Mastodawn

Some fun/interesting personal news. On Labor Day, I led part of a rally in Santa Fe, with the goal of organizing people to distribute signs businesses can use to assert their constitutional rights against ICE. (See https://indivisiblesantafe.org/follow-up-to-labor-day-rally-for-collective-action/.) Since then I’ve been hearing from smaller, newer, rural Indivisible groups from around #NewMexico, who want to organize sign distribution in their communities. 1/

Follow up to Labor Day Rally for Collective Action

Printable signs and brochures for businesses that want ICE and other law enforcement to respect their constitutional rights

Indivisible Santa Fe

Ehay2k 16h ago

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Frank 17h ago

Pre WW2, Auto Union took a couple Silver Arrows to America to race. Schuco made this homage to the trip.

https://www.audi.com/en/sport/motorsport/motorsport-history/02-silver-arrows/

#WeirdCarMastodon #Audi #AutoUnion

Ehay2k 1d ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 1d ago

California’s S.B. 524 is an important first step to reining in the rising tide of untransparent AI-generated police reports. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/california-lamakers-support-sb-524-rein-ai-written-police-reports

California Lawmakers: Support S.B. 524 to Rein in AI Written Police Reports

EFF urges California state lawmakers to pass S.B. 524, authored by Sen. Jesse Arreguín. This bill is an important first step in regaining control over police using generative AI to write their narrative police reports. This bill does several important things: It mandates that police reports written...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Ehay2k 1d ago

The Continent 1d ago

In May 2022, an Israeli sniper shot and killed Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. Last week, Israel targeted and killed five journalists in one attack. In between those dates, Israel became the largest killer of journalists in the world. https://continent.substack.com/p/the-worlds-greatest-killer-of-journalists

The world’s greatest killer of journalists

Israel is conducting a war against journalism. But journalists keep on documenting its crimes

The Continent

Ehay2k 1d ago

leemeade 1d ago

“Hope you like enshittification, folks, because Judge Mehta just handed Google an eternal licence to enshittify the entire fucking internet.”
Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-09-03-unpunishing-process-fucking-shit-goddammit-fuck-92fdaf203228

The worst possible antitrust outcome

Hope you like enshittification.

Medium

Ehay2k 1d ago

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BrianKrebs 1d ago

Nudge Security is maintaining a running list of companies affected here: https://www.driftbreach.com/

Drift Breach Tracker

Up-to-date list of organizations impacted by the Salesloft Drift OAuth token compromise targeting Salesforce customers.

Drift Breach Tracker

Ehay2k 1d ago

Not Rappaport 4d ago

Mormon columnist who preached "traditional values" busted for alleged child exploitation

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/mormon-columnist-who-preached-traditional?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Mormon columnist who preached "traditional values" busted for alleged child exploitation

For 25 years, Joseph Brent Walker wrote about upholding old-fashioned values. Police say he used a Braveheart alias to do the opposite.

Friendly Atheist

Ehay2k 1d ago

Not Rappaport 4d ago

Baptist chaplain at ICE prison in Pennsylvania accused of sexually abusing immigration detainee

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ice-immigration-prison-chaplain-abuse-lawsuit-b2816820.html

#ICE #CriminalClergy #PredatoryPastors

Prison chaplain Mark Melhorn at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, an ICE facility in Pennsylvania, accused of sexually abusing immigration detainee

Exclusive: “The system absolutely failed our client,” attorney Trina Realmuto told The Independent

The Independent

Ehay2k 1d ago

Every plant on earth is saying: hold my beer!

Ehay2k 1d ago

Chuck Darwin 2d ago

A quick bit of journalism reveals that at least three members of Trump's cabinet claimed more than one property as their primary residence,

and I'm starting to wonder whether Trump's attacks on Lisa Cook reflect a sincere concern about mortgage fraud.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-cabinet-mortgage-fraud

https://bsky.app/profile/justinwolfers.bsky.social/post/3ly2bthplfc2f

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud. Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet secretary got two such mortgages in quick succession.

ProPublica