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Trump’s ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News

“Linda from Arizona,” a caller on Clay Travis’ conservative talk radio show, might deserve the credit or blame for ICE agents deploying to airports across the US today.

CNN
The Crypto Wars. NSA dragnet surveillance. FBI gag orders. EFF's Executive Director Cindy Cohn was there for all of it—fighting for you. Her new book Privacy's Defender tells the full story: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4--wsph
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The Supreme Court's refusal to intervene here is an absolute travesty for press freedom rights.

You know how in every movie set during WWII there’s a scene where Nazis are checking papers on the trains? That is the USA as of today

https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-airport-tsa-federal-immigration-agents-4cfb93f7d2ff5a1ccb87d1bdbf54b959

ICE seen at Atlanta airport amid partial shutdown

Armed federal immigration officers in tactical gear moved through terminals at some of the busiest U.S. airports Monday, standing near security lines and checkpoints after President Donald Trump ordered their deployment during a partial government shutdown that has disrupted air travel nationwide. The officers have not screened passengers so far. The Trump administration said they would supplement Transportation Security Administration staffing at certain airports but provided few details about exactly what they would be doing. After intensified immigration enforcement and protests in cities across the country over the past year, their presence has unsettled some travelers and raised new questions.

AP News
A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?
Deploying the poorly-vetted, untrained, violent, unaccountable mob we call ICE to airports is hilarious. You want guns lost in the secure area? This will accomplish that. You want people running or driving across taxiways and runways? This will do it. ICE agents are the biggest group of serial fuck ups I have ever seen.
When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
As the U.S. sinks into dictatorship -- malevolent rule by corrupt politicians and oligarchs -- the institution I know the best has almost completely failed to recognize, much less counter, the threat. Big Journalism will be remembered for its cowardice and capitulation. https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2026/mar/17/trump-is-aiming-for-dictatorship-thats-the-verdict-of-the-worlds-most-credible-democracy-watchdog
‘Trump is aiming for dictatorship’. That’s the verdict of the world’s most credible democracy watchdog

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

The Guardian
We’re at the ICE agents in airports stage of authoritarianism 🇺🇸

Microsoft in 2022: All your old computers are too unsecure to run our new flagship windows OS.

Microsoft in 2026: Vibecoded kernel & cybersecurity, YOLO!