The permanent record your teacher threatened you with is real now, and the federal government is the one building it.
A grand jury in Washington has subpoenaed Reddit to unmask a user whose offense was criticizing ICE and posting “TSA sucks.” The Justice Department went back to court Thursday and demanded the right to search a Washington Post reporter’s phone and laptops, and the 1,200 sources stored on them, three months after the FBI raided her home at dawn. And an appeals court just restored DOGE’s access to the Social Security records of 300 million Americans, even after the government admitted its own people shared that data with a political group trying to overturn election results.
None of this requires a wiretap or a warrant or any particular respect for the Constitution. It requires an administration that treats your data the way it treats everything else: as something it’s entitled to, and you’re not entitled to question. Call your representatives through Resistbot and 5 Calls and demand congressional hearings on federal data collection, because the file they’re building on you grows every night they go unchecked.
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: Space
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Source: The Alaska Daily Beacon
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Source: The Intercept
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Source: The Washington Post
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Source: NextGov
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Source: NBC News
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Source: The Wall Street Journal
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Source: CNN
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Source: The Independent
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Source: NOTUS
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Source: The Arizona Mirror
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