Homer Simpson Monkey Brain
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d agoHassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."
A mother gave the government her fingerprints, tax records, and DNA to get her 6-year-old daughter back. She did everything officials asked. ICE used that information to find and arrest her. A child welfare system became a deportation tool. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
ICE Turned Family Reunification Into A Deportation List
A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.
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BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration urges Supreme Court to allow order targeting mail-in voting to proceed for now, before midterms.
Susan Collins is in charge of ICE's budget and ICE just murdered someone in Maine and it would be quite helpful if there were a Dem Senate candidate to point that out
US schools, research advocates urge withdrawal of proposed rule on federal grants reut.rs/4wB5SSX
US schools, research advocates urge withdrawal of proposed rule on federal grants
Top U.S. universities and research advocates urged President Donald Trump's administration on Monday to withdraw a proposed rule on federal grants that critics say would politicize the process of distributing, administering and terminating grants.
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We should have learned that you can’t manage a public health crisis by ignoring it. Politicizing science and weakening disease surveillance doesn’t make threats disappear, it only makes us less prepared to respond.
The Administration's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a proposed rule that threatens to reshape how scientific research is funded and conducted in the U.S. We encourage our AGU community to speak up submit your comment by 13 July: spklr.io/63328EPEn2
Russell Vought’s OMB Grant Proposal takes the formerly expert informed, democratic grant award process and turns it into an authoritative process based on political ideology. It will destroy science in America as we know it. Take action here: zurl.co/ydchb Article: zurl.co/Juc68
Trump administration pursues more durable changes to science policy after setbacks in court
After legal challenges succeeded, Trump administration shifts from dismantling agencies to centralizing OMB control over research funding.
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Since 1994, immigrants have paid more in taxes than they receive in benefits every year. Do not believe the lies you hear about immigrants. They are good for society and the economy.
BREAKING on MS NOW: Mike Johnson's latest effort to force through the SAVE America Act to rig elections just failed. The House failed to clear a procedural vote 198-224 on the NDAA largely because the SAVE Act was attached.
As garlic is to vampires, so are facts to Elon Musk.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled that the Fourth Amendment applies to police use of overbroad "geofence warrants" to search for and locate unknown numbers of people in a large geographical area. This win reinforces that we don't lose our right to privacy simply because we use a cell phone.
You mean a 34 felony, tax cheat, sex pest with dementia should step down? I agree.
Ah the dystopian well that never runs dry! Invasive, techno-tyrannical, internet surveillance legislation couched in buzzwords and acronyms about saving the children. act.eff.org/action/tell-...
Tell Congress: Don’t Force Age Checks Online
Congress is preparing to vote on the KIDS Act, a sweeping internet bill that would pressure websites and apps to determine users’ ages before allowing them to read websites, send private messages, or ...
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Alarm Grows Over Vought Plan to Give Trump Cronies Control of Federal Grant Money www.commondreams.org/news/vought-...
Alarm Grows Over Vought Plan to Give Trump Cronies Control of Federal Grant Money | Common Dreams
"The test will be a simple one: Are you sufficiently loyal to the president? If the answer is no, it will result in the denial of lifesaving disaster relief, funding for research into cures, the closu...
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I'll say this for the Supreme Court they're making it easier for me to convince people of the necessity and urgency of court reform
More quantification of the impact of health misinformation from the US government. After “governmental” media statements (aka RFK Jr.) about vitamin A and cod liver oil for measles, internet searches for these terms exploded. A question is: Did people who searched find even more misinformation?
Internet Searches for Vitamin A During the 2025 US Measles Outbreak
This cross-sectional study examines changes in US internet search trends for alternative treatments for measles following the 2025 outbreak.
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Just total bullshit meant to steal health care from millions
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoDr Oz: "We believe that 35 percent of the people using the Obamacare exchanges may not be legit. That's 5, 6 million people. We have to evaluate these numbers. They are extremely concerning."
a close up of a person 's hand holding a gun in a dark room .
ALT: a close up of a person 's hand holding a gun in a dark room .
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Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 2mo agoA temporary restraining order has halted work on a data center for Google in Pine Island, about 18 miles north of Rochester, Minnesota. www.startribune.com/minnesota-da...
“Most Americans think this is a fight over a handful of congressional districts. It is much, much worse than that. Over the past several days, Southern legislatures have moved with breathtaking speed to dismantle Black political representation across the South…” open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...
The End of the Second Reconstruction
Southern Republicans, after claiming they didn’t need a law to respect the rights of Southern Blacks, moved immediately to eliminate Black reps across the South.
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