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OPT is the program that allows foreign students graduating with STEM degrees stay and work for up to three years. Because of the oversubscribed H-1B lottery, OPT is one of the main ways that foreign students manage to transition to jobs in the US. Ending it would destroy a major STEM pipeline.

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🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.

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Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 3 days ago • 306 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 3 days ago • 344 comments

REVEALED: A Daily Puzzle Game Guess the topic using the fewest reveals and hints! www.britannica.com/games/revealed

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

lol why do we have to give young men all this attention when young women have been ignored FOR AT LEAST 100 years?

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Simply by my steady volume, my refusal to nurture falsehoods, my insistence on calling out hypocrisy, and my intolerance to discrimination, I am probably forever altering the connection between us. I'm OK with this. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-bridge...

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Moody's downgraded the United States credit rating. Walmart is increasing its prices because of tariffs. Donald Trump does not want you talking about this.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Also, while we all understand that Jake Tapper didn’t literally give President Biden cancer, we’re all definitely going to treat him like he did.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

AP News: "The US army has moved in recent weeks to discharge dozens of immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted through a program that promised them a path to citizenship." Very disgusting how they trick immigrants and minorities into thinking that serving the empire will help them.

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

This is a HUGE scandal. Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Trump are lying about Social Security fraud. Internal documents show DOGE found "no significant fraud"—but did slow retirement claim processing by 25%. Nothing efficient about making it harder for people to get their benefits.

submitted 8 days ago • 199 comments

The Trump team isn’t willing to accept a straightforward fact: When you cut resources to family planning, restrict healthcare, fire the CDC teams in charge of researching IVF, and gut education, you make it more difficult for people to have children. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/u...

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

I enjoy much of @mcsweeneys.net, but I especially keep coming back to this one: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/alt...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 9 days ago • 611 comments

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s security chief confirmed Tuesday that 17 family members of cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week as part of a deal between a son of the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump administration. apnews.com/article/el-c...

submitted 9 days ago • 126 comments

I get that people have to sell books. And I get that DNC Vice-Chair elections matter. But if a Democratic President accepted a $400 million gift from the Qatari royal family, coverage would be breathless, non-stop and wall-to-wall -- no room for any other story.

submitted 10 days ago • 77 comments

Trumpers are taking away healthcare from the nation's children. But they are also giving them cavities.

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THIS IS NOT NORMAL Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra captured video of a 16-year-old girl's face being held on the ground by Worcester police officers; she and her mother were detained in an apparent ICE operation #immigration

submitted 15 days ago • 883 comments

Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a

submitted 15 days ago • 1562 comments

Gee, you illegally fire thousands of Feds, push others out, & now you do an emergency sole source contract for your HR systems. And this is saving money? Such hypocrisy. @altcdc.altgov.info @altssa.altgov.info @alt-hhs.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/...

submitted 16 days ago • 25 comments

In my free-to-read newsletter: Republicans are more likely to think false claims about Kilmar Abrego Garcia are true than false. And only 1 in 9 Americans think the administration will actually comply with SCOTUS in having him returned. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

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from @mkraju.bsky.social :

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📣 #Georgia residents: Check your voter registration status: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ With Georgia election officials preparing to purge over 450,000 registered voters from the #voterregistration list this Summer – we want to make sure it's not YOU! #VotingRights #EqualAccessForAll

submitted 18 days ago • 39 comments

Ashley Babbit's family is poised to recieve 30 million dollars (from tax payers) thanks to the Dept of Justice... Mrs Sicknick just wanted a phone call and the people who assaulted her son Brian held accountable.

submitted 19 days ago • 1926 comments

Tariffmageddon is exhausting, but it's not the whole story. Keep your eye on the federal budget because your economic future might depend on it.

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

By this Pam calculation, one pill has to kill more than five people. Math is hard.

submitted 21 days ago • 1904 comments

Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.

submitted 22 days ago • 445 comments

Don't accurately describe my behavior please. It makes me look bad and it's a form of sabotage

submitted 23 days ago • 22 comments

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

submitted 23 days ago • 778 comments

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.

submitted 23 days ago • 309 comments

“I could … but we have lawyers who don’t want to do that.” This means nothing less than the Trump Administration is in open defiance of the Supreme Court of the United States.

submitted 24 days ago • 458 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 24 days ago • 1138 comments

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

submitted 24 days ago • 398 comments

Now we have the answer. The original story was legit then Bezos backed down.

submitted 24 days ago • 2372 comments

This is NOT what I was expecting

submitted 28 days ago • 113 comments

Reminder that words matter. You can’t “deport” a US citizen. You might be kidnapping, disappearing, exiling, expelling, illegally removing, etc., but you’re not “deporting” a US citizen.

submitted 28 days ago • 99 comments

MCC is small but backs key infrastructure development in developing countries — such as power grids, ports, and access to critical minerals. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.” @nytimes.com 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 28 days ago • 305 comments

👇🏻👇🏻

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This is your regular reminder that executive orders are not royal decrees. Because America has no king.

submitted 29 days ago • 1625 comments

The $5000 “baby bonus” is functionally very similar to the Earned Income Tax Credit except it doesn’t have the work requirement the GOP has insisted on for decades.

submitted 29 days ago • 233 comments

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."

submitted 30 days ago • 1302 comments