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Tag: Surveillance

🦄 Politics & Government

The Camera Ban and the Baton: How the Pentagon’s War on Journalists Comes Home

June 23, 2026June 29, 2026

You already know this story. You’ve seen it play out dozens of times. A journalist shows up with a camera. Someone with a badge decides they don’t like what’s being recorded. The camera gets confiscated or damaged, the journalist gets shoved, the credential gets yanked.…

🦄 Global, Police, Protest & Direct Action

Terror Charges and the Criminalization of Pro-Palestine Activism in the Czech Republic

June 22, 2026June 24, 2026

Despite a group claiming responsibility for a fire at a defense manufacturing facility connected to Elbit Systems, 11 pro-Palestine activists have been detained in a political "witchhunt."

🦄 Investigative, Police, Social Control

ALPRs and Minneapolis’ Growing Discriminatory Surveillance Dragnet

April 14, 2026April 14, 2026

Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs), an extremely invasive form of public surveillance, have been around for decades, but lately they have been becoming more prevalent.

🦄 Protest & Direct Action

Trump Admin Targets Press and Activists in Minnesota, Indicts ‘The Righteous 39’

March 18, 2026April 13, 2026

Politically motivated charges during the height of anti-ICE protests targets a wide range of community leaders and members of the press with felony charges.

🦄 Borders & Migration, Police

ICE Targets Somali Community in Minneapolis

December 5, 2025January 11, 2026

ICE agents have descended on Minneapolis for Operation Metro Surge, a new phase of the Trump Administration’s crackdown on immigrants, this time targeting the city’s Somali population.

🦄 Borders & Migration, Police, Tech

New Federal Task Forces Under 287(g) Could Form ‘ICE Army’ From National Guard, State, Local & College Police

May 29, 2025September 23, 2025

The Trump Administration has dramatically ramped up arrests and sweeps of people residing in the U.S., with new highly visible incidents and court cases unfolding every week and reaching new heights by mid-May. A new development could spell much larger scales of activity on American…

🦄 Tech

SignalGate Meets WordPress: Outgoing National Security Adviser’s Phone Dumps Messages via Israeli App

May 3, 2025May 3, 2025

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz had a rough Thursday. While he made it in that job longer than Mike Flynn, he’s out after just over 100 days. Unfortunately for him, Reuters press photographer Evelyn Hockstein caught him using a Signal-like interface to view chats on…


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