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Remember that several people asked Pam Bondi during confirmation SPECIFICALLY what she would do on matters pertaining to Qatar (which she did not disclose) or GEO (pertinent to the Baraka arrest). She said she'd consult top career lawyer at DOJ abt recusal. Then she fired that lawyer.

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Rogatons Rediffusions - 06/04/2023 - "Panique" Source: https://www.bouletcorp.com/rogatons/2023/04/06

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This, and ALSO we need to rigorously distinguish between rendition to a third country and deportation.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Former IDF chief Moshe Ya'alon: "Conquering the Gaza Strip and expelling the entire population to the Egyptian border. What is that? Call it ethnic cleansing, call it transfer, call it expulsion — it's a war crime." www.ynet.co.il/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This, from @kyledcheney.bsky.social, is how you cover Stephen Miller's set up comment about habeas corpus: buried in ¶10 after framing it correctly as an effort to undercut the judges who are warning of real threat to due process. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

So who was the journalist who ASKED Stephen Miller about habeas corpus? And why wasn't the question, We heard you're considering it but you know even the Trump judges say there's no invasion?

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry. Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website. Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon […]

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

99% of the time, the people who end up getting barged in on by police and security guards with transgender bathroom bans are cisgender lesbian women. Bathroom bans don't work because you can't tell whose trans by looks alone. Anyway. Many such cases.

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

Solar Panel Waste is Tiny—Coal & Gas Emit Hundreds Of Times Mass Per MWh #SolarEnergy #CleanEnergy #ClimateChange https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/19/solar-panel-waste-is-tiny-coal-gas-emit-hundreds-of-times-mass-per-mwh/

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Today I learned there is a vaccine for the cancer that killed my mom in development. In a stage 1 trial, it cured the cancer for people with Stage III and IV cancer. That made me tear up for what might have been. Then I learned that legislators in some states are trying to ban RNA vaccines […]

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

For @msnbc.com, I went long with my criticisms of the HHS report on youth gender care released last week. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Saint Motel, House of Blues Boston, last night

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

1. The Arizona legislature passed three anti-trans bills... but they did not become law. That is because Governor Katie Hobbs has just vetoed all of them. They would have barred birth certificate updates and banned colleges from mentioning gender identity. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

'Suido Bridge, Surugadai' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Catching up on the news

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

Sometimes you see an image so striking that you have to state plainly that there are concentration camps inside the US with kidnapped people in them suffering

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

It's REALLY important people remember that Stephen Miller told a bunch of lies during the election--including the TdA invasion of Aurora, CO, but also eating dogs and cats He built on them since. 17/18 IC agencies have debunked the core lie TdA AEA declaration is based off. Nothing has been real

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

“I have a lot of problems with social anxiety—“ “REALLY? It doesn’t seem like it at all!” “uh. Thanks. I think.” I guess it’s only a problem if troubles or inconveniences anyone *else*. If I’m miserable? Living in a tunnel of fear? Not relevant, I suppose. Listen, I know people say this to be […]

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

How's that working out for you, my dudes https://www.semafor.com/article/04/27/2025/the-group-chats-that-changed-america

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

🚩The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issues a red flag alert for the United States in response to the proposed autism registry. #ActuallyAutistic www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

“Maybe they’ll find it as they move to indict her. Or maybe this case will blow up in spectacular fashion. But until they actually look for evidence of corrupt intent, this is a media campaign against the judiciary, not a criminal prosecution.”

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Thinking some more about aesthetic "futurism", whether it still exists and has any value, to what extent it ever really did. I watch a lot of videos about theme parks, including Disney parks, and one of the things the Disney park fans ponder and fret about a lot is the fate of the various […]

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments