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this was wild, but i'm not actually convinced the cops did the wrong thing here, having actually watched most of it go down.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Legal permanent resident of the U.S., showing up to apply for citizenship, with no allegations of criminal activity, is arrested and detained by masked police. This is fascism, and that is not a word I use lightly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

submitted 14 hours ago • 140 comments

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 2 days ago • 118 comments

Big news: The North Carolina Supreme Court rejected the GOP's challenges to tens of thousands of ballots... but *accepted* GOP's challenge to thousands of overseas ballots — all cast only in 4 blue counties — which could (likely?) be enough to overturn the supreme court race.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 3 days ago • 2328 comments

NEW: Judge Xinis orders the govt to "take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the United States as soon as possible." She also directs the govt to file a status update on Abrego Garcia by tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

[at the White House] Donald Trump: so as i was saying we're putting tariffs on the moon Trump: i know people like the moon Trump: it's a beautiful moon Trump: but it's not pulling its weight Trump: it's gotta go

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

What a grim paragraph www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 155 comments

Ideas

submitted 4 days ago • 573 comments

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

submitted 4 days ago • 2015 comments

Kurt Vonnegut man

submitted 4 days ago • 252 comments

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

submitted 4 days ago • 418 comments

*taps mic* Is this thing on? Introducing Normal Men, a podcast featuring yours truly, @proptermalone.bsky.social, @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social, and @golikehellmachine.com. First episode is up at peark.es/podcast/! Coming to a podcast app/platform near you soon.

submitted 5 days ago • 68 comments

Crossing into the United States has become increasingly dangerous for digital privacy, not only for non-citizens but for Americans as well. Here are a few steps you can take to minimize the risk of Customs and Border Protection accessing your data:

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

can you die of too much news

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments

THE SUPREME COURT’S TdA OPINION IS TERRIFYING. Not because it’s wrong, although it is, but because of how comfortable the Court seems in abusing authority to get to what it must see as an institutionally desirable outcome. 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

Tonight the Supreme Court made it possible to have m ore cases like Andry's, by requiring that people challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act file individual habeas corpus lawsuits. Many people in detention don't have any money to hire a lawyer. They won't be able to do this.

submitted 7 days ago • 109 comments

This is a stunning find, and a glimpse at the Death Star scale of "mass deportation" spending foreseen in the reconciliation bill moving through Congress. By comparison, "In the last fiscal year, D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE."

submitted 7 days ago • 118 comments