rainey reitman
@reitman.bsky.social
Board President @Freedom.press. Civil liberties advocate by day. Runner and thru hiker on the side.
Author of "Transaction Denied," exploring speech & financial companies. Now available for pre-order: https://bookshop.org/a/88573/9780807019115
Author of "Transaction Denied," exploring speech & financial companies. Now available for pre-order: https://bookshop.org/a/88573/9780807019115
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54 years ago, Sen. Mike Gravel had the courage to read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, ensuring the public could read the classified findings.
Today, someone in Congress today needs to find the same courage to read the boat strike memo.
Tell them to with @freedom.press's tool.
Today, someone in Congress today needs to find the same courage to read the boat strike memo.
Tell them to with @freedom.press's tool.
Reform Government Secrecy
The government keeps too many secrets, and many shouldn’t be secrets in the first place. We must fight overclassification and defend our right to know.
freedom.press
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
54 years ago, Sen. Mike Gravel had the courage to read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, ensuring the public could read the classified findings.
Today, someone in Congress today needs to find the same courage to read the boat strike memo.
Tell them to with @freedom.press's tool.
Today, someone in Congress today needs to find the same courage to read the boat strike memo.
Tell them to with @freedom.press's tool.
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Top 25 holiday gifts to get for your friend who has achieved Bodhisattva status and is free from attachment to material things (affiliate link)
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Top 25 holiday gifts to get for your friend who has achieved Bodhisattva status and is free from attachment to material things (affiliate link)
Love this: “the future of computing will be hyper-personalized. The question is whether that personalization will be in service of keeping us passively glued to screens—wading around in the shallows, stripped of agency—or whether it will enable us to direct more attention to what matters.”
Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Love this: “the future of computing will be hyper-personalized. The question is whether that personalization will be in service of keeping us passively glued to screens—wading around in the shallows, stripped of agency—or whether it will enable us to direct more attention to what matters.”
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In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras investigates Seymour Hersh: The filmmaker and FPF’s founding board member spoke with @columjournreview.bsky.social about her twenty-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world.
In 'Cover-Up,' Laura Poitras investigates Seymour Hersh.
The filmmaker on her twenty-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world.
www.cjr.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
In Cover-Up, Laura Poitras investigates Seymour Hersh: The filmmaker and FPF’s founding board member spoke with @columjournreview.bsky.social about her twenty-year project, the “crisis” in investigative journalism, and how truth-telling can still change the world.
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🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
December 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🚨 EVERYONE PLEASE RESKEET THIS FOR VISIBILITY!!! 🚨
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
A big coalition of LGBTQ+, abortion access, and human rights groups led by @fightforthefuture.org are organizing a WEEK OF ACTION this week against online ID checks, aka "age verification" laws.
Join us: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/stop...
Couldn't agree with this more.
Techdirt has always been an indispensible news source for people following tech policy.
This year @mmasnick.bsky.social has emerged as one of the clearest and most incisive voices explaining our current moment.
Please donate.
This year @mmasnick.bsky.social has emerged as one of the clearest and most incisive voices explaining our current moment.
Please donate.
Hey folks: this morning we're launching a monthlong fundraiser for @techdirt.com. Over the last year, we've been steadfast in not self-censoring, not capitulating, not sanewashing bullshit. But that's come at a cost. And we need help: rtb.techdirt.com/products/fri...
December 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Couldn't agree with this more.
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I did indeed
The federal Privacy Protection Act of 1980 sharply limits whether police can use search warrants against journalists, EFF’s David Greene told Kansas Reflector, and the warrant in this case “would seem to be so overly broad that it would violate the PPA.” kansasreflector.com/2025/11/30/...
A citizen reporter strayed onto a police gun range. Cops sought a warrant for his online newspaper. • Kansas Reflector
Jarom Smith is being investigated for criminal trespass and authorities have obtained a search warrant for his outlet's Facebook account
kansasreflector.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I did indeed
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2025 has been a year unlike anything we've seen in the US.
In the second Trump administration, attacks on journalists are no longer sporadic. They're systematic.
This #GivingTuesday, consider donating to support freedom of the press, so we can keep on fighting: freedom.press/donate
In the second Trump administration, attacks on journalists are no longer sporadic. They're systematic.
This #GivingTuesday, consider donating to support freedom of the press, so we can keep on fighting: freedom.press/donate
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
2025 has been a year unlike anything we've seen in the US.
In the second Trump administration, attacks on journalists are no longer sporadic. They're systematic.
This #GivingTuesday, consider donating to support freedom of the press, so we can keep on fighting: freedom.press/donate
In the second Trump administration, attacks on journalists are no longer sporadic. They're systematic.
This #GivingTuesday, consider donating to support freedom of the press, so we can keep on fighting: freedom.press/donate
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It is essentially the government's playbook for how they have (and still do) destroy political movements at home & abroad through surveillance, sabotage, blackmail, and violence. This includes their historic experimentation with LSD, poison, truth serums, etc. Officially on shelves January 16, 2026.
