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🚨 University professors have been saying AI is completely destroying learning and that we'll soon have an AI-powered, semi-illiterate workforce. Here's a glimpse into the educational apocalypse: "Sarah, a freshman at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, said she first used ChatGPT to cheat during the spring semester of her final year of high school. (...) After getting acquainted with the chatbot, Sarah used it for all her classes: Indigenous studies, law, English, and a “hippie farming class” called Green Industries. “My grades were amazing,” she said. “It changed my life.” Sarah continued to use AI when she started college this past fall. Why wouldn’t she? Rarely did she sit in class and not see other students’ laptops open to ChatGPT. Toward the end of the semester, she began to think she might be dependent on the website. She already considered herself addicted to TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and Reddit, where she writes under the username maybeimnotsmart. “I spend so much time on TikTok,” she said. “Hours and hours, until my eyes start hurting, which makes it hard to plan and do my schoolwork. With ChatGPT, I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.” - "By November, Williams estimated that at least half of his students were using AI to write their papers. Attempts at accountability were pointless. Williams had no faith in AI detectors, and the professor teaching the class instructed him not to fail individual papers, even the clearly AI-smoothed ones. “Every time I brought it up with the professor, I got the sense he was underestimating the power of ChatGPT, and the departmental stance was, ‘Well, it’s a slippery slope, and we can’t really prove they’re using AI,’” Williams said. “I was told to grade based on what the essay would’ve gotten if it were a ‘true attempt at a paper.’ So I was grading people on their ability to use ChatGPT.” - AI in education is a serious topic, and many schools and universities are blindly jumping into the "AI-first" wave without considering short and long-term consequences. It would be great to hear more from teachers and educators to understand potential solutions. This might be a great opportunity for rethinking the education system and how students are assessed. - 👉 Link to the full article below. 👉 To learn more about AI's legal and ethical challenges, join my newsletter's 94,700+ subscribers (link below).

ICE use metal battering ram to break down front door—with 3 kids age 6-12 inside screaming in fear. Agents point assault rifles directly at the children—while violently detaining their father in front of them. "The young children are screaming in absolute terror 'Papá!'—you can hear them from all the way out here," said witness. Clemente Chilel Ramírez said that no search warrant had been presented for his arrest on private property. Local ICE office responded that it is gathering information before issuing a statement. Incident occurred in the Estrella Village neighborhood on the southwest side of Phoenix, Arizona.

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents surrounded the WRONG HOUSE for NINE HOURS… got a warrant… and still arrested the wrong person. They were looking for Gerson Manuel Portillo-Escobar, a human trafficking suspect who lived at 919 Hamilton Crossings Station, Antioch, Tennessee. Instead, they targeted someone at 939… a completely different home… and arrested Miguel Antonio Blanco, who has no criminal record. Agents saw Miguel go inside his own house and decided he was their suspect… Even though they had the correct name, address, and a photo of the actual person, who lived a few houses away. Miguel told them repeatedly they had the wrong person. They ignored him. For nine hours, they called out someone else’s name and tried to get inside. Then, they got a warrant… forced entry… and took a man who wasn’t on that warrant. This is a Fourth Amendment violation… you can’t have probable cause if you have the wrong person and the wrong house. It also raises due process concerns under the Fifth Amendment… because the government doesn’t get to ignore facts and detain someone anyway. They had the right information… They just didn’t use it.

Off duty police pulls over Hispanic woman driving—while wearing his "Trump 45" shirt. Cut the woman off in traffic with his gun drawn—then pulled her out of car and handcuffed her. He never identified himself. Cop is so MAGA—his truck has personalized license plate "Prez 45." 18-year-old Breanna Pantoja said she felt like she was being profiled—and was not involved in any accident like the cop accused her. "At first I thought I was getting robbed or something cause I didn't know it was a police officer or anything. All I saw was a gun pointed at me." The officer has been identified as Lt. Dan Miller—who was previously involved in an on-duty shooting of a Hispanic man in 2017. That shooting left the unarmed man dead—and led to a lawsuit filed by the Gomez family that was settled for $599,000. This current incident occurred in the North Riverside suburb of Chicago, Illinois.

More on these emails: nytimes.com/2026/04/29/us/…

WOW: here’s an email showing how a USCIS staffer was ordered to include claims in the TPS terminations that had zero empirical evidence. She put her objections in writing to ensure that there would be written proof and because she knew it would open the up to lawsuits.

