Cody Bloomfield

“Antifa” Protesters Charged With Terrorism for Constitutionally Protected Activity After a protest against ICE, federal prosecutors pursued guilt-by-association charges against two “antifa” protesters.

Guilt-by-association tactics should trouble anyone concerned with protest rights.

Neither of the two protesters facing federal terrorism charges are accused of firing the gunshot that injured a cop during a July 4 protest.
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Huge news that the Cop City RICO charges have fallen apart.

Bail fund organizers shouldn't have to fear prosecution. Neither should legal observers. Protesters should not be held collectively liable for any crime committed.

The dropped charges represent a massive victory of sustained organizing.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Tesla Takedown Protesters Are Hitting Musk Where It Hurts: His Bottom Line As protests spring up at Tesla dealerships across the country, the company’s profits are plunging.

Honored to be featured in this article on the @TeslaTakedown movement by @codyblooms.bsky.social‬ @truthout.org‬.

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Tesla Takedown Protesters Are Hitting Musk Where It Hurts: His Bottom Line As protests spring up at Tesla dealerships across the country, the company’s profits are plunging.

A must read analysis of #TeslaTakedown from @codyblooms.bsky.social at @truthout.org, from the immense progress the movement has made through to new challenges that are coming.

Events are happening all over the country, and internationally. It's a beautiful sign of the power we still have!

Tesla Takedown Protesters Are Hitting Musk Where It Hurts: His Bottom Line As protests spring up at Tesla dealerships across the country, the company’s profits are plunging.

Tesla profits fell 71% last quarter, and Tesla Takedown protesters are jubilant. Right wing activists and misplaced scrutiny from fusion centers has failed to tamp down a movement that turns out week after week.

My latest for Truthout:
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A drawing of a crow in a dress stirring a pot. Caption: I don’t need a recipe for disaster. I usually just eyeball it.

Happy Saturday!

Would've been nice

U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! I refuse to believe the best is behind us, and onward we fight.

Incredible news on TDOV.

The 9th Circuit has denied the government’s request to enforce its transgender military ban.

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If Dems in Congress are serious about wanting access to the National Security Council's records, they should introduce legislation making NSC subject to FOIA.

It's currently not and is a Presidential Records Act entity, which means there's no outside oversight of its records policies.

Just saying…

How to Use Signal Encrypted Messaging The best end-to-end encrypted messaging app has a host of security features. Here are the ones you should care about.

And if you’re new to Signal, or just looking to give yourself a privacy refresher, here’s our comprehensive guide to the encrypted messaging app’s security features: www.wired.com/story/signal...

Encrypted Messaging Is Essential—But It Isn’t Magic As recent events have shown, using an encrypted messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal is no privacy panacea.

Signal is a great privacy tool, but it isn’t magic. And even if you’re not discussing war plans in your group chat, it’s a good idea to know the limits of encryption.

Read our piece on what Signal can—and can’t—do for you here: www.wired.com/story/encryp...

The risk profile for your average activist versus your Hegseths of the world is different. The natsec officials are targets of concerted foreign hacking ops; your average activist or journalist is not.

Signal remains a great tool for surveillance self defense!

'It's so unbelievable': Cyber world stunned over war planners using Signal Regardless of app security, experts say communicating the military plans of the U.S. government in a non-classified space creates a massive security vulnerability.

Here's an article about what's wrong with using Signal for natsec stuff - aside from records law violations, there are vulnerabilities introduced if you have malware on your personal computer or are a likely high value hacking target: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

If you're not the government (bound to intra-governmental oversight and higher security channels), Signal is a pretty darn good tool for discussing sensitive info.

But, if there's a moral of the story here for activists, it should be: your digital security is only as good as your vetting.

every security official ive talked to over the past six weeks say Elez and his cohorts are being closely watched by foreign cyber/intelligence agencies, all waiting for them to do stuff like this

Protest Rights Are at Stake as Pipeline Company Brings Greenpeace to Trial Greenpeace faces a $300 million lawsuit from Energy Transfer Partners, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Greenpeace's trial begins today. Energy Transfer Partners - the Dakota Access Pipeline corporation - is suing Greenpeace for $300M.

The SLAPP targets 1A-protected speech, with dangerous undercurrents of collective liability thrown in.

I wrote for @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/pro...

Oh, good, bullshit jobs and firing threats for our "separate," and "coequal" branch too.

Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct The Trump administration has removed a nationwide database of federal police officers’ misconduct, launched by the Biden administration to keep bad cops from jumping from job to job.

I mentioned this was a possibility after the first report was issued in January.

The database contained info on misconduct for 2018 through 2023 and held 4,790 records.

I’d keep a close eye on DOJ’s Bureau of Justice Statistics website.

Leonard stepping out of a plane with his fist in the air back in his homelands

NDN Crew and family holding signs for Leonard to welcome him home!

Leonard Peltier has made it to North Dakota! The temperatures are bitter cold today, but our hearts and spirits are on FIRE for our Elder and Leksi (Uncle) Leonard. ❤️‍🔥

Read our press release for more about Leonard's welcome home event tomorrow ndnco.cc/lphomepr

Surveillance capitalism comes for us all - including, apparently without flag, natsec employee targets.

Proposed House Bill Would Give Trump Powerful Weapon to Attack his Enemies BTL

Comms Director Cody Bloomfield appeared on WPKN on Monday to discuss the dangers of H.R. 9495. While pro-Palestine groups have long come under fire, this bill marks an escalation designed to kneecap dissent.
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They Protested a Military Base Expansion. So the FBI Investigated Them as Terrorism Suspects. The FBI filed a Stop Camp Grayling protest in a terrorism investigation file — then did physical surveillance on a demonstration.

Hello Bluesky! I'm a protest journalist, and will share out pieces here!

Most recently, I've written about grand jury fishing expeditions against Stop Cop City activists and the FBI's decision to open a domestic terrorism file on a small environmentalist movement.
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