Thrilled to be included on this Kirkus Reviews list of five essential new books that challenge Big Tech!

with @emilymbender

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/5-essential-new-books-that-challenge-big-tech/

@petergleick "He loves only gold."

Brian O’Neill: Michael Waltz's removal isn’t just a scandal. It’s a national security alarm. The national security adviser makes sense of chaos and competing claims. Now, it's just a loyalty post.

#TheContrarian #MichaelWaltz #trump #nationalsecurity #uspol #authoritarianism
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/michael-waltzs-removal-isnt-just?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I just told a room full of newsroom execs and investigative journalists, hopefully coherently, to always start with human problems, do not add AI to their workflows uncritically, and to build and use technology according to their values, with a duty of care for their communities. Privileged to do so and grateful for the opportunity.

May Day Protests Demand Change: Power to the people!

#TheContrarian #MayDay #protests
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/may-day-protests-demand-change

U.S. Denies Picking Bombing Targets From Random Twitter Accounts
https://www.404media.co/u-s-denies-picking-bombing-targets-from-random-twitter-accounts/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Under Carmen Heredia’s leadership, Arizona's #Medicaid agency withheld payment to more than 300 businesses as it investigated #fraud allegations.

The state’s swift response left #patients homeless, ProPublica and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting found.

#Arizona #Health #HealthCare #Government

https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-medicaid-fraud-carmen-heredia-resigns?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Another billionaire plutocrat killing off his own newspaper.

Farley Elliott: 'Devastated': New layoffs hit LA Times, California's biggest paper

#losangelestimes #LosAngeles #California #journalism
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/la-times-layoffs-latest-20307200.php

Joanna Walters: Woman in #Florida deported to #Cuba says she was forced to leave baby daughter: Heidy Sánchez says she was told her 17-month-old, who has health problems and is breastfeeding, couldn’t go with her

#ICE #deportation #familyseparation #immigration
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/02/trump-florida-mom-cuba-deported

Your Children’s Children Will Die in Our Factories
https://www.404media.co/your-childrens-children-will-die-in-our-factories/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Nonprofits known as 527s can raise unlimited sums for political spending. Our database allows you to more easily search these organizations' finances.

We've just updated it with 140,000 new records. Check it out:
https://projects.propublica.org/527-explorer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Data #Research #Nonprofit #USPolitics

We need your help to see the full picture of how the dismantling of the Education Department's Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, parents, school employees and their wider communities.

Here's how to reach out.
https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-on-department-of-ed-ocr-civil-rights-cases?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#Education #Trump #CivilRights #Discrimination #Students #Parents #Parenting #Teachers

A Gutted Education Department’s New Agenda: Roll Back Civil Rights Cases, Target Transgender Students
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The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing its own anti-diversity campaign.
https://www.propublica.org/article/education-department-civil-rights-donald-trump-discrimination?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Education #Trump #CivilRights #Discrimination #Racism #Transgender #TransRights #Students #DEI #Diversity

Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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David Kirp: The way universities can survive the Trump era? Band together in an alliance: NATO for higher #education – a mutual defense pact is a long-shot approach, but it might just convince the bully in the White House to back off

#university
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/02/trump-universities-harvard

Dehumanizing the outsider: Evgenia Kara-Murza on political prisoners: "There is this demonstrative cruelty with regard to these people"

#TheContrarian #Russia #politicalprisoners #asylum #trump #authoritarianism #Dehumanization #bukele #RussiaUkraineWar
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dehumanizing-the-outsider-evgenia

Jennifer Rubin & Lia Ernst: Lia Ernst on the release of #Columbia Student Mohsen Mahdawi

"On April 14, Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested while attending his final citizenship interview at an immigration office in #Vermont. He was detained over his pro-Palestinian beliefs. Yesterday, a Vermont judge ruled that he must be released as his two-week detention demonstrated 'great harm'. "

#MohsenMahdawi #detention #kidnapping #ICE
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/lia-ernst-on-the-release-of-columbia

Eliza Orlins: You can’t “deport” American citizens

"Earlier this week, #ICE forcefully exiled three U.S. citizen children—including a 4-year-old battling cancer. Eliza Orlins
makes it clear: These are not lawful deportations—they’re kidnappings

Speak up. Speak out. Fight back."

#Deportation #Kidnapping #uspol #trump #crime #UScitizens
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/you-cant-deport-american-citizens

Have Elon’s: Next Baby

#musk #eugenics
https://www.eugen-x.com/

Confirmed: Crimea's under heavy drone attacks. Explosions and drone interceptions happening in Hvardiiske, Simferopol, Heroiske, and Novofedorivka. Russian sources say the UAV threat is still active in multiple areas.