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Jeffrey Vagle

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Law professor | Privacy, Cybersecurity, AI*, Technology and Society, National Security | Veteran | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · Nov 10

"I have no one on my left and only a few on my right. I WILL HOLD."

-- 1LT Clifton Cates, Message to Battalion Headquarters, 19 Jul 1918, Battle of Soissons

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 2h

This is where we're fortunate, in a twisted way, that Trump is such an undisciplined buffoon with a 9-year-old's grasp of language and communication. A slicker autocrat would likely not step on so many rakes. But that's neither here nor there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 3h

Get yourself a carte as blanche as the 2001 AUMF

Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 4h

Obligatory

Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 4h

I think this would require a principled approach that this Court has not demonstrated historically.

Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 5h

All of this a direct result of the decades of surveillance infrastructure that we've built (and willingly paid for) due in large part to the light-touch regulatory approach we've taken with the technology industry.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai @lorenzofb.bsky.social · 5h

Here's an updated list of all the technology ICE has in its arsenal to mass deport people.

We've added new sections on cell-site simulators and cellphone location data.

techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/h...

Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown | TechCrunch

From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.

techcrunch.com

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 6h

Data fusion for law enforcement (et al) is big business, and thanks to decades of largely unregulated surveillance infrastructure growth, every little tech company gets a chance to wet their beak.

Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 12d

I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 7h

Seems more suited for a university president role.

Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 7h

I think we should be hearing more from retired general and flag officers on this matter. John Yoo has even weighed in, for pete's sake.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 7h

As the nominee to be Army GC pushed the specious notion that strikes in the Caribbean are akin to those in the "war on terror," I'm reposting my essay from @justsecurity.org.

No armed attack like 9/11.

No congressional AUMF.

No armed conflict.

Not the same.

www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

Asserting a License to Kill: Why the Caribbean Strike is a Dangerous Departure from the “War on Terror”

An absence of credible legal basis for the Caribbean strike suggests the Trump admin is asserting a prerogative to kill outside the law.

www.justsecurity.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 7h

Where are our Woody Guthries?

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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 9h

The right expects the left to act accoridng to right wing stereotypes of the left. "The left only cares about identity, not merit." And when the left actually cares about merit (that Weiss is an awful person), the right claims the left is being untrue to themselves.
So, tis the right focused on id

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

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Leftists did the same thing to OJ Simpson. An entrepreneur, actor and sports icon of color and leftists wanted him in jail because of his relationship problems.

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 9h

This opening sentence was carefully designed in a lab to elicit certain feelings about its subject.

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

Yooooooooooooooooo.

Gonna do a book.

Journalist, podcast creator, and Punk Planet founder Dan Sinker's I HATE THOSE MASKED BASTARDS!: Terror, Truth, and the Editor Who Took on the Klan, a narrative account of crusading journalist George Dale, who faced off against a powerful, ascendant Klan movement in 1920s Indiana, and who serves as a model of journalistic integrity and defiance in the face of fascism, to Eric Kerl and Katy O'Donnell at Haymarket, at auction, by David Patterson at Stuart Krichevsky Agency (NA).

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

Weaponizing the Justice Department. Happening right in front of us. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 9h

Amen.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 10h

“The best defense against this weapon is solidarity among groups who disagree ferociously on many questions, but who agree on the need to keep America democratic and rebuild institutions and social connections to make democracy more robust”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 18h

Thinking about a future visit by Pope Leo.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 18d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 22h

Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4nEQMrw

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include "The Best of Joy of Painting" and "America's Test Kitchen."

www.pbs.org

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 20h

a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

ALT: a man with red hair and a beard is standing in the woods

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 20h

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 20h

The Simpsons had a take on this issue:

youtu.be/AS1c_dFYqmQ?...

The Simpsons - Hooray For Everything 1

YouTube video by AreaEightyNine

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 20h

Millennials and younger may not realize just how awful halftime shows used to be.

youtu.be/Z4mTTigqTSA?...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21h

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 20h

Are you telling me there’s not one condo available in all of Del Boca Vista?!

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