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Los Angeles school worker shares frustration over parents having to leave their children’s graduation ceremony because ICE raided an elementary school’s graduation today

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Favorite pope, Leo
Favorite drink, O'Doul's
Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls

Probably the best news for the Bears in decades

Okay but wait till Drake does Family Matters at the Grey Cup halftime show

Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos The mass-archiving effort is in response to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removing some of its web pages.

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@ebi.embl.org:

Many scientists are worried that vital biomedical data housed in U.S. government databases is at risk.

Which aspects of NCBI are mirrored on EMBL-EBI?
Do you plan to back up more U.S. data?

@altcdc.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

[as we are dragged off to camps] are you being ironic

Exclusive: Trump administration canceling flights for nearly 1,660 Afghan refugees, say U.S official, advocate Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday.

"The group includes unaccompanied minors awaiting reunification with their families in the U.S..."

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Elon admits that any post on X with a link is throttled

He advises you to upload content directly to X instead, where he can monetize it

Musk is the richest person in the world and his view is everyone should work for him for free

The macOS X team getting rid of resource forks but keeping .DS_Store files is an actual crime

Your quick little reminder that if you follow this account, people from Mastodon/the Fediverse can follow you, which will hopefully make switching again in 1-2 years easier when this place gets turned into a dump by cryptobros: bsky.app/profile/ap.b...

a pixel art of a man standing under a rainbow on a blue background Alt: a pixel art of Levar standing under a rainbow on a blue background

Okay, y’all… I have finally decided that retreat is the better part of valor. Bringing some rainbow energy over to these blue skies.
#bydhttmwdi

Entire states became sundown towns last week. Move accordingly y’all. And perhaps literally move.

"The worst excesses of the Biden regulatory state" and it's just patently good things. Non-competes, climate disclosure, credit card late fees?

I actually found the passage - "Aslan looked at him askance, horns pointed at an awkward angle. "Remember, Tyrion," he said, "A Lancaster always pays his debts. A fact the Horse Guys would do well to remember."

the closing argument for harris

The news media is (say it with me like verdi’s chorus of hebrew slaves) Republican

tweet from naomi wolf: I endorsed Pres Donald Trump yesterday. Today all day my phone froze, the cursor on my computer started wandering around the desktop, and my wifi continually disconnected. All coincidentally.

best post of all time and it’s not even close

In a weird way, the LA Times and WaPo stories were reassuring. All this going crazy about, “Why aren’t they reporting his racist comments/dementia/whatever?” and it turns out that, yeah, they were in the tank for him the whole time.

I thought Heat vs. Raptors was decided 65 million years ago

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON HENRY KISSINGER STAY IN LINE ‼️

This is… a lot. But exceptionally well-written. https://www.guernicamag.com/the-protagonist-is-never-in-control/

This feels like an evolution of the, “If they stopped making such a big DEAL out of it, it would just go away” trope

Everybody has a balance between “I need to stay informed about current events” and “This thing that is not putting me in immediate danger is having serious effects on my mental health” and that’s super okay

The only sentence I don’t agree with is “We don’t deserve you”.

Oh my God I did not realize there were actual third party apps that were not the turd official app THANK YOU

The title screen for the Super Nintendo game "Super Conflict: The Mideast"

Hey, if anybody out there beat this game, we could probably use your help right now