Reid Pierce

Trump Struck Secret Deal With El Chapo’s ‘Terrorist’ Cartel The family members of infamous drug lord “El Chapo” were given access to the U.S., catching the Mexican president off-guard.

www.thedailybeast.com/cartel-makes...

Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.

The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws

“ITS TORTURE,” says her family

www.11alive.com/article/news...

As Klarna flips from AI-first to hiring people again, a new landmark survey reveals most AI projects fail to deliver Just 1 in 4 AI investments bring in the ROI they promise—but CEOs just can’t resist the technology.

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

This is insane. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.

from @404media.co

www.404media.co/republicans-...

They don't need a warrant A federal kidnapping in Worcester

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

This abduction in a Charlottesville courthouse is the uncanny valley of arrests.

I've watched video of literally thousands of arrests in the U.S. I have never seen this behavior.

They don't announce themselves. No visible ID, badges, or insignia. The full face and head wrapping is bizarre.

In the protests over George Floyd’s death, restaurants become flash points of class disparity The protesters and their graffiti have issued messages of economic frustration, some directed at high-end restaurants and their diners.

I think it was stories like this during the BLM protests. www.washingtonpost.com/news/voracio...

How anti-trans activists silence their opponents People claiming to be ‘silenced’ are being featured in national mainstream media platforms. There’s a word for that

“Whenever people keep being given a platform to say they have no platform, or whenever people speak endlessly about being silenced, you not only have a performative contradiction; you are witnessing a mechanism of power.”

You won’t be able to unsee this
www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/anti...

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social, victims of racism and illegal targeting are never just distractions. And we can go after the tariffs and the targeting both.

difficult to overstate how bad it would be for this effort to succeed

April 25 1pm | I'm at William & Mary College Williamsburg Virginina | Talking about RAVING

Trans women are women.

The fundamental problem with the “alien enemy”-or-innocent binary in this story, as other binaries, is that it’s deeply flawed.

Innocence should be irrelevant. Even Tren de Aragua membership should be irrelevant.

What matters is that this is lawless invocation of a wartime power during peacetime.

A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

The Constitutional Crisis Is Here The Supreme Court told the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison. So far, the administration is pretending to comply while re...

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Austin-Area Teen Trump Disappeared to El Salvador Eighteen-year-old Daniel Terán was taken from his home and shipped to a notorious prison on the charge that he is a gang member. The government hasn't produced evidence supporting the claim, says his ...

Here’s a story about a kid-a legal immigrant to the US-who Trump deported to the worst prison in the world. The kid wasn’t in a gang & didn’t have tattoos. Your federal government in action: no due process, no common sense, no decency. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic... @texasmonthly.bsky.social

NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...

Trump’s Salvadoran Gulag To be deported, one does not need to be a drug dealer or a terrorist; apparently, having tattoos and being Venezuelan is enough.

Once thing we can say for certain is that Donald Trump has been convicted of more crimes than some of the people he is deporting to a black hole in el salvador with no due process or recourse www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy.

Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data.

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

Venezuela minister says jailed deportees from US not tied to Tren de Aragua Venezuelan's Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said on Friday that no one among the hundreds of deportees to a Salvadoran prison, whom Washington accused of being members of Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang, were related to the criminal organization.

None of the people kidnapped and sent to the El Salvadoran prison were Tren de Aragua.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Back up your data at home; delete it from your devices; turn off biometric unlocking; turn off your phone to cross the border

EFF Border Search Pocket Guide border-pocket-guide-2.pdf

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

My Name is Mahmoud Khalil and I Am a Political Prisoner | A letter dictated by Mahmoud Khalil over the phone from ICE detention in Louisiana. inthesetimes.com/article/mahm...

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

—Adrienne Rich

A Supreme Court Justice who rules that President Biden can’t forgive student loan debt without an act of Congress, and rules that President Trump and Not An Official Position Musk can cancel any Congressionally-enacted spending they personally dislike, that Justice clearly isn’t ruling based on law.

German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

This is so horrifying & absurd