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If you have the means, stock up on what you can. Think Covid 2020. If you have the added means, find the local charity of your choice and see what staples they routinely need for ops. Help em out. This could get rough. Even if Trump reverses it all today, the supply line bubble has already formed.

The United States of America is child trafficking.

They’re arresting judges now

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Seriously, why is RFK Jr worried about dyes in food when his department is cutting safety standards for milk and chicken?

President Trump is reportedly hosting a dinner for the top holders of the $TRUMP memecoin he profits from, including a private reception and White House tour. This is one of the most blatant and appalling instances of selling access to the presidency we've ever seen.

Any measure to “persuade” young women to get married and get pregnant that isn’t “because it makes them happy” is a measure to coerce, entrap, and control. It’s rape culture, and it’s dehumanizing as fuck.

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

To put a finer point on it. Trump’s contention isn’t just that he can deport people without them appearing before a judge, but that he can render them into a life sentence in a foreign dungeon with no process whatsoever.

1. Jose Hermosillo is US citizen who was wrongly jailed in an immigration detention facility for 10 days The administration says he "turned himself in" to the Border Patrol and told them he was a Mexican who crossed the border illegally. I interviewed Hermosillo. He says the government is lying.

"Some officials say U.S. citizens who criticize administration policies could be charged with crimes" I always wondered how mainstream journalism would cover an impending dictatorship here. Now we know.

this is absolutely atrocious It's hard to convey the scope of this study if you're outside of the field. The thing to understand is it's not just *one* study -- the data from WHI has been used over and over for so many different questions. It's made an enormous difference in women's health.

As part of their plan to GUT the science mission at NASA, Trump and Musk want to cancel the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope — a critical project that is on time, under budget, and nearly finished. They want to flush those taxpayer dollars down the drain. How is THAT efficient?

Good morning ppl! I am super fired up and pissed today. Before I get to my damn rant, yesterday the VA launched a snitch line. [email protected] Spam the fuck out of this…

love to get letters from the government asking if i’m jewish

Whatever version of the tabletop industry survives tariffs will necessarily be cautious, safe, and streamlined. We are going to lose (are actively losing) the independent ventures, the experiements, the weird project, and the niches.

Stop rejoicing at "cut the tariffs in half." 145% / 2 is still 72.5%. That still kills US-China trade. Biden left Trump an amazing economic situation that DJT has kicked and slashed and burned while gutting American state capacity, rule of law, and trust. All of the sanewashing needs to stop.

Guys, I have bad news: Lowering tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 65% still destroys the economy. It appears totally lost on people just *how* absurd 145% is. This is like saying we're no longer going to shoot you 15 times. Only 7 times. You are still dead, but please thank us.

“We shouldn’t talk about immigration, it’s his strongest issue.” NOT ANYMORE LOSERS. BECAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT IT

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

Fantastic.

My deepest sympathies to the members of the Catholic Church. The Pope was a transformational figure, and will be missed by many.

The plan to prove that the most incompetent White men are preferable to the most highly qualified Black men has been a smashing success. Between the tariff lunacy tanking the economy, the chain-sawing of the federal govt, & Signal-gate (parts 1 & 2), the supremacy is not looking very supreme.

We need to get back to a place where one’s political career would be ended by being a complete asshole to a member of the public. It’s unhinged of her to have proudly posted this.

FYI

Judge Wilkinson is writing to the Trump administration. And he’s writing to at least sound Justices. But he’s also writing to the general public an elegant and compelling defense of rule of law and procedural safeguards. 1/

hell yeah, Boise.

She's explicitly using Potter bux to fund her war on trans people. If you truly can not quit the wizarding world at the very least pirate it

Everyone go report this as inaccurate.

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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

DHS is threatening to revoke Harvard’s ability to host international students and the IRS is looking at revoking their tax exemption. The “stop the weaponization of government” crowd sure is quiet as fuck on this one.

RFK’s demon voice was engineered in a lab to trigger sound sensitivity so he’s really offensive to autistic people on basically every level.

Like frankly disproving RFK, Jr.'s bullshit statements about Autistic people feels like being forced to defend that Autistic people can do capitalism too and I don't really want to do that. I definitely contribute more of value to society than he does, though.

RFK Jr. wants to eradicate autistic people and also has no idea what an autistic person is

NEW: DOJ notifies Judge Xinis that it is appealing her revised order directing it to "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the Fourth Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

HERE WE GO: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt of court against the Trump administration. In a masterclass move, he asks the government whether they’ll purge the contempt (by complying) or identify the people in the administration who should be subject to sanctions.

When do we as a church start speaking up? How about now, when our own members and students are now being targeted? If now now, when?

As a Utahn, if your only news source is the LDS Church-owned paper Deseret News — which I fear is the case with Church leaders — you would have little clue that there's any controversy about the "criminals" Trump is "deporting." "Trump Wants to Export America's Criminals" is today's headline.