New — I talked with @katmabu.bsky.social the morning after a judge dismissed all charges against her and her co-defendants thanks to extreme government fuckery about what comes next, the crazy rumor mill and setting a precedent for telling ICE to fuck off. Our convo here:

The Pope has spoken out for the protection of immigrants, and against the Iran war. Now he's launching a papal letter on AI. Tomorrow, he'll be joined by an Anthropic co-founder, religious leaders, and theologians in an address about safeguarding human dignity in the AI era.

Amid Meta's mass layoffs and a hard pivot to AI, one engineer posted a scorched-earth farewell parody video to the tune of “American Pie” in an internal message board. We got our hands on it.

Promises made, promises kept

Family is one thing, but poorly Photoshopped images of himself looming over Greenland are another.

Tech Policy Press fellow Petra Molnar highlights the AI Resist List: a global database documenting acts of resistance to the AI industry. From legal challenges and worker organizing to artistic interventions, the project seeks to challenge the “scale at all costs” development of AI.

1. The data center boom isn’t a neutral response to public need. It’s a speculative race by Amazon, Google, Meta & Microsoft to consolidate control over AI and extend their monopoly power — while shifting huge costs onto the rest of us. Here's ILSR's guide to what we need to do.

Political expectations are below ground. I understand. But we absolutely need to raise our expectations. That needs to be the default position. HIGH EXPECTATIONS.

this is a masterpiece

Bezos discusses why him paying more taxes wouldn't help working people on the same day my reporting reveals the working conditions inside an Amazon package facility where someone died last month.

Sad but true: If 5* football players were to start boycotting Bama, Ole Miss and LSU, you'd see states like Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana go from some of the most racist places in America to having "I Have a Dream" Tuesdays and painting Black Lives Matter in their football stadium end zones.

"bUt DeMoCrAtS ArE FiGhTiNg aS HaRd aS ThEy cAn!"

Five Years of Banned Books Data and What Do We Know? A look at the most banned authors across these five years, the most targeted books, and the actual ages and publication dates. Spoiler: they're NOT new books. That, plus this week's lengthy book censorship news. bookriot.com/5-years-of-b...

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

A.I. is about to lead to massive unemployment among skilled, white collar workers (and many, entry-level service workers). I'm yet to see an explanation of how we, as a society, will deal with it, but NOW would be very good time to talk about it.

I just want to repeat again: The American people saved 26 million lives — because we could It something we should be proud of. Our leaders should tell us about it. Not decry it as some budgetary sin while signing our names to a slaughter.

The AI industry has inflated the U.S. stock market and the economy. What happens when that bubble bursts?

Developers are aiming to build the biggest data center complex in Virginia. It would be 22 million square feet, which works out to four Disneylands, or 61 Pentagons, or—because this is America—382 football fields. And developers are trying to buy up people’s houses and property to do it.

A $200 fine on tens of millions of dollars of stock trades. Wow, I bet he won’t do that again.

I know we keep seeing these stories about Republican officials who are arrested for sex crimes against children, but it's just a string of hundreds of coincidences.

These people are terrified. They know they’ve pushed too far too fast and are going to face a huge backlash from voters. So they’re trying to stop people from voting.

this is a thoroughly researched piece tracing the history & spiderwebs of right wing extremism directly to the door of Hungary. a great read not only for researchers but anyone interested in eastern europe & how the tentacles of nationalism grow past borders.

Development Assistance for Health dropped 21% in 2025. It collapsed from $80 billion in 2021, to $50 billion in 2024, and is forecast to drop to $36 billion in 2030. The US cut 67% of health aid. UK: 39%, France: 33%, Germany: 12%, Finland: 11%, Canada: 15%

You do not spend generations suppressing a people you believe are weak.

Democratic state representatives in Minnesota began a sit-in in their house chamber on Thursday night after the Republican speaker failed to put a gun violence prevention bill up for a vote

You can take all the corruption from every single US administration in history, add it all together, and it will not equal the amount of corruption committed by the Trump Regime in less than two years.

naturally

ah yes the right tail of the bell curve, the place where you will find towering intellects like those of Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth

The corporate media is bravely asking, “won’t anyone think of the billionaires?”

The entire right wing ecosystem, from politics to media to business, is just for-profit contrarianism. The formula is: they name a real shortcoming of the imperfect status quo and once they got you they sell you horseshit that's much, much worse

"NINE OF THE 10 MOST EXPENSIVE WILDFIRES in U.S. history have occurred since 2017."

The fact that most of us can't name a policy advanced by the Right that has improved a majority of people's lives to me is telling. It suggests that when you hear some people say that a "strong" GOP is needed, that they are full of shit or complicit in making people's lives more awful.

Syphilis is reshaping our communities, so you'd better make sure students are exposed to that too, man. Great work.

Recession tornado siren.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Why is the President of the United States shilling so hard for cryptocurrency? Because the entire industry is a Ponzi scheme — and he's the conman-in-chief.

If you are someone who forages for mushrooms and other edibles in wilderness areas, you’d better read this investigation. Your health may depend on it.

literally a video of the AG confirming a selective prosecution. defense is going to have a pretty easy time with this.

Cartoon by Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social

Louisiana Republicans have eliminated a city clerk position in New Orleans days before a Black man was set to take office. “It’s a sad thing to see the state government repeating what happened to Black public officials during Reconstruction,” said Calvin Duncan, who was set to take office Monday.

Trump’s detention camps are massively unpopular in every community where they’ve been proposed. But many people don’t realize DHS is planning a concentration camp nearby. That’s why we’re putting up billboards to let local residents know there’s a proposed or existing detention camp in their area.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

There's no shortage of horrors in this country right now, but here's something hopeful: tenants in two Montana trailer parks just voted to authorize the first rent strike there in nearly 50 years, following steep rent hikes. People are organizing, fighting back.

On May Day, workers, migrants, and many others are showing up to rally with one big overarching message: Workers Over Billionaires! 📢 Friday, May 1 12pm: Community fair in the South Park Blocks 1pm: Rally and cultural programming (Shemanski Park) 3:30 pm March Wear union swag, bring union banners!

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

“A US vessel intercepted them and forced them aboard. Once they were detained, their fishing boat was blown up,” said Fernando Bastias Robayo, a lawyer with the Human Rights Council. “They were arbitrarily hooded and later abandoned on the Salvadorian coast." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Personally, I think naturalization should be a one-way ratchet: nobody should be denaturalized *unless* there's hard evidence that they committed fraud in applying for immigration or naturalization in the first place. Y'know, like Elon Musk (student visa) & Melania Trump ("Einstein visa") both did.

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.