The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Surveillance by the Big Brother is dangerous and so is surveillance by Big Billionaires. This Wired story is essential reading: www.wired.com/story/madiso...

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.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong CHICAGO—Concluding that the costs of keeping such a device in the bedroom far exceeded the benefits, a study released Monday by the University of Chicago’s sleep lab found a strong link between poor s...

The more you know
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DOT Proposes Major Redesign of 72nd Street, Including New Two-Way Bike Lane A rendering of how the restructured West 72 Street traffic lanes would look. View is to the east from Amsterdam

Good use of bike lane (cc @andrewhyatt.bsky.social)
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Here's a perspective even many trans allies might not have considered: "the risk of transphobia interfering with ... medical care" is often rationally perceived to exceed vastly "the risk that ... birth sex will matter to ... diagnosis or treatment"

The bladed sax would gradually fall out of use, and by the advent of third wave ska it would be entirely replaced by the trumpet bayonet

Linocut print ‘Feynman Diagram Bauhaus’ is a hand-carved and printed variable edition on cream-coloured Japanese washi paper, 8" by 10" with a jumble of Feynman diagrams and coloured shapes with a Bauhaus feel. Shapes include circles, rings, triangles, stripes, semicircles and irregular semicircles under wiggly lines. Colours are tints of fuchsia, blue-green, blue, yellow and purple with Feynman diagrams in black lines.

April 14 has been designated World Quantum Day in honour of Planck’s Constant which can be rounded to h~ 4.14×10−15 eV·s (and some folks write April 14 as 4/14*). 🧪🐡🎢 Planck’s constant comes up a lot in quantum mechanics; for instance a photon’s energy is h times its frequency). 🧵

Publishing Triangle Awards. April 16, 6:30 PM. The New School.

Presenters include Charles Busch, Karen Finley, Patricia Spears Jones, and more—with Julie Enszer and JP Howard joining our esteemed list.

Free. Reception to follow.

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NEWS: Trans kids in Minnesota can access their gender-affirming care again.

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No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

It’s a little rough knowing how widely this is true. Even when people come forward with their own story, wanting to go public, the work it will take to get from there to publication is intense—and can honestly feel monstrous to survivors

Picture of the century. 😍

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if a position of authority can be misused in this way, that position of authority should not exist. It's clearly not enough to simply change who is in that position, no more than praying that the next king be better than the last.

Op-Ed | Albany’s online ‘safety’ bill incentivizes surveillance, chills free expression | amNewYork This lack of public input is why Equality New York is in a coalition alongside civil rights groups and advocates from across the state in urging Gov. Hochul,

"In a moment of rising censorship nationwide, hostilities toward free speech, and federal efforts to silence the LGBTQ+ community, a bill like this has the potential to further threaten constitutional rights and undermine access to online resources."

When we talk about what the NYT is up to now, it’s actually helpful to be attentive to the fact that they have *always* done shit like this

It's effectively a declaration that what they are at war with is transness itself and that they will stop at nothing to mandate conversion therapy for all of us. That's it. That's what it is. That's what it is meant as. There is no other way to read it because they are blatant about it.

Missing Airman Raises Concerns That Iran Could Gain Leverage Over the U.S.

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

How AI Surveillance Tech is Creeping From the Southern Border Into the Rest of the Country Surveillance technology has long been part of policing the border. ICE’s growing raids are bringing it to many other areas.

ICE is expanding its use of AI, data analytics, facial recognition, and surveillance tools far beyond the border -- embedding monitoring and tracking into everyday life across the U.S.

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But what if I just innocently want to use their code to train my code? That's fine, right?

I am constantly amazed at how many people have totally internalized the blatantly false belief that Section 230 was premised on platforms being "neutral" when the ENTIRE point of it was the opposite, that they shouldn't have to be.

Barry Caldwell Dies: 'Animaniacs' Animator Was 68 Barry Caldwell, the animator and director known for 'Animaniacs' (1993-'98) and 'Osmosis Jones' (2001), has died. He was 68.

Barry Caldwell Dies: ‘Animaniacs’ & ‘Pinky and the Brain’ Animator Was 68 deadline.com/2026/03/barr...

This is really great news

The loser in charge of running this account has copy+pasted this exact post in reply to four different trans journalists.

If this were a person, we'd call this a crashout. No idea what to call it when it's a formerly respected news organization trying to push obvious misinformation.

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom We have seen this song and dance before.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today.

I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand.

There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

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Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

Emma Hilton is one of the leading anti-trans athlete scientists and her most used "study" claiming trans women have an inherent biological advantage does not use any data from any trans women.