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Privacy Guides' Program Director @jonah gave an amazing speech last night in our weekly livestream!
It's a truly moving speech,
and an incredibly important statement in our current troubled times.
Fighting for privacy rights is a battle for human rights. Nobody lives in a vacuum.
We must build our communities to fight collectively 💛✊
Please watch it: youtube.com/watch?v=BQ5_4Li9Gs…
#USpol #HumanRights #Privacy #ICEout #ICE #MassSurveillance #Minnesota #StandWithMinnesota
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"ICE Expands Power of Agents to Arrest People Without Warrants"
(I can't read the rest - paywall - but.. Seriously?!? Ugh)
nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/poli…
Yeah! My French journal is reporting on the Ice Out protests:
« ICE out » : les images des milliers de personnes rassemblées dans les rues des Etats-Unis pour protester contre la police de l’immigration
lemonde.fr/international/artic…
« ICE out » : les images des milliers de personnes rassemblées dans les rues des Etats-Unis pour protester contre la police de l’immigration
Les manifestants entendaient également dénoncer la politique de l’administration Trump et la mort de Renee Good et d’Alex Pretti, tués début janvier sous les balles d’agents fédéraux.Service photo (Le Monde)
Woman Told FBI Trump Abused Her at 13, Epstein Files Reveal
thedailybeast.com/woman-told-f…
#TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinFiles #IndictAlexAcosta #ChildRapistTrump #GhislaineMaxwell #JeffreyEpstein #MAGA #DonaldTrump #PamBondi #USPol
Woman Told FBI Trump Abused Her at 13, Epstein Files Reveal
A jaw-dropping series of claims are made in pages of FBI documents, which the White House say are “false.”Farrah Tomazin (The Daily Beast)
Rep. LaMonica McIver faces 17 years in prison over ICE private concentration camp inspection.
They are jailing & killing all the good people. Removing every bulwark to their tyranny & destruction.
Prisons are bad enough, prisons for profit should be illegal.
No profit taking should exist in those spaces. It is why they starve & use punishment instead of community protection as a model.
Journalist Don Lemon taken into custody after Minnesota church protest
cnn.com/2026/01/30/politics/do…
#news #politics #uspol #uspolitics #GOPCult #trump #ethics #corruption #maga
Report: Netanyahu trying to "engineer a one-way flow of Palestinians out of Gaza."
"Egyptian officials rejected this asymmetric formula [as a] calculated attempt to engineer emigration & permanently reduce Gaza’s population."
"A new ‘remote control’ surveillance mechanism [appears] designed to filter the population."
aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/i…
#GazaGenocide #USPol #EUPol #palestine #DisplacementReplacement .
Israel seeks ‘more exits than entries’ at Gaza’s Rafah as Egypt objects
Demands from Israel fuel fears of engineered displacement of Palestinians from devastated Gaza.Mohammad Mansour (Al Jazeera)
Consequences.
not-ship.com/america-isnt-exce…
America isn't exceptional — it's the exception
America has self-importance in abundance. What it lacks is the data to back it up.Amanda Shendruk (Not-Ship)
#politics #USPol #ICE #cryptocurrency
Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for
As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling itMolly White (Citation Needed)
Amid all this, the crypto industry has amassed at least $315 million to spend in the midterms — more than double their recordbreaking 2024 spending that helped install Trump and members of Congress who either support his atrocities or are too craven to do anything about them.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
The Fairshake PAC timed a press blitz about the nearly $200 million they’re brandishing towards members of Congress just ahead of a Senate Ag vote on crypto market structure. It passed, and amendments to address Trump’s crypto corruption or prohibit bailouts of crypto firms were shot down.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
The crypto industry’s “educational nonprofit” has also launched an initiative to fund Congressional staff positions after participants go through weeks of “training” on “emerging technologies like crypto, AI, biotech, and defense tech”.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
![The crypto industry’s “educational nonprofit”, the American Innovation Project [I91, 98], has launched a program to fund Congressional staff positions on the House Financial Services and Agriculture Committees — committees responsible for crypto oversight — after they go through weeks of “training” on “emerging technologies like crypto, AI, biotech, and defense tech”. The program will target young, [begin strikethrough] impressionable [end strikethrough] eager to learn college graduates.](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5414373 "The crypto industry’s “educational nonprofit”, the American Innovation Project [I91, 98], has launched a program to fund Congressional staff positions on the House Financial Services and Agriculture Committees — committees responsible for crypto oversight — after they go through weeks of “training” on “emerging technologies like crypto, AI, biotech, and defense tech”. The program will target young, [begin strikethrough] impressionable [end strikethrough] eager to learn college graduates.")
