The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Tyee Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.

The Canadian Company Staffing 'Alligator Alcatraz' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it Journalism about ICE is increasingly under attack by officials who prefer government propaganda

The government is putting more and more pressure on journalists reporting on ICE.

We all must speak out against these chilling tactics.

Trump deported a 2 year old American citizen.

‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

Breaking News: A federal prosecutor interrogated the The New England Journal of Medicine — which is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal — in what its editor described as a “vaguely threatening” letter.

American Concentration Camps | Chris Hedges Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps including those in El Salvador it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

American Concentration Camps | Chris Hedges www.filmsforaction.org/articles/ame...

Cold-blooded murder by vicious psychopaths is a euphemism in this case.

With CDC injury prevention team gutted, 'we will not know what is killing us' Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

Workers who track data on car crashes, drownings, traumatic brain injury, falls in the elderly, and other perils lost their jobs. Advocates worry life-saving work will stop.

I think one reason for disdain is too many college graduates took their degrees that very way. Many working class people in the midwest (personal origins) felt intimidated, inferior and eventually aggressive about not having had the time, resources etc. to get that piece of paper.

Stand Up, Harvard! — Mass 50501 Tell Harvard leadership: defend our academic community! Join us at a protest on Cambridge Common, jointly planned by AAUP Harvard, Mass 50501, and the Cambridge City Council.

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The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back. Thorn forest once blanketed the Rio Grande Valley. Restoring even a little of it could help the region cope with the impacts of climate change

The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.

Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

grist.org/solutions/th...

#RioGrande #Forest #Trees #Climate #Environment

He didn't blink. He cashed in so he can do it again. Countries should NOT "negotiate" with this guy. The US no longer honors its word, so why even try?

DAY OF MASS MOBILIZATION.
SHOW UP. FIGHT BACK.

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Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters Climate experts expressed shock and dismay at the move. “It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” one said.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in America | Margaret Sullivan Series of actions this week including at Princeton and in a tiny town, offer hope that courageous voices can make a difference

The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in America | Margaret Sullivan

We filed an amicus brief alongside @theintercept.com and 59 other media organizations and press freedom advocates to challenge Trump’s executive order threatening legal representation and press freedom.

Read it here: theintercept.com/2025/04/09/t...

they've certainly given themselves the means to turn the government into the scary monstrous money stealing unhelpful tyrannical no good very bad bogeyman the Heritage Foundation has been screaming it is since the 70s, so that's something

The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump. At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump.

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#Mining #DeepSea #Sea #Ocean #Climate

A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump's plan to fast-track industrial fish farming in the Gulf A federal judge in Washington has ruled against the Trump administration's efforts to put industrial fish farms in federal waters.

A federal judge just hit the brakes on Trump’s plan to fast-track industrial fish farming in the Gulf.

Advocates for marine health say aquaculture "has no place in U.S. ocean waters."

grist.org/food-and-agr...

#Gulf #Climate #Fish #Shrimp #Agriculture #MarineLife

1) Do something autocratic
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat

Also he stole all our data

@danirabaiotti.bsky.social had a huge role in bringing scientists over in the very early days of Bluesky. She & @bossett.social created the Science Feed and both deserve much praise for their time and hard work! @katharinehayhoe.com also brought over many scientists and helped people connect!

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ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

A lot more people need to internalize the position "I'd rather die fighting than die giving them what they want."

Press Coalition Challenges Trump’s Executive Order Threatening Press Freedom and Legal Representation Sixty-one media organizations and press freedom advocates filed an amicus brief warning of the chilling effect on First Amendment rights.

We have joined several orgs in filing an amicus brief urging the court to halt a Trump admin order placing sanctions on law firm Perkins Coie, which represented Trump's political opponents. The order threatens organization's access to legal counsel theintercept.com/2025/04/09/t...

So far looks like Columbia humiliated itself for nothing.