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So this week, Palantir told me I was banned from its booth at a tech conference (didn’t give a reason) & threatened to call the cops if I came back In recent days, Palantir has been increasingly defensive toward multiple journalists and perceived critics: www.wired.com/story/palant...

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A Harvard researcher, Dr. Sarah Fortune, was potentially TWO YEARS away from CURING Tuberculosis, a disease that kills over a million people a year. The Trump administration pulled the funding for the research. Dr. Fortune is now trying to shut down 21 labs. Now all the data and knowledge is gone!

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In 2009, “Mencius Moldbug” aka Curtis Yarvin (Peter Thiel’s “house philosopher”) wrote at length on his “Unqualified Reservations” blog about “Harvard and state.” Trump’s targeting of Harvard reeks of Moldbug’s “philosophy”. 1/ www.unqualified-reservations.org/2009/01/gent...

submitted 20 hours ago • 33 comments

NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

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I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

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ICE’s own director said it out loud: agents wear masks so they won’t be ID’d online. Not for “safety”—but so they can keep terrorizing families in secret. Cowards. If you volunteer to carry out racist raids, don’t cry when the public holds you accountable. Actions have consequences.

submitted 2 days ago • 154 comments

@governorwalz.mn.gov why are the Minneapolis police assisting ICE to go into neighborhoods dressed like they’re going to war to assault & kidnap people?? I get that Ice is fed and you can’t stop them, but you sure as shit don’t have to help them!

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And: “officials knew that only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of U.S. crimes and that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations.”

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Remembering when a coworker laughed at me and a few other women who were talking about having been at the first DC Women's March. He thought it was hilarious how we were overreacting.

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Last year the Supreme Court said courts don't have to defer to federal agency determinations. Last week the Court said actually they do... as long as the agency determination is something the justices like. I wrote about the latest Calvinball from SCOTUS: prospect.org/justice/2025...

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Lol just heard the NPR story about the DOGE guy who lost his job when he said he was surprised at how hard it was to find inefficiencies in the federal govt because he came from Silicon Valley where companies always have lots of people sitting around doing nothing

submitted 3 days ago • 54 comments

Today, we’re gonna talk Peter Theil. If you think the heritage foundation is bad, you haven’t met Peter Theil. Catch you after the video.

submitted 4 days ago • 150 comments

One of our highest priorities must be to protect the people who are doing the most right now to push back against Trump’s tyranny: our judiciary. Here’s what should be done. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/protecting-our-judges

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

Right now, Congress is considering legislation with billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, the largest in history. Stay LOUD. Send a message to your Members of Congress, NOW. #HandsOffMedicaid! Click the link ⬇️ 🔗 go.caringacross.org/a/no-cuts-pr... 🗣️dasiadoesit (IG)

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"We're not in love with the law." Ladies and gentlemen, the United States Government.

submitted 4 days ago • 29 comments

Russian trolls for your collection

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ICYMI: DHS agents detained an aide to Rep. Jerry Nadler—after his staff witnessed migrants being detained and brought witnesses to his office. This isn’t law enforcement; it’s political retaliation. Trump’s DHS is targeting Congress. Nadler’s right: they’re behaving like fascists.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

I get the commentary on this. Trump was pretty explicit about doing big deportations. But there are a couple of types of Trump voters that “didn’t see this coming”

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People💙These unknown animals, who are cowardly covering their faces while they’re illegally crossing the line and arresting innocent people, must be dealt with! This is not the America we deserve, This is not the America we want ! Arrest these bastards😡 The injustice is real 😡 #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

In Missouri, overturning the will of voters has almost become the legislature’s main business. Lawmakers wasted no time moving to undo a constitutional amendment that legalized abortion up to fetal viability. By @jeremykohler.bsky.social‬

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

And the rest will fall like Dominoes across the nation. But according to (R) IA Sen. Joni Ernst, “well we’re all going to die.” Why not speed up the process right?

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Today’s office hours have begun! Drop by Sketchbook Brewery in Skokie any time in the next two hours and tell me what you care about!

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

These people were following the law and went to check in with immigration like they are supposed to. This woman's immigration case was dismissed, which made her immediately undocumented. So ICE took her into custody. The air conditioning was off in the back of the truck. "I can't breathe."

submitted 5 days ago • 676 comments

There's no organized immigrant resistance to ICE. One of the most alarming things about these fash assholes playing military dress-up is that they're not doing it to arrest immigrants, they're armed up because they're expecting to fight American citizens... violently.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 6 days ago • 241 comments

groimes, oive fecked ep moi bleddeh

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www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 5 days ago • 170 comments

Why is this not front-page news? Where is the outrage and alarm?

submitted 6 days ago • 59 comments

its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

submitted 6 days ago • 75 comments

One Explanation for Elon Musk's Claimed DOGE Departure that Gossip-Mongers Missed www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/29/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

ICE agents rounded up around 40 people today across Martha’s Vineyard—grabbing some out of their cars. The sweeps were carried out as part of a series of traffic stops with the help of FBI and DEA agents. “You should be ashamed of yourselves,” one person shouted at several agents gathered outside.

submitted 8 days ago • 748 comments

They don’t care if you’re a citizen anymore. They enjoy torturing us.

submitted 8 days ago • 97 comments

Update: reports today that multiple legal observers were arrested today in New York at two separate immigration courts, for allegedly “obstructing” ICE. Not only that, apparently some immigration courts are barring the public from attending hearings. This mess is escalating fast.

submitted 8 days ago • 246 comments

Happy National Flip Flop Day to Lindsey Graham.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Urgent call to action for residents of the North End of Boise. You need to make it to this meeting TONIGHT and you need to shut down this far right attempt to take over your neighborhood.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Honestly, it’s media credulity that’s going to end the Republic

submitted 8 days ago • 75 comments