It's Black Friday. You might as well pre-order the first mainstream published version of the Church Committee Report. Abridged to its most essential findings, this 1975 report reads like the very best investigative journalism mixed with a spy novel covering assassinations, surveillance, sabotage.
The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
bookshop.org
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
It is essentially the government's playbook for how they have (and still do) destroy political movements at home & abroad through surveillance, sabotage, blackmail, and violence. This includes their historic experimentation with LSD, poison, truth serums, etc. Officially on shelves January 16, 2026.
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This Thanksgiving, give the gift of press freedom by making a tax-deductible donation to @freedom.press.
Your support will help sustain our work in 2026!
Your support will help sustain our work in 2026!
Donate to Freedom of the Press Foundation
Support Freedom of the Press Foundation by donating today.
freedom.press
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This Thanksgiving, give the gift of press freedom by making a tax-deductible donation to @freedom.press.
Your support will help sustain our work in 2026!
Your support will help sustain our work in 2026!
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It is good Congress is getting involved in the most significant declassification bill since the JFK records act.
But these efforts would be much improved if they also worked to clarify definitions relied on for making classification decisions, and had consequences for willful overclassification.
But these efforts would be much improved if they also worked to clarify definitions relied on for making classification decisions, and had consequences for willful overclassification.
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
It is good Congress is getting involved in the most significant declassification bill since the JFK records act.
But these efforts would be much improved if they also worked to clarify definitions relied on for making classification decisions, and had consequences for willful overclassification.
But these efforts would be much improved if they also worked to clarify definitions relied on for making classification decisions, and had consequences for willful overclassification.
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I wrote about Apple’s new iPhone security feature. innovation.consumerreports.org/apples-new-i...
Apple’s New iPhone Memory Protections Safeguards Devices Against Sophisticated Attacks - Innovation at Consumer Reports
Apple’s new Memory Integrity Enforcement aligns hardware and software to block memory safety exploits before they start, raising the bar for phone security
innovation.consumerreports.org
November 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I wrote about Apple’s new iPhone security feature. innovation.consumerreports.org/apples-new-i...
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NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
November 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
NEW: Footage of a US citizen in Chicago being rammed then dragged from her car on her way to work.
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
Abducted, with no warrant, her family couldn’t find her for hours.
She was later released with NO CHARGE.
A DHS statement said she “violently resisted arrest, injuring two officers”.
You decide…
"The parallels between writing and running are endless: set reasonable goals, show up and work toward them every day, be patient and methodical in your approach, embrace the grind, keep going when you want to quit, and eventually you’ll get where you want to go." - MF
the morning shakeout | issue 521
Not negotiating with the mind monkeys, the endless parallels between running and writing, avoiding the trap of success, and a lot more.
themorningshakeout.substack.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"The parallels between writing and running are endless: set reasonable goals, show up and work toward them every day, be patient and methodical in your approach, embrace the grind, keep going when you want to quit, and eventually you’ll get where you want to go." - MF
I love it when nonprofit advocates secure wins in tech policy battles. Today, the new Google Pixel 10 is implementing the C2PA standard natively in the smartphone camera chip.... www.linkedin.com/posts/samgre...
Google Pixel 10 integrates C2PA standard for authentic photos | Sam Gregory posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Normally I don't get so excited by a new phone launch, but this one is different....
The new Google Pixel 10 is implementing the #C2PA standard natively in the smartphone camera chip to show both 'ca...
www.linkedin.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I love it when nonprofit advocates secure wins in tech policy battles. Today, the new Google Pixel 10 is implementing the C2PA standard natively in the smartphone camera chip.... www.linkedin.com/posts/samgre...
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Today @hrdag.org denounces violations of human rights by the US government—and reaffirms our commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...
hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...
HRDAG Takes a Stand Against Tyranny in the United States
by Patrick Ball and Megan Price
Today the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) publicly denounces the growing attacks on science and human rights in the United States. We reaffirm our commitment ...
hrdag.org
October 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Today @hrdag.org denounces violations of human rights by the US government—and reaffirms our commitment to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...
hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...
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I’m proud of my organization @hrdag.org and my colleagues' courage to speak truth to power. Human rights and evidence must never bend to tyranny. hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...
HRDAG Takes a Stand Against Tyranny in the United States
by Patrick Ball and Megan Price
Today the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) publicly denounces the growing attacks on science and human rights in the United States. We reaffirm our commitment ...
hrdag.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I’m proud of my organization @hrdag.org and my colleagues' courage to speak truth to power. Human rights and evidence must never bend to tyranny. hrdag.org/2025/10/21/h...
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"An administration headed by a president who just called upholstered furniture a national security threat cannot be trusted to invoke national security responsibly."
freedom.press/issues/despi...
freedom.press/issues/despi...
Despite walk back, Pentagon access policy is unconstitutional nonsense
Reporters can’t be limited to information that falls into their laps. They’re entitled to report
freedom.press
September 26, 2025 at 2:40 PM
"An administration headed by a president who just called upholstered furniture a national security threat cannot be trusted to invoke national security responsibly."
freedom.press/issues/despi...
freedom.press/issues/despi...
