Jeff Meyer
@jeffme.bsky.social
Refusing to take refuge in cynicism. USAF, intel, techie, map lover & fan of fair representation. Facts & science matter. He/him. Was @meyerjef on Twitter
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Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “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.”
Their internal memo: “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.”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
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In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
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Again, there is no mass constituency for a Rod Dreher. He has been entirely a creature subsidized by 1-2 extremely rich men who then helped get his writings jammed into friendly publications. We need to stop treating these ideas as anything more than the weird dude no one engages with on Reddit.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Oh fuck off.
This guy isn't interesting or deep. He's a racist, reactionary authoritarian lickspittle and courtier.
Oh fuck off.
This guy isn't interesting or deep. He's a racist, reactionary authoritarian lickspittle and courtier.
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Again, there is no mass constituency for a Rod Dreher. He has been entirely a creature subsidized by 1-2 extremely rich men who then helped get his writings jammed into friendly publications. We need to stop treating these ideas as anything more than the weird dude no one engages with on Reddit.
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Item #182727 in the list of ways that Trump, supposed fighter of antisemitism, is really a gigantic agent of it
The Trump administration is trying to divide Jews from other marginalized communities at a time of rising antisemitism and fascism, by forcing Jews to choose between supporting ICE or rejecting federal security funding. It is an unacceptable choice,. www.jta.org/2026/02/11/i...
American synagogues are being forced into a terrible choice: Collaborate with ICE or risk our own safety - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish federations should fund security so synagogues don't have to accept the federal government's conditions, a Philadelphia rabbi urges.
www.jta.org
February 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Item #182727 in the list of ways that Trump, supposed fighter of antisemitism, is really a gigantic agent of it
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Saboteurs: Wrecking the US for generations by contributing to the spread of disease.
February 13, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Saboteurs: Wrecking the US for generations by contributing to the spread of disease.
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I know this seems like it should be impossible, but both of these statements are true: Trump's judicial nominees all refuse to denounce the January 6 insurrection or say that he lost the 2020 election, and ALSO, some Senate Dems keep voting to confirm those nominees to life-tenured judgeships
Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees?
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying Trump nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to confirm them.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I know this seems like it should be impossible, but both of these statements are true: Trump's judicial nominees all refuse to denounce the January 6 insurrection or say that he lost the 2020 election, and ALSO, some Senate Dems keep voting to confirm those nominees to life-tenured judgeships
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WSJ reports: Whistleblower complaint that has stalled under Gabbard pertains to Jared Kushner. About an intercepted call that "at least in part concerned issues related to Iran" in which 2 people talk about Kusher with allegations that "would be significant if verified." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:31 PM
WSJ reports: Whistleblower complaint that has stalled under Gabbard pertains to Jared Kushner. About an intercepted call that "at least in part concerned issues related to Iran" in which 2 people talk about Kusher with allegations that "would be significant if verified." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.
Election denier involved in fake electors plot wrote much of SAVE America Act, Trump-aligned think tank claims
“I’m here to do everything I can to make this work,” Thomas Lane wrote in a December 2020 email to other organizers of the Trump campaign’s fake electoral plot in Arizona.
www.democracydocket.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:30 PM
🚨BREAKING: An election-denying former Donald Trump campaign staffer who was subpoenaed by the FBI over his role in the attempt to steal the 2020 election is now taking credit for writing the sweeping voter suppression bill passed by the House Wednesday that could disenfranchise millions.
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Particularly as the ringleader of a corrupt real estate deal for Western colonization of Gaza under the auspices of a Wario UN.
As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?
Breaking WSJ:
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
February 12, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Particularly as the ringleader of a corrupt real estate deal for Western colonization of Gaza under the auspices of a Wario UN.
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The casting of Obama as the Perfect Centrist also neglects that he:
*deprioritized removals of longtime residents
*gave legal protections to Dreamers and even tried to extend them to millions of parents of US citizens/LPRs (court blocked)
*presided over Senate passage of legalization for millions
*deprioritized removals of longtime residents
*gave legal protections to Dreamers and even tried to extend them to millions of parents of US citizens/LPRs (court blocked)
*presided over Senate passage of legalization for millions
really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
The casting of Obama as the Perfect Centrist also neglects that he:
*deprioritized removals of longtime residents
*gave legal protections to Dreamers and even tried to extend them to millions of parents of US citizens/LPRs (court blocked)
*presided over Senate passage of legalization for millions
*deprioritized removals of longtime residents
*gave legal protections to Dreamers and even tried to extend them to millions of parents of US citizens/LPRs (court blocked)
*presided over Senate passage of legalization for millions
OnTrac isn't here, but I am, so here I flame.
OnTrac, your drivers don't ring the doorbell when they make a delivery. How lazy do you have to be to walk all the way up to a door & then NOT ring the doorbell?
OnTrac: "The #1 Alternative Carrier Network" to carriers that actually ring the doorbell.
OnTrac, your drivers don't ring the doorbell when they make a delivery. How lazy do you have to be to walk all the way up to a door & then NOT ring the doorbell?
OnTrac: "The #1 Alternative Carrier Network" to carriers that actually ring the doorbell.
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
OnTrac isn't here, but I am, so here I flame.
OnTrac, your drivers don't ring the doorbell when they make a delivery. How lazy do you have to be to walk all the way up to a door & then NOT ring the doorbell?
OnTrac: "The #1 Alternative Carrier Network" to carriers that actually ring the doorbell.
