WIRED got a copy of a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that has a curious term for opposition to AI development and data centers: "anti-tech violent extremist activity." Great reporting here on how law enforcement is tracking big tech opponents www.wired.com/story/us-law...

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

A great deal of AI hype is coming from con artists who understand exactly how much easier it’s going to be to use the same cons over and over once they achieve their dream of a world in which nobody understands how anything 1) works or 2) has ever worked.

Everyone in the anti-ICE/anti-fascist fight should focus on what has been happening at Delaney Hall this weekend here in Newark. As Mary says, the community is showing up, and has been showing up, for the hunger/work strikers inside. ICE escalated as a result and this is an ongoing current threat.

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Sarah T. Reed High School’s historic home is closing, and while the name will live on, students are scattering to schools across the city. The school’s band, which spent years rebuilding its program, is also splitting up. https://ow.ly/o6YO50Z3Hl1

Louisiana’s tough-on-crime policies stand to cost taxpayers millions more for years to come The governor’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies have…

A new report determined that Louisiana governor Jeff Landry’s proposed increase in prison spending would come at the expense of $165 million in education funding, including $40 million for state colleges and universities and $125 million for K-12 education. With @veritenews.org

Louisiana deputies and ICE detained, shackled, and interrogated a US citizen this week. The young mother showed them multiple forms of ID saying she was born in Colorado. They accused her of forgery and put her in a detention facility. thelensnola.org/2026/05/23/u...

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

Attorneys for Brian Straw, one of the Broadview 6, move for a preservation order on USAtty's office "to make sure that all material information related to this scandal is preserved for purposes of the upcoming sanctions hearing." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

MUST READ: One of the finest pieces written to date about the Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Calláis. @cristianafarias takes it back to Mobile v. Bolden and the dissenting warning from Justice Thurgood Marshall. nymag.com/intelligence...

People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s office has dismissed experts’ concerns that his criminal justice rollbacks could swell the prison population and plunge the state into financial disaster. We analyzed how his policies have already begun to impact the state. w/ @veritenews.org

State and Ascension Parish officials signed NDAs with Hyundai, CF Industries, Linde, and Nemo Industries for *some reason.* Probably not a great reason... www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)

Some notes now that I’ve seen the transcript of the hearing, thanks to @lizdye.bsky.social . First: the government dismissed the felony count in an effort to convince the judge not to make them produce full transcripts, knowing they showed serious misconduct.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

NEW: The transcript of today's sealed hearing in the "Broadview Six" case IS IN. Read it here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b7...

I figured there would be shady conduct with the Broadview Six grand jury, but it's unreal. Vouching is bad enough, but dismissing grand jurors who disagreed with them, hiding a no true bill, and hiding pages of the transcript from the judge? That should be disbarment. That's WAY beyond sanctionable.

DEVELOPING: Louisiana legislators started moving a revised version of the state budget that pulls back funding for K-12 school districts and public school educators, while increasing pay for prison guards. @jsodonoghue.bsky.social reports:

Wow - DHS circulated a “Be on the Lookout” alert to national law enforcement for Ben Palmer, the comedian who made that fake ICE tip line. Great work by @aurabogado.bsky.social: www.injusticewatch.org/civil-courts...

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee says he won't stop Thursday's scheduled execution of Tony Carruthers, a severely mentally ill man who was forced to represent himself *at his own capital murder trial* because the judge simply got tired of dealing with him

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

President Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, traveled to the island this week on a self-proclaimed good-will mission to “make a bunch of friends.” But his offers of MAGA hats and chocolate chip cookies fell flat.

Who’s Spending in Your Congressional Election? We Tracked the Front Groups Fueling the 2026 Midterms. theintercept.com/2026/05/18/s...

EXTREMELY interesting Gallup poll on American responses to data centres here First I've seen break down sub-reasons, and most of it relates to environment / resources, particularly water consumption and energy / power bill impacts. Hatred of AI is there, but small news.gallup.com/poll/709772/...

👉👉👉 3. Louisiana votes against draining teacher pensions and state emergency funds, and against a fake, non-binding teacher pay raise 👈👈👈 4. Louisiana votes against lowering corporate taxes 5. Louisiana votes against raising the mandatory retirement age for judges.

1. Louisiana votes against slashing worker rights for state workers and giving politicians power over their jobs 2. Louisiana votes against segregating schools in East Baton Rouge parish and defunding public schools in the East Baton Rouge school system

Instead of "Louisiana voters vote against pay raises for teachers" I have some other headline suggestions that better describe what happened last night, because I'd like to signal to the country that Louisiana rebuked Republicans last night and show EXACTLY what we voted against:

Worker productivity has exploded over my lifetime, but that never translates into higher pay or shorter hours. The benefits are reaped by the investor class while workers wages have gone down relative to inflation. Elon said AI will make work “optional” in the future. I say we tax that into reality.

big endorsement for AOC last night

"Enjoy your tarnished legacy, Bill Cassidy." New by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...

For the second year in a row, Louisiana voters delivered a stunning defeat to Gov. Jeff Landry by overwhelmingly rejecting a slate of constitutional amendments he supported. Landry spent $1m trying to get the amendments passed. #lalege lailluminator.com/2026/05/16/f...

RESULT: Louisianans was voting on a constitutional amendment today that’d have made it easier to “reclassify” civil servants in a way that made them fireable. Voters just rejected that amendment (the AP has called).

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The US should not be allowed to host the 2026 World Cup: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin makes it clear that ICE will be at the World Cup and that immigration arrests are not off the table.

Data centers are the leading cause of a 76% increase in the cost of electricity for America's largest power grid over just the first 3 months of this year, according to Bloomberg. The 13-state grid managed by PJM serves 67 million people, and costs have spiked this year. /1

I am very pleased to have this op-ed about the Federalist Society out as of just now. Except that I would be more pleased if FedSoc did not exist. #LawSky

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Nearly 40% of Mississippians are Black.

Major investors in Anduril, Flock, a huge marker of police drones Skydio, and a number of other AI security/surveillance/policing vendors.

Goon Squad in one of their new imported vehicles, this one with no plate on Airline by the old airport. They have them in black, grey, and white. Some have plates, some do not.

Requiring the parent of a SNAP recipient to provide a written statement clarifying that a birthday money transfer was not recurring support is so dystopian.