The SEC has dismissed with prejudice an enforcement action against the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange. This comes after the Winklevosses contributed $4.4 million to Trump, backed his sons’ ventures, and committed $21 million to elect pro-Trump, pro-crypto lawmakers.
To date, the SEC has paused, dismissed, or otherwise ended crypto lawsuits or investigations against Aave, Binance, Coinbase, ConsenSys, Crypto.com, Cumberland DRW, Dragonchain, Gemini (twice), Hex, Immutable, Kraken, Ondoe, OpenSea, PayPal, Ripple, Robinhood, Tron, Uniswap, Yuga Labs, and Zcash.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
![SEC
The SEC has dismissed with prejudice its case against the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. Filed in January 2023, the agency alleged that the company had violated securities laws with its Earn program, in which Gemini partnered with the Genesis crypto lender to offer Gemini customers up to 7.4% APY on assets they loaned through Genesis. When Genesis suffered major losses on loans to Three Arrows Capital [W3IGG] and Babel Finance [W3IGG], the company went under, and around $900 million in Gemini customers’ assets were suddenly locked up in bankruptcy proceedings [I17, 18, 42]. Now, the SEC has evidently decided no harm, no foul, stating: “The 100 percent in-kind return of Gemini Earn investors’ crypto assets through the Genesis Bankruptcy and the settlements noted above, and in the exercise of its discretion, the Commission believes the dismissal of the claims against Defendant is appropriate.”26](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5414369 "SEC
The SEC has dismissed with prejudice its case against the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini cryptocurrency exchange. Filed in January 2023, the agency alleged that the company had violated securities laws with its Earn program, in which Gemini partnered with the Genesis crypto lender to offer Gemini customers up to 7.4% APY on assets they loaned through Genesis. When Genesis suffered major losses on loans to Three Arrows Capital [W3IGG] and Babel Finance [W3IGG], the company went under, and around $900 million in Gemini customers’ assets were suddenly locked up in bankruptcy proceedings [I17, 18, 42]. Now, the SEC has evidently decided no harm, no foul, stating: “The 100 percent in-kind return of Gemini Earn investors’ crypto assets through the Genesis Bankruptcy and the settlements noted above, and in the exercise of its discretion, the Commission believes the dismissal of the claims against Defendant is appropriate.”26")
![While “but we gave the money back” isn’t normally a successful defense (just ask Sam Bankman-Fried), contributing around $4.4 million to Trump’s campaign,27 donating an undisclosed amount to Trump’s ballroom project,28 spending $1 million to be among the first members of the Trump family-run Executive Branch club,29 investing in Donald Trump Jr.’s American Bitcoin venture,30 and committing $22 million to political projects backing pro-Trump crypto advocates in the midterms seems to have gone a long way. The SEC case was paused back in April [I81], and, as I wrote then, “it’s widely understood that these [pauses] mark the end of SEC scrutiny for these companies.” Two months later, as the Winklevoss twins stood behind Trump in the Oval Office as he signed the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill, Trump remarked about the crypto industry: “I got you guys out of so much trouble”. Thanking the Winklevosses specifically, he added: “They’ve got plenty of cash, and it’s great that you’re on our side.” [I89]](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5414376 "While “but we gave the money back” isn’t normally a successful defense (just ask Sam Bankman-Fried), contributing around $4.4 million to Trump’s campaign,27 donating an undisclosed amount to Trump’s ballroom project,28 spending $1 million to be among the first members of the Trump family-run Executive Branch club,29 investing in Donald Trump Jr.’s American Bitcoin venture,30 and committing $22 million to political projects backing pro-Trump crypto advocates in the midterms seems to have gone a long way. The SEC case was paused back in April [I81], and, as I wrote then, “it’s widely understood that these [pauses] mark the end of SEC scrutiny for these companies.” Two months later, as the Winklevoss twins stood behind Trump in the Oval Office as he signed the GENIUS Act stablecoin bill, Trump remarked about the crypto industry: “I got you guys out of so much trouble”. Thanking the Winklevosses specifically, he added: “They’ve got plenty of cash, and it’s great that you’re on our side.” [I89]")
![The dismissal of the Gemini Earn enforcement action adds to a long list of crypto-focused cases and investigations that the SEC has paused, dismissed, or otherwise ended. That list also includes: Aave [I99], Binance [I85], Coinbase [I78], ConsenSys [I78], Crypto.com [I81], Cumberland DRW [I79], Dragonchain,31 Gemini (a separate investigation) [I78], Hex [I82], Immutable [I80], Kraken [I79], Ondo Finance [I98], OpenSea [I78], PayPal [I83], Ripple [I80], Robinhood [I78], Tron [I78], Uniswap [I78], Yuga Labs [I79], and the ZCash Foundation [I99].](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5414379 "The dismissal of the Gemini Earn enforcement action adds to a long list of crypto-focused cases and investigations that the SEC has paused, dismissed, or otherwise ended. That list also includes: Aave [I99], Binance [I85], Coinbase [I78], ConsenSys [I78], Crypto.com [I81], Cumberland DRW [I79], Dragonchain,31 Gemini (a separate investigation) [I78], Hex [I82], Immutable [I80], Kraken [I79], Ondo Finance [I98], OpenSea [I78], PayPal [I83], Ripple [I80], Robinhood [I78], Tron [I78], Uniswap [I78], Yuga Labs [I79], and the ZCash Foundation [I99].")
$40 million in seized crypto held by the US Marshals was stolen in 2024, and crypto sleuth zachxbt has now linked the thefts to the son of a contractor managing the agency's crypto assets. The incident has renewed concerns about the government's ability to manage its crypto holdings.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
![In crime
Something funky’s been happening with the US Marshals’ pile of seized crypto — the crypto they’re tasked with hanging on to as cases wind through the courts.b In March 2024, almost $25 million was inexplicably removed from a Marshals-controlled wallet containing funds connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack. In October 2024, crypto sleuth zachxbt noticed that $20 million of the Marshals’ crypto assets had apparently been stolen, with the thief laundering the funds through various exchanges [W3IGG]. The next day, $19.3 million of those funds were mysteriously returned.
Now, zachxbt has linked the stolen government funds — as well as stolen assets belonging to other victims — to a man named John Daghita. According to zachxbt, Daghita was previously known only as “Lick” online, and was active in Telegram chat rooms where crypto thieves boasted about their wealth. When another thief taunted Lick for “only having $6 mil”, Lick evidently decided the only way to defend his honor was to go on a screenshare call to show proof of ownership by transferring funds between wallets. In doing so, he exposed several wallet addresses, and zachxbt was able to trace some of the crypto back to the US government wallet addresses.1415](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5414368 "In crime
Something funky’s been happening with the US Marshals’ pile of seized crypto — the crypto they’re tasked with hanging on to as cases wind through the courts.b In March 2024, almost $25 million was inexplicably removed from a Marshals-controlled wallet containing funds connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack. In October 2024, crypto sleuth zachxbt noticed that $20 million of the Marshals’ crypto assets had apparently been stolen, with the thief laundering the funds through various exchanges [W3IGG]. The next day, $19.3 million of those funds were mysteriously returned.
