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Yes, ICE has deported U.S. citizens. And according to this report, they still don't require officers to update the system when they discover "probative evidence that an individual may be a U.S. citizen." So officers can discover that you're a citizen and just conceal it.
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San Antonio's mayor worked to build a strong relationship with Canada. Tariffs would decimate its economy. "The idea that all of a sudden we can become isolated and maintain prosperity for our people is just ludicrous," Ron Nirenberg said.

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

What in holy hell is happening in the USA?

What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the market must be obeyed at all costs.

Link to the full piece by @fotoole.bsky.social:
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for every 50 likes i’ll photoshop a muppet into movies i think they’d kill in.

Sharing these same images with alt text embedded for accessibility's sake, since many folks have disabilities making it impossible to 'read' text from images.

Folks, normalize adding alt text on your own. It is easy to do and, if you're not sure how to do so, plenty of folks can help with this.

Eugenics is alive & well in the US. The White House might say no one is getting affected or hurt by what they’re doing but we all know that is a big, fat lie.

Shalom friends,
As we find ourselves locked in digital battle with racists, antisemites, and fascists in our comments sections, let’s turn to the wisdom of the Talmudic sages for some inspo.
Welcome to “Ancient Disses, Modern Trolls!” 😬
#DafReactions #talmud

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It’s shocking how few people know about the #Tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas. Why? Because the CDC can’t issue notifications to alert healthcare workers about it. #PublicHealth

I don’t have a definitive source on this yet but it looks like NSF review panels have been canceled.

Sixty-some years ago, Eisenhower transformed higher education because he viewed a science education gap as the single greatest threat to national security.

This is absolutely an act of sabotage.

Wwwwhhhhaaaatttt. The. Fuck.

Trump firing career civil servants who were assigned to work on files investigating potential violations of the law by him isn’t the same thing as replacing political appointees. It’s punishing government lawyers for the cases they happened to be assigned to work on.

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Evil fuckers. Well done, Chicago.

What has been one of the biggest forces for social progress in the United States? The Black Church. There is a reason many Black Codes in the South prevented Black people from worshipping and organizing together. The same goes with Catholic workers protecting migrants at the border.

Disabled federal workers - I'm on signal if you feel comfortable sharing your story (anon is OK)

BTW, when I was looking up what denomination Josh Brecheen is a member of (he's non-denominational), I discovered that dude wants to legalize cockfighting in Oklahoma. I guess in his world the free exercise of religion is bad and animal cruelty is good.

Also never reported: As measles spread, RFK Jr. coordinated with a local anti-vaccine activist—connecting him with a group of anti-vaxx doctors in the U.S. to treat Samoa’s sick children with unproven cures. As hospitals filled with dying children, Kennedy's group promoted vitamins over vaccines.

RFK Jr. wanted a natural experiment of unvaccinated kids, which is messed up. But you know what's even worse? The result was unvaccinated kids dying of measles, and instead of the scientific conclusion that vaccination saves kids' lives, he concluded the opposite, and seeks to impose it on everyone.

Okay, Sheenanigans, Sheenies, Sheen-whatever, the fandom of our dearest man,

Fire TV says Unthinkable is "trending." I've been busy with Mom health. Is there something going on?

Egg prices are soaring again. Here’s why and what to expect Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH**

* Currently paused by Executive Order
** Grant reviews now all canceled
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If you wanted to drive women and caretakers out of the federal workforce and further reduce their economic opportunities in order to cement and act on the Trump, Vance, and GOP belief that women are second class citizens who must be forced into the home, you’d do this.

Scientists Experiment With Subjecting AI to Pain A team of scientists subjected AIs to a number of games, forcing them to choose between pain and gain or pleasure and loss.

You know what? We deserve Skynet.

Like, look, I'm starting to wonder if these scientists actually understand what sentience is, but even granting them the premise, you think something might be sentient so your first response is... to torture it?

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they do it quietly with encrypted apps and burner phones, but I know Catholics who were on this beat during the first Trump term. lists of white parishioners you could call if ICE showed up who would come right over and get between them and your door. Trained to read the fake warrants and everything

Holy shit McArdle outMcArdled herself

Yet another plea to people who are using or following people off follow-farming hashtags like #NoDemUnder1K, #NoDemUnder5K, #BlueCrew, #FBR, etc etc: please do not do that, it's how disinformation operations work. I'm already seeing accounts in those hashtags that are likely disinformation ops. 1/

Okay, Sheenanigans, Sheenies, Sheen-whatever, the fandom of our dearest man,

Fire TV says Unthinkable is "trending." I've been busy with Mom health. Is there something going on?