Companies like to make metadata sound innocuous, but it matters more than you might think. Here’s why. ssd.eff.org/module/why-...

Israel is bombing Doha right now.

In just the past 24 hours, Israeli forces have launched attacks on:
• Palestine 🇵🇸
• Lebanon 🇱🇧
• Syria 🇸🇾
• Tunisia 🇹🇳
• Qatar 🇶🇦

And only days ago, Yemen 🇾🇪.

This is not the behavior of a “victim.”

This is state terrorism.

September 8-10, 2025 Israel attacks six countries in 72 hours In just three days, Israel carries out strikes across the Middle East and North Africa, targeting Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, Qatar and Yemen. Map of area. Al Jazeera.

Israel’s attacked 6 countries in 72 hrs, riots in Nepal, France, Indonesia++, Russian drones shot down in Poland, an Australian onboard unarmed aid vessel attacked off Tunisia, but…

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Shortly after the Israeli attack on Qatar, another attack began on Yemen, in addition to the ongoing attacks on Gaza and the West Bank. With the green light from the United States, Israel can attack any country in the world, because the world allows it.

#WestBank: Palestinians are facing forced mass displacement by Israeli forces and settlers, raising fears of ethnic cleansing.

MSF urges states with close ties to Israel to apply pressure to halt the forced displacement.

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This is the reality: humanitarian supplies for Gaza are being destroyed by Israeli forces, as countless people struggle with starvation.

Israeli forces are conducting MASS "ARRESTS" to KIDNAP hundreds of Palestinians in the streets of Tulkarm City, occupied West Bank.

They will be held under ADMINISTRATIVE DETENTION, which is ILLEGAL under International Law.

It is against United States law to provide weapons to forces that commit war crimes. Yet our government in Democratic and Republican administrations have continued sending American made bombs to an Israeli government carrying out a genocide.

It is time to Block the Bombs.

How ICE Is Using Your Data — and What You Can Do About It | KQED ICE’s reach may get even wider due to a new partnership with a spyware company. But there have always been tools at the immigration agency’s disposal. KQED speaks to privacy advocates on what people should know about ICE’s access to their personal data.

Federal agencies are sharing data even when they’re not supposed to, EFF’s @cooperq.com told @kqednews.kqed.org. “Even if you personally are not concerned about ICE… it should be concerning to anybody. This is going to be used to further dragnet surveillance.” www.kqed.org/news/120556...

The government's bluster "is really intended to chill and to scare off these people from exercising their constitutional rights to gather and disseminate this information,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @lapublicpress.bsky.social of activists with anti-ICE sites.

If your state isn't on this list, please contact your governor's office and ask them to issue an order to protect COVID vaccine access.

If your state is on this list, call your governor's office and thank them for protecting COVID vaccine access.

Map Showing States Taking Action To Protect COVID-19 Vaccine Access States shaded in purple: AZ, CO, CT, DE, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NV, NJ, NM, NY, PA, RI, VA, WA

UPDATE: At least 19 states have issued orders to protect COVID vaccine access including AZ, CO, CT, DE, IL, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, NC, NV, NJ, NM, NY, PA, RI, VA, WA.

Almost all orders allow pharmacies to give vaccines without a prescription, some states have taken steps to ensure insurance coverage.

To those of you I've talked about to or at least mentioned the possibilities for organizing on Discord:

do you see what's happened in Nepal, and do you believe me now??

Stop telling people to "get off the internet" and understand that we live in a different world now with different tools.

Troll Thoughts

What's under attack right now is The Freedom To Mock. It's so important it is protected two ways: #1, from the gov'ment via the First Amendment; #2, from corporations via the Fair Use exceptions to copyright law that protects parody.

Tyrants fear Mockery, as it can destroy them.

Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state. That’s because, in a chilling early warning sign

If you think online age verification mandates are the key to holding Big Tech companies accountable, you need to see what’s happening in Mississippi. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

How to submit a written public comment Any member of the public can submit a written public comment to ACIP. The docket, identified by Docket No. CDC-2025-0454 [, will be opened to receive written comments on September 2, 2025. Written comments must be received by September 13, 2025, using the Federal eRulemaking Portal. Follow the instructions for submitting comments. All submissions received must include the agency name and Docket Number. All relevant comments received will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided. For access to the docket or to read background documents or comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov C. How to request to make an oral public comment The September 18-19, 2025 ACIP meeting will be a virtual meeting and will include time for oral public comment for members of the public. All individuals interested in making an oral public comment are strongly encouraged to submit a request starting September 2, 2025, to no later than 11:59 p.m., EDT, September 13, 2025, as there will be no opportunity to register for oral public comment later than September 13. If the number of persons requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably accommodated during the scheduled time, CDC will conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the scheduled public comment session. CDC staff will notify individuals regarding their request to speak by email by September 16, 2025. To accommodate the significant interest in participation in the oral public comment session of ACIP meetings, each speaker will be limited to 3 minutes, and each speaker may only speak once per meeting. Requests to make an oral public comment are open.

