Amy Ruffo

“I feel like I’m grieving my mother” Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Last month, 22-year-old Damaris Bello’s mother attended a green card interview—and was deported less than 24 hours later.

Before the officers could handcuff her, Maria Estrada Juarez asked if she could hug her daughter one last time.

New data reveals the U.S. lost 92,000 jobs in February as the unemployment rate rose to 4.4%

The private sector lost more jobs than any month since December 2020.

Text from OpenAI article on its educational programs: "Agency does not emerge from basic AI use alone. Students must progress from simple tasks to deeper applications such as studying, building, creating, coding, and managing agents. But among college-age users, we see a widening global “capability overhang,” defined as the gap between what AI tools can do and how people actually use them. Even advanced student users still operate roughly 90% to 99% below how power users of ChatGPT are engaging with our tools. Educational institutions play a central role in closing that gap. Faculty and educators can help students harness AI’s full potential by embedding authentic AI use cases into coursework—assignments that use AI and mirror real professional work, such as analyzing a market, designing a product concept, evaluating a policy trade-off, or building a simple agent"

Shouldn't let OpenAI puff about education get to me, but its claim students need AI skills for future jobs and "agency", then letting slip it really means making students into GPT "power users", and making that an educational imperative, *and* planning to measure it ... 😦 openai.com/index/ai-edu...

From Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social

ICE Wants to Buy Warehouses for Mass Detention. Communities Are Fighting Back. People across the political spectrum are realizing these federal detention warehouses will harm their communities.

The overdue firing of Kristi Noem will have no bearing on the continued plans for unwanted warehousing of human beings across the country.
The spotlight should focus on these warehouses (de facto concentration camps) during Markwayne Mullin's confirmation hearing.
truthout.org/articles/ice...

The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs.

Trump screwed them 3 times and dared to ask for a 4th.

The reason we have “stupid rules of engagement” is to make sure we don’t bomb elementary schools.

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Every sycophantic ass-kissing unqualified loser hanging around Mar-a-Lago for the last 4 years saw Trump’s presidency as an opportunity to fleece taxpayers with one corrupt scheme after another knowing they could get away with it because the boss is worse and Congress won’t care.

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

When Trump fires someone like Kristi Noem, while we might rejoice, he always replaces them with someone just as bad,
or worse.
And, please know, Steven Miller is still in charge.

The PWHL has announced the games at TD Garden (BOS) and Madison Square Garden (NY) have sold out.

Ticket sales indicated this was coming anyway, but the post-Olympics boom is REAL.

Screenshot of a CDC webpage. The page title reads “Mental Health,” with a subheading: “Poor Mental Health Effects Adolescent Well-being.” “Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 14, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.”

Starting research for a new project on youth mental health, I went to the CDC website.

This brazenly discriminatory anti-trans notice is tacked to the top of the page.

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McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

My painting LAKE MICHIGAN

The White House meeting comes as Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg has been leading Pentagon work in recent days on a supplemental budget request of around $50 billion that could be released as soon as Friday, one of the people said. The new money would pay for replacing the weapons used in recent conflicts including those in the Middle East. The figure is preliminary and could change.

USAID was simply too expensive to continue but

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
tucson.com/news/local/b...

No Help and Few Options for Travelers Stranded by Mideast Conflict

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her.

Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Also. In PA, our county election board always has a post election meeting. Yall should find out when it is (assuming there is one) and pack the room.

Is the info not listed on the county website? In PA it’s the county election board that decides and communicates this info.

Someone commented that Dallas County changed the rules between EV and the Primary.

The Dallas County election boards next meeting should be full of voters complaining. Crockett and Talirico should join forces to pack the room.

Aren’t these managed by the county? And prior to each election counties review and update voting locations. Putting that info on the county website and if a local newspaper exist, that info is published in the newspaper?

realizing that the coverage of the afghan withdrawal means that the media will turn this in to a liability for whatever dem ends it when it becomes a quagmire

Ask: why was it a no bid contract? Why not get other bids for such a large sum of money.

Loose Talk of ‘Fake News’ Is Bad for Democracy The secretary of defense shouldn’t pit the military against the media.

"When American troops deploy, they do so under civilian authority and in the name of the American people. Citizens have both a right and a responsibility to understand what their government and their military are doing."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Here's the letter that caused Thom Tillis to erupt at Kristi Noem. The DHS inspector general claims DHS leaders "systematically obstructed" his inquiries, including in something related to a "specific pending criminal investigation."

(confirming scoop from WSJ's Tarini Parti and Josh Dawsey)