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What a joke of an EO—a combination of empty threats and illegality doomed to failure in court: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Order: The form going to require proof of citizenship consistent with 20508(b)(3)! Meanwhile, § 20508(b)(3): The form can't require formal authentication. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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There's no allegation that she did anything other than participate in a lawful protest. This is madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/n...

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messing with the FTC and CFPB has real, concrete harms for consumers -- especially in the data privacy and security space pumped to talk this through on thursday at 130pm with former FTC and CFPB leaders -- Sam and Erie are the best, tune in! webinar reg: app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/...

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This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

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This is absolutely catastrophic and an enormous betrayal. Undocumented folks have been promised that this info-sharing b/w IRS and DHS wouldn’t occur so that they would pay taxes to a state that offers them nothing in return. Now they will be rewarded with deportation.

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Who could have predicted

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The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

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Terry was scammed out of most of his savings and was supposed to get his money back—until Donald Trump and Elon Musk gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Part one:

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‘No Way to Please Everyone’ Says Only University Where Students Are Regularly Kidnapped

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An order issued by President Trump on Thursday signals the administration’s intent to further defy federal privacy safeguards, force states to hand over sensitive data, and potentially make legally protected statistical information available to the DOGE for its own ends. epic.org/press-releas... 1/3

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Trump/Musk are now trying to strong-arm states into coughing up datasets to DOGE using federal funding as leverage. Of course this has zero to with "fraud" and "abuse" at federal agencies and everything to do with tightening their grip on democratic institutions. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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I really appreciate that @bedoyaftc.bsky.social is repeatedly getting in front of a camera after his illegal firing and pushing back, pointing out who it serves. Every Democrat needs to learn the lesson. You need to be speaking into a camera, explaining to everyone what’s going on and why.

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I don't expect moral leadership from Paul Weiss, but it's a bit surprising to see them roll over and die at their first brush with authoritarian jackassery. Hope this follows them around for a long, long time.

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Same energy, minus everything that would make it funny or charming.

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It's clear that the Trump administration denied due process to the migrants it banished to El Salvador precisely because any measure of judicial oversight would've proved their innocence immediately. Deported, imprisoned, and condemned to hard labor—for a soccer tattoo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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NYPD use of drones recording all in their path - w/video kept 30 days - upped 7-fold since July launch of "drones as first responders" effort. DFRs move at 45 mph, ID people from .8 miles away. "Video canvas" they created found alleged UnitedHealth shooter backpack therecord.media/nypd-drones-...

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Columbia should just liquidate its assets and burn the university charter if it's going to cave to authoritarian pressure like this. An absolute disgrace that should prompt the resignation of the board: www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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Yes, hello FTC? I'd like to report someone impersonating Andrew Ferguson on Twitter. He's claiming the President can fire FTC commissioners at will, but the real Andrew Ferguson admitted 5 months ago that's not true (which of course has been binding SCOTUS precedent since 1935).

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#FTC Chair Ferguson Monday and Chair Ferguson Tuesday. #Privacy #Competition #AdministrativeLaw #FederalAgencies #HumphreysExecutor (left quote is from omny.fm/shows/odd-lo..., right is from www.ftc.gov/news-events/...)

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“Don’t be scared. Fight back.”

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I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

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“The Federal Trade Commission has worked to protect consumers for more than 100 years. President Trump’s illegal attempt to fire independent commissioners is an affront to the rule of law and makes all Americans less safe,” said EPIC Executive Director Alan Butler. epic.org/press-releas...

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“‘We’re in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the U.S. government.’ That is what is happening. … It’s neither a future possibility nor an accomplished fact. We’re in the midst of it, as Bollinger says.” talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser...

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And there it is. Accommodation and acquiescence. Learned helplessness and preemptive surrender. Retreat and complicity. In the midst of an unprecedented assault on the constitutional order, the nominal opposition party fails to use the one key tool in its arsenal to push back. What a disaster.

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New Yorkers and DC residents trying to talk with @schumer.senate.gov are having to push notes through a locked door with police posted outside.

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This is completely fucked up. I know everything is fucked up, but THIS is why universities need to stand up and fight, not cave like Columbia did. NOTHING will satisfy them, and all the capitulation just leads to more demands and humiliation.

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The only valid response to this is go fuck yourselves, we'll see you in court. Because "we are committed to working with the federal government to address their legitimate concerns" sure didn't do the trick.

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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

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New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

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JUST IN: Judge rules DOGE is likely subject to #FOIA requests. Judge Christopher Cooper, Obama appointee: 'USDS’s actions to date demonstrate its substantial authority over vast swathes of the federal government' Doc: ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

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DOGE’s latest target—the IRS—raises major red flags, as history shows how tax records have been weaponized against political opponents. DOGE claims this is “business as usual,” but @alanindc.bsky.social warns this will expose millions to potential data breaches—undermining governmental trust.

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"There have been nine presidential transitions since the Privacy Act and the IRS tax privacy laws were enacted in the 1970s, and none of those transitions, until now, have seen an outright rejection of those vital reforms," writes EPIC's @alanindc.bsky.social. contrarian.substack.com/p/doge-is-no...

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Yesterday we said goodbye to Julep, the grande dame of the Erickson-Davisson household. She joined the family 16 years ago in the earliest days of our time in DC, leaping into Amanda's arms on a visit to the New York Ave shelter. There was never any question about bringing her home after that. 1/4

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Great decision for many reasons, but one weedy (and important) point jumps out: the court correctly recognized that wrongful disclosure of personal data, even within gov't, confers Article III standing. No need to look at second-order effects: the invasion of privacy is a concrete harm on its own.

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From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

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BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

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EPIC condemns President Trump’s latest executive order claiming to bring independent agencies under his direct control as an illegal and unprecedented assault on the guardrails Congress has long used to protect regulators from undue political interference. Full statement: epic.org/press-releas...

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I was pleased to attend a State Dinner, hosted by Pres. Macron, for participants of the AI Action Summit. It was an honor to be invited to deliver remarks at Elysee Palace on Three Fallacies in how we think about AI, now published @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...

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