Brian Koppe
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Ironically, France's government did a study several years ago that found there was no safe or technically feasible way to mandate online age verification without massively expanding surveillance and eviscerating online privacy.
They decided to do it anyway.
They decided to do it anyway.
France just became the first nation in Europe to ban teens from social media and, you guessed it, they’re forcing everyone to upload their ID’s for social media access in order to enforce it.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
France approves social media ban for under-15s
The law will require social media platforms in France to verify all users age from January.
www.bbc.com
July 22, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Ironically, France's government did a study several years ago that found there was no safe or technically feasible way to mandate online age verification without massively expanding surveillance and eviscerating online privacy.
They decided to do it anyway.
They decided to do it anyway.
Reposted by Brian Koppe
How Politico’s Negligence and Ignorance Helped Float Another DHS Lie talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-p...
How Politico’s Negligence and Ignorance Helped Float Another DHS Lie
Voting rights, voter intimidation and the politics of voting have been central...
talkingpointsmemo.com
July 17, 2026 at 12:32 AM
How Politico’s Negligence and Ignorance Helped Float Another DHS Lie talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-p...
Reposted by Brian Koppe
NEW EPISODE: Republicans know they’re on track to lose the 2026 midterms—and they’re trying to rig the election to stop it. I break down the Save America Act, the most sweeping voter suppression bill in a generation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYsx...
URGENT: GOP Passes Bill to Rig the 2026 Elections
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:03 PM
NEW EPISODE: Republicans know they’re on track to lose the 2026 midterms—and they’re trying to rig the election to stop it. I break down the Save America Act, the most sweeping voter suppression bill in a generation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYsx...
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The Rational League looks at the SAVE Act: “A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[and] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.”
The SAVE Act and the Myth of a Voter Fraud Crisis
Congress proposes sweeping documentation barriers to combat a form of fraud Americans are more likely to experience as a lightning strike than at a polling place.
open.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:11 AM
The Rational League looks at the SAVE Act: “A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[and] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.”
Maybe, just maybe, it's a bad idea that 20% of the Internet is behind Cloudflare? Just saying...
November 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Maybe, just maybe, it's a bad idea that 20% of the Internet is behind Cloudflare? Just saying...
@stanmonitor.bsky.social Curious why @theophite is on the Bots, Scammers, Copypasta, Blank Accounts, Content Aggregator list? They were mentioned by someone I follow and seem like a real person.
April 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
@stanmonitor.bsky.social Curious why @theophite is on the Bots, Scammers, Copypasta, Blank Accounts, Content Aggregator list? They were mentioned by someone I follow and seem like a real person.
Really cool to visit the inside of the observatory — and to view the moon through the telescope!
March 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Really cool to visit the inside of the observatory — and to view the moon through the telescope!
Perfect night last night for the total lunar eclipse, viewed at Northwestern University's Dearborn Observatory. Unfortunately, I forgot to charge my camera with 30x optical zoom, so these Pixel 9 Pro shots will have to do. The zoom on the telescope was much better in any case 😉
March 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Perfect night last night for the total lunar eclipse, viewed at Northwestern University's Dearborn Observatory. Unfortunately, I forgot to charge my camera with 30x optical zoom, so these Pixel 9 Pro shots will have to do. The zoom on the telescope was much better in any case 😉
Red-bellied woodpecker across the street — after having been scared away from our window feeder by our cat, Shirley 😅
March 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Red-bellied woodpecker across the street — after having been scared away from our window feeder by our cat, Shirley 😅
As I was saying 🤦♂️
HBO's anthology "The White Lotus" is a class satire that skewers high-end tourism, but for Season 3, it also has served as an ad for luxury travel with partnership and marketing deals.
'The White Lotus' critiques luxury tourism while also promoting it with partnerships
HBO's anthology is a class satire that skewers high-end tourism, but for Season 3, it also has served as an ad for luxury travel with partnership and marketing deals.
www.latimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
As I was saying 🤦♂️
The show also undermines its own satire, inviting us to laugh at the awful rich people while simultaneously glamorizing their lifestyle via The White Lotus resorts. "Yes, so-and-so is awful, but doesn't this resort for the excessively wealthy look exquisite?"
Sorry, but I just don’t think “rich people are awful” is the jaw-dropping take that the creator seems to think it is
March 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
The show also undermines its own satire, inviting us to laugh at the awful rich people while simultaneously glamorizing their lifestyle via The White Lotus resorts. "Yes, so-and-so is awful, but doesn't this resort for the excessively wealthy look exquisite?"
