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NEW: The ACLU has filed a sworn declaration from a Venezuelan woman who ICE sought to turn over to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act, who declares that "I heard two US government officials talking and they said 'there is an order saying we can’t take off but we already have.'"

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My cat keeps watching that cat in the mirror. #Caturday

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Trump is using your tax money to strongarm his critics. It’s what dictators do.

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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

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Study-Abroad Funding Is Paused, Leaving Some Students Stranded The Trump administration stopped State Department funding for scholarships like the Fulbright. Weeks later, it is still unclear when it may resume. (gift link)

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NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research

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Salt caves 2000 feet underground in New Mexico hold the radioactive nuclear waste from US defense projects. It's the world's only deep geologic repository. And DOGE says it has terminated the very large office in Carlsbad that oversees it. Details 👇

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EXCLUSIVE: The Karuk Tribe in Northern California has entered a first-of-its-kind agreement with the state to practice cultural burning more freely than they have in over 175 years. My story for @latimes.com: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Run the government like a (completely mismanaged) business, they said…

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DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

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Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

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I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously. Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause." They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.

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Your WTF of the hour

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VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

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My Co-founder Josh Weinsch took this photo of his little daughter’s bike, which was in their driveway when they evacuated. Their neighborhood was vaporized.

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Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they can talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

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As Thune has explained, the "plan" is to irresponsibly massively increase the debt to fund huge, regressive tax cuts, while also cutting the rest of the budget massively to appear fiscally "responsible."

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A week before Thanksgiving, Arlo Guthrie announces the death of his old friend Alice Brock of Alice's Restaurant Massacree fame. She was 83. www.facebook.com/share/p/HKcK...

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People not accepting trans people are bigots. The media needs to refer to them that way.

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Honey, you’ve barely touched your Pierogisaurus!

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every few years I’m reminded that Bluetooth is an eldritch spell drawing down the unifying power of a dead king so that I can hear my little tunes

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#OtherHiddenDisneyTerms If you ever watched The Mandalorian, Disney is legally entitled to shoot one or both of your parents for dramatic or narrative purposes

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Pretty confident that all the people who say AI can replace human teaching are just outing themselves as being bad at teaching.

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Eight years ago we were helping my mum set up her TV. It asked the sort of question that stays with you.

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Wonderwoman Lynda Carter with the funny of the day! She’s truly committed to saving the world.

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!jazbot whereami

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I'm so excited for the Wenner-Gren Workshop on the Socio-Politics of Knowledge Production in Anthropology and Archaeology, which Jess Beck and I are leading next week! Check out our website: www.anthroknowledge.com (videos and more will be posted after the workshop!)

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“Utilities like to misdirect and set up counter-narratives to try to plausibly argue they are not fighting their own customers,” but “it’s all about the money.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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