Minneapolis duo details their ICE detention, including pressure to rat on protest organizers
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 alarmed over poll showing 8 in 10 Republicans want 'fascist race war'
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 …
Global Tech-Sector Layoffs Surpass 244,000 In 2025 - Slashdot
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...
Yet Another ICE Nightmare Unfolds Miles Away From Fatal Shooting
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 …
Texas hands over complete list of registered voters to Trump administration
Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter roll to the U.S. Justice Department, according to a spokesperson for the Texas Secretary of State’s Office, complying with the Trump …
Democratic US senators demand Apple, Google take X and Grok off app stores over sexual images - CNA
WASHINGTON, Jan 9 : Three Democratic U.S. senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and its built-in artificial intelligence chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on the platform.In a letter published on Friday, senators
Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows - Slashdot
The world's oceans absorbed yet another record-breaking amount of heat in 2025, continuing an almost unbroken streak of annual records since the start of the millennium and fueling increasingly extreme weather events around the globe. More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity's carbon emissions ...
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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.
Ranked: U.S. States by Number of Households Without Income
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'American Reich' author details a national surge in bigotry and white supremacy
Journalist Eric Lichtblau says President Trump's incendiary rhetoric has stoked a "new age of hate." His book centers on a murder committed by a young neo-Nazi in Orange County, Calif.DAVE DAVIES, HOST:This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies. Many Americans appalled by the violence of the January 6 assaul
About 200 Texas A&M courses could change due to new restrictions on teaching gender, race
Faculty at Texas A&M University were told this week that roughly 200 courses in the College of Arts and Sciences could be affected by a new system policy restricting classroom discussions of race and …
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune:[An ICE agent] shot and killed a woman in south Minneapolis during a morning confrontation between community members and
Corporation for Public Broadcasting To Shut Down After 58 Years - Slashdot
After Congress approved President Donald Trump's rescission package eliminating federal funding, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting voted to dissolve after 58 years, rather than continue to exist and potentially be "vulnerable to future political manipulation or misuse." The shutdown leaves hun...
UK Urged To Unplug From US Tech Giants as Digital Sovereignty Fears Grow - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Open Rights Group is warning politicians that the UK is leaning far too heavily on US tech companies to run critical systems, and wants the Cybersecurity and Resilience Bill to force a rethink.
The digital rights outfit says the bill, which is due to receiv...
A Drug-Resistant 'Superbug' Fungus Infected 7,000 Americans in 2025 - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Independent:
Candida auris, a type of invasive yeast that can cause deadly infections in people with weakened immune systems, has infected at least 7,000 people [in 2025] across 27 U.S. states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control a...
Trump’s new war is illegal because he received no permission to wage it, and it was not an emergency response to an attack on our homeland or the imminent threat of one.
'Something doesn't feel right': Bondi catches flack for announcement after Maduro capture
Hours after Donald Trump’s administration stunned the world by invading Venezuela and capturing President Nicolás Maduro and his wife in what was described as a “large-scale strike” on the country, …
U.S. launches military strikes on Venezuela, Trump says Maduro captured and flown out of the country
What to know about the U.S. military strikes on VenezuelaPresident Trump said Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife were "captured and flown out of the Country" early Saturday morning, …
Venezuela latest: Trump says US has 'captured' President Maduro in strikes on country - live updates
The US attorney general says Maduro will face "American justice on American soil"; meanwhile, Venezuela condemns the "extremely serious military aggression".