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The blowup between Musk and Trump is a perfect excuse to report on the list of 130 benefits Musk got with his access. www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/06/t...

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

I want to see food writers covering these stories. ICE is going after restaurant workers, dairy workers, farm workers, and others. These are the people behind your food and they are being targeted.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts. But there was a slight hitch. It hallucinated the size of those deals. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

submitted 12 hours ago • 84 comments

The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil anti-genocide protesters on and off campus. This is absolutely unconscionable and a complete betrayal of students by the university, not to mention a violation of their fundamental rights to academic freedom.

submitted 8 hours ago • 16 comments

🚨 NEW INVESTIGATION 🚨 “Soft targets” That’s how CFNL refers to institutions like library boards, because they are easy to takeover. And that’s what they’ve tried to do, and they’ve tried to do it quietly. So I’ve spent the last year investigating them. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/citi...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In handheld mode, the Switch 2 negotiated 15V@3A from both the official charger and a 45W battery pack I tested. It also worked with the Switch 1 charger in handheld mode, negotiating the [email protected] mode. The Switch 2 pulled about 20W average during a system transfer.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Howard Lutnick, our Secretary of Commerce, shows a disconnect from material reality that will make Americans die. A weather forecast cannot be "automated" or MADE AT ALL without data. And the budget he is defending here cuts the satellites and weather stations that provide that data. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

The Switch 2 charger appears to support exactly what it claims, standard USB-C Power Delivery 5V@3A, 9V@3A, 15V@3A, and 20V@3A PDOs. It also appears to support BC 1.2 DCP. No more weird [email protected] or [email protected] like the original charger.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

"Nothing / none" is the second most frequent response. We are not breaking through. If you care about health care (Medicaid,, Medicare, the ACA), if you care about SNAP, if you care about ordinary Americans, this ought to be very alarming.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 2 days ago • 142 comments

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

submitted 2 days ago • 804 comments

The wanton cascading destruction of American capacity

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

submitted 3 days ago • 529 comments

The fact that Fort Worth Texas has a back log of over 900 rape kits they 'don't have time' to test, but Texas Sheriffs did have the time to spend a month tracking a woman who MIGHT have been going out of state for an abortion tells you all you need to know about what Texas thinks about women..

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Trump's FEMA Director "had not been aware the country has a hurricane season." Jesus, say what you will about the fuckuppery of Mike Brown during Katrina, but I'm pretty sure even that man knew that hurricanes were a thing.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

That's kind of a weird question for you to ask, the LA Times, as you are the newspaper and I am just a guy, but it means he's fascist and I do hope this helps

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

there is really no way to interpret this other than as the ADL demanding that critics of Israel be subject to extradjudicial detention

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 4 days ago • 1185 comments

"If Crater Lake were fully staffed this summer, it would have eight park rangers, said a current park employee who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Instead, it has three...." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 4 days ago • 154 comments

The FBI is seeking to criminally investigate gender affirming care providers, even in blue states with shield law protections. www.thedissident.news/fbi-posts-om...

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

High school kid taken by ICE on his way to volleyball practice, because they were looking for his dad, who had the vicious criminal history of..... running a stop sign www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/02/m...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

if you represent or work for a hospital who gets investigated by the FBI, i want to talk to you. my signal is in my bio.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

Even though cataract surgery is generally safe and effective, cataract is still a leading cause of blindness worldwide. We need to understand the optical and materials properties of the eye lens to make better replacement lenses. This budget would eliminate that, including my lab's work.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The MAHA report appears to be almost identical to a 2023 document put out by “Children’s Health Defense,” the antivaxx front that RFK Jr. used to pay himself >$20K/wk for spreading disinformation. It appears AI was used to make the tone more official sounding & add citations, many of which are fake.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

this is the most sociopathic thing ive ever seen and i wrote a whole book about neonazis

submitted 6 days ago • 243 comments

Toxic to the rule of law, and yet another example of ICE/CBP deliberately not looking for all those supposed criminals, drug traffickers, terrorists, etc. They're going for literally the least dangerous, most law-abiding people they can find, the ones following every rule. The easiest targets.

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

Miller apparently hasn't watched any video from the raid. There were no violent acts by any members of the crowd. ICE launched a militarized invasion of a neighborhood, realized they had zero support from the neighbors, and started throwing grenades. Everything @seanelorivera.bsky.social is correct.

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝘂𝘅𝘂𝗿𝘆. It’s the engine of American innovation. This President wants to kill it. ❌ NIH: ⬇️$18B ❌ NASA: ⬇️$6.8B ❌ NSF: ⬇️$5B This isn’t fiscal discipline. It’s surrender—to disease, to ignorance, to rivals like China. We don’t build prosperity by firing scientists & killing missions.🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Increasingly clear that these ICE arrest operations are gearing up not because of the actual immigrants, who in all but a tiny handful of cases go along quietly, but because they’re getting so much pushback from onlookers. It’s a vicious cycle; the more they do this, the worst the pushback gets.

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 6 days ago • 76 comments

At least 17 times this year, the Dallas Police Department has run license plate searches on behalf of ICE. The city's police oversight board is already preparing a letter to the chief about its relationship with ICE and I'm inclined to include this. Unless forced, DPD should not be assisting ICE.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 6 days ago • 1126 comments

SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX) spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

submitted 6 days ago • 138 comments

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

submitted 7 days ago • 141 comments

Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion. The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains. Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone. www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

Breaking from @science.org: The Trump administration wants to kill off a host of active and healthy NASA climate and planetary spacecraft. It would be a "leaner, more focused" agency, they say -- and one far less capable of studying the Earth and exploring space.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

This is one of the world’s largest and most sophisticated physics experiments, it’s won the noble prize, and it literally does not work without both sites. Like it can’t function.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

since people give the nyt so much crap for milquetoast headlines, someone should acknowledge that this one is pretty 💅 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments