May 12th, 2026. Three stories. One theme: power being used illegitimately against the people who have the least of it.

Leonardo Garcia Venegas is a 26 year old American citizen born in the United States. ICE has arrested him three times anyway. He had his real ID in his hand. They tackled him to the ground, shackled him, and brought in a drug sniffing dog. His lawsuit is already in federal court. The government's current legal position is that he may not even have standing to sue them.

The sitting president of the United States spent three hours on Monday night posting racist content about Barack Obama, including AI generated images, debunked wiretapping conspiracies, and videos of Black people paired with treason accusations. Then he woke up and kept going.

And Amazon and Meta have been caught running a phenomenon called token maxing, where engineers burn through millions of dollars worth of AI resources on fake projects just to hit internal metrics. The waste is staggering. The justification is nonexistent.

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