Edward Hasbrouck
@edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social
Travel writer, author, journalist, consumer & human rights advocate, bicyclist, consultant to the Identity Project.
https://hasbrouck.org
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Mostly on Mastodon: https://urbanists.social/@ehasbrouck
https://hasbrouck.org
[email protected]
Signal +1-415-824-0214
Mostly on Mastodon: https://urbanists.social/@ehasbrouck
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My cellphone cyber-security primer for travellers, immigrants, emigrants, dissidents, activists, and journalists, updated (by popular demand) with an added tl;dr checklist of top tips:
Protecting your data from cops and robbers:
hasbrouck.org/articles/cyb...
Protecting your data from cops and robbers:
hasbrouck.org/articles/cyb...
We've seen this movie before:
Calling head of government "narco-trafficker" was pretext used by Bush the Elder for invasion, conquest, and regime change in Panama.
Is it time to re-read David Harris' "Shooting the Moon"?
davidharriswriter.com/home/sample-...
Calling head of government "narco-trafficker" was pretext used by Bush the Elder for invasion, conquest, and regime change in Panama.
Is it time to re-read David Harris' "Shooting the Moon"?
davidharriswriter.com/home/sample-...
Shooting the Moon: The True Story of an American Manhunt Unlike any Other, Ever – Chapter 1 – David Harris
davidharriswriter.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We've seen this movie before:
Calling head of government "narco-trafficker" was pretext used by Bush the Elder for invasion, conquest, and regime change in Panama.
Is it time to re-read David Harris' "Shooting the Moon"?
davidharriswriter.com/home/sample-...
Calling head of government "narco-trafficker" was pretext used by Bush the Elder for invasion, conquest, and regime change in Panama.
Is it time to re-read David Harris' "Shooting the Moon"?
davidharriswriter.com/home/sample-...
WTF?
The proposal states that personal data can be processed for AI models under legitimate interest, unless laws like Article 5(2) of the DMA specifically require consent, such as for designated gatekeepers.
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM
WTF?
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This was an Avelo plane, by the way. Read my story from yesterday about what a disaster Avelo’s ICE flights are.
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
ICE Air’s Sloppy, Dangerous Deportation Flights - The American Prospect
Poor planning, mechanical issues, serious safety lapses, and the shutdown are taking a toll on Avelo, America’s most famous deportation airline, internal documents show.
prospect.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This was an Avelo plane, by the way. Read my story from yesterday about what a disaster Avelo’s ICE flights are.
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
prospect.org/2025/11/17/i...
Another court turns down TSA appeal for impunity for checkpoint staff:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
November 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Another court turns down TSA appeal for impunity for checkpoint staff:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
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Public comments today to #Calpers pension fund board to sell its >$2B in #Tesla stock:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXC...
Board of Administration | Monday, November 17, 2025
YouTube video by CalPERS
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Public comments today to #Calpers pension fund board to sell its >$2B in #Tesla stock:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=taXC...
The detention of #SamiHamdi when he went to SFO for domestic flight and his detention for more than 2 weeks before he was allowed to leave US, are disturbing case study of US government targeting domestic travelers and restricting the right to leave the US:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
November 17, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The detention of #SamiHamdi when he went to SFO for domestic flight and his detention for more than 2 weeks before he was allowed to leave US, are disturbing case study of US government targeting domestic travelers and restricting the right to leave the US:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Rebecca Solnit says what should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: "A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common."
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-shou...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-shou...
How Big Should Your Tent Be?
It's striking to me that a lot of people want politics to be about their personal feelings, in which case they're not engaged in politics, though they may be engaged in the sabotage of politics. This ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Rebecca Solnit says what should go without saying, but apparently needs to be said: "A coalition is by definition made up of people who have something in common, not everything in common."
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-shou...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-shou...
#TheAmazingRace in Romania: Travel in middle-income and Second World countries:
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
The Practical Nomad: Edward Hasbrouck's blog
The Practical Nomad: Edward Hasbrouck's blog
hasbrouck.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#TheAmazingRace in Romania: Travel in middle-income and Second World countries:
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
Thoughts for the day from Linda Tirado, the freelance photojournalist who was shot in the eye with a rubber police by Minneapolis police while documenting the protests of George Floyd's murder: lindatirado.substack.com/p/they-thoug...
They thought we were going down easy
They haven't reckoned with oppositional defiance.
lindatirado.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Thoughts for the day from Linda Tirado, the freelance photojournalist who was shot in the eye with a rubber police by Minneapolis police while documenting the protests of George Floyd's murder: lindatirado.substack.com/p/they-thoug...
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Looks like we’re going to war with Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Looks like we’re going to war with Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files.
