Nick Hidalgo

I can see them wanting to do this to "monitor drivers", but ultimately this is about SURVEILLANCE! Imagine the kind of footage they're getting of the streets, people at their homes, and in their homes, given what the average driver sees in a day! SMH

We at @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @aclupa.org filed this motion to protect people exercising their First Amendment rights to speak out anonymously. These summonses are intolerable abuses of power by DHS.

The court JUST ordered Meta not to reveal anything to DHS until further notice.

If you're going out to protest this weekend and wondering how to protect yourself from digital surveillance, @aclu-norcal.bsky.social has a video for you (featuring, yes, me).

We draw heavily from @eff.org's fantastic Surveillance Self Defense resource, available here: ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

FOIA records reveal Evanston data accessible to out-of-state police making ICE searches - Evanston RoundTable An automated license plate reader (on black pole) in Evanston just east of the North Shore Channel. The camera looks east along Oakton Street. The

In Illinois, the Evanston Police Department shared their automatic license plate readers with at least seven out-of-state agencies for immigration enforcement. evanstonroundtable.com/2025/06/16/f...

Self-inflicted bike injury meme: Product everyone likes / adding AI / "why does everyone hate us now"

New from me: Let’s call AI something else.
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I'm drawing on the excellent new book "The AI Con" by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social - and our recent Techtonic interview (click "pop-up player" at www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... ).

This lawsuit seeks to uphold a basic constitutional principle: when the government wants to pry into people’s homes and private lives, it must get a warrant.

Read more about the ACLU’s case here: www.aclunc.org/our-work/leg...

Awesome! This is the most excited I’ve ever been about Bluebook rules!

…Alright fine, the only time I’ve ever been excited about them.

We just sued Sonoma County for its warrantless drone program. With 700+ flights logged, county agents routinely launch low-altitude drones that invade people’s privacy in and around their homes. This violates the California Constitution, full stop.

Networked surveillance doesn’t see state lines. But the law can, and stories like these are precisely why @aclu-norcal.bsky.social and @eff.org has fought to enforce California’s ban on sharing license plate reader info across state lines. www.eff.org/press/releas...

The Sun-Times' AI content also includes made up experts, quotes, and publications. It's the same story, over and over: a news outlet outsources work to freelancers or third-party firms that use AI, and that content is thrown in with actual human work w/o review.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Right. Sometimes it’s even the SAME companies!

I’m scared and angry at the number of policymakers simultaneously trying to keep kids off screens and social media, but charging headlong into adopting AI

Pritzker: The reckoning is here. And now that this culture of timidity is on display, these same do-nothing Democrats want to blame our losses on the defense of Black people, trans kids, and immigrants, instead of on their own lack of guts and gumption.

FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin on charges of obstruction — after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week. We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest. Thankfully our agents chased down the perp on foot and he’s been in custody since, but the Judge’s obstruction created increased danger to the public. We will have more to share soon. Excellent work @FBIMilwaukee .

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

Highly Recommended: WE WEAVE by Daniel W. Vandever and Deonoveigh Mitchell Designed to help readers develop a critical eye about representations of American Indians in children's and young adult books

Highly Recommended: We Weave, by Vandever and Mitchell -- Diné author and illustrator! americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2025/04/high...

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reading "ICE enforces 400+ federal laws to ensure public safety and national security. Learn more about our mission at ICE.gov" with a graphic reading "if it crosses the U.S. border illegally, it's our job to stop it: people, money, products, ideas"

Ideas aren't illegal.
People aren’t illegal.

And if ICE tries to intimidate people from freely expressing themselves, it's our job to stop it.

A new report shows how CA schools fail to provide Native students with an equitable & inclusive education. The report provides tools for advocates working for change. Change is possible when communities & Tribes work together to reshape schools into spaces that recognize & respect Native students.

The White House quietly released a Friday night EO that would eradicate privacy protections, make enemies lists a lot easier to assemble, and basically set the stage for a police state.

You literally cannot tell this incredibly cool part of American history without centering Native American identity. It is an powerful demonstration of how diversity provided tangible military advantages over an enemy committed to White supremacy.
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Trump is laying off the DOCTORS at the Indian Health Service?! A chronically underfunded agency?! Irresponsible, dangerous, & a complete disregard for the lives of Native people and the government’s treaty and trust responsibilities.

“Shame on them” is inadequate.

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Did Elon's pimple popping incel posse create a backdoor in the Treasury payment system for their criminal hacker friends to get in, or did they directly compromise these accounts themselves? I want every Democrat asking that question in every interview every day.

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

UK officials are demanding access to Apple users’ encrypted account information, regardless of where the users live, in complete disregard of users’ privacy rights www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Imagine thinking these things should not be banned as a matter of corporate policy

In honor of RFK Jr. advancing to a vote, here is the letter I wrote my senators about him. Copy and share if you like. I have a pit in my stomach.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral

www.404media.co/declassified...