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*Brian Krebs found that one of the code libraries the whistleblower said a DOGE person downloaded from GitHub that none of the NLRB IT people or contractors used matched one that Marko Elez had on his own Github. Elez was at Labor in early March. infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/...

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We’ve talked about this before, but we wanted to expand on it a little more. Late last week, Elon Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) effectively took control of the Department of the Interior without a single Senate confirmation, public hearing, or vote.

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My latest for @liberalcurrents.com We need to stop listening to commentators who spent a decade being arrogantly wrong about the fascist threat www.liberalcurrents.com/trump-alarmi...

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Your garden variety #resist liberal has always been right about Trump and we should listen to them more than the professional commentators who have found these libs so annoying. Another group consistently on target: Black feminists.

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De Adder gets it right!

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I'm going to keep saying this until I'm blue in the face: I don't have to agree with Mahmoud Khalil on his politics (I don't) to say that these actions bear the hallmarks of authoritarian crackdowns on marginalized groups. Jewish-Americans know this history well. They used to come for us.

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Purported ICE agents raid a courthouse in Charlottesville in plain clothes without badges, ID or warrants, cart off two men without explanation. One of the three men was masked and the detainees were ushered into unmarked van. Video in the article. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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Trump signed multiple executive orders today targeting environmental protections. One order removes safeguards for a vast marine sanctuary in the south-central Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument had

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lord give me the confidence to sell a company for a billion dollars, basically disappear for 7 years, and then reappear in court to basically shit on my acquirer www.theverge.com/policy/65406...

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CEO: I think I did a harassment GC: You what CEO: Like one of those harassment sex things you do the really long power points about GC: Okay. Okay. Let’s talk about it CEO: But I think it’s okay GC: I have to ask you why you think that CEO: I did it against an AI GC: you the what CEO: the hot AI

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I can't remember whether I've already shared this: it's an important overview of the critical regulations 47's admin plans to stop. They will impact > 400 federal agencies that regulate almost every aspect of American life, from flying in airplanes to processing poultry, Gift link.

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🚨BREAKING: In a BIG win for North Carolina voters, the 4th Circuit has blocked North Carolina from beginning the state court ordered cure process in the contested state Supreme Court election. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/edDvHvq3cxM

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Project 2025 was the roadmap for DOGE and the destruction of a non-partisan civil service. Conservative insiders are bragging that enacting DOGE NORTH would be even easier in Canada. Trashing the public service is key for the fascist playbook. Please read my latest. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"

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Me: someday my research will be mentioned in the opening paragraph of a New York Times article! Also me: hmmm should have been more specific. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

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www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re...

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All this winning is getting out of hand.

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SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me. This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

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🚨The eugenicist is making a list of autistic people🚨 RFK Jr is using data from insurers, pharmacies, labs, health devices to create a list of autistic Americans I unequivocally condemn this illegal action which will endanger the lives of autistic Americans. www.patreon.com/posts/127245...

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The spread of measles in the Southwest now constitutes the largest single outbreak since the U.S. declared the disease eliminated in 2000, federal scientists told state officials in a meeting on Monday.

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@chrislhayes.bsky.social: "The United States government quite literally disappeared these people. It won't say where they are. We don't know. Their families do not know where they are. And they have essentially no recourse in U.S. courts because there are no records of their whereabouts."

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With A-one? As in the steak sauce? Or does she mean AI as in artificial intelligence. Artificial or not, you can be guaranteed that whomever he chooses to lead Dept of Ed will be bereft of intelligence. The Trump White House is always the House of Imbeciles.

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👇🏽🎯

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WSJ: No confidence. Worst April since the Great Depression. www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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They’re going to put the right-wing right back in power at this rate and devastate public services and goods. What a waste of opportunity.

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Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia this morning. A residential building again. By preliminary information, there are injured people.

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"Now, the employees’ only avenue to challenge their firings may be one of several class-action lawsuits before the Merit Systems Protection Board. [...] But Mr. Trump also fired the head of the merit systems board, leaving it without a quorum and unable to issue decisions."

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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It’s so easy to vote where I live! 🇨🇦🍁🗳️ Took me maybe six minutes.

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It turns out a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and financial fraudster does not make for a good President.

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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

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We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all. documentedny.com/2025/04/14/i...

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"Without NOAA research, National Weather Service (NWS) weather models and products will stagnate, observational data collection will be reduced, public outreach will decrease, undergraduate and graduate student support will drop, and NOAA funding for universities will plummet."

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ICE is paying $73 million to an outsourcing firm whose executives are accused of a plot to fabricate criminal evidence against a coworker when they worked at ICE theintercept.com/2025/04/17/i...

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SCOOP: Internal Palantir Slack messages obtained by @josephcox.bsky.social show the company did a recent sprint to build a tool that helps ICE find the physical locations of people who have been marked for deportation. www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

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New from 404 Media: we've obtained a leak from inside Palantir describing Palantir's plan to help ICE find people to deport. Includes peoples' location. Palantir is expecting a backlash, preparing comments for employees to tell their family. Says ICE "mature partner" www.404media.co/leaked-palan...

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“The journalists who stay silent [on Gaza] should never be forgiven.” @owenjones.bsky.social and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social discuss Starmer, Trump, and the genocide in Gaza in a special ‘Two Outspoken’ episode, recorded in front of a live audience to mark Zeteo’s first anniversary.

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"Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon are no longer the only war corporations in town; Google and big tech are increasingly eating their lunch... One thing is clear: we urgently need an AI arms embargo." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

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