Daphne Keller

You know Carr has egregiously violated the law because there are signatories to this letter that would never agree with each other on where to go for lunch.

U.S. deports journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador, family says Mario Guevara, an independent journalist, was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

Mario Guevara, an Emmy-award winning reporter, was deported to El Salvador — a nation he fled more than two decades ago. He was arrested while covering a protest of the Trump administration in a case that has alarmed free speech groups.

Hopefully?

Excellent Q. Maybe unless you live somewhere with lots of real icy conditions.

I read a bio of Rosa Parks that said it took ten years after the bus incident before her household income got back to where it had been. Which was not great to begin with.

Principled resistance has costs. They get left out of the story a lot.

This would be around when Henry Rollins was doing Apple ads...

Um, wow. Assuming that's real, did the King family license it? (After creating IP anxiety for regular old civil rights groups?)

I will again praise @404media.co for its consistently great reporting. I recommend a subscription for anyone interested in real news about the uses and abuses of tech in 2025.

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all.

The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

yes

For years I would try to convince people to build a platform where researchers or people could try out alternate rec systems. rec systems that might make you more knowledgeable rather than less or happier instead of miserable. Then bluesky just built it!

ICE Agents Rappel from Helicopter in Overnight Chicago Raid, Dragging Kids from Beds to U-Hauls Overnight on Tuesday, Sept. 30, federal agents from different agencies raided an apartment building on the South Side of Chicago, pulling men, women and children — some of them allegedly naked — from ...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Yeah, though I think a lot of what we see from his minions wasn't at his direction. They were just trying to do things that would make the boss like them best.

@berinszoka.bsky.social's amazingly titled op ed is the quick and spicy version of the careful legal letter about the FCC and 1st Amendment recently signed by seventy experts.

Jimmy Kimmel was not the first and won't be the last. The FCC will just be quieter next time.

thehill.com/opinion/civi...

Seems right that eternal September ends on October 1

In the short time since Kavanaugh wrote that opinion, his assertions have been proved demonstrably, almost laughably false too many times to count. As Sherrilyn Ifill notes, the justice’s claims were already belied by the factual record in that case, which showed ICE agents violently harassing and detaining American citizens for extended periods simply because they are Latino. Now the agency, freed from constitutional restraints by SCOTUS, has stopped pretending to be engaged in anything other than racial profiling. Bovino’s admission only confirms what we already knew: These detentions, far from the “brief” inconvenience Kavanaugh described, are often lengthy, violent, and dangerous. Ifill and Anil Kalhan, a professor of law at Drexel University, have proposed calling these detainments “Kavanaugh stops,” a label that’s quickly catching on.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

NEW: UK asked Apple to backdoor iCloud encryption.

Backdoors create a massive target for hackers & criminal groups.

Dictators will inevitably demand that Apple do the same for them. 1/

www.ft.com/content/d101...

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Pfizer Gets Three-Year Reprieve From Trump Pharma Tariffs Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some o...

Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx"

looks like state capitalism to me

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is the response I was looking for

BRANFORD MARSALIS AND LAURIE ANDERSON, you guys!!

It was reviewed by — and hence my essay on copyright law, music sampling, and theories of cultural construction was allegedly read by — Branford Marsalis and Laurie Anderson.

In case anyone was thinking I’m not cool, I’d like you to know that one of my first publications was in an anthology with Chuck D, Brian Eno, Jonathan Lethem, Moby, Bruce Sterling, Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, and a bonkers list of other authors.

www.soundunbound.com

Here lies human civilization. They were watching things on television that were different from what was happening.

Big whoever controls the past controls the future energy.

From what I can tell this works distressingly often.

I dunno I kind of think they’re ballsy af. I would not have the nerve to go all YOLO like this and destroy democratic institutions in full view of my former colleagues, friends, or professors, personally.

Good lord

Reminds me of my favorite Marge Simpson quote.

Or, I mean, that’s what they said was the reason.