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ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

America 2025.

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

EFF Demands Answers About ICE-Spotting App Takedowns SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) sued the departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) today to uncover information about the federal government demanding that

📢 BREAKING 📢
We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: www.eff.org/press/relea...

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Lawsuit Challenges San Jose’s Warrantless ALPR Mass Surveillance SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose and its police department routinely violate the California Constitution by conducting warrantless searches of the stored records of millions of drivers’ private habits, mov...

This one is a LONG time coming. @eff.org sues over San Jose’s warrantless use of automated listened plate readers to conduct mass surveillance of people’s movements.

Mahmood Mamdani on Zohran, Uganda and forced expulsion: ‘Who is part of the nation and who is not?’ After being expelled from his homeland in 1972, the academic has grappled with questions of political belonging – a major theme of his son’s mayoral campaign

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

How Randy Mastro Killed the Kehlani SummerStage Concert—And a Whole Lot More With Mayor Adams thinking about his next act, the former first deputy mayor to Rudy Giuliani is now "guiding every conceivable aspect of this administration."

Kind of a big deal that @hellgatenyc.com can confirm that NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro used his position to cancel Kehlani's SummerStage concert in order to punish the artist for their political speech on Palestine:

hellgatenyc.com/randy-mastro...

We’ve reached the stage of pregnancy where my maternity jeans are too tight.

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

By me: One in every 25 participants at Cop30 is a fossil fuel lobbyist, outnumbering every country delegation apart from Brazil, and as Indigenous peoples struggle to get a seat at the table

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Amnesty International, S.T.O.P. Lawsuit Reveals NYPD Surveillance Abuses Records obtained by Amnesty International and S.T.O.P. reveal concerning surveillance abuses against protesters and communities of color.

"NYPD has used facial recognition and selective enforcement against certain NYPD critics."

"[T]wo men were wrongly targeted by facial recognition at the [2019] New Year's Eve celebration [..] for not dancing and speaking a Middle Eastern language."
#NewYork #USA #Policing #Surveillance #Technology

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administration Apple and WhatsApp say they’ll keep warning users if their phones are targeted by governments using hacking software against them

Our latest (with Joseph Gedeon): www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.

I think @damonberes.com nailed this one: Social media is not social anymore, and with the pivot to AI, companies that build social media are building something that is isolating us even more

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

santos LI

George Santos lived in Huntington, Long Island before becoming a member of Congress.

He lived in the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton, New Jersey after that.

Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father ‘Devastated’ family demands answers after two-year-old driven by armed agents from LA Home Depot parking lot

Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of an LA Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler in the backseat. His mother spoke about the "very, very frightening" incident: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Tinder to use AI to get to know users, tap into their Camera Roll photos | TechCrunch Tinder is testing a feature called Chemistry that will get to know users through questions and, with permission, will access Camera Roll photos on their phones to learn more about their interests and ...

This will be *interesting*: Tinder to begin accessing your camera roll for “insight” & training its AI models #privacy #AI techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/t...

YES WE DID PAY US TO STAY HOME AND DO NOTHING

The last New York City mayoral candidate to secure over 1 million votes was John Lindsay in 1969.

Zohran Mamdani will be the seventh New York City mayor ever to receive more than 1 million votes.

Huge day for my people. (34 year olds)

We all crying in the Yemeni coffee shop

It’s time for Shakira law baby

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

The great @attackerman.bsky.social on Dick Cheney www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The @us.theguardian.com has a number of open positions, including two reporter roles focusing on organizing and movement building.

Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location

workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

The bombing of Gaza Sky Geeks For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks built a tech future for the Gaza Strip. Then came war.

For over a decade, Gaza Sky Geeks was a model for how tech could transform Gaza. Just days after October 7, its office was blown to pieces by an Israeli airstrike. Now, with a tentative ceasefire in place, it’s trying to rebuild.

Read our new feature from @mohamhawish.bsky.social & Aseel Mousa:

ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment

Israeli military’s former top lawyer arrested over leaked prisoner video Surveillance footage showed alleged abuse of Palestinian inmate at notorious Israeli prison

After a video seemed to show Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian prisoner, Israel has... arrested the lawyer who authorised the release of the video www.ft.com/content/0456...

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

The Guardian is hiring for a graphics reporter and data reporter to cover how the US government is deleting and altering important datasets.

If you like the work we do, come join us!

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Israeli army, settlers target Palestinian olive harvesters in West Bank Attacks on Palestinians have intensified during the harvesting season as Israel pushes measures to annex the territory.

Attacks on Palestinians have intensified during the harvesting season as Israel pushes measures to annex the territory.