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Map shows US World Cup team's immigrant backgrounds

Twelve of the 26 players on the American national team at the World Cup have immigrant or diasporic roots across eight countries.

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NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

ICE is offloading seven concentration camp warehouses. What does it really mean?

A Q+A with Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box

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One thing I learned when I was just out of college and watching 6-8 hours of Fox News a day for my research job at Media Matters: Ingesting hours of propaganda on a daily basis changes you, no matter how smart you think you are. If you don't notice the changes, that just makes you an easier mark.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

it's remarkable how like, you can visibly notice how people who still use X regularly are either getting dragged to the right (if on the centre-left or centre) or just getting more toxic in general

US-Iran talks in Switzerland abruptly called off

US-Iran talks in Switzerland abruptly called off

JD Vance’s staff were at the airbase ready to fly to summit in Bürgenstock for Iran talks before trip was suddenly cancelled Talks set to take place on Friday between the ⁠United States ⁠and ​Iran on implementing the 14-point agreement to end their war have been cancelled, Switzerland’s foreign ministry has announced. The talks were set to begin in the tiny Swiss village of Obbürgen on Friday, two days after the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that opened a 60-day window to negotiate a permanent understanding about Iran’s nuclear program while getting oil traffic moving through the strait of Hormuz. Continue reading...

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Trump Tells Federal Employees to Wear "Freedom" Pins—Or Else Park Service officials have threatened to discipline employees who refuse to wear Freedom 250 swag. Mother Jones: apple.news/ADFJJp_6TSvG... 🤦🤪🤡good grief, this regime is so pathetic, so insecure, so desperate to seem powerful

Trump Administration Tells Federal Employees to Wear "Freedom" Pins—Or Else — Mother Jones

Park Service officials have threatened to discipline employees who refuse to wear Freedom 250 swag.

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AI researchers and online privacy experts have long warned of the myriad dangers generative AI poses for personal privacy. These cases give us yet another scenario to worry about: generative AI exposing people’s real phone numbers.

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

People report that their personal contact info was surfaced by Google AI—and there’s apparently no easy way to prevent it. 

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💥 Apocalyptic scenes in Harouf, South Lebanon. Israel dropped bombs on residential buildings in the middle of the night. Entire families are now buried under the rubble. @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

❗SCOTUS ruled today a defendant can't just waive away their rights to an appeal if that'd be a miscarriage of justice. Gorsuch wrote a concurrence saying: If we don't limit this, prosecutors will keep pushing their luck. And he cited Bolts' article on waivers in Virginia to show how far they go:

Help save whales from being tangled in commercial fishing gear. Urge NOAA Fisheries and other decisionmakers to protect whales by supporting the use of safer, whale-friendly fishing gear. act.biologicaldiversity.org/oLFZY9zxBEeI...

Protect Whales From Deadly Entanglement

Help save whales from being tangled in commercial fishing gear. Urge NOAA Fisheries and other decisionmakers to protect whales by supporting the use of safer, whale-friendly fishing gear.

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WHOA. At least three passenger jets appear to have had rejected landings/go-rounds in ~30 minutes while that UFC light show was going a mile away. @aaronparnas.bsky.social previously reported a commercial pilot filed an FAA safety report about being “nearly blinded” by a test run of the lights.

The third week of 250 to 250 videos. #WeAreAmerica250

Week Three in 250 to 250

This was the second week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

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OPINION: "Cuts in funding and staffing have stressed NOAA’s ability to collect critical observations. Last year, retired NOAA scientists volunteered to staff hurricane hunter reconnaissance flights so the missions could still be flown," Brian Tang writes.

Opinion | Federal Cuts Threaten to Stretch NOAA to Its Breaking Point

Brian Tang writes about why investing in hurricane forecasting technology is worth the cost.

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Shame, shame, shame!

Brent Hennrich 🇺🇸 For Congress (D) 💯PRO CHOICE!@bhennrich.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At 6:08 PM today MGP crossed over with 3 other Democrats to pass the appropriations bill HR 8646. That bill passed by 3 votes. MGP was the leader of the deciding votes here. Had the Blue Dog Dems held with their colleagues there would have still been a chance to save proper funding levels for WIC.

This is the single most alarming thing I’ve seen yet from RFK Jr. He is attempting to get identifiable medical records from ALL OF US. “Under the proposal, HHS would get data from 90% of the population’s medical records by 2028”. This CANNOT be permitted to happen.

RFK Jr. seeks to peek at Americans’ medical records for clues on autism and vaccines | CNN

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medic...

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#MorningVibe The #Suffs march on Washington to demand the right to vote. Be inspired. We demand an amendment! #ERANow

One dog did this in two minutes. Original post

Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987. #WeAreAmerica250

Dr. Jelani Cobb is an author, journalist, and Dean of Columbia Journalism School. Cobb tells the story of John Peter Zenger, a newspaperman whose trial for printing critical statements about the royal governor of New York helped to define freedom of the press. #WeAreAmerica250

Where is the Governor?

@carpenter22.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... ‘We won’t stop until they’re free’: protesters outside a New Jersey ICE facility in their own words

This needs to be every day.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2mo ago

Trump had an especially shitty day today. Bad for him, good for us. ☠️ Artists are canceling Trump-linked Freedom 250 concerts in droves ☠️ A federal judge ordered Trump’s name removed from the Kennedy Center ☠️ A judge halted Trump’s $1.8 billion slush-fund

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House

There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.

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The Justice Department removed hundreds of pages from its website detailing prosecutions and convictions of people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot on the U.S. Capitol, including many from Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania.

Trump's Justice Department purges information about convicted Jan. 6 rioters from Pennsylvania

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If you've noticed an uptick of pro-Russia tankies hating on Ukraine, here is why: Russia hijacked hundreds of BlueSky accounts to spread propaganda and disinformation. This is why we also increased the anti-Kremlin posts by 300%. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

Dan Vergano@danvergano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final approval of research grants These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

NEW: Trump's gross Aliens.gov site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.

The White House’s Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens

The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there.

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In Spokane WA three ice demonstrators have been convicted this week.

Katy Tur on Trump's $1.8 Billion slush fund: The January 6th rioters are clearly who this is intended for. David Dempsey, who stomped on an officer's head, went on an hour-long rampage. Sentenced to 20 years in prison. Donald Trump pardoned him. And now we're going to pay him?

Lots of chatter about whether DOJ is investigating E. Jean Carroll. Most of it misses the key issue: Even if DOJ wants to indict, doing so could create major legal problems like vindictive prosecution claims. The reporting conflicts; the legal implications don't. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

E. Jean Carroll

Is DOJ investigating her, or not?

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What a f***ed up country we're living in. The more unpopular this regime gets, the more they tighten the screws.

Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 2mo ago

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

Jeff Tischauser@jtischauser.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Greg Bovino will speak at a white nationalist conference in Portugal tomorrow. He will share the stage with no fewer than five people who idolize Hitler, including one who joined a group created by two Nazi SS members. Another guy is a self-described racist who refers to women as "cockroaches."🧵