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Thread 🧵 Over 170 House Dems sent a letter to AG Blanche condemning Trump's raid on @ilhanmn.bsky.social's home. Letter available here & in tweets below, you will find who *didn't* sign including Pelosi, Hoyer, Stevens, Scholten, Golden, Moskowitz & dozens more: defendilhan.com

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Today is Global Encryption Day. Governments, law enforcement and private companies are working harder than ever to surveil us and invade our private lives. Congress must step up and stop efforts to weaken encryption, one of the most important tools protecting our privacy.

Crypto opportunists want to become too big to fail and they’re buying congressional staffers, members’ families and the White House to do it. Learn more about the shocking crypto corruption happening right now from @nymag.com

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A secret ploy by the Trump administration could divert funds from research infectious diseases to Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon in order to pay for more war. Sign the petition: Protect medical research funding from Trump and Hegseth.

NEW: Kalshi and Polymarket are fighting states over authority to regulate their billions of dollars in sports betting as gambling. Donald Trump Jr. has large stakes in both. The companies have been loading up with revolving-door hires from both sides of the aisle... 🧵

“Y’all are going to need a bigger hospital.” Already burdened by petrochemical plants, Louisiana is facing a wave of gas-powered AI data centers—and their pollution. Dorothy Slater, an oncology nurse, writes for @dissentmag.bsky.social about nursing her patients at the frontier of AI buildout.

Flock and other camera company CEOs were asked to answer questions at a @judiciarydems.senate.gov hearing tomorrow. All of them refused. This is a clear attempt to avoid accountability. The American people deserve answers.

On Sunday, the Trump administration missed a statutory deadline to declassify a FISA Court opinion from March that reportedly finds more Section 702 compliance issues affecting Americans’ rights. The administration is now in violation of the law. 1/18

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Demand Progress, @econliberties.bsky.social, @consumerreports.org & @smallbizmajority.bsky.social asked the courts to stop the Visa-Mastercard duopoly that works with megabanks to keep the costs of credit cards high. Judges are not allowed to rewrite the Sherman Act!

Congress has failed to set clear national rules for how artificial intelligence should be used in K-12 schools. Sign the petition: Pass federal legislation to protect schools from unregulated AI

House Dem leaders named a hardline pro-Israel, pro-Iran war hawk as their leader on the subcommittee in charge of Middle East policy. Sign the petition and tell @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social to keep pro-Israel hawk Rep. Moskowitz OUT of this critical House foreign policy position!

Secretary of War, Defense or whatever they’re calling him now Pete Hegseth is overseeing an illegal war in Iran (that led to the bombing of a girls’ school), mishandled sensitive military information & obstructed congressional oversight. Sign the petition: Impeach Pete Hegseth!

NEW POLL: 61% of Americans - including 78% of Democrats and 73% of Independents - oppose a measure moving through Congress to integrate Israeli weapons companies into the Pentagon. Read more of the results from our poll with @demandprogress.bsky.social andconducted by @dataforprogress.org. ⬇️

61% of all voters oppose the integration of the US & Israeli militaries, according to a new @dataforprogress.org, @demandprogress.bsky.social & @imeupolicy.bsky.social poll:

Flock’s totalitarian mass surveillance network tracks people to their jobs, dates, homes, doctor's appointments and places of worship. Sign our petition and tell Congress to withhold funding from cities that spy on people with Flock cameras!

Last week, we launched our tracker focused on Biden-era officials who have joined the AI industry. If Democrats want to seriously stand up to Silicon Valley, a future Democratic administration can't be led by these revolvers. Read more in our latest newsletter here ⬇️

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Our elections are being flooded by AI Super PAC money. Learn about it in the story from @commondreams.org

Thank you, @repcasar.bsky.social, for looking out for American workers and for being a real leader on AI policy. Learn more about the AI Tax and Work Protection Act:

Flock is a surveillance company that operates over 90k cameras nationwide that feed location data to over 5k law enforcement agencies, including ICE. Sign the petition: Tell Congress to ban Flock's authoritarian camera network and protect our privacy rights!