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Just of four of today's headlines. Make no mistake: This is not, at its core, about illegal immigration or border enforcement. This is the federal government conducting a deliberate and nationwide campaign of white supremacist terror.

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The Trump administration is facing a legal challenge over removing EPA's EJscreen, FEMA's Future Risk Index + other tools for mapping environmental risks facing the American public from federal websites. Story @bloomberg.com (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Online NOAA climate data hubs serving 27 states — from Colorado and the Dakotas to Louisiana and Texas — have gone dark after a lapse in funding. The cause: expired contracts. This is becoming a pattern at NOAA 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

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Hey, Justice Roberts, is this what you meant by "“facilitate and effectuate the return" of Mr. Abrego Garcia? Because I'm not a lawyer, but it sure as hell looks like contempt of court to me.

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Trump continues to attack public education and union rights because they know an educated, organized labor workforce is the greatest threat to an authoritarian. Our solidarity is the strongest weapon we have. www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/h...

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🚨NEWS: Trump’s move to shut down the IRS’s popular free tax filing system followed TurboTax delivering $1 million to his inauguration. TurboTax’s corporate documents say the program threatens their profits. Details: www.levernews.com/defunding-th...

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Kelly: So it would be local newsrooms that would be going away. And often in places where local newspapers have already been decimated. Maher: That's exactly right. www.wesa.fm/2025-04-16/n...

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Columbia University's Philosophy Department, where Mohsen Mahdawi is a student, has issued a statement. philosophy.columbia.edu

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The largest federation of unions in the U.S. has put together a pro bono legal network that aims to help federal employees whose jobs have been lost or threatened under the Trump administration.

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The Trump administration's "blizzard of anti-worker initiatives... could be only the tip of the iceberg" Now a coalition of hundreds of employers is asking the administration to override the NLRB + dictate labor law. Scary stuff from @epi.org + @tcfdotorg.bsky.social www.epi.org/blog/a-coali...

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🚨BREAKING: Trump's IRS nominee Billy Long just had his personal debt paid off by donors whose firms have business before the tax agency he’d lead, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. If confirmed, Long would be able to do favors for the donors. www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 111 comments

Please read this whole thread (and better, follow @colincarlson.bsky.social & @alexandraphelan.bsky.social if you aren’t already)

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EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

submitted 7 days ago • 306 comments

Alt text:Cian Westmoreland @CianMW saying if you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the GI Rights Hotline. There is support, you don't have to go through with it. Tel: 1-877-447-4487

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President Trump may soon try to invoke the “Insurrection Act” to trigger the ability to use the military for domestic law enforcement. Today’s “One First” offers an overview of the statute; how it’s been used; and what might happen if Trump tries to use it now: www.stevevladeck.com/p/142-five-q...

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Follow this one closely. If Mr. Mahdawi is not granted due process, none of us can count on it.

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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...

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SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

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In case you haven't been paying attention for the past two decades and some, Erik Prince is a threat to liberal democracy and human rights on a global scale.

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

There is no appeasement. You sell out your students and your academic freedom and you still get beaten.

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Amidst every other ongoing horror, one atrocity stands out. Here, a very strong piece from Dean of the UC Berkeley Law School Erwin Chemerinsky and emeritus Harvard constitutional law professor Lawrence Tribe.

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if only someone at columbia had been a nerd in middle school they would have seen this coming

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It's not about immigration. It's not about gang activity. It's about the Trump administration seeking the absolute power to send anyone they see fit — citizens included – without due process on one way trips to overseas concentration camps from which no one ever returns.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

"You see," the president explained, "these tariffs can be permanent OR they can be bargaining chips. In a way they are both, at least until observation collapses the wave form of quantum probabilities. Is that too complicated? Okay, imagine that we export some cats in a shipping container ..."

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Universities that advertised their commitment to diversity in glossy brochures & fundraising campaigns now face a reckoning: was it real or just marketing? The admin bets they’ll stay silent to keep their funding. But the cost of inaction will be far greater. greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...

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The latest issue of @lizneeley.bsky.social’s essential weekly newsletter on the continuing attacks on science & higher-ed, and living through these times: buttondown.com/liminalcreat...

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Abundance™ aims to kill the antitrust movement & deter Dems from challenging oligarchy. It wrongly pretends corporate power isnt the creator of scarcity. Its political theory was tried in 2024 & was defeated by Trump. Co-published with Rolling Stone 👇 www.levernews.com/abundance-is...

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Trump's version of racism/xenophobia is seen in his immigration/deportation/detention policies. Liberals' version of racism/xenophobia is seen in their belief that it's actually good for the U.S. economy to be based on exploiting sweatshop labor when the labor is poors in faraway countries.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Your most personal data is about to be at Elon’s fingertips

submitted 16 days ago • 44 comments

Even without ICE's horrible abuses, a pattern of arbitrarily revoking student visas makes the US no longer a viable schooling option for international students. Bringing them to the US has been one of our strongest sources of soft power. Everything this fucking guy does benefits Putin.

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Hey there, @engber.bsky.social, for your Atlantic article, "The Evermaskers," I wish that you would have spent a bit more time on the multitude of harms caused by COVID. Like this @sciam.bsky.social article re: brain damage and IQ loss from each infection: www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

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THIS IS INSANE: Hospital chains are buying up billions of dollars of real estate, milking them for income while using charity status to avoid taxes that fund schools & emergency departments. Some are using taxpayer-subsidized fortunes to buy elections.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

This is a VERY important thread. Please read it, discuss it, and share it as much as you can. #TrumpsTariffs

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

An important read on how positive actions in communities to keep children safe, improve housing etc can galvanise climate action. theconversation.com/five-ways-to...

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“When you cut funding to the very people who ensure our [protective equipment] is effective and reliable, you’re telling the American people their safety doesn’t matter. You’re telling workers their lives are expendable." www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

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Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

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1. Another Friday afternoon massacre of sorts: NIH just rescinded its Scientific Integrity Policy. h/t @lizborkowski.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 38 comments

Extraordinary story that illustrates the depth of RFK Jr.'s perfidy in assuring congress he is an antivaxxer no longer. Peter Marks headed perhaps the outstanding success of the first Trump administration—Operation Warp Speed—developing a highly successful COVID vaccine in record time.

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State Dept gave Congress its full list of 5,300+ USAID program terminations. The sweeping cuts for health alone - from global childhood vaccines to surveillance for deadly diseases to malaria work - entail massive loss of life & national security risk. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

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🚨NEW: The inside story of how Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg just got Democratic lawmakers to legally protect CEOs from workers and shareholders trying to hold them accountable for corporate fraud. www.levernews.com/this-state-i...

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I spoke with FTC commissioner @bedoyaftc.bsky.social the night Trump tried to fire him amid his investigation into Trump’s corporate boosters. He made a key point: this power grab aims to create & normalize a more intense form of corruption. Our discussion here👇

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

This is huge economy-shaping news that gives more power to every giant corporation on the planet.

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