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A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Updates from @nytimes.com

35 years ago, EFF was founded to ensure tech empowers people—not the oppressors. From defending encryption and privacy to fighting censorship and surveillance, we've been on the frontlines for your digital rights.

Google is raising my Google Workspace pricing claiming all the “AI value” added. I turned off Gemini in Gmail and Docs because it just doesn’t work / do anything useful for me. So why am I being charged more? Having costs b/c of AI is not the same as generating value with AI…

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

PSA: Do not let the Musk & Trump feud distract you from the fact that both want to rob us of basic healthcare, civil rights, & economic security—all while lining the pockets of billionaires. This childish feud is a distraction. Stay focused on ensuring we stop this horrific bill from becoming law.

holy shit tesla is such an unserious company, this is from an actual job listing

Disgusting. These greedy maga grifters have been uncaring about anyone but themselves and their own wallets for years, but now they're not even bothering to wear a mask anymore.

again, everywhere EXCEPT uk, brazil, and the usa have been using avian flu vaccine on chickens since 2024.

Target's bold "Pride" collection this year features a colorless hoodie with the words "Out Loud & Proud" written teeny tiny only the string.

Now would be a most excellent time to displace existing lackluster and arguably hostile search engine services with a whole new paradigm. I have only so many tables that I can flip in response to the existing status quo.

John Roberts is a right-wing extremist, leading five other right-wing extremists, all of them cosplaying as jurists. This SCOTUS majority is corrupt to the core and most be neutralized if America is to recover from the horrors of Trump's fascist assault on our constitutional government.

A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.

Pretty much every detained imm. court session now includes someone who is subject to mandatory ICE detention under the Laken Riley Act for no better reason than they were once *charged* with extremely minor theft offenses. Even if those charges were dismissed. I'm never forgiving Dems for this

Books. Check em out! Some Arizona indie bookstores: - www.changinghands.com - bookmans.com

IBM gonna IBM.

Fuck these greedy clowns.

This is so heartbreaking and makes nothing better and no one safer. It is the punitive act of an administration that values fealty over human health.

BREAKING. From a reliable source. MITRE support for the CVE program is due to expire tomorrow. The attached letter was sent out to CVE Board Members.

NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place. @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

A new Alien Registration Rule, effective today, states any foreign national needs to carry a copy of their passport and most recent I-94 at all times and inform DHS of a change of address within 10 days of moving or be at risk of a fine up to $5k and 30 days in prison: www.mintz.com/insights-cen...

Officially in the age of ThoughtCrimes

📖 Patch Notes Have Arrived! 📖 It's time to refresh your drink and cozy up - because we've just released the largest patch notes we've ever compiled. Over 100 Pages worth of what to expect when Season 2: Tombs of the Erased Launches on April 17 👀Read: bit.ly/3XXxq6d 📽️ Watch: bit.ly/42xR2zp

describing struggling people who need help as "playing video games all day"—all while giving $38 billion in gov contracts to elon musk to *literally* play video games all day—is vile on every possible level. failed state behavior

The Trump administration is asking to withdraw from a longstanding court case challenging Arizona’s voter citizenship laws story via @jenafifield.bsky.social/@votebeat.org

The entire permanent staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice was laid off. This division addresses issues such as asthma and air pollution, climate change and health, childhood lead poisoning, and cancer clusters.

The time for debate is over: copyright should never block someone’s free access to the law.

Congress is pushing website-blocking bills that would let private companies erase sites from the internet—based on nothing but a hollow promise not to abuse this new power.

🚨 Scoop: At least 8 students at Arizona State University have had their student visas revoked in recent days. Meanwhile University of Arizona advises international students to carry copies of passports/visas at all times. azluminaria.org/2025/04/02/e...

Super Mario Kart World is an mmoCarpg

Call your reps. Do it for Aaron.

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

Oh my fucking god. It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff. They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave. www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...