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  Yesterday gave me pause. I was running a San Francisco South Asian Radical History Walking Tour yesterday, with a group of thirty-ish Brown/Desi/Muslim/SSWANA college students. We start with a land acknowledgement, then read from an 1850s SF newspaper editorial that frames South Asians and Muslims as part of the diversity of the city. Text like that, I say, is literal proof that we have been here, and this is our city too. (1/6)

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  "A two-hour daily time limit and a block on Meta’s apps between midnight and 6am leaves little room for young activists to organize rapid response efforts. Being unable to see likes on a post will make it difficult to gauge the effectiveness of their campaigns." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/22/how-the-meta-settlement-silences-youth-activism/

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  “But now a nonpartisan network of former military and civilian leaders is warning that hundreds of thousands of overseas voters could be disenfranchised if a new USPS rule based on the president’s order is allowed to stand.”

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  "Unfortunately, the court rejected that argument and ruled that a lower standard applies to manual searches, allowing the government to conduct extraordinarily invasive electronic device searches without any suspicion of wrongdoing, simply because the border officer chooses to search by hand rather than with a forensic tool." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/fourth-circuit-says-border-agents-can-search-your-phone-hand-no-suspicion-required

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  "Pilgrim’s Pride, the nation’s second-largest poultry processor, donated $5 million to President Trump’s 2025 inauguration — the single largest donation by any corporation or individual. Pilgrim’s Pride’s donation was more than the donations of Meta, Amazon, Google, and Apple CEO Tim Cook combined." https://popular.info/p/massive-giveaway-to-trump-donors

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  "A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states." https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/06/30/federal-health-agency-cancels-most-of-its-teen-pregnancy-prevention-grants/

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  This is pretty heartwarming https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/06/29/lesbian-pride-neighborhood-kansas-city-womontown/

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  “The difference is, the artificial lifeforms that worry me aren't hypothetical – they're here today, amongst us, endangering the very survival of our species. These artificial lifeforms are called ‘limited liability corporations’ and they are a concrete, imminent risk to the human race” https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/

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  “I don’t really know how to process that information. It’s not just that we’re going back to a Jim Crow state of affairs—it’s that white people are happy about it. As if the 60 years of post-apartheid America that were ushered in by the VRA were just an unfortunate detour, and now white people can get back to their preferred route.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/vra-comey-musk-atlman/

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  “You cannot move a thirty-year watershed study. You cannot relocate a decades-long old-growth monitoring program. You cannot box up a forest and ship it to Colorado. When these facilities close, the experiments die. The datasets end. The partnerships with universities that took generations to build collapse.” https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263

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  "I asked her to take a yellow highlighter and highlight everything positive — which left her with a document that was about 90% yellow, which made it visually impossible for her to ignore the actual balance of the input her colleagues had offered, despite what her brain had been trying to do." https://www.askamanager.org/2026/05/im-terrible-at-receiving-negative-feedback-and-am-spiraling-from-my-360-review.html

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  "President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the Iraq War during the year of peak violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, amid growing economic pain and fears of terrorism as a result of the military campaign." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/01/poll-trump-iran-war-iraq/

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  "Less than 72 hours before Weber State University in Utah was scheduled to host a conference on censorship, presenters were told not to discuss identity politics, or be removed from the official program agenda." https://www.404media.co/how-a-universitys-censorship-conference-got-censored/

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  "In a court filing Monday, the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections asked a federal judge to quash a new federal grand jury subpoena, which seeks…election workers’ and volunteers’ names, home addresses, emails and phone numbers." https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/justice-department-fulton-county-election-worker-personal-information-subpoena/

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  “This shows ‘the long tail’ of economic warfare, such as ‘reverse’ migration from cities back to rural areas and malnutrition caused by higher food prices. Even if oil prices fall, noted Dr. Deolalikar, their social consequences will take years to repair.” https://indiacurrents.com/the-wars-true-frontlines-are-found-in-midwest-grocery-aisles-indian-households/

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  “36 percent said they or someone they know had their immigration or citizenship status questioned or feared it could be revoked. Another 30 percent reported fears or experiences of arrest, detention or deportation, while 28 percent said they had considered leaving the United States altogether.” https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/05/02/49-of-aapi-adults-experienced-racial-hate-in-2025-third-year-in-a-row-480010/

