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Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

Trump and DOGE are not just undoing decades of privacy measures: They appear to be ignoring that they were ever written. @ibogost.bsky.social and @cwarzel.bsky.social on the rise of an American panopticon:

Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

We've reached the "as long as Jesus came here legally" part of the evangelical's descent into darkness. This is both hilarious and disturbing.

Telecom history: within a few miles of each other on Cape Cod are the site of the first Transatlantic cable landing in the US (1879) and Marconi's first N. American wireless station (1903). Shack is the relocated cable connection hut

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

How much you wanna bet that soon we’ll find out it’ll cost $100 billion or some such amount to fix everything he broke?

At what time?

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

Coinbase is the worst financial institution I've ever had to deal with. At times, they make BoA look good. I cannot tell you how many times I've contacted customer support only for nothing to change. May Coinbase burn in a fire.

Did you know? Companies must provide 60 days advance notice to employees and government officials before major layoffs or facility closures under the WARN Act. If you're in Massachusetts, you can access the state's official WARN notifications below. www.mass.gov/info-details...

Trump’s DOJ will no longer prosecute cryptocurrency fraud

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

I'm just imagining him as Dr. Evil saying "one billion percent"

These are the kind of memes currently circulating on Chinese social media. Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

This is horrifyingly correct.

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

What about emails again? I forgot.

Urgent: Illegal Activity Underway Many undocumented immigrants file tax returns with the IRS, providing details about their residences, families, employers, and earnings. The IRS has historically encouraged tax compliance by issuing ITINs to those without Social Security numbers.

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Breaking News: The Trump administration fired nearly the entire civil rights branch of the Department of Homeland Security. The move guts the office responsible for oversight of President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Right when it was starting to be deemed a terrorist attack to try and take Cybertrucks off the road, every Cybertruck just got taken off the road in a recall because they used the wrong glue on the panels

The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where

The UN's meteorological agency said signs of human-induced climate change 'reached new heights' in 2024. www.ft.com/content/3691...

Milwaukee mother deported to Laos A country she has never been to, where she doesn’t know anyone and doesn’t speak the language

A kidney transplant specialist and professor at Brown University’s medical school has been deported from the U.S., even though she had a valid visa and a court order temporarily blocking her expulsion, according to her lawyer and court papers.

Arlington National Cemetery has scrubbed information about prominent Black, Hispanic and female service members and topics such as the Civil War from its website, part of an effort across the Defense Department to remove all references to diversity, equity and inclusion from its online presence.

List of 20 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. Planet eBook 2. Free-eBooks. net 3. ManyBooks 4. Librivox 5. Internet Archive 6. BookBub 7. Open Library 8. BookBoon 9. Feedbooks 10. Smashwords

Indeed.

President Trump promised to hit back at the EU for announcing retaliatory 50% tariffs on American whiskey and other products, threatening on Thursday to levy a 200% tariff on EU wines and alcohol coming into the U.S. Follow live updates.

I'm inventing medium language models

Former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was taken into custody on Tuesday after the Philippine government said it received an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant for his arrest over his "war on drugs" that killed thousands during his term.

Modern life. Your virus checker: "RED ALERT! Your system is at RISK! Run NOW to detect security threats!" You run the check. Your virus checker: "One security issue found! ACT NOW!" You click. Your virus checker: "Issue #1: You have not given us permission to show pop-up ads. Resolve now?"