Matthew Wollenweber
@MWollenweber
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NOLA based security engineer, privacy advocate, and progressive organizer. BJJ brown belt. Rescuer of bulldogs. Opinions are my own
New Orleans, LA
Joined March 2021
Border Patrol invades New Orleans today. Trump and Jeff Landry want to punish us for being a Democratic sanctuary city. Be prepared
insomniac.tech
As part of an operation called “Swamp Sweep,” 250 Border Patrol agents are arriving in New Orleans today. They are expected to remain in the city for the next couple of months. They’re not he…
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Everyone should have the right to speak up against injustice without ending up in a database.
eff.org
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national
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This is The Great Climate Insurance Collapse coming at us. Republicans look away because it’s what their fossil fuel industry donors demand.
nytimes.com
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
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Find you somebody who looks at you like Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani.
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There’s a nursing shortage
Nursing has been excluded as a “professional degree” by the Trump administration as the Department of Education prepares to make massive cuts to providing student loans. https://t.co/GSUHXtGzIi
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Immigrants are our neighbors and friends. Please do what you can to help each other. The cruelty is the point. But we can undermine their cruelty by showing overwhelming kindness.
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“This is a wake-up call for leaders: Flock (ALPR) technology is a threat to our core democratic values,” EFF’s @Maassive told @404mediaco.
404media.co
A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.
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Mike Johnson really is a giant asshole, isn’t he? https://t.co/RYI1Q9quMO
politico.com
Johnson said it was the Democrats who were acting “wildly inappropriate” by suggesting military members should disobey unlawful orders.
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My brother in Christ, this is quite literally your fault.
I’m a doctor who has seen people die from vaccine-preventable diseases. What parents need to hear right now is vaccines for measles, polio, hepatitis B and other childhood diseases are safe and effective and will not cause autism. Any statement to the contrary is wrong,
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ICE deported Louisiana detainee to Mexico against judge's order warning of torture risk
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Border Patrol agents are coming to New Orleans Friday. An immigration attorney explains what rights you have if you’re approached by an agent, @AlyssaNCurtis reports: https://t.co/IhOxNm5Jgu
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BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market 53% of homes have lost value over the last year, the highest share of depreciation in 13 years 📉🏡😱
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The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious, The Associated Press has found.
pbs.org
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
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ICE deported Louisiana detainee to Mexico against judge's order warning of torture risk
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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Often I am on the way home from Rouses and realize I forgot like 5 things so I just stop at the Breaux Mart. 2 grocery stores on the same trip? Seems suspicious. Hope I don't get arrested https://t.co/yZvlAasebg
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VIDEO: Officers took more than a dozen men into custody, including one who works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The chief shared a video of officers tackling him to the floor. https://t.co/9NZnFxpEMK
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