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JUST IN: Lawyers for Venezuelan nationals say they’re being loaded onto buses this hour in anticipation of a new wave of Alien Enemies Act deportations, w less than 24 hours notice. They’re asking Judge Boasberg for an immediate restraining order requiring 30 days notice.

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An unnamed CFPB employee who participated in the agency's layoff decisions says in a sworn statement that its leaders were aware that their approach violated a court order and instructed them to proceed anyway. "All that mattered was the numbers."

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Yesterday I was fired by Columbia University after eight months as executive editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. This was the first time in a 25-year career that I've ever been subjected to discipline in a job — much less terminated from one.

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Stocking up aside.. the best defense is — sadly — not accessible to most Americans. And that is getting the hell out — to a country that is not picking a fight with China.

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"The president does not intend to allow anyone to rein him in this time. But tearing down guardrails has created room for America’s adversaries to operate more freely in the disinformation space, according to Western officials and private cybersecurity experts." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

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Techstars increases startup funding to $220,000, mirroring YC structure

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Schedule F is back on the agenda: Once Trump has gutted the bureaucracy, making civil servants at will is his plan for ensuring political loyalty for the rest of his term. Quick summary here on research about politicization. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-resea...

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So here’s the thing. Do what he says. Look at “the details of it, the signings of it.” Meaning the Citizenship Clause. You will see that it is not just about slavery. You will see Reconstruction Republicans saying again and again than the children of foreign nationals are birthright citizens.

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Hungary's Pride ban mocked with 'Gray Pride' march: 'Humour exposes the absurd'

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Seth Rogen, hell yeah

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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.

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Fresh Elon baby drama reporting 🔥 www.wsj.com/politics/elo... archive.ph/Gt9qC

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"I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

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this piece was not indexed on forbes, so no one reads it! the only way i'm getting any readers is via social media (only 39 reads 24 hours after it published) READS ARE HOW I'M PAID. please pop in to read Traffic Noise Provokes ‘Road Rage’ In Male Galápagos Warblers www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

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www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08... How Musk, Thiel, Zuckerberg, and Andreessen—Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs—Are Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality In an excerpt from his new book, The End of Reality, the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism (vanity Fair)

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Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

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Welcome to Catchella, Coachella for cats. A handful of kibble is $18 and it's three days of nonstop bird chirps.

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"She roundly objected to the fascist salutes given by some of Donald Trump’s supporters. How dare they? This was not just dangerous. It was an insult to everything she and her colleagues at Bletchley Park had achieved. For she knew, now, just how much they had." www.economist.com/obituary/202...

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BREAKING: More than 20 people have been killed in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, the acting mayor says.

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For $45 billion we could literally end child poverty in the United States forever. Seriously. We could feed and house and clothe and educate every kid. Every single one.

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I have never met a transphobe who was not also a racist/misogynist/homophobe. they try to hide it but after a little while it always peeks out; not 'I HATE THE [insert slur]S' but Just Valid Concerns.

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"Almost as amazing as the knowledge we have gained in the past four decades is the fact that some people continue to deny the damage we are doing to our world." www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."

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Once more and louder for those at the back who are content that the LLM plagiarism machines are "harmless fun" and only steal from artists.

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Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

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Suspicious Russian tankers keep slashing Europe's internet and power cables. It's not an act of war … but someday it might be.

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The French government and adult websites like Pornhub are clashing over whether to check the age of internet users, in a stand-off that is set to reach its climax in the coming weeks.

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Fascinating new insights into Neolithic society unlocked by aDNA analysis. I may have to rewrite my book, Ancestors!

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Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money, an EARNED benefit!

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Ted Cruz threatens USA Fencing with congressional action if it doesn't exclude trans women

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Russian strike hits the Ukrainian city of Sumy, killing at least 21 people as crowds gathered for Sunday church services

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I want to know more about who he was in communication with in Russia. This guy has almost the same profile as the guy who took a shot at Trump.

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Here's The Conversation piece about our new research: Ireland’s neolithic passage tombs were not just the burial place of the elite – new research theconversation.com/irelands-neo...

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I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

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Putting up a few thoughts on the latest tariff swerve paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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Chris Rufo: I'm going to manipulate these stupid media orgs in obvious ways. NY Times: Sign us up! Rufo: Could you try to get the president of Harvard fired for me? She's Black and female. NYT: On it! Rufo: Let's destroy higher ed in America. NYT: Ooooh, how intriguing. Can we promote you more?

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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

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DOGE is just another Trump scam

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I just.

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NASA is something every American can be and should be proud of. And for every dollar spent on it, it returns more on that investment to the economy. Example: Their 2023 budget was $25B, and they added over $75B to the economy that year. This is a horrible decision.

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“...eliminate all funding for climate, weather, and ocean laboratories and cooperative institutes...” Note both NOAA and NASA are targeted and that these proposed cuts go way beyond climate. This would be incredibly bad! Keep calling your representatives! 🧪

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theoretically what's to stop them from just doing this forever?

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Reality check: coral restoration won’t save the world’s reefs "Without stemming the pace and magnitude of climate change, we have little power to save coral reefs from massive losses" say @conservbytes.bsky.social et al theconversation.com/reality-chec...

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