Nassau County, New York has launched a drone police "first responder" program on Long Island. The drones can arrive before police, travel up to about 40 mph, use cameras and thermal imaging, and stream real-time video to the police intelligence center and patrol cars. They will likely be used during large events like concerts, protests, and other public gatherings, with FLIR thermal cameras detecting body heat. It's only a matter of time until a sentry of AI drones are whizzing past our airspace without any humans controlling them and they'll be watching you, your family, your friends, analyzing us, and making sure we're well-behaved cattle.

Home-care aides in New York have won a proposed wage theft settlement for $162 million. The Legal Aid Society announced the massive settlement for roughly 200,000 home health aides in New York's Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. Workers faced chronic issues including systemic failure to pay on time, uncounted shifts, missing overtime, unpaid accrued PTO, and forced deductions from their paychecks Wage theft. $162 million. 200,000 workers... Nobody will go to prison for this and the mainstream media has barely mentioned it. In any sane world this would be a bigger story than Taylor Swift's wedding. I just wanna add that this is a much bigger scandal when you factor in that the US home care economy is disproportionately carried by women-of-color who are underpaid and overworked. Their employer tried to treat them as a vulnerable labor pool to extract from and didn't expect to get caught. I'm proud of them for standing up for themselves and I'm glad they'll be able to see some sliver of justice.

Trump's SNAP cuts are starving American children. In 12 states with available age data, 776,134 of the 1,670,011 people who were dropped from SNAP were children, which is 46% so basically HALF. This is truly despicable. The federal government doesn't release nationwide, child-specific SNAP data, but these numbers from 12 states is more than enough to tell us this is a crisis that needs to be addressed. Innocent children shouldn't be collateral damage in budget wars. I can think of a lot of other expenses that should be cut instead of food assistance programs for children and families. This 4th of July, I want you all to remember that millions of American families are suffering from food insecurity inside the so-called richest country on Earth in an easily preventable crisis that our government chooses not to address.

Over 100 police departments across the United States are actively using AI to summarize body-camera footage and draft police reports. Major agencies across dozens of states including California, Colorado, Indiana, Utah, Idaho, and Oklahoma have integrated the technology.

A federal judge has blocked Colorado from capping the price of the arthritis medicine Enbrel, which has a US list price that is over $100,000 per year. What a ludicrous price. This was a first-in-the-nation price cap by Colorado, and they were doing the right thing. Millions of Americans are losing their healthcare coverage because of higher premiums, expiring subsidies, and all kinds of reasons because of the Trump admin... and now a Trump-appointed judge is telling states that it can't put a price cap on medicine. For context, in other industrialized countries like Spain or Japan, this same drug can go for as low as ONE-TENTH of the price that it costs us here in the USA. I want you to remember that this 4th of July. Americans are dying and suffering in pain because our medicine costs us multiple times more than it does in other countries, and our federal government and courts don't give a shit.

New research shows how destabilizing and costly women's incarceration in the US really is. The Council on Criminal Justice projects that the number of incarcerated women could reach 1.1 million by 2035, with yearly costs rising from roughly $23–$26 billion in 2025 to $30–$34 billion by 2035. It costs between $87,000 and $122,000 annually to house an incarcerated woman, compared to an average of $70,000 for a man. Imprisoning women costs 25% to 75% more than imprisoning men because of different facilities, staffing structures, classification issues, and greater healthcare needs. The same research modeled Illinois and North Carolina, and found that cutting women's time served by 50% would save more than $60 million annually, and public safety impacts would be incredibly minor, resulting in roughly 100 additional arrests per year in each state, 90% (9 in 10) of which would be for nonviolent offenses. Approximately 58% of women in state and federal prisons and nearly 80% of women in local jails in the US are mothers. This shifts a lot of unpaid caregiving labor onto families, grandparents, children, and public systems that are already strained. Not to mention the fact that a lot of the women's incarceration in the US is punishing poverty, trauma, addiction, and survival behavior. I think these are all very important facts about our mass incarceration crisis that all Americans should know before blindly agreeing to a system that is breaking up families and ruining lives.

The DOJ and 17 states have reached a settlement with 3 major egg producers over price-fixing. Investigators allege that firms coordinated bidding strategies between 2022 and 2025 in ways that artificially inflated prices during a period when bird flu and supply shortages were already driving inflation. Cal-Maine Foods, Versova, and Hickman's Egg Ranch agreed to pay $3.3 million and donate 53 million eggs to food banks and nonprofits without admitting any wrongdoing. Cal-Maine alone made $1.22 billion in 2025, but their fine is only $1.5 million and 30 million eggs. We all knew that we were getting robbed. Nobody will go to prison for this and our media will conveniently forget all about this heist the next time it's obvious that corporations are coordinating with each other to price-gouge us. Light penalties and slaps on the wrist are normalizing a system where corporations can overcharge innocent Americans and treat the "punishment" as a cost of doing business. These thugs deserve to be locked up.

A new law has taken into effect in Indiana that essentially criminalizes homelessness by making it a Class C misdemeanor to sleep or camp on public property, punishable by up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. The law states that the police must first consider "emergency detention," offer information and services, and wait 48 hours before charging someone who remains within 300 feet of the warning site. Criminalizing the basic human need to sleep will create a criminal record and make it even harder for unhoused individuals to secure employment, find permanent housing, or escape poverty. Instead of funding jail cells and a fascist police state, our public resources should be appropriated toward Housing First initiatives, affordable public housing, rent controls, and robust mental health infrastructure.