Hard Pass

Congressman Jim Himes claims a sweeping surveillance authority should stay intact because he hasn't seen abuses by Kash Patel's FBI, according to internal messaging obtained by WIRED.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260320205610/https://www.wired.com/story/a-top-democrat-is-urging-colleagues-to-support-trumps-spy-machine/

I guess some people think ding dong ditch is still cool/funny? Is it trending on tiktok or something? My friends just had this happen and sent me the recording, and I asked their permission to post it here.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57043049

Shamelessly stolen from a hexbear post from the 12 day war

Press F to (D)oubt

The suit accuses the agency of illegally repealing the endangerment finding, the scientific assessment that required it to regulate greenhouse gases.

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• archive.is

The list, from the lawsuit

• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• State of California
• State of New York
• State of Connecticut
• State of Arizona
• State of Colorado
• State of Delaware
• State of Hawai'i
• State of Illinois
• State of Maine
• State of Maryland
• State of Michigan
• State of Minnesota
• State of Nevada
• State of New Jersey
• State of New Mexico
• State of North Carolina
• State of Oregon
• Josh Shapiro, in his official capacity as Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• State of Rhode Island
• State of Vermont
• Commonwealth of Virginia
• State of Washington
• State of Wisconsin
• District of Columbia
• United States Virgin Islands
• City of Albuquerque, New Mexico
• City of Boston, Massachusetts
• City of Chicago, Illinois
• City of Cleveland, Ohio
• City of Columbus, Ohio
• City and County of Denver, Colorado
• Harris County, Texas
• City of Los Angeles, California
• Martin Luther King, Jr., County, Washington
• City of New York, New York
• City and County of San Francisco, California
• And Santa Clara County, California

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57002935

The Trump administration is on its way to creating every authoritarian’s dream: a centralized database containing intimate details about every resident of this country, fully searchable by artificial intelligence. This powerful tool would empower the government to conduct previously unimagined levels of surveillance and harassment against its own people.

Freedom of the Press Foundation is suing the administration for documents behind the database. We know that this isn’t just something that the Trump administration would exploit; once built, it’s unlikely any administration could resist the urge to weaponize our personal information.

This nightmare privacy scenario began one year ago, when President Donald Trump issued an executive order that expanded data sharing across the federal government. The administration touted the order, “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,” as a way to target fraud within a supposedly bloated government.

The order was no such thing.

Rule