🚨 Today is the LAST DAY you can leave a public comment for the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee, which meets Sep 18.

Reports suggest they may falsely link vaccines to child deaths and restrict vaccines to ages 75 and up.

You can submit a written comment here:
www.regulations.gov/document/CDC...

EFF to Court: The Supreme Court Must Rein in Expansive Secondary If the Supreme Court doesn’t reverse a lower court’s ruling, internet service providers (ISPs) could be forced to terminate people’s internet access based on nothing more than mere accusations of

Your internet shouldn’t vanish because a roommate is accused of copyright infringement. SCOTUS must rein in overbroad secondary liability that chills lawful access. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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VACCINES FOR ALL: Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to New Yorkers who request them, according to plans shared exclusively with Playbook. The Democrat’s executive order will mirror actions taken by other blue state governors this week to protect access to the latest Covid vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration has only granted limited approval of the jab for older adults and individuals considered to be high-risk. That’s prompted Democratic leaders to create their own vaccine guidance and explore ways they can legally protect access to the shot for everyone. “By signing this EO, Governor Hochul is making it clear that when Washington Republicans play politics with public health, New Yorkers will still be able to make their own health care decisions and get the care they need from trusted providers in their community,” Hochul spokesperson Kara Cumoletti said in a statement to POLITICO. This morning, POLITICO Pro reported that the Hochul administration is reviewing potential solutions to the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict vaccine access. However, a long-term fix may require legislative changes by lawmakers either through a special session, or when they return to the state Capitol in January. “This temporary order will ensure seamless access while the Governor works with the Legislature on a long-term solution to safeguard preventive care and vaccines,” Cumoletti added. — Katelyn Cordero

BREAKING: New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order allowing pharmacists to prescribe and administer Covid-19 vaccines to anyone who requests them, regardless of age or underlying conditions.

Pandemic-era mandates soured many Americans on the nation’s medical establishment. Many public health experts sacrificed their profession’s credibility by supporting efforts by teachers unions to keep schools closed for far too long. Inconsistent messaging on masks made matters worse. So did saying it was okay to congregate for social justice protests while simultaneously discouraging churches from holding in-person services. Imposing overly stringent coronavirus vaccine mandates, even as the shots’ effectiveness against infections waned, gave antiestablishment figures such as Kennedy easy paths to winning over frustrated Americans.

The Washington Post editorial board is essentially endorsing the backlash against public health, and only Florida took it too far. This is pandemic revisionism at its worst, and completely erases how layers of public health protections did so much to save lives before vaccines were available.

I forgot about this today, but I won't be doing it again. Free Palestine!
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Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone—from family photos to communications with your doctor to everywhere you’ve been since you first

Police shouldn’t get ‘open-book’ access to your phone. In a major boost for digital privacy, Michigan now demands tailored warrants. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Want to fight for digital rights in your local school or community, but not sure how? Our Electronic Frontier Alliance toolkits can help you get started. efa.eff.org/

How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But,

Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

From Surveillance to Robot Guards: How AI Could Reshape Prison Life Critics worry about opaque data collection, privacy violations and the technology’s bias spreading in jails and prisons.

“Law enforcement and the (AI) companies helping them do this are very interested in collecting all the information they possibly can collect on somebody,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @TheMarshallProject.org - but how is that data stored, retained, and shared?
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/30/...

Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide Edited by Yousef M. Aljamal, Norma Hashim, Noor Nabulsi, and Zoe Jannuzi

Displaced in Gaza upholds the long-standing Palestinian tradition of storytelling, documenting both the horror of the genocide and the resilience of the Palestinian people.
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"If police are going to be using drones, we need much stronger limits on how they do that, including treating the flying of the drone as a search that requires a warrant,” EFF’s Adam Schwartz told @Dispatch.com. www.dispatch.com/story/news/...

Meet Rayhunter - Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons Podcast We take our cell phones with us everywhere – which makes them the perfect tracking device. Just walking around with your device will give...

EFF’s @cooperq.com joins @FirewallDragons.bsky.social to discuss Rayhunter, EFF’s cheap, easy-setup device that can discover the cell site simulators (aka Stingrays or IMSI catchers) that police might use to track you. podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2025/09/01/...

‘Anonymity Online Is Going to Die’: What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S. As controversy around the U.K.’s Online Safety Act continues, experts warn about similar legislation thriving in the U.S.

There's "a popular misconception that age-verification mandates are going to be the best way to rein in big tech and hold them accountable," EFF's Molly Buckley told @rollingstone.com - but these laws will just further line the biggest platforms' pockets. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cul...

A few tips and a cautious mindset can help protect you against some, but not all malware. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...