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This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.

license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
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The United States is on the Cusp of a Digital Dark Age | TechPolicy.Press The first in a series of provocations, Dean Jackson and Sam Woolley write that the current assault on knowledge infrastructure is complex and multidirectional.

Another great piece from @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/the-united-s...

Dem strategists are extremely helpful in consistently providing the worst imaginable advice. You can reliably assume that the right move in any situation is the polar opposite of whatever their recommendation happens to be.

They’re calling her Megyn R. Kelly on TikTok

Murphy: "It's clearly the biggest scandal in presidential history. He wouldn't be acting this way if he wasn't so deeply worried about what's in those files. What we've already seen is immensely incriminating. Clearly Trump was at the center of a child sex ring ... the scandal could bring him down."

💯💯💯💯💯💯 @jessedamiani.bsky.social

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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Time to register as independent. I mean it.

No more “lesser of two evils” voter alignment. It’s a small thing you can do to send the DNC a message.

Chris Murphy: "There will be pretty substantial damage to a Dem brand that has been rehabilitated if on the heels of an election in which the people told us to keep fighting, we immediately stop... if we surrender without having gotten anything, I worry it'll be hard to get them back up off the mat"

Instagram is Killing Off Meme Accounts For years, Instagram has been an ideal platform for meme creators to build community. But new policies are destroying that capacity. Here's why I think that's a major miscalculation.

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Platforms change policies constantly, and generally, we can choose to adapt or not (I left X entirely because no adaptation could salvage the content sewer it had become). @jessedamiani.bsky.social focuses here on Instagram/Meta’s latest move:

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.

To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

[Narrator: they lost 13 seats]

It's been a good day.

Jesse Damiani (@damiani) Let’s talk about fascist fitness. The right-wing media ecosystem has learned how to appeal to the worst impulses in young men and boys—epitomized by figures like Andrew Tate. These figures prey on in...

Fascist fitness?! It’s a thing - come and check it out on this substack live
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from people magazine Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam By Greta Bjornson | Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42 Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown By Bailey Richards Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Jesse Damiani (@damiani) Oof. Something just happened that dovetails with my concerns about AI-generated video, which I outlined in my recent piece on OpenAI’s Sora 2 (also covers the even bigger privacy/security nightmare o...

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I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

The people behind the inflated protests are performing a monumental service to democracy & peace in the US. The Regime wants riots, but these animal characters are not only an effective protest, grabbing attention & mocking ICE, they seem to reduce the risk of violent protests. It's perfect.

What’s Really Going On in Portland, According to Police Reports — The Wall Street Journal Protests outside ICE facility were dwindling and ‘low energy’ before Trump called in troops, law-enforcement logs show

“A person wearing a chicken suit and stylized American-flag cape appeared to be the ringleader.” apple.news/ApnAw_7soQDW...

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

The Age of Enshittification — The New Yorker In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.

The race to the bottom almost everywhere apple.news/ADyoIbKZDTx-...

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

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Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia With Biden, AI Mode will provide a summarized answer.

"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query 'does trump show signs of dementia' as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

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A fundraising text NEW MESSAGE FROM: Chuck Schumer Meredith, is there anything I can say to convince you to donate $20 (becomes $80!) to help take back the Senate majority

“I’m resigning from my position as Democratic leader and retiring from the Senate.”

Free Webinar: Digital Self-Defense 101 On Thursday, Oct. 2, get up-to-speed on digital hygiene practices + the basics of VPNs, password managers, privacy browsers, 2FA/MFA, encrypted messaging & storage.

If you’re at all concerned about digital privacy, don’t miss this free webinar on 10/2! @jessedamiani.bsky.social

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California bans most law enforcement including ICE from wearing masks Law enforcement officials will also be required to identify themselves while conducting duties by both name and badge number.

California bans most law enforcement including ICE from wearing masks