Today is Nakba Day.
For Palestinians, the Nakba is not only a history of 1948 displacement. It is an ongoing reality of occupation, besiegement, settlement expansion and dispossession.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/nakba-palestine-75-settler-colonialism-democracy-ongoing-zionism
Another forever war is being sold as inevitable.
Negin Owliaei writes on why it isn’t, why despair can’t be the endpoint and what accountability could look like right now.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/iran-war-american-militarism-fight-despair
On May Day, the Trump admin fired a mine safety commissioner & closed the Pittsburgh office of the agency that handles mine safety disputes.
Kim Kelly reports on what that could mean for coal miners already facing black lung, silica dust & dangerous work.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-coal-miners-doge-fmshrc
AI regulation is already happening at the state level—from Colorado’s protections against algorithmic discrimination to California’s transparency rules for frontier AI models.
A Trump executive order could put those laws in jeopardy.
Most of the roughly 60,000 people detained by ICE are held in for-profit immigration jails.
Private prison PACs donated about $675,000 to members of Congress, while private prison executives gave nearly $380,000.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/immigration-customs-enforcement-ice-palantir-congress-donations
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Large language models aren’t thinking machines, Bender and Hanna argue. They’re “souped-up autocomplete” built on massive data extraction, hidden labor and huge energy demands.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/big-tech-the-ai-con-book-silicon-valley
The top-performing policies in a new Rust Belt survey shared three traits: easy to understand, focused on fairness and accountability, and tied to practical improvements in people’s lives—from prescription drug costs to job security.
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