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

I've found both have badly unresponsive press offices, FWIW.

Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester

This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.

Probably not the level of academic rigor you mean, but this is a good start at storytelling for a general interest audience curious about the business and economic history/implications. bsky.app/profile/adam...

YouTube video by Johnny Harris Why the US is deporting so many people

Bluesky isn't ideal for longform, but if you're concerned about ICE and what's happening to immigrants this is 45 mins well spent. Puts a lot in context.

At least add to your YouTube watch later.

This is where Johnny Harris shines at his craft, explanatory journalism for a YouTube generation.

Close quarters in vehicle miiiiight sometimes be a reason, but argument goes out window literally and figuratively when he holds gun so far out of car someone could easily knock it out of his hand.

Everything about this screams, “My boss issued me a killing device without telling me how to use it.”

Probably a dozen self-evident terrible things here, but seemingly small one can’t be ignored:

Border Patrol agent using side grip on firearm suggests technical incompetence.

Been frowned upon 100+ years. Limited exceptions to rule, but this doesn’t look like one of them.

The neat things about cryptography is that it doesn't just live in the minds of math super geniuses.

You don't have to "get" any of the theoretical cryptography to enjoy the real-world spy vs. spy stuff of applied cryptography. Sometimes it's a simple human "oops!" moment. 🕵️ 🔎

A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬

DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.

Be sure to also note @adamrose.bsky.social's assessment of why declaring an unlawful assembly to shut down a bar DURING THE FINAL GAME OF THE WORLD SERIES sets a chilling precedent: “Using unlawful assembly this way is like pre-crime or thought-crime enforcement"

I'd like one quote, please, extra spicy. 🌶️🌶️🌶️

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FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities

ICE is tearing apart families, placing people in secretive detention centers beyond the reach of congressional oversight, that's why @freedom.press is suing the agency to obtain emails it received Congress.

"ICE is the most lawless agency in government," FPF attorney @kevinok.bsky.social says.

There, I fixed it.

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There, I fixed it.

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Inside Adelanto: A Visit To Adelanto ICE Processing Facility ADELANTO — Visitors pass through layers of security and silence to see those inside. Many haven’t seen their loved ones since they were detained by immigration authorities in Southern Califor…

NEW for the Ten Four:

The Adelanto ICE Processing Center and its conditions inside are the subject of dozens of concerning stories, but rarely is there an opportunity to actually talk to those inside the facility. I was able to get inside (kind of).

latenfour.com/2025/11/06/i...

Los Angeles city attorney to press: drop dead Why does the city attorney hate the press so much she literally wants ink-stained wretches — and their contemporary multi-media cousins — shot by the police?

“Now the city attorney says in a leaked memo the real problem is that ‘anyone can claim they are a Journalist.’ Fine. Maybe those anyones shouldn’t get shot in the head, either.”

Perfect editorial. No notes.

The problem is not press unable to identify themselves properly. The problem is LAPD shooting us with kinetic munitions and interfering with our work. Ysabel Jurado and Eunisses Hernandez would have us meet LAPD on LAPD’s terms when LAPD is the one breaking the law and shooting people.

This is an attempt to shift the blame from LAPD to the journalists and to let LAPD gatekeep who gets to be considered a real journalist and who gets shot.

Once again, it is not up to the police department to determine who is and isn’t press, nor do I have any faith that possessing an LAPD press pass will actually keep journalists safe. In fact, it’s likely to do the opposite, and drive a wedge between LAPD sanctioned “press” and indies w/out the pass