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Prepper (the community kind), ecology/urban ecology, gamer, real tired of being prescient

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BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

10.06.2025 00:17 — 👍 40588    🔁 18160    💬 1435    📌 2374
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Judge dismisses ICE case against New Bedford man A federal immigration judge has dismissed the case against a New Bedford man whose dramatic detainment by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents was c

Judge dismisses ICE case against New Bedford man whose car window was smashed by agents in viral video last month turnto10.com/news/local/j...

09.05.2025 11:34 — 👍 1408    🔁 382    💬 41    📌 39
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Donald Trump hopes you won't notice his latest attempt to purge civil servants The Trump administration buried notice of a plan to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers in favor of political loyalists in dry, bland legalese. Here's how to act.

Donald Trump hopes you won't notice his latest attempt to purge civil servants

The Trump administration put notice of a plan to reclassify up to 50,000 federal workers in favor of political loyalists in dry, bland legalese. How to act, @www.allrisenews.com

www.allrisenews.com/p/trump-purg...

29.04.2025 15:18 — 👍 698    🔁 326    💬 22    📌 14
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist…

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. We obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.

Revisit this story from our series "America's Mental Barrier," a 2025 Pulitzer finalist.

(Published Nov. 2024)

08.05.2025 03:00 — 👍 1490    🔁 612    💬 57    📌 34
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Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb.)

06.05.2025 03:00 — 👍 7591    🔁 3722    💬 201    📌 230

I'm pretty sure this is a cross post from his tiktok. Tiktok videos with sounds/songs attached usually get more traction so it does serve a purpose there.

18.04.2025 06:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst.

Every dictator in history has lied.

Donald Trump is no different.

17.04.2025 23:36 — 👍 4694    🔁 1243    💬 117    📌 51

🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!

18.04.2025 02:55 — 👍 4002    🔁 2125    💬 103    📌 137
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What's the Real Quid Pro Quo with Bukele? Hint: It's not about fighting "terrorism," or stopping illegal immigration.

I wrote about some details that the Trump administration might not want to come to light when it comes to what kind of deal Trump has truck with Bukele asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

17.04.2025 12:50 — 👍 2293    🔁 975    💬 115    📌 205
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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs The youth volunteers who were working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storms to distributing supplies for hurricane recovery were suddenly pulled from service. Why? DOGE cuts.

NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

16.04.2025 21:19 — 👍 2599    🔁 1277    💬 64    📌 133
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Even for MAGA, this is fucking NUTS.

11.04.2025 07:05 — 👍 2228    🔁 595    💬 258    📌 83
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The American Oil Industry’s Playbook, Illustrated: How Drillers Offload Costly Cleanup Onto the Public Oil executive Tom Ragsdale walked away from his old wells, making the pollution left behind the state of New Mexico’s problem. His tactics, however, are ubiquitous in the industry.

More than 2 million oil and gas wells sit unplugged in the U.S., many leaking contaminants into waterways, farmland and neighborhoods.

Time and time again, oil companies have walked away — leaving taxpayers to pay for cleanup. Here’s how.

(Published Dec. 2024)

11.04.2025 03:00 — 👍 829    🔁 366    💬 24    📌 17
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US News & World Report’s Best Remaining Colleges, 2028 1. Florida Intranational University 2. Johns Hopkins School of Remunerative Medicine 3. Facebook.edu/DeVry 4. Colorado School of Mines—Nuuk 5. Mich...

- Nestlé-Glaceau Institute for Public Fluoridation Research

- Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory: A Subsidiary of SpaceX

- The University of Texas Football Team, LLC

11.04.2025 02:01 — 👍 196    🔁 72    💬 6    📌 20
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Trump’s ICE just “mistakenly” kidnapped a man with protected status and no record married to a U.S. citizen with a disabled child who is a citizen and sent him to an El Salvadoran hard labor prison — and say they can’t do anything about it

In our names 🇺🇸

01.04.2025 03:24 — 👍 3220    🔁 1446    💬 212    📌 159
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This is a straight-up violation of the Hatch Act and several other federal statutes. But it doesn't matter anymore. The Trump administration doesn't enforce any law against itself.

31.03.2025 02:51 — 👍 2068    🔁 559    💬 46    📌 24
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Meet Frengel. He's from Venezuela. Frengel is a house painter. He has a 9-year-old step-son. He loves his dog. He has no tattoos. No criminal record.

Frengel had an asylum hearing today. But he couldn't make it. His lawyer explained what happened.

Donald Trump disappeared Frengel to El Salvador.

28.03.2025 02:37 — 👍 386    🔁 229    💬 25    📌 18
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The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.

Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects...

Abruptly terminating clinical trials...

Ignorant and evil

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

27.03.2025 23:41 — 👍 1333    🔁 603    💬 28    📌 60

Yep, Eagle Forum. He took over as president after Phyllis Schafly died.

08.02.2025 10:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not just works with, he's the president. Eagle Forum is the name.

08.02.2025 10:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

07.02.2025 03:30 — 👍 13396    🔁 5887    💬 626    📌 1699
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The Butterfly Revolution — America Is Being Stolen And worst of all, you actually voted for it

medium.com/thought-thin...

06.02.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

06.02.2025 21:23 — 👍 1911    🔁 1010    💬 43    📌 66

This is so stupid. Flightdeck has been in use since at least the 1950s and cockpit is still used, especially for helicopters. This was to make language in FAA manuals consistent with industry terminology for most aircrafts and has nothing to do with DEI, nor did it affect safety.

03.02.2025 10:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Declassified CIA guide to sabotaging fascism is suddenly viral

🔗 www.404media.co/declassified...

29.01.2025 21:29 — 👍 1124    🔁 430    💬 26    📌 44
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This guy worked for the State Department under Trump.

05.12.2024 10:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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