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Unsurprisingly many people getting the ‘you must leave the US now’ emails think they’re phishing. They’re being sent by DOGE. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/11/doge-immigration-taskforce-00287327

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Heads up. Don't forget that if you care for a loved one and get paid through a Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services waiver program for personal care and supportive home care, make sure you or your accountant check to see if that is tax free income via IRS Notice 2014-7. Many people treat […]

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Budget cuts proposed by the Trump Office of Management and Budget include 66% cut to Astrophysics, 50% cut to Earth Science, and 30% cut to Planetary Science. We have to hope that Congress reverses these cuts. https://archive.ph/i7zyk

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Baby goat herd current status: ridiculously cute

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Who wants to work on the #arctic in #Copenhagen? Super postdoc job going with our friends at Aarhus University together with DMI on climate modelling: https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/postdoc-in-climate-modelling-and-arctic-midlatitude-connections

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The White House are going after Chris Krebs and his employer, Sentinel One. They’re also going after CISA. They call Chris a “significant bad-faith actor”. Shocking stuff by the USG here […] [Original post on cyberplace.social]

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Unfortunately, I have to say this again: US election infrastructure isn't perfect and there's still work to do to make it more secure. But there is simply no credible evidence that the 2020 election outcome was altered through technical attacks, despite exhaustive scrutiny. Shortly after the […]

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The White House's site labels this post attacking Krebs a "Fact Sheet." I am not using that phrase in this post I'm working on, and you shouldn't use it in your copy either if you have any respect for the meaning of the word "fact."

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If you were wondering how my day is going, I'm still being yelled at by Signal groupies who are mad at me for saying the app lacks special features for protecting classified information.

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Chilling. What a disgusting, disgraceful way to think. ‘The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American cities delivering packages. “We need to […]

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Also got all the babies out in the sun today. It got up to almost 10C which was AMAZING but holy cow that's a lot of mud... Luckily the babies are very good at finding good places to take naps in between attempting to frolic and meeting the other animals. #BabyGoatCountdown

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If you have a YouTube channel, this is your signal to setup a @peertube instance, the free and open source YouTube alternative that's fediverse enabled. "But how do I monetize things to pay for my bills? Servers aren't free you know" Great question! It's true that PeerTube doesn't have a […]

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg holds a "show cause" hearing on whether the government defied his orders when it deported Venezuelans accused of being members of Tren de Aragua to a nightmarish Salvadoran prison

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NASA JPL ARIA project analysis of data from Copernicus Sentinel-2 optical and Sentinel-1 radar images measured the slip on the Sagaing Fault in Myanmar. Quick preliminary map. More details later. Fault ruptured about 500 km (300 miles) in the magnitude 7.7 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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"The reality is that the pushback against Trump policies from the federal courts to date has come from a remarkably large and diverse cohort of federal judges—with respect to where they sit and by whom they were appointed." "The data strongly suggests that the cause of this unprecedented flurry […]

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United States Disappeared Tracker https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

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Rocket launch at Andøya spaceport in Norway..........does not quite go to plan but it's pretty picturesque www.nrk.no/video/e9b260...

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The Florida Growers Association has associated oranges and orange juice with "Florida" in the minds of Canadians since the 1980s. However, a recent shift in sourcing by Canadian importers has led to the purchase of Brazilian oranges, resulting in a 50% […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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"State department shares new standard for [#visa] denials based on social media posts, financial donations and memberships" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/student-visa-applications-denials PS: "Potentially derogatory” social media posts can be used against visa applicants. So […]

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When you see the POTUS or people who support him saying things like, "man who could have asked for a better start to this presidency," you might go "whuh?" But if you take a look at the useful Project 2025 Tracker, they've made incredible progress on their […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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While several of its peers are standing up to Trump, law firm Skadden Arps has rolled over even more ignominiously than Paul Weiss. Skadden wasn’t targeted by a Trump executive order, but it went to the WH to make a deal. Trump just announced one […]

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#NCwx #NorthCarolina #Wildfires #PolkCounty From WSPA 7 News: Firefighters make progress on wildfires in Polk Co. https://www.wspa.com/news/local-news/firefighters-make-progress-on-wildfires-in-polk-co/

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Vibe coding a replacement for a decades-old working system that 65 million people depend on, what could possibly go wrong? https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

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Apparently, waste, fraud, and abuse only occurs in counties that voted for Harris. Who knew?

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

Horrible earthquake in Myanmar, shallow magnitude 7.7 close to the second largest city of Myanmar, Mandalay. The USGS is estimating more than 4 million people were exposed to severe Modified Mercalli Intensity VII or violent intensity IX […]

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Elon and Donald can bluster, but even the FBI agrees with us. >500 actions in the last month and not one single case of vandalism or destruction of property at our nonviolent protests. Our peaceful protest is costing Musk tens of billions, and that's why they're desperate to stop us. #teslatakedown

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James totally gets this 💚 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iHKXayw9Yk

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Wooo Wesleyan!! https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-03-24-columbias-capitulation-wesleyans-pushback/ A good time to mention again that Wesleyan prof Mary-Jane Rubenstein has a powerful (and hilariously written) book called Astrotopia that explains so much of the whole space-bro […]

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I've noticed something that I think is worth pointing out: pretty much ALL of the pushback I have gotten on LinkedIn over the past few months over stories critical of this administration has come from men in IT. Many of whom no doubt idolize Musk, who in […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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Those outside of R1 academia might not understand how thoroughly the administration's shakedown of universities like Columbia upends STEM research. To a first approximation, universities perform a large fraction of basic research in the US, but fund almost none of it themselves. The funding - […]

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