Edward Hasbrouck

New scheme to take effect Dec. 2026 will mandate gender witch-hunting by Selective service System to identify sex *as assigned at birth* of all U.S. citizens and residents ages 18-25: hasbrouck.org/draft/automa...

Advice about Selective Service registration:
I don’t want to be drafted. What should I do?

hasbrouck.org/draft/advice/

These letters from the SSS are empty threats: hasbrouck.org/draft/advice...

But this year the SSS is preparing a new scheme to try to step up readiness to activate a draft:

hasbrouck.org/draft/automa...

Selective Service System is trying to step up preparedness for a military draft: hasbrouck.org/draft/automa...

Show ID or pay a fee to attend a “public” meeting?

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#MSP #OpenMeetingLaw

"Draft Counseling 101" video

"Draft Counselor Training 101" video now available:

In face of government propaganda and threats (intimidating but often unenforceable), draft counselors can help potential draftees think through their goals, understand options, and evaluate risks, pros, and cons.

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Winter Olympic athletes are rightfully taking COVID-19 precautions - The Sick Times Despite a lack of COVID-19 precautions implemented by the 2026 Winter Olympics organizers in Italy, some athletes, teams, and their loved ones are protecting themselves from airborne pathogens by mask...

The risks of SARS-CoV-2 and other airborne pathogens can be severe, but the media continues to stigmatize Olympians taking precautions as "worried" and "extreme". We know #LongCOVID can affect anyone, even elite athletes.

In the @thesicktimes.org today 😷🦠

thesicktimes.org/2026/02/10/w...

Food Notes from an American Prison | Eat This Podcast Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:48 — 26.5MB)

Food Notes from an American Prison

Edward Hasbrouck reflects on his time in a federal penitentiary, where the kinds of cooking Italian maximum security inmates get up to would have been completely unthinkable.

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#food #prison #podcasts

There's an obscure federal law that might nullify the TSA's $45 no-ID fee A man was acquitted for flying without ID — a TSA officer testified there's no law against it — but he owed $34K in legal fees.

boingboing.net/2026/02/04/t...

Urgent message for Canadians:

Should visitor to US have to use govt app that collects data using all of phone’s sensors, connects unknown data sources, and uses secret algorithms to “auto-deny” some ESTA applications?

We say no — and so does US law:

papersplease.org/wp/2026/02/0...

(Deadline for comments to CBP is Mon. Feb 9)

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Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

"The TSA’s New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID is Illegal," Says Regulatory… The law, as written, is clear: You have the right to fly without ID, without paying a $45 fee, and without answering questions, says a career travel…

"The TSA’s New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID is Illegal.”

You actually have the right to fly without ID, without paying a $45 fee, and without answering questions, says a career travel industry expert.

www.frommers.com/tips/airfare...

Labor Education Conference: AI, Labor, and the Future of LA and the World

See you this Saturday in L.A.:

Why? "Requests for ID [to fly] began in 1996. As described by Clinton’s counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, this idea was conceived overnight as a way to show that government was “doing something” in response to a plane crash that turned out to have been caused by faulty fuel tank not terrorism."

"The TSA’s New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID is Illegal", Says Regulatory… The law, as written, is clear: You have the right to fly without ID, without paying a $45 fee, and without answering questions, says a career travel…

"This may come as a surprise, but no U.S. law requires you to show ID to get on a domestic flight—or pay the new $45 #TSA fee. It doesn’t matter if you have #REALID or not. The law doesn’t mandate any ID...."

My lead article today on Frommers.com:

www.frommers.com/tips/airfare...

ICYMI: The US is currently holding three times as many people in immigrant detention as were detained in the Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939 — six years into the Third Reich, and just before the start of World War II.

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.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...

TSA Confirm.ID: TSA plans to charge air travelers without ID or without REAL-ID $3B a year in extra fees for extra questioning – Papers, Please! Since scare tactics haven’t gotten everyone in the U.S. to sign up for REAL-ID or show ID whenever they fly, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is turning to extortion through the threat of a new $45 fee to fly without “acceptable” ID.

Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...

TSA Confirm.ID: TSA plans to charge air travelers without ID or without REAL-ID $3B a year in extra fees for extra questioning – Papers, Please! Since scare tactics haven’t gotten everyone in the U.S. to sign up for REAL-ID or show ID whenever they fly, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is turning to extortion through the threat of a new $45 fee to fly without “acceptable” ID.

Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...

TSA Confirm.ID: TSA plans to charge air travelers without ID or without REAL-ID $3B a year in extra fees for extra questioning – Papers, Please! Since scare tactics haven’t gotten everyone in the U.S. to sign up for REAL-ID or show ID whenever they fly, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is turning to extortion through the threat of a new $45 fee to fly without “acceptable” ID.

Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...

TSA Confirm.ID: TSA plans to charge air travelers without ID or without REAL-ID $3B a year in extra fees for extra questioning – Papers, Please! Since scare tactics haven’t gotten everyone in the U.S. to sign up for REAL-ID or show ID whenever they fly, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is turning to extortion through the threat of a new $45 fee to fly without “acceptable” ID.

Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...

TSA Confirm.ID: TSA plans to charge air travelers without ID or without REAL-ID $3B a year in extra fees for extra questioning – Papers, Please! Since scare tactics haven’t gotten everyone in the U.S. to sign up for REAL-ID or show ID whenever they fly, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is turning to extortion through the threat of a new $45 fee to fly without “acceptable” ID.

Note that there is no legal basis whatsoever for this fee or the demand to show any ID to fly (much less REAL-ID): papersplease.org/wp/2025/12/0...

Commenting on police who attack you even when you "comply":

The UK's Independent gives the film one star out of five, saying: "[The] First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda ... Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving - with the country on the verge of an irreparable schism - the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau, or Hermann Göring's staring up at his looted Monet." The publication continued: "The "film" is part propaganda, sure, and part sop to Big Tech companies who require constant regulatory approval for financial manoeuvrings. Even then, it is bad. It will exist as a striking artefact - like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will - of a time when Americans willingly subordinated themselves to a political and economic oligopoly."

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Terrible headline. ICE didn't "expand" their power (only a law could do that. ICE is "claiming expanded power". Or better yet "announcing they will break the law".

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

Best gas masks “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

TSA plans illegal ID and fee shakedown starting Sunday Feb 1: 2026:

What will happen if you try to fly without ID or w/out REAL-ID, and w/out paying $45 fee or answering more questions? Will TSA stop you from flying? How can you challenge denial of right to travel?

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