Why go all the way to El Salvador when we have torture camps that are just as horrific right here?
WIRED@wired.com · last yr.NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:
This Friday at 1 PM, the AK House Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing in Anchorage on ICE detainees being held in Alaskan prisons. #Alaskasky
Alaska House Judiciary Committee to hold a fact-finding hearing on ICE detention in state prisons
The committee has invited officials with the Department of Corrections, Department of Law, the American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska and attorneys representing several of the men to present.
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The head of the FDA tells us they're taking a look at the dietary guidelines and that the food pyramid is out. The food pyramid has not been in use since 2011 when MyPlate replaced it.
🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days. www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...
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It’s weird that people are interpreting this as an incorrect answer made in good faith, rather than “It’s Latin for ‘go fuck yourself’, Senator.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
Absolute master class in feature writing. Great article.
Alex Shephard@alexshephard.bsky.social · last yr.We sent @hooks.bsky.social to Greenland and he came back with a story about imperial folly, the return of the 19th century, and just what Donald Trump and his cronies are really up to there. It's the best thing I've read about Trump's second term newrepublic.com/article/1947...
Just to be clear, this is a violation of the fundamental ethical principle in clinical trial design called "equipoise." Equipoise means that no-one is exposed to excess risk just to test the therapy. That's specifically *why* vaccine trials don't use placebo arms. Ethical violation as POLICY.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr will require all new vaccines to undergo placebo testing, WaPo reports
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr intends to shift the way vaccines are tested, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing a spokesperson from the HHS.
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Ghoulish and cruel. 16 fewer beds at CRC means 16 more vulnerable Alaskan children sitting in an ER or inpatient psych bed. That means 16 fewer ER and inpatient psych beds, which are already in desperately short supply. #alaskasky
Alaska's News Source@alaskasnewssource.com · last yr.A vital short-term residential facility for teenagers and young people experiencing acute mental health crises will be closing soon due to a loss in state funding.
Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects
A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …
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I will never get over how much of the administrative state is regulated by memos. Like, Pam Bondi is dismantling the 4th Amendment with the same mechanism you use to tell coworkers un-labeled food in the fridge will be thrown out on Fridays.
KerrBear@kerrbear.bsky.social · last yr.Don’t let the arrest of a Federal Judge distract you from the announcement that ICE can enter anyone’s home without a warrant to look for migrants.
They’re holding deportation hearings for children without attorneys or parents present. This is pure, unadulterated fascism.
4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer: 'The cruelty is apparent'
The Trump administration cut funding for lawyers aiding unaccompanied minors in court.
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#skystorians , do any of my renaissance history people see parallels between Savonarola and Trumpism? A period of great economic and intellectual flourishing immediately followed by an obscuritan backlash?
This headline is straight out of 1937 Pravda.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · last yr.Breaking News: Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams said that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.
I am advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last yr.JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)
Alaskans: If you were disappeared to an El Salvadoran black site, do you think Lisa Murkowski or Dan Sullivan would come looking for you? #alaskasky
Four Alaskans have had their student visas revoked. #Alaskasky
Don@wormeguy.bsky.social · last yr.State of the University of Alaska System in regards to federal actions. 4 student at UAA had their visas revoked. UA has lost access to $5.4 million worth of grants while $6.9 million were reinstated after being frozen. A $46 million grant was canceled but that cancellation is now on hold. #akleg
Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.Wait so what is happening at our ports right now? What level tariffs are being collected?? bsky.app/profile/carl...
Criticism of boomers is valid, but most of the MAGA upper echelons are Gen X and millennials who just look 15-20 years older than they actually are.
Yesterday, REI retracted their public endorsement of Doug Burgum, Trump’s anti-environment pick for secretary of the interior! This comes after REI members and union workers spent MONTHS urging REI to undo this endorsement and commit to protecting our planet from harmful execs like Burgum.
When you just made a deal that will keep the Empire out of here forever
Capitulation will not save you.
Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
We are thrilled to have distributed more than 2,000 free masks to Alaskans, including over 600 masks to families preparing for a volcanic eruption! Now, for the first time, we are accepting donations to purchase masks and COVID-19 tests and ship them across #Alaska. ko-fi.com/alaskamaskbloc
160 years ago today, Confederate forces evacuated Richmond and enterprising entrepreneurs took full advantage of the marketing opportunity
Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan just voted to confirm grifting snake oil salesman Mehmet Oz to oversee your Medicaid, Medicare, and Denali Kidcare. They do not care about about working Alaskans. #alaskasky
I cannot stress this enough: the president does not have the power to regulate elections by executive order. It is journalistic malpractice not to mention this in the article. #alaskasky
Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org · last yr.President Trump's executive order last week to reshape U.S. elections might further disenfranchise voters in rural communities and lead to a drop in voter turnout for Alaska Native residents. “I think it'd be pretty devastating to rural vote,” said civic engagement adviser Jackie Arnaciar Boyer.