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A hundreds-strong caravan attempting to reach Gaza by road to deliver humanitarian aid has been stopped for 4 days at a military checkpoint in the Libyan desert. Food and water are being rationed and there is no sanitation. buff.ly/XDfXX3U

Stephen Colbert has ended his 11-year run as host of The Late Show. His program’s cancellation removes one of Trump’s most vocal critics and comes after Colbert criticized CBS for agreeing to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump. buff.ly/7sBqSPG

The U.S. military has depleted much of its missile-defense inventory after using far more of the weaponry to defend Israel throughout the war on Iran than Israel has used itself. buff.ly/AmNsCgS

Amidst mass protests in Bolivia, Marco Rubio wrote that the U.S. supports “Bolivia’s legitimate constitutional government,” smearing the protesters as “criminals and drug traffickers” who he would not allow to “overthrow democratically elected leaders.”buff.ly/OD9PlMt

Trump tried to downplay the U.S. casualties of his war on Iran ahead of Memorial Day. “We lost 13 people… In other wars, you lost hundreds of thousands of people. I get a kick when I look at somebody on television, and they say, ‘he’s lost 13 people.'”truthout.org/articles/trump…

The push against Flock cameras, drones, and AI-powered surveillance in local communities comes in the wake of reported abuses by law enforcement, including the sharing of local surveillance data with the Trump administration to target immigrants for deportation.

In Troy, New York, heated controversy over Flock cameras led the Republican mayor to declare a “state of emergency” to keep using the technology. The city council is now suing the mayor over her declaration as it considers putting legislative limits on the cameras.

Local movements to rid city streets of AI-powered surveillance cameras used by law enforcement are growing rapidly amid scandals, mounting privacy concerns, and public backlash to mass surveillance under the authoritarian Trump administration. buff.ly/9Qv9mSg

Private equity firms invest money from pension funds and endowments to buy assets in order to make significant profit. In the housing market, private equity firms look for rents that are unregulated, with capped property taxes, in order to maximize their profits.

A new report shows that private equity firms now own almost 3 million apartment units in the U.S., which amounts to one in eight apartment units. Half of these units were bought since 2021. truthout.org/articles/priva…

People who have withstood 64 years of economic blockade, including the so-called special period following the fall of the U.S.S.R., are not simply going to raise a white flag at the latest sign of adversity. buff.ly/kIluA4c

After 4 Senate Republicans helped Democrats advance a war powers resolution intended to halt Trump’s illegal war on Iran, Republican leadership in the House of Representatives canceled a similar vote on Wednesday, and again on Thursday. buff.ly/58LXRH6

The U.S. House has passed a bill that would hand Trump enormous leverage to strip federal funding from any school that “teaches or advances concepts” related to transgender people. 8 Democrats joined every Republican to pass it. buff.ly/QPQWi3E

A long-anticipated “autopsy” report from the Democratic National Committee was released to the public on Thursday, containing multiple errors and omissions on subjects that may have cost Democrats the White House in 2024. buff.ly/wJvySTw

The system highlights how secretive public-private networks of information-sharing have permeated law enforcement intelligence collection in Seattle and across the country under the banner of supposedly preventing terrorism.

In Seattle, Facebook, Amazon, real estate management, and ICE all share one thing in common: membership to Seattle Shield, an exclusive intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police. buff.ly/X70Dpn4

Contrary to Trump’s claim that birthright citizenship costs the U.S., studies have found that it actually benefits the U.S. economy, and that putting an end to it would be more costly.

Trump said that “it would be a disgrace” if the Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, falsely claiming birthright citizenship costs the U.S. inordinate sums of money and exaggerating the number of children born in the U.S. to undocumented people. buff.ly/wY70YQq

Gov. Abigail Spanberger within just 24 hours vetoed two bills aimed at limiting ICE activity in Virginia while simultaneously signing other measures targeting masked federal agents and how ICE officers may operate on state property. buff.ly/mzYknw7