Jay Peters
Zoom, enhance.
The Associated Press snapped a picture of a note from Marco Rubio to President Trump about a Truth Social post for the deal between Israel and Hamas. Trump later made the post.
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Elizabeth Lopatto
Wow, cute t-shirt! And it supports the EFF?
To support their suits against OPM and DOGE, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is selling a retro-looking ringer t-shirt, and honestly it’s kind of a banger. I think I am going to buy one, hem it into a crop top and wear it when I go rock climbing. At $25 it’s a steal.
Tina Nguyen
Jay Peters
ICEBlock creator Joshua Aaron says Tim Cook has “broken” trust in Apple.
Now, interestingly, ICEBlock users are the same users who build, support, and buy Apple’s products. And these same people rely on and trust Apple every single day. And I’ll tell you, if I was speaking directly to Tim Cook, I’d say, “Tim, you’ve broken that trust, and now it’s up to you to fix it.”
Apple removed ICEBlock from the App Store last week.
This is the glass cliff to end all glass cliffs.
Elizabeth Lopatto
Terrence O'Brien
ICE is taking bids to build a 24/7 social media police state
Wired is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is planing increase its surveillance of social media. The government is looking to run a “24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year” program that would turn Instagram posts and TikTok clips into leads for deportation raids.
Sarah Jeong
Trump’s mobilization of Oregon’s National Guard hinges on Truth Social posts.
At a hearing in a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, a DOJ attorney defended the president’s federalization of 200 guardsmen. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Eric Hamilton said that the president has met the conditions of 10 U.S.C. 12406, having made a proper determination that Portland has become so violent that “regular forces cannot execute the laws of the United States.”
Which determination would that be? “The most important determination is reflected in posts he made on Truth Social,” Hamilton told Judge Karin J. Immergut, specifying posts made on September 27 and October 1, where the president called Portland a “war zone” occupied by “domestic terrorists.”
Scott Kennedy, representing the state of Oregon, called the president’s posts “vague, incendiary hyperbole that lacks a good faith assessment of the facts,” saying they simply did not line up with the reality of what was happening on the ground.
