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Australia has reported that Russia wants to deploy warplanes in Indonesia's easternmost province, Papua. The Australian PM said he is awaiting clarification from Indonesia, which has denied the reports. If a successful deal is reached, Russia will have its first air base in the Pacific.

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"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

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Between October 2023 and September 2024, CDFW placed 28 beavers in the Sierra Nevada at five release sites within 2 pilot projects, which were launched in partnership with the Tule River Tribe in Southern California and the Maidu Summit Consortium in Northern California. yubanet.com/regional/cdf...

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I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

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Highly disturbing story about DOGE but this detail is particularly chilling www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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At the foot of Taylor Glacier, in Taylor Valley, Antarctica, is a "Blood Falls", an ominous and disturbing natural phenomenon. First observed by a 1911 expedition led by geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor (for whom the valley & glacier are named), it was originally thought to be red algae, but...

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“Virtually every day now we see government lawyers, acting on Ms. Bondi’s behalf, gaslighting and stonewalling federal judges from coast to coast. … “Brad Bondi isn’t the right person to lead the DC Bar at this time. Not now. Not at this extroardinarily perilous moment for our legal system.”

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“.. ‘This is their M.O.,’ Mr. Mahdawi’s lawyer, Luna Droubi, said. ‘They just continue to hide the individual to the point where their attorneys can’t quite understand or identify where to file.’” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

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This is a political time to wake up EVERYDAY prepared to Speak Truth to Power! AND DO NOT FORGET.....

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Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

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important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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Selma. The Trump administration pulled funding meant for Selma’s schools, along with $5 million in additional funding for a statewide reading program. www.al.com/educationlab...

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This Exhibition Spotlights the Black Artists Who Called France Home in the 20th Century

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Helping

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There's a reason ICE agents wear masks in the street. From Kristi Noem's war-crime propaganda to the airport officers harassing innocent tourists, the MAGA deportation regime is not just immoral but increasingly criminal Someday, there must be justice. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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I will never miss an opportunity to remind folks you can get Narcan for free at Chicago Public Libraries and you should absolutely have some.

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A set of colouring books and affirmation cards have been released in the Northwest Territories, aimed at supporting victims of gender-based violence and the residential school system.

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In Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, public outrage erupted after a local hospital director ordered the closure of the neurology department and laid off staff. In response, furious residents staged a protest — and threw the official who signed the order into a dumpster. #3E

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NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place. @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

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Excellent article. If people - all of us - don’t go along an authoritarian cannot succeed. “The key to challenging authoritarian regimes, Stephan said, is for citizens to decline to participate in immoral and illegal acts.”

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www.lincolnsquare.media/p/christo-fa... The Save Act also disenfranchises members of the US military.

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NEW: The White House’s Office of Management and Budget is asking for “proposals to rescind or replace regulations that stifle American businesses and American ingenuity” by May 12. “OMB invites comments about any and all regulations currently in effect,” the Federal Register notice says

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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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The 2025 Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive is just around the corner! On May 10, letter carriers nationwide will be out collecting your non-perishable food donations. Don’t miss this opportunity to support your local food banks—every donation helps. Together, we can #StampOutHunger!

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Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

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House Republicans just passed a sweeping anti-voting bill that historians are saying is the most anti-voting piece of legislation to come out of Congress in the nation's history. Paige and I explain. youtu.be/XS8aePRgFU4

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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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BREAKING: The country of Norway just entered a bill to give transgender Americans asylum in the country of Norway… LGBTQ+ STRONG! 🌈✨

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Ten #PostcardsToVoters to boost the Democratic vote in Florida in the name of doing something, anything, to right fascism. Looking for an easy way to fight back? Join us! postcardstovoters.org.

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I have to dig in more but just now seeing that MN gov has created a public dashboard for tracking federal funds that have been disrupted or fully canceled: mn.gov/mmb/budget/f...

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"In addition to the check delays, Mayes said her office has received complaints about other Social Security disruptions..." ktar.com/arizona-news...

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, a major voter suppression measure that, if it became law, could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters and badly undermine U.S. democracy. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Knox ICE playing ugly games www.knoxnews.com/story/news/l...

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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

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Just learned that my wife’s thesis advisor and my thesis advisor each had a book pulled from the Naval Academy Library last week. In their honor, please check out the list of books they banned, and go buy one of them! Lots of great titles to choose from! Pass it around.

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At this point everyone should have a lawyer on speed dial who can file a habeas petition with a few fill-in-the-blanks immediately in their local federal district court just in case. It’s that absurd.

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“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

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Marginalized biochemist🧪 Dr Maud Menten (MD Univ of Toronto & 1st woman; PhD Univ of Chicago) traveled to Berlin and worked with Dr Leonor Michaelis, developing the famous Michaelis-Menten equation describing enzyme kinetics. definingmomentscanada.ca/insulin100/s...

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"Capus said that Russian clients were now getting a red TV screen with a sign: 'We regret to inform you that US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) has decided to terminate the distribution of Current Time'..." www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

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Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

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