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Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

I don't even know what to say about @aaron.bsky.team announcing that actually they feed all images posted on Bsky into an AI that just a year ago they told everyone they had banned from using Bsky images

Barack Obama Reacts To Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Says Media Companies Need To “Start Standing Up” To Trump Team’s “Dangerous” Cancel Culture Obama said that the Trump administration has taken cancel culture to a "new and dangerous level," and media companies need to stand up to it.

OBAMA: "After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire .. commentators it doesn’t like.”

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I’ve never used that fabric before but did you finish off the seam edges? If it’s a fabric that frays then it helps to either serge or zigzag the seam allowance. Maybe someone else will weigh in on this too

EPA Workers Face Retaliation Over Dissent Declaration On Monday, hundreds of EPA workers published a Declaration of Dissent criticizing their leadership. Now, they’re getting placed on leave pending review.

NEW: EPA workers who signed onto the “Declaration of Dissent,” sent out Monday criticizing Administrator Lee Zeldin’s leadership, are facing retaliation.

144 have received letters placing them on administrative leave pending an investigation.

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Narciso Barranco is a father of three Marines and longtime Orange County resident who was punched repeatedly in the head by ICE agents.

Mr. Barranco is represented in Congress by Republican Young Kim, who is introducing a resolution this week commending ICE "for keeping our communities safe."

This.

Literally trillion dollar bills sitting on the sidewalk and we're refusing to pick them up

An Il-76 transport plane has arrived at Engels-2 airbase, likely carrying Kh-101/555 cruise missiles

Possible prep for another massive strike on Ukraine - per Telegram channels

We make jokes about this sometimes because it’s laughable. But when journalists try to make sense of the nonsensical, rational out of the irrational, and coherence out of the incoherence, they affirmatively do the public interest great harm.

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

Remember that the ICE agents claimed they were looking for a totally different person before they smashed this guy’s car windows? And how he had asylum already?

Well, looks like that might not have even been a ruse. ICE didn’t even file a notice to appear in court, they clearly had nothing on him.

Department of Homeland Security admits the home of this Oklahoma City family was mistakenly raided. Federal agents burst into the family’s home, held the mom and her three daughters at gunpoint, and seized valuable possessions. Family has been left terrified and traumatized.
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NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler had a local social worker physically dragged out of his town hall Sunday night.

Emily Feiner was singled out by private security, lifted out of her seat, as the crowd chanted “let her stay” and “shame, shame.”
She’s a constituent.
Not a threat.
Fascism again.

A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a…

A DOGE staffer involved in dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau holds as much as $365,000 worth of shares of companies that the CFPB can regulate. Ethics experts say his actions are a potential violation of federal ethics laws.

We’re just two months away from Election Day, yet 50% of New Yorkers still have no idea who I am or what this movement is all about.

The only way we can win is by bringing our message to as many doors as possible — and we need your help to do so.

X and Musk are now fully tuned algorithmically to push politics far right in every country his band of rightwingers see fit. A massive propaganda and disinfo machine deluding dupes and public discourse.

Three U.S. citizens, ages 2, 4 and 7, swiftly deported from Louisiana The cases have renewed concerns that the Trump administration’s expedited deportations are violating the rights of both citizens and noncitizens.

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time.

“One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.

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One of the most shocking things I have read for a while:
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Until now. For instance, the cancer scientist Kseniia Petrova, a Russian immigrant who worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab, has been in a Louisiana ICE prison for two months now, and is facing deportation to Russia because she allegedly lied to a border control officer about carrying frog embryos for research purposes. Not only is this likely false—she told NBC News that she did tell the officers the truth—but the usual penalty for such a piddling violation is a $500 fine, knocked down to $50 for a first offense. Instead, ICE revoked her J-1 visa and threw her in prison pending a hearing to deport her back to Russia, where she might easily end up in prison or dead for criticizing the Putin regime. Petrova is not just any cancer scientist—she is perhaps the world’s top expert on analyzing the images produced by a new cutting-edge, ultra-specialized microscope that is being developed to diagnose cancer cases. Leon Peshkin, Petrova’s manager, told NBC that the task “requires a unique set of skills because you have to both be able to work as an embryologist and do applied math, modeling, data analysis and bioinformatics—all in one package.” Nobody else in the lab could do what she does, he added.

one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
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Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more than 90 people in 48 hours, Palestinians say Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 90 people have been killed by Israeli strikes in 48 hours. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

“The dead include 15 people who were killed overnight, among them women and children, some of whom were sheltering in a designated humanitarian zone, according to hospital staff.”

NYT: “.. The gold card project is being led from the DOGE side by .. Edward Coristine .. a 19-year-old who publicly goes by ‘Big Balls’ [and] was fired in June 2022 from an internship at .. an Arizona-based data security company ..”

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Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multi-billion-dollar franchise.

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)

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.