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Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI www.semafor.com/article/06/0...

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Weather Service offices in Miami, Jacksonville, Puerto Rico and Houston “lack at least a third of all the meteorologists required... “The Nat’l Hurricane Center is short 5 specialists, despite assurances from the Trump administration that it is fully staffed.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Less than five months as superintendent, Kevin Heatley hung up his ranger’s uniform Friday, citing the Trump administration’s staffing cuts at the National Park Service as a major reason for his decision to take a buyout offer.

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/u...

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"Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned."

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happy pride month to bluesky, a platform that is successful today because of the trans and queer users who made it a cool place to be. love y’all 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙

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Oversight is not optional. We will not stand by while Trump shreds the constitution, treats people with cruelty and spreads fear across the nation. I will not back away from this fight.

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So let me get this straight, in the span of two days, federal agents blocked a reporter from accessing public immigration courts, barged into a congressman’s office and arrested a staff member for trying to block them, and raided a restaurant in military gear, tossing flashbangs, to arrest workers?

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OK, this is wild.

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FBI agents are now visiting Charlottesville’s public defenders at their homes. It’s naked intimidation of our justice system.

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Unbelievable! Today, San Diego witnessed a government-sanctioned kidnapping. ICE stormed Buona Forchetta in military gear ripping workers away, then unleashing tear gas and smoke on the terrified community. Full on police state, fascism now used on American citizens. Stay aware. #OnYourSide

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A new ICE facility in Baldwin, MI is hiring-one of many detention centers meant to aid Trump's goal of deporting 1M people in his 1st year. "About 90% of ICE detainees are already held in for-profit facilities," Rose White of @mlivenews (Insta 🎥) explains, many accused of abuse & safety violations.

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Trump has terminated a $250 million program working on an HIV vaccine, the NYT reports.

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New sponsorship rules trap migrant kids in shelters 200+ days, even w/ loving families waiting. Sponsors must share invasive info, risking deportation for undocu/mixed-status families. “If you are undocumented, it’s literally weeding you out,” says ImmDef Managing Atty Karina. 🔗 bit.ly/4dJnkws

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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...

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Scheduling an interagency retaliation-planning meeting seems like pretty good plaintiff's evidence for a First Amendment retaliation claim.

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NOW— Mass ICE arrests happened/are happening at the Manhattan immigration court at 290 Broadway on the 20th floor. I was just outside the building and an observer came out crying, confirmed they witnessed people getting detained outside courtrooms while families watched and wept.

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“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Dept official about the damage done by Trump and Musk abandoning America's humanitarian aid commitments.

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Our initial reporting on Trump dismissing the director of the National Portrait Gallery, although the job of hiring and firing Smithsonian leaders is not his www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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“[W]hat I want people to know with this story is that what is going to get us through this moment is going to be community, solidarity, and organizing.” - Cristina Jiménez, co-founder and former Executive Director of UWD, via @elpais.com 🧡 english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-...

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“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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If you are familiar with any non-profit that does charitable work in Africa, you know this is not an exaggeration.

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Trump Administration Knew Vast Majority of Venezuelans Sent to Salvadoran Prison Had Not Been Convicted of U.S. Crimes www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Oh fuck THIS. “New and controversial terms” my ass. Give your balls a tug.

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Zelenskyy: Russian Shaheds against ordinary trolleybuses. This was a strike on Kharkiv – at least 8 Shahed drones destroyed a trolleybus depot and also damaged nearby residential apartment buildings. In total, Russians used 90 attack drones and 2 ballistic missiles overnight.

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Oh

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Wild story. A family of asylum seekers, fearing deportation, tried to leave the United States by going to Canada. They were stopped at the exit by U.S. Customs and Border Protection and detained for THREE WEEKS in a holding cell meant for no more than 72 hour stays — then released.

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Trump just nominated Paul Ingrassia to run the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia is a former far-right podcast host and election denier who once shared an article calling for “martial law” to keep Donald Trump in office following his loss in the 2020 election. He's 29.

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In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

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As the FBI assigns hundreds of additional agents to focus on arresting people for deportation, agents "have been told by supervisors not to document moving resources away from high-priority cases toward immigration-related work." www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/p...

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NEW: The Justice Department’s brief at the Supreme Court is undermined by the judicial record and our real time flight-tracking data. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Large-scale ICE raid at a construction site in Tallahassee today, in collaboration with state law enforcement officials. Reportedly dozens of construction workers were arrested at the job site by ICE and rounded up into buses to be detained.

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under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Rubio has paused the scheduling of interviews for J1 temp medical Resident Visas for foreign doctors. The reason is purportedly to allow for deeper vetting of their social media accounts. Soooo, loyalty to Trumpism is now a prerequisite to becoming a U.S. trained physician? 🎥 @gilbert.md.rn Insta

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Republican bill would force D.C. to call its Metro the "Trump Train"

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