This reporting raises crucial questions.
Who organized this counter-protest?
Why did police stand back watching this violent attack on the encampment without taking any protective action?
Why did police, then, hours later, arrest 200 encampment protesters who had been…

Clear, fact-based reporting here, backed up by video and reporters who witnessed it.
Peaceful pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA was violently attacked by counter-protesters chanting pro-Israel slogans on Tuesday night. Police were then called in, and arrested the victims...…

This is all happening right now. Not in a hypothetical future under Donald Trump. Right now.

This side by side is crazy

The NSA used Section 702 to unmask at least 31,000 U.S. identities last year – almost 3 times the year before. Our intelligence agencies will continue to exploit this program until we establish strict guardrails and mandate a warrant requirement.

Actually: We don't know if the FBI's warrantless searches for Americans' private communications collected under Section 702 are down. The FBI searched for 57,094 (American) *identifiers* last year, but ODNI stopped reporting the total number of searches, which is higher. 1/5

NEW: Border communities in Texas have purchased a technology that tracks people through their Bluetooth and WiFi signals. It can track you through your wireless earbuds. The product is called Trafficatch & it's integrated into license plate reader systems
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Shocking footage shows several officers at Washington University St. Louis beating a professor, slamming him, and dragging his limp body.
SIUE history professor Steve Tamari is reportedly hospitalized with broken ribs and a broken hand.
One doctor told him he's lucky to be alive.

Right after Biden does Netanyahu's bidding & says the International Criminal Court doesn't have 'jurisdiction' to hold Israel accountable for war crimes in Gaza, Netanyahu now says Israel will invade Rafah—where 1 million+ Palestinians take refuge—with no regard for the hostages

The increased technological sophistication of cars has lawmakers and regulators concerned.

A rundown, starting w/most recent inquiry: Senators Wyden & Markey want FTC to investigate what automakers tell police about where our cars have been.

nytimes.com/2024/04/30/tec…

1/ Buried within Sec702 reauth are provisions that ensure warrantless gov spying on its own citizens not only survives, but expands. Late-night legislative action forced Americans to wake up on Monday morning significantly less free than we were before. The fight is not over.

Last night, Summer Lee's opponent was punished by Dem voters for her reliance on a super PAC funded by a billionaire Republican.

Jamaal Bowman's race holds the same dynamic. Justice Dems is out with a mailer going wide in the district linking Latimer with Ted Cruz, Donald Trump,…

33 FISA Flip Flops: Below are 33 Senators who changed their vote on a key privacy measure during last week’s FISA 702 vote, opposing an amendment they previously voted FOR in 2020
Here’s a background on the issue, and what these votes flips may mean for the future of FISA reform

In today’s Brennan Center Briefing newsletter, I discuss the bill Congress passed last weekend to reauthorize and expand FISA Section 702 without reforms to protect Americans’ privacy—and why positive changes to the law could be on the horizon.👇

brennancenter.org/our-work/analy…

On Friday, the Senate passed RISAA, H.R. 7888, which reauths & expands FISA Section 702 for 2 yrs. In doing so, the Senate rejected privacy amendments, including amendments to close the backdoor search and data broker loopholes. (1/2)

theverge.com/2024/4/18/2413…

EPIC's statement (via Jeramie D. Scott) (2/2):

Notice that these 60 come from both parties. Rooting out the unprincipled will require us to think beyond party identity, to ourselves think in principle.