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PAYING THE GOVERNMENT OF EL SALVADOR TO KEEP HIM AT CECOT

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The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

"In interviews, five Venezuelan experts on Tren de Aragua — two police officials, two scholars and a journalist — told The Times that while some transnational gangs use tattoos as indicators of membership, the Venezuelan group did not."

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Thinking that maybe my unborn grandchildren will have days in school where "Trump survivors" come speak to class to warn them about evil, show their scars from the Salvadoran gulag, and teach them about "never again," again

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, in fact, a criminal

submitted 2 days ago • 721 comments

I think the Ozturk case suggests that 1) yes, Canary is being used to ID students for deportation 2) someone in State is OVERRIDING evidentiary analyses (like the one WaPo reports that said there was no evidence against Ozturk) to sustain Canary "conclusions."

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Elon can't find examples of Federal government waste, so he just makes up numbers

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The entire National Weather Service has a budget of around $1.5 billion, and the work the agency does saves the country tens of billions of dollars. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Also, E. coli, salmonella, Listeria, Campylobacter, Vibrio, Legionella, and a bunch of other pathogens our formerly world-class public health and food safety organizations worked to prevents, monitor, and contain.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The Phillies have 9 starts of 5+ innings and 2 or fewer runs (plus 4.2 scoreless once from Walker), most in the NL

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Franzke said the man on third doesn't look runnerish. I always think of runnerish as a Whiteyism. But maybe not - no overlap between Scott and Whitey

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Alright the squidmobile is loaded up with compost and mulch. Who’s ready to help us prep the “rose garden”pollinator garden tomorrow 👀 Meet us at Frankford and Belgrade at 10am. We know the weather might suck! The plants won’t mind.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

submitted 5 days ago • 122 comments

This is fantastic news. cc @unlawfulentries.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Federal spending is up under Trump according to the Wall Street Journal. Chaos is not actually the same as cost savings. Actual budgeting is a kind of actual policy-making and takes real work spread over real time. Running around breaking stuff isn't that. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 135 comments

The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

submitted 6 days ago • 484 comments

Time to throw up a bat signal for a specific skillset for @skypeascientist.bsky.social We have a classroom that is looking for a scientist who can do a session with them in ASL. Do we know any scientists who would be willing to do a Q&A with a deaf classroom in ASL?

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

submitted 20 days ago • 481 comments

BREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act today. If this bill becomes law, millions of American citizens could be blocked from voting. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

Happy Birthday, Chris Wheeler! (At least according to a typo on the first page of his autobiography)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Surrender Day! The Union forever! Hurrah boys, hurrah! Down with the traitor! Up with the star!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Back with the totals and a recap…

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

On top of the blatant privacy law violations, this is another indication that the deficit—the supposed reason for all the draconian cuts—is going to explode because the agency charged with tax enforcement is in shambles and led by incompetents on partisan missions.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

IMPORTANT: Sotomayor, in the dissent, emphasizes that all 9 justices believe that the Trump administration cannot do what it wants to do: shove people onto a plane with NO due process. They openly told the DC Circuit they were going to do that if they won. On that issue, they lost.

submitted 9 days ago • 113 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 9 days ago • 531 comments

Here's the Philly events rundown for the rest of April! This Friday: All Shell Breaks Loose! Ocean-themed burlesque (I'm vending!) April 15: I need help packing up native seed packets! HELP! April 18: Drink and Draw 😎 April 26: Bioblitz at the Woodlands Get RSVP links & details in this thread 👀

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

"It isn’t just traveling to work to sit on Zoom calls—it’s that there may be no place to take the call, or no working internet to connect to it." Months after Trump's return to office order, dozens of federal employees tell WIRED that their offices are in chaos. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

The Health Secretary is promoting quack doctors in the midst of a measles outbreak and literally nothing was more predictable.

submitted 9 days ago • 189 comments

It will be 5 years in July since we lost my father to pancreatic cancer that spread so fast the oncologist was shocked. Every report of cancer research being cut is like another gut punch of grief even all these years later.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Good day to remember that DOGE has already lost the US government at least half a trillion dollars this year alone. And likely more.

submitted 10 days ago • 383 comments

i am fascinated by the outright refusal of people in the professional political commentary class to just consider the possibility that there is no plan and that trump really is a braying idiot with the more acute case of narcissistic personality disorder on record

submitted 10 days ago • 721 comments

What is taught to senior military leaders at our nation’s War Colleges is that a nation’s power emanates from four areas: -Strength of diplomacy -Strength of economy -Strength of its military -Strength of truthful public information. All combine to determine power on the global stage.

submitted 11 days ago • 43 comments

this thread is fucking enraging.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.

submitted 12 days ago • 197 comments

Clean food was nice while it lasted. Is this what you want, not being able to trust that the food you eat and the medicine you take won't kill you or your family?

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

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