New: we've obtained a DHS document outlining ICE's plan to give potentially more than a thousand local law enforcement agencies a facial recognition app that would query a database of hundreds of millions of images to verify someone’s immigration status www.404media.co/ices-plan-to...

“…here, on the far south edge of Texas, you can glimpse what our overlords actually have in mind for us by way of a future—namely, to keep feeding the world into the furnace while pointing shiny rockets at the promise of a way out, the promise of other worlds.”

"...by several credible accounts, the show’s outstanding journalism has been tainted by politics, as Weiss moves the news programming rightward. That Donald Trump has praised CBS’s new ownership speaks volumes." Read @sulliview.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you only read one story today, please check this out by my colleagues Andy Mannix and @jeremykohler.bsky.social Gripping. Horrifying. The ending is a gut punch. www.propublica.org/article/old-...

Don’t say I didn’t warn y’all

You gotta wonder what’s going to become of all these gigantic warehouse-like buildings once they’re slapped together but never actually get used as data centers. Unless there’s some other entity that’s been eager to build giant warehouses for some other purpose lately!

Russian forces are increasingly painting their trucks in a "zebra" camouflage pattern, hoping to deceive the machine vision systems of Ukrainian UAVs.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Really great summary of the meltdown at FEMA and the sorry state of the agency as we enter into hurricane/wildfire season: “It could take a decade to fix what they broke,” a high-ranking FEMA official said. “And if we have a major disaster this year, we’re screwed.”

“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”

Just 15 years ago Aaron Swartz died as a result of MIT's overzealous regard for the sanctity of their libraries. He'd be turning 40 this year.

MA Uber and Lyft drivers formed a union! It's a historic moment for the labor movement. First they passed a right to unionize law (in 2024), then beat anti-union propaganda from the companies. App Drivers Union represents 70,000 MA ride-share drivers. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

“Five died in centers run by longtime ICE detention partners, CoreCivic and the GEO Group.” apnews.com/article/ice-...

All four episodes of "American Emergency: The Movement to Kill FEMA" are out now! How Cold War secrecy, the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina, and viral misinformation put this much maligned and misunderstood agency in MAGA's crosshairs: on-the-media.visitlink.me/fYmLqy

In France, municipal vehicles like buses are also used for monitoring tech: air quality meters. The result is information that leads to a healthier society. Here, we have other priorities.

Something crazy happened to @micahloewinger.bsky.social this week while preparing the final episode of his deep dive investigation into FEMA.

thank you to everyone who sent this to me

Here's how you can setup Firefox to use noai.duckduckgo.com as your search engine:

Anti-Data Center Rebels in Texas Pray to Jesus to Keep Them Out By Dina Katgara In a state known for pro-business policies, some local activists are trying to block the big-money projects that power AI.

Thanks to @maryharris.bsky.social for a great interview about our FEMA reporting: slate.com/podcasts/wha...

NYDN ed board: "...it can’t be the case that federal agents can openly, even gleefully violate the law and the only consequence is that their arrests don’t quite stick, after they’ve already upended someone’s life and only if that person happens to get pro bono legal assistance."

This Day in Labor History: May 21, 1968. The Poor People’s Campaign began setting up its encampment in Washington, D.C., called Resurrection City. This was Martin Luther King's last campaign. It did not succeed without his leadership, but would have been difficult to pull off anyway. Let's chat!

Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over. Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed. I have the links

"And in what way does firing people from the Post make people more likely to pay for the Post?" That obvious follow-up question is strictly forbidden under capitalism.

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

ProPublica’s board and senior management hide when asked to engage with bargaining. The board meets today, but they won’t meet with us. We will make our voices unavoidable until they agree to a fair contract, so, today, we welcomed folks to our office with flyers about our fight.

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

The richest man in the world gutted USAID and bragged about “feeding [it] into the wood chipper.” Remember who is responsible for this suffering. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

Memphis is “under full-blown occupation” by ICE. Here’s why you may not know that.

This is a critically important article Trump did this to us here at Duke as well (@michaeldgreen.phd and I wrote about it here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...) His war on diversity in medical education & training will worsen the health of Americans

This Day in Labor History: May 18, 1979. A jury found for Karen Silkwood’s estate in her plutonium exposure case. Unfortunately, she had died in a car accident five years earlier that was likely a murder orchestrated by her employer enraged by her exposing their toxic legacy!!!!

On the 3rd episode of American Emergency, how the movement to kill FEMA found its footing during Hurricane Helene. Featuring @samlmontano.bsky.social & @willoremus.com: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

On Fri night, Brooklyn court staff forced a woman to give birth inside the courtroom. Per public defenders, she gave birth in handcuffs, unable to reposition herself, unable to pick up her infant. The men who’d shackled her looked on. The judge lauded the birth of a ‘beautiful baby’ on the record.

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

Yesterday, we handed out flyers at a @propublica.org panel discussion in Brooklyn. We’re making sure management knows we are not shutting up about a fair contract! Learn more about our fight for a fair contract: www.propublicaguild.org

I've lost probably 80% of my work because I didn't PDF my shit and so many places I worked for dumped old reporting. Places you wouldn't even expect! NBC, Citypaper, LA Weekly, Zagat, etc so many "institutions" you think would keep all their archives. Nope!

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

🎧 It's launch day! 🚀 Our VERY FIRST EPISODE of "Paper Trail" is now live. You can listen at the link below or subscribe in all the normal podcast places: www.propublica.org/podcast/what...

Same energy:

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

As of publication, it’s been two months since Block Club or M.G.’s lawyer have been able to reach him. blockclubchicago.org/2026/05/12/t...

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

important story out today on @propublica.org from Mark Olalde: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities a pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules with little more than an email. www.propublica.org/article/clea...

“EPA played no role in the determinations set out in the statute and specifically vested in the President. Any requests sent to the EPA’s electronic mailbox were forwarded to the White House.” https://www.propublica.org/article/clean-air-act-exemptions-trump-emails

To slightly adapt Orwell: The Supreme Court told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was its final, most essential command.