“The California city's leaders placed a permanent ban on these buildings, labelling them a public nuisance. A proposed plan to construct a 250,000 square foot data center was stopped after residents and advocates pushed back against the project.”
This is important and shocking news from NYT.
And it doesn’t mention the DRC third-country deportation program has already begun. ICE sent 15 immigrants from Latin American countries there five days ago.
gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...
Life as a performer comes with certain expectations, but having to deal with constant government surveillance shouldn’t be one of them, writes @musicculture504.bsky.social on a new proposal to surveil the French Quarter with drones. antigravitymagazine.com/column/maccn...
Using facial recognition tech, the Knicks surveilled a trans woman, tracking her every move out of fear she'd show up on MSG's tv broadcast
And they can do it to any "enemy" of Jim Dolan, who's built his own deep state. From @noahshachtman.bsky.social & me @wired.com www.wired.com/story/madiso...
Anyone else in Southeast Louisiana been peepin out the stories over the past few months about how the LA Flood Protection Agency (East) has been expanding into a police force?
This is bad right?
Like ain’t their job to make sure mothafuckas ain’t flooding?
www.wwltv.com/article/news...
“As automation and AI become ubiquitous, the human touch has become a luxury good,” @kaliholloway.bsky.social writes. Meanwhile, it’s the poor who are subject to the most consequential uses of AI.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients.
The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...
FFS. They took number plates off the cars of people that were locked up and used them for undercover police ops. This stinks.
ICYMI: Everyday ppl living in Atlanta metro–Flock surveillance co.'s backyard–are learning to organize against the proliferation of cameras in their lives:
atlpresscollective.com/2026/04/17/a...
@johnpfaff.bsky.social @katmabu.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social @neonflag.bsky.social
@eff.org
Browsing this company's website and the only way I can describe what I'm seeing is imagine a school shooter was a management consultant
Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.
Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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Gift article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
India has exported more than 320 million unapproved synthetic opioid pills to West Africa in just three years. Trade data shows over 1,400 shipments of tapentadol — a potent painkiller — were sent to a region already facing an opioid crisis. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...
If a House bill becomes law, people who sleep on the street in Louisiana would be classified as criminals.
Not only did the sons probably call ICE on her, the day after her husband died they took their dad's cars, leaving her housebound. Then they rerouted mail, causing her to miss a visa appointment & the utilities to be turned off. Tony and Gary Ross are going to hell.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
An alert from Denver’s gunshot detection system prompted officers to swarm a Montbello woman’s 70th birthday party with guns drawn and detain Black partygoers for nearly an hour — even though the ShotSpotter alert was for another address and likely triggered by fireworks, according to a lawsuit.
“How tenants in four federally-backed buildings in the South overcame intense retaliation and won a new contract from their out-of-state landlord.”
By: THOMAS BIRMINGHAM
inthesetimes.com/article/kent...
In 2003, US citizen Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli soldiers using a US-provided bulldozer.
Her parents are calling on senators to vote yes today to block $295 million worth of these bulldozers to Israel. Join them by calling your senators TODAY:
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the violence, protests and arrests stemming from the federal immigration sweeps across the country. "Caught in the Crackdown" premieres tonight on PBS and online.
All these stories about "287g trained officers" and you know that no one has confirmed these officers have been "trained"?
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/04/11/t...
NYT article on Mrs. Bezos and this in screenshot: More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21m A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social .
Your post about the World's Longest Press Release appeared like this in my feed.
The fat orange cunt holds on to two bags of hamburgers outside the Oval Office
A grandmother forced to work to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment delivers food to a President covering his office in gold.
Trump’s America. Burn it all down.
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New this week I looked at a pair of of new research papers that evaluate the cost of police vehicle pursuits. One finds that fatalities from pursuits have increased substantially while the other shows more pursuits meant more crashes but not less crime in NYC.
jasher.substack.com/p/new-resear...
I tend to agree w people who say innocence cases are the low-hanging fruit of carceral reform, but it's remarkable -
& deeply symptomatic - how far Louisiana officials will go to deny that these clear miscarriages of justice occur & even retaliate against their victims
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