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Stop what you’re doing and read this whistleblower report. ICE has been training its agents that they don’t need a judicial warrant to break down your door - a blatant violation of the 4th Amendment. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Bipartisan negotiators released a DHS funding bill that does not significantly reduce ICE and CBP’s funding nor rein in the agencies’ abuses of power. Make no mistake: Any Democrat who votes for this bill is complicit in Trump’s campaign of terror. Grow a spine and vote no.

Congress is debating a bill that would require platforms to police families’ online behavior, or face legal risk. The result will be more account lockouts, ID checks, and algorithmic mistakes—for both parents and kids.

Wishing all a Happy Holiday, a Merry Christmas from the Pacific coast.

Read our advice for staying safe in demonstrations in the U.S. and elsewhere. ssd.eff.org/en/module/a...

Nayota, No Sulu Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, also went to the show but I botched her debut. We’ll get another chance at it.

Good weekend at the dog show

Off roading at the off-leash park

The negative corollary to the golden rule is that you get treated the way you treat others. It’s time for what’s left of the Republican Party and Christians to remember this. And in the best parlance of early MAGA: fuck your feelings.

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “May Day Strong: We are the Many” in Bothell WA- sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

I’m totally fine with deporting gang members who commit crimes who don’t have legal status. I just don’t want Tom Homan or an ICE agent grabbing anyone off the street and flying them to a prison in El Salvador while claiming they are all of those things with zero due process.

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

Zelensky should now tell Trump: "After that undignified stunt today, you will get precious metals *only* if and when we are given enough weapons to defeat your boss at the Kremlin."

Source: galleryz.online/i-stand-fo-1...

There are puppies at my house! I participate in breed preservation of Japanese Kai Ken. Two of my five are headed off to other breeders, two will be placed locally, and one is staying with me. Thanks to our intervention Kai are gaining popularity even in Japan .

Winter Weather in the Pacific Northwet

every single republican in office is a fucking oathbreaker who is selling out the constitution and our democratic birthright

The Investigatory Powers Act could prohibit companies from revealing that the UK government has ordered them to remove encryption. “That raises the real risk of false reliance on a safety feature that isn’t there,” EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @bloomberg.com.

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Musk’s allies were granted access to the U.S. Treasury payment system. Treasury stays silent. White House stays silent. Why the secrecy? Time for an explanation and full transparency.

#ProudBlue Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the U.N. to mark the anniversary of the January 27, 1945, liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration camp. Let us never forget the dangers of prejudice, discrimination, antisemitism and dehumanization.

Day 8 of crunchy white grass.

Don't give up - do something. A great list for civic minded Americans, from @protectdemocracy.org open.substack.com/pub/protectd...

Helpful girl turns down the bed most nights 🩷

"Geospy providing this service to law enforcement at scale could present a serious threat to the public,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @404media.co, especially if police use it “to gather intelligence on people not engaged in suspected criminal activity.”

My neighbors are shooting off either fireworks or guns, god damn them. Minx is stuck to me like glue.

Day 3 of crunchy white grass. Minx prefers her couch.

ICE is planning immigration raids starting Tuesday. Please amplify.

Constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore. A people that can no longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong… With such people you can do whatever you want. -Hannah Arendt,

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

Nappin’ with my queasy girl.

This advice is important now, and will be even more important in two weeks, when the next administration is going to flood the zone with horribleness, with the intent of overwhelming everyone into compliance. Pick your battles and keep your focus. Trust others are doing the same elsewhere.

@danacorby.bsky.social Hi Dana! Messages will just show up in your feed on here much like Facebook or Twitter.

"When Trump takes office on January 20, alongside an administration stocked with billionaires and crypto dudes, he’ll be ushering in a grim new form of power: a bro-ligarchy." What to expect from Trump's incoming bro-ligarchy: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

@seeker0369.bsky.social glad to see you here!

If you’re at all interested in economics, the economy, and social issues, if you aren’t following @nickhanauer.bsky.social you should be.

Minx was tired after a two and a half mile hike with Jay and Hoichi. Puppies on board!

Wherein @goldy and I interview President Biden about Middle-out economics podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Minx has stolen butter before. Last time I had to find it myself. This time she had to check her stash and tipped me off 🤣

Since UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot, social media has been ablaze with angry messages, memes, and jokes about health care in the United States. Read more about how these reactions are fueling the debate on healthcare and CEO pay.

Dear Kristen Weller and all other press, when they say we deleted evidence, refer them to this…. It’s all the evidence: www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...