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What Are My Rights During an ICE Raid? Immigration law can be tricky, but here's what you should know.

Dealing with law enforcement can be stressful, so it’s important to know your rights before you’re face-to-face with ICE agents. While there’s never any guarantee that law enforcement officers will follow the law, here’s what they can and can’t legally do to you and what you can legally demand. ⬇️

Our team had an amazing week at @ic2s2.bsky.social in Norrköping Sweden and we will post pictures of our posters and talks soon - the big news is that we're so excited to host #IC2S2 in Burlington in 2026! youtu.be/p412S4GnPkc

I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

RFK Jr. and The Rise of the Anti-Vaxx Movement - Maintenance Phase A political candidate has some questions and we have some extremely obvious answers.Support us:Hear bonus episodes on PatreonDonate on PayPalGet Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and moreBuy Aubrey...

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Deliberate choice to omit that from the headline. "Line of duty" fits the copaganda narrative

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Alright everyone, one last push.

If you or anyone you know is:
- LGBTQ+
- 13-24 years old
- In the US

Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health.

It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :)

trvr.org/survey2025

In basements all over the country, information warriors are furiously prompting AI to generate synthetic images of massive crowds cheering on a military parade in Washington D.C.

Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests Survey of 2023–2024 data finds that AI created more tasks for 8.4 percent of workers.

Despite the widespread and often employer-encouraged adoption of AI tools, a new study finds that artificial intelligence chatbots "have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation."

i would imagine hasan knows, rationally, not to talk in situations like this. he did anyway because cops of all stripes are very good at making you feel like in *just this one particular situation* it makes more sense to talk a bit. don't ever give in to that impulse.

This has overwhelmingly been my experience with academia

Weight Watchers Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · 03/16/2021 · 51m

Never forget that Weight Watchers got its start by charging money for a free city-run diet program. We released a whole WW episode a few years ago: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

YouTube video by Media Matters How billionaires created the DEI panic

Hi, spent months working on this with @abbierichards.bsky.social and would love if you watched/shared! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD1n...

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

The onion always nails it but I find some of their funniest work those rare articles where they make trump this oddly lucid philosopher.

Pritzker: It’s time for us to be done with optimism about their motives. Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research… Autistic kids and adults who are loving contributors to our society don’t deserve to be stigmatized by a weird nepo baby who once stashed a dead bear in his car. Our military service members don’t deserve to be told by a washed-up Fox TV commentator, who drank too much before being appointed Secretary of Defense, that they can’t serve their country simply because they are Black, gay, or a woman.

Dear god let this man cook.

The United States of America is child trafficking.

As winter ends, we dream of the next one.

Information is now live for CNWW 2025 (Dec. 13-20) in Québec City!

Come learn, teach, and play with networks and network science in beautiful QC

More info to come but logistics and application form can be found here: vermontcomplexsystems.org/events/cnww/

When does it become appropriate to connect the president's decades-long push to expand the death penalty to the current project to abduct and imprison political dissidents? When do we take seriously the threat that he may attempt mass extermination?

"Gender and racial diversity socialization in science", a new published article by Weihua Li, Hongwei Zheng, Jennie E. Brand, and Aaron Clauset. Abstract: Scientific collaboration networks are a form of unequally distributed social capital that shapes both researcher job placement and long-term research productivity and prominence. However, the role of collaboration networks in shaping the gender and racial diversity of the scientific workforce remains unclear. Here we propose a computational null model to investigate the degree to which early-career scientific collaborators with representationally diverse cohorts of scholars are associated with forming or participating in more diverse research groups as established researchers. When testing this hypothesis using two large-scale, longitudinal datasets on scientific collaborations, we find that the gender and racial diversity in a researcher’s early-career collaboration environment is strongly associated with the diversity of their collaborators in their established period. This diversity-association effect is particularly prominent for men. Coupled with gender and racial homophily between advisors and advisees, collaborator diversity represents a generational effect that partly explains why changes in representation within the scientific workforce tend to happen very slowly.

🎉 Our new paper "Gender and racial diversity socialization in science" @natcomputsci.nature.com with @weihuali.bsky.social, H Zheng and @jenniebrand.bsky.social studies how early-career experiences with diversity drive more diverse teams later in a career 👉 /1
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A good discussion of potential jury tampering in Energy Transfer’s SLAPP lawsuit against Greenpeace

If any journalists are writing about the recent NSF cancellations, I can give you a good example of a grant that was framed as AI workforce development (and is not about misinformation) that seems as if it was cancelled due to a control-F for the word misinformation.

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative.

A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

YouTube video by Innuendo Studios The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the Rubicon

what are the steps you would only take if push came to shove?

and what constitutes a "shove"?

and how many shoves have you already gone through without noticing?

the final Alt-Right Playbook is now live.

it's called The South Bank of the Rubicon.

youtu.be/0YFdwfNh5vs

people who brand themselves as the last of a dying breed of strong masculine men being openly afraid of needles is so funny to me

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Got around to pushing all my @cuboulder.info Web Data Science @jupyter.org notebooks to @github.com

Enjoy! github.com/cuinfoscienc...

DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.

If you're in the market for the DNA of 15 million people, you're in luck www.404media.co/dna-of-15-mi...

Families of deported Venezuelans dispute gang claims after deportations under Alien Enemies Act NPR talked to the families of four men believed to be in El Salvador. None of them had a serious criminal record in the U.S. Only some had been charged with illegal entry. Three had signed their volun...

NPR talked to the families of four men believed to be in El Salvador. None of them had a serious criminal record in the U.S. Only some had been charged with illegal entry. Three

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage