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pep503 defines the "simple" API based on pypi having "/simple" in the url, and requires a base url, but doesn't require the base url to be "/simple" but "/simple" is such a common base url that Google's python registry hardcover it which won't work on devpi, which chose "/+simple" life is pain

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Erik Prince and other merchants of death are pitching a privatized mass deportation scheme in which the US would own and lease back part of the El Salvador concentration camp in order to bypass extradition laws and torture bans: www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The oil industry is starting to admit they lied about being able to make money at low oil prices. However, even in the new "honest" estimates for breakeven prices you will see there is no money allocated to "asset retirement obligations" That is because they don't plan to clean up.

current best model of the US economy

bloomberg: ~90% of deported migrants to el salvador had no criminal record

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.

“Trump is illegally disappearing people. He is proposing abducting Americans. He must be removed from power. He no longer has authority.” And honestly that’s the weak version of what Democrats should be saying.

There was a moral imperative to close Guantanamo bay and when it didn’t happen it paved the way for this

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in 1990 the EFF was founded in part due to an unprecedented Secret Service raid on Steve Jackson Games over the publishing of GURPS Cyberpunk, which almost destroyed the company in 2025, EFF releases a branded dice set that doesn't have enough d6s to play GURPS

I'm a lawyer and this is correct. Straight line of "blatantly illegal constitutional end-runs to violate human rights" from Iran–Contra to Gitmo to CECOT paved by the only consequences the perpetrators suffering being more money, more power, and more prestige.

ill be honest I don't think I'll be watching this, for the same reasons I passed on civil war maybe once it's all over.

"the state can just summarily imprison someone without filing charges or holding a trial" doesn't just overturn democracy it overturns 1000 years of common law, like throwing out the entire legal system entirely and saying all people in America are the state's property.

🚨A sweeping crackdown on posts on Instagram and Facebook that are critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians—was directly orchestrated by the government of Israel, according to internal Meta data obtained by @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-dat...

found this statue at an antique store in New England. seems pretty old? but it called to me...

What we saw today was two jumped up thugs and their bootlicking sychophants laughing at the US Constitution, the supreme court, and the idea that anyone can stop them from doing anything they want www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

'to every Googler relieved to hear Thomas Kurian promise in 2020 that "Cloud isn't working on any projects associated w/ ICE at the Southern border"- Google Cloud is providing AI on those exact projects' -Anonymous Google Worker @notechforapartheid.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Harvard is older than the United States and at this rate has a decent shot of outliving it too

I will quit my job and work for any candidate who promises to put the leadership of this administration in the same overseas gulag they've been shipping people to

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

Despite a court order, the White House today barred the Associated Press from Trump's press conference about incarcerating Americans in El Salvador. apnews.com/article/trum...

💥 Whopper scoop from @andybounds.bsky.social: Brussels is issuing burner phones & basic laptops to commissioners & senior officials travelling to the US for IMF/World Bank spring meetings next week to avoid risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for China. www.ft.com/content/20d0...

I want them all unmasked. I want Noem, Homan, and Miller to someday be tried for their crimes against humanity. Ditto for the ICE agents and other officers who abuse innocent tourists, college students, and refugees When all this is over, I want justice. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

"mindfully designated for the women+ community" you would not believe what product this copy is on

bitch no the fuck it wouldn't!!!

was telling my chronically offline partner that reacher is a show about a large man solving problems googled it and the actor is shorter than me

my verdict on Mickey 17 is it needed less money and a shorter runtime