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This is SUCH an important point! Business/tourist visitors to the US are now pawns in a grift where they are punished, so our taxes can be funneled to Trump campaign donors, who operate private prisons (GEO Group, CoreCivic) who are big mad because Trump can't deport people as fast as Biden did.

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Kristi Noem billed South Dakota taxpayers more than $640,000 in personal travel-related costs, including a six-day trip to Paris, a bear hunt in Canada, a trip to Houston for dental work to fix her smile, and a book tour. But she can afford a $50,000 Rolex for a prison porn photo op in El Salvador.

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I derive joy from it.

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Le ministère français du Commerce extérieur dénonce des "ingérences américaines" après l'envoi d'une lettre de l'ambassade des Etats-Unis à Paris à plusieurs entreprises françaises, leur demandant si elles mettent en place des programmes internes de lutte contre les discriminations.

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The first randomized trial comparing fecal occult blood testing (every other year) testing and (one-time) colonoscopy. No significant difference in colon cancer mortality among >56,000 participants www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.bsky.social

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@catgyoung.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The top U.S. FDA vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigns, citing RFK Jr’s ‘misinformation and lies.’ www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/h... via @nytimes.com #vaccination #infodemic

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To win a war they cannot avoid, Chief Justice Roberts and his allies must rediscover their belief in a simple notion: The American president is not above the law.

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Le secrétaire à la Défense de Trump épinglé pour avoir amené sa femme à des réunions « sensibles »

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As the #measles outbreak continues to spread across the United States, doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: children getting sick from taking too much vitamin A due to dangerous misinformation from Secretary Kennedy. www.upi.com/Health_News/...

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#Measles in Canada: Where we're at and how we got here, w/ Dr. Ninh Tran, Dr. Lynora Saxinger www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... via @cbcnews.ca @casinoshiftmd.bsky.social #pediatrics #vaccination #disinformation

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“I wanted to do what’s best for Canada” -- World-renowned Canadian heart surgeon, Dr. Marc Ruel, turns down prestigious job in U.S. over political tension, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com @heartinstitute.bsky.social

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The HHS Friday evening DOGE www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

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Since the second world war, US economic prosperity and major technological developments have hinged upon the government’s commitment to funding scientific research. The Trump administration is ending that

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Breaking News: A federal judge called President Trump’s attempts to punish the law firm Jenner & Block “disturbing” as he temporarily blocked most of an executive order that targeted it, the latest courtroom defeat in Trump’s campaign of retaliation against law firms.

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Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has acquired his social media platform X, he announced in a post on X Friday. “xAI has acquired X in an all-stock transaction. The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt),” Musk said in the post. Read more here: tcrn.ch/4iP5aLA

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Via cette lettre, l’administration Trump met la pression sur des grandes entreprises françaises

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President Trump says he pardoned Trevor Milton, the CEO of now-defunct hydrogen and electric truck firm Nikola, in part because he believed Milton was persecuted for supporting Trump’s political ambitions. In October 2022, Milton was convicted on federal charges of securities fraud and wire fraud.

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‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters are planning a global day of action on March 29, and things might get ugly

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#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA JWST image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image... 🧪 🔭

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He truly is a terrifying little gremlin with no set principles whatsoever He can go from free-speech absolutist to 17th-century tyrant with the snap of a finger, and he can do that because he is a sociopath

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Harnessing antibodies found in patients with lupus, researchers test a new #cancer therapy that turns autoimmune responses against tumor cells in mice, suggesting similar approaches could be integrated into immunotherapy regimens. Learn more in #ScienceSignaling: scim.ag/3FXZQGX

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Le sport est le nouveau prétexte brandi par le gouvernement pour justifier une offensive législative contre les Françaises qui portent le foulard. Le ministre de l’intérieur en a fait son combat favori. L’extrême droite n’a plus qu’à sortir le popcorn. Par Samia DechirMarie Turcan

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“It’s work that’s not going to get done, it’s bills that aren’t going to get paid, it’s students that aren’t going to get trained.” scim.ag/4256P8v

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Senate Republicans have voted to overturn a $5 cap on bank overdraft fees, leaving working-class people vulnerable to exploitation from financial institutions.

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Our study ‘The #global #human impact on #biodiversity’ is out in @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🌍🌐🐟🌿🪲 Unprecedented synthesis of >2000 studies led by @francoiskeck.bsky.social shows humans are not only shrinking species numbers—but reshaping entire communities across the planet. 🧵1/5

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Programme d’aide alimentaire mondial : l’ONU annonce une chute de 40 % des financements pour 2025

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Siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei helped found Anthropic to build Claude, an AI model shaped by safety-first ideals. Born from disillusionment with OpenAI, Claude aims to set the global bar for responsible AGI. 🩺🖥️ #MLSky

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C8 ferme, Hanouna part sur M6, mais l’empire médiatique de Vincent Bolloré reste une menace pour la démocratie et l’information. Dans « À l’air libre », enquête sur le système Bolloré, un monde marqué par la violence économique, sociale, humaine et idéologique. Par À l’air libre

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🧪 The termination of COVID-19 research is a “real slap in the face of the many patients struggling with the long-term health effects of COVID infections”, says Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University https://go.nature.com/42213Ez

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NEW: Money is pouring into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election so fast that political observers now believe it is likely to reach $100 million by Tuesday, election day. Already, it has become the costliest judicial race in U.S. history. By @megomatz.bsky.social

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🧪 Trump’s new science agenda closely mirrors Project 2025: slashing climate research, ending diversity programs, gutting university funding, and firing scientists, while claiming it’s all for innovation.

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"some seemed to relish in his display of anger—one person said to Mamdani, 'I don’t know how you didn’t punch Homan in the face.' It seemed rare for a politician to express the outrage that so many felt around the Trump administration" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Four Tesla-owned dealerships reported that they sold an astonishing 8,653 cars during a single weekend in January — enough to qualify for 43 million Canadian dollars’ (about $30 million) worth of government subsidies. Now those numbers are under scrutiny by the Canadian government.

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📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted? Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky scienceimpacts.org

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A Tufts University student was taken by masked immigration authorities on Tuesday. If Rubio’s words are correct, there are possibly hundreds of visitors in the U.S. who have had their visas revoked for any political speech and activism, without any due process.

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Ukraine’s European allies say now is not the time for lifting sanctions on Russia, after Moscow said it would only agree to a US-brokered deal on ending fighting in the Black Sea if some sanctions were eased.

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Au procès Sarkozy-Kadhafi, le Parquet national financier réclame sept ans de prison contre l’ancien président et son « pacte de corruption faustien »

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