OnTrac, your drivers don't ring the doorbell when they make a delivery. How lazy do you have to be to walk all the way up to a door & then NOT ring the doorbell?
OnTrac: "The #1 Alternative Carrier Network" to carriers that actually ring the doorbell.
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Good example of why I respectfully disagree with those who think bodycams are useless or actively harmful. In the last 13 months we have repeatedly seen bodycam footage refute ICE/CBP officers' flagrant lies, sometimes even exonerating protesters falsely accused of assault. slate.com/news-and-pol...
February 12, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Good example of why I respectfully disagree with those who think bodycams are useless or actively harmful. In the last 13 months we have repeatedly seen bodycam footage refute ICE/CBP officers' flagrant lies, sometimes even exonerating protesters falsely accused of assault. slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Richard Leon's opinion ruling against Whiskey Pete Hegseth in Mark Kelly's lawsuit is a 14-exclamation point opinion.
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February 12, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Richard Leon's opinion ruling against Whiskey Pete Hegseth in Mark Kelly's lawsuit is a 14-exclamation point opinion.
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New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...
Private Chains, Public Harm
How Supply Networks Fuel ICE Operations
donmoynihan.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:00 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: One aspect of ICE that is not discussed much is how dependent it is on private supply chains, including foreign companies. That provides an opportunity to name-and-shame firms providing its services.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/private-ch...
Strictly speaking*, this is not spying, but damn, it's disrespectful and dirty.
It'd be even dirtier for the Democrats demand the searches be made public. I'm sure the D's were searching for topics that may not be publicly known yet.
* Use of govt computer systems provides no assurance of privacy
It'd be even dirtier for the Democrats demand the searches be made public. I'm sure the D's were searching for topics that may not be publicly known yet.
* Use of govt computer systems provides no assurance of privacy
NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
February 12, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Strictly speaking*, this is not spying, but damn, it's disrespectful and dirty.
It'd be even dirtier for the Democrats demand the searches be made public. I'm sure the D's were searching for topics that may not be publicly known yet.
* Use of govt computer systems provides no assurance of privacy
It'd be even dirtier for the Democrats demand the searches be made public. I'm sure the D's were searching for topics that may not be publicly known yet.
* Use of govt computer systems provides no assurance of privacy
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I assume conservatives will be as outraged about this as they were about the footnote error in the Carter Page FISA warrant.
UPDATE/SCOOP:
An FBI affidavit used to seize 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton County omitted key findings from state investigators that undercut many questions about wrongdoing, an @npr.org analysis finds.
Read the Secretary of State's office investigative reports:
An FBI affidavit used to seize 2020 election ballots from Georgia's Fulton County omitted key findings from state investigators that undercut many questions about wrongdoing, an @npr.org analysis finds.
Read the Secretary of State's office investigative reports:
The FBI seizure of Georgia 2020 election ballots relies on debunked claims
An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.
www.npr.org
February 11, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I assume conservatives will be as outraged about this as they were about the footnote error in the Carter Page FISA warrant.
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Was asked about “viewpoint diversity.” It may sound like pluralism, but it means auditing faculty for ideological balance—confusing scholarship with partisan accounting. Pluralism rests on rigorous debate and critique, not political mandates, and rarely welcomes every opinion under the sun.
September 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Was asked about “viewpoint diversity.” It may sound like pluralism, but it means auditing faculty for ideological balance—confusing scholarship with partisan accounting. Pluralism rests on rigorous debate and critique, not political mandates, and rarely welcomes every opinion under the sun.
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It was an honor to chat with Lucas Morel about the Declaration of Independence and the Push for Racial Equality. Grateful for the invitation from the National Constitution Center. Have a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocwb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocwb...
The Declaration of Independence and the Push for Racial Equality
YouTube video by National Constitution Center
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
It was an honor to chat with Lucas Morel about the Declaration of Independence and the Push for Racial Equality. Grateful for the invitation from the National Constitution Center. Have a listen.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocwb...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocwb...
Neguse always brings the heat.
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
February 11, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Neguse always brings the heat.
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Jim looks at camera.
Jim Jordan: "You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress"
February 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Jim looks at camera.
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As an established writer, I'm not really worried by AI, because AI can't do what I do. It can only pretend. And I've cultivated the kind of audience that can spot the difference.
BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.
BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.
February 11, 2026 at 6:30 PM
As an established writer, I'm not really worried by AI, because AI can't do what I do. It can only pretend. And I've cultivated the kind of audience that can spot the difference.
BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.
BUT... that word "established" is load bearing. The opportunity to LEARN to do what I do is what AI is taking away.
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Hey, look nothing has changed in 15 days except Alex Pretti’s death is “under investigation” by DOJ.
As of right now, ICE is fully funded, Renee Good’s death remains without an investigation, Alex Pretti’s death is under investigation by DHS(?), Kristi Noem has not been impeached, and as of right now, ICE is still in Minnesota. Keep pushing, folks.
The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.
February 11, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Hey, look nothing has changed in 15 days except Alex Pretti’s death is “under investigation” by DOJ.
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It's at the foundation of everything going on in the world today. Democracies eating themselves alive because guys who have two cars and five TVs are mad at some grad student named Rainbow
I think the through-line with almost every single senior member of this administration is seething resentment of people who have credentials, real experience, and legitimate success.
February 10, 2026 at 2:50 AM
It's at the foundation of everything going on in the world today. Democracies eating themselves alive because guys who have two cars and five TVs are mad at some grad student named Rainbow
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English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.
February 10, 2026 at 1:44 AM
English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.