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The US government has found a frighteningly efficient way to keep tabs on citizens who criticize the government: just demand their personal data from Google.According to recent reporting from the …

Talks "are at a standstill" for Anthropic's potential $200 million contract with America's Defense Department, reports Reuters (citing several people familiar with the discussions.") The two issues? - Using AI to surveil Americans - Safeguards against deploying AI autonomously The company's po...

ICE Map - Visualizing ICE activity

After ICE enforcement halted their volunteer program in Southeast Houston, two Rice University freshmen launched ICE Map, tracking arrest and detention activity

Americans are learning and doing the kind of work that civilians in war zones worldwide have done for decades: dealing with threats by organizing to help protect their neighbors and communities.

French lawmakers have voted to ban social media access for children under 15 and prohibit mobile phones in high schools, positioning France as the second country after Australia to impose sweeping age-based digital restrictions. The Guardian reports: The lower national assembly adopted the text by ...

Neil Young has escalated his way against Amazon due to Jeff Bezos' support of Trump, and is giving his music to the people of Greenland.

Minnesota State Patrol troopers used a powerful sound system first used by the military in Maple Grove, Minnesota, to communicate and disperse noisy protesters.

'Are they coming to take us away?' asked kindergarteners in Minnesota.

The Alabama Senate passed a bill Thursday morning that bans the use of an education strategy known as the three-cueing system.SB 168, sponsored by Sen. Donnie Chesteen, R-Geneva, codifies the Alabama State Board of Education’s May 2024 ban of the method. Three-cueing is a teaching strategy affiliated

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A powerful, firsthand reflection on why “neutrality” is not librarianship and how silence and self-censorship can unintentionally fuel book bans. This post explores representation, intellectual freedom, and what school librarians must do to protect student access and fight censorship.

The leading French economist Gabriel Zucman is urging European governments to inflict financial pain on American billionaires in response to US President Donald Trump’s effort to seize control of …

Imagine for a moment that you’re a member of Renee Good’s family. You’re mourning her death at the hands of an ICE agent in Minneapolis, and you want justice.So you visit a lawyer to see what can be done.First, you want to help in any criminal investigation of the officer. You’ve got information …

Donald Trump’s authoritarian chaos machine is running amok. Pro-democracy Americans — and those simply hoping for a return to normalcy — are pinning their hopes on a Democratic victory in November’s midterm elections. But that salvation will not be easy or cheap. Their hopes will face a coordinated e

President Donald Trump's administration is finalizing its repeal of a foundational scientific determination that underpins the US government's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, with an …

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Two Minneapolis residents who have been monitoring immigration officers’ actions during the Trump administration’s latest crackdown say they were detained without charge for several hours in distressing conditions, denied phone calls, and pressured to rat out protest organizers and people living in t

Conservative Bulwark Editor Jonathan Last argued there are two groups of President Donald Trump's voters: Those who signed on to deport 20 million immigrants regardless of whether they had committed …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: The global technology sector eliminated some 244,851 jobs in 2025, according to a report from RationalFX. The U.K.-based financial services company says the worldwide downsizing reflects how companies in 2025 restructured their operations to fo...

An account of a seemingly random arrest of a 20-year-old U.S. citizen by ICE agents with weapons drawn occurred just one day after Renee Good’s killing.The first sign of an impending nightmare for …

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