Every day, every fricking day, it’s something new with this narcissistic wannabe dictator.

🚨ICE deported a U.S. born citizen. Brian Morales is a U.S. citizen, born in a hospital in Denver, Colorado, with documentation to prove it… And yet, after a traffic stop in Texas, he was taken into custody and deported to Mexico with no charges, no conviction, and no due process. Morales repeatedly told officers he was a citizen and had proof, but instead of verifying that, he was threatened with fraud charges, and prison time, if he didn’t comply. He was ultimately pressured into signing removal paperwork out of fear… which is coercion, and illegal. There is no law in the United States that allows the government to deport a U.S. citizen. Citizenship is not something ICE can ignore because they don’t believe you, and it’s not something that can be stripped through intimidation. If you are born here, you belong here… period. DHS claims he admitted to being undocumented… even though he had proof he was not… and we’re expected to accept that version without questioning how that “admission” was obtained in the first place. This also didn’t happen at the border, it happened after a routine traffic stop in Texas, which means the standard here wasn’t immigration enforcement at the border, it was treating citizenship like it’s conditional, and revocable, on the spot. If citizenship can be ignored, if proof can be dismissed, and if people can be threatened into signing away their rights, then due process is being bypassed entirely… and if this can happen to Brian Morales, it can happen to anyone.

ICE detain father—agent laughs, waves goodbye, and blows kisses to son. Agents could not give any reason for traffic stop—except racial profiling. Son: "What's the reason for the stop?" Agent: "Because." Martin Troncoso has lived and worked in the U.S. for the past 26 years. His son is a fitness coach and they both live in Las Vegas, Nevada.

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023.. not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute.. they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid.. the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

Illegal immigrants have paid about $3 trillion in taxes over the last 30 years and likely reduced deficits by $1.7 trillion, says Cato’s @David_J_Bier. Check out the data: ow.ly/x1MF50YKHtb

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton: "It is shocking that Trump said no one informed him that Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz. I find it unbelievable that one of the fundamental pillars of geopolitical strategy in the Middle East was ignored. That was the first thing we assumed Iran would do. It is their main tool of global leverage. We are now seeing the consequences of a foreign policy driven by impulse rather than strategy.

Pedro Pascal and Florence Pugh are the latest actors to condemn Paramount buying Warner Bros. in an open letter that's now been signed by more than 2,000 Hollywood names. "We are deeply concerned by indications of support for this merger that prioritize the interests of a small group of powerful stakeholders over the broader public good. The integrity, independence, and diversity of our industry would be grievously compromised," read the letter. "Competition is essential for a healthy economy and a healthy democracy. So is thoughtful regulation and enforcement. Media consolidation has already weakened one of America's most vital global industries—one that has long shaped culture and connected people around the world." variety.com/2026/film/news…

🚨BREAKING: Officials are finally starting to call the terror ICE is inflicting on communities what it actually is… Kidnapping. Officials are now investigating the ICE arrest of a U.S. citizen in Minnesota as a possible kidnapping… along with burglary and false imprisonment. ICE agents stormed ChongLy Scott Thao’s home… without a warrant… broke down his door, guns drawn, and dragged him out of his home, in the freezing cold, wearing Crocs, shorts, and a blanket… They didn’t check his ID, or even care that he was a citizen, and they took him anyway. And now it’s being investigated as kidnapping. Because that’s what DHS has been doing… kidnapping people. And if this is what it takes for people in power to finally admit what’s been happening, then the next step isn’t just investigations… It’s accountability. Because if regular people did this, they’d be in prison. So why aren’t the agents?

