Ali Winston
October 29 Update: Justice for Robert Brooks; NYC Overdose Deaths Plummet; Silicon Valley's Israeli Collusion; Election Deniers to 'Secure' Elections; Police Oversight Backsliding in Oakland; Homan & Noem at War; SoCal ICE Watching; Datacenter Desiccation
CHICAGO POLS CHARGED
Three days. That's all Congress has left to act before the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (once known as food stamps) runs out of money thanks to the ongoing government shutdown. On November 1, 42 million people will lose their last grip on a key filament
October 14 Update: BIG TERROR #2; Trans Terror Panic at the Heritage Foundation; Young Republicans Go Full Fash; Gaza Protest Crackdowns are a Canary in the Coalmine; Renewable Power's Inexorable Rise; Baader-Meinhoff Redux.
Fall's in the air, and so is the tear gas.
Despite federal judges finding ICE is making illegal warrantless arrests and systematically assaulting journalists during the latest 'enforcement' surge/Epstein distraction mechanism, there's been no let up in 'Operation Midway Blitz,' with
BIG TERROR E2: Green Scare Rising
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).
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