ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to monitor its online critics. Is it threat mitigation or an infringement of free speech?
How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics
The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Workers who take approved leaves of absence for medical or other reasons often think—mistakenly—that their positions are safe. on.wsj.com/4gcy09y
How Protected Is Your Job If You Go on Leave? Not as Much as You Think
Workers who take approved leaves of absence for medical or other reasons often think—mistakenly—that their positions are safe.
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The United States Department of Education will no longer collect data measuring harassment, bullying, or assaults of transgender or nonbinary students. “OCR determined that its costs outweighed its benefits,” the Education Department said in a statement.
Education Department Ends Federal Tracking of Bullying and Harassment of Trans Kids
The new policy also alters the definition of rape, excluding “gender identity” from a list of protected statuses.
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"Why Trump downplays Russia Helping Iran Kill US Soldiers" for the same reason he downplayed russia helping kill US soldiers in afghanistan. #maga #gop #republicans #Ukraine #russia
Hedy Lamarr @chudonew.bsky.social · yesterdayWhy Trump downplays Russia Helping Iran Kill US Soldiers Trump's former Russia adviser says Russia offered Trump free rein in Venezuela in exchange for Ukraine apnews.com/article/russ...
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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BWM cars now showing owners and unskippable ad for the new Spider Man Film whenever they start the vehicle. This shit needs to become illegal, yesterday, else how long before you have to watch it *before* you can start the vehicle.
I refuse to accept self driving cars until they can make printers that work.
🇺🇦🚀 Zelensky: Some key Russian enterprises that produce ballistics are not under the sanctions of America, Britain, Japan, Switzerland and other jurisdictions.
Poor Jeanine Pirro. It’s always sad when a vicious liar loses their job because they unscrupulously tried to ruin the life of an innocent American hero to appease the most repellent man in America. Drink up, sweetie.
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The Christian Mandate: Treating Immigrants and LGBTQ persons with respect and with dignity.
“We were not put on this earth to make life harder for one another. Our real purpose in life is to make life better for one another.” These profound words encapsulate the very essence of Christian liv...
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Only $68 billion over almost 5 years has gone to Ukraine… 1.5 percent. Bottom line: the US has only spent a fraction of our total defense spending to destroy one of our main enemies. /END
These are the people mad at Dr. Fauci because he told them to wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.
Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section. (Published March)
She Was in Labor at a Florida Hospital. Then She Was in Zoom Court for Refusing a C-Section.
A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.
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Pope Leo embraces his New Orleans family’s roots in slavery www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
Pope Leo embraces his New Orleans family's roots in slavery
Pope Leo XIV Wednesday acknowledged his family's roots in both slavery and immigration, saying in an interview with NBC News “I come from a family that my grandparents were immigrants ... [and] on my ...
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The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email. (Published May)
Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.
In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering...
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A society that vilifies scientists and healthcare workers for trying to save lives is a society determined to destroy itself.
Armed security forces have sealed off access to Moscow’s Balzi Rossi restaurant. Seventeen people are reported to be in serious condition in Moscow hospitals. One version is that an unidentified person brought an unknown object into the restaurant before the explosion.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 4d agoAn explosion at the luxury Balzi Rossi restaurant in Moscow killed three and injured 15. The venue had been closed today for a private banquet. A witness told ASTRA that a general’s birthday was being celebrated inside, with numerous military-plated vehicles and a Rosgvardiya bus parked nearby.
Rick Wilson: I wish Witkoff and Kushner would go to Ukraine and see realities of the war. They’ve never visited Kyiv. They’ve gone to Moscow, I think 21 or 22 times. They’ve always taken Russia’s proposals, printed them out in English, and said, "This is what our peace plan is."
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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Why Sexual Assault and Rape Are Moral Issues the Church Must Speak On More Forcefully
Sexual assault and rape are not only criminal acts, though they are profoundly that. They are not only social problems, though they tear through families, communities, and institutions. They are moral...
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