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shaneferro.bsky.social
public defender / privacy lawyer who used to blog
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happy little guy who still doesn't know what a tariff is

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

If I were a person that wanted to bring the death penalty back, punish Luigi as much as possible, and/or quiet the talk about how healthcare CEOs might have it coming, I cannot imagine a worse strategic choice than this one apnews.com/article/unit...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

This story gets more feet pic adjacent than I was ready for www.cnn.com/2025/03/26/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Every insult that Trump and Co throws at the Atlantic/Goldberg I'm like "Well, they have a point there, but"

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Getting my stories mixed and finding myself wishing someone put Nick Denton in the Houthis PC small group chat

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

are they gonna appoint bari weiss

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Appreciate @jamesskoufis.bsky.social's support for fixing FOIL. I hope everyone saw my scroll of six years of FOIL extensions from @nycmayor www.cityandstateny.com/opinion/2025...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

PATH and NJ Transit finally cough up data showing that ridership is up post-congestion pricing and bus service is faster. NJT tries to argue that’s maybe because the weather was so bad it took cars off the road but also so good it put people on trains — www.northjersey.com/story/news/t...

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

If you're not inflation-adjusting economic indicators since 2019 you're not doing journalism imo www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

My fave photos from the presser: @shaneferro.bsky.social unfurling 6 years of extensions from a FOIL to the NYC Mayor's Office

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Sliiiiiim #unrivaled

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

oh my god, that was just like sabrina's logo three in the 2024 finals #unrivaled

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Chelsea Gray under so much pressure tonight and Slim is stepping up #unrivaled

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

It's 8:15am on a weekday and there's like 100 people yelling in front of Chuck Schumer's apartment building in park slope

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

NEW INVESTIGATION from me: There's a secretive, and frequently abusive unit of the NYPD that's tight w/ Mayor Eric Adams How tight? Well, the unit's leaders bought special body-cams that can live-stream footage to select users. Then they gave access to the mayor www.propublica.org/article/eric...

submitted 23 days ago • 29 comments

I tried to make a silly joke to a writer in reply to a NYMag newsletter and it opened a support ticket, I hope the Customer Care Team has encyclopedic knowledge of old Hairpin posts and laughs

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The Anti-Defamation League, which still calls itself a civil rights organization, endorses disappearing US permanent residents with green cards. The moral stain of this will never wash off.

submitted 24 days ago • 79 comments

Happening in NYC today! See you there.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

good stat

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Need to know who the mastermind is behind "what people really need to know about Luigi is he makes porn with good lighting"

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

tfw you don't know who elon musk is

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

🫡 www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

Been thinking a lot about the NYU hospitals complying with the anti-trans EO as a person who just started the process of egg freezing there

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

New Decrypting a Defense Newsletter. @shaneferro.bsky.social explains facial recognition doesn't equal probable cause. Brandon examines vehicle tracking. Allison discusses preserving evidence from iCloud. Guest Rebecca Wexler analyzes the Stored Communications Act and its effect on defense subpoenas

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments