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This is honestly one of the most shocking images coming out of this administration and that’s saying something
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot memorial arch disrupts the historical and spatial integrity of Washington, National Park Service report concludes. Assessment notes the gilded structure breaks the carefully designed symbolic alignment connecting the Lincoln Memorial to Arlington.
Trump's arch could disrupt the historical significance of many of Washington's sites, report says
President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch could disrupt the historical significance of many sites near its planned location.
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We gave health insurance companies billions in tax breaks over the last decade. Healthcare is more unaffordable than ever. Yet every major insurer is beating profit expectations. Higher premiums. Fewer benefits. Dropped enrollees. We're being scammed.
25 million seniors will open their Medicare Part D renewal letters this fall and find out Republicans raised their drug costs. Less than 100 days before the midterms. They should ALL remember who did this. #RepublicanMedicareCuts
More than half of young adult women who grew up as Latter-day Saints have now left the church. Many are reacting against politics, purity culture and powerlessness.
Jana Riess: Why are so many young women leaving the LDS Church?
More than half of young adult women who grew up as Latter-day Saints have now left the church. Many are reacting against politics, purity culture and powerlessness.
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There are more than 120,000 Flock surveillance cameras in 6,000 communities across the US. Carter Sherman speaks to Sanya Mansoor about the underground movement to take them down
Inside the vigilante movement destroying Flock cameras – Stateside with Kai and Carter
theguardian.com
Commentary: Every Aug. 6 should renew the global commitment to reducing and ultimately eliminating nuclear weapons.
Make anniversary of Hiroshima bombing ‘Disarmament Day’
Remembering Hiroshima cannot become a once-a-year ritual. It must become a reminder that nuclear weapons remain an urgent contemporary problem.
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The HS in our town stands virtually unchanged from 40 years ago when my partner attended. And the population has more than doubled. We do, however, have a new football field. 🤷♀️
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agoEl-Sayed: "I believe our kids have a right to our tax dollars. I'm about 10 min away from schools that look like they did 50 years ago. Our money should be spent here rather than sent in the form of bombs or tanks to foreign govts, particularly when they are doing most heinous things with them ... "
👀 ICE tried to escalate this situation but this man handled it so well. First time I’ve seen a video of ICE in my town. Fuck them! Get outta here!
Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 9h ago🖕ICE‼️
God, this guy is seizing the moment, isn’t he? We elected a guy with the middle name of Hussein to the WH, so on some level, ideas do still matter. More of this please.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h agoEl-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
Terry Pratchett wrote satirical fantasy. And yet, so many of the scenarios he dreamed up (like this one) predicted human behavior with more accuracy than any sci-fi ever could.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 14h agojesusfuckingchrist
New Mexico sues Trump’s DOJ for access to Epstein files after ‘stonewalling’ state investigation into Zorro Ranch
New Mexico sues Trump’s DOJ for access to Epstein files for Zorro Ranch investigation
Justice Department ‘actively hurting’ state’s criminal investigation by delaying release of unredacted documents, attorney general says
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Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect. www.wired.com/story/dhs-is...
DHS Is Hiring Bounty Hunters to Find and Photograph Deported People’s Homes Abroad
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
wired.com
What began as a way to settle a rum-fuelled barroom debate over which country had the best rowers has grown into a 75-year tradition between Canada and the U.S. How would Canadian fans interact with their American counterparts this year? A Michael Harris dispatch. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Can Canada and the US Still Row Together? | The Tyee
For 75 years this dory race marked a friendly rivalry. Would the mood hold this year?
thetyee.ca
Palantir is shifting profits from its European operations to the U.S., allowing the Florida-based data analytics giant to pay minimal taxes in Europe, a new report finds.
Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
politico.eu
More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal services after it let a longstanding contract with a nonprofit expire.
Legal services contract expires, and unaccompanied immigrant children face deportation • Idaho Capital Sun
WASHINGTON — More than 20,000 unaccompanied immigrant children Monday lost their legal representation because the Trump administration has not entered into a new agreement to take over their legal services after it let a longstanding contract with a nonprofit expire. Without legal representation, fewer than 10% of immigrant children win the right to remain in …
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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks
Judge Wise finds that ICE coerced a 20-year-old Tongan man — admitted legally to the country three years ago — to sign a document accepting deportation, despite no criminal record or immigration proceedings against him. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Protestors and Earth defenders are righteously staging a tree sit to save an ancient cottonwood from border wall construction My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Protesters occupy 200-year-old tree at US-Mexico border to stop its destruction: ‘She’s our Statue of Liberty’
Demonstrators stage ‘tree sit’ in Arizona town to stop felling of ancient cottonwood grove to make way for border wall
theguardian.com
Days before the death of Edwin Jeovanny Lopez Cornejo, ICE officials did not report the death of another man who’d been detained at Delaney Hall — because they had technically “released” him in the middle of a medical emergency, Rep. Rob Menendez (D-NJ) alleged. www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...
A Man Died After Being Detained By ICE — And They Didn't Report It, Congressman Says
Rep. Rob Menendez made a stunning allegation while addressing the recent death of another man who had been detained at Delaney Hall.
huffpost.com
A couple that was stalked and harassed by eBay for years has settled with the company, and three former executives including the former CEO, for $56 Million. David and Ina Steiner were harassed by eBay security because eBay executives were furious about Ms. Steiner's reporting on the company.
Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56 Million
Two Massachusetts journalists were harassed by a Silicon Valley security team in a case that raised questions about when executives should be held responsible.
nytimes.com
Our new investigation uncovers disturbing ChatGPT conversations with the accused Florida State mass shooter, including about brutally violent sex, how to get media attention for killing, and more.
Inside a mass shooter’s harrowing history with ChatGPT
A year of chats reveals glaring red flags—and disturbing ChatGPT replies—from long before a rampage at Florida State University.
motherjones.com
Kevin Warsh would rather stay out of the fray – and thus devalue the Fed’s credibility as an economic steward
Trump Fed chair’s inflation strategy: leave it to the market | Eduardo Porter
theguardian.com
For those with real inflammatory disorders, MAHA's misinformation isn’t just annoying—it’s harmful.
The great inflammation panic
The wellness world's favorite buzzword has gone federal. For those of us with real inflammatory disorders, the misinformation isn't just annoying—it's harmful.
motherjones.com
The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House, following “a careful review” of classified information he has seen so far.
‘They are murder victims’: Senator suggests US strikes have killed people who weren’t involved in drug trafficking | CNN Politics
The US military’s strikes on alleged drug boats have likely illegally killed “individuals who are not involved in narcotrafficking,” Sen. Tim Kaine told the White House on Monday, following “a careful...
cnn.com
Oil and gas giants raked in massive spring profits while fighting between Iran and the US impeded petroleum shipments and consumers around the world paid more for fuel and confronted shortages.
Oil majors profit as US-Iran fighting drives energy prices higher
Oil and gas giants raked in massive spring profits while fighting between Iran and the US impeded petroleum shipments and consumers around the world paid more for fuel and confronted shortages.
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