Why I keep watching The White Lotus despite having never liked it, summed up in a single tweet 🙃
So many of my favorite actors are on a show that I absolutely cannot stand
March 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Why I keep watching The White Lotus despite having never liked it, summed up in a single tweet 🙃
On one hand, everything about this subplot on The White Lotus is so utterly predictable and cliche (like most of the show). On the other hand, this scene was still satisfying because Leslie Bibb nailed a certain kind of unfortunately common Trump supporter.
March 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
On one hand, everything about this subplot on The White Lotus is so utterly predictable and cliche (like most of the show). On the other hand, this scene was still satisfying because Leslie Bibb nailed a certain kind of unfortunately common Trump supporter.
Great overview: youtu.be/AUCTxxMPvWs?...
February 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Great overview: youtu.be/AUCTxxMPvWs?...
I don't think most people realize yet the degree to which the federal government has been compromised — from information systems to authoritarian sympathizers (if not actual foreign agents). Assuming we get the opportunity to fix this before it's too late, the task will be colossal.
Former Hawaiian congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat who became an independent and then turned Republican, on a 52-48 vote, gains Senate approval to become the director of ODNI.
February 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I don't think most people realize yet the degree to which the federal government has been compromised — from information systems to authoritarian sympathizers (if not actual foreign agents). Assuming we get the opportunity to fix this before it's too late, the task will be colossal.
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Fired unfired DOGE bro Marko Elez is going full mask-off on X now too, following Will Stancil's personal Gestapo officer Captive Dreamer along with Lomez, Bronze Age Pervert, Raw Egg Nationalist.
February 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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This is why Connelly isn't the right person for the job. Not bc he's wrong on procedure, but bc he and others don't grasp that Rs have no interest in oversight. Yes, we need to push for oversight, but THEN when it is inevitably blocked, we need leaders who will raise hell for the public to see.
You really need to see what happened with Oversight and the vote to subpoena Elon Musk because it's a complete farce but also one that really calls for a stronger voice from the ranking member than Democrats have to stop this nonsense www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTPY...
OVERSIGHT
YouTube video by Timothy Burke
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
This is why Connelly isn't the right person for the job. Not bc he's wrong on procedure, but bc he and others don't grasp that Rs have no interest in oversight. Yes, we need to push for oversight, but THEN when it is inevitably blocked, we need leaders who will raise hell for the public to see.
It was never about promoting legal immigration. It has always been about nationalism, isolationism, and white supremacy.
The Trump administration has stripped the status of 600,000 Venezuelans who obeyed the law, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes:
The ‘Right Way’ to Immigrate Just Went Wrong
The Trump administration has stripped the status of 600,000 Venezuelans who obeyed the law.
www.theatlantic.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It was never about promoting legal immigration. It has always been about nationalism, isolationism, and white supremacy.
@stanmonitor.bsky.social Seems this account was added to your bots list in error? bsky.app/profile/gina...
bsky.app
February 2, 2025 at 4:23 AM
@stanmonitor.bsky.social Seems this account was added to your bots list in error? bsky.app/profile/gina...
Just saw on clearsky.app that 55.83% of BlueSky users are blocked by someone. That's an absurdly high number, facilitated by these malicious and/or lazy blocklists.
February 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Just saw on clearsky.app that 55.83% of BlueSky users are blocked by someone. That's an absurdly high number, facilitated by these malicious and/or lazy blocklists.
Bsky is pretty great, but the moderation lists feature really needs some attention. Too many people using it to troll or encourage blocking/muting based on guilt-by-follow.
January 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Bsky is pretty great, but the moderation lists feature really needs some attention. Too many people using it to troll or encourage blocking/muting based on guilt-by-follow.
Have I mentioned that Ed Zitron is one of my favorite technology commentators today?
I have been working some subtle political messages into Better Offline
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January 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Have I mentioned that Ed Zitron is one of my favorite technology commentators today?
A literal "solution in search of a problem" 😡
Breaking News: President-elect Trump’s advisers are said to be trying to identify a disease that could help them justify closing the U.S. border with Mexico. They have spent months trying to find the right disease to build their case.
Inside Trump’s Search for a Health Threat to Justify His Immigration Crackdown
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s advisers have spent months trying to identify a disease that will help them build their case for closing the border.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
A literal "solution in search of a problem" 😡
BlueSky is so much better than Threads, I wish more people would realize it.
Man, there are so many big, active Twitter accounts whose whose last Bluesky post was 6 months ago
This place is bigger and has more features now but we can't put 1K likes on every post and I think that's mainly what some people want
This place is bigger and has more features now but we can't put 1K likes on every post and I think that's mainly what some people want
July 9, 2024 at 2:25 AM
BlueSky is so much better than Threads, I wish more people would realize it.
Now that BlueSky's logo is a butterfly, I propose we call posts "flutters"
March 19, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Now that BlueSky's logo is a butterfly, I propose we call posts "flutters"