Are you 1 of the ~9 million Americans in a state where your legislators banned the sale of your precise location data? Say goodbye to that protection! The SECURE Data Act allows the sale of your location data w/ consent. Don’t want to consent? Too bad, you can’t use the app. Hope you didn’t need it!
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government.
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One thing that's worth repeating: There is *zero* evidence that "substack helps you get readers". The only thing that we've ever seen that helps grow an audience is other authors mentioning your blog or newsletter, which is not the platform's doing. Substack just takes credit for that!
Well here’s a new dystopian twist I hadn’t yet imagined…
“Art has a way of helping to remove the ceiling from our imaginations.”
“The Warehouse,” a collaboration between artist Vic Liu & abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba, asks visitors of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Bedford branch to imagine a world without prisons, @alexmar.bsky.social reports.
In a sick, violent way, they have more faith in the possibility of a new world than a lot of people on the other side. They are willing to reimagine all of it. Many of us cannot imagine getting rid of payday loans and they’re like eff it, let’s see if the Pope’s still got the juice.
North Carolina legislature’s gerrymander strikes again!
Yes, slicing up high-education, urban areas dilutes Dem political power… but it also reduces rural kids’ chances of attending our great, free boarding high schools
It’s just about power, not serving the people
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A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place.
This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism.
Here's why.
Welcome back to Chapel Hill!
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look, some of us don't need openclaw to accidentally wipe our local backups, we do it the old fashioned way 🦾
The death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who was left on the freezing streets of Buffalo by Border Patrol officers, was ruled a homicide. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Me: how did you get interested in facial recognition?
Rep Summer Lee: I'm Black and I'm a woman.
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“What was really surprising to me during my initial dive into all of this was how, when you look at the question of superintelligence as a documentarian or journalist, it doesn’t take long before you smack your forehead into the low doorframe of race science, because it’s baked into this technology”
A reminder that you should want universal voting in a democracy irrespective of whether your side is suddenly benefiting or losing due to restrictions and disenfranchisement.
Seems like a very long shot for Berger that these protests and recount would erase Page's lead, but in a race this close every vote is getting scrutinized
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Two copies of a black, white and red book cover. The cover reads UNCORRECTED PROOF NOT For SALE SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF BLACK MEDIAMAKERS PUSH AMERICA TOWARD FREEDOM SARAH J. JACKSON My light brownish hand with chipped purple glitter nail polish holds the books
Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
We spoke to Black women who started the Target boycott & who sustained it for a yr+. They'll likely never go back.
Teacher Laverne Mickens put it like this: “[Black women] will say if & when it’s over. And I can tell you right now: That will be the 15th of never ever.”
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North Carolinians have a pivotal part to play in the midterms. Troublingly, our State Board of Elections is working to undermine them. ncnewsline.com/2026/03/10/r... (commentary) #ncpol
So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.
This is not "don't use Proton"—this is, "hey this org has a history of overclaiming the level of protection they can provide, so make sure you actually threat model rather than assuming anything."
New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...
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I shared some context with the Washington Post (whose education team survived the mass layoffs) on the Trump administration's efforts to go after the National Student Clearinghouse and NSLVE. I expect red-state publics to drop out of what used to be a bipartisan effort.
Every journalist whose theat model includes this administration/the federal government needs to be aware of this. Signal for desktop + touch ID + they have a warrant = the feds can read any of your signal messages that haven't disappeared.
