Drew Conry-Murray
drewcm.bsky.social
Drew Conry-Murray
@drewcm.bsky.social
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Content Director at Packet Pushers; tech journalist; co-host of the Network Break, Heavy Networking, and Packet Protector podcasts; author of the supernatural novel "The Haunting of Edward Drake"
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I suggest The Haunting of Edward Drake by @drewcm.bsky.social. Very spooky historical fiction.
Same here. All I'm missing is a cat napping on a row of un-alphabetized paperbacks for the full aesthetic effect.
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A group of House Democrats marched to Speaker Mike Johnson’s office to demand the swearing in of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. Grijalva won a special election in Arizona in September but has yet to be sworn in.
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Last June, more than 5 million Americans joined #NoKings rallies across the country, protesting President Trump's authoritarianism. And this Saturday, with your help, it's going to be even bigger and better.
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Big Tech is targeting vulnerable communities for its data centers. Residents incur a huge cost in water & power and airborne toxic chemicals. Town officials sign NDAs so citizens have no awareness of the threat.

New from me: data centers and their effects.
buttondown.com/creativegood...
Don't let the data center come to town
In southwest Memphis sits the Colossus, a giant AI slop factory owned by Elon Musk. Gas-powered turbines at the facility foul the air with “nitrogen oxides...
buttondown.com
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@npr.org's Tom Bowman: "I've held my Pentagon press pass for 28 years....Did I as a reporter solicit information? Of course. It's called journalism: finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says."
Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass
Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...
www.npr.org
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I am anti-fascist. If there really is an Antifa organization, please send me details so I can join and donate. In its absence, try 5051 or Indivisible. I'll see all of you at the "No Kings - We Love America" protests next Saturday on October 18.
www.fiftyfifty.one
indivisible.org
www.nokings.org
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Now we're seeing confirmation of the NSO acquisition.

Mark my words, this is the path through which Pegasus gets put on Americans iPhones & Androids.

This dictatorship-in-a-box belongs nowhere near our constitutional rights.
SCOOP: Spyware maker NSO Group confirmed to us that the company has been acquired by a U.S. investment group.

NSO's spokesperson said the group "has invested tens of millions of dollars in the company and has acquired controlling ownership," but declined to say who is behind the investment.
Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch
NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.
techcrunch.com
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"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...
Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out
As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.
open.substack.com
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Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president
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Try to imagine if federal agents under a Democratic administration had fired pepper balls at conservative clergy protesting--- let's just say --- abortion.

They've litigated and won Supreme Court cases over much less.

bsky.app/profile/jack...
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
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Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city.

Troy and I were on the ground:
Federal tactics on protesters escalate, hours after judge rules against Trump
Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on prote...
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I have criticisms of ICEBlock, but this is authoritarian bullshit, and the fact that nearly all smartphone use one of two app stores controlled by US corporations does not bode well for the future
There's nothing illegal about ICE block. This is solely about Apple appeasing the Trump regime.

With Google removing sideloading next year, these companies will have total control over what runs on your phone.

www.businessinsider.com/apple-iceblo...
Apple removes ICEBlock app from App Store
Apple on Thursday removed the immigration enforcement tracking app, ICEBlock, from the App Store, citing "safety risks."
www.businessinsider.com
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An independent autopsy funded by Colin Kaepernick challenges claims that a Black man lynched himself in Mississippi. Instead the findings show blunt force head trauma.

Allegations also point to a confrontation with white college students over Charlie Kirk before his death.
Lynching by Suicide: The Rebranded Face of America’s Racial Violence
Once carried out in the open by bestial white mobs, activists say lynching of Black Americans has been rebranded in modern America as rulings of suicide,
chicagocrusader.com
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SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:
MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.
A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.
slate.com
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Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
www.nytimes.com