This is going to be important:

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German Tourist Detained by ICE While Visiting Fiancée: ‘Experience Nobody Wants’ Lucas Sielaff, 25, was taken into custody by immigration officers near the San Diego border.

The second German kidnapped and abused by the US Gestapo for no reason other than being in the US legally.
Everyone stop going to the US right now, this is not a drill.

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We strongly oppose the partisan and harmful Republican spending bill.

What is worse in this moment, a government shutdown, or a yes vote on the CR before the senate? For simplicity sake, let's assume a wrestling coach was my civics teacher. @danpfeiffer.bsky.social @jonfavs.bsky.social @jonlovett.bsky.social

Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel bring opposing views on abortion to the Wisconsin Supreme Court race In the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court, Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford bring contrasting statements and history on abortion.

How extreme is Brad Schimel?

He supports keeping a pre-Civil War abortion ban on the books in Wisconsin. Calls it “valid.”

If you don’t want Brad Schimel casting the deciding vote in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, vote for Susan Crawford.

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These times demand courage and leadership. Thank you Senator Baldwin for standing up for Wisconsinites.

@baldwin.senate.gov

Donald Trump just congratulated Chuck Schumer on his decision to vote YES on the Republican CR.

@schumer.senate.gov , you are on the wrong side!

Tillis Town Hall · Indivisible Join us as we host a TOWN HALL with Senator Thom Tillis! Do you remember the last time that he hosted a Town Hall? Neither do we! We have invited him to attend, but he has yet to respond. Even if he n...

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Coming to Greensboro! Thom Tillis Town Hall! The show will go on whether he shows up or not. He has been formally & cordially invited. *Seating is limited!*

Use the link below to register. You can also submit your questions.

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#northcarolina

this is a taxpayer-funded public social media account

OPINION: A letter to North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis As the Trump administration moves to dismantle federal education programs, the North Carolina parent of a child with a disability urges Sen. Thom Tillis to step up.

North Carolinians deserve representatives that will stand up to billionaires & bullies to protect the rights of children, students, and teachers. #thomtillisistoast #thisbuddsnotforyou
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Voting for a CR that guts VA Healthcare and social security benefits U.S. Veterans need to live is kind of like chopping off the hand that held the rifle that protected your freedom, allowing you to run for office. Support our servicemen and women with your vote or @thomtillisistoast.bsky.social

If my greatest contribution to society is to be the medical frontline - correcting RFK’s nonsense at every step - then I will do it.

For the vast majority, measles vaccination confers lifelong protection.

This isn’t complicated or debated.

Judge orders DOGE and Elon Musk to turn over documents, answer written questions The demands for information are designed to clarify the “parameters of DOGE’s and Musk’s authority.”

NEW: A federal judge, for the first time, has ordered discovery on Elon Musk’s role in DOGE and his authority over the massive overhaul of the federal bureaucracy.

w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

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Trump Is Still Trying to Undermine Elections Now that Trump has installed election deniers throughout his Administration, he has been busy dismantling the guardrails protecting voting and voters.

As Marc Elias, an elections lawyer who litigates on behalf of Democrats, told me, “When Donald Trump says that he does not believe there should be voting machines, you should believe him. When he says there should only be voting on Election Day, you should believe him.”

Dismantling the Department of Education has nothing to do with improving outcomes for our kids, it’s simply about taking away resources from our public schools.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.

Hey Thom Tillis, what do you think of your vote now?

Another reason why #ThomTillisIsToast

If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.

Here’s my reminder to you to call @fetterman.senate.gov a SPINELESS COWARD 💜

Thom Tillis will never change his vote no matter how many people are unable to get at least a staffer on the phone. It'll just make him fundraise harder.

He's vulnerable. We can rally behind his opponent in '26 (hey, Roy Cooper!) by registering voters phone banking and knocking on doors. And win.

No one ever said they were creative.

Abstract Anonymity is an important principle online. However, malicious actors have long used misleading identities to conduct fraud, spread disinformation, and carry out other deceptive schemes. With the advent of increasingly capable Al, bad actors can amplify the potential scale and effectiveness of their operations, intensifying the challenge of balancing anonymity and trustworthiness online. In this paper, we analyze the value of a new tool to address this challenge: "personhood credentials" (PHCs), digital credentials that empower users to demonstrate that they are real people-not Als—to online services, without disclosing any personal information. Such credentials can be issued by a range of trusted institutions- governments or otherwise. A PHC system, according to our definition, could be local or global, and does not need to be biometrics-based. Two trends in Al contribute to the urgency of the challenge: Al's increasing indistinguishability from people online (i.e., lifelike content and avatars, agentic activity), and Al's increasing scalability (i.e., cost-effectiveness, accessibility). Drawing on a long history of research into anonymous credentials and "proof-of-personhood" systems, personhood credentials give people a way to signal their trustworthiness on online platforms, and offer service providers new tools for reducing misuse by bad actors. In contrast, existing countermeasures to automated deception-such as CAPTCHAs-are inadequate against sophisticated Al, while stringent identity verification solutions are insufficiently private for many use-cases. After surveying the benefits of personhood credentials, we also examine deployment risks and design challenges. We conclude with actionable next steps for policymakers, technologists, and standards bodies to consider in consultation with the public.

🏆 Tonight, a policy paper that I and some incredible co-authors published late last year - on the rising need for decentralized, privacy-protecting ID credentials in the age of agentic AI - won an award at the Future of Privacy Forum’s Privacy Papers for Policymakers event 🙂

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House passes bill to fund federal agencies through September, though prospects unclear in Senate The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.

As prices continue to rise, the stock market keeps crashing, and Trump and Musk carry on with their coup, 216 of 217 House Republicans just voted to codify the harmful DOGE cuts that are a direct attack on working families, the economy, and the services everyday Americans rely on.

YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff Schiff Responds to Trump's Attack on Him LIVE on MSNBC

Donald Trump says no one has been tougher on Russia than he has. Does he think the entire country is stupid?

We can see what he's doing – denying Ukraine military, intelligence and diplomatic support – with our own eyes.

No one is blind to his betrayal of our ally.

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I want children to have equal access to education.

I want needy kids to have access to food.

Crazy radical me.
At least, according to this administration.

Justice Department office that prosecutes public corruption slashed in size, sources say Only a fraction of the Public Integrity Section’s employees — roughly a half-dozen — will remain in an office that had dozens of employees and oversaw cases nationwide.

DOJ’s Public Integrity Section leads cases of corruption by government officials, especially in smaller districts that lack resources and specialized expertise. Dismantling it is one more signal of open season for corruption.

The Trump Administration is ending two USDA programs help food banks and schools to buy local food.

Trump’s policies are bad for farmers, bad for children, and bad for people in need.