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🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

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🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 14 hours ago • 225 comments

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

submitted 22 hours ago • 79 comments

I’M GOING TO KEEP POSTING THIS STORY UNTIL ANDRY IS FREED: Gay Venezuelan makeup artist sent to Salvadoran prison after a disgraced cop's report Andry Hernandez Romero sought shelter in the U.S. because he was persecuted as a gay man, one of the "particular social groups" allowed to claim asylum.

submitted 2 days ago • 565 comments

I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Resegregation

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Trump is using economic blackmail to force the UK to repeal all protections for LGBTQ people. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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“Vera leaders said DOJ revoked $5 million in federal grants that the institute was receiving to develop programs related to reducing recidivism rates and supporting victims… When DOGE members learned that the Vera Institute was no longer receiving federal funds, he started to wrap up the meeting.”

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This is so worthwhile. Please watch. youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE

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Your reminder to vote for ya girl! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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What I think is DON'T RANK ANDREW CUOMO

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BlackPast has a comprehensive list of Black history museums across the country:

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

The OSINTukraine archive documents war crimes from 90+ Russian Telegram channels. Help us continue preserving the truth:

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THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

submitted 4 days ago • 138 comments

Palantir, owned by billionaire Peter Thiel, the backer of Project 2025/JD Vance, is developing algorithms to flag “anti-American” social media users for IRS audits DOGE’s PATRIOTNet system, developed with Palantir, assigns “threat scores” to citizens. Via @grannygrue www.wired.com/story/palant...

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REQUEST: ARCHIVE PLANNED PARENTHOOD GAC WEBPAGES! Please help us track changes to GAC on your regional Planned Parenthood website. Simply go to their page on trans care, and follow the instructions here to archive it on the Wayback Machine. I'll do the rest. help.archive.org/help/save-pa...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Trump has amassed over a billion dollars in collective pro bono hours pledged by big law firms. As DOJ faces an exodus of talent and lawyers, he's going to force these firms to argue on behalf of the US in favor of horrifying fascist policies as part of their pro bono requirements.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

I cannot express the new levels of bad this is. Nor can I discuss practical solutions to any of the problems were all facing. Again, we are being kettled financially, digitally, socially, even down to biologically thanks to Brain Worm Man and tarrifs on top of an ongoing greedflation crisis.

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NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place. @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

Big Law has failed to stand up to Trump and now infosec is following suit.

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Meta whistleblower told US Senators on Wed. that Facebook undermined Nat. security to build a $18B business in China. Former global director at Facebook watched as execs provided the China Comm. Party‬ with access to the data of Meta users, including that of Americans. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

Every state should do this, this is fantastic!!

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The base commander will likely be fired for it, but it highlights the tension between our military's appreciation of our reliance on allies and the Trump administration's squandering on the goodwill our military generates. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

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"If you don't stand up and fight now, if you don't take a position now, it's going to be too late," Eric Holder tells Rachel Maddow. "The time is now to stand up and do all that we can to fight this administration."

submitted 7 days ago • 202 comments

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

submitted 7 days ago • 257 comments

Eric Schmidt just said this in a congressional hearing! He ultimately sees 99% of total power generation in the US going to data centers for AI. 99%! Any way you cut, this is a patently insane and insanely destructive notion.

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 194 comments

The only way forward, that I can see, requires both courage and collective action. If we’re not going to fight for our students and our scholarship, then what the hell are we doing anyway?

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Exclusive: Trump administration officials have told some US government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency’s communications for hostility to President Donald Trump and his agenda reut.rs/4i5ORZq

submitted 10 days ago • 99 comments

In Florida, a trans college student faces a misdemeanor trespassing charge punishable by up to 60 days in jail for using the restroom It is the first known instance of a trans person being charged with potential jail time under a bathroom ban law Justice for Marcy Rheintgen

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the U.S. military representative to the NATO Military Committee, has been fired.

submitted 10 days ago • 41 comments

Open-source researchers: whether you’re actively searching for evidence re: conflict-related sexual violence or not, you may find it. We've just launched the pilot Open-Source Practitioner’s Guide to the Murad Code w/ IICI to help www.muradcode.com/open-source-... @berkeleylaw.bsky.social

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If the DOJ is going to punish its attorneys for being candid with the courts, it stands to reason that courts can no longer assume DOJ attorneys will fulfill their duty of candor.

submitted 12 days ago • 175 comments

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

submitted 11 days ago • 407 comments

LTO-9 tapes are 18TB, cost under $100 each, and last for 30+ years making them the most efficient cold storage solution on the market, which every competent IT professional knows, but no im sure you can just dump all of that essential data in some shitty budget cloud storage service lmao

submitted 11 days ago • 153 comments

Top officials at the Department of the Interior were placed on leave late last month after declining to immediately give affiliates of DOGE access to a payroll system that would in theory allow them to stop individual Supreme Court justices’ paychecks.

submitted 12 days ago • 26 comments

“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question. The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.

submitted 13 days ago • 238 comments

It’s very weird to me that in all the (genuinely comical) hermeneutic reading of Trump’s decision to annihilate the global trade system, no one actually quotes one of the major reasons he himself cites for it:

submitted 12 days ago • 128 comments

All obvious heinous things aside, this is a reminder that—despite lies from republicans—undocumented people pay taxes. and now their contributions are being used against them.

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SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED.

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“There is no God but God, Muhammad is his messenger,” the paramedic is heard saying. He asks God for forgiveness and says he knows he is going to die. “Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people,” he said. “Allahu akbar,” God is great, he says. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

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