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In order to speedily deport 238 Venezuelan men under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, Trump claimed they were members of a transnational criminal organization called Tren de Aragua. However, an investigation by the New York Times did not find any evidence linking many of the men to that gang.

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Fentanyl is deadlier than ever, apparently: Each pill kills more than 5 people at once.

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Yeah and also Gaddafi had a softer side

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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world. ~Adrienne Rich

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Huge congrats to @rboyle31.bsky.social whose OUR MOON won the LA Times Book Prize in the science and technology category! www.latimes.com/about/pressr...

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Virginia Giuffre, the prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died by suicide. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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I once asked an LLM a research question about John Steinbeck and it hallucinated a plausible-sounding Steinbeck book that didn't exist. Scary to think how much of that junk is already turning up in print (and in things like legal arguments, evidently).

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Undisclosed AI use in medical communications destroys the trust between provider and patient. Here's how one patient reacted when a therapist pasted ChatGPT boilerplate into what was supposed to be a consoling text. Not sure this kind of breach can ever be repaired.

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How do you think that might change if patients knew they were hearing from a robo-doctor? Myself, I'd rather get a terse message from an actual human than a syrupy one from a non-human entity.

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Look, the people who helped the Jews got sent to camps, too, so this stands to reason

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•••••BREAKING••••• Army Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla — who leads U.S. Central Command — used a secure U.S. government system to send Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth classified information regarding Houthi attack plans that Hegseth promptly turned around and leaked on his personal phone via…

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NEW: A Democratic congressional delegation visited Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk at ICE facilities in Louisiana today, to demand their release and observe conditions there. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/n...

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This is how you do it.

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BREAKING: the White House has begun looking for a new defense secretary. The White House has begun process of looking for new secretary of defense. www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...

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This battle over Abrego Garcia is simple. It doesn't matter that he was here illegally. It doesn't matter if he's a gang member or if he's a wife beater (both of which are disputed). It doesn't matter if you think he deserves to be deported or to be in prison. / thread

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In 1941, RFK's own grandfather Joe Kennedy carted his daughter Rosemary in for a lobotomy. After the procedure damaged Rosemary's brain so badly that she had to be institutionalized for life, Joe acted as if she no longer existed. Guess RFK is carrying on Joe's tradition of devaluing the disabled.

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Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

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I am sorry to say it, but this is probably one of the most important things you can repost today.

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen is demanding a meeting with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele over the detention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and says he’ll go to El Salvador himself if the Marylander isn’t returned.

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The principle anyone (who isn't a slave) being held against their will has the right to some kind of process before a judge is so ancient the Code of Hammurabi takes it for granted. It's probably literally prehistoric, a practice predating written history. It is the deepest root of what law is.

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Today, Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal resident of Vermont, walked into an immigration office to complete a final step for citizenship. Instead, he was arrested by plain-clothed, armed individuals with faces covered. This is immoral, inhumane, and illegal. He must receive due process and be released.

submitted 20 days ago • 173 comments

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 104 comments

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 24 days ago • 171 comments

An innocent man, picked up by “mistake,” must not be allowed to rot in an El Salvadorian jail. Mr. President. Obey the courts. Obey our Constitution. Bring him home immediately.

submitted 23 days ago • 1885 comments

Read this Than read it again Oppose them every day Thanks to @dancingtides.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

Trump has experienced a 34% drop in support from voters under 30 since the beginning of his term, from +5 to -29. Astonishing.

submitted 25 days ago • 187 comments

90 percent. They sent innocent people to a gulag so Trump could look like a tough guy. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 25 days ago • 231 comments

It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.

submitted 26 days ago • 787 comments

More and more we need to think about who we're surrounding ourselves with. My latest for the Heroic Imagination Project.

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The intermingling of fascist paramilitary and propaganda groups with the federal government is a literal hallmark of fascism. Do with that information what you will and really sit with what it means that a stochastic terrorist is now essentially deputized by the state to do as she pleases.

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