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I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Ok so the story on Ceuta is: a bunch of Moroccans crossed the border (possibly with the encouragement of their government), 57 of them died, almost all of the rest went back to Morocco and somehow "Western Civilization" is the victim here?
Spain says migrants are returning from Ceuta after 57 die in border rush
Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already headin...
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Great news; yet another court finds that ICE and the DOJ were wrong to declare that Congress secretly mandated detention of millions of noncitizens in 1996 (specifically, anyone who entered unlawfully at some point in the past, no matter how long ago), and that no one had noticed until now.
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 6d ago9th Cir., 2-1, joins the 2d, 6th, 10th, and 11th Cirs. in holding that DHS cannot detain unadmitted noncitizens found living inside the United States without the possibility of bond while their removal proceedings are pending. Circuits split with 5th and 8th. cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/op...
"In a Monday report, researchers from the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank estimated that fewer than 827 Patriot interceptors remain in US stockpiles, and fewer than 278 THAAD ballistic missile interceptors are left." edition.cnn.com/2026/07/29/p...
This is morally monstrous behavior. These are ordinary, innocent people that Trump is condemning to suffering & death out of political vindictiveness. Every decent human being, regardless of political party, should condemn it. Where is the fucking *anger*? From the press? From civic leaders? Pols?
FEMA said yes to Democratic disaster requests. Trump killed them anyway.
President Donald Trump cast aside bipartisan precedent when he rejected eligible disaster requests from four blue states.
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I dunno but it should probably be a bigger deal that the White House announced it wants to slap a 100% tariff on drug imports at the same time it is eliminating Medicare drug subsidies. And we’re talking about critical life-saving drugs like insulin, blood thinners, antibiotics, and heart meds.
"“You can’t get rid of 30 percent of your staff and expect to be functional,” says Traci DiMartini, the former IRS human capital officer who was one of the first high-ranking officials DOGE pushed out last year. “Things are starting to break.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The IRS is imploding.
The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”
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Back in October, two well-connected MAGA activists from Oregon talked on their podcast about discussions they’d recently had in DC with Trump admin officials about how they might be able to nullify Oregon’s 2026 votes for house and senate in order to seat Republicans instead.
Bits and Bobs@carmelseaotter.bsky.social · last wk.'In this scenario, Speaker Johnson’s designee, at Mr. Trump’s instigation, would produce a roll of new House members that included Republicans in races that Democrats believed they had won.' www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...
86 people in a single ICE holding room, "all jostling for space in a closet of humanity that smelled of sweat, urine and feces." What would we call it anywhere else? www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Terminations of ongoing grants recently went out to dozens of scientists funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. More than 70 projects that had won an estimated $185 million in funding commitments have received these “nonaward” notices. scim.ag/4fLI3Cm
Trump administration ends dozens of grants for studying patient care
“Nonaward” notices discontinue grants from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality whose annual funds had been stalled
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i believe this the follow up part
Jonesy@loanseyjonesy.bsky.social · 4w agoDon’t love all this attention.
New suit alleges that, since March 2025, govt has been sharing confidential info of Iranian asylum seekers—dissidents, Christians, LGBTQ—with Iranian govt in efforts to deport them. (Suit brought by @Public_Citizen Litigation Grp for Iranian American LDF) ... 1/2 www.npr.org/2026/07/07/g...
New lawsuit alleges U.S. shared asylum application details with Iran
A lawsuit alleges the Trump administration is divulging details of Iranian asylum seekers to the government of Iran.
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NEW: The ICE office that customarily probes employee misconduct is being refocused to investigate ICE critics, opening hundreds of "doxing and threat" cases and subpoenaing tech companies to unmask anonymous posters. Detention facility inspections, meanwhile, are plummeting. by @regret.bsky.social
ICE’s Internal Watchdog Is Now Investigating Online Critics
The Office of Professional Responsibility has opened more than 100 cases over what ICE officials call “incidents of doxing and threats” against ICE employees.
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When 18-year-old Elder Chavez was pulled over for going 15 mph over the limit, he tried to show officers docs the US govt granted him after his parents abandoned him in Honduras and he crossed the border alone. He was put in ICE detention anyway. 🧵 1/ www.propublica.org/article/unac...
These Immigrant Kids Were Once Protected. Under Trump, Their Deportations Have Tripled.
A first-of-its-kind ProPublica analysis found that children who entered the U.S. by themselves are being detained and removed at about three times the rate they were during the final years of the firs...
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Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his “Liberation Day” tariffs, his financial disclosure report says.
Trump discloses 327 unreported stock trades made a day before his first tariff pause
Their disclosure, more than 14 months after they occurred, is the latest revelation to fuel calls for greater scrutiny of the president’s financial assets.
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There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs
Donors were misled by Trump-backed Freedom 250, House Democrats allege
The lawmakers’ report alleges that Trump allies worked to divert funds away from America250, a bipartisan effort to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial. Freedom 250 denies the allegations.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “What I can say after visiting numerous impoverished villages is that aid cuts are unquestionably costing the lives of many children,” our columnist, Nicholas Kristof, writes about the demolition of USAID.
Opinion | U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Killed People. That’s the Truth.
Musk insists that his demolition of humanitarian aid didn’t cost lives. So I propose he take a trip with me.
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The Trump administration is demanding that U.S. intelligence officials turn over the names of all foreign espionage targets, including suspected spies and potential recruits, to create a master list that some fear will be misused or compromise operations www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...
Inside Intelligence Agencies, a Fight Over Building a Master List of Spies
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Unitary Executive thread: SCOTUS decided Slaughter & Cook. 6-3 for Trump, overturning Humphrey's. 5-4 for Cook & Fed independence. All 6 conservatives confirmed they do not understand or care about historical evidence or originalist methods. 1/ www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Sanders releases trove of internal HHS emails showing RFK Jr. pressured CDC over vaccine messaging Emails indicate that Kennedy directed the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel to restrict access to vaccines thehill.com/policy/healt...
Sanders releases trove of internal HHS emails showing RFK Jr. pressured CDC over vaccine messaging
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Thursday released a tranche of Health and Human Services (HHS) emails that appear to show HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressuring the Centers for Disease Contr…
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Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49
How the U.S. is losing ground to China in university research
Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first.
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Have you given any thought as to why the New York Times hasn’t covered Donald Trump Jr. buying a major stake in Kazakh tungsten mining right when the US government was negotiating a deal for mineral rights? I’ve only seen British and industry media covering it.
Trump’s sons to take stake in Kazakh miner that won $1.6bn US backing
Donald Jr and Eric have sought to capitalise on sectors supported by father’s presidential administration
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He cried because there were no more neutral hotels to be milked
Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · last mo.You've known us by your last trail of dead
Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
The US government has succeeded in in its stated goal of cutting inflows of international students. Inflows are down 1/3 or more. This slashes a key source of productivity-enhancing high-skill STEM workers for the US economy. In a new Brief at @piie.com, my co-authors and I quantify the impact—>
Peterson Institute for International Economics@piie.com · last mo.A sustained 1/3 reduction in US STEM graduates from abroad would shrink the high-skill STEM workforce by 6.2%. The decline would cut annual US real GDP by $240-$481 billion over a decade—a loss the size of a US state like Wisconsin or Utah. By @mclem.org, Jeremy Neufeld, & Amy M. Nice:
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
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