Crow's Nest tracks the news where the state meets the individual: surveillance and privacy first, and the wider run of civil and economic liberty behind it — speech, due process, search and seizure, property, the right to do business. The one town's vote on its camera contract gets the same attention as the national ruling, because that is where most of this actually happens.
It is a reading room, not a publication with a position. Every line links to the reporting it came from, and the beat is deliberately broad and global: a rule in Brussels or Delhi is often the first draft of one in Washington.
Stories arrive from several hundred sources and are sorted by what liberty is at stake in them. Headlines and summaries are written by a language model from the linked reporting and can be wrong; the link on every line is the record. Stories about the same event are grouped, and when the same matter comes back weeks later the thread is kept.
The calendar lists what is dated ahead — council votes, comment deadlines, hearings, laws taking effect — and only when the date is written in the source. It is also an iCalendar feed you can subscribe to.
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