Hosted by 805 Speakeasy from the #ConejoValley: Join John Fugelsang and 805 Speakeasy for an online event on Sunday, 1/11/26 at 4pm. Sharp humor, moral clarity, zero patience for hypocrisy. He’ll dive into his new book ‘Separation of Church and Hate’. Smart […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

‘We became famous, but at what cost?’: after the horrors of Cecot, the search for a normal life After months of torture in the Salvadorian prison, the men deported from the US reunite with families in Venezuela https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/28/cecot-el-salvador-venezuela-immigration

😞 How Las Vegas police ended up with a fleet of free Tesla Cybertrucks Mysterious donors gave a fleet of 10 of the vehicles – which have had a number of recalls – to the police earlier this year https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/28/las-vegas-police-free-tesla-cybertrucks

LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting' 1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious […]

Woman deported before she could see dying husband in ICE custody: ‘I never saw him again’ Francisco Gaspar-Andrés died in El Paso hospital after being detained at Fort Bliss – his wife was deported to Guatemala without a chance to see him […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

The Pentagon Is Hoarding Critical Minerals That Could Power the Clean Energy Transition Cobalt, lithium, and other minerals are being stockpiled at the expense of climate action, a new report warns […]

Federal judge blocks ICE from arresting immigrants who show up for court appointments in Northern California https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-25/federal-judge-blocks-ice-from-arresting-immigrants-in-northern-california-courts

Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror Under Miller’s guiding hand, the government can deport (or kidnap and rendition) you or your spouse, without due process, to a foreign gulag, if the president feels like it […]

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Inside Stephen Miller’s Reign of Terror Under Miller’s guiding hand, the government can deport (or kidnap and rendition) you or your spouse, without due process, to a foreign gulag, if the president feels like it […]

Greta Thunberg arrested in London over ‘Palestine Action prisoners’ placard Two other people held on suspicion of criminal damage after protest at insurance company’s offices https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/23/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-palestine-action-prisoners-placard

Woman deported before she could see dying husband in ICE custody: ‘I never saw him again’ Francisco Gaspar-Andrés died in El Paso hospital after being detained at Fort Bliss – his wife was deported to Guatemala without a chance to see him […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

[Fascism, ICE, Mention of Death] ABC Chicago: Bulgarian Chicago business owner dies in ICE custody, sparking calls for 'immediate investigation https://abc7chicago.com/post/bulgarian-chicago-business-owner-nenko-gantchev-dies-ice-custody-family-congresswoman-call-immediate-investigation/18301520/

Greta Thunberg arrested in London over ‘Palestine Action prisoners’ placard Two other people held on suspicion of criminal damage after protest at insurance company’s offices https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/23/greta-thunberg-arrested-london-palestine-action-prisoners-placard

Not only is it terrorism to support Palestine Action, it is terrorism to support hunger strikers who have not been convicted of alleged offences that took place before Palestine Action was even proscribed. Read that back. https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/british-police-have-decided-that

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. [archived link in comments] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/us/politics/doge-musk-trump-analysis.html

‘Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves’ Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet. https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

The Kill Switch How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News [non-Substack link in comments] https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-switch

US sees surge in violence against journalists The US press have suffered about as many assaults this year as in the previous three years combined https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/violence-against-journalists-increase-trump

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US sees surge in violence against journalists The US press have suffered about as many assaults this year as in the previous three years combined https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/violence-against-journalists-increase-trump

The Kill Switch How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News [non-Substack link in comments] https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-switch

LA Times: Biggest Christmas storm in years set to hit SoCal: A timeline for the week "...A Pineapple Express storm could deliver one of Southern California’s stormiest Christmases in recent memory. The basics The storm is expected to deliver 4 to 8 inches of rain between Tuesday and Saturday […]

‘Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves’ Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet. https://www.404media.co/flock-exposed-its-ai-powered-cameras-to-the-internet-we-tracked-ourselves/

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AI chatbots share climate disinformation and recommend climate denialists to susceptible personas https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/ai-chatbots-share-climate-disinformation-to-susceptible-users/

ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents AI Solutions 87 says on its website its AI agents “deliver rapid acceleration in finding persons of interest and mapping their entire network.” https://www.404media.co/ice-contracts-company-making-bounty-hunter-ai-agents/

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LA Times: After Palisades failures, is LAFD prepared for the next major wildfire? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-17/after-palisades-failures-is-lafd-prepared-for-next-major-wildfire #wildfires #palisadesfire

Beans, beans, the more you eat, the more your … meals are healthier and cheaper Celebrity chefs such as Jamie Oliver launch ‘Bang in Some Beans’ campaign to highlight cost savings and health advantages #beans 🫘 […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts How #climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Inside DoJ’s controversial prosecution of a Texas ‘antifa cell’ charged with terrorism DoJ says a group of protesters at an ICE detention center was part of a terror cell; legal experts say case is an effort to crack down on leftwing groups and deter protesters […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Inside DoJ’s controversial prosecution of a Texas ‘antifa cell’ charged with terrorism DoJ says a group of protesters at an ICE detention center was part of a terror cell; legal experts say case is an effort to crack down on leftwing groups and deter protesters […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

How climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts How #climate breakdown is putting the world’s food in peril - in maps and charts […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Billionaires Are Encroaching on the Free Press. Let’s Act to Defend It in 2026. Independent grassroots journalism committed to the pursuit of liberation is an antidote to billionaire-dictated media […]

AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Reuters: Exclusive: FTC probes Instacart's AI pricing tool, source says; shares drop https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/ftc-investigating-instacarts-ai-pricing-tool-source-says-2025-12-17/ #ai #pricing #legal

DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To ‘I’m a Black staffer at WIRED. My position feels more precarious than ever. There’s a reason for that.’ “Just because DEI was mishandled doesn't mean it was worthless.” https://www.wired.com/story/dei-died-this-year-maybe-it-was-supposed-to/

Billionaires Are Encroaching on the Free Press. Let’s Act to Defend It in 2026. Independent grassroots journalism committed to the pursuit of liberation is an antidote to billionaire-dictated media […]

[difficult, but important read] Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans […]

DEI Died This Year. Maybe It Was Supposed To ‘I’m a Black staffer at WIRED. My position feels more precarious than ever. There’s a reason for that.’ “Just because DEI was mishandled doesn't mean it was worthless.” https://www.wired.com/story/dei-died-this-year-maybe-it-was-supposed-to/

[difficult, but important read] Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans […]

Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan

Grist: Climate change primed Washington state for historic flooding Low snowpack, leftover burn scars, and abnormally warm temperatures are supercharging the atmospheric rivers hitting the Pacific Northwest […]

Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’ Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

[so many levels of depravity] ‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead Exclusive: group behind notorious Florida immigration detention center created bid for reconstruction deal […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Arctic endured year of record heat as climate scientists warn of ‘winter being redefined’ Region known as ‘world’s refrigerator’ is heating up as much as four times as quickly as global average, Noaa experts say […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

Outnumbering your enemy is not enough. *Strength* in numbers requires a shared sense of purpose. That must be cultivated. Understanding and relationships must be built. This is the work most people don't want to do. To turn moments into lasting movements, we need organization.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and unassimilable. How far will […]

PBS: Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2025 is AI ‘slop’ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/merriam-websters-word-of-the-year-for-2025-is-ais-slop #aislop #ai #llm