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Would interfere with their media strategy of spending two hours a day recording videos that get 75 views

ICE is showing up at people's doors for criticizing them. I know the person making this report.

There's kind of a really important thing here where I'm pretty sure 3 months ago, they would have just started ordering Marshalls to arrest people and dared courts to stop them. The "No, fuck you" and then the pause is.. new. And it shows where this admin is.

There is no “invasion,” this is only a pretext for mass roundups; and an attempt to intimidate the courts. Suspending habeas corpus is a point of no return

El Salvador's President Bukele is reportedly preparing to arrest the journalists who have reported on the secret deals Bukele struck with Salvadoran gangs that have enabled his consolidation of power.

I don’t think people have internalized that even if we sign a deal with China tomorrow, we are in for a several months-long supply shock. The shelves are going to go bare. There is no way to avoid it at this point.

as clear-cut a case of suppression of political speech as we’ve ever seen

five hundred million fucking dollars the collective media decision that corruption was no longer important will cost us so much as a country, in dollars and in lives

So nobody is going to come to the World Cup now huh

CPB said: “Sir, this is a Wendy’s.”

Hardcoded credentials in the Signal archiving tool used by the White House is a five-alarm security dumpster fire.

These 20 year prisons terms they keep throwing around are very Soviet.

"We know there are citizens all across the country that are ready to call for the impeachment and removal of the president, and we wanted to make sure that they are connected directly to the people who can do it, which is the members of Congress in the United States." - Gabe Garbowit

crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

ALERT: I had not seen this article until this morning. It is a pretty big deal. Mike Waltz isn’t actually using Signal. He’s using a copy or third party version of Signal created by a company called TeleMessage the point of which is to allow archiving of messages. The app claims to preserve …

NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...

Today I tried to access a major government dataset—Statistics of Income—that helps us understand how policy affects Americans' earnings. This was their response. DOGE fired everyone, so: No. Barring researchers from public data is myopic, is not 'efficient', and makes government less accountable.

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Let the Chinese languish in the 18th century industries of chips, smartphones, computers and personal electronics - safe behind the tariff wall, the US shall regain superpower status by dominanting the jobs of the future: little paper napkin and sock manufacturing.

The man at left separated the mother and baby at right. The mother is now in Venezuela. Baby daughter, in foster care in the US, exact location unknown. Dad? He's in CECOT prison without trial — because he had tattoos.

So you’re saying we could solve all the financial problems of 379 million of us and impact just 19 households. What an interesting fact. Fun little bit of trivia.

NEW: Per multiple sources, the National Cancer Institute’s Board of Scientific Advisors has been entirely disbanded.

Nothing to see here, move along.

Tired of being part of a suicide pact of a country.

We should all print signs thanking Trump on the empty shelves that will soon follow.

ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments. If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.

Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"

ACLU — NEW ORLEANS: “ICE deported at least two families, including 2 mothers and their minor children – 3 of whom are U.S. citizen children aged 2, 4, and 7. One of the mothers is currently pregnant... 1 child with cancer deported without medication…” www.aclu.org/press-releas...

I see a lot of people quoting this post and tagging their representatives. It’s fine to do this but you also need to PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL THEIR OFFICES.

The AG are “HIS” lawyers? wtf

Not a lawyer but if ICE is interrupting court proceedings it has the sounds of civil rights violation.

Cool cool cool. And the admin just said there WAS income driven repayment. So now you need to pay full or go into forbearance or default. We’re fucked.

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

Yes.

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If only we had studies on autism and vaccines using nationally-complete healthcare data showing no association between the two. Like, uh, this one from Denmark.

Not the kind of research and programming that can easily be picked up 🤦‍♂️

At least 2 people—29 and 44 yo—have died while detained at Krome ICE prison near Miami. The facility is so overcrowded people are sleeping in the bathrooms: “Their faces are literally under the toilet.” english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...

How did Kristi Noem, a cabinet official with Secret Service protection, get her purse snatched, losing her DHS badge, passport, and maybe her phone? That's now a security risk. If she'd asked the SS to stand down to give her privacy, then the public needs to know who was she having dinner with. 1/

I have no idea if the presumed result of this would occur, but I can’t see the downside of doing it. Removing trump would be objectively good for the functioning of the country.

The MS-13 claim comes from a 2019 police report citing an unnamed informant and Abrego’s Bulls cap. It didn’t hold up; he was protected from deportation by a Trump-appointed judge with an above-average denial rate. The cop was later indicted, pleaded guilty to misconduct and fired wapo.st/3YASCze

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

Wtf

The man entrusted to take care that the laws are faithfully executed is framing a person with doctored evidence in the court of public opinion. It is beyond unconscionable.