@kevfoster.bsky.social
"A concerted effort to present an insurmountable legal and financial challenge for Uk Mao, with the aim of making it impossible for him to continue reporting on environmental crimes."
28.06.2025 18:40 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
#ICYMI: We previously reported on how a DOGE staffer with no government or health care experience created an AI tool to mark VA contracts as “munchable.”
Among the contracts it canceled: critical projects to help improve cancer treatment and nursing care.
Trump White House trying to send Hispanic small business owners to prison for up to ten years for “harboring” undoc’d immigrants www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/u...
17.05.2025 16:11 — 👍 689 🔁 282 💬 69 📌 15
In March, the U.S. ambassador to Gambia wrote to Gambia’s president with an “important request,” urging him to circumvent his country’s communications minister and “facilitate the necessary approvals for Starlink to commence operations.”
18.05.2025 01:30 — 👍 721 🔁 367 💬 34 📌 41Jaw-dropping behavior. He was the lead defendant in this case.
"Martin appeared to be 'deliberately interfering with a judicial proceeding with the intent to undermine the integrity of the outcome,' said Scott Cummings, a professor of legal ethics at UCLA School of Law. 'That’s not OK.'”
Civil cases were brought against him by Trump's now-defunct Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey and the Mohegan Sun in Connecticut, according to court documents. The Trump Taj Mahal sued Isaacman in July 2009 in connection with a line of credit he got in November 2005. Isaacman wrote four checks in 2008 for a total of $1 million but his bank account did not have the funds for them to be cashed, according to the complaint. The case was settled in 2011 for $650,000.
Trump’s nominee to run NASA once kited checks at his Atlantic City casino, among others. www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-...
27.04.2025 01:20 — 👍 1203 🔁 384 💬 54 📌 43
A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
“It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one tariff policy lobbyist told ProPublica. “To be honest, this was such a hurried mess, I am not sure who got into the White House to talk to folks about the list.”
New, @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @propublica.org
With Trump reportedly planning to end the IRS Direct File program, there's no better time to remember how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free.
(Published 2019)
Two Democratic appointees to the Federal Trade Commission were raising the alarm Thursday: A group controlled by the world's richest man might be accessing a trove of confidential business records — including those of his competitors buff.ly/WHjiIMo
12.04.2025 18:00 — 👍 66 🔁 51 💬 2 📌 2
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10.04.2025 02:24 — 👍 12071 🔁 3749 💬 223 📌 198
Sure was a lucky break for those billionaires to be at the White House today when the tariffs were reversed. Good day in the market for them.
10.04.2025 01:19 — 👍 7544 🔁 2482 💬 575 📌 183
Never in my decade of filing FOIA requests have I gotten a response like this. Customs and Border Protection denies my request, saying "Due to law enforcement sensitivities we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of records." No exemption cited, no name of who wrote this.
03.04.2025 00:57 — 👍 7720 🔁 2180 💬 302 📌 141The corrupt vote buying scheme seems rigged because of course.
01.04.2025 15:15 — 👍 574 🔁 173 💬 46 📌 15What Leavitt says here is an *abject falsehood*
Her claim to having seen it first hand is quite something.
Even JD Vance backed off his initial claim. After being exposed, Vance pivoted from "convicted" to "an Immigration Judge ... determined" (in an immigration bond hearing).
Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
01.04.2025 22:11 — 👍 4615 🔁 2422 💬 330 📌 399there are no shittier humans than Jim Banks
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ALIEN ENEMIES ACT: ALIEN ENEMY VALIDATION GUIDE In the case of: ________________________________ A-File No:__________________ 1. The person named above is fourteen years or older: 2. The person named above is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States: 3. The person named above is a citizen of Venezuela: If any of these three requirements are not satisfied, the person named above shall not be ordered removed under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). In such a case, you should consult your supervisor and the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor (OPLA), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and, where applicable, initiate removal proceedings under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). 4. The person named above is validated as a member of Tren de Aragua (TDA), as determined by reference to the following evaluation form: Instructions: Complete the following validation evaluation form for each suspected alien targeted for removal under the AEA, or, following apprehension, for each alien potentially subject to an AEA removal. After accounting for the two comments below, aliens scoring 8 points and higher are validated as members of TDA; you should proceed with issuing Form AEA-21B, titled, “Notice and Warrant of Apprehension and Removal under the Alien Enemies Act.” Aliens scoring 6 or 7 points may be validated as members of TDA; you should consult with a supervisor and OPLA, reviewing the totality of the facts, before making that determination; if you determine an alien should not be validated at this time as a member of TDA, when available, you should initiate removal proceedings under the INA. Alien scoring 5 points or less should not be validated at this time as member of TDA; when available, you should initiate removal proceedings under the INA.
The following alt-text is excerpted of a larger checklist, as the whole page doesn't fit within alt-text character limits. Comment 2: For purposes of validating an alien as a member of TDA, at least one scoring category must involve conduct occurring, or information received, within the past five years. Valuation Explanation Category Definition Explanation Points Judicial Outcomes and Official Documents a. Subject has been convicted of violating Title 18, United States Code, Section 521 or any other federal or state law criminalizing or imposing civil penalties for activity related to TDA 10 b. Court records (e.g., indictments, criminal complaints, sentencing memorandums) identifying the subject as a member of TDA, describing specific activity of TDA 5 Self-Admission a. Subject self-identifies as a member or associate of TDA verbally or in writing to law enforcement officer, even if that self identification to a law enforcement officer is unwitting, e.g., through lawful interception of communications. 10 Criminal Conduct and Information a. Subject participates in criminal activity (e.g., narcotics trafficking, human smuggling, etc.) with other members of TDA, including preparatory meetings and significant incidents directly attributed to TDA 6 b. Law enforcement or intelligence reporting identifying subject as a member of TDA, to include Bureau of Prisons validations and reliable foreign partner information. 4 c. Credible testimonies/statements from victims, community members, or informants that affirm the subject’s membership in or allegiance to TDA. 3 d. Detailed open-source media (e.g., newspapers, investigative journalism reports) that describe arrest, prosecution, or operations of a subject as a member of TDA 2 e. Subject conducts and/or facilitates business with TDA (e.g., money laundering, mule, service provider) 2 Documents and Communications
Final page: Association a. Surveillance documentation that a subject is frequently observed closely associating with known leaders and members of TDA 2 b. Subject part of group photos with two or more known members of TDA 2 c. Subject presently resides with known members of TDA 2 Total Points VALIDATION DETERMINATION Note: If any of the four requirements are not satisfied, do not complete this validation determination. Based on the validation guide and instructions above, including Comments 1 and 2, I find that the person named above, _______________________________________________: 1. Is fourteen years or older; 2. Is not a citizen or lawful permanent resident of the United States; 3. Is a citizen of Venezuela; and 4. Is a member of Tren de Aragua. Accordingly, the above-named person is validated as an Alien Enemy. _____________________ _________________________ __________________ Name of Agent/officer Signature of agent/officer Date completing the form completing the form ______________________ _________________________ ____________________ Name of Supervisor Signature of Supervisor Date
NEW: @aclu.org obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide," confirming all it takes to be sent to rot in prison in El Salvador is being Venezuelan and 1) having a tattoo an ICE officer says is a "gang tattoo" and 2) displaying "logos," "symbols" or clothes an ICE officer says are gang signs.
30.03.2025 16:37 — 👍 13558 🔁 6755 💬 539 📌 673
It’s not uncommon for foreigners to buy U.S. stock through a vehicle in the Cayman Islands, often to save money on taxes. But experts said it was strange for the party on the other side of a deal — the U.S. company — to prefer such an arrangement.
@justinelliott.bsky.social
@josh-kaplan.bsky.social
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday signed into law a massive higher education overhaul to ban diversity efforts, regulate classroom discussion, and prohibit faculty strikes, among other things. The law will take effect in 90 days.
30.03.2025 13:47 — 👍 39 🔁 33 💬 29 📌 14The whole point of due process is TO SEE IF YOU’VE VIOLATED THE LAW
29.03.2025 18:47 — 👍 5841 🔁 1175 💬 139 📌 64Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
26.03.2025 17:41 — 👍 36663 🔁 16377 💬 1860 📌 1048She appears to have been taken to an ICE facility in Louisiana, against a judge’s orders
26.03.2025 21:18 — 👍 3529 🔁 1217 💬 98 📌 57
A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Reuters
Exclusive: DOGE staffer, 'Big Balls', provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
ICE officers arrested 54-year-old Julio Noriega and moved him into a van before he could explain himself, he said.
He spent several hours in an ICE processing center before officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.
By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
Unearthed flight data now reveals that a member of the unsecured Trump admin war planning group chat was in Russia during the time it was being used.
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more than halfway there
22.03.2025 19:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
ya no te ves por el librito de rostros
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