Why ICE Is Spying on U.S. Citizens’ Medical Data ICE’s misuse of medical claims data not only threatens undocumented migrants but also, by eroding trust in the public health system, endangers all Americans.

A new report shows that ICE is using a vast insurance claims database as a back door into confidential medical records to hunt for people to deport. Not only does this threaten undocumented immigrants, but it also erodes trust in the health system and endangers the health of all Americans.

Home Depot and Lowe's Share Data From Hundreds of AI Cameras With Cops Home improvement stores are finding ways to share data from their Flock license plate reader cameras with law enforcement, according to public records.

First, @eff.org filed a blockbuster FOIA request that uncovered how Home Depot and Lowe's are cooperating with cops.

Then, @404media.bsky.social made the story free thanks to their commitment to dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting.

Read the whole story below.

Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

Nice historical revisionism. After many years of effort, Virginia voters dealt with gerrymandering as best it could be. The amendment worked; the current map is fine. Disregarding the voters and empowering the legislature to gerrymander Virginia again is not a solution to bad actors elsewhere.

From an Ofcom guidance: Business disruption measures 9.4 9.5 9.6 Business disruption measures are orders made by a court on an application from Ofcom. They apply to third parties which are able to disrupt the provision of the regulated service and thereby reduce the risk of harm to UK citizens and consumers. The third party need not be an Ofcom regulated entity and may not have had any previous dealings with Ofcom. The Act provides for four types of business disruption measure: a) a service restriction order; b) an interim service restriction order; c) an access restriction order; and d) an interim access restriction order. A service restriction order is an order applying to one or more providers of 'ancillary services' to a non-compliant regulated service. An ancillary service is a service that facilitates the provision of the regulated service (or part of it) (for example, payment processing services) or one that displays or promotes content in relation to the regulated service (for example an ad server). 110 The criteria with which a court must be satisfied to grant an application for an order are set out in section 144(3) and (4) of the Act and include that the court must be satisfied that the service provider has failed and is continuing to fail with an enforceable requirement or with a Technology Notice under section 121(1) of the Act. 111 A service restriction order requires the ancillary service against which an order is obtained to take steps aimed at disrupting the relevant regulated service in the UK...

Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you.

When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.

Absolutely terrifying.

www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

Looks like Kennedy is continuing his campaign to cut vaccine access by stealth by targeting Aluminium salts- these are adjuvants which are added to some vaccines to stimulate the immune system-quick explainer 🧪 #ImmunoSky 🧵

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

The latest Triad from @jvl.bsky.social only @thebulwark.com:
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

One thing I cannot emphasize enough in these benighted times is that NO ONE who is not a US Citizen should be crossing the US Border in either direction unless they have no other choice.

It's immensely unsafe.

NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump.

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The Rule of Law Is Dead in the US The rule of law presupposes that there are rules that provide a consistent, repeatable, and knowable set of outcomes. That’s no longer the case.

The Rule of Law is officially dead in the US. How do we know? Here, @elienyc.bsky.social explains what the rule of law actually means and how we know it’s stopped functioning.

Performative Judicial Complaint? Meet Freedom Of Information Act. Cough it up, Chad!

Out here stirring up more trouble @lizdye.bsky.social @andrewtorrez.bsky.social

Some observations on the agreement Brown struck with the administration. It is nine pages if anyone wants to read it. www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

This are some things that jumped out to me as an alum and a lawyer. It's not a complete overview. 1/

This Tuckahoe home won a $1.26 billion contract for an ICE detention center. The owner isn't talking. The company’s website is dated and largely accessible only via login.

A Richmond-based company, with no HQ, no public website, and 39 employees, got a $1.3 billion contract to build a massive detention center in Texas for ICE. This contract is 442x larger than any previous contract they have received. #RVA

Bill text and info: www.ncleg.gov/BillLookup/2...

Mark Graber on the History and Original Meaning of the Militia Act of 1903 Graber shows that the act used by Trump to federalize the California National Guard does not allow the president to take this step in response to low-level violence and disorder.

From @ilyasomin.bsky.social: Trump used the Militia Act of 1903 to federalize the California National Guard, but in a new article @mgraber1.bsky.social shows this law's history and original meaning does not empower a president to take such a step in response to low-level violence and disorder.

The British trade deal wasn't what they said it was, the Vietnamese are still yet to confirm Trump's announcement, and the Japanese say they're not signing a binding agreement. The White House has released the text of ZERO (0) deals, and maybe it's all just social media posts all the way down.

5 questions for Danielle Citron

Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

It's really hard to tell at this point but I think years from now this will be one of the most destructive things that RFK Jr did at HHS.

Mammograms, FIT tests and colonoscopies, diabetes, blood pressure, depression screens. All of these are as widely available as they are because of USPSTF.

Is the woman under the surfboard Sandra Day O'Connor?

So much WTF

Hegseth cut & pasted attack plans from an email marked “SECRET” & posted it on an unsecured platform in a chat with a journalist in it.

In DoD, SECRET denotes information “classified at a level at which unauthorized disclosure could be expected to cause serious damage to national security”

JFC.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

“What America is witnessing is a remaking of the American presidency into something closer to a dictatorship,” Peter M. Shane argues. That project is the work of Chief Justice John Roberts: https://theatln.tc/pEhtlPPM

The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place Pete Hegseth seems to be on a mission to erase women from the top ranks of the U.S. armed forces.

Pete Hegseth continues his purge of women from U.S. military leadership, @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily.

Those "rogue judges" were acting under an express grant of authority provided by Congress—one explicitly permitted by Article II of the Constitution, which says Congress can give the judiciary power to appoint inferior officers.

The control and #censorship of Visa, Mastercard, and payment processors is a cheat code to getting around what's left of the rule of law and a free society.

Any chance of posting the recipe?

DOGE Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting With Lobbyists A key operative from DOGE initiated plans to potentially kill Direct File, the free tax filing tool developed by the IRS, after offering assurances it would be spared from cuts.

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists.
www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

Stunning charts show how disproportionately the Roberts Court favors the Trump regime.

"This pattern exemplifies what scholars call 'autocratic legalism'—the systematic weaponization of legal institutions to consolidate power while maintaining the appearance of legal process."

He lost his wallet, which had his green card, and made an appointment in Philly to replace it. There he was handcuffed & taken away with no explanation. “His wife, who speaks little English, was left behind and kept in the building for 10 hours until she was released to her granddaughter.” He’s 82.