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This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments

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The Trump administration has canceled a Biden-era agreement requiring the state of Alabama to clean up raw sewage in poor, Black, rural communities where filthy toilet water has been flowing directly into the yards of homes where children play.

submitted 11 hours ago • 38 comments

Trump authorizes military border deployment. Memorandum grants troops authority on federal land for border security, excluding Native American reservations. 45-day review planned. #Immigration #News

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Holy shit “Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”

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It looks like someone has hacked a crosswalk button in Palo Alto to deliver at least two different messages in the voice of Elon Musk. (They are not complimentary)

submitted 10 hours ago • 40 comments

Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

submitted 8 hours ago • 62 comments

(The Hill) – The measles outbreak has now surpassed 700 reported cases in the U.S., raising the pressure on Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to rein in the deadly vir…

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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 13 hours ago • 78 comments

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 13 hours ago • 130 comments

CDC unable to respond to lead crisis due to funding cuts.

submitted 22 hours ago • 222 comments

The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

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Children Seeking Cholera Care Die After U.S. Cuts Aid, Charity Says www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/w...

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Hi! Kevin Guthrie is once again using Florida’s emergency management system to implement a fascist agenda. It would be good if people in our field recognized him as a piece of shit and exiled him instead of saying it would be fine if he became FEMA administrator! floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/11/e...

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

BREAKING: Trump administation attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and secure but is under the "sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 16 hours ago • 514 comments

Heparin is cheap and essential to millions of hospitalized people. Tariffs could disrupt the supply chain that gets ingredients from China to their beds.

submitted 19 hours ago • 130 comments

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

submitted 20 hours ago • 220 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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US and Iranian delegations are set to engage in showdown talks in Oman later today as part of Washington and Israel’s joint efforts to halt Tehran’s fast-advancing nuclear programme. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️ aje.io/exbl5d

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Tarso Genro: “A tarefa agora é como derrotar Trump e sua estratégia neocolonial”

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“Because of my family’s commitment to these issues, I spent 200 hours at Wassaic home for the r----ded when I was in high school,” www.thedailybeast.com/staffers-wal...

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It's not just measles. Cases of whooping cough have skyrocketed more than 1,500% since 2021, as vaccination rates have dipped. In the past 6 months, two babies in Louisiana have died. Such critical reporting @deldeib.bsky.social + @sheinvestigates.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

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I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

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A US military officer making an obvious statement of fact - that Denmark is a good ally - is now a fireable offence. Wrongthink will not be tolerated. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The agency forecasts weather, manages fisheries, and researches the world's oceans, atmosphere, and climate. The proposed budget cuts would slash the climate work entirely.

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This is a difficult time in financial markets but the real victims are the countless numbers of faceless small and mid-sized businesses who import from China and are getting vaporized overnight, and the White House would never take their calls.

submitted 1 day ago • 301 comments

JUST IN: President Trump is authorizing the military to occupy and take jurisdiction over public land along the southern border.

submitted 1 day ago • 270 comments

The President and his umbrella attempt to board Air Force One

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Americans thinking they have won over China really shows how little Americans know about China. Fox News might feed the propaganda. But the reality for America is dire to say the least. If this really escalates. China will play hardball. China will do two things

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I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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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?

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“Skin substitutes” are often made out of dehydrated placentas. There is some evidence they can help heal sores, like on the feet of diabetic patients. Medicare reimbursement for skin substitutes has soared, from $1.6 billion in 2022 to $10 billion in 2024. And now they’re a major source of waste.

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

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I would say more broadly that as policy you really shouldn’t allow government officials to accuse people of terrorism anonymously.

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