🚨🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS: Was just passed this from a fellow service academy grad. A Coast Guard Academy graduate posted this. They are reporting that ICE entered base housing and took a USCG spouse. I can’t confirm this but I’m calling for answers from the Coast Guard and Congress. This is unacceptable.

USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.

"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."

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NYT: One estimate finds that DOGE’s “firings, re-hirings, lost productivity and paid leave of thousands of workers” will actually COST taxpayers “upward of $135 billion this fiscal year.”

@nytimes.com 🤡
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Disgusting what women in academia deal with to have a baby. I was lucky it was my dept head trying to screw me and the Assoc Dean was being reasonable or it would have been a much messier, scarier fight. Been on a year-to-year contract for 20 years. That’s a topic for a whole other thread.

The $10M steered to Hope Florida by the state was Medicaid money, document shows A draft agreement of a $67 million settlement between the DeSantis administration and a Medicaid contractor that had overbilled the state sheds new light on how $10 million of that amount was diverted...

I'm sorry I know there's a lot going on but how are we not screaming about Ron DeSantis stealing $10 million from Medicaid and the money ending up with pro-DeSantis superPACs, funneled through a charity run by his wife?

HOW IS THIS NOT NATIONAL NEWS?
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They tried to do the “you can teach for free in summer to repay us” thing with me, too. I pointed out the illegality and thankfully they backed off.

🚨 🚨 Thanks to the gerrymandered Ohio GOP’s passage of a bill attacking higher ed, signed by Governor DeWine, The University of Toledo is suspending admissions to the following Bach. of Arts programs:
- Africana Studies
- Asian Studies
- Data Analytics
- Disability Studies
- Middle East Studies

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Trump’s current front-runners for SecDef are Mark Harmon’s character from NCIS reruns, Colonel Sanders, a Mar-a-lago gardener who wore camo cargo shorts once, and an AI-generated image of his face on Rambo’s body.

Over 600 religious sites destroyed in Ukraine since start of Russia’s full-scale war, Zelensky says The president said that at least 67 Ukrainian priests, pastors, and monks have been killed or tortured by Russian forces, and that 640 religious sites—most of them Christian—have been destroyed since ...

Volodymyr Zelensky said that at least 67 Ukrainian priests, pastors, and monks have been killed or tortured by Russian forces, and that 640 religious sites—most of them Christian—have been destroyed since the start of the full-scale invasion.

But clearly her GOP colleagues are okay with it, because they're letting it happen. Find me another rationale...

Today (🌲) might be a good day for universities to figure out the whole collective action thing

Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M • Ohio Capital Journal The Ohio Department of Medicaid department in 2022 gave powerful prescription drug middlemen the boot and created a new system. The result: Fees paid to pharmacies were boosted more than 1,200% while ...

Ohio Medicaid got rid of big middlemen. Says it paid pharmacies a lot more — and saved $140M ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/04/17/o...

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

also bravo

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Republicans pass Trump-backed tax plan that could drastically cut Medicaid Republicans will now have to detail what specific programs they will cut, including potential changes to Medicaid.

"GOP leaders have repeatedly stressed that their bill does not explicitly cut Medicaid... However, Medicaid will likely get cut by $880 billion as [it] comprises most of the committee's budget."

The math is simple. Republicans are cutting Medicaid.
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A screenshot of a post on X by user Andy Kim (@AndyKimNJ ). The post reads: "I introduced a bill to ban owning of individual stocks across all 3 branches. After what we saw over last few days, Americans deserve certainty that gov officials, Congress, others aren’t trying to profit from their jobs." Below the post, there is a snippet of an article from The New York Times with the headline: "Trump’s Encouragement of Stock Investors Draws Scrutiny." The subheading reads: "Was the president manipulating the market with his comments, as his critics say, or reassuring Americans, as the White House maintains?"

This is the way.

U.S. Reps. Pat Ryan (NY-18), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Chris Deluzio (PA-17), and Angie Craig (MN-02) and others in press conference Washington D.C.

“U.S. Reps. Pat Ryan (NY-18), Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Chris Deluzio (PA-17), and Angie Craig (MN-02) are today launching the Monopoly Busters Caucus, a new caucus with nine Founding Members to fight corporate greed and promote a pro-worker, pro-consumer, and pro-small business economic agenda.”

Laura Loomer Is a Warning No one else with direct access to the president has been as outwardly bigoted.

Laura Loomer is a testament to how much further to the right Trump has moved since his first term, and how much further he may be open to going, writes @alibreland.bsky.social.

Repeat after me:
"Fuck you, make me"

Making it clear that international students aren't safe in California is also a backdoor method to bankrupt the UC and Cal State systems - international students pay several times as much tuition as in-state students do

Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.

This is equal to or greater than the budget of five different cabinet departments (Justice, Treasury, Energy, Interior and Commerce).

They are building a concentration camp network that dwarfs entire federal agencies.

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence
16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world"
17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent"
18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial"
19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

The “Papers, Please” Presidency

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

#ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson lives in a $3.7 million D.C. townhouse with evangelical pastor Steve Berger, who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie."

Berger's project: ministering to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.”

Japanese and Chinese markets are down 8% and 10% respectively. Black Friday in 1929 was -11%. Tomorrow could easily be the worst crash in American history.

The worst thing? It’s 100% intentional.

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

“Our client, who was in the middle of seeking asylum, just disappeared.”

Lindsay Toczylowski represents 31-year-old Andry, a gay makeup artist from Venezuela who was flown to a notorious prison by the Trump administration after seeking asylum in the U.S.

MORE: www.cbsnews.com/news/venezue...

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

To be fair, one man technically does not have this kind of power; he has it only because he has the support of an entire political party and its movement