u/ProfessionalAd5070

Parents Explode in Fury at School's Plan to Constantly Film Their Children to Train AI
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Parents Explode in Fury at School's Plan to Constantly Film Their Children to Train AI

“The documents given to parents sometimes used nebulous language and left key questions open-ended. They stated that the footage would’ve been used to “develop and evaluate AI models for assessing classroom interaction quality,” and that the “video data may be processed using cloud-based AI services.” But they didn’t specify what AI models or what AI companies would be involved.

Thorny questions abounded. What about the parent of a child who didn’t give consent? Would only they be blurred out in the footage? How would that realistically work? The documents only said the researchers would censor faces and names “whenever possible,” but that meant your child was still being filmed.”

futurism.com
u/ProfessionalAd5070 — 1 day ago

“Did a tree fall on our house?”

When I was 8m pregnant & sleeping a tree fell on our house leaving us displaced. I went on to find a rental & have our baby. The following 18m were pure hell. Dealing with a hostile insurance company, rebuilding a home & being financially strapped. By time my LO was 19m we were settled into a new home.

Recently, my now 3 y/o, has asked on a handful of occasions if “a tree fell on our/your home?” We never told them about the tree. I assume they heard us talk about it but they were so young, I’m still surprised.

My question is what’s the best way to approach answering? We currently keep our tone neutral & answers simple. “Yes, a tree fell on our home a few years ago” or “yes, it did”.

It was a very traumatic experience. We’ve been in a lot of therapy but of course it still feels sensitive to us so we don’t want to traumatize her or make her worry. TYIA!

reddit.com
u/ProfessionalAd5070 — 5 days ago
▲ 127 r/USNEWS+1 crossposts

‘Epstein raped me while he was under house arrest’

Article context:

A model who was trafficked from Uzbekistan and sent to Epstein, identifying herself only by her first name Roza, told the committee how she was assaulted by Epstein over a three-year period in which he was supposed to have been serving a prison sentence for sex offences.

Roza said she was brought to the US aged 18 on a talent visa secured by a model agency with connections to Epstein and his associate, the late French model scout Jean-Luc Brunel.

thetimes.com
u/ProfessionalAd5070 — 7 days ago
▲ 1.4k r/50501EugeneOR+8 crossposts

Shutdown Dilley. Free our Children.

They're being held at ICE’s Dilley Family Detention Center in Texas. GoFundMe (donations are currently paused, as of May 10): gofundme.com/f/alamo-heights-bring-our-wrongfully-detained-neighbors-home

Here are two petitions:

* DHS and CoreCivic: change.org/p/close-dilley-ice-detention-center-protect-children

* US House and Senate: actionnetwork.org/letters/mom-say-shut-down-dilley-close-the-camps-and-bring-our-kids-home

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Video is from May 6, 2026 - Jacob Soboroff on MS NOW’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell.

Here’s the clip on Rep. Joaquin Castro’s YouTube channel: #shutdowndilley #freeourchildren - MS NOW clip shared by Rep. Joaquin Castro (YouTube)

Here’s the full 4-minute segment on:

* MS NOW’s website: Detained family, taken from school bus stop, exposes the harsh reality of Trump’s immigration policy - Jacob Soboroff - May 6, 2026 (MS NOW website)

* YouTube: Detained family, taken from school bus stop, exposes the harsh reality of Trump's immigration policy - Jacob Soboroff on MS NOW - May 6, 2026 (YouTube)

Here’s another r/EyesOnIce post with another clip from this same MS NOW segment: The Family came to the US, applied for asylum, got work permits, and had valid legal status. And still, they were detained.

And here are the latest r/EyesOnIce posts with: Jacob Soboroff ~:~ Joaquin Castro ~:~ Detention ~:~ Dilley ~:~ Stephen Miller

u/ProfessionalAd5070 — 4 days ago
▲ 418 r/NoFuckingComment+2 crossposts

Ukraine eyes new surrogacy law to stop foreigners using country as 'baby factory'

bbcglobalwomen "I know it's not my child, but I love her," says 22-year-old surrogate, Karina.

When she was 17, her home in Bakhmut was destroyed and she moved to Kyiv with her partner and baby. After struggling to find work and make ends meet, she signed up to be a surrogate for a Chinese couple.

Karina is not alone in her experience. For years, Ukraine has been one of the world's leading hubs for commercial surrogacy, attracting couples from around the world thanks to lower costs and more relaxed laws.

Even after Russia's full-scale invasion, the industry has continued to operate, with fertility clinics adapting to the realities of war.

Now, a proposed law being debated in Ukraine's parliament could ban surrogacy for foreign parents - threatening to dismantle one of the world's largest surrogacy markets and reshape an industry that has persisted despite conflict.

u/Panthera_leo22 — 10 days ago
▲ 104 r/Greenwich+1 crossposts

Connecticut aide arranged victims' flights, 'massages' for Jeffrey Epstein, DOJ files show

From article:

Lesley Groff, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime executive assistant, scheduled "massages" and coordinated dozens of flights around the world for victims of the disgraced convicted sex trafficker, recently released Department of Justice documents show.

But it remains unknown whether the Connecticut resident knew about Epstein's sexual assaults, which one victim said once happened just on the other side of a closed door from where Groff was working.

unionleader.com
u/ProfessionalAd5070 — 12 days ago
▲ 162 r/publichealth+1 crossposts

Immigration Crackdown Has Harmed Scores of Kids With Tear Gas, Pepper Spray

From article: The chemicals blew through the air, sometimes for blocks. They seeped into bedrooms, forcing an asthmatic teen to gasp for air. They stuck to the skin of a young girl, who cried, “It burns!” They caused an infant to stop breathing.

propublica.org
u/ProfessionalAd5070 — 12 days ago
▲ 504 r/Connecticut+1 crossposts

https://ctmirror.org/2026/05/04/ice-bill-lamont-signing-ceremony/

A bill signing ceremony Monday, staged on the steps of the Connecticut Supreme Court, underscored that the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration tactics will be a wedge issue trumpeted by Gov. Ned Lamont and other Democrats in the 2026 midterm elections.

The Democrats were celebrating a law drafted to curtail U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement roundups at schools, churches and other sensitive places; require federal agents be identifiable by name tag or badge number; and assert the state’s inspector general has jurisdiction to review use of lethal force by ICE, as he does with local police.

Passed over heated and unanimous Republican opposition in the General Assembly, Senate Bill 397 is a partisan rebuke of a president who has broken numerous norms of government, including the mass detentions of immigrants here without legal status — as well as some refugees and others who do.

u/ProfessionalAd5070 — 15 days ago