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The reply all blunder itself happens, is human, and is nothing compared to the multitude of "unsubscribe me from this list" reply alls that inevitably follow, and I will die on that hill.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.

Wild stuff. Furloughed employees within HHS got an email this morning telling them to set an out-of-office reply blaming Democrats for the shutdown.

"I take that email as coercing subordinates to engage in political activity," one worker told me.

www.huffpost.com/entry/out-of...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want

Everyone reading this needs to understand that if this goes into effect you - yes, you, individually, the person reading this right now - could be deemed a "narcoterrorist" by Trump and subjected to summary execution.

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GodDAMN

Wait are they really still learning to manually shepardize?! That makes me irrationally happy. I loved doing that at a law student tbh

Meanwhile "booktok" continues to grow. There's plenty of demand for book reviews.

There are more people still illegally stuck in CECOT.

Honestly Kirkland is actually better. Cute pup!

Why are places in the US that rely on foreign tourism suffering? Huh, it's a mystery. Must be because Vegas is too expensive now.

Yes all of that but I'd also like to see a breakout of foreign tourists. I certainly wouldn't risk a pleasure visit to the US right now on any kind of visa. Plenty of alternatives to Vegas in countries that aren't indiscriminately imprisoning foreigners and promising to do more of it.

My great-grandfather led a team of doctors that invented chemotherapy. He’s part of the legacy of breakthroughs in medical science that saved so many lives. And now we’re going to throw away years of groundbreaking research because we put a manifestly unqualified person in charge of public health.

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts

I truly cannot emphasize enough how this is straight up Lysenkoism.

Because of the incredible work of our nation’s scientists, we have our finger tips on the closest thing humanity has ever come to “a cure for cancer”, but brainworm over here doesn’t believe in it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/h...

“Groceries.”

They don't care. Even better.

Not satisfied with decimating tourism with the ever increasing headlines of unwarranted arrest and detention, they want to put a nail in the coffin. Aren't you glad you kissed the ring at the club world cup @fifaworldcup26.bsky.social ??

Unaffordable for many lol. RIP the economy. Especially all places in the US that have enjoyed tourist dollars.

Senator Elizabeth Warren: Firing of BLS commissioner is 'dangerous' Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) joins CNBC's 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss her reaction President Trump's firing of BSL chief, whether Congress is able to take action, and much more.

Elizabeth Warren went to CNBC today and destroyed Donald Trump on the economy. Trump is trying to bury this appearance with a tantrum on his failing media site.

Make sure this goes viral instead.

www.cnbc.com/video/2025/0...

People assume famous actors/comedians make way more money than they do...

I used to unsubscribe but I think that actually made it worse - many, if not most, are not legit and any response at all puts you on a "we've got a live one" list.

I don't think enough good things can be said about the people who worked hard to build the political pressure for his and everyone else's release, including senator van hollen. otoh there is no bottom to my contempt for the people who were urging the opposite course of action

Same. I still bring it up whenever possible. I think this did as much to normalize Trump and led to his winning in 2016 as anything else and I'll never forgive Fallon until he recognizes his complicity.

We made it!

Iirc, when PE took over Red Lobster they sold off the buildings and forced the restaurants to rent. Bankruptcy followed very quickly.