Under pressure from Judicial Watch, three states have initiated proceedings to remove close to 2 million voters from their rolls in the last two years.

The politics of surveillance, even in normal times, scramble the typical partisan tendencies, with Mitch McConnell, Nancy Pelosi, and Adam Schiff often aligning on questions about the breadth and depth of state power to surveil and track Americans.

Surveillance firms around the world are licking their lips at a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to cash in on the coronavirus by repositioning one of their most invasive products: the tracking bracelet.

As previously reported, the 12-page FBI report that introduced the label of “black identity extremism” was filled with innuendo and stereotypes. It also explicitly connected its analysis to the Ferguson protests.

“About 24, so slightly under half the states in the United States, have uncontrolled epidemics. Which means we are not ‘flattening the curve’ as a nation in terms of deaths any time soon,” says Yale epidemiologist @gregggonsalves .

Several people who contacted The Intercept blamed financial incentives at halfway houses for the reluctance to send more people home during the coronavirus pandemic.

On the next System Update with @ggreenwald : An exclusive report on the mass-extermination program now being used by factory farms for pigs deemed “worthless” in the pandemic, with @DxEverywhere 's Matt Johnson and an Iowa Select Farms whistleblower:

Trump on Wednesday issued a rare veto threat, promising to reject a renewal of his surveillance authorities if approved by the House of Representatives.

Trump spent the past weekend back at his own golf course, as deaths from Covid-19 approached the 100,000 mark. There has been no remorse, no regret, and few condolences for the families of the dead, writes @mehdirhasan .