2026-10-26 18:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifa and antifascist movement worldwide is having a moment that is not centered in the United States. In France, a student movement over underfunded schools has met…2026-10-26 12:17ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifascist movement this week is operating across three continents and multiple fronts: street counter-mobilization against far-right conventions, legal defense infr…2026-10-26 12:17SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse: Research DigestFlock Safety has built a nationwide surveillance network of at least 120,000 license plate readers across 49 states, scanning roughly 20 billion plates a month. The compa…2026-10-26 03:01SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse: Research DigestFlock Safety has deployed more than 120,000 license-plate reader cameras across 49 states, selling to over 7,000 law enforcement agencies. The company markets its system …2026-10-25 03:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifa designation story is entering its second year with concrete consequences. President Trump designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization in September 2…2026-10-25 03:01SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse: Research DigestFlock Safety has grown into the largest license-plate surveillance network in the country, with more than 120,000 cameras across 49 states, and the abuse stories are no l…2026-10-25 03:01POLITICSTrump Administration Corruption: Research DigestThe corruption stories pouring out of the Trump administration in the last weeks of October are not a single scandal. They are a cascade of separate transactions, each on…2026-10-24 18:01SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse: Research DigestThe Flock Safety story is no longer a collection of isolated officer-misconduct cases. It has become a structural account of what happens when a private company builds th…2026-10-24 03:01ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe antifa story in 2026 is really two stories running on parallel tracks that periodically collide. The first is a domestic crackdown led by the Trump administration, wh…2026-10-24 03:01SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse: Research DigestThe Flock Safety backlash is no longer a niche privacy worry. It has become a working bipartisan revolt against a company whose 120,000 cameras now watch millions of ordi…2026-10-23 18:00ANTIFAAntifa: Research DigestThe Trump administration's crackdown on what it labels 'antifa' has moved from executive orders and rhetoric into federal courtrooms and prison cells, and the first major…2026-10-23 03:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe Trump administration's designation of Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" in September 2025 (and the follow-on application of that designation through prose…2026-10-23 03:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThe Flock Safety story is about what happens when a private company builds the infrastructure for mass surveillance and hands a login to local police. The company touts r…2026-10-22 18:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe Trump administration's crackdown on what it calls "Antifa" has produced its first major test cases (and the results are now producing convictions, decades-long senten…2026-10-22 18:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThe Flock Safety backlash is no longer a niche privacy worry, it has become a nationwide political story with real consequences. More than 50 cities and counties have can…2026-10-22 03:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe antifa story in 2026 is not about street protests (it is about a legal architecture being built to turn a decentralized political tendency into a prosecutable categor…2026-10-22 03:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThe Flock Safety backlash is the most consequential domestic surveillance story of 2026 because it is collapsing on every front at once: cities are canceling contracts fa…2026-10-21 18:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe Trump administration's designation of "antifa" as a domestic terrorist organization (an executive order with no legal basis under U.S. law, since there is no process …2026-10-21 18:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThe Flock Safety backlash is no longer a niche privacy complaint, it is a full-blown crisis of legitimacy for one of the fastest-growing surveillance vendors in America. …2026-10-21 03:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe antifa story this month is not about what antifa is, it is about what the Trump administration is doing with the label. The September 2025 executive order designating…2026-10-21 03:00WORLD REPORTWorld Report, Research DigestThis digest's catch-all section is dominated by two stories that are both, in different ways, about the breaking point of governance under pressure. In France, what began…2026-10-20 23:15ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestThe antifa story in 2026 is really two stories running on parallel tracks that occasionally intersect. The first is the Trump administration's use of the "antifa" label a…2026-10-20 23:15POLITICSTrump Administration Corruption, Research DigestThe Trump administration's corruption story is no longer a collection of discrete scandals, it has become a functioning operating system. The scale is what stands out: a …2026-10-20 18:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestPBS NewsHour (June 2026): In two federal courts, a group of nine protesters received unusually long sentences after the Justice Department accused them of being members o…2026-10-20 18:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestThree years ago a city council voting to drop license-plate cameras was a curiosity. This week it is becoming the default: San Diego looks likely to join Tempe, Cave Cree…2026-10-20 12:45ANTIFAPrairieland Antifa Sentences: 556 Years for a Protest, and the Warnings the State IgnoredNine protesters are serving between 30 and 100 years in federal prison after the Justice Department called them members of Antifa. The combined terms handed to the defend…2026-10-20 10:04SURVEILLANCEFlock Cameras: Jackson Ends Its Contract, Tempe Votes a Ban, and the Surveillance Just Moves Next DoorThe point of a license-plate reader network was never that it photographs cars. It is that every car, everywhere, becomes searchable by any cop, anywhere, without a warra…2026-10-20 03:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestPBS NewsHour (June 24, 2026): In two federal courts, nine protesters received unusually long sentences after the Justice Department accused them of being members of Antif…2026-10-20 03:00SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestNPR (August 22, 2026): Dozens of cities have canceled their contracts with Flock Safety, with about 100 cities having deactivated cameras, rejected deals, or cancelled co…2026-10-19 18:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestWhite House (Jun 2026): The Trump Administration designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization and directed the full power of the federal government to hunt down, d…2026-10-19 03:00ANTIFAAntifa, Research DigestPolitical Research Associates (June 11, 2026): The federal case against 19 people known as the Prairieland Defendants marks the Department of Justice's first effort to in…2026-10-18 14:33SURVEILLANCEFlock Camera Abuse, Research DigestUSA TODAY (2026-08-28): Analysis of 75 million Flock searches across 3.5 years and 6,300+ agencies found hundreds of cases of officers searching single plates hundreds/th…
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