Archives
All the articles I've archived.
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Federal voter purges are being scaled up before the midterms
The Trump administration is trying to build a federal voter purge machine before the midterms. Reuters reported this week that voting rights groups have sued the Justice Department over its demand…
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Trump's DOJ is putting the anti-hate movement on trial
The Trump administration is not just indicting the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is trying to teach every anti-hate group in America a lesson.
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Immigration court is being packed to industrialize deportation
When the White House starts bragging that the president has "replaced activist judges" and that there will be "no more activist judges shielding criminal illegals", you do not need to squint to see…
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Oracle is funding its AI fantasy with mass layoffs
Oracle would like you to believe this is what the future costs. I think it looks a lot more like a billionaire's infrastructure binge financed with other people's rent money.
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Google promised to warn you before handing your data to the government. It lied.
A Cornell Ph.D. student briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest at a campus career fair in September 2024. Months later, Homeland Security Investigations, the intelligence arm of ICE, subpoenaed…
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How the DOJ is unwinding the January 6 convictions
Trump already pardoned or commuted the January 6 defendants he cared about. Now his Justice Department wants the record cleaned up too.
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Orbán lost because MAGA politics fails when people have to live under it
Viktor Orbán finally lost, and the American right should be forced to stare at that result until the fantasy wears off.
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The SAVE Act Is Just One Piece of the Republican Voter Suppression Puzzle
The SAVE Act keeps making headlines, and it should. It is a brutal piece of work that would strip millions of Americans of their right to vote. But if you only focus on the SAVE Act, you miss the…
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Meta sold AI glasses. What people got was ambient surveillance.
People bought Meta's AI glasses thinking they were buying a little bit of the future.
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If TikTok can read your DMs, someone else eventually will
TikTok told the BBC it will not add end-to-end encryption to direct messages because it thinks encryption would make people "less safe." The thing that keeps hackers, the company, and governments out…
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"Any lawful use" is the problem: keep frontier AI out of surveillance and targeting
When the Pentagon tells AI companies it will only work with vendors who agree to "any lawful use," that's the leverage play. It forces the vendor to pre-approve future uses (surveillance, targeting,…