David Brody
@dbrody.bsky.social
Privacy rights are civil rights.
Founder & former director of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Founder & former director of the Digital Justice Initiative at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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there's a lot of reason to doubt him!
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
February 13, 2026 at 5:13 AM
there's a lot of reason to doubt him!
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
1. the Nazi tattoo!
2. keeping the Nazi tattoo!
3. lying about the Nazi tattoo!
4. only covering up the Nazi tattoo after backlash!
5. he's written racist and misogynist things on the Internet!
6. HE'S SEEKING MORE POWER & HAS EVERY INCENTIVE TO LIE
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Harrowing & Brutalizing. A young student exercised her First Amendment rights and has been detained over a year for it. While in detention, conditions are disgusting & inhumane. Kordia has never been charged w/ a crime but denied due process, lawyer & family visits. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
Columbia Protester Held by ICE Says She Was Chained to Bed After Seizure
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Harrowing & Brutalizing. A young student exercised her First Amendment rights and has been detained over a year for it. While in detention, conditions are disgusting & inhumane. Kordia has never been charged w/ a crime but denied due process, lawyer & family visits. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...
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I ask because one way to judge whether that young man with a Nazi tattoo and a military background is on your side is whether he’s putting his body between ICE and their targets.
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 PM
I ask because one way to judge whether that young man with a Nazi tattoo and a military background is on your side is whether he’s putting his body between ICE and their targets.
“‘We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,’ according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs,“
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:53 AM
“‘We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,’ according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs,“
Judge Leon quoting Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” which is all about avoiding persecution by corrupt and venal government agents, is a statement.
BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly.
"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
"This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees."
Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...
![UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MARK KELLY,
Plaintiff,
Civil Case No. 26-81 (RJL)
V.
PETE HEGSETH, et al.,
Defendants.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
February 12, 2026 [Dkt. #2]
United States Senator Mark Kelly, a retired naval officer, has been censured by
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth for voicing certain opinions on military actions and
policy. In addition, he has been subjected to proceedings to possibly reduce his retirement
rank and pay and threatened with criminal prosecution if he continues to speak out on these
issues.
Secretary Hegseth relies on the well-established doctrine that military
servicemembers enjoy less vigorous First Amendment protections given the fundamental
obligation for obedience and discipline in the armed forces. Unfortunately for Secretary
Hegseth, no court has ever extended those principles to retired servicemembers, much less a retired servicemember serving in Congress and exercising oversight responsibility over
the military. This Court will not be the first to do so!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiclbgaenrhgnor6zvmnfql4d3olwzqp7zikm3maum5ylc4m6epys4@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Judge Leon quoting Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” which is all about avoiding persecution by corrupt and venal government agents, is a statement.
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
To be clear, the article neither cites nor discusses any quantitative data to support that headline/subhead. Zero. It’s just anecdotal stories from some people in the homeschooling world. All qualitative interviews. Nothing from admissions officers saying they prefer homeschoolers.
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
The Homeschooling Hack
Looking for an edge in college admissions? Just pull your kid from school. Homeschooling, long associated with hippies and religious conservatives in the U.S., is in the middle of a rebrand and a boom.
nymag.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
To be clear, the article neither cites nor discusses any quantitative data to support that headline/subhead. Zero. It’s just anecdotal stories from some people in the homeschooling world. All qualitative interviews. Nothing from admissions officers saying they prefer homeschoolers.
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New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
www.gelliottmorris.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
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That's why they like immigration enforcement so much, to be clear, they like and they want to expand its ability to abrogate completely our 4th amendment rights and to be clear it is a military extraordinary rendition, not an arrest.
It's obscene to allow the government to hide people's location and to incentivize judge-shopping by race to transfer
February 12, 2026 at 1:01 PM
That's why they like immigration enforcement so much, to be clear, they like and they want to expand its ability to abrogate completely our 4th amendment rights and to be clear it is a military extraordinary rendition, not an arrest.
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too many kids today have never destroyed the family PC with sketchy downloads
you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer
you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer
folks today don't know the abject fear of inadvertently downloading, for the first (and only lol) time, a .exe file from kazaa or limewire and it shows
def one of those "it only takes one time to learn" but oooo boy at what cost for that single instance
def one of those "it only takes one time to learn" but oooo boy at what cost for that single instance
February 12, 2026 at 2:08 AM
too many kids today have never destroyed the family PC with sketchy downloads
you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer
you must learn to fear Computer before you can properly wield Computer
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
It’s now reported there were four party balloons shot down by Army lasers, which makes this by far the best gender reveal party.
"Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by"
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by"
Military’s Use of Anti-Drone Technology Said to Cause El Paso Airspace Closure
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:16 AM
It’s now reported there were four party balloons shot down by Army lasers, which makes this by far the best gender reveal party.
"Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by"
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by"
Military’s Use of Anti-Drone Technology Said to Cause El Paso Airspace Closure
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:47 PM
"Ninety-nine red balloons
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by"
Floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
When ninety-nine red balloons go by"
This is tap dancing on the Speech and Debate Clause.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:45 PM
This is tap dancing on the Speech and Debate Clause.
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When even the WeRateDogs guy is compelled to speak out about your product’s dangerous normalization of surveillance that may be subverted by the state, you’ve clearly crossed the line.
February 11, 2026 at 12:50 PM
When even the WeRateDogs guy is compelled to speak out about your product’s dangerous normalization of surveillance that may be subverted by the state, you’ve clearly crossed the line.
Petition to NYT graphics editors: Every time they run one of these articles, instead of using a photo of Musk, get a first grader to do a crayon illustration. “My moon catuhpuht, by Elon”
Elon Musk told employees at xAI, his artificial intelligence company, on Tuesday that the company needed a factory on the moon to build A.I. satellites and a massive catapult to launch them into space.
Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon
In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.
nyti.ms
February 11, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Petition to NYT graphics editors: Every time they run one of these articles, instead of using a photo of Musk, get a first grader to do a crayon illustration. “My moon catuhpuht, by Elon”
Also super lazy not to look at the proposed AI Civil Rights Act from @markey.senate.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social & others, which has 80+ endorsements from civil rights, consumer, tech policy, civil liberties, and labor orgs. Like… there is a consensus progressive AI proposal and it’s AICRA.
Imagine writing whole thing the newspaper about what “The Left” should do about. A.I. without citing or even apparently reading a single person beyond Freddie DeBoer.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Right now, “left-wing discourse on A.I. feels like a collection of irritable mental gestures in search of a consistent theme,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.
Right now, “left-wing discourse on A.I. feels like a collection of irritable mental gestures in search of a consistent theme,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes.
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Also super lazy not to look at the proposed AI Civil Rights Act from @markey.senate.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social & others, which has 80+ endorsements from civil rights, consumer, tech policy, civil liberties, and labor orgs. Like… there is a consensus progressive AI proposal and it’s AICRA.
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An Irish man held by ICE for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
Irish man held in ICE detention says he fears for his life and asks Ireland for help
Seamus Culleton describes conditions as ‘torture’ as he pleads with taoiseach to raise his case with Donald Trump
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
An Irish man held by ICE for five months despite having a valid work permit and no criminal record says he fears for his life and has appealed for help from Ireland’s government.
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
“I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
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Final results in the Oklahoma #HD35 (Trump+58) special election:
Dillon Travis (R)- 64.2%
Luke Kruse (D)- 35.8%
The Oklahoma Democrats put in a 30 point overperformance in rural Oklahoma!
Dillon Travis (R)- 64.2%
Luke Kruse (D)- 35.8%
The Oklahoma Democrats put in a 30 point overperformance in rural Oklahoma!
February 11, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Final results in the Oklahoma #HD35 (Trump+58) special election:
Dillon Travis (R)- 64.2%
Luke Kruse (D)- 35.8%
The Oklahoma Democrats put in a 30 point overperformance in rural Oklahoma!
Dillon Travis (R)- 64.2%
Luke Kruse (D)- 35.8%
The Oklahoma Democrats put in a 30 point overperformance in rural Oklahoma!
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I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local government thugs stop, harass priests, cardinal intervenes”
February 11, 2026 at 12:41 AM
I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local government thugs stop, harass priests, cardinal intervenes”
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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
We need a Will Ferrell movie about this, like the Eurovision movie. Just all the sloppy drama in the Olympic village with like 2 minutes of athletics.
new most bizarre moment of the Olympics just dropped
Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back
www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
Norwegian biathlete wins bronze medal, then, totally unprompted, reveal he cheated on his GF, she left him, and he wants to apologize publicly hoping she takes him back
www.vg.no/sport/i/vr5g...
February 10, 2026 at 10:07 PM
We need a Will Ferrell movie about this, like the Eurovision movie. Just all the sloppy drama in the Olympic village with like 2 minutes of athletics.
"The bill, LD 1822, closely mirrors the privacy law Maryland passed in 2024...
The bill includes strong data minimization requirements, enhanced protections for sensitive data, and civil rights protections prohibiting data-driven discrimination."
The bill includes strong data minimization requirements, enhanced protections for sensitive data, and civil rights protections prohibiting data-driven discrimination."
🎉 Maine just took a big step toward preventing data-driven harms when the state's House of Representatives voted to pass a bill today that would provide real privacy protections for Mainers. Read more about Maine's privacy bill: epic.org/maine-house-...
Maine House Passes Strong Privacy Bill
<p>The bill closely mirrors the privacy law Maryland passed in 2024. </p>
epic.org
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
"The bill, LD 1822, closely mirrors the privacy law Maryland passed in 2024...
The bill includes strong data minimization requirements, enhanced protections for sensitive data, and civil rights protections prohibiting data-driven discrimination."
The bill includes strong data minimization requirements, enhanced protections for sensitive data, and civil rights protections prohibiting data-driven discrimination."
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🎉 Maine just took a big step toward preventing data-driven harms when the state's House of Representatives voted to pass a bill today that would provide real privacy protections for Mainers. Read more about Maine's privacy bill: epic.org/maine-house-...
Maine House Passes Strong Privacy Bill
<p>The bill closely mirrors the privacy law Maryland passed in 2024. </p>
epic.org
February 10, 2026 at 8:39 PM
🎉 Maine just took a big step toward preventing data-driven harms when the state's House of Representatives voted to pass a bill today that would provide real privacy protections for Mainers. Read more about Maine's privacy bill: epic.org/maine-house-...
"'Most of all, Dr. Karp has made clear his commitment to reinvigorating his direct engagement with Hobbits ...' (Palantir leadership sometimes refers to employees as “hobbits,” after the fictional Lord of the Rings characters.)"
SCOOP: Tensions at Palantir have grown in recent weeks over the company's work with ICE.
On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE.
www.wired.com/story/palant...
On Friday, CEO Alex Karp tried to calm concerns in an hourlong video that offered few specifics—instead offering NDAs to workers who want to understand how it's empowering ICE.
www.wired.com/story/palant...
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Recorded a Video About ICE for His Employees
In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company's products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.
www.wired.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
"'Most of all, Dr. Karp has made clear his commitment to reinvigorating his direct engagement with Hobbits ...' (Palantir leadership sometimes refers to employees as “hobbits,” after the fictional Lord of the Rings characters.)"