For nearly a year, the administration has said that DOGE had no unauthorized access to your Social Security data. A new government filing admits that was false.

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.” You can’t trust chatbots.

Listening to Trump Admin officials, you'd never guess that the US stock market underperformed the rest of the world in 2025.

This is why we must #ImpeachThemAll

And I’m supposed to care about that???

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Probably by April Trump will have spent the equivalent of an entire year of his two terms playing golf. www.pbump.net/o/an-officia...

Euro MAGA tour continues tomorrow

Friends, can you chip in to support our NE neighbor? He’s lost his family, and he’s staring down the barrel of an immigration hearing at Whipple next month gofund.me/39d8aaed4

While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Watch the full interview: youtu.be/uI-hgSE5QIw

From “Never Forget” to “Just Go Ahead and Forget.” Terrible.

Harm reduction services, including syringe service and fentanyl testing programs, are proven to save lives. As a federal court recognized, people with substance use disorder have a right to these services under disability law.

A new political battle has now triggered a partial government shutdown; a shutdown that could trigger frustrations at airport security. nbcbay.com/9Wjp7ko

One thing I think abt a lot: Just imagine how well the economy would be doing if Trump hadn’t spent all of last year trashing the great economy he inherited? Tariffs, huge govt layoffs, slashing research/medical/science spending, torturing US cities with immigration raids. Economy would be humming!

@dahlialithwick.bsky.social & @mjsdc.bsky.social with an addendum to the @elienyc.bsky.social speculation that Alito is signalling retirement. A must-read. And I'll add one more outrageous possible candidate: Justice Pam Bondi? The horror....😱😱😱 slate.com/news-and-pol...

I don’t mean to ruin anyone’s weekend, but I definitely could see Desantis taking Kristi Noem’s job. They also have never liked each other so wouldn’t shock me if he’s lobbying for it.

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

The community note is the icing on the cake.

Hawley ended up getting so aggressive toward Ellison, including calling for his arrest, that even Rand Paul asked him to tone it down

Another one from the "white advocacy" (you know what that means) American Renaissance outfit:

In case you were wondering, yes. This whole Trump admin "never apologize for your heritage" schtick is (once again) drawn directly from the playbook of white supremacist/far right orgs. Nazi sh*t.

More and more Americans are turning against the surveillance state—and embracing each other. trib.al/KYRx6pU

Happened to me with United 2day. Saw one price when I went into United website-not signing in with my FFlier #. Saw a higher price once I logged in. SO I went in on another computer-not logging in. Back to lower price. They literally penalize you for having an account with them.😡

(11/11) In this new normal, costs are individually adjusted to a consumer’s maximum threshold and wages to a worker’s minimum floor. The next time you see a price, know that it may not reflect what the item is worth—but what the algorithm believes *you* are worth.

(10/11) Dubal’s research showed that dynamic rates are coming for wages too, with Uber drivers with identical workloads and performance getting different pay based on the lowest amount the algorithm calculated they’d accept. www.columbialawreview.org/content/on-a...

(9/11) This trend has its defenders—Wharton’s Z. John Zhang calls it "efficiency," and says it will lower prices. But legal scholar Veena Dubal has called it “discrimination.”

(8/11) Now, we’re going back to the Bazaar. But this time you’re not up against a shopkeeper. You’re up against a massive digital infrastructure calculating your personal price tolerance.

(7/11)This individualized targeting marks a departure from a 150-year old retail standard. Since John Wanamaker popularized the price tag in 1861, fixed prices have functioned as a de facto social contract. It ensured a market standard: the same cost for every customer, regardless of background

(6/11) Uber tracks battery life. Former exec Keith Chen noted in 2016 that users with low battery are statistically more likely to accept surge pricing. Uber says it doesn’t use that data to set prices, but the correlation remains a point of regulatory scrutiny. www.npr.org/transcripts/...

4/11) In 2025, Delta tested “Fetcherr,” reportedly an AI designed to find the highest price before a consumer abandons a purchase. Delta has called that characterisation inaccurate, but on investor calls, execs hyped the tech as a “super analyst” that would end static prices.

(3/11) A December 2025 Consumer Reports investigation found that Instacart prices for identical items varied by as much as 23% between different users. Instacart characterizes these discrepancies as routine ‘A/B testing’. www.consumerreports.org/money/questi...

(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised! New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

If I’m elected, I will be the first woman with a science PhD ever elected to Congress. It’s time to listen to the science again.

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

Congressmember Pramila Jayapal is demanding greater transparency from the Justice Department about Jeffrey Epstein's associates. "There are people from around the world that were part of this."

If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.

Minnesota, America owes you a lot. ✊ Your strength & determination to be out there, fighting & documenting the atrocities is why people are turning on Trump.

The Northwest Side Rapid Response Team posted this community alert a short while ago. It describes how a resident in Albany Park was lured by a phone call that indicated they had won a prize. Another was lured to an address to pick up scrap metal. Both were detained by ICE upon arrival.

This reminds me of strategies I heard about in Chicago in the fall when residents were detained by ICE through deception. One was lured with a phone call about a prize and another lured by supposed scrap metal available for pickup.

My message remains the same a year later. We don’t have kings in America, and I won’t bend the knee to one.

Rep. Angie Craig: "The attacks on Black and brown people in Minnesota have been egregious. At the end of the day, what they wanted out of Minnesota was for us to riot. I think this will go down in American history as one of the greatest examples of peaceful resistance from an entire community."

Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse. Why is the media only barely starting to report on it? And why won’t they ask who’s really making the decisions in the White House? https://youtu.be/NQHLciC67V8?si=uoJIQXi5JIEJvac-

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

📌 Lewandowski is not a Senate-confirmed DHS official and doesn’t hold a formal cabinet-level title. He serves as a Special Government Employee. A temporary adviser who can only work up to 130 days per year.

This flew under the radar, but it shouldn’t have. When senator Alex Padilla was tackled by DHS, Kristi Noem’s side piece, Corey Lewandowski, was orchestrating the situation in the hall.

I've seen reports of a number of prominent accounts getting hacked on X in the past couple of months. Wonder if there's some kind of coordinated targeting.