BIG TERROR E1: Patriot Act or Die
On Monday, Jake Hanrahan and I released the first episode of Big Terror, a podcast exploring the authoritarian creep and radical expansion of policing and surveillance over the past three decades (and beyond).
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August 22 Update: German murder charges for 764; Meta's pedophile AI; How 'sanctuary' cities feed ICE's datamining; DoD gets into deportation; SFPD, surveillance & the crypto mogul; CA economy suffers under immigration sweeps; Transnational crime omnibus
How far we've fallen as a country. No, I'm not talking about the Texas legislature holding Democrats hostage inside their own chamber to force through a gerrymandering effort that Republicans hope will stave off a massive wave of dissatisfied voters during next year's midterm
"A Deeply Entrenched Criminal Enterprise" - Will Zohran Mamdani Take on a Corrupt & Broken NYPD?
We are deep into the dog days of summer, where leaves wilt from the August heat, families enjoy their last few weeks of vacation before school resumes, and when New York City’s reactionary establishment flails in search of a line of attack against Zohran Mamdani’s surging mayoral campaign.
July 29 Update: Feds Flail in L.A. Courts; Silicon Valley Dreams of Dictatorship; NYC's Kafkaesque Immigration Courts; Supreme Court Fight Looms Over Warrantless Raids; Israel's Permanent Genocide; Roblox's Diddy Fetish; the Nerd Reich's Footsoldiers
Well, it's summer. If you couldn't tell by the lingering scent of fireworks - or perhaps that's the latest round of Canadian megafires providing that particular scent and orange cast to the sky - we're halfway through 2025 and well on track
A Deep Dive into Noah Lamb and the Terrorgram Collective's Hit List
June 18 update: Florida AG at War with Federal Courts; UAVs & Military Weaknesses; Crypto Buys off SFPD; Waymo Spies on You; Iowa Farming & Cancer; CA Cops Illegally Share ALPR Data with ICE; Bolsonaro's Spying ring; France Targets Anti-Fascists
Hate it when I'm right, but the last two weeks proved a prediction I made here when the first round of protests against ICE's dragnet raids kicked off in San Diego. Americans do not like seeing their neighbors dragged away by squads of masked, rifle-toting plainclothes
June 3 Update: NYPD Skates on Summer 2020 Cop Riots; Stephen Miller's Anti-ICE turn; Patel & Bongino's War with the FBI; Trump's Total Information Awarness project; Thielverse's Perversions of Tolkien
Summer's coming up fast, and with college campuses emptying out amidst craven administrators cracking down on students speaking up against Israel's ongoing genocide layered on top of growing outrage at militarized immigration raids across the country (see San Diego last weekend, where a bunch of ICE