Mo Gawdat spent years inside the machine at Google X. Now he is saying out loud what the economists will not. Gawdat: “The very base of capitalism, which is labor arbitrage, to hire you for a dollar and then sell what you make for two, is going to disappear.” That is not a prediction. That is a coroner’s report on a system that has not stopped breathing yet. Capitalism was never about innovation. It was about one equation. Buy human time cheap. Sell the output high. Pocket the spread. Every empire. Every fortune. Every supply chain on Earth was built on that margin. AI just closed it to zero. A humanoid robot now costs $9,000. It does not sleep. It does not negotiate. It does not quit. It runs every hour of every day at a quality ceiling no biological worker will ever touch. When production costs fall to nearly nothing, the entire pricing structure of the global economy falls with it. But here is what every CEO celebrating margin expansion has not thought through for five minutes. Gawdat: “Even if you can have all of the productivity gains in the world, by firing people consistently, nobody’s able to buy what you’re making.” That single sentence should end every strategy meeting on the planet. Capitalism is a closed loop. You pay workers. Workers become consumers. Consumers buy products. Revenue funds the next payroll. Cut the worker and you do not just eliminate a cost. You eliminate the customer. Every company racing to automate headcount out of existence is quietly engineering the death of its own demand. They are building the most efficient production systems in human history to sell to a population that no longer has income. 50% unemployment is not a recession. It is the demand side of the economy going permanently dark. You cannot push infinite supply into zero purchasing power. The math does not care about your earnings call. Gawdat: “Wealth is going to have very little meaning for most of us in a few years’ time.” This is where it turns on the people who think they are winning. If production approaches zero cost, scarcity begins to dissolve. And scarcity is the only reason money holds value in the first place. The billionaire class is stockpiling a currency that is quietly losing its reason to exist. Gawdat: “So the entire capitalist model has to be rethought.” He is right. And nobody in power is doing the rethinking. Every board meeting about efficiency is a conversation about dismantling the very economic engine that made the board meeting possible. The question was never whether AI could produce enough. It was whether capitalism could survive its own success. The machine does not just replace the worker. It erases the consumer. And a system that can produce everything but sell nothing is not an economy. It is a machine that perfected itself into extinction.

A clear, well-articulated argument against a new data center in Ohio... worth watching

Ohio politicians made it a crime for government employees to tell you how your tax dollars are being spent. And they hid it in the budget bill. This is called a moral turpitude. A phrase that describes wicked, deviant behavior constituting an immoral, unethical, or unjust departure from ordinary social standards such that it would shock a community. In criminal law, the law sorts criminal activity into categories of crime either involving or not involving moral turpitude. There's a law called Ohio's Public Records Act. It says you as a citizen have the right to see what your government is doing with public money. Economic development deals, tax breaks, who got what and why. That's been the law for decades. In June 2025, they passed a giant budget bill — House Bill 96. Over a thousand pages. And buried inside it, in a section called R.C. 9.66(D), they quietly made ALL economic development records, applications, contracts, who got incentives, how much, completely confidential. Off limits. Not public. And here's the part that should make you mad. It doesn't just seal the records, it makes it a criminal offense for a government employee to even EXPLAIN an economic development application to you or a reporter. Your city council member could face criminal charges for answering your questions. Who passed it? The primary sponsor was Republican Rep. Brian Stewart. The Senate conference committee, the people who put the final version together, included Senators Andrew Brenner, Jerry Cirino, Theresa Gavarone, Terry Johnson, George Lang, Kristina Roegner, and Mark Romanchuk. This isn't abstract. If a company gets a giant tax break to come to your town, you can't know who they are, what they promised, or if they kept their word. And if a government employee tells you? They could be prosecuted. That's not protecting business. That's protecting corruption. Here's what you do right now. 1: go to ohiohouse.gov, find YOUR representative, and call or email them asking them to repeal R.C. 9.66(D). 2: share this video. 3: Comment if you had a public records request denied. We're building a case. They did this quietly. The least we can do is be loud. Vote @CaseyPutschOhio Putsch for Ohio on or before May 5. #Ohio #datacenter #LawAndOrder #Governor #Constitution

I need you to watch this video completely. This is in Minneapolis Minnesota at the Fck ICE festival. The Hennepin County Sheriffs are out of control. They put a daughter Paige Ostroushko in a UFC style guillotine chokehold over her dispute with Turning Point instigator Savanah Hernandez that was there all day hoping to trigger families who have lost their loved ones to ICE.... To watch her boyfriend (who's father is detained by ICE) protect her on the ground while these wolves try to break their will is just deplorable. This is the police state Trunp craves. I was so afraid of getting arrested again or worse, but I can't turn away when it's right in my face. This was suppose to be a joyous fun festival. Big points to my producer/cameraman shmoo420 who doesn't put up with their shit. That's his voice calling them out at the end.

Sidney Blumenthal in 1980 on how consultants and television have replaced political parties.