This. It comes down to whether we want the government policing ideas, and yeah… we don’t.
Hateful speech should be met with denouncement, mockery, facts, or just ignoring it. But handing the government the power to silence speech it disagrees with is not only unconstitutional, it’s a bad idea.
Hateful speech should be met with denouncement, mockery, facts, or just ignoring it. But handing the government the power to silence speech it disagrees with is not only unconstitutional, it’s a bad idea.
I’m more used to saying this to people on the Left than people on the Right, but, “hate speech” is not an exception to the First Amendment. “Hate speech” is protected by the First Amendment unless it falls into a traditional established exception.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech, and there is no place, especially now, especially after what happened to Charlie, in our society...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."
September 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This. It comes down to whether we want the government policing ideas, and yeah… we don’t.
Hateful speech should be met with denouncement, mockery, facts, or just ignoring it. But handing the government the power to silence speech it disagrees with is not only unconstitutional, it’s a bad idea.
Hateful speech should be met with denouncement, mockery, facts, or just ignoring it. But handing the government the power to silence speech it disagrees with is not only unconstitutional, it’s a bad idea.
Ah @yrfatfriend.bsky.social is such a breath of fresh air:
“We can build a world that doesn’t assume fat people are failed thin people, or that thin people are categorically healthy and virtuous.” 💪 ❤️
“We can build a world that doesn’t assume fat people are failed thin people, or that thin people are categorically healthy and virtuous.” 💪 ❤️
September 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Ah @yrfatfriend.bsky.social is such a breath of fresh air:
“We can build a world that doesn’t assume fat people are failed thin people, or that thin people are categorically healthy and virtuous.” 💪 ❤️
“We can build a world that doesn’t assume fat people are failed thin people, or that thin people are categorically healthy and virtuous.” 💪 ❤️
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HRDAG stands firmly with the human rights community in insisting that encryption is not optional — it is fundamental to the defense of truth.
Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.
hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...
Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.
hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...
Without Encryption My Work Wouldn’t Be Possible
Our work isn’t always popular. It can infuriate those in power who want to cover up incriminating truths about the past and current trends in state violence. So when I think about HRDAG’s threat model...
hrdag.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
HRDAG stands firmly with the human rights community in insisting that encryption is not optional — it is fundamental to the defense of truth.
Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.
hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...
Any attempt to ban or backdoor encryption technology is a threat to the human rights community.
hrdag.substack.com/p/without-en...
Really well-researched & well-reasoned article from @thefireorg.bsky.social exploring the many people (including many teachers) losing their jobs for celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
"We should remember we don’t win an argument by ruining someone’s life." www.thefire.org/news/we-are-...
"We should remember we don’t win an argument by ruining someone’s life." www.thefire.org/news/we-are-...
We are in the cancel culture part of the tragedy cycle
Cancel culture ends when we decide that people can be horrifically wrong and still entitled to the grace that enables us all to grow from our worst moments.
www.thefire.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Really well-researched & well-reasoned article from @thefireorg.bsky.social exploring the many people (including many teachers) losing their jobs for celebrating Charlie Kirk's death.
"We should remember we don’t win an argument by ruining someone’s life." www.thefire.org/news/we-are-...
"We should remember we don’t win an argument by ruining someone’s life." www.thefire.org/news/we-are-...
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A giant in the civil liberties field! We all owe a debt of gratitude to Cindy Cohn for her indelible leadership at @eff.org for so many years (and for being our legal counsel at @freedom.press since our founding in 2012).
Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battl...
www.wired.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A giant in the civil liberties field! We all owe a debt of gratitude to Cindy Cohn for her indelible leadership at @eff.org for so many years (and for being our legal counsel at @freedom.press since our founding in 2012).
I had a chance to work with Cindy for many years, and to be honest I often still refer to her as "boss." She always led EFF with integrity and courage. I wish her well in the next chapter; it'll be hard to beat 25 years at EFF.
After 25 years at EFF, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battle.
Cindy Cohn Is Leaving the EFF, but Not the Fight for Digital Rights
After 25 years at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director. In a WIRED interview, she reflects on encryption, AI, and why she’s not ready to quit the battl...
www.wired.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I had a chance to work with Cindy for many years, and to be honest I often still refer to her as "boss." She always led EFF with integrity and courage. I wish her well in the next chapter; it'll be hard to beat 25 years at EFF.
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End-to-end encryption is vital to protect journalists, human rights workers, and billions of people across the world. Read this important piece from @hrdag.org for why:
Without Encryption My Work Wouldn’t Be Possible
Our work isn’t always popular. It can infuriate those in power who want to cover up incriminating truths about the past and current trends in state violence. So when I think about HRDAG’s threat model...
hrdag.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
End-to-end encryption is vital to protect journalists, human rights workers, and billions of people across the world. Read this important piece from @hrdag.org for why: