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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.

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

Thousands of targets, 10% inaccuracy, 20 seconds of human oversight per decision (is target male?).

But even if any of these had been human decisions, targeting military in their homes because it’s easier? This is war crime automation.

$1B per day is about $42 million per hour. About 30 min worth of that spending can fund my lab for my ENTIRE career (~20 3-year NSFs or ~10 5-year R01s). Please wrap your head around that.

He's so good at this that Noem's lips deflated.

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop

I love all her deadpan vocal affects.

Thoughts & prayers to the EPA :(

The Secretary of War Crimes should have to blow into a breathalyzer to unlock his office door every morning.

guys I am starting to suspect that not everyone currently in a position of power in this country is *entirely* qualified for their job

This just crossed my feed: bsky.app/profile/omfi...

U.S. sub sinks Iranian warship off Sri Lanka, killing 87 and expanding war zone A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing dozens of sailors and dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000
miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Anti-Trans Democrats Blown Out In North Carolina Primary Election Anti-trans Democrat Nasif Majeed lost to Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform. Other conservative Democrats lost as well on primary day.

1. In yesterday's primary elections, anti-transgender Democrats found out the hard way why you don't throw transgender people under the bus.

Two anti-trans dems lost their primaries, including one that cast the deciding veto override vote, in blowouts.

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Mostly quantity focused; I feel like I've seen another. Looking....

Have you seen this Great Lakes focused report? greatlakes.org/wp-content/u...

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

77% of Democratic voters support abolishing ICE.

Any Democrat running for office who doesn’t call for abolishing ICE is wildly outside the mainstream.

This a Very Serious Pause to look at this Very Serious Gentlepig.

This SRS Gentlepig has made my day better.

WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.

OPEN AI: WILL YOU LET THE GOVERNMENT USE YOUR TOOLS FOR MASS SURUEILLANCE? OPEN AI: WILL YOU STAND UP FOR AMERICANS? OPEN AI EMPLOYE WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?

Criticism of OpenAI working with the Department of Defense seen in San Francisco this morning.

“OPENAI EMPLOYEES: WILL YOU SPY ON YOUR NEIGHBORS?”

This war is just so fucking stupid that I can barely process its existence. Which of the currently cowardly Republicans in Congress could possibly crack an eyelid and then process enough sober analysis to become heroes and begin to pull us out of this insane game of Russian roulette?

It's not that i *want* these people to be better at doing evil, precisely, but having them be so damn incompetent and bumbling and even outright buffoonish while also somehow holding enough power to literally end the world is just really insulting

There must be, among the pantheon of old gods, one who would strike dead anyone who used, say, prediction markets to rig a bet on war using insider information. I would offer a prayer to that god.

Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said.

Scouting America says transgender kids are still welcome after Pete Hegseth claimed they weren’t-

"We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” the group's CEO, Roger Krone, said.
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

This is some next-level swiftboating

Florida just cut off HIV meds for 16,000 people.

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying