Documents obtained by The Intercept show that TigerSwan—a security firm that originated as a contractor enlisted by the State Department and U.S. military to execute the “war on terror”—worked with law enforcement in at least five states to target Dakota Access Pipeline protesters with military-style counterterrorism…
On a recent trip to Disney World, I had an unusual experience. I rode a ride. It broke. We were evacuated, and a few minutes later, I got a picture on my phone. It was an empty raft sliding down Splash Mountain, taken at precisely the moment I was walking down the emergency stairwell. It was weird.
There’s no need to be coy, cute, or caustic: Sean Spicer isn’t doing well. After the heads of both the Senate and House Intelligence Committees said they found no evidence former President Obama secretly wiretapped Trump Tower during last year’s election, the White House press secretary was asked on Thursday to…
In an interview published on the Bergen County Record on Sunday evening, Kellyanne Conway alleged that the government has a number of The Americans-inspired ways to surveil a citizen. One day later, she said she’s “not in the evidence game.”
A good thing: On Tuesday, a federal judge rejected the settlement of lawsuits filed against the NYPD in relation to the police department’s surveillance of Muslims in New York City on the grounds that the settlement terms were not “sufficient.”
In 2006, then-New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg issued an executive order establishing the Office of Special Enforcement, a citywide agency responsible for enforcing “quality of life” regulations—a nebulous, ideologically charged concept that refers to anything from music venues with too many noise complaints to…
The Patriot Act, the knee jerk post-9/11 law that authorizes various taxpayer-funded entities to violate the rights of taxpayers in the name of freedom™, is set to expire at the end of the month, unless Congress reauthorizes it. And in order to reauthorize it, they’ll have to get it past Presidential candidate and…
What is going on in schools lately? I don't even have any kids yet and I'm already terrified of sending my future offspring to school without a camera attached to their person. And after watching this horrifying video of a teacher grabbing six-year-old Ian Nelson by his neck and face and slamming him against the wall,…
As surveillance technology becomes more affordable and readily available, it's increasingly easy for the stalker-on-the-street to monitor your every movement with his own spy kit!