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At last mtg, CalPERS board directed investment staff to report on valuation and risk of investment in Tesla. That's good first step, but now they need to put that report on their action agenda. CalPERS board meeting Mon, 11/17, 9:15 am, in Sacramento and online: actionnetwork.org/events/calpe...
CalSTRS pension board meeting - Divest from Tesla!
California's public employee pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS, reported substantially more than $2 billion in holdings of Tesla stock combined as of their most recent reports. Tesla’s financial ins...
actionnetwork.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 PM
At last mtg, CalPERS board directed investment staff to report on valuation and risk of investment in Tesla. That's good first step, but now they need to put that report on their action agenda. CalPERS board meeting Mon, 11/17, 9:15 am, in Sacramento and online: actionnetwork.org/events/calpe...
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The case of Rutgers Univ. professor
@mark-bray.bsky.social and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, how governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable, and what can and should be done:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
@mark-bray.bsky.social and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, how governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable, and what can and should be done:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The case of Rutgers Univ. professor
@mark-bray.bsky.social and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, how governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable, and what can and should be done:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
@mark-bray.bsky.social and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, how governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable, and what can and should be done:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
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The NLG's Military Law Task Force condemns the U.S. military presence off the coast of Venezuela and the bombing and sinking of small vessels in international or foreign waters
nlgmltf.org/military-law...
nlgmltf.org/military-law...
MLTF condemns US military threats to Venezuela and Caribbean maritime attacks - Military Law Task Force
The Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild condemns the U.S. military presence off the coast of Venezuela and the bombing and sinking of small vessels in international or foreign water...
nlgmltf.org
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The NLG's Military Law Task Force condemns the U.S. military presence off the coast of Venezuela and the bombing and sinking of small vessels in international or foreign waters
nlgmltf.org/military-law...
nlgmltf.org/military-law...
The case of Rutgers Univ. professor
@mark-bray.bsky.social and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, how governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable, and what can and should be done:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
@mark-bray.bsky.social and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, how governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable, and what can and should be done:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The case of Rutgers Univ. professor
@mark-bray.bsky.social and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, how governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable, and what can and should be done:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
@mark-bray.bsky.social and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, how governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable, and what can and should be done:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/11/1...
Rest in peace: Jim Casteris, 1932-2025
(Marching in the rain with Vets for Peace, Downtown Crossing, Boston, 1987. Photo © by Ellen Shub)
(Marching in the rain with Vets for Peace, Downtown Crossing, Boston, 1987. Photo © by Ellen Shub)
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Rest in peace: Jim Casteris, 1932-2025
(Marching in the rain with Vets for Peace, Downtown Crossing, Boston, 1987. Photo © by Ellen Shub)
(Marching in the rain with Vets for Peace, Downtown Crossing, Boston, 1987. Photo © by Ellen Shub)
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BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BREAKING: We won!
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.
pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...
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The world's busiest border crossing and the world's most inappropriate rails-to-trails conversion:
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
#bicycle #border #railstotrails
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#bicycle #border #railstotrails
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The world's busiest border crossing and the world's most inappropriate rails-to-trails conversion:
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
#bicycle #border #railstotrails
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
#bicycle #border #railstotrails
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RIP Peter Watkins. "the war game" is better known, but "punishment park" remains brutally prescient. no firewall
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/m...
Peter Watkins, Provocateur With a Movie Camera, Dies at 90
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
RIP Peter Watkins. "the war game" is better known, but "punishment park" remains brutally prescient. no firewall
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/m...
The world's busiest border crossing and the world's most inappropriate rails-to-trails conversion:
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
#bicycle #border #railstotrails
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
#bicycle #border #railstotrails
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The world's busiest border crossing and the world's most inappropriate rails-to-trails conversion:
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
#bicycle #border #railstotrails
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
#bicycle #border #railstotrails
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Is 100 years long enough to wait for transit connectivity? commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...
The Red-Blue Connector: A half-mile of subway that benefits an entire region - CommonWealth Beacon
It’s easy to look at the short length of the proposed Red-Blue Connector – less than half a mile – and mistake it for a project with small impact. Nothing could be further from the truth.
commonwealthbeacon.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Is 100 years long enough to wait for transit connectivity? commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/the-...
The world’s busiest border crossing and international airline route (not what you may have thought) and the little-known alternative):
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The world’s busiest border crossing and international airline route (not what you may have thought) and the little-known alternative):
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
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And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
‘How is this possible?’: a new film looks inside the appalling abuses of the Alabama prison system
In the year’s most shocking documentary, The Alabama Solution, prisoners share astonishing footage in a plea for help
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons.
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations.
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
More cowbell.
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
More cowbell.
#KualaLumpur #Malaysia and #Singapore for travellers and digital nomads: hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...
November 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
#KualaLumpur #Malaysia and #Singapore for travellers and digital nomads: hasbrouck.org/blog/archive...