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I don't know about you, but if I were a tech company or a policymaker, I would read that response as a warning—people are tired of having for-profit technologies that corrode their lives and communities rammed down their throats against their will. And some are willing to destroy them.

US cattle ranchers search for feed as wildfires burn grazing lands Pasture lands have been stripped down to a sea of sand after wildfires tore across the U.S. Plains, killing cattle and wiping out their food sources, and threatening a historically small herd already ...

US cattle ranchers search for feed as wildfires burn grazing lands

Wildfires that burned huge swaths of pasture in the Southern Plains killed cattle and burned the grass. Surviving cattle need hay.

The cattle herd was at a 75-yr low due to high prices and drought.

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Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

Companies getting the $175 billion back after collecting $175 billion from the consumers

A bunch of Trump insiders, including the Lutnick family, just made hundred of millions of dollars on this strike down.

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

The FDA approves trial design before it starts.

No, we just need to continue already extensive efforts to measure environmental damage.

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.

You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.

Yes, the GOP controls Congress. That's why it's key to show Congress COULD stop the madness. And it's not just the DHS bill. Congress could repeal the prior multi-year $75b for DHS; set up a special investigative committee (cf. Watergate); amend the Insurrection Act; etc.

California joins UN health network following US departure from WHO California said on Friday it will become the first U.S. state to join the World Health Organization's global outbreak response network following the Trump administration's decision to pull Washington ...

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if there is *a* person who can certify at a local or *one* person who is a casting vote or even the *three* people on a board.

It doesn't matter what the law says, what matters is whether people in an individual situation and context will do what he wants.

Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

seeing "the slogan was stupid" w/defund bubble up again and am again going to say that it did not and does not matter, and also, winning over voters is not the important part.

because we've passed police reforms before. skimpy, but they're there.

enforcing them, however? seemingly impossible.

BREAKING: Oversight Committee Ranking Member Robert Garcia just secured subpoenas for Les Wexner, billionaire businessman and a long-time benefactor of Jeffrey Epstein, and Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, the executors of the Epstein estate

Less than 1% of the Epstein files have been released – and that minuscule amount is largely redacted.

Release The Epstein Files! Now!

Feels like things are getting exponentially crazier

“An ICE officer, fearing for his life, fired defensive shots.” -DHS

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Dog ain’t gonna wag itself.

@governor.ca.gov Gov Newsom,can we bring these books to CA?

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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.

This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

Seeing this news is so weird for me because in 1989 when I was a baby 25-year-old corporate litigator in Manhattan, one of the first things I worked on was Warner Communications Inc.'s defense against a hostile takeover bid from Paramount Communications Inc.

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The injury to the collection agency is that if medical debt doesn't appear on the credit report, it's harder to pressure patients into paying.