Showing posts with label targeting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label targeting. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The Right Is Targeting Abdul El-Sayed’s Family Members – Mother Jones

Since Abdul El-Sayed’s win earlier this month to become the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s US Senate seat, the right has ramped up its attacks on him, condemning his past comments as evidence of him being a “terrorist” and “radical Islamist” or a “jihadist sympathizer” who is “infiltrating from within”. But it has also targeted El-Sayed’s family—including his wife, Sarah Jukaku, a psychiatrist, and his half-sister, Eman Abdelhadi, a writer and assistant professor at the University of Chicago... 

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/the-right-is-targeting-abdul-el-sayeds-family-members/ 


 

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

Ann Arbor Public Schools to join federal social media lawsuit

Ann Arbor Public Schools will be joining districts across the country in a federal lawsuit alleging that numerous social media companies have prioritized engagement with their platforms over the safety of children and teens…

https://www.michiganpublic.org/education/2026-02-09/ann-arbor-public-schools-to-join-federal-social-media-lawsuit 


 

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Judges, inundated with immigration cases, don’t mince words on ICE tactics - POLITICO

And in all but a handful of cases, those judges have ruled that the Trump administration violated the law, sometimes flagrantly. 

The judges, representing appointees of nearly every president since Ronald Reagan, have grown increasingly alarmed by what they see as a pattern of defiance by the administration, shocking behavior by ICE and rampant targeting of people with no criminal history, despite Trump's claim to be targeting "the worst of the worst."…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/26/minnesota-immigration-cases-ice-00746275 


 

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

How Elon Musk uses his X influence to target critics, federal workers - The Washington Post

The episode illustrates how Musk's unparalleled online reach has given him a powerful tool to attack individuals who criticize DOGE, with one post able to spark hundreds of blistering responses from his followers. 

Last week, he amplified baseless claims about the judge who overturned Trump's funding freeze on federal grants that named his government employee daughter. Musk has called for the dismissal of journalists who have written about DOGE, calling their actions "possibly criminal." As he hunts for places to slash the federal bureaucracy, the billionaire has reposted the names and titles of individual government employees, insinuating they should be fired…


Saturday, December 14, 2019

Trump Campaign Deploying Phone Location-Tracking Technology

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S reelection effort has retained the services of a technology company that specializes in the mass collection of smartphone location data, which can be used to track voters for political targeting purposes.
https://theintercept.com/2019/12/11/the-donald-trump-campaign-is-deploying-phone-location-tracking-technology/








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