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A low-lying fog of noxious fumes floating around Chicago behind a pair of huskies. Is currently causing friction, as is required.
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Words fail me. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

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NEW: Data shows that as of June 15, fully 30% of all people arrested by ICE and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. 11,763 people in detention as of last Sunday had no criminal record and were arrested inside the country by ICE -- an increase of 4,000 people in two weeks!

submitted 14 hours ago • 46 comments

When you discover a year-old potato in the back of the pantry cupboard:

submitted 22 hours ago • 90 comments

Sneaky spam. I guess this has been around a while. I hadn’t had the pleasure until now.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Senegal women's basketball training in US cancelled after visas rejected - BBC News

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.

submitted 1 day ago • 3191 comments

Gilead has announced that lenacapavir, the game-changing HIV prevention drug just approved by the FDA will cost $28,218 USD per person per year. Researchers say a generic version could be made for just $25 per person a year. Capitalism kills.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...

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The same people demanding you present a photo ID to vote are perfectly fine with letting you be arrested, handcuffed & thrown into a van by armed men wearing plain clothes, face masks & presenting no identification of any sort.

submitted 3 days ago • 185 comments

This photo. ICE is a gang.

submitted 3 days ago • 711 comments