The Ronald Reagan Fact Check: I was pleased to produce this new podcast episode of #InTheRoom with Peter Bergen. Does the Reagan legend stand up to close scrutiny? Did Reaganism pave the way for Trumpism? Featuring biographer Max Boot 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Check it out: shorturl.at/3AlDg

National Security Archive Director Featured on “In the Room with Peter Bergen” Podcast nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/2024…

At the heart of this surveillance and what makes it possible are Apple and Google's mobile advertising ecosystems. Locate X as it is right now could not exist without those. 404media.co/inside-the-u-s…

Advertisers and location data brokers often claim that the data they sell is "opt-in" and that people have fully and knowingly consented to being tracked. We found some of those people who had "consented." This is what they said: notus.org/technology/cel…

This is very good.

“This is one of the surest ways in the United States to get deported very quickly is to commit an election crime,” says Justin Roebuck, a Republican who oversees elections in Ottawa County, Michigan. Listen to the newest episode of “In the Room” on Audible or the SiriusXM

Science fiction isn't collection of tropes, nor is it a literary style, nor is it a marketing category. It can *encompass* all of these, but what sf really is, is an *outlook*. 1/

Before the US election Sen. Wyden cites 404 Media, NOTUS, & Krebs on Security reporting showing a tool called Locate X can warrantless track phones at abortion clinics. "These tracking tools present a pressing danger for women across the country." msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

Mass deportation is at the center of Trump's agenda. A while back, I looked into all the technology tools that he will be able to use to supercharge the surveillance & deportation of immigrants. The piece is all the more relevant today: context.news/ai/trump-armed…

In the summer of 2017, Donald Trump had just become president and I published my book "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, A 500-Year History." I'd started writing it in 2014. The last chapter deals with Trump and where America seemed headed. Here are the relevant pages. 1/8

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AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies:

Really an interesting look at how symbolic and impressionistic politics is in practice, and how people’s political views often don’t line up in a conventionally ordered way.

Volvo posted a 3 min and 46 second ad on Instagram, shot by Hoyte Van Hoytema, the cinematographer of Interstellar and Oppenheimer. It goes against every single rule you can think about as a social lead. Length. Format. Over-produced. Every comment under the ad said it

The core of the prepper fantasy: "What if the world ended in the *precise* way that made *me* the most important person?" 1/

“If your only tool is a set of handcuffs, everything starts looking like a crime.” Rosa Brooks on why it will take cultural change — and looking to new places for help — to fix what’s broken in American policing. audible.com/podcast/B0DPGH…

Was I wrong? This was a flap, a feedback-powered surge in interest that rapidly increased both sightings and reports. A self-licking ice cream cone. It reached a peak, and then it faded away, except for a few die-hards. Drones exist. But this was >99.9% misidentifications.

Someone needs to do a one-hit wonder concert. Have like 30 of them come perform their one song and go.

Re-upping this episode in light of the Trump administration's revoking of deportation protections for circa 300K Venezuelans in the US which gives some background about how we go here. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wha…

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