The anxiety around AI taking people's jobs is real and justified, even if most of the AI hype isn't. It's happening all around us.
“The weaponization of antisemitism…creates significant adverse consequences for Jews and non-Jews,” the APA wrote.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security deployed 3,000 federal immigration agents to Minneapolis and St. Paul in December 2025, under the name Operation Metro Surge. Previously, there were 190 agents working across five states, including Minnesota. Agents shot three people, killing two — Renee Good and Alex Pretti — during the operation.  In the absence [...]
One of the reasons for photographing and filming at protests is to document police brutality when it predictably comes. At the end of summer I found myself on the floor surrounded by 15 German police officers. I was presented with an ultimatum, either I would give my phone to the police willingly or they would [...]
In the summer of 2021, the GKN auto parts factory near the Italian city of Florence was closed, and over 400 workers lost their jobs. Since then, some of them have been occupying the building—for over four years now. Their goal is to manufacture solar panels and electric cargo bikes, thereby converting the factory into [...]
The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English, was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”Video footage reviewed by the Investigative Post, however, showed that the location had already closed, except for the drive-thru.In video footage released by IP, Shah Alam could be seen walking past the drive-thru window, then pacing by the locked front doors, before he eventually wandered across the parking lot toward a Dollar Tree. The Border Patrol agents drove away after one minute.Shah Alam was blind and spoke no English. He was found dead on Tuesday.Shah Alam was arrested more than a year ago when he was out for a walk and got lost. The refugee was using a curtain rod as a walking stick that police alleged he was “swinging in a menacing manner.” He was tased, beaten, and arrested. He later pleaded guilty to trespassing and misdemeanor possession of a weapon.After Border Patrol determined that the charges did not render Shah Alam removable, they should have returned him to the holding center where sheriff’s deputies could contact his family to retrieve him.But Shah Alam’s lawyer was not contacted, and neither was his family. It was Border Patrol who requested custody of Shah Alam after his release, according to Christopher Horvatits, a spokesperson for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office. While Shah Alam’s family waited for a call to pick him up, the holding center called Border Patrol instead.Border Patrol agents offered Shah Alam a “courtesy ride,” according to Michael Niezgoda, a spokesperson for Customs and Border Patrol. But Shah Alam wasn’t returned to his last known address, or his family’s address. Instead, he was brought to the parking lot of a closed coffee shop miles away from his home, and left there.“I feel like in a situation like this, we wouldn’t necessarily be here if [Border Patrol] had just exercised a little bit of humanity,” said Siana McLean, Shah Alam’s immigration attorney.
The Trump administration is finally realizing that Grok—the AI chatbot owned by billionaire Elon Musk—is a massive security concern for the federal government. According to recent reporting from The Wall Street Journal, multiple government agencies have shifted away from Grok, seeing the chatbot as a liability when classified information is involved. A top official at the General Services Administration, Ed Forst, issued a warning about Grok’s safety issues that reached the White House, with Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles eventually calling a senior xAI executive. A GSA report found the chatbot was too easily influenced by biased data or outside meddling, and a National Security Agency’s 2024 review found that Grok was a bigger security risk than Claude, raising eyebrows at the Pentagon. According to the Journal, federal agencies are using Grok less and less—except when they want it to pretend to be a bad guy for war games. This comes at a crucial time for Grok, as the Pentagon is in a feud with Anthropic after its CEO denied them access to its Claude AI for mass surveillance and unmanned weapon technologies. But Grok’s reputation within the federal government is still on thin ice. Musk’s chatbot has already come under fire for essentially helping users make child pornography, pushing debunked claims of white genocide in South Africa, and spewing antisemitic rhetoric. It took the Trump administration nearly a year to figure out that it might want to be careful about using a chatbot owned by the chronically online, deeply insecure alt-right billionaire.
Zimbabwe wants to add value to its raw materials and boost economic growth, but it may need support from nearby countries to achieve this goal.