BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Judith Butler is being targeted by the US government. We must stand up | Joel Swanson

"... One indelible image of this capture is from Trump’s second inauguration, where a decisive quorum of tech’s elite, after dutifully kicking in million-dollar checks, occupied front-row seats." www.wired.com/story/silico...

🚨CASES WE’RE WATCHING TODAY🚨 ⚖️ Maryland DOGE SSA Access Challenge: The 4th Circuit will hear an appeal concerning whether DOGE can access sensitive personal data at the Social Security Administration. WATCH IT HERE: www.youtube.com/live/ioskch_...

On the massive rightwing media network that Trump #NIH director Bhattacharya is deeply enmeshed with. Bhattacharya did an interview with John Solomon at JTN, smearing Bethesda Declaration signers. Rightwing money then pushed out that message. Read this one 👇

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps — Trump administration contract with Paragon Solutions gives immigration agency access to one of the most powerful stealth cyberweapons" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

The time to protect civil rights in the digital age is now. We’re hosting the ACLU’s first-ever AI summit on Thursday 7/10 at 10:15 a.m. EDT – 3 p.m. ET to discuss this rapidly evolving technology's impact on our civil rights and liberties. RSVP today.

Trump's Big Bad Ugly Bill would rip healthcare away from 5% of Americans.

I just launched Kelp UI (my UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components)! Currently in alpha. Rapidly building out the docs. Let me know what you think! 🎉🎉🎉 kelpui.com

I'm finding myself increasingly uncomfortable with the exploitive nature of charging lots of $$$ for courses when so much of how I learned to do this work was free. I've decided to refocus on making free resources. You can (100% optionally) support that work here: members.gomakethings.com

ANOTHER fossil fuelled power station specifically being built to power a new data centre, this time for Meta This serves as a great example of "just deregulate and renewables will get built by default bc they're cheap" is wrong. Big tech ❤️ fossil fuels www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ohio...

AI may be the first anti-automation tool in that it has automated the thing devs like to do (write code) and stuck them with more of what they don't like to do (fix someone else's bad code)

"Billions of login credentials have been leaked online, ... Researchers say that billions of login credentials have been leaked and compiled into datasets online, giving cybercriminals “unprecedented access” to accounts consumers use each day." apnews.com/video/billio...

What he said, and amen to it.

If you are in NYC and still thinking Cuomo is a good choice, know he’s getting money from Palantir,Peter Thiel’s company. #nycmayoralrace gizmodo.com/palantirs-ce...

Last semester a staff member from a historic preservation lab audited my methods class and decided to create a series of zines highlighting the archival resources that inform preservation projects. She submitted a prototype in Dec — and today I received in the mail a hard copy of the first issue!

“CNN has learned that all of the Democratic members of Minnesota’s Congressional delegation were on the suspect’s alleged target list, according to a law enforcement source.”

#nokings It is difficult to find messaging about cancelled plans for MN protests for the rest of the day amidst safety concerns. In Duluth today we had an amazing turnout at noon. Beautiful experience in the wake of this morning's tragedy.

NEW: The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry's website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn't the answer.” This is a developing story.

blocks all state and local governments from regulating AI ... "no State or political subdivision thereof may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems" for 10 years arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/g...

Thanks to drastic policy changes in the US and Big Tech’s embrace of the second Trump administration, many people are moving their digital lives abroad. Here are a few options to get you started. www.wired.com/story/the-pr...

Because they want to kill us, Congress voted to overturn a Clean Air Act regulation limiting toxic emissions from industrial facilities like refineries, chemical plants, and steel mills. This marks the first Congressional rollback of the landmark environmental law's protections since its creation.

Finally AI has its goldmine customer ::: totalitarian governments www.wired.com/story/doge-u...

Billionaires and CEOs exploit workers with poverty wages while hoarding TRILLIONS—all by design. This rigged system isn’t a “flaw.” It’s systemic oppression.

from 2017: It may only take 3.5% of the population to topple a dictator – with civil resistance www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Research shows that movements with just 3.5% of the population engaging in sustained nonviolent resistance have been historically successful in achieving major goals such as the removal of an authoritarian in power.

AI’s energy use now represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand.. Demand from AI could double by the end of this year, to nearly half of all total data-center electricity consumption worldwide, excluding the electricity used for bitcoin mining. www.wired.com/story/new-re...

"AI will be using more power than many countries by the end of 2025, claims new research" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The deals stand to enrich tech CEOs substantially by opening up new audiences for their products" surveillance capitalism + AI => authoritarian state tools & targeted weaponry (a potent new/old market) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

About the The Data Analyst Tracking the Immigrants Disappeared by ICE www.thecut.com/article/unit...

activistchecklist.org good resources for digital safety

act.womensmarch.com/signup/DDApr... Digital Defenders Securing Our Resistance—Infosecurity for Everyday Activists Tuesday, April 29th, 8:00 PM ET

🚨 Surveillance is here — and it’s targeting us. Borders. Protests. Our phones. Our lives. We’re not backing down. We’re getting smarter. 🔥 Join us TOMORROW on Tuesday, April 29 @ 8PM ET for Digital Defenders — a crash course in fighting back: act.womensmarch.com/signup/DDApr...

This could be really big, if people show up! The Mn 50501 folks are joining, 🤞 For Immigrant Rights and Workers Rights Initiated by MIRAC, MN Workers United, MN Immigrant Movement, Asamblea de Derechos Civiles, Kalpulli Ketzal Coaltlique, MN8, CAIR-MN, MFT, Indigenous Protector Movement, EPNI

"REQUIRED I Students at the following campuses have had their visas revoked since April 2. We will post with updates. There are gofundme campaigns and other efforts to help raise money for these students." dashboard here: www.wearehighered.org/campus-abduc...

SCOOP: Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

Data centers drain communities of water & use huge amounts of electrical resources "Data centers are facilities where organizations house computer systems and servers, and these centers require large amounts of electricity to keep these systems cool" www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/minneso...

"A constitutional crisis? The end of democracy? Join UMD faculty as they attempt to make sense of our current moment at this all-campus teach-in " calendar.d.umn.edu/event/99704-...

"The Social Security Administration will no longer be communicating with the media and the public through press releases and “dear colleague” letters, as it shifts its public communication exclusively to X," www.wired.com/story/social...

resonate facilitate

Could not agree more with @maddow.msnbc.com "The weird, chaotic, nihilistic confluence of politics and technology and tech-bro oligarch culture in this means that @wired.com has turned out to be really the perfect outlet to cover some of the scariest stuff in this moment"

Duluth Immigration Rapid Response Training April 12 1:30-3:30PM Unitarian Universalist Congregation 835 W College St, Duluth MN

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

"How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid" www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Lots of people talking about libraries as an emblem of what we should be fighting for. I wrote about this (and acknowledged the risks of romanticization!) back in 2014. (I wrote a book about them in 2007, too. And about 20 more essays since :)

"The lawsuit added that the administration seems to be “primarily targeting” African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and Asian students, a likelihood affirmed by university officials, students, and attorneys ... ‘Feels AI or Computer-Driven' ‘Fear and Chaos at It’s Finest’" zeteo.com/p/trump-is-t...