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The two Democratic commissioners at the FTC said they were illegally fired by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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The % of bulk billing only GPs in my electorate (Fenner, ACT) - 0%. The % of bulk billing only GPs in the electorate where I grew up (Reid, NSW) - 18.3%. Ppl in the ACT can afford to pay for the GP, I'm told. Well I can afford a house in Fenner, not Reid. www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

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Japan is Dismantling Nuclear Reactors!!!! And still undecided where to dispose of the dangerous radioactive mess!!! www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03...

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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1534 comments

They just said: you all look like the kind of brown people we associate with the TdA. So, you are all out!

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For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

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I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea. www.wired.com/story/everyt...

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Imagine a universe where a US president can’t even/doesn’t care about meeting the low standard set by Bush.

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SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a transplant surgeon, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.

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The World’s Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse By retracting foreign aid, Trump could make tuberculosis untreatable again. And make it the world’s deadliest infectious disease & maybe a top 5 disease again. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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French politician jokes US should return Statue of Liberty for siding with ‘tyrants’

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Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

Universities need to treat the Trump administration's hostage lists as organizing lists. A large majority of the universities on these lists should issue a JOINT public response making clear that they won't give in and why they're right not to. That creates space for the rest of the sector to join.

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I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released

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Australia’s trade minister warns Trump tariff war could raise price of Big Mac in US

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Far right extremists are okay destroying Medicaid for “Black people in the ghetto.” Just as long as they are not their voters. These are sick people.

submitted 3 days ago • 827 comments

Let this sink in—the head of the EPA has now labeled climate science as “religion”, and reframed the purpose of the EPA to “lower the cost of buying a car… and running a business”—the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY! That’s where we are now. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

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Trump says reporting by independent news outlets is biased and should be deemed to be against the law. "It has to be illegal, it’s influencing judges and it’s really changing law, and it just cannot be legal. I don’t believe it’s legal." thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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‘Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding’

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This is the most important donor and man working for Trump….. Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

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“Telegram’s restrictions were far more lax than those of its competitors, and it quickly became a hub for hate as well as illegal activity like child sexual exploitation and gunrunning. … the lack of content moderation was crucial to the spread of the collective [Terrorgram]’s violent content.

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Theeere it is

submitted 5 days ago • 227 comments

Chavez said it first, and before him many others…

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Exactly. Those 10 Dem Senators now own DOGE. They own the misery, the economic chaos, the collapse of government services, the targeting of academia. This isn't hyperbole, it's what they voted for: more latitude for Trump/Musk. And got nothing in return. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

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Another face of fascism… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u... #highered #diversity #DEI

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Holy shit. This is the gold-standard measurement of atmospheric CO2 -- the one in all the charts.

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"Are review teams getting too involved in the revision of manuscripts?" dx.doi.org/10.1177/1548...

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Columbia graduate detained by Ice was respected British government employee

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JUST IN: As U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff enters talks in Moscow on a Trump administration proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine, an adviser to the Russian president rejected the idea.

submitted 5 days ago • 92 comments

Give this @bostonglobe.com lede a Pulitzer

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NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to start a sweeping overhaul of military lawyers to make the US less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, per ppl familiar @theguardian.com exclusive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Seriously, why would any international student go to the USA at this point?

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the tesla protest might objectively be among the most successful in history already just in terms of immediate response, if you consider they forced the world’s most powerful person & its most wealthy to fully degrade themselves like used car salesmen on live TV while the whole world watched agog.

submitted 5 days ago • 273 comments

After interviewing @meredithmeredith.bsky.social at SXSW, I have come to the conclusion that the only way to protect your data is to not let it be collected…

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

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Robert Morris, 63, the founder of a Texas megachurch who resigned as senior pastor last year after he admitted "inappropriate sexual behavior" in the 1980s, has been indicted on five criminal counts involving a child, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

Things are getting dark.

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Why isn’t this being picked up MSM? #MediaWatch ‘Australian #nuclear reactors could become a target of war if the federal coalition was to go ahead with plans to build them, a group of former defence leaders warn.’ ‼️ #auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton www.canberratimes.com.au/story/890450...

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

I see a lot of perfectly-preventable sick and dead people in the near future.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Fellow Jewish academics -- share/sign this letter objecting to the detainment of Mahmoud Kahlil and to claims of antisemitism to further fascism: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Add Australia to the list of countries where Tesla sales are sliding www.businessinsider.com/tesla-sales-...

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