Jake Laperruque

Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.

Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI models including ChatGPT, Gemini and Meta’s AI by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%, NewsGuard found. None of the companies responded to NewsGuard’s request for a comment at the time.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Zohran Mamdani Just Inherited the NYPD Surveillance State In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations.

In addition to affordability, New York City’s mayor-elect will be forced to reckon with the NYPD’s sweeping mass surveillance operations.

Genuinely fascinating stuff

White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.

On the patently unlawful boat strikes

It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes.

WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals:

1) CIA General Counsel
2) NSC Legal Adviser
3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer
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Judge blocks IRS from sharing data with DHS for immigration enforcement A federal judge blocked the Internal Revenue Service from sharing data with immigration enforcement officials, ruling that the tax agency violated federal law and individual rights in its support for ...

🚨 NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the IRS from sharing confidential taxpayer data w/ immigration enforcement officials

“If this risk were to materialize, then Plaintiffs’ members would be subject to grave harm, including, but not limited to, illegal removal from the United States,” judge writes.

3) Law requires requested data to be relevant to an investigation/case; the court found the *possibility* that last known address might be at issue in pending immigration case is not a sufficient reason to make the disclosure relevant

2) There was no indication that IRS checked whether ICE already had taxpayer addresses, which was a prerequisite for making requests

Several reasons court found this mass data sharing was illegal:

1) Law requires request to be from an individual overseeing an investigation/case data is to be used for, and clesrly no one ICE official was personally and directly engaged in 47000 investigations (which is what the govt claimed)

Order on Motion for Preliminary Injunction AND Order on Motion to Dismiss AND Order on Motion to Stay – #53 in CENTER FOR TAXPAYER RIGHTS v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (D.D.C., 1:25-cv-00457) – CourtLis... ORDER granting Plaintiffs' 30 Motion for Stay, or in the alternative for Preliminary Injunction, granting in part and denying in part Defendants' 26 Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' Amended Complaint, an...

Wow, some big news on immigration surveillance:
Federal court rules that IRS mass sharing of data (47,000 records) with DHS was unlawful and violated the Internal Revenue Code

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

Chart showing detention population, among those arrested in the interior, by criminal record, May 2019 through present. There are three lines shown. (1) Prior conviction (which rises from around 9,000 in January 2025 to just over 16,000 in November 2025), (2) Pending criminal charges (which rises from around 5,000 to 15,000), and (3) No criminal record (which rises from around 1,000 to 21,000).

NEW: ICE has finally released post-shutdown detention data. The latest data reveals that a full 40%(!) of people arrested in the interior and held in ICE detention have no criminal record; no criminal charges or prior convictions. That is up from just 4% when Trump took office.

What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features This report examines the gap between child safety policy proposals for social media and how teens and parents — the people these policies are meant to protect — experience and view them. While the…

New, killer, work from CDT, as usual: "What Kids and Parents Want: Policy Insights for Social Media Safety Features" cdt.org/insights/wha...

China does have a pervasive “collect it all” mentality when it comes to surveilling America. But that comes in the form of broad hacking operations mail and systematic collection like Salt Typhoon

“Sometimes, the given reason for a Flock search was “protest.” In others it was “No Kings.””

DOJ is now recruiting for immigration judges by calling them “deportation judges.”

That’s seems really bad.

From the Trump administration's filing at the Supreme Court:

Firefox too!

Three things:

1) No longer classifying swastikas, nooses, and the Confederate flag as hate symbols is quite bad, and in line with many other actions from this admin.

2) Congrats to the cancel culture moral panickers.

3) I don't think a good political response to this is to shrug at Nazi tattoos.

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

"Siri, create a claim of reasonable suspicion to justify a car stop"

Border Patrol is using AI to generate alerts of "suspicious" driving patterns and using them as the basis for stops. Raises huge concerns regarding automation bias and AI reliability
apnews.com/article/immi...

Lindsey Graham is outraged about federal surveillance powers that Lindsey Graham helped create and expand The government can look at your phone records whenever it wants, but it's a different story when we're talking about Graham's metadata.

Lindsey Graham Is Outraged About Federal Surveillance Powers That Lindsey Graham Helped Create and Expand
reason.com/2025/11/19/l...

Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)

The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot?

Been fascinated by the idea of a Great Meme Reset ever since I first heard about it. Originally, I was trying to parse how it would be possible to rewind the internet. Then I really thought about what it could mean and why people might want to turn back time...

www.wired.com/story/the-gr...

State Dept's FTO Designations Undermine Claims of "Antifa" Threat Leading counter-extremism expert unpacks the administration's claimed designation of "Antifa Groups"

Excellent Fact Check

On State Department's designation of "Antifa Groups" as foreign terrorist organizations

3/4 have no apparent "Antifa" anything
4/4 have no apparent statutorily required threat to US national security

by counter-extremism expert @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social

IRS Accessed Massive Database of Americans Flights Without a Warrant A bipartisan letter reveals the IRS searched a database of hundreds of millions of travel records without first conducting a legal review. Airlines like Delta, United, American, and Southwest are sell...

New from 404 Media: IRS accessed a massive database of Americans flights without a warrant. Shows where and when someone flew, the credit card used. Hundreds of millions records; the airlines sell this data to the government through a broker they own

www.404media.co/irs-accessed...

Social Security Data Is Openly Being Shared With DHS to Target Immigrants For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now it’s official.

“It seems that DHS was dead set on creating a national citizenship data bank, and for whatever reason, they determined that the Social Security Administration had the largest set of citizenship data across any agency in the government,”

www.wired.com/story/social...

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.

By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Big day for one of my underrated favorite GIFs

Yup. There are a LOT of mistaken assumptions about the 100 mile border zone and what it allows border patrol/the government generally to do.

On the whole I'd argue a range of DHS surveillance tech/tools and Kavanaugh Stops provide much more worrisome powers and potential for abuse