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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X-Wing (Totally Games/LucasArts) was released circa 33 years ago.
I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅
I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅
February 15, 2026 at 6:40 PM
X-Wing (Totally Games/LucasArts) was released circa 33 years ago.
I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅
I find it hard to accept that so many of my fond memories are a third of a century old. 😅
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This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world
I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This thread seems to confirm my very strong prior that a big part of what's wrong with DHS is that it blurs foreign and domestic authority, and by doing so inherently promotes bringing military and intelligence behavior into the civilian world
All of this thread, plus even in the most generous explanations he looks like a rube ready to get steamrolled by the Susan Collins Machine. She’s one of the most adept political operators in the nation and he telegraphed he’s too politically incompetent to prevent an obvious scandal.
Ok fine @newrepublic.com, want to dance?
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
February 15, 2026 at 4:02 PM
All of this thread, plus even in the most generous explanations he looks like a rube ready to get steamrolled by the Susan Collins Machine. She’s one of the most adept political operators in the nation and he telegraphed he’s too politically incompetent to prevent an obvious scandal.
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Ok fine @newrepublic.com, want to dance?
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
A base that has long made pragmatic, sober decisions appears increasingly attracted to charismatic outsiders who promise to break from the party’s failures of the last decade. They see their party’s leaders as feckless and inept.
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
It’s the Democratic Tea Party, with a twist. trib.al/mC5cBDA
February 13, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Ok fine @newrepublic.com, want to dance?
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
Let’s talk about your fucking gaslighting in service of Graham Platner.
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Dear Bluesky, I like to think of
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.
February 15, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Dear Bluesky, I like to think of
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.
myself as Your Jewish Friend. Let me be clear to you, the totenkopf tattoo thing is horrible. This shouldn't even be a question.
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I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.
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white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP
Post an image you can hear
February 14, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Post an image you can hear
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mods on vacation. time to deep fry a turkey inside the house
Note: The social media person is taking a planned vacation next week. Recalls will go out on Thursday as is the custom but subscribe for recall emails so you don't miss them. The social media person will be *absolutely unreachable* and any content you see from our accounts will be pre-scheduled.
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
mods on vacation. time to deep fry a turkey inside the house
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wrote about That AI Essay, the "scare trade," and safety researchers deciding to quit in public nymag.com/intelligence...
February 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
wrote about That AI Essay, the "scare trade," and safety researchers deciding to quit in public nymag.com/intelligence...
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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.