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Edward Hasbrouck

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Travel writer, author, journalist, consumer & human rights advocate, bicyclist, consultant to the Identity Project. https://hasbrouck.org [email protected] Signal +1-415-824-0214 Mostly on Mastodon: https://urbanists.social/@ehasbrouck

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · May 23

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:

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Ad for Cellebrite UFED, "The industry standard for accessing digital device data"

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 11h

Remember Nixon and Reagan. Do not forget. Do not forgive.

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 16h

Trump’s War on Drugs
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Trump’s War on Drugs

Journalist Radley Balko examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 13h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 13h

Hitler started by jailing the opposition* not by building death camps. So please stop dismissing comparisons to fascism as hyperbolic.

*This included my great-grandfather, a communist. Growing up in the long, dark shadow of the Third Reich, I've always feared it 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 happen here.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 13h

I mean it was only a matter of time when they named the spy agency Doggystyle.

Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 14h

Ahah. Whoops

We have been made aware that several titles in the Spy Dogs, Spy Pup, and Spy Cat series by Andrew Cope contain a weblink at the back of the book that no longer directs people to information about the books. Instead, the link now leads to inappropriate and unsafe material, containing pornographic content with no age restrictions.

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 13h

Time to repeal the REAL-ID Act:
papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/0...

Repeal the REAL-ID Act – Papers, Please!

We urge other US Senators from both sides of the aisle to co-sponsor S. 2769, and US Representatives to introduce the similar legislation in House.

papersplease.org

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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 1d

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 1d

#iamreading Erin van Rheenen, "You Could be Happy Here":

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"a fascinating take on, among other themes, guests and hosts, relationships across divides of privilege as well as culture, and the role that “place” plays in our identities."
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You Could Be Happy Here - Erin Van Rheenen

Coming Sept 16, 2025. Available for pre-order now! Download Reader’s Guide (pdf) Read the Author Q&A (pdf) Download Tip Sheet (pdf) Read an Excerpt Behind the Book Ask about a Book Club visit You Coul...

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 1d

When a civilian vessel in international waters is boarded by force of arms, and the people on board are kidnapped, there's a word for that:

piracy

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 1d

Hello again @aaron.bsky.team.

Does Bluesky has a special contract with thehive.AI where thehive.AI won’t use Bluesky users posts for their GenAI?

Or is Bluesky actually feeding every user post (Art & Writing) to a GenAI system that profits off of copyrighted material not intended for it?

James Dreben @jdreben.omg.lol · Jul 3

What’s up with this… Is 1) The Hive really being used, and 2) using images here for generative AI? Pretty bad look if true

To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is used to train generative Al models.
BlueSky uses Al to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://t hehive.ai/. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they all content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative Al for both text and images.
It's a built in «feature" and cannot be turned off.

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alias is away @aliasv01.bsky.social · 1d

The Bluesky Head of Trust & Safety admitting that all posted images are processed through an AI autolabeller that presumably employees have no access to or control over? (And probably steals every image to be used in an AI “art” generator, who knows?)

Seriously, this is outrageously irresponsible.

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 1d

#European #train #travel #FAQ:

Updated guide to tools, techniques, and resources for European train routes, reservations, and tickets:

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The Practical Nomad: Edward Hasbrouck's blog

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

For the London tabloids, Trump's mental illness is a major, front-page issue. For the US media, it's something that urgently needs to be swept under the rug. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

New conspiracies over Trump’s health swirl after CNN text interview

The president famously does not use email and is not known to frequently use text messages

www.independent.co.uk

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 2d

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 2d

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Federal Air Marshal (FAM) tasked with surveilling an airline passenger followed them to curb and recorded license plate of vehicle in which they left airport, so airline reservations could be integrated with LPR data into uninterrupted multi-modal travel history:

The weaponization of travel blacklists – Papers, Please!

Coming just hours before the partial shutdown of Federal government operations, this hearing was sparsely attended, even by members of the committee, and got little press attention. The hearing opened with the Chair and Ranking Minority Member of the committee talking over each other at length.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 3d

OK, so this is going to be tough to hear, but it needs to be said.

Now that Trump has been enjoined from sending *any* NG to Oregon, ICE is going to go gangbusters in Oregon, dialing everything up to 1000%.

Because they need riots. They need someone punching an ICE officer.

DON'T TAKE THE BAIT.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 3d

OK I need to watch this it looks amazing

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 4d

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 3d

Will Bunch:

Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word

The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch

The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

www.inquirer.com

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Divest from Tesla! @divesttesla.bsky.social · 3d

We need your help to keep pressure on CalPERS and CalSTRS to sell their $4B in Tesla stock.

CalPERS board has requested staff report on risk of continued investment in Tesla!

This is progress, but not final decision.

Tell CalPERS and CalSTRS to sell Tesla NOW:

actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...

Email to CalPERS and CalSTRS boards: Divest from Tesla

We're making big progress toward getting the CalPERS and CalSTRS pension funds to sell their billions of dollars in Tesla stock -- and we need your continued help to keep up the pres...

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Longtail News @longtail.news · 7d

Feed: "Berkeleyside"
By: Friends of Ann Fagan Ginger on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Remembering Ann Fagan Ginger, 100, ‘oracle of justice’ who fought McCarthyism and championed human rights

Founder of Berkeley's Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, she pioneered the field of "peace law," defended Angela Davis and wrote the resolution establishing Berkeley as a Human Rights City.

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Robert “Bobby Don” Gifford @thegiffordlawfirm.bsky.social · Aug 28

Ann Ginger, a legendary icon in the National Lawyers Guild who fought for civil and human rights well into her 90s has passed at the age of 100 - this was an article done for her on her birthday in July - In Honor of Ann Fagan Ginger at Age 100
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In Honor of Ann Fagan Ginger at Age 100 - Military Law Task Force

by Peter Goldberger, MLTF, Ardmore PA Let us celebrate Ann Fagan Ginger on her 100th birthday, July 11, 2025! In my estimation, Ann should be appreciated as one of the most outstanding figures in the ...

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Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 5d

You can claim 100%, and if publisher doesn't dispute your claim, settlement will pay you directly. If publisher disputes split, "Special Master" will decide. If Special Master awards $$ to publisher, you could then go to small claims court to try to recover from publisher for breach of contract.

Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 5d

More from the NWU: nwu.org/anthropic/ "Books published around the world were copied by Anthropic and in settlement, *if* registered with US Copyright Office. (NWU has argued for decades that registration is “formality” prohibited by Berne Convention. But US thumbs its nose at international law.)

Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social · 5d