Now, zachxbt has linked the stolen government funds — as well as stolen assets belonging to other victims — to a man named John Daghita. According to zachxbt, Daghita was previously known only as “Lick” online, and was active in Telegram chat rooms where crypto thieves boasted about their wealth. When another thief taunted Lick for “only having $6 mil”, Lick evidently decided the only way to defend his honor was to go on a screenshare call to show proof of ownership by transferring funds between wallets. In doing so, he exposed several wallet addresses, and zachxbt was able to trace some of the crypto back to the US government wallet addresses.1415")
Report: DHS Places Two Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti on Administrative Leave
"The preliminary internal review by Customs and Border Protection made no mention of Pretti attacking officers or brandishing a gun — directly contradicting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s initial claims about Pretti’s killing".
democracynow.org/2026/1/29/hea…
#USPol #Europol #CdnPoli #ICE #BorderPatrol #Press #ResistFascism #StateMurder #DHS .
DHS Places Two Agents Who Killed Alex Pretti on Administrative Leave
The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday the two agents who killed Minneapolis resident Alex Pretti have been placed on administrative leave since Saturday, when they fired a combined 10 rounds at Pretti in under five seconds as he lay pron…Democracy Now!
The answer, of course, is that they never actually cared about these principles at all. In fact, many of these executives have long made it clear that authoritarianism isn’t just collateral damage in their pursuit of business-boosting deregulation, but a desirable outcome.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
![The answer, of course, is that they never actually cared about these principles at all. Anyone who believed they did was dangerously naive. These were marketing slogans and talking points, deployed when convenient to ward off regulation and burnish crypto’s reputation, discarded the moment they might conflict with business interests. The atrocities of Trump’s regime have clearly done nothing to lose crypto’s support: Coinbase, Ripple, and Andreessen Horowitz have each contributed another roughly $25 million apiece to the political machine that installed Trump and bought Congress.9 Gemini’s Winklevoss twins and Kraken have contributed at least $22 million and $2 million, respectively, to new pro-crypto super PACs and dark money groups that are even more explicitly Trump-aligned [I91, 93].a](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/5414294 "The answer, of course, is that they never actually cared about these principles at all. Anyone who believed they did was dangerously naive. These were marketing slogans and talking points, deployed when convenient to ward off regulation and burnish crypto’s reputation, discarded the moment they might conflict with business interests. The atrocities of Trump’s regime have clearly done nothing to lose crypto’s support: Coinbase, Ripple, and Andreessen Horowitz have each contributed another roughly $25 million apiece to the political machine that installed Trump and bought Congress.9 Gemini’s Winklevoss twins and Kraken have contributed at least $22 million and $2 million, respectively, to new pro-crypto super PACs and dark money groups that are even more explicitly Trump-aligned [I91, 93].a")
For years, crypto executives have touted cryptocurrency’s supposed anti-authoritarian and human rights credentials. But where are they when their beloved president claims Alex Pretti’s lawful gun ownership justified his killing, or when ICE leaders tell subordinates to enter homes without warrants?
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
citationneeded.news/issue-100/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
Issue 100 – Freedom of all kinds is worth fighting for
As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling itMolly White (Citation Needed)
Featured story: U.S. law enforcement’s growing use of an array of #surveillance tools enables #police to build a robust profile of almost anyone’s life and movements without a warrant or probable cause. Experts find phone-tracking tools like Tangles particularly troubling.
texasobserver.org/texas-police…
#tech #Texas #law #privacy #politics #USpol #news
Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.
One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)
#uspol #uspolitics #Trump #politics
blackagendareport.com/ice-expo…
ICE Exposes Democratic Party Irrelevance
The Democratic Party is useful only to the oligarch class, who give them their marching orders. Doing anything that serves the people is never on their agenda.Black Agenda Report
'U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would be disqualified from working in California law enforcement and inside the public school system under a new bill introduced in the Legislature this week.'
