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One of the ten Americans released from a Venezuelan prison last week was convicted for the murder of three people in Spain in 2016, according to an official at the prosecutor’s office in Madrid and Venezuelan court documents reviewed by The New York Times. While Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the action as part of an effort to protect Americans unjustly held abroad, records show that Dahud Hanid Ortiz, a U.S.-Venezuelan national, was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 2023 for the triple homicide. Ortiz also previously served 19 years in the U.S. Army, according to military documents. Julie Turkewitz, José Bautista, and Frances Robles report.

4. There's a trend of reassuring people about this by asking spirits like Asmodeus the Prince of Lies if they are being truthful. This feels naive at best and actively malicious at worst.

According to a motion the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed in Sacramento Superior Court last week, Nguyen and Decker are only two of more than 33,000 Sacramento-area people who have been flagged to the sheriff’s department by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, the electricity provider for the region. SMUD called the customers out for using what it and department investigators said were suspiciously high amounts of electricity indicative of illegal cannabis farming.

The EFF, citing investigator and SMUD records, said the utility unilaterally analyzes customers’ electricity usage in “painstakingly” detailed increments of every 15 minutes. When analysts identify patterns they deem likely signs of illegal grows, they notify sheriff’s investigators. The EFF said the practice violates privacy protections guaranteed by the federal and California governments and is seeking a court order barring the warrantless disclosures.

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In May 2020, Sacramento, California, resident Alfonso Nguyen was alarmed to find two Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies at his door, accusing him of illegally growing cannabis and demanding entry into his home. When Nguyen refused the search and denied the allegation, one deputy allegedly called him a liar and threatened to arrest him.

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Nguyen’s electricity consumption was the result of a spinal injury that requires him to use an electric wheelchair and special HVAC equipment to maintain his body temperature.

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Further raising concerns, in at least two cases, SMUD analysts described flagged customers with the description of “4k [kWh], Asian,” and “multiple Asians have reported there.”

A concert at St. Paul Parish in Harvard Square was disrupted at approximately 7:40 p.m. Tuesday when attendees were taken ill, leading to eight people being treated for a nonlife-threatening condition on the scene and going to medical facilities for further evaluation.

The alarm led to an evacuation of the building at 29 Mount Auburn St., in the Riverside neighborhood where it meets Harvard Square, and those affected included children and teens who were having seizures, according to scanner reports.

Hammar, an elementary-school educator, told me he and his family own five Teslas: three model Ys, a Model 3, and a Cybertruck. He said that the opening was a “very monumental day for us, the Tesla community.”

He reasoned that Musk aligned himself with Trump “because he is driven by a greater mission,” he said. “He knows that in order for Tesla to be successful… America must be strong. And remember, he's driven by repopulating Mars.”

A common theme among people I spoke to was that this diner will improve the experience of owning a Tesla, providing a unique location for Tesla owners to hang out and meet each other in a Tesla-friendly space.