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jenna ruddock
@ruddock.bsky.social
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researcher, organizer, a lot of hats ✨ opinions my own and also my dog’s (probably)
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 6d
the Trump admin just deported an award-winning journalist known for his reporting on ICE and got Apple to block ICE-spotter apps — all while churning out highly-produced social media content from violent ICE raids in Chicago. it’s their media or no media. www.techpolicy.press/amidst-viole...
Amidst Violent Immigration Raids, DHS Turns to Big Tech to Silence Dissent | TechPolicy.Press
Free Press advocacy director Jenna Ruddock says the Trump administration is targeting anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations.
www.techpolicy.press
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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h
One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14h
So this is a pretty wild part of the TRO: mandating agents wear visible identification. Taking bets on how long before they violate it, lol
It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when wearing riot gear.
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 14h
i believe this is what is colloquially referred to as "cooking the books"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17h
the "doing politics the right way" continues
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 17h
I went ahead and did the starting work for someone who wants to chase this angle. Most right-wing influencers who participated in the "Antifa" roundtable at the White House yesterday have easily provable ties to TPUSA (8 of 12). The other four need a closer look I don't have time for right now.
right-wing influencers standing for a photo together at the white house (Left to Right) Jack Posobiec - TPUSA employee Seamus Bruner - Government Accountability Institute (GAI) James Klug - TPUSA Ambassador Jonathan Cho - TPUSA employee Nick Sortor - Influencer Julio Rosas - Former TPUSA, Blaze Media Nick Shirley - Influencer Andy Ngo - Human Events Media Group* Brandi Kruse - Influencer Savannah Hernandez - TPUSA employee Katie Daviscourt - Former TPUSA, Human Events Media Group* Cam Higby - TPUSA employee (Human Events Media Group is closely tied to TPUSA. https://humanevents.com/about-human-events )
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17h
The secret police performatively praying over fast food hamburgers before a hard day's work disappearing immigrants. They'd call you a hack for making a joke like that. I feel like one just noticing it having happened in real life.

www.welcometohellworld.com/everything-i...
Everything is so stupid and so dangerous at once
Out here is where the monsters are
www.welcometohellworld.com
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
“The more ways that a student reports that their school uses AI, the more likely they are to report things like 'I know someone who considers AI to be a friend,' 'I know someone who considers AI to be a romantic partner.'"
1 in 5 high schoolers has had a romantic AI relationship, or knows someone who has
A national survey of students, teachers and parents shines a light on how the AI revolution is playing out in schools – including when it comes to bullying and a community's trust in schools.
www.npr.org
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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d
NEW — Rod Johnson will never forget federal agents zip-tying his hands behind his back.

The night of the South Shore raid in Chicago, Johnson said he was detained for two hours.

“I’m an American citizen with no warrants,” Johnson said.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/sout...
South Shore raid triggers past traumas and sparks new conversations about divisions between Black and Latino communities • The TRiiBE
Federal agent activity on Chicago’s South and West sides put Black people in the crosshairs.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 17h
Chief Judge Kendall's statement comes as last night an Army commander told a federal court that DHS had so far made two requests for National Guard deployments in the Chicago area: (1) at the Broadview ICE facility, (2) at the Dirksen Courthouse on Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As of 1430 CDT on October 8, 2025, ARNORTH has received two requests for protection support. First, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requested federalized National Guard personnel to support protection of federal property and personnel at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois. Second, the Federal Protective Service (FPS) requested federalized National Guard personnel to support protection of the Federal District Court on Friday, October 10, 2025 due to two high profile cases involving DHS activities and personnel in the Chicago, Illinois metropolitan area.
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Free Press @freepress.bsky.social · 1d
Trump has set his sights on anyone monitoring its expanding immigration enforcement operations, and it's turning to Big Tech to help.

Free Press' advocacy director @ruddock.bsky.social explains how the crackdown moves to ban and chill traditional media reporting on the topic, too.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America
Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d
Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
It felt “more different to images than people expected.”
www.theverge.com
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray. “I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.” But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire. “We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 2d
Amazon had county officials near Tucson, Arizona sign an NDA in 2023 that would’ve lasted until ”Project Blue” was permitted and built. Locals only found out that “Project Blue” would a hyperscale data center in June. County officials only confirmed Amazon’s involved last week.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 3d
I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d
SCOTUS signaled at its hearings today it may strike down Colorado's ban on conversion therapy

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/chile...
The Conservative Justices Don't Trust Any Science That Supports LGBTQ Kids
States that want to facilitate discrimination against LGBTQ people have the Court's blessing. States that want to protect LGBTQ people from discrimination do not.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d
“[M]ilitary lawyers & legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army & Navy's top judge advocates…sets an alarming precedent for a crucial job in the military, all as…Trump has mused about using the military in unorthodox & potentially illegal ways.” 2/25/25…1/
'People Are Very Scared': Trump Administration Purge of JAG Officers Raises Legal, Ethical Fears
Military lawyers and legal experts told Military.com the administration's firings of the Air Force, Army and Navy's top judge advocates general politicizes and sets an alarming precedent for a crucial...
www.military.com
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 2d
The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 4d
“If the immigration enforcement apparatus of the United States were its own national military, it would be the 13th most heavily funded in the world.“

- @sarahlazare.bsky.social & Lindsay Koshgarian, @inthesetimes.com

inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...
The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago
As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d
For people who are afraid to give to Gaza fundraisers directly (no judgement, I know civil servants in the U.S. for example can get into trouble for it) you can always hire/support the many people who donate all the time theintercept.com/2025/10/02/g...
She Sent Money to Family in Gaza. ICE Claimed It’s Evidence She Supports Hamas.
To keep her in ICE detention in Texas, the Trump administration pointed to Leqaa Kordia’s remittances to family in Palestine.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d
What could 10,000 ICE jackboots each cost to recruit, Michael? $3,000,000? Wait, that cannot possibly be right *checks math*

"The [ad] campaign... is part of ICE’s $30 billion initiative to hire 10,000 more deportation officers by the end of the year."

Oh wow oh fuck jesus christ what the shit
ICE airs ads stirring up local frustration to recruit police for mass deportation efforts
An Associated Press tally shows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is spending millions of dollars on TV recruitment ads targeting officers frustrated by local restrictions on immigration enforc...
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 3d
Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...
Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline
People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.
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Chibdm @chibdm.bsky.social · 3d
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge April Perry declines to immediately issue a temporary restraining order to block the National Guard deployment, but schedules a hearing for Thursday, Gov. Pritzker announces. @wttw.bsky.social
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked a federal judge Monday morning to block President Donald Trump from deploying 400 members of the Texas National Guard to Chicago alongside 300 members of the Illinois National Guard. @wttw.bsky.social
Gov. JB Pritzker, Mayor Brandon Johnson Ask Judge to Block Trump From Deploying 400 Texas National Guard Troops to Chicago
The lawsuit filed by Illinois and Chicago officials calls the looming deployment of both Texas and Illinois National Guard troops a politically motivated and unconstitutional federal overreach.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 3d
Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”
Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law
“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”
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