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To support international students whose visas have been revoked, UConn has…created a page of web links …mostly to CT legal aid orgs. UConn has its own law school & charges $44,784/yr for out-of-state grad tuition+fees. And they’re sending students to CTLawHelp.org #nutmegsky

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Happy Passover, Happy Easter and Happy Eid Mubarak to everyone. May your holiday be free of sand.

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Don't overlook this: Trump is leaving Abrego Garcia to rot in a foreign gulag even though the admin can always bring him back and retry him for deportation in a lawful way. That they won't do this shows their case against him is nonsense. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1939...

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Plus: The Department of Homeland Security begins surveilling immigrants' social media, President Donald Trump targets former CISA director who refuted his claims of 2020 election fraud, and more. www.wired.com/story/china-...

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Morning prayer time.

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There's probably a tighter historical analogy. But if you're still wondering how the Holocaust happened, remember that Trump just asked for $45 billion to build camps, and we can still stop that from happening.

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I hate to say this, and it gives me the chills just to think it, but CECOT is on (and not a short way down) the road to Auschwitz.

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“The damage has been done,” said George Saravelos, the head of foreign exchange research at Deutsche Bank. “The market is reassessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world’s global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarisation.”

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NEW: Of the 7,837 disputed procedures in the lawsuit, involving 1,680 patients, Blue Cross paid this breast cancer center about 9 cents on the dollar, paying $43M on invoices totaling $500M. Some 60% of the claims weren’t reimbursed at all.

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Here, have a fierce looking thirteenth century unicorn San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna

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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

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"You may want to share some of these stories with the normies in your life to underscore the damage being done to the US's reputation, and to prompt them to think about what the US might be doing to people from less “acceptable” countries." balloon-juice.com/2025/04/12/w...

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Trump wants to take over Greenland. Is this sh*t legal? I asked @repstaceyplaskett.bsky.social

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If you want to win a trade war, you gotta have something to trade that other side wants. And we're in a trade war with the very people who make all the things WE want. You're not going to win that.

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Is self-awareness going out of style?

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This is wild! Federal scientists responsible for monitoring the health of West Coast fisheries are cleaning office bathrooms and reconsidering critical experiments after the Department of Commerce failed to renew their lab’s contracts. @lisalsong.bsky.social

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Hey! It's bad! arstechnica.com/space/2025/0... 2/3 cut in astrophysics 2/3 cut in heliophysics 50% cut in Earth science 30% cut in planetary science This is just such an incredible self-own, what are we doing?

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🧵 time!!!! This will be long so strap in!!! The TL;DR version is simple: if you are a naturalized citizen, you need to check your status at SSA immediately and if you aren’t listed as a citizen, you need to correct that. Immediately. Ok so here’s the news article we are discussing. Let’s go. 1/?

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Trump is engaging in a massive purge of public servants, so why does he want firms to offer them pro bono help? It will legal aid for Trump appointees for when the break the law (also, the firms are told to hire Trump admin alum). They are turning these law firms into Trump law firms.

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The Trump administration defied a court order on Friday, telling a judge in writing and verbally that it could not provide information about a man that it admitted it wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

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NEW: while researching another story I stumbled across a group of AI slop farms on YouTube, churning out heartwarming fake stories about people in the Trump universe. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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If this recent report is accurate, the Trump administration isn’t just dismantling PFAS regulations at the federal level. It’s trying to prevent states from limiting PFAS too.

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This organization does amazing work to educate about and combat hepatitis around the world. Please give them a follow, they're underrated.

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There isn't a group of professional in the world with less self-respect that the members of the White House Correspondents' Association.

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"There are no business hours in this Court." Righteous

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I think @joshtpm.bsky.social has written the best account of why universities have to stand up to Trump. If you've been given great privilege, the implicit bargain is that when the chips are down you'll behave with honor and courage talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/power...

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Just a reminder that Judge Xinis's original order requiring the government to bring Abrego Garcia back to the United States was in effect for more than 72 hours before it was administratively stayed by Chief Justice Roberts on Monday. What did the Justice Department ... do ... during that time?

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Bring him the fuck back.

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NEW: The Board of Immigration Appeals has been formally reduced from 28 members to 15 members, an action which "coincidentally" purges every single Board member appointed during the Biden administration. This comes as the BIA faces record backlogs — which will now get much worse.

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Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. The rise of what one prof calls "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...

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Ohhhhh my god oh my god oh my god

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Both Elon Musk and Christian nationalists call empathy "toxic," "suicidal," and even "satanic." But what they're really worried about is that empathy is feminine. And in MAGA, a woman is the worst thing a person can be. An analysis. www.salon.com/2025/04/11/m...

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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

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What do baby planets 🪐 have in common with supermassive black holes? 💥 There’s this weird thing in astronomy where, across mind-boggling differences of scale, you keep finding jets of radiation shooting out of the poles of things. I wrote about why that happens for @sciencefocus.bsky.social 🧪🔭

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Tariffs? Out of control. Prices? Skyrocketing. Emergency powers? He’s abusing them. And yet… not a single question about whether he’s even fit to serve. The math ain’t mathing.

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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates. Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.

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Take a deep breath and look at these otters relaxing. You probably need it.

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