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Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 26 days ago • 250 comments

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

submitted 26 days ago • 464 comments

As someone who camps at Yosemite a few times every year... this is frustrating. And so pointless.

submitted 45 days ago • 79 comments

If we live long enough, most if not all of us will become disabled. By age, pandemics, illness, climate catastrophes, organized abandonment, interpersonal or state violence, and working ourselves to injury/death. Disability injustice & defunding social support & healthcare are bad for you too.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

You only issue this statement if you plan on breaking a bunch of laws AND you think no one will hold you accountable for breaking a bunch of laws AND once you break those laws you cannot risk free elections, you cannot risk the return of rule-of-law: Trump is effectively declaring himself dictator

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 48 days ago • 418 comments

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email ([email protected]) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

submitted 49 days ago • 25 comments

NOAA is reportedly on the DOGE chopping block. The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US. A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Again, this isn't about efficiency.

submitted 48 days ago • 541 comments

Kentucky bourbon relies on barrels from white oak trees — giving the bourbon its color and signature caramel & vanilla flavor. America's white oak population, which grows best along the East Coast, is under threat due to climate change, land use, an invasive insects. www.axios.com/local/richmo...

submitted 52 days ago • 6 comments

"There should be room for those conversations" — OK but why isn't there room for pointing out that it's a moral panic utterly devoid of evidence

submitted 54 days ago • 46 comments

There are so many things I love about this piece from @lilysanca.bsky.social and @currentaffairs.bsky.social: US Transit is Abysmal and Unacceptable www.currentaffairs.org/news/us-tran...

submitted 55 days ago • 2 comments

They’ve called armed federal officers to the scene. We aren’t dangerous. We are here to represent our people. To defend public education. This is an authoritarian regime. You cannot block members of Congress from entering the Department of Education.

submitted 56 days ago • 1379 comments

I'll note again that it would have been pretty good if universities stood up for themselves and the value of education and research when they were under attack the last several years by these same forces, rather than folding like cheap tables.

submitted 55 days ago • 14 comments