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To put this into context, the judicial warrant for the search at the Hyundai plant named just four people. Relying on that warrant, ICE detained nearly 500 people. DHS admitted that included U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and people lawfully here on visas.
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Did you reach Cool Hand Luke territory?
New Hampshire election officials are again denying a request by the Trump administration to turn over sensitive voter information, despite repeated demands and a deadline imposed by federal officials. ow.ly/gEMj50WNRBJ
seriously thought the same thing
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Just saw this on April - it’s absolutely amazing. Just incredible
New level of dystopia achieved: A state Supreme Court has announced a death sentence ruling via an AI spokesman
Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
Stage 1: We build a nuclear reactor on the moon. Stage 2: ?
goddamn corn sweat season
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are getting access to the personal data of nearly 80 million people on Medicaid in order to acquire "information concerning the identification and location of aliens in the United States,” according to an information exchange agreement viewed by WIRED.
This is now a Cole Palmer fan account.
Living Colour releases “Cult of Personality” as a single today in 1988. “It’s not a condemnation,” said singer Corey Glover. “It’s more of a commentary on how we, as a culture, are drawn to strong personalities. Sometimes we follow without question. That’s what makes it dangerous.”
The Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times has obtained a list of more than 700 people who have been detained or appear to be scheduled to be sent to the Florida-run immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz.
4 U.S. citizen children, with their mother, held in a detention facility for 2 WEEKS. Denied access to lawyers and even communication with family. Disappeared. Held Incommunicado. No charges have been filed.
The report from @rebuildlocalnews.bsky.social and @muckrack.com finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.
I went to journalism school. I have a degree in this shit. I had one of the great editorial page editors and writers I’ve ever encountered for a professor, twice. And I gotta tell you: they do not teach you to studiously avoid calling racism or genocide by their names. That’s NYTimes making Choices.
I am going to be so fascinated to read the post-mortem about how a revolt lead by tech billionaires lead to a gutting of both scientific research, university education and immigrant labor, all key prerequisites to the very existence of their industries.
"Sean Duffy is now in charge of NASA" is one of those many, many events that's so stupid people would laugh at you for even thinking of it, and yet it's our lives now. Things like "the president ordered the Army to turn the big California water knob" are just the everyday shit we live with.
Helen Keller and LL Cool J were alive at the same time. We don’t know what to do with this information, but we thought we should tell you.
'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'
For the first half of my kindergarten year, my family lived in a shitty little apartment complex somewhere in Central Texas. I forget where. I think Waco? Copperas Cove? We moved around a lot. If memory serves correctly, I attended three different schools that year. (thread)
The funeral of Diogo Jota and his brother, Andre Silva, has been held in their hometown, Gondomar. Virgil van Dijk and Andy Robertson carried flowers depicting the players' squad numbers, 20 and 30, before two beloved human beings who will never be forgotten were laid to rest ❤️
The GOP passed a budget that will eviscerate health care in rural areas. They delayed much of the impact for after the midterms, hoping the public will think any discussion of the impending collapse is hyperbolic. Local reporters have a chance to do service journalism that'll make a splash too.
For the life of me I don’t understand going to the effort - time, money, everything - of running for Congress, winning, and then just rolling over. It makes no sense.
The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...
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The Trump administration has spent months illegally impounding funds in the name of waste, fraud, and abuse. Congressional Republicans are now seeking to cut GAO, an organization dedicated to rooting out waste, frauds abuse, roughly in half.
Shout out to Lauren Chooljian and @nhpr.org
Once again, @theonion.com nails it
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John Snow didn’t fuck up the Broadstreet pump for this
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A must listen
In 2023, the head of a Tennessee juvenile detention center told us, “What we do is treat everybody like they’re in here for murder. You don’t have a problem if you do that.” Now, Richard L. Bean is out of a job after the mayor "lost confidence" in him. @paigepfleger.bsky.social @wpln.bsky.social
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Here begins 11 straight weekends with no Premier League football 😰
The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable
REECE LIFTING A TROPHY! 🏆💙
“Rapid unscheduled assembly”
Exactly
In U.S. v. Lovett (1946), the Supreme Court held that not even Congress, in a bill signed by POTUS, may cut off all contracts with a named individual or organization: that’d be an unconstitutional bill of attainder. Only courts can decide who deserves to be punished. SoTrump can’t do it with an EO!
And it’s coming from inside the house
It’s crucial to keep emphasizing that these EOs were lawless. There was never a plausible argument they were constitutional. This administration has nothing but contempt for the constitution and the rule of law.
/2 And note how clearly this judge says “the administration is full of shit on their racial discrimination argument and they know they are full of shit.”
Buried deep in the text of the more than 1,000-page bill is a measure to restrict the federal courts’ authority to hold officials in contempt if they violate court orders.
NEW: More than a dozen high-ranking executive branch officials and congressional aides made well-timed trades since Trump took office, most of them selling stock before the market plunged amid fears that Trump’s tariffs would set off a global trade war.
Don’t buy Jake Tapper’s shitty book. The only way these people will ever stop doing this is if we stop rewarding them for it.
Not quite. Habeas Corpus is not just for American citizens or people who are here legally, @slotkin.senate.gov. It would be helpful to remind everyone that the Constitution protects ANY person that's in the United States. Not just citizens.
/2 Anyway next time you see eight thugs in masks leap out of an unmarked van to grab a college junior because she wrote an op-ed, be sure to give due consideration to their need for safe spaces
Your regular reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.
Unbelievable Reece 😍💙💙💙
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Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes Not need - just feed the war cannibal animal. They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells #IFYYK
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It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?
Ah, life in a fact free universe. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...
“There should be a law prohibiting Presidents from accepting gifts from foreign governments.”
Judge: There is no evidence here absent the op-ed. That creates very significant substantial claim that 1st Amendment protected speech formed the basis for the detention Suggests the reason she was detained was her expression.
Manchester Board of Mayor and Aldermen Votes to Remove Limits on Public Comments; City Approves NEFAC Changes to Civility Ordinance and Increases Protections for Expression www.nefac.org/news/manches... #FirstAmendment
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JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...
@propublica.org wins the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its amazing coverage of the consequences of abortion bans, showcasing the women who died. It’s the second year in a row in which ProPublica has won the Pulitzer Gold Medal! 🎉
... that inevitably will be used by future administrations to penalize any nonprofit whose speech falls out of favor with those in power. FIRE calls on President Trump to stop jawboning and to follow the law.
That win is massive! 🔵 #CFC | #CHELIV
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I think babies dying in their sleep is bad, and research to prevent babies from dying in their sleep is good. Sorry to get so partisan, and I apologize for offending any pro-life people when I say that babies suddenly dying in preventable ways is bad, but that's how I feel.
There’s no Alien Enemies Act exception to the Fourth Amendment.
The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The office overseeing the enforcement of child support payments nationally has been hollowed out.
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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
the thing I hate most about that rfk quote is that autistic lives have value and worth and beauty and dignity whether they are able to do the things other people do or not. no one is defined by ability or lack thereof and to frame divergence as lack is monster stuff, utterly godless
Leaving a bookstore with your arms full of books has big "look at these cool rocks I found" energy
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
Spring in #NH
Nonsensical
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If you are into beer at all @athleticbrewingco.bsky.social has an amazing selection.
David does a good job outlining due process’ practical and moral components www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...
NYT: "As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively stripping away the public record, letting the president declare his own version of history, archivists and historians said." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/t...
GET IN!!! 🔵✊ #CFC | #CHETOT
CNN reporting that everyone who administers LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) has been terminated. The program provides about $4 billion to help millions of Americans with their heating and cooling bills. www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...
I am not giving up on the FOIA. Going to continue to fight like hell for records.
Love this!
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“Anything a quorum of a committee is seeing is a public record and ought to be provided publicly,” NEFAC President Gregory V. Sullivan recently told the Concord Monitor. “Then, at least, people can see what it is they’re talking about.” #opengov www.concordmonitor.com/Sunshine-Wee...
Aldermen Will Revisit Public Comment Limitations | Manchester Ink Link
Summersalt or cupshe
SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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Dolphins and whales have developed some unique mechanisms for staying safe while they sleep underwater (and no, they don’t involve magnesium supplements). 🧵⬇️
Public records should be public! WIRED is going to lift the paywall on articles based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, in partnership with @freedom.press, to make this reporting free to access for anyone. proud as always to work at @wired.com!