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The statute that President Trump has invoked - 10 U.S.C. § 12406 - has an important proviso: “orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States" Great article @justsecurity.org explains that proviso in this February 2024 article:

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I was tied up yesterday and so am just catching up on Abrego Garcia now. One thought: DOJ has been moving MS-13 members from the US to El Salvador to avoid having to prosecute them—according to NYT and El Faro, as a result of what is reportedly a corrupt deal w Bukele

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Coco Gauff claims first French Open title after fightback floors Aryna Sabalenka

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In addition to funding, which is important, states and feds are passing laws that give preference to law enforcement in every aspect of life -- legal, economic, and social. Just yesterday, Trump met with FOP leaders who praised him for ending accountability and the "no tax on overtime."

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Bondi DOJ has a problem. On left: DOJ Indictment and Detention Memo allege Abrego Garcia lied to officer by not revealing he was coming from Texas On right: DHS Referral Report: "Subject stated he was driving 'three days ago' (11/27/2022) from Houston, TX to Temple Hills, MD (via St Louis, MO)"

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White flight ☠️😂

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The other thing about the militarized teams deployed on deportations is that they are increasingly a coalition of the willing that scrambles chains of command across various dept's and agencies (DHS, ICE, FBI, CBP, BOP, etc), creating what amounts to a personalized militia loyal only to Trump. 🧵

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The decision to prosecute Kilmar Abrego Garcia prompted the resignation of the chief of the Justice Department’s criminal division in Nashville, people briefed on the matter told CNN. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

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Around the time that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was indicted in the Middle District of Tennessee, the chief of the criminal division in that district posted this on LinkedIn: “Earlier today, after nearly 15 years as an Assistant United States Attorney, I resigned…”

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Attention:

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These two orders combine to provide DOGE with both access to extremely sensitive information and protections against accountability. 1. Access: bsky.app/profile/chri...

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, is reportedly on his way back to the U.S. to face criminal charges

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Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

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"If you're tired of Google's AI Overview extracting all value from the web while also telling people to eat glue or run with scissors, you can turn it off—sort of." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

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🧪⚛️ I have not had a chance to watch the recording of the “State of Science” address from the NAS. Is this article accurate? Did they really go out of their way to avoid discussing the terrible cuts and other actions? arstechnica.com/science/2025...

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The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

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I remember getting a $300k grant 10 years ago to perform non-abelian braiding in 2 years It is funny, but it is also sad. "The people" want miracles from science, right now, and for free. If one is achieved, they move on immediately and just want more, different, fresh like distracted children.

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One small victory. Proves they can do it.

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

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I remember reading Kafka's The Trial in high school and feeling so much anxiety. The judge is correct to compare what is happening now to that.

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By entrenched ways I mean the fact that those who rise and have risen to leadership positions are there because they are more likely to acquiesce to their bosses. How will they challenge now the destruction of science when they have had no practice challenging anything?

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Yes, Phillip is right. Science and university's leadership will not provide the means to recover. Their entrenched ways of doing things prevent them from being the change agents we need them to be.

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Gift link. This is really well done. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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The final estimated increase in the uninsured is 10.9 million (a little above the prior estimate)

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CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

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There’s obviously no animating principle here beyond “they’re not straight white men.” Tubman, Chavez, and Evers all served in the military — as did Harvey Milk.

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I don't know a lot of details about Ono, but knowing that in '23 he made a big deal in Michigan about supporting DEI, and just 2 years later he writes this, www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... as a candidate to lead UF, this is someone who can be guessed to have no principles.

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🧪⚛️ This looks interesting. 9-sigma discrepancies in comparatively simple systems don't happen very often. To my more knowledgable AMO colleagues: It seems like a true spin-dependent anomaly would show up in lots of places. Any other hints of something like this? physics.aps.org/articles/v18...

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Muon g-2 announces most precise measurement of the magnetic anomaly of the muon www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/muon...

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I tried to do a version of this report that @warren.senate.gov did, but gave up. The task was too overwhelming!! Two-plus full pages, 34 of 130 entries, focus on the regulatory help Musk got after buying the Presidency for Trump. (This is just a selection.) www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

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That an airline lied to their passengers this way is also outrageous. A plane cannot leave an airport without proper clearance that it has the fuel for the trip. Rerouting for filling up is so clearly a lie. If it indeed needed fuel, then it had a leak, which is more dangerous.

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fyi you can exclude AI summaries from your Google search by putting -ai at the end

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What happened?

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Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

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1. Trump and his Republican allies say their budget cuts are targeted at waste, fraud, and abuse But Trump's new 1,223-page budget proposal, quietly released on Friday afternoon, reveals the real target: Poor children

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In my first op-ed for @nytimes.com, I argue that the alliance between Silicon Valley & the US government is a threat to democracy. The Republican tax bill now up in the Senate, which would ban states from regulating AI for a decade, will only cement that trajectory. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Indeed, while the author starts his discussion with an example of a state university, he doesn't mention at all that the main reason the schools accepts more full-paying internal students is because the state has reduced its support to state colleges significantly. That should be addressed first.

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The President's Budget request as released yesterday will gut scientific research. Why should you care? 1) Science is fundamentally a jobs program. Many 100,000s are employed to do science and work for you, the US taxpayer.

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If you, like me, loved #Andor, you'll enjoy this little montage with the original music. youtu.be/l2NHgabpnXg?...

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TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE PROPOSED NSF BUDGET CUTS NEARLY A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE FROM NSF ACTIVITIES. FOR INSTANCE, JOBS.

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SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX) spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

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