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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

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might fuck around and get really into Suprematist art

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Me watching Chernobyl: "it would sure be cool to have a big ass painting like that behind my desk"

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My own favourite April 23 fact is that both Shakespeare and Cervantes died on April 23 1616, ten days apart.

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This is what you say when your interview with Isaac Chotiner is going really, really well www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

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tfw Chotiner asks you "You are a smart person. Do you seriously believe that..."

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18/19 yo Euro backpackers were detained in Honolulu. “It was a real jail. Metal doors, locked cells, cold air. And they made us do a full strip search. It was really cold. We had to undress completely, including bra and underwear, and even had to squat and spread… it was humiliating and scary.“

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I don't want to romanticize Oakland TOO much, but if you want to understand why tech money has been hitting a wall in Oakland, this kind of rhapsody--from Alexis Madrigal's new book--is part of the puzzle.

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gonna keep reposting my paper on how AI writ large is foundationally corrosive to democracy until someone publishes it or it stops being relevant!!!! oddletters.com/files/2025/0...

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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Politico really wants to insist that the tech-landlord-cop anti-union alliance that has made such strides in SF will eventually prevail in Oakland, despite taking repeated Ls. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

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"Today’s builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, and that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell." [Pope Francis, 18 April 2025]

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Also, "My heart goes out to the millions of Christians all over the world who loved him" kinda feels like the phrasing of a man who is decidedly not one of those millions.

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the level of cracked where you can't conceive of trans women cooking

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Most of what we think of as Deep American Traditions dates to Jacksonian times--before which the US is unrecognizably foreign--and without Reconstruction, American democracy could never have become possible

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well this aged poorly

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A big part of why Trump is so different than past GOP presidents is that past GOP presidents faced formidable opposition parties that actually held the line against them, as well as internal GOP dissent. Today, democrats parrot his talking points while the GOP's MAGAfication is basically total.

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Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead. Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere

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An IU professor is being investigated for violating the state’s ‘intellectual diversity’ law based on an anonymous complaint escalated by administration in a case that could cost him tenure. His ‘crime’? Discussing a personal experience being arrested for civil disobedience at an Israeli consulate.

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this is always the thoughtcrime

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Aditya Harsono—Indonesian student legally in US, married to American citizen, father of their special needs child—has his student visa suddenly and secretly revoked, and is raided, arrested and detained by ICE for deportation. Make no mistake: If you’re legal, they can, and will, MAKE you illegal.

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If you think about it, print publications are really just digital publications that have been air gapped

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Man, it is wild how fast the Loren Taylor signs are coming down across North Oakland. Biking through Rockridge, where there had been about a 4-1 Taylor-Lee ratio, I saw more Harris Walz signs today.

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MAYOR ELECT. This is pretty much what turned the tide for her, I think.

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Such a goddamn delight to hear Dorothy and Alexis (@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social) nerd out on Oakland history, joined halfway through by a surprise guest, the woman of the hour, Ms Margaret Gordon! Gracias for the photos @zunguzungu.bsky.social . Heyday 4vr ❤️

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god they just went in in MSpaint and added the text using the text tool, which you can tell because it's all just oriented pefectly with the axis of the picture

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do people still think about herb caen. is herb caen RELEVANT. do the kids pass around old herb caen columns when the teacher isn't looking

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For those unfamiliar with the trucking industry: 80 blank sailings means, give or take, about 1,000,000 cargo containers that had been scheduled and booked for delivery which just disappeared.

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This is a legal trainwreck. Florida made it a crime to be an unauthorized immigrant in the state. Sounds like no big deal to some. But what it does in actuality is allow police to arrest people they perceive as immigrants. Here's how that goes. More below. oklahomavoice.com/2025/04/17/u...

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Gavin Newsom calls Kilmer Abrego Garcia a “distraction” @washingtonpost.com What an absolute disgrace he has become. Beyond repulsive and shameful.

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"Each one of us knows,” Manal said, “that what’s happening in Gaza is going to happen in the West Bank.” No one seemed to be talking about nonviolence anymore. How could they? “It’s all lies,” one veteran activist told me. “Human rights, international law, justice, all of it.”

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Anyway babies have been off and on awake since 4 and got up at six, so that's today fucked

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Broke: fix your hearts or die Woke: fix your hearts AND die

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This article is worth reading to understand what must be opposed - an highly profitable industry that depends on targeting people, already bloated in relation to the imagined threat, which means that threat may expand to include you.

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