Brian Hofer

ED, Secure Justice, fmr. Chair, City of Oakland Privacy Commission (2016-2025). (@brianhofer.bsky.social)

[Brian Hofer @b_haddy]

Registration is now open, and free. In person and remote options.

[Secure Justice @SecureJustice]

Bay Area - Richmond: on June 27 we're hosting another privacy/digital security training workshop along with Reimagine Richmond and Safe Return Project. Free to the general public. More info and register here: https://t.co/RTLGI4eUxt

Learn how to reduce your digital footprint.

[6MileRome @UnholyRome6]

Democrats are building cop cities while republicans are stripping rights away. Fascism is a team effort!

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

"Trickle down economics doesn't work, so let's try piñata economics. That's the one where we beat the billionaires until the hoarded wealth falls out."

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

“crime is a social construct”, what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jaił for littering, but a corporation can poıson the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jaił.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

[Secure Justice @SecureJustice]

Another Flock L - McFarland, WI.

[Secure Justice @SecureJustice]

Another Flock L - Pittsboro, NC

[Secure Justice @SecureJustice]

Another Flock L - El Ceritto, CA (May 5); Monona, WI (May 4)

[Secure Justice @SecureJustice]

The chair and vice chair of Berkeley’s civilian police oversight board explain why they oppose expanding the city’s Flock Safety network ahead of a Thursday vote.

https://t.co/hXhx8QoQtj

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This SCOTUS rulings so far
•Universities using race criteria to counter historical racism in admissions is unconstitutional, BUT
•ICE fascists using race criteria to target people of color is constitutional, BUT
•State legislatures using race criteria to counter historical voter suppression is unconstitutional, BUT
•Trump using race criteria to enact travel bans is constitutional
In short—race criteria that centers white people is constitutional, but race criteria otherwise is unconstitutional😐

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Cheat Justice Roberts should be in prison for treason.

“Last week, the New York Times obtained and published sixteen pages of private correspondence among the justices in February 2016.

The exchanges capture, in the justices’ own words, the moment the Court crossed a critical line, corrupting its emergency docket into the shadow docket.

The documents are remarkable on their face. They reveal the justices writing to one another in plain and sometimes testy language.

They pressed personal views, dismissed valid objections, even cited a blog post and a television interview as supporting authority.

More significantly, the correspondence captures not just a consequential ruling, but the birth of a new and disturbing way of conducting Court business.

Georgetown Law professor Stephen Vladeck, whose book on the shadow docket is widely considered a definitive account, had written just weeks before the Times’ publication that the shadow docket’s origin would remain sealed for generations.

We would have to wait, he told readers, for our grandchildren to gain access to the justices’ private papers before the full story could be told.

But the 2026 writers had another script in mind. Now the full story is out there. And it is not flattering, particularly for the Chief Justice.”

https://t.co/xj5BFjNax7

[Geoff Wacker @GeoffWacker]

Count you in?

[Brian Hofer @b_haddy]

Make it make sense 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Secure Justice @SecureJustice]

On Apr 21 (Item 55), the Alameda County Board will approve an extension of the "worst in the country" Flock contract, by only amending the length/increasing $. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is running away from one of the shadiest vendors in a shady industry.

[Shawn Hendrix @TheShawnHendrix]

They call them Flock cameras because we are the sheep.

[The Lever @LeverNews]

Montana just moved one step closer to challenging Citizens United.

[Brian Hofer @b_haddy]

The sad part is that no matter how many times OPD falsely claims urgency and that we’re all going to die of murder unless we give them what they want, the City Council will never do anything about it. They truly could not care less, because they don’t care at all.

[Jaime Omar Yassin @hyphy_republic]

This week, I confirmed with the City that the Flock contract expansion authorized by Council in December remains unexecuted. I also confirmed expansion, which includes video surveillance from city-operated cams & cooperating resident-owned streams has, thus, not been activated.

[Secure Justice @SecureJustice]

Just a few angry activists? Or is it a bandwagon?

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

Someone printed out my tweet & brought it to a No Kings protest 😯