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  “Many people consider California a sanctuary state, in part because of a 2017 law limiting cooperation between local police and federal immigration authorities. But that measure didn’t include the state prison system. In fact, state law requires that prison authorities identify people who may be subject to deportation and to coordinate custody transfers with ICE.” https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/05/02/ca-ice-prison-oregon

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  "Now, it’s going after the Southern Poverty Law Center, claiming (incredibly) that paying informants to infiltrate hate groups is exactly the same thing as funding hate groups. It’s some truly insane spin, which is being delivered by some of the federal government’s top hucksters." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/27/doj-decides-its-going-to-try-to-prosecute-the-southern-poverty-law-center-out-of-existence/

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  “But regardless of whether he succeeds, the administration’s move signals a major transformation in America’s culture war: Contraception has gone from being politically untouchable to a real target on the right.” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/04/25/birth-control-maha-abortion-trump-00889738

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  “Mr. Brin is particularly rattled by the proposal for a one-time, 5 percent tax on California billionaires, and has emerged as Silicon Valley’s leading combatant of the measure. To escape the tax, he moved before a Dec. 31 deadline to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe…he has spent $57 million to try to undercut the measure, including $9 million more disclosed on Friday.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/politics/sergey-brin-gg-soto-trump-california-billionaire-tax.html

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  “‘Once this data is uploaded to AAMVA, it’s out of California’s control, no matter what California wants, no matter what protests we may make,’ said Ed Hasbrouck with San Francisco civil liberties group The Identity Project, who was on the briefing call.” https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/04/california-dmv-shares-immigrant-driver-data/

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  "Republican proposals would likely 'crack' Memphis — splitting its heavily Democratic voters across multiple Republican-leaning districts — similar to what lawmakers did to Nashville in 2022. The result could be a 9-0 Republican congressional delegation in a state where about a third of voters supported Democrats in recent elections." https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/tennessee-republicans-eye-new-gerrymander-to-eliminate-states-last-democratic-distri...

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  Jamelle Bouie is (rightly) on fire https://kottke.org/26/05/the-supreme-court-is-corrupt-this-is-what-we-can-do-about-it

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  "The effort expands on Santa Monica’s existing automated bus lane enforcement program, which has already reduced violations significantly. Officials report a 67% drop in bus lane violations and a 40% drop at bus stops since that program launched." https://la.streetsblog.org/2026/05/01/santa-monica-kicks-off-bike-month-by-starting-automated-bike-lane-enforcement

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  "By holding companies liable for verifying the age of anyone physically in Utah, even those using a VPN, the law creates a massive 'liability trap'…if a website cannot reliably detect a VPN user's true location and the law requires it…then the legal risk could push the site to either ban all known VPN IPs, or to mandate age verification…globally. This would subject millions of users to invasive identity checks or blocks to their VPN use…" https://www.ef...

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  "'In my almost three decades of election work, it is completely unprecedented to stop an election that is underway,' Dunn said. 'So it’s extraordinary that a state would think that there are cast ballots already in an election and try to stop it so they could change the rules of the election while it’s underway.'" https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-governor-suspends-active-election-to-allow-for-gerrymander/

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  "Under the GUARD Act’s broad definitions, a high school student could be barred from asking homework help tools questions about algebra problems. A teenager trying to return a product could be kicked out of a standard customer-service chat…sponsors say they’re targeting worst-case scenarios — but the bill regulates everyday use." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/30/the-guard-act-isnt-targeting-dangerous-ai-its-blocking-everyday-internet-use/

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  "Residents of an Atlanta suburb have been rocked by the revelation that sales employees at Flock have been accessing sensitive cameras in the town to demonstrate the company’s surveillance technology to police departments around the country. The cameras accessed have included surveillance tech in a children’s gymnastics room, a playground, a school, a Jewish community center, and a pool." https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-a...

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  I’m willing to concede that new models could be huge security threats. But I hate that *this* is the defensive solution offered. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/nhs-goes-to-war-against-open-source/

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  Good news! https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/05/04/indian-american-interpreter-meenu-batra-freed-from-ice-custody-480112/