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Joshua Clark Davis @joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social · 11h

Have a piece today in TEEN VOGUE from my new book POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT detailing how the NYPD, LAPD, cops in Chicago and Memphis surveilled the civil rights movement—and then destroyed millions of surveillance files in the ‘70s, including ones that may have shed like on MLK’s assassination.

Police Departments Tracked Activists in the 1960s and 70s — Then Erased Records by Joshua Clark Davis

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h

Beat you to it

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h

Tech companies have proven consistently they are incapable of protecting sensitive, private user data. These laws aren’t intended to keep children safe. They’re designed to allow governments to prosecute and censor protected speech.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h

Case in point: bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h

“We are concerned that SB2420 impacts the privacy of users by requiring the collection of sensitive, personally identifiable information to download any app, even if a user simply wants to check the weather or sports scores."

Age verification makes everyone less safe online.

Apple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law

Texas requires sensitive info just to check weather and sports scores, Apple says.

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 3h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows.

(1/n)

Beautiful crow against a black background

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h

The bill now goes to committee where it will still have to be reconciled with the House version. Among the measures shot down were blocking money to retrofit the Qatari plane for temp AF1 and preventing trump from deploying NG w/o state/city consent.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h

Hot Priest and The Frog next fall on FX.

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 1h

Jonathan Groff as King George in Hamilton singing You’ll Be Back.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1h

San Antonio has no immediate plans to remove its Pride crosswalks, but Gina Ortiz, the city's first gay mayor, says that "We don't need crosswalks for pride, right? We don't need it, though they're nice to have, but that pride rolls on."
www.tpr.org/news/2025-10...

San Antonio: ‘No immediate plans’ to remove rainbow crosswalk or alter roadways amid TxDOT directive

“We are now working with TXDoT to understand the state’s specific areas of local concern. There are no immediate plans to make changes to any roadways, and any future changes will occur with City Coun...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to betray your fellow-HUMANS. Join ICE today and receive UP TO a $50,000 signing bonus, which YOU can spend on anything YOU want-like a LAWYER when you're eventually TRIED at THE HAGUE.
NEW YÖRKER

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to forget that YOU and nearly everyone YOU have ever KNOWN are descended from IMMIGRANTS. We also want YOU to ignore the FACT that the FIRST LADY worked in the U.S. before ever getting a WORK VISA. ICE reminds YOU that YOU will not arrest MODELS, as they are CRUCIAL to our ECONOMY.
NEW YORKER

SHOUTS & MURMURS
ICE wants YOU to put on a MASK to do your JOB. But NOT like
during COVID when YOU didn't WANT to wear a MASK. This time, it's NOT for protecting OTHERS from HARM—it's for protecting your IDENTITY while YOU harm OTHERS.
THE
NEW YORKER

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5h

And yet all people are thinking about is why won’t republicans renew the ACA subsidies to keep people on their health insurance.

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

Trump administration airs video at airports blaming Democrats for shutdown reut.rs/4qaOx11

Trump administration airs video at airports blaming Democrats for shutdown

The Trump administration on Thursday began airing a video at airports across the country that blames Democrats for a nine-day-old government shutdown that has prompted significant flight delays.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

#BREAKING Federal judge in Chicago temporarily blocks the Trump administration from "ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

This part of the deal has not been agreed to by both parties yet. So what they’re describing is occupation.

One of the officials said the new team will help monitor implementation of the ceasefire agreement and the transition to a civilian government in Gaza.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

“US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza.”

US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and privat...

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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 6h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

If we saw our democratic allies behaving like this, we’d summon an ambassador.

19thnews @19thnews.org · 6h

The New York AG and former FBI director are two of the most high-profile targets, but the president’s playbook in seeking retribution has been used on many others in the past — including other Black women in positions of power.

From Letitia James to James Comey, Trump is treating the DOJ like an instrument of revenge

The New York AG and former FBI director are two of the most high-profile targets, but the president’s playbook in seeking retribution has been used on many others in the past — including other Black w...

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h

Not good

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

They’re going to rig the vote.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

“Scott Leiendecker, the founder of a Missouri-based election technology company who previously served as the Republican director for the St. Louis City Board of Elections, purchased the company this week for an undisclosed sum, according to a press release.”

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

What it amounts to is executing random civilians at sea to project foreign policy strength against failure to end Russian invasion of Ukraine, effect regime change in Venezuela, and reinforce idea of military intervention on domestic law enforcement.

There are a few holes in the defense secretary's account. For one thing, the boats
-there have been four of them—have not been carrying enough fuel to travel from the South American coast directly to the United States. For another, the administration has not said what kind of drugs it is seeking, through the strikes, to stop from entering.
But relative to some of its neighbors, Venezuela is neither a major producer nor a significant transit hub for drugs. (Fentanyl, the drug that the president said is "killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people," doesn't come through the Caribbean at all.) The

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

Hegseth must be required to run it in full battle rattle and immediately resign if he doesn’t finish first.

Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 8h

GREAT NEWS, RUNNERS! 🏃🏽‍♂️🥇

The Army 10-Miler will step off at the Pentagon on Sunday morning as initially planned after they spent recent days considering canceling the event amid the federal government shutdown.

The Army Ten-Miler will race on, despite the shutdown

No stopping the Army Ten-Miler. Despite the government shutdown and fears of cancellation, the race will hit the streets as scheduled.

www.stripes.com

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