A tweet from Representative Thomas Massie that reads: I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about.

Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Thank you, state attorney generals.

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And now her 139th.
🎂 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep

25th amendment. Impeachment. I will support any avenue to remove Donald Trump from office. We cannot leave this man in charge of America’s nuclear weapons as he threatens to end an entire civilization. And Congress must not fund this reckless administration.

The president speaks genocide The words, the law, the future

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
These are the words of the president of the United States, today.
The president speaks genocide. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.
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Image description A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Alt text of NASA tweet: Image description A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman Dismiss

What you might not see (unless you look and read carefully) are the ALT captions describing these extraordinary images of our planet to the Americans & humans around the world who cannot see them.

Plain language, done well. Glad to still see it at an agency where public info is core to mission.

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

Dan in front of a slide reading PLC or "what about that centralized server at the bottom of the stack?"

Sad to have to leave #atmosphereconf before the end, but I'll look forward to continuing many conversations as we start the PLC Association.

@baldemo.to in front of a slide showing governance points in relationship links

Great preso from @baldemo.to on affordances for community governance, with experience from furryli.st #atmosphereconf

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

ATmosphereConf 2026 ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.

just gave a lightning talk at atmosphereconf.org on v-it.org — the future of open source is social

skills and capabilities that flow through your AT Protocol trust graph. your coding agent handles discovery, you own the trust decisions

slides: v-it.org/decks/atmosp...

npm install -g vit

Stephan Noel in front of a slide showing the stages in fire incident response, including data entry at the end.

Loving #atmosphereconf talks from experts on how they solve their unique problems. @stephanjnoel.bsky.social shares the challenges of fire service incident data management.

And several different presentations have featured applause for @thisismissem.social , who (among other great work), has been helping us in the W3C standards activity

Pfrazee at the AtmosphereConf podium

After showing the vibrant atproto ecosystem, @pfrazee.com gave a shout-out to standards work at IETF and with FedCM at W3C #atmosphereconf Thanks for that commitment to openness!

What may be the most heartening part of #AtmosphereConf, besides the community, is that it's a *technical* conference at which people present on politics, authoritarianism, epistemic challenges (in the opening keynote!).

Because, for technologists, *that's* the job.

Sebastian beside two superimposed slides: monoliths are ungovernable, authoritarian infrastructure leads to an authoritarian society.

Building un-capturable infrastructure for democratic use with @sebastian.eurosky.social #atmosphereconf

Sattestations ATProtocol Identities and HTTP Signatures in conjunction with Onion Routing

Great to run across @psyverson.bsky.social talking "Sattestations". #atmosphereconf

atmo.rsvp/p/atmosphere...

Groupware! @brittanyellich.com discusses patterns and tooling for community self-governance, opensocial.community #atmosphereconf

@rude1.blacksky.team speaking at AtmosphereConf in front of a slide, post-nerd atproto

"The job to be done is never 'use atproto'" @rude1.blacksky.team on pitching toward community problem-solving and storytelling.

Kelp facts! @kissane.myatproto.social talks about the ecological role of kelp forests and the community functions of their holdfasts, with lots of deep analogies to the social media environment. #atmosphereconf

Great energy kicking off ATmosphere Conf in beautiful Vancouver BC.

Nicole Ozer smiles at the camera, wearing black-framed glasses and a black shirt with four gold buttons across the shoulder while sitting in a red chair.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Nicole Ozer, @nicoleozer.bsky.social, has been appointed as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation effective June 1!

Who is EFF's new ED? 🧵 (1/5)

A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Let’s remember Trump is also a former president, so…🤷‍♂️

Technology Researchers Challenge Trump Policy Threatening Deportation for Work on Social Media Platforms and Online Harms

Since last year, the US has publicized a visa policy that targets & threatens people who study & report on online harms.

Yesterday @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org filed a lawsuit challenging this censorship policy on behalf of @thecoalition.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/tech...

If you are a Costco customer, Trump stole your money and won’t give it back.

Vanquishing copyright trolls takes persistence!

We're now stuck at just over $13,000 — which feels very unlucky!

Please get us past $14K soon so we can all bask in good fortune <3