RE: med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/11…
🗣 THIS IS THE ENERGY!!!
“we outnumber them. if we need to hunt you down the way they hunted nazis for decades, we will. we will achieve justice.”
🗣 SOMOS MÁS Y NO TENEMOS MIEDO.
Carolyn Barber, MD (@cbarbermd@med-mastodon.com)
Attached: 1 video Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner: “This is a small bunch of wannabe Nazis in a country of 350 million. We outnumber them. If we have to hunt you down the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will. We will find you.Carolyn Barber, MD (Med-Mastodon)
“human processing facility” … USA v Gaza
We normalized this. When the world tolerated #Israel’s crimes against humanity in #Gaza and the world (the West) tolerated prioritizing geopolitical interests over international law and basic humanity, we sent a message: state violence against vulnerable populations is acceptable. This image (note the civilians on the ground) looks like a massacre, not immigration enforcement.
#uspol #usa #fascism #gazagenocide
ICE agent's dark threat caught on video: 'I'll erase your voice' #ICE #USPol
"I will tell you this, brother," a man wearing an ICE uniform says from his vehicle. "You raise your voice? I'll erase your voice."
"You said, if I raise my voice, you'll erase my voice?" an unseen person says.
"Yeah," the ICE agent confirms.
rawstory.com/ice-erase-your-vo…
ICE agent's dark threat caught on video: 'I'll erase your voice'
Video of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent threatening to "erase" a resident in Minnesota caught fire on social media this week.David Edwards (Raw Story)
Does he really care about public opinion?
Trump seethed behind closed doors over Noem's disastrous coverage of Minneapolis shooting
rawstory.com/kristi-noem-26750…
#FireNoem #TrumpMustGo #TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Trump seethed behind closed doors over Noem's disastrous coverage of Minneapolis shooting
President Donald Trump privately fumed at the TV coverage of Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem after the latest shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis, according to one CNN reporter.Robert Davis (Raw Story)
Report: FBI supervisor resigns after being stopped from investigating ICE agent Jonathan Ross for fatally shooting Renee Good.
Tracee Mergen "resigned after being pressured by the FBI’s Washington bureau to discontinue her probe into Ross."
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said, “There is currently no basis for a criminal civil rights investigation” into Good’s killing.
democracynow.org/2026/1/26/hea…
#USPol #Europol #ICE #ReneeGood #FBI #StateMurder #Press .
FBI Agent Resigns After Unsuccessfully Trying to Probe ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
Tracee Mergen, an FBI supervisor in the Minneapolis field office, has resigned after unsuccessfully trying to investigate ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who fatally shot Renee Good.Democracy Now!
Israeli so-called "peace" agreements have always been deliberately contrived to prevent the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state.
Netanyahu admitted it:
electronicintifada.net/content…
The Israeli-US use of the word "peace" translates as "peace (quiescence) without justice)".
#USPol #Europol #Oslo #GazaPlan #racism #press #palestine #FabricatedPeace #IsraeliLies .
Bovino out.
"Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change."
theatlantic.com/politics/2026/…
Archived link: archive.is/kvBDb
#USPol #news #USNews #bovino #CBP
Greg Bovino Loses His Job
The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.Nick Miroff (The Atlantic)
"Morale is plummeting among #ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred."
independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
More evidence that sometimes protests work.
#Trump #USPol #USPolitics
Morale plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports
While immigration officers support the Trump administration’s goal of deporting undocumented migrants, many of them have grown ‘disillusioned’ with leadership’s tactics, according to reportsRhian Lubin (The Independent)
Every single tech advocate carrying water for OpenAI and their products should be thinking about who they’re giving publicity to. Because I sure am. theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor
Greg Brockman said he started “getting involved politically” in 2025.Hayden Field (The Verge)
