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I missed my chance at a career, so here I am. Was once published in Moldova. I read & write about terrorism (mostly women in) for fun. But also a mum. Beside the seaside. 🇺🇸🇳🇿
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The longer this and everything else goes on without anyone suffering a single consequence -- and to be clear, a court ordering you to stop is not a consequence -- the harder it's going to be to get out of this anti-democracy hole.

To be clear, this shields any research coming out of the NIH from independent peer review, which gives him total control to spread propaganda and makes any NIH study completely untrustworthy.

US immigration authorities collecting DNA information of children in criminal database

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...

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

Trump gives away the game that there is literally no process to his tariff announcements beyond the half-baked thoughts flitting through his head

Anyone?

These people are vile

potus & co have more in common with that than the peaceful artist.

He's tripping balls, beat up, and has our data.

Not here

A Swedish MMA Tournament Spotlights the Trump Administration's Handling of Far-Right Terrorism

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The Kiwi tells me (from his immigration lawyer) that the backlog for greencards (renewals and such) is about twice as long as the one for citizenship. Which seems telling

DC residents should go out of town or stay home on the 14th however much possible. Pretend it's a snow day. Make it a ghost town.

⚡️Explosions in Vladivostok part of Ukrainian operation damaging base of elite Russian unit, source claims.

National Archives alert! đź§µ DOGE is planning to fire the Cartographic Section at the Archives in College Park. That staff is uniquely trained to manage and assist with visual media. Firing them will make it nearly impossible to gain access to critical maps and photographs. Examples include . . .

It’s great that Trump entrusted so much power in a mentally unstable drug addict, nothing could have possibly gone wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

So, Kerik. Anyway..

Intelligence agency employee accused of attempting to leak classified documents out of frustration with Trump www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

NEW: @cnn.com confirms that hundreds of FBI agents have been reassigned away from criminal and counterterrorism investigations to instead work with ICE to round up migrants. The security impacts are clear — and may be why the FBI is alleged to be hiding any paper trail.

Seeing as Emil Bove personally fired me from DOJ in retaliation for prosecuting January 6 rioters, I don’t think he should be confirmed to a lifetime seat as a federal judge. But that’s just me.

That’s a lot of words to say “he’s bad at this, is unintelligent and uncurious, caused long-lasting damage, and did a shitload of crimes”

Initial jobless claims in Maryland and Virginia getting some attention. (via Brean)

Look, I never liked lima beans either, but they're a fascinating thread in human history. First, they're named for the city of Lima, Peru, where they have grown since ~2000 BCE, making them the most ancient domesticated bean in the Americas. So: We're mispronouncing their name.

When I see a skeet like this I always wonder, to whom is the question addressed? It positions the asker as smugly prescient, uniquely and appropriately anxious in a world of people who are presumed to be blithely going about their days ignoring all the bullshit the govt is pulling.

We are so incredibly fucked

If Ai is ever used in a way that feels it’s turning against humanity, it won’t be because it decided to — it’ll be because someone pointed it in that direction.

Amazed Elon Musk openly wrote: "We found a CIA computer that not only was not connected to the internet but had been deliberately tampered with so it couldn't be connected to the internet we had to print out the stuff and type it into another computer" If he wasn't a billionaire he'd be in jail

"Defunding cancer research is a terrible way to fight antisemitism" Author and Harvard Professor Steven Pinker responds to Donald Trump's freezing of $2.65bn of funding to his university. #Newsnight

Polite reminder to anyone who needs it today: AI doesn’t “help you to write.” PRACTICE helps you to write.

The Court of International Trade sounds like book 4 of a 7-book series.