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How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz).

They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

Mamdani: "$5.4 billion is a very steep mountain to climb ... We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million per year and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations."

but i thought Trump "totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear capabilities a few months ago

LIVE SOON: New: Nancy Guthrie’s family to pay ransom; and Tulsi Gabbard has a new scandal Starting Feb 7 at 8:05 PM EST

New: join me at 8p ET for breaking news on Nancy Guthrie, and, why Tulsi Gabbard has a new scandal: open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Donald Trump and Mar-a-Lago appear over 38,000 times in the Epstein files.

More mentions than Epstein himself.

Want to know something funny? So evidently fatso pants attacked me yesterday, and I had NO CLUE until my Google alerts tonight 36 hours later. THE PRESIDENT… and nobody listens to him anymore. LOL

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

Catholic brothers are making a Kansas City ICE facility possible. Will institutions they support care? Two Kansas City brothers are big Catholic donors. But now that they're also making a vast ICE detention facility possible, will the institutions they support look away?

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Immigrant Whose Skull Was Broken In Eight Places During ICE Arrest Says Beating Was Unprovoked “They started beating me right away when they arrested me,” the Mexican immigrant recounted this week to The Associated Press.

And ICE lied and said he intentionally hit his head against a wall. www.huffpost.com/entry/immigr...

Political prisoners released in Venezuela describe abuses, torture behind bars — Miami Herald Survivors and families describe beatings, isolation, drugging and denial of legal rights in Venezuelan prisons as releases proceed under Delcy Rodríguez's administration.

Miami Herald

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From jump, the moment Jasmine Crockett entered the race, I saw some deeply ugly, coded, and at times outright racist attacks. And not just from the right. A lot of it came from the far left, who suddenly discovered a set of “standards” they never seemed to apply to her opponent.
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Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico are both strong Democrats that we can be proud of. Debate is healthy. Competition is healthy. That’s how primaries are supposed to work.

But what’s happened here hasn’t felt very healthy.
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I’m not a Texan, but it’s hard to ignore what’s happening in the Democratic Senate primary in the state. We’re all clocking it, right?

Let’s start with what should be obvious: whoever wins the Democratic nomination, we Dems should support him or her.
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Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.

Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
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I will be honest: I would not have imagined she’d be this aggressive. Good for her. Good for everyone.

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The Murder of The Washington Post Today’s layoffs are the latest attempt to kill what makes the paper special.

Jeff Bozo🤡👇, killed The Washington Post, by turning into another Trump’s propaganda machine. Bozo🤡 killed a legacy news organization, by becoming Trump’s salad tosser. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Marissa J. Lang @Marissa Jae X.com I was laid off today by The Washington Post. I'm proud of the work I have done at this place — not just the award-winning work, but the stories that spurred change, that were steeped in this beautiful local community. Job tips welcome. DMs open. Or: marissalang(@)gmail(dot)com 9:15 AM • 2/4/26 • 76K Views

The Washington Post Sign in Marissa J. Lang Washington, D.C. Enterprise reporter Marissa J. Lang is an enterprise reporter for The Washington Post focused on high-impact stories in the D.C.region. She previously covered housing and gentrification, zeroing in on the affordable housing crisis, homelessness and the transformation of cities. She joined The Post in 2018 as its lead protest reporter. Her coverage of domestic extremism and the violence that led to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol culminated in her on-the-ground reporting of the insurrection and its aftermath. Marissa was part of the team of journalists recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald ...

Experts said the FBI’s seizing of ballots in Georgia triggered fears of federal interference in this year’s midterm elections:

“It's a dramatic escalation … to expand federal control over our country's historically state-run election infrastructure.”

No Joy in Cooking Secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins recently suggested Americans can get the nutrition they need on $3 meals. Here’s what happened when I tried to follow her plan.

"Three days on the three-dollar meal plan had helped me realize something important: The diet had taken not only a physical toll, but a mental one." @jaredpoland.bsky.social did it so you don't have to:

He's scorching the earth. He knows he's on borrowed time right now, and he sees no reason why the nation should outlive him.

Meanwhile, in Moscow, the champagne is freely flowing.

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.

Wow. Riveting personal letter from a U.S. Attorney about the human, emotional trauma of these young girls.

How would you feel it this was one of your daughters?

Deadly.

As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home.

Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).

“I was told” - by unnamed people. Who, had they PROOF of his being “absolved”, would have broken land-speed records to put the PROOF to the public. But they haven’t. And they don’t look like they’re going to.

Blue wave watch: Democrat flips Trump +17 Texas Senate seat in 32-point swing
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/blue-wave-...

rep omar, liam ramos and his dad, rep castro!

liam and his dad are home!

and someone please get rep. castro a coat!

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio? Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
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