Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA The Trump administration is quietly trying to build medical dossiers on all federal employees. Their prescriptions. Therapy appointments. Abortion records. For millions of people (and their families). They won’t say how they’ll use it. But I can venture a guess. Quote CBS News @CBSNews · 9h The Office of Personnel Management is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more. https://cbsn.ws/4tBfdJ7

This seems bad.

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Tell Meta: Keep Encryption for Instagram Messages Meta has quietly said it will end support for encrypted messaging on Instagram in a matter of weeks. Encryption helps ensure that what your messages stay between you and the person with whom you're communicating. When end-to-end encryption is enabled, no one – not even Meta – can snoop on you. Right now, hundreds of millions of people use Instagram to message friends, family, and communities. Privacy should be a default feature of the technology we rely on every day – not an optional extra, and not something that quietly disappears. That's why we're asking Meta to reverse its decision and continue to support encryption on Instagram.

Instagram is about to lose its optional end-to-end encryption feature. Without it, Meta can view every DM on Instagram. Mozilla has a petition to push the company to reverse this decision. [external petition link] www.mozillafoundation.org/en/petition...

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

Trump administration subpoenaing Arizona 2020 voting records, as Trump pushes to consolidate election power The administration has also obtained records from Fulton County, Georgia, as Trump continues to focus on the 2020 election he lost.

Another alarm bell in this five alarm fire.

Donald Trump is still trying to relitigate the 2020 election six years later.

He wants to scare election officials and election workers ahead of the midterms.

And he’s using the FBI to do it.

In a long tweet about Anthropic, Pete Hegseth, through the offical "SecWar" Twitter account says "the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic."

Hegseth is wholeheartedly endorsing the core premise of fascism: industry, as part of the private sphere, must be subordinated to the military objectives of the state.

Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib heckle Trump as he goes full fear-mongering white nationalist

Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at a public hearing about a data center and more.

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

“Free” Surveillance Tech Still Comes at a High and Dangerous Cost Surveillance technology vendors, federal agencies, and wealthy private donors have long helped provide local law enforcement “free” access to surveillance equipment that bypasses local oversight. The

“Free” surveillance is a trap. Vendor trials, private donors, and federal grants hand police no‑cost tools that quietly build massive databases on all of us and feed ICE and DHS pipelines. Cities can and should refuse the bait. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Meet Aliya Rahman, Disabled U.S. Citizen Assaulted, Jailed & Traumatized by ICE in Minneapolis We speak with Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen who was violently dragged from her car by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month and detained at the Whipple Federal Building, which has beco...

“I was taken out of that place unconscious."

Americans have a caricatured view of democracy of something that has just always existed, and this is an unfortunate oversight. American history has always been a conflict between democracy and authoritarianism. Hopefully we emerge more democratic on the other side. 9/9

I view American history as a tug of war between these forces, and recently we've seen an upsurge in support for Southern style authoritarianism, but it is not new. In fact, the South has been an authoritarian enclave far longer than it has been a democracy. Authoritarianism ain't foreign. 7/x

The struggle between authoritarianism and liberal democracy is an enduring part of American history. We are currently living through another chapter of this long running conflict. We've made progress towards being a multiracial democracy, but democracy has never been universally accepted here 6/x

Si vas a asistir a una manifestación, hay una serie de conceptos que debes tener en cuenta para mantenerte -y mantener tus datos- a salvo. ssd.eff.org/es/module/a...

EFF Town Hall: ICE, CBP, and Digital Rights You see it. We see it. ICE and CBP are out of control. Many people are exercising their right to say it's unacceptable. But what are the limitations around recording immigration agents? Is it true

Join EFF's online town hall to discuss ways to stay safer and how the digital rights community can help address ICE and CBP's brutality against immigrants, observers, and those seeking to hold them accountable. Livestream on Thursday at 10 AM PT eff.org/livestream-ice

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to

Buying a track or ebook that you can’t pass on, share, or transfer isn’t ownership; it’s a rental. We need to restore digital first sale. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

This is the time where, "ICE can't eat here" and "ICE can't stay here" and "ICE can't park here" and "ICE can fuck off" are the only way forward.

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis

this is clear & expert reporting (by journalists trained in visual investigations at berkeley's human rights center) demonstrating ICE's execution of alex pretti

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Love those unspoken norms!

this is a very strange video. it accuses @adamserwer.bsky.social of recapitulating a narrative of founder worship and liberal nationalism — which he does not do in the piece in question — and then concludes with an appeal to reconstruction, when serwer’s piece is grounded in that exact appeal!

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department. Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

The Trump administration is working to dramatically expand school choice, moving kids to a range of private & religious schools or homeschooling. Ultimately, what percentage of children would remain in public schools? A Moms for Liberty co-founder told me: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”

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(2) Write a letter of support to the library defending the freedom to read by emailing LibraryTrustees@watertown-ma.gov (there is no deadline).

Let us know if you're going to go in person or send an email!

The Watertown Library Trustees will be meeting July 31 at 7 pm at Watertown Middle School (68 Waverley Ave). Support the library and the freedom to read in one of two ways:

(1) Come to the meeting in person (no hybrid option) and make a public comment. Signup is first come first served.

The books are: A Map for Falasteen by Maysa Odeh and
Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck

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Watertown Free Public Library has received >2000 emails from across the country, as well as some direct local harassment, claiming that 2 books on their suggested summer reading lists are antisemitic.

🚨 The Watertown Free Public Library (MA) has been receiving organized harassment for including 2 books on suggested summer reading lists. Support the library and defend the freedom to read JULY 31 at 7 pm at the library board meeting at the Watertown Middle School. @authorsabb.bsky